and because it was a burden to honestly, to have the power in the house, the senate and the white house for a job. i had him because he really never had it. and people because just just aren't going to take the time to think about the way you want to sign it is actually tied. you have this thing called reconciliation. i don't think people daily are thinking about how there could be a party boat on some issue that not on the other. and i think ultimately they're just saying, democrat control, they control washington. and this is how i feel at home my main street and they're suffering for it because they really didn't message it properly. but they weren't supposed to when the senate and, but i didn't have tempered expectations as we look at 2022 and you know where, you know, now the, now the races are starting for the next elections and it's not looking good. i talked to somebody who was, it was the very high level up in a democratic party in a southern state and said, if democrats aren't scared to death by what just happened in virginia and don't pivot, they're going to be in huge troubl

house. both canadian prime minister just intruder, and mexico's president and as mana lopez, or bordeaux had one on one talks with biden before the summit. it's a 1st time the country's leaders have gathered since barack obama left office. our north american vision for the future draws on our shared strengths as well as 3 vibrant democracies with dynamic population, an economy wishing to work together where that we can be. we can meet today and we can meet all the challenges. we just take the time to speak of on either by working together and we have to, and the pandemic, and to take decisive action to curb the climate crisis. and biden says he's considering a diplomatic boycott of february's winter olympics in china. the made the remarks during his meeting with canadian prime minister just intruder. it's expected to take the form of us government representatives, not attending the olympics. the canadian province of british columbia, under a state of emergency, as to renshaw rainfall, contin

our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins reports. the leaders of the world's 2 biggest economies sat face to face for the 1st time using their virtual summit as a way to reset points of tension in their relationship. we need to establish a common sense guard rails, to be clear and honest, where we disagree in work together. we're interest intersect, especially on vital global issues like climate change. for years, the united states is accused china of economic and defense provocations that include disrupting global training practices that hurt american businesses. more recently, stepping up military incursions near taiwan. president joe biden said recently, the u. s. would defend taiwan in any conflict. but in tuesday summit, he also told the chinese president, the u. s. was committed to a one china policy and opposed any change in taiwan status. president, she shouldn't pig referred to by them as an old friend. same china and the u. s. need to increase communication and cooperation. domain in national syndrome. china in the united s

white house correspondent, kimberly, how could reports? good morning, folks. following a briefing by his coven response team given us president joe biden addressed the american public, urging them not to be alarmed by the new varied army crime. this for, it is a cause for concern, not a cause for pen. you assigned to, sir, already evaluating army con, but it made, it could take weeks before it's known if the current covered vaccines provide enough protection. still, biden, once again, urge the 10s of millions of americans not yet vaccinated to get fully vaccinated. and a booster, you have to get the shot, you have to get to get the booster if you're a sooner or later. we're going to see cases of this new very here in the united states will have to face this new threat to. so we faced those that come before us announced restrictions last week for travelers from 7 countries. plus south africa were army crime was 1st attacked, it biden's also not ruling out new restrictions depending on the degree of army cross spread. however, he insist for now there will be no

kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? well, the view from china was quite different. the english language services of state media highlighted cheating, pains calls for mutual respect, peace and co operation. katrina, you has more from beijing. beijing has a squad, the meeting is fruitful and constructive and said that it opened doors to future communication. and chinese state media said that it was reassuring to the international community that these church superpowers were trying to manage the differences. now president gene and paying went into this meeting, wanting to appear strong and wanting to defend liners interest. and he did that, i think in 2 areas. first in trade, he said that he wanted to fast track economic exchanges between the 2 countries. and he wanted joe biden against using security issues to suppress the chinese companies. now the 2nd topic where he did this was in regards to taiwan, which is arguably the most important topic for beijing. she's in pain, want joe biden, that any support of taiwan independence would be playing with fire. and beijing s

s. president joe biden hosts his northern and southern neighbors at the white house. the 1st summit between north american leaders in years assessing the damage, severe flooding and landslides laying waste to homes, roads, and bridges.

, the senate and the white house, are continuing to fight and not deliver on what the president said he wanted to do when he was elected to office eric, very interesting to get your thoughts. eric ham, a political unless there for us in washington. thank he. thank you. the political crisis in ethiopia is deepening as 9 factions form an alliance against the government. they want to bring down the prime minister abbey attitude and say they will do it by force if necessary. the un security council is calling for a peaceful resolution. macanna reports. far from the fields of conflict, ethiopian opposition groups gather in washington, dc. 9 political and militant group signed an agreement to work together with the expressed intention of removing the ethiopian government by negotiation or force it to appear as been doing this. has been carried out a systematic resume in the country, almost like our apartheid in south africa. but this is a time where we need to recognize every human being in the country. the government has dismissed the alliance as a publicity stunt. but it comes at a time

the white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has moved. i will, has a lot to do with the timing of the american thanksgiving holiday. this is a holiday that americans typically get into their cars and they drive great distances. and the problem is right now, some people can't do it because the gas prices are just.

the white house been released, the faith been saying that the president was informed that it will take 2 weeks to be able to verify the transmitter ability. the severity and other characteristics of this new variant. doctor anthony g also told the president that it's absolutely essential that everybody gets fascinated, who isn't. and very importantly, that all those at all to vaccinated and retrieve their last shot some 6 months ago should get a booster. dr. policy saying that this boost shot could be absolutely critical in determining the separate t severity of the cobit virus. dr. policy making very clear to that vaccinations clearly while they may not actually stop the virus, do certainly make the patients feel a lot better should they contracted. so that was the message from the chief medical adviser to president biden. the president himself is due to speak publicly to the nation on the new variant in the course of tomorrow. mike, thank you, mike. can i in washington force while taking a closer look now at how countries are attempting to seal themselves off passengers arriving to t

let's get more from our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit. so kimberly much anticipated this so many things that these 2 countries need to discuss. whether you begin i may have an economic over tone in the u. s. president feels he's going and strong. you saw there, he just signed into law that major legislative achievement. that $1.00 trillion dollar infrastructure package, this will create jobs, and also he believes allow the united states to compete. but the issue of competition with the other major economy and the globe. china is really what this you, as president would like to talk about with president. she, a particularly with united states is repeatedly accused china of disrupting the global norms and terms of trading practices. he wants to see that there's competition, but that, that this is fair competition. so we expect that this is something that will be brought up as well as some of the other key issues like human rights, as well as crackdowns, of pro democracy supporters and other issues as well. even areas of commonality, lake ad

women voters, part of the coalition that propelled joe biden to the white house. now joe biden will tell democrats that they've got to do something to get winds on the board. he was hoping he come back from glasgow and have 2 bills sitting on the old resolute desk in the oval office, ready to same one, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and to the bigger spending bill, which increased the social safety net. there. the democrats can even agree when to bring that to what we were told at the weekend. it would probably happen on tuesday, a check the calendar, today's wednesday, and there's still no sign of that vote being scheduled. in fact, one senator said, possibly they might get a vote before thanksgiving that still 3 weeks away. joe biden needs the winds because he knows that if you repeat the results from last night across the rest of the country, when you lose important sections of the vote, then he is in big trouble because the democrats could then lose the house and also lose the senate and that essentially makes him a lame duck president for the last 2 year

although i suspect the white house will tellers who's getting a clean bill of health. yeah, i've just got half an eye on the briefing room at the moment, so we'll go to that when and if we hear something. meanwhile, in congress, before all of this happened, a victory at least the 1st step for jo biden's signature legislation. exactly that there are few more trap doors to negotiate before you can see game over and put your name on the board. but this is a significant moment for joe biden. remember, the democrats wanted to get this past before he went to glasgow and, and his trip to the g 7. and that didn't quite happen that there were a number of moderate democrats who wanted the congressional budget office, the cb, or to score this to essentially say, how much is it going to cost? they came back and said, look, there will be about $357000000000.00 added to the deficit over 10 years. but they said, we're not sure how much money they're going to bring in in taxes and that could cover it. the white house, as the the department of treasury said, yet we actually will cover

our white house correspondent, kimberly hallett explains the timing of the announcement. i will has a lot to do with the timing of the american thanksgiving holiday. this is a holiday that americans typically get into their cars and they drive great distances. and the problem is right now, some people can't do it because the gas prices are just too expensive, it's cost prohibitive for them. so that, that's one reason. another reason is in addition to the rising gas prices, what we're seeing are empty shelves in the united.

white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has moved. i was, has a lot to do with the timing of the american thanksgiving holiday. this is a holiday.

the tea long is already reached the white house. so this has been building and building and building. the foreign ministry is going to keep getting questions on this and i can't keep saying, i don't know about this particular on its own media is tweeting and, and putting out posts on that very topic. government have fellow players and have fans. and now waiting for answers and marriage, audrey al jazeera, people in lebanon are struggling to paying for medicines after the government cut subsidies on some drugs. the countries already in a severe economic crisis. and as in a 100 reports from bo routes, there seems and no way outs insights about how much is a diabetic who needs continuous medical care. but this 75 year old can no longer afford it. lebanon began gradually lifting subsidies on drugs a few months ago. but now they include those for chronic diseases. wagner marshal, good. i am state employee, and my pension is not enough to pay for the medicines. i need to have no idea how much we will die because we can't buy medicine. i'm

but 1st let's go to the white house where a corresponding company hall, curtis, kimberly. so the summit just completed what was the u. s. president hoping to convey to the chinese president yeah, we're waiting to hear from the white house. they are expecting to hold a call with reporters to give us a sense of what was discussed in this meeting. it did go on longer than we expected . we were told to be about 2 hours. # by my count, it's more about 3 and a half hours. so we do know that there was a lot to talk about and appears that they used every minute to cover some of the issues that seem to be and dividing the 2 presidents. what we know is that this was not expected to be a color rather of a face to face virtual visit. that would bring about any big deliverables. for example, they weren't expected to resolve their tray differences. they were expected to resolve some of the supply chain issues that had been plaguing. a the united states, but instead the u. s. president said that this was about establishing guard rails as he called it, in other words, making sure that tho

yes, president joe biden house, his northern and southern neighbors at the white house. the 1st summit between north american leaders in years as another wave of corona virus sweeps, europe, new restrictions are re imposed for unvaccinated citizens to contain the spread and assessing the damage. severe flooding on.

c, and the white house corona virus task force. now, early in the day, president biden had the to say know, a lot about the great great spent going my lead by the my was the degree of cooperation. busy in between south africa and the u. s. right now in combat. english news, tre. well, it does appear at the stage. there is a lot of corporations, south african, the scientists were the 1st to raise flags about this late is very early in the week. and as you heard, president biden saying, there were discussions between the white house task force and the south african scientists in the course of the morning to begin to start to learn not what we south africans have learned so far about this particular varied. now, president biden has also made very clear his belief that this emphasizes the needful there to be global vaccinations in place. he's made the point repeatedly that unless all of vaccinated that none are safe, he says that the u. s. he'll continue to provide becky vaccine supplies to the african continent and to south africa in

at the white house on monday they will talk about a number of things that they have in common. first of all, getting on top of the corporate crisis. there's the global supply chain as well. 3 there is also the climate change, and we knew that joe biden was pretty critical of the chinese for not showing up in glasgow essentially seeing that if you want to be a while leader, you have to show up to lead at there will be other things that they will touch on including nuclear weapons, they will talk about it, china's military operations in and around taiwan. i remember it's just a week ago that the americans have said that they are obliged. joe biden said that they are obliged to defend taiwan and would do so. and of course, there's been quite a leap forward in chinese military technology with them testing a supersonic aircraft that can go into space or something that might milly who is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. here in the united states said the change in china's wealth and also its military operations is the greatest geopolitical shift in more than 20 years. so ye

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but maybe alan fisher has more now from the white house. joe biden was hoping you'd return from his foreign trip to a completely different political climate. but it's not good news. one year on since his presidential election went 1st of all the party last virginia, he thought the democratic candidate there would win comfortably, but he lost and he lost by losing important independent voters and also white women voters, part of the coalition that propelled joe biden to the white house now joe biden will tell democrats that they've got to do something to get winds on the board. he was hoping he come back from glasgow and have 2 bills sitting on the old resolute desk in the oval office, ready to same one. the bipartisan infrastructure bill and to the bigger spending bill, which increased the social safety net there. the democrats can even agree when to bring that to a vote. we were told at the weekend it would probably happen on tuesday, a check the calendar today's wednesday, and there's still no sign of that vote being scheduled. in fact, o

but from disagree with his views on monetary policy, white house correspondent kimbrough kit reports ending months. speculation us president joe biden announced his pick for federal reserve chair. i'm nominating jerome paul for 2nd term. his chair, the federal reserve power served the 1st term during one of the worst economic downturns in recent us history. that's why biden believes he's the right choice. again, our country was hammer jeans, jobs last year, and there was panic in our financial markers. j steady and decisive leadership helped to stabilize markets and put our economy on track to a robust recovery. powell faces a storm of challenges. rapid us inflation with price spikes for every day, goods like gasoline and food, and supply chain shortages that have left retailers struggling to keep shelves stocked. the central bank must decide how to keep prices stable. it will use our tools, both to support the economy and strong labor market and to prevent higher inflation from becoming entrenched. analysts say raising interest rates is one possibility. what is not clear? he should

our white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it has more i well, it has a lot to do with the timing of the american thanksgiving holiday. this is a holiday that americans typically get into their cars and they drive great distances. and the problem is right now, some people can't do it because the gas prices are just too expensive, it's cost prohibitive for them. so that, that's one reason. another reason is, in addition to the rising gas prices, what we're seeing are empty shelves in the united states supply chain issues. and that's led to some low approval ratings for joe biden. the world health organization is wanting. there could be another 700000 deaths from coven 19 in europe. by march. cases have been rising as the weather gets colder, with the daily rate doubling since late september. 1119 infections have reached a record high in south korea with more than 4100 cases. the number of critically ill patients is also at record levels. raising phase hospitals could become overwhelmed. many of those affected the elderly newshe

well, yes, this is some with being prepared right now, both washington and moscow white house and the crime when they're working on the agenda. it should happen before you year. it's going to be for sure it's going to be kind of a, be a screen and telephone conversation, but your grade is going to be very high on the agenda. but i do in moscow hubs that brinkman ship, that being right now use a possible regional war with the threat of an escalation into all european are, i don't know, global conflict. the dad we'll move the united states to change somewhat. this position to put pressure on here to become more flexible and fall, give russia was once on the so called names agreements. so that's most likely right now. going to be the thing because there's a lot of talk of russian forces on the wonder if they are there for some i'm already, but the time of year right now is wrong for any kind of major military escalation. a winter campaign can begin. second half of january, but not earlier than that. so now is the time for negotiations, and apparently there will be happening. but how inte

house create millions of jobs for biden. it was a significant when that's how you and some of the anxiety people were feeling about to come. that's how we give people some breathing progressive say in exchange for their support of the infrastructure bill. house moderates have agreed to vote for a 2nd pillar of the president's domestic agenda by mid november. that proposal would expand americans access to health care, child care and education, while tackling climate change and raising taxes on wealthy corporations. the plan costs nearly $2.00 trillion dollars. with republicans opposing president biden's social spending plan in mass calling it government overreach and siding its costs. democrats would have to be nearly united in order to secure its passage, but are ready to democratic. senators have voiced concern over some of the plans proposals, and without their support. the bill will not become law. democrats got a scare earlier in the week when disappointing state election results exposed the parties vulnerability in next

it is overwhelmingly white. it is overwhelmingly notches christian, but composed of people who are quite religious retires in the my god gave me a dream about prison, turned in the white house and he said, i want you to start paying for this man. the democratic party in this country is composed of people from a broader array of backgrounds except for those types of folks who are represented in the republican party. and so people have really retreated into seeing themselves as parts of groups that are really quite distinct that don't have a lot of overlap or interaction with other groups. and therefore, the sense that we are americans, in addition to all of these other identity, i believe, and i did my team of people that came to shut down. i saw a barbara empty book infiltrated, they had plans to dress up and look like some supporters. they said, are never seen the united states so divided in the political agendas that people have. oh and it's a very serious problem to many of us. we'd like to focus on why are p

yes, president joe biden, house is northern and southern neighbors at the white house, the 1st summit between north american leaders in years as another wave of corona virus sweeps, europe, new restrictions are re imposed for unvaccinated citizens to contain the spread and assessing the damage. severe flooding on land slides lays waste our homes, roads, and bridges in western county. ah, but have been signs of an easing in the border crisis on the european union's eastern frontier with a plan from the nation accused of creating the problem. and the 1st large group of migrants returning home, the western borders of bella was remain essentially sealed with a heavy security presence in latvia, lithuania, and poland. there with the key border crossing of kristen, it's thousands of people are still waiting in temperatures, which fall below freezing over night. but around 400 iraqi migraines abandoned their attempt to enter the u. heading instead for the bell russian capital minsk. from there they boarded an evacuation flight organized by the iraqi government, ultimately heading to the capi

but at the white house has been clear on this as well. this is just one of pillar of the president's domestic agenda, that 2nd one on the social welfare that is even bigger, that would include expanding access to health care, universal pre k education for all american children. i as well as more significant a climate action in all the way how saying when you take 2, these 2 pieces of legislation together, they will amount to, ah, one to one of the greatest expansions of federal government in a generation. both on this infrastructure front which is passing before our very eyes at this moment and on the social welfare legislation, which again appears to have the support now to pass within 2 weeks time. although moderates are still saying they want to see the final figures before pushing it over the finish line, but just let me and this after that bill is donna in the house. if the house passes in 2 weeks, the social bill, it still has to pass the senate and there's still a hurdle there. and the whether or not that truly becomes laws still v

first let's go to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawk it good. what. what is the message the u. s. president wants to convey to the chinese president? well, this was a meeting or is a meeting of really trying to set the parameters of the relationship. and it's critical, given the fact that there happened to phone calls between these 2 leaders. but this is the 1st face to face. i'll be at a virtual one that's taking place and well, we don't expect that there will be major deliverables that come out of this in terms of any agreement or resolution of issue, particularly on the issues of security or trade. what the white house is anticipating and hoping will be achieved as, as sort of a temperature check if you will, in terms of how the relationship moves forward. and so what we heard from president bided at the beginning of this meeting was that he was hoping to establish guard rails as he called it in order to ensure that some of the tensions that exist over issues, particularly like trade and security, that they not escalate into conflict, so this is re

ah, us president joe biden had barely arrived at the white house last february when he announced that he'd hold a summit for democracy in december. he said the idea was to defend democracy against the spread of authoritarianism, fight corruption, and promote respect for human rights. its been a year where 6 coups have already thrown out. civilian leaders in countries ranging from sudan to myanmar, china's leaders in russia's leaders look like they're out performing biden on a lot of france and democracy looks like it's gasping in the boxing ring. and after taking a lot of punches, can it prevail? even in the united states, the year started out with angry mobs attacking congress to try to overturn the results of the presidential election. authoritarians are on the march worldwide, and they're taking advantage of people's frustrations, centralizing, control and suppressing descent. people around the world are not so sure that democracy makes their lives better. now, more than 100 heads of state have been invited to jo biden's virtual summit. but besides speeches, what's it going to be?

kimberly how can al jazeera the white house. so that is the view from the white house. let's speak to katrina. you who's joining us from beijing. so katrina, what is the motivation for she to attend to summit and did he achieve what he wanted? i think she's in pain one or 2 things. first he want it to appear strong strong for china as well as a strong leader himself and to i think he genuinely wanted an improvement in the ties between the 2 countries. so what we've seen, it seems like bay jane thinks that it was successful share fung the vice foreign minister who was present during the talks describe them as fruitful and constructive. and we've been seeing a few lines from the foreign ministry and from state media and the way they seem to talk about the talks. it also seems have this very positive turn. we had president eugene being describe the relationship between the 2 countries as the most important in the world. he said that the 2 countries are like 2 ships and that everything should be done to avoid conflict and confrontation. and that ideological divisions could

kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? the united nations has ordered immediate evacuations and family members of its international staff from ethiopia. that is growing alarm after to grow and rebels claim to be edging closer to the capital, addis ababa, the presidents of kenya and south africa have both call for a cease fire, victoria gate and be report i some of prime ministers, abbey ahmed soldiers, and now prisoners of war and the 2 grains have been parading them before the cameras. the presidents of kenya and south africa say all parties must commit to ending the violence. we expressed our conviction that the school for by lab amends, the roaring parties in europe. i beg with attempts to convince durham it's in reference, grocery says wire. busy i've been all inclusive political dialogue as the woodrow was closer to the ethiopian capital plans to defend addis ababa or intensifying these women have joined a neighbourhood protection, forced to guard against advancing rebel forces. they've set up road blocks, a searching

house. they are accusing bellows of encouraging migrants to cross and all that on the line says you sanctions against bella, luce, will they expand it as a bag, joins us now live from the border. i said, what's happening there? well we've just been stopped by the police and there's also some military there behind us. now they're checking or cause her to making sure that nobody can get pass. now that's because back in september, state of emergency was declared in the 2 regions that border, or the bill of roost. border encompasses around a $180.00 towns and villages. now, powers such as that haven't been used in poland since the fall of communism here. now that has alarmed some groups, a group say that that state of emergency is hindering their efforts to help that many people that are trying to cross over the border. now the numbers are not clear, but some are estimating. it's around 2000 people at the border under, by the roof side they're trying to cross through. now re, are not allowed thr