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🔴 #LIVE: Watch Joe #Biden and Kamala #Harris’s inauguration ceremony live ⤵️

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🔴 #LIVE: Vice president-elect Kamala #Harris arrives at the #inauguration ceremony in #WashingtonDC.

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"A very different inauguration": Instead of a crowd, we have a "field of flags" at the National Mall.

Our correspondent @ketgorjestani is there with the latest ⤵️

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@ketgorjestani "This is the day when our democracy picks itself up, brushes off the dust and does what America always does: goes forward as a nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all," says Senator @amyklobuchar during her speech 🇺🇸

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🇺🇸 "Americans have celebrated this moment during war, during depression and now, during a #pandemic. [..] Once again we renew our commitment to our determinant democracy," said Missouri Senator Roy Blunt ⤵️

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🇺🇸 #LadyGaga sings the #US national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner” accompanied by the President's own United States Marine Band on #InaugurationDay

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🔴 @KamalaHarris is sworn in as Vice President by US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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🔴 #JenniferLopez performs “This land is your land” accompanied by the President’s own United States Marine Band on #JoeBiden and #KamalaHarris's #InaugurationDay.

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🔴 @JoeBiden is sworn in as the new US President.

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🔴🇺🇸 "This is #America's day. This is democracy's day. It's a day of history, hope and renewal," said @JoeBiden in his first speech as President of the United States of America ⤵️

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@JoeBiden 🇺🇸 "To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words, requires the most illusive of all things in a democracy: unity," says President #JoeBiden during his speech

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🇺🇸 Joe #Biden said that he wants to bring together America by "uniting our people and uniting our nation".

The 46th President assured the polarised nation that "with unity, we can do great things" ⤵️

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"Let's start afresh," asks #JoeBiden during his speech

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🔴 The 46th #US 🇺🇸 president pledged to be "a president for all Americans."

#JoeBiden urged Americans to "reject" the culture of manipulating facts, saying every citizen has an obligation to "defend the truth and defeat the lies" ⤵️

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"We must finally face this pandemic as one nation," said Biden before leading a silent prayer for the victims of the #coronavirus

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🇺🇸 "I will defend the constitution. I will defend our democracy. I will defend #America" said #JoeBiden during his speech at the #Inauguration ceremony in #WashingtonDC.

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🇺🇸 Country singer Garth Brooks performs "Amazing Grace" after #JoeBiden's first speech as President

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🇺🇸 Speaking after #Biden, Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in #US history, reads her original poem, “The Hill We Climb.”

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🇺🇸 The #Inauguration ceremony may be over, but the new US president still has a long day ahead of him.

Our correspondent @ketgorjestani has the details ⤵️

@ketgorjestani 🇺🇸 President @JoeBiden confronts a set of overlapping crises as he steps into the Oval Office.

From the #coronavirus to #climatechange, @Selina_Sykes and @alexjourno have more on some of the most pressing issues ahead ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno Donald Trump did not attend the #BidenHarrisInauguration. He chose to instead spend his time in his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Our correspondent @lemasurierjess reports from Palm Beach, FL ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess Where does the #Republican Party go from here?

Former US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel believes the party's "got some soul-searching to do" ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess "He said all the right things, but his actions are going to define whether or not there's going to be any weight to those words," Kymone Freeman, co-founder of @WeActRadio, tells @FrancoisF24 about #Biden's speech

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 🇺🇸 President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris review the readiness of military troops before heading to Arlington National Cemetery to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 "I feel like there's a ray of hope"

Our senior reporter @cntrentF24 is at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, talking to some members of the public about the #inauguration ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 #InaugurationDay: Congratulations have been pouring in from all over the world.

French President @EmmanuelMacron took the opportunity to welcome America back to the Paris Agreement.

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@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron 💰 What will be Joe Biden's priorities when it comes to the economy amid the #coronavirus pandemic?

Our business editor @kateamoody explains ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron @kateamoody 🇺🇸 Former presidents from both sides of the aisle are accompanying President Biden in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Historian Caroline Willauer explains why ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron @kateamoody 🇺🇸 The @WhiteHouse began humming again with activity a few hours after #Biden’s #inauguration as staff for the new president started moving into their offices and unpacking their belongings.

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@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron @kateamoody @WhiteHouse 🇺🇸 President Joe #Biden has cast himself as a moderate with the experience and empathy required to offset Donald #Trump’s disruptive presidency.

@bendodman has more on his life and career ⤵️

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@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron @kateamoody @WhiteHouse @bendodman 🇺🇸 President Biden faces huge challenges, including tackling the #coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis.

How fast can he act? And will the public be patient? @FrancoisF24 has more ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron @kateamoody @WhiteHouse @bendodman #InaugurationDay: Is the #US back in the international fold?

Our international affairs editor @ArmenGeorgian explains ⤵️

@ketgorjestani @JoeBiden @Selina_Sykes @alexjourno @lemasurierjess @WeActRadio @FrancoisF24 @cntrentF24 @EmmanuelMacron @kateamoody @WhiteHouse @bendodman @ArmenGeorgian The new #US president has arrived at the White House after a short walk along Pennsylvania Avenue.

The traditional inaugural parade down the avenue did not take place due to #coronavirus restrictions, but #Biden made brief detours to greet the public

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