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Former President Donald Trump refuses to tesify under oath at his Impeachment Trial next week after House Impeachment Managers asked him to do so, to look at his role in the lead up to the events of january the 6th. The most expensive 30 seconds of television this years Super Bowl Ads feature some of the biggest names in hollywood, who have spent most of this year sitting on the sidelines. Hello, im Christian Fraser in london. Laura trevelyan is in new york. Rolling back the America First agenda has been the hallmark ofjoe biden� s first two weeks in the white house. He has already returned the United States to the Paris Climate Accord and the world health organization. This week, he renewed the new Start Nuclear treaty with russia and signalled hed like to return to the Nuclear Agreement with iran. Part of his challenge will be restoring morale within the depleted state department. And today, he paid them a visit to set out a long list of issues on which the white house is now fully engaged. And it is quite a list, starting with russia and the arrest of alexei nevalny. He should be released immediately, said President Biden, without condition. The United States will be stopping any Troop Withdrawals from germany. From today, the white house will end its support and arms sales to saudi arabia for the war in yemen. The military in myanmar, said the president , should relinquish the power they seized over the weekend and release the prisoners. And at home, the us will restore its refugee programme, admitting 125,000 refugees in his first year. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the centre of our Foreign Policy. As i said in my inaugural address, we will repair our alliances, engage with the world once again, not to meet yesterdays challenges, but todays and tomorrows. American leadership must meet this new moment of advancing authoritarianism including the growing ambitions of china to rival the United States and the determination of russia to damage and disrupt our democracy. We must meet a new moment of accelerating global challenges from the pandemic to the Climate Crisis to nuclear proliferation. Challenging though it will only to be solved by nations working together and in common. We cant do it alone. Lets bring in robin wright, writer at the new yorker on Foreign Policy. Shes in washington. And also with us, lord richard dannatt, former Chief Of The General staff of the british army, who joins us from norfolk. Welcome to you both. I would imagine its not there are one or two diplomats at foggy bottom who are feeling the effects of whiplash. Absolutely. This is a state department absolutely. This is a state department that absolutely. This is a state department that was absolutely. This is a state department that was so. Absolutely. 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