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World Service,20 Jan 2021,53 mins

Tight security in Washington DC ahead of Biden inauguration

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In Washington DC, Donald Trump will wake up one last time in the White House - he leaves with a raft of last minute pardons including his controversial former aide Steve Bannon who is facing fraud charges. President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn at noon facing challenges from the start, none bigger than controlling the Covid-19 outbreak in a country where more than 400,000 people have died from the virus. And Hungary's capital, Budapest, sees the opening of a Chinese university today, two years after the Central European University funded by George Soros was forced out.

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