U.S. new foreign policy

Feb. 07 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced changes to U.S. foreign policy that emphasised diplomacy over military power.

He also urged allies to shoulder more of the burden in tackling global crises. Delivering the Obama administration's first major foreign policy speech, Biden effectively repudiated former President George W. Bush's "with us or against us" foreign policy.

Biden's speech also tried to turn the page on the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and Bush's scepticism over climate change that alienated many Europeans.

Penny Tweedie reports.