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republican kevin mccarthy fails for a 4th time to be enacted us how speaker, despite donald trump urging hard liners to vote for him? ah, i'm your intent of this is al jazeera life in london. also coming up the w h. o says china's covey data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there. a south korean testing shows 26 percent of arrivals from china testing positive rushes military is accused of shifting the blame of war, ukrainian strike that killed dozens of its troops. of the same, the soldiers broke a ban on using their mobile phones and temperatures for january reach an all time high and 8 countries across europe.

and i was taught in the u. s. where republican kevin mccarthy has failed to win a 4th round of voting in his bid to be elected house, a representative speaker. the house reconvened 2 hours ago, after failing to elect to speak on tuesday is the 1st time in a 100 years. the denominator for how speaker has failed to be appointed on the 1st vote. congressional business cannot start until the speaker is elected. republicans have a narrow majority in the house history, but mccarthy is facing opposition from hard line members within his own party was take a closer look at who's voting against heaven. mccarthy and why? around 20 republicans have blocked mccarthy's bid for speaker. most belong to a group known as the house freedom caucus, which is on the hard right of the republican party. many a supporters, a former president, donald trump, and back an uncompromising brand of conservative politics. trump was urged fellow republicans to elect kevin mccarthy to lead the chamber, members of the house creed, him corker,

say they want to level the playing field for the american people. they're demanding changes to rules that govern daily operations in the house, including giving junior members more influence on legislation. john $100.00 below from capitol hill, into the 5th float. how long is this going to go on? there is no telling at this point how long this could go on. it once took 2 months and over a 100 votes. that was back in 855 to 56. we haven't even seen a 2nd ballot for a 100 years. so this is an extraordinary circumstance, but as that 5th round of voting began, despite the fact that we saw mccarthy allies talking to those who were defecting against mccarthy on the house floor, there's no sign that there's any change at all. no sign of progress as a matter of fact, for mccarthy, it's actually gone the wrong way and he had 19 votes against him yesterday. that

changed to 20. it is now 20 votes plus one member voting present. and what that does is take down the threshold needed to win from 218 votes to 217. the problem is that vote came from among mccarthy's supporters, so it's going in the wrong direction. that block of republican hardliners is not breaking up right now. they have presumably been offered inducements, they've presumably been threatened with negative inducements, and none of that is work. donald trump has called for these members to vote for kevin mccarthy. this is that block of republicans, is the mag wing of the party, the hard right? trump supporters and they are not moving despite a similar tepid endorsement of mccarthy from president trump, and the democrats are, are experiencing some shot and forward to hear some of posted pictures of themselves. eating popcorn. president biden has said,

it's an embarrassment. he says it sends a bad picture internationally, but the bottom line is we're here on round 5. there has been no one else want of any progress and things are remaining exactly the same deadlock. he mentioned inducements or threats. what will it take for some of these members to back, mccarthy? and if they didn't, what's the plan be? well, they wanted more democratic rules, small di democratic they wanted to be able to more easily remove this speaker of the house. they got that when mccarthy offered to allow as few as 5 people to vote and launch a vote to overthrow the speaker. it would still require a majority. and then they said, no, we actually want that to be one person. just one person in the house which would bring mccarthy up for constant humiliation. a position that nancy pelosi didn't have to put up with when she was the democratic speaker in the last congress. so they also want to better committee positions, but it is becoming increasingly clear that what they really want is an example.

they seem to want mccarthy's head. they want to show that they can remove the speaker. and even if he were to somehow convince the 16 of those $21.00 members now to come to his side, it would be a poison challenge because he'd have to deal with them on every single vote that they would essentially control congress. unless there was some major change in dynamics in the bottom line is what can convince these members so far it looks like nothing. john? 100, thank you very much indeed. ah . the world health organization has china in giving an accurate picture of the extent of its code 19 outbreak. on tuesday, china's top scientists presented data to the un agency officials, but the dummy chose emergency program director says beijing is under representing

hospitalizations and deaths from the disease. there are certainly issues in terms of the criteria for recording and reporting debts attributable to coal with data. and we believe that definition is too narrow, which requires the spiritual failure association to register as a covert really that that is a very narrow definition. we know there are difficulties in all countries, very often in recording hospital relief is admissions use of i see you for some of these. but again, we believe that the current numbers being, being published from china under represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of i see your patients. and particularly in terms of that we were trying to has responded to cause from the u. s. for transparency around its infection, data score media through either your chart room. we also know that many people see that if they don't politicize the pen to make it very on, that responded responsibly with an attitude of putting lighter light. the chinese

government, the closet, 900 situation, both within the u. s. and worldwide would not have developed as it has today. we sincerely hope that all the parties will focus on lashing code 19 of whatever the sides. ation of the shows is stripped in solidarity and worked to give it to prevail over covered 19 as soon as possible. the south korean government is increasing. it's covered 19 checks and protocols at port that's after chinese national, who tested positive on arrival, went missing while waiting to enter a quarantine facility. house officials and ministry officers say that now keeping a close eye on international travelers. south korea is 26 percent of short term visitors from china on tuesday, tested positive on arrival. you know, kim has more into the international airport flights connecting cities in china to here in china. international airport in south korea are at a fraction of what they used to be in pre pandemic times. and yet short term

visitors who are able to walk through those doors would do so straight into a p c r testing booth. and from there, those who test positive would be moved to a hotel nearby for a week long florentine on their own expense. now health officials say they found $73.00 positive cases. on tuesday, accounting for about 25 percent of china arrivals on that day. not including locals who would test within 24 hours at a local clinic near them. now these positive cases are being analyzed for variant information. and despite these tightened protocols, we are already hearing on day 2 since roll out of one man who got away on the way to florentine forcing officials to have to put out an alert high stitch and will you need all the chinese national immune forties tested positive for corporate content, airports, and lifted up permission while entering auto via quarantine bus. it is regrettable

that such a disgracefully, mental could officials war that such violations would lead to deportation and future entry baz possible fines, as well as jail time as they would run in a violation of the countries. health codes. officials also saying it is becoming more and more difficult to understand what is happening with then mainland china, as transparency on information, is becoming more and more difficult. ah, president prism is lensky says russia is planning to order another mass. conscription for a new offensive and ukraine, even as its military faces internal criticism, over stripe kill schools of conscripts. russia military officials say the unauthorized use of mobile phones by its soldiers enabled ukrainian intelligence to locate their base in the mosquito and carry out the deadliest attack on russian forces. yet in the conflict,

ukraine launched several rockets. a college russian troops were using as a temporary barracks, situated next to an honest depot. in the occupied dynette squeezen. russia says $89.00 troops were killed when 4 rockets hit their building on new year's eve, including the deputy commander of the regiment. ukraine says up to $400.00 soldiers died in the strike shooting. currently a commission is working to investigate the circumstances of the incident. but it is already obvious that the main reason to what happens with the switching on a massive use contrary to a band of mobile phones like personnel that were in the zone of reach of enemy weapons. this fact allowed the enemy to locate and determine the coordinate location of military personnel was for launching in miss falcon harris, a russian defense amnesty joined his lie from moscow by skype. thanks very much for being with us. so russia appears to be blaming the conscripts for being in the strike because of using the mobile phones. does that is an attempt to shift the

blame away from the top. and if so, are people angry about that? hello, yes, of course it's a, it's a blame shifting game, rather typical for the russian military may be for any other military in the world when something goes really south, they, the hierarchy tends to try to shift the blame away from itself. and that's what's happening right now. they see that they are phone the hill families. yes. these are actually reservists, people in their weight, twenties, or thirties, maybe somebody over 40 even who are cold up in the mobile, a partial mobilization. they have families and wives back in russian regions. apparently most of them came from the semi our region. and this was new year's actually they were rockets hit one minute that sure. 12 o'clock new year

coming in. and that's the main holiday in the rush and calendar since the so yet times and people always full in their families that me telling them not to phone will not work if you can don't provide simultaneous lea a secure way for them to connect to their wild ones, so most likely that they'd fall. so there was most likely lapse of discipline. but there was also of course clear we're apps and leadership. and the bad decision made this actually improvised barracks was just about 13 kil, walmart. there's from the front line in reach, not only of miss house, but those of guns enhancers. you shouldn't 3 ways to relax in such a place and gather a lot of troops. and as a result of practically an entire rigid russian regiment was decimated,

together with their commanding assertion. now, no one really wants to take the blame and an ample. i mean, ukraine has been saying that to russia wants to quote up more trips for a further offense. heavy would an incident, not this effect, russia's ability to mobilize more people. will people be more reluctant to go to will? well, there is a lot of talk about a possible cool, a beginning this month in the russian crawl up system has been quote for the last 2 months, they were calling up 18 year old pound scripts that are. mm hm. campaign is over. so now definitely they can begin calling up more or reservists. it would be a problem to equip train and provide them with modern weapons. but there is a possibility that that will happen then mental b,

extremely unpopular are the 1st wave of mobilization and september, october was unpopular. this will be even more and casual ease in the if you such spectacular casual bees like in my gave her a would this ukrainian that, that will make the russian part but even more angry. a, there is also recently been a footage of the head of the russian, wagner, masonry group, and guinea promotion. apparently film visiting at basement to near the eastern front, filled with bodies of fighters. and he says, their contract has finished. they'll get home next week is that something russian people will have seen on social media or, and, and how would they wrapped that kind of apparent consciousness? well, yes, that's rather mac, a bar most likely earth did that appear on russian social networks. still not in the official media sense. right now, most of the new recruits going to the wagner group are

actually fair ones. criminals that are recruited from russian prisons in the waiver of camps with the prospect of an amnesty. so back, most likely in itself will not also want those are the general population, because these are criminals. who cares about criminals, but that's the kind of attitude your own soldiers may backfire because these are people right now. they're very closely controlled by their superiors, but they have arms and the if the some, the front ukrainian attacks, the stabilize the situation. and so the ukraine, these guys could that street turn their weapons. so this kind of towers attitude to your own soldiers, even if they are recruited from prisons is not very healthy for the future. having

fun going. how? thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. thank you. thank you. still to come this half hour. hundreds of top ranking police in the philippines to resign to help roots out those involved in the drug trade, plus the people that i've been fighting along side to how this legalize. i'm not the one benefiting a downside of thailand legal high. why critics say the countries marsan at market is out of control. ah hey there, good to see there is some bitter cold coming for eastern scandinavia, western russia. those details in one second. but 1st, that shield of snow is moving away from us though after doing quite a number, some showers in the mix for the islands of ireland and britain,

but promised we talk about the cold. so here's how it temperatures will go. we can up saturday morning, moscow minus 28 dark or the blue and the purple, the lower that temperature. this is a shock to the system, warsaw 0 just the other day, or about 18 or 19 degrees. there's also been some record warmth in central europe. so that's not good news for the ski slopes here, melting snow quite quickly, so not only feeling like spring, but also looking like spring as zurich of in degrees for you. also some showers care at long last it's con for portugal and spain. sun clouds here and same goes for the other side of the mediterranean, for greece and turkey, or maybe a bit overcast to start the dan, it's stumble that throughout the day, more peaks of sun. those winds are finally starting to back off across the coast of egypt and for the south africa. the provinces of the eastern cape was soon talton puma longer inland popa, we could see some flooding in any of those provinces over the next few days. 23 degrees in durban on thursday.

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are among the top stories here and i was a 0 republican kevin mccarthy appears to have lost a 5th round of voting in his bid to be elected speaker of the us house of representatives. the republicans have a narrow majority in the house, but hardly members of mccarthy's own party voting against him. the world health organization says china isn't giving an accurate picture of the extent to its coping 19 outbreak. china's top scientists presented data to you, an agency officials debate chose emergency program director, says beijing under represent hospitalizations and deaths from a disease. and president go to mr. lensky, says russia is planning to order. another mass. conscription for new offensive in ukraine, even as its military faces internal criticism of restraints that kill scores of conscripts. russian military officials say the unauthorized use of mobile phones by its soldiers enabled ukrainian intelligence to locate and strike their base. in maqueta kelly, at least 89 troops. a senior piece official says the number of people killed

in 2 car bombings in central somalia has risen to 35. 2 cars, packed with explosives were detonated in the city of mass in the heroic region. a police station was targeted 1st, followed by the house of a somali government official ash of arm has claimed responsibility. townsend, he is president, has lifted a controversial ban on political rallies. president samuel's to lou, her son, announced the decision 6 years after her predecessor john mega fully imposed, the measure been granted. elected politicians the power to hold rallies in their constituencies. but other rallies or protests were banned, where it led to the frequent arrests of political figures. nicolai nath michel donnell. jamara, yes, yes. it is our responsibility as the government to secure political gatherings. and we need to notify us as required by the law. security services will assess the

situation and give the go ahead, depending on the situation. but for now, at this stage permission will be given because it is our responsibility to protect your right. i am to hold your rally safely. what with israel's new government is unveiled and overhaul of the justice system, which will significantly weaken the supreme court. critics of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is government say, will undermine the nations democracy by allowing it to pass laws that have been struck down by the court as unconstitutional. at yahoo is coalition is the most right wing, politically in israel's history. and iranian actress has been released on bail following her rest for supporting the countries. anti government protest movement to renee and the duty was jailed almost 3 weeks ago on charges of spreading false information. she had condemned the execution of a protest her on social media. widespread demonstrations were sparked by the death of 22 year old massa, minnie in police custody in september. china and the philippines have agreed to

resolve maritime agreement through consultation. on the 2nd day of the filipino presidents trip to china, the visit comes as manila ordered its military to boost its presence in the south trying to see amid reports that china had started reclaiming several unoccupied land features around these bratley islands. beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire disputed region. although an international court has rule that its claims have no legal basis. president, she told marcos that china is willing to jointly explore oil and gas resources in non disputed areas. hundreds of filipino police officers have been asked to step down in a government attempt to quote, cleanse the force of corruption. the country's interior minister requested that all generals and colonels submit a so called courtesy resignation. we allowed to keep working while the panel assess is the record, but those found guilty will have their resignations accepted release have been waging an anti drugs campaign. first launched by former president rodrigo detach

baseman, who failed to resign will be considered questionable. on or below has more from the curious secretary of the philippines. ben, her abala said that this is all part of the internal tracing efforts of the philippine national police. and he said that this in fact was a move. there was also recommended by the current police chief generals were doleful as ravine as a re himself is not exempted from this call. now this follows a drug raid, back in december where a district chief of the philippines, drug enforcement agency, together with his agents where arrested and caught with several kilograms of methamphetamine. now the philippine drug enforcement agency is not part of the libyan national police, but during the last administration, led by philippine president would be good to turn day to turn himself had said that

it was to the best of his knowledge that police generals within the philippine national police were or are involved in the illegal drug trade. and so i will a said that clearly there is an internal problem here. and so he said, call it a shortcut if you was. but the wheels of justice in the philippines just turn so slow. so this is a radical move, he said that if necessary, but human rights groups say that this undermines the philippines, criminal justice system, me and marz minute she government has released all the 7000 prisoners to mount the country's independence day. as his carrying freed prisoners left a prison in young on, on wednesday, june to his face, international isolation and sanction since it seized power nearly 2 years ago. me in mars former democratically elected leader unsung. so she recently had her prison term extended to 33 years thailand legalize the sale and use of marianna

6 months ago. a bill to regulate the industry is still making its way through parliament. but critics say the market is almost out of control. and even supporters say greater controls are needed. tony chang reports from bangkok. it's the enticing u. attraction. pulling tourists bank to thailand. after several years of coven, 19 i solution. well, not exactly new marijuana has always been available, but now tremble as of flooding in to get a legal high. we used to have this in thailand's as people will just go to regular bar inches by whatever they want in the regular in suddenly is just like a big trend for me. it's good that it's working tourists, aarp horribly. coming here more for the we'd rather than to come and experience thailand properly. however, i think it's great. i think it should be legal. with legislation in 2020 to the cannabis market exploded tourists and locals have flocked to the new license. we'd

retailers shops are popping up on almost every busy street is now a booming business. they have been issuing the license is about 5000 of the shops. right now in thailand, wish me like they are lot of shops, but not every one is thrilled by marijuana's new status. some of the most passionate advocates for legislation, but found their arguments trampled in the stampede to get into the market. the people that i'd been wible along side to have this legalize, i'm not the one benefiting the one who are opening up shop every other bloody day. right now is not the people that i knew. i do not fight for this so that there are california and weed on bankcorp streets and the law remains unclear in many areas, purchase and possession in private as legal. but technically recreational use is

still against the law. but those have been pushing the benefits of medical marijuana. the original intention of the change in legislation has been lost. gone the quinta, hey, before the tourists come to toil in the garbage, inform them that we don't encourage recreational use. but we do encourage medical uses along and that they can get services and advice from the tire traditional medicine clinics and hospitals. legislation may become a hot topic ahead of elections later this year. is many conservative ties remain opposed to the sale of drugs on their streets. but with the weed business now firmly part of thailand's economic revival, it could be hard to what route tony cheng al to 0 thank or warm weather echoed to being broken across northern europe with 8 nations recording the highest ever january temperatures. the high in belarus was 4 and a half degrees celsius. higher than the previous record for the south in spain.

temperatures are equivalent to the average in july, some regions more than 10 degrees celsius higher than normal. here it's warm weather comes as north america faces severe storms. scientists blame climate change for the extreme weather. we unseasonably, warm weather temperatures have having a major impact on the winter holiday industry. the sorry, ever ski resort in bosnia home of the 1984 winter olympics is almost completely without snow on what's normally one of the busiest weeks of the year on a neighboring croatia where the more suited to the summer months. in this resort outside the capital zagreb is having to rely on artificial snow. all sorts of end is lead or thrown in our nation's intergovernmental panel on climate change. he says higher winter temperatures will continue in the future. there is a relationship between the temperatures we experience in europe, right? know, and climate change. we know that climate change will lead to more extreme term rodriguez and europe is one of the reason of the world that is warming up,

the fosters. clearly i'll raise temperatures in europe. they've already increased by about 2 degrees celsius compared to the brain to sort of read. and this will continue in the future, which means that these temperatures that we consider are exceptional temperatures are to the album you normal temperatures. we will need to get used to the fact that temperatures will you read these levels are more and more frequently in the future . tens of thousands of people have visited the st. peter's basilica to pay their respects to form of pope benedict 16th. during the 3 days his body lies in state, his funeral will take place on thursday in saint peter's square, presided over by pope francis, and it will then be laid to rest beneath the basilica. german theologian was head of the roman catholic church for 8 years before stepping down in 2013. the 1st pope to do so in 6 centuries died at.