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to overhauling a broken immigration system. 30000 central american migrants to be admitted to the u. s. each month. but a controversial pandemic provision will be expanded. ah, i'm trying to, this is their lives and also coming up. russia's president orders a 36 si, fi ukraine to celebrate orthodox christmas move immediately rejected by keith republican. kevin mccarthy once again failed to secure enough boats to lead the us house of representatives and a free man after 40 years. kareem eunice, israel, the longest subbing palestinian israeli prisoner is ready ah,

thousands of migrants escaping poverty, violence and political repression in central america a being given a new legal pathway to the u. s. president joe barton is unveiled a new plan to allow people from haiti, cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela to work in the u. s. but at the same time, he warned those trying to enter illegally will be immediately turned away. on the pandemic era title 40 to thousands of people hoping to join the program. cute border authority offices in mexico. following the announcement i didn't plan will any to those who fly into the country and people will not be financially sponsored? my messages this if you're trying to leave cuban nicaragua, haiti do have and we are have agreed to began a journey to america. do not do not just show up at the border, stay where you are and apply illegally from there. starting today, if you don't apply to the legal process, you will not be eligible for this new parole program. that's what her scores from.

kimberly, how can you can tell us what mine is hoping to achieve with this of us president, in a nutshell, is trying to achieve some semblance of order at the u. s. border with mexico, given the fact that since he took office, the number of illegal crossings into the united states has surged out at least 37 per cent. and there really has been some wood described chaos at the border. and this has have been a tremendous strain on not only the border security at the border, but also the various facilities, whether be the hospitals in the local regions, the schools, the police forces. and so it has been an enormous task and trying to get this under control. so that's the 1st part of this. there is another piece of this,

and that is, is that the u. s. president is trying to encourage the u. s. congress to act. it has been 20 years since the immigration has been reformed in the united states. and so this is the u. s. president saying look at, i need you to do something. i've been asking you to do something in the absence of that i am taking action. and the other big piece and all of this is, this is the u. s. president responding to the u. s. voter because it was very clear in the mid term congressional elections that both democrats and republicans were not happy with what they were seeing played out of their t. v. screens. night after night after night, they're seeing images of people crossing into the united states, taking up a pathway and, and many cases feeling very desperate, trying to get to the united states and doing it in a manner that is not orderly. and this is of concern to most americans who feel that many people are risking their lives. and in many cases are dying. trying to

get into the u. s. a. they know that there is a better way to do this. in many cases, this is in humane and this is concerning to ordinary americans. the u. s. president is responding to all of this. and kimberly, aside from the, the new measures that little should be easier for the us to remove migrant. and this is the big criticism that the u. s. president is facing out really, it's a 2 pronged criticism because number one, the president himself of criticized his predecessor, donald trump, the former president for using what's known as title 42. and this is a pandemic era of procedure that allowed. 2 for the expulsions of migrants trying to enter the united states, this is a to prevent disease. in other words, allowing people to be turned back en masse,

if you well. and to basically say you can't seek asylum here, you're going to have to go back to your home country to do that. that's what this new program is going to expand on. and joe biden, as well as other democrats called this in humane and lacking of compassion. now, all of the sudden, the biden administration has expounded the very program, but they criticized the other big problem with the expansion of title 42 in this program. but the u. s president has just unveiled is the fact that the president said the pandemic is over. and now he has expanded a program that essentially broadens append demik type protocol. so this is also going to open up president biden to criticism committee. how can thank you very much indeed. on

a senior ukrainian official has dismissed a proposal by russia's president vladimir putin for a 36 hour truce push. in order to his defense minister to impose a temporary cease fire starting on friday to correspond with the orthodox christmas holiday. the criminal is calling on ukraine's horses to lay down their weapons to, but keep immediately rejected the call with the senior presidential adviser denouncing the proposal as hypocrisy and propaganda. ukrainian says there will be no truce or prospect for peace talks until all russian troops leave ukrainian territory. cha, stratford is foreign developments from cruise capital keith. this initially comes from a suggestion, made by the the moscow patriarch, carol, russia patriarch. carol, they're looking for they study success, he's 5 from about, well, from mid day, which effectively would be all, all that all christmas christmas eve, right? the way through the next day, christmas day until 12 midnight. and it was a response to the patriarch carol's suggestion that we heard from an adviser in the

president's office, mikhail cordelia. and he just called this a cynical trap. so we haven't had any official statement yet by president zalinski, but one can only assume that it's going to be consistent with what mr. police said . let me just give you a little bit of background here. there's a very create a very interesting sort of change of atmosphere in ukraine that is gathering place in as far as a move away from fundamentally unorthodox christmas here because many ukrainians associate orthodoxy with russia and by default russian aggression. so for example, christmas that it's just gone by the office for the, for the julian calendar that now is being gradually pushed for by many people and you're going to be celebrated on the 24th and the 25th. there's also the issue that

in 2019 the ukrainian church basically was set up a stablish that has no affiliation. what? so ever with the moscow patriarch, a truce propose. okay. miss took years, president had phone conversations, both with president putin and ukraine's leader to miss lensky bishop about the ones office, as he urged fusion to support a unilateral cease fire. and the 1st solution anchor has previously been involved in mediation that led to the grain current ordeal and safe certain plans around these bridge your nuclear power plant. israel has released its longest serving palestinian prisoner after 40 years in jail. kareem eunice who is also in israelis citizen, was convicted in $983.00 of killing and israeli soldier in the go on height. it was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but the sentiments was later commuted. security officials have forbidden his friends or family from holding official celebrations to mark his release.

m on con has more from our advantage in northern israel. i people gather to welcome you to us back to his community. and emotional reunion for kareem eunice who spent 40 years inside and his railey jail. he was jailed on the 6th of january, 1983 released just a few hours ago of $530.00 a. m a from a prison in central israel. he was taken to a nearby town. he was given a card that he didn't know what it was. he wasn't sure it was actually a bus pass. he then called his brother's brother, picked him up and brought him here. it's very difficult to underestimate how, how important agreement is, was within the fucked up political movement. it was a member of the central committee advising stone if you own, when he was jailed in 1983 for the killing of an israeli soldier in the occupied

golden heights. now, this was not part of a political exchange. this was not part of benevolence on the part of the israelis . this was simply the fact the man has served all 40 years of his sentence and therefore was released within. now this is actually happening in defiance of the israeli authorities. these radio authorities said that they should not walk this occasion that no one. busy they shouldn't set up, hence the family have ignored that. ok. and they've managed to mark this reunion. now we have been speaking to the man himself. let's take listen to what he had to say about freedom. the lie and dave jim hackett has said no in november. i have a lot of feelings in my wars. don't know how to express. it is the 1st time in 40 years to see the trees in the grass. i used to see on the walls and cement, but to day i saw

a lot of different things. i entered so many houses and i sat down on a sofa for the 1st time. at 14, i got a very strange feeling when i 1st entered my brother's car, to the extent that i do know how to sit properly. it is a mix of feelings and emotions to see the sky without bars for the 1st time. and for 2 years now, wilma, now, even when he was inside prison, his door remained politically actively, was legion. other prisoners about the palestinian struggle. like i say he is actually in his writing, citizens of israel always said that his imprisonment was internal is really a matter, but now he's free. he's 66 years old. there's an awful lot for him to catch them. m 23 rebels have announced their withdrawing from another town in eastern democratic republic of congo. they said i putting out from lumina ruben bart gobeel, which is a few 100 kilometers north of cuba, where the group announced withdrawal last month. congo has accused ro, i know backing m 23 fighters. ronda has denied all involvement in the m 20 three's

resurgence, but the accusations have led to a major diplomatic crisis in the region. a conflict as horse thousands of people from their homes are chic maria. co. twin bay is a government spokesperson for the democratic republic of congo. he says, ruined or is key to ensuring peace. in the d. r. c. read or print, made by states following the november movements stop, even if it's not really worth your planning because it's trick sometimes by piecing that choice and respecting what we agree on make. we're gonna make it over and we will go back to the shepherd shot. where is it more orderly, what the commander at the end of the meeting or the process is to transfer process. and we know you must be very active, big rounds,

but we strong believe that it gender. why not? because he's the one acting beyond 23. we've seen that in respect for me, man. we met together following our meeting and following the recommendation made by ordinate order countries starting the united nations, united states, french or spanish, or germany, or the country, and then run on it as president, asking them to respect. would they agree on the process in beach, in the town, but believe that it will be done. that's the only way we can avoid using forces. as you know, the regional policies will make a report to different interstate and interstate re decide to go to the world, the orders financially. they generally use new one on going back situation by year one, ration nice. why?

and i asked to do what she has to do to make sure to proper your son still to come this half hour violence in north western mexico or to report the son of notorious mexican drug lord of chapel has been arrested again. ah hope frances praises. his predecessor as thousands, attend to solemn funeral for benedict 16th at the vatican. ah hello there. we've seen exceptional warns flood into europe to start the year with temperature sitting a well above the average across many areas and balmy conditions in the south is been more in the way of spring rather than winter like weather and our temperatures are set to hold across more eastern and central areas, but we are seeing some bitter cold air blowing down across the northeast,

affecting places like western russia. moscow seen minus 21 degrees on saturday. that cooler air expecting to blow its way further down east. as we go further into the we can, we still got some snow pushing its way across scandinavia, with warnings out for sweden, finland. and so we'll warnings for denmark. it winds up in places that britain an island on friday, but more heavy rain set to pull in on saturday summer that edging into northern areas of france for the south of this a much clearer picture, some sunshine coming through the cloud, across more sensual areas. for spain and portugal. lovely sunny conditions on friday, but that changes on saturday. we got that wet weather sweeping in from the north. we knew some very heavy falls to the likes of portugal that set to continue working its way east. as we go into sunday, here is guys of course, much all the central parts of the mediterranean, with lots of sunshine for greece. ah,

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violence and political repression in central america a being given a new legal pathway to the u. s. president joe biden unveiled a plan to allow people from haiti, cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela to vote work in the us. but he warned that those trying to enter illegally will be turned away. ukraine is dismissed a proposal by russia's president vladimir putin for 36 hour truce, which in order to his defense minister to impose a temporary cease fire starting on friday to correspond with the orthodox christmas holiday. keepers denotes the proposal as hypocrisy and propaganda. and israel has reached its longest held palestinian prison. it kareem eunice spent 40 years in jail off. he was convicted of killing in his ready soldier in the golden heights. in 1983, eunice was freed from had a room prison. just north of tel aviv at dawn on thursday, the last to the says reconvene to try to elect

a new speaker. republican kevin mccarthy has been defeated 6 rounds of voting over 2 days. after repeatedly failing to secure the $218.00 votes required, mccarthy is now under great pressure from base republicans and democrats to find the vote. he needs or step aside. so the house can get on with the business of governing. 100 joins us live from capitol hill. it's a john. bring this up to speed with the latest and in this well, kevin mccarthy has been 7 times unlucky and he's going for 8. it already looks like he has lost more than the 4 votes. he can afford to lose among republicans in order to become elected speaker. the republicans would probably like, or at least the republican leadership would probably like to stop and adjourn now, so they can negotiate, but they don't have the $218.00 votes. they need to do that, so these votes go on, but it's not breaking either way. you still got 21 votes that are not for mccarthy,

among the republicans in the last 11 congressman redneck gates voted for donald trump. so the voting hasn't really changed either way. mccarthy isn't losing more votes, but he's also not gaining them. and there are members of congress who say they're simply not going to continue voting for him forever. but one i spoke with congressman from utah named john curtis. he was not among those he said he is still supporting mccarthy and he'll do it through the weekend if he has to. this is what he had to say. you know, i think what's important that we forgotten is that democracy is messy. and just because we've always done this or normally done this on the 1st ballot, doesn't mean it always has to be that way. and i think the debate has actually been very healthy for a conference. some of the rules changes. i, i support not all of them, but i think some of them have been good and i don't think we've necessarily taken this too long yet. now until we get to like the speaker,

congress cannot conduct any business. it's essentially a non functioning house of representatives. they can't elect, they can't even swear in the members that they have now. so they're all members aleck, at this point the, they can't act any legislation and pretty soon they won't be able to pay their staff. so there is some urgency to getting this resolved, but so far there is not a break. and that impasse. thank you very much indeed. thank you. john violent says erupted in northwest and mexico. foreign reports, the son of a notorious mexican drug lord as chapel has been arrested local media, a video guzman lopez was taken into custody in the city of cotton on wednesday night. mexican security who has previously arrested him in 2019. but he was actually released over fears of violence. he thought to be a high ranking member of the similar cartel, which is one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in the world. that's

good morning from manuel raffle. his live in mexico city for us. what do we know about this arrest or this arrest? lauren, we can at this point confirm only moments ago, mexico's national security secretary confirmed finally, what many local out lives here in mexico had already been reporting. that video was mine, the son of what keen guzman, the former leader of the sinaloa cartel, better known as l. chapel has, in fact, been captured by security forces and is currently in the custody of mexican authorities. all of this, of course, began in the early hours of thursday, january 5th, where the order was given to make this arrest security forces, then launch operation in the seen a low and capital, the city of cooley, i can since then we have been hearing ongoing reports of violence, shooting, confrontations, violent, confrontations. we would argue that this is probably the most significant confrontation between mexican security forces and elements of this in

a lower cartel here in recent years, there been reports of cars being being stolen and used to create road blocks across the city. by all accounts, as does appear to be wide spread, it does not appear to be isolated only in the city of of cooley account, but in other cities and towns across the state of siena. lower again, we can confirm that a video guzman has been captured. he is known as one of the more high ranking officials within this organization. within the last few hours, that is also we should note a video that's been circulating on social media of passengers aboard a commercial airline board, an air mexico of the flight that was about to take off from the city of cooley, a con, when it was impacted by a bullet, the airline idol may he call has confirmed this incident, very sort of troubling images of the passengers aboard that plain as seeking cover . again, this is pretty widespread. there's

a lot of concern over what happens next at this point. and i see that we're paying particularly close attention to what happens next, because this is a scenario that has played out before. lauren, you mentioned it in your introduction. in 2019 mexican authorities were going after the same target against a video guzman. they were able to capture him, but what happened in response from members of the sinaloa cartel was essentially armed elements of the cartel, dispersing throughout the city of con, terrorizing the city, similar to what we're seeing play out now. so that's the concern. moving forward is what happens next. what sort of response may we see from elements of the cartel moving forward throughout the course of the day and even in the coming days. one more thing to mention, your lord is that all of this taking place, just days before a very high level visit from us president joe biden, and canadian prime minister. true joe, here to mexico city for a summit of leaders from north america where they will be discussing, among other things multilateral security strategy. manual wrap it up. thank you

very much. indeed. sam beers increase the number of hours of planned blackouts as it struggles to source enough power. some areas in the country and neighboring zimbabwe, already facing power cuts up to 6 hours a day. water levels in lake river, which generates hydroelectric power, has dropped to record low. recurring droughts and low rainfall have reduced supply, forcing energy companies in the region to make drastic cuts, or tessa has more from her areas in buckling. ambience had experienced pop ups before 6 to 8 hours a day. but his thoughts, 12 hours a day aside, that things could be getting worse, and people are frustrated. it's affecting households, and it's affecting businesses, especially small businesses. they say they not have to find money to buy alternative sources of energy, such as generators and solar money. some of them say they don't have, or this ambiance i've been told is that officials hope that's the power situation will improve when water level start to rise at lake ariba. other countries in the

region are also facing a power crisis here in some barbie people who can go up to about 18 hours a day with our power. and that's been blamed on corruption, mismanagement and old infrastructure in south africa. people their experience rolling blackouts on and off and that's also blamed on corruption, mismanagement and old infrastructure officials in all these countries in southern africa trying to find solutions, for example. and bob, wy and zambia are trying to build a hydro power plant at victoria falls. they say when that is completed, it'll provide services to zambia, adds them by way, and then there's the ingo dad. when the d, i see the democratic republic of congo when that bridge, when that dam is completed, is thought it will be able to provide more than enough power for the whole of southern africa. but these projects could take years to complete. it's not a quick solution to the regions current energy crisis. california's governor has

declared a state of emergency after powerful storm cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes in the north. a child was killed when a tree fell on his home in the town of occidental nor to san francisco on wednesday, cruise or be working to clear debrief from blocked roadways. evacuation orders are in place for coastal areas vulnerable to mud slides. this is the 2nd storm to hit the u. s. west coast in the past week. kosovo says it still planning to get its ethnic sir minority to surrender there. so been issued number plates, tensions escalated between christina and belgrade in november over the plan. the rest of a former said police officer lead to roadblocks in kosovo. they were only remove last week. i minister i'll been caught, he told al jazeera is making no promises to serbia regarding the recent crisis. we have given a bit of time regarding implementation until spring this year,

a because you want to give time for a agreement between console and serbia, which is very much needle for normalization of relations. so as a goods gesture from our side who have said, we are not going to impose fines on those who have these car plates until spring and i will never compromise with our constitution and law. therefore, until spring we have given this time. and hopefully we can have an agreement beforehand. i believe it's fully doable. if there is a willingness from belgrave, and especially intensified engagement by you and you, us. tens of thousands of people have attended a special funeral mass for pope benedict, a former head of the roman catholic church. he died at a vatican monastery on saturday at the age of 95. it was the 1st time in modern

history that a current pope presided over the funeral of his predecessor, and the mother has more ah applause from some of the 50000 borders. as pope benedict's coffin is carried into saint peter's square ah, and a cry from the crowd santo's so bitter saints now. calling for the beatification of the former head of the catholic church who died at the age of 90. 5 benedict stepped down in 2013 searching poor health. the 1st pope in more than 600 years to resign. his successor poke francis he came to know him well, prayed for him on thursday. you see claudia, to a particular gracious father. we commend to your mercy pope, a meritus benedict whom you made, successor of peter and shepherd of the church. a fearless preacher of your word and a faithful minister of the divine mysteries in indies from south florida. ah,

clearly this wasn't on the same scale as the last paypal funeral in 2005. when john paul, the 2nd died still 200000 people, came to view benedict's body lying in state at saint peter's basilica before this public ceremony. and many here appreciated being able to say farewell think it's represents a lot about his life. and, ah, what we're here expected a simple celebration, but very fearful he'll cynthia, for despite having other things to do to day, i felt that i had to come here. i told myself i had to come and attend holy mass to accompany him in prayer. the current pope is now $86.00. he said he'll step down if his health stops him performing the ro, the vatican's foreign secretary recently hinted that pope benedict's death could make that path easier. it was already very complicated, having to man wearing white in the vatican. if full, frances had resigned while benedict was still alive, who would have had to former popes and one reigning pope.