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day 3 and still no speaker. 11th round of voting is underway, as kevin mccarthy repeatedly fails in his bid to lead the u. s. house. ah. okay, talk to mrs. out. is there a lot from so also coming up, rushes president or does a 36 hour cease foreign ukraine to celebrate orthodox christmas move rejected by keith? do not just show up at the border. stay where you are and apply legally from there . the us to turn away cubans, haitians, nicaraguans, and venezuelans who tried to cross the border, illegally officer, legal pos to $30000.00 people a month and violence from northwestern mexico off the song of jails. drug l chaco is arrested

aah. kevin mccarthy's bid to become u. s. how speak has become the longest and 164 years. after 3 days and 10 rounds, the republican continues to fail to get enough of his party support. 11th round is underway. mccarthy can't convince a group of 20 hard liners to vote for him. and house cannot begin sitting until a speaker is elected or he was house speaker is one of the most powerful political positions in washington. the speaker is 2nd in line to the presidency and would take over if something happened to both the president and vice president for the jobs most important role is political as head of the majority party, the speaker has near total control over what gets debated and voted on by the full house, the speaker can be a key ally of the president provided there from the same party. the when they're rivals, the speaker becomes one of the presence top opponents. but let's cross live now to

john hanjin, who's at capitol hill. so john, are we any near to a break through here? it doesn't look like this is both historic and historically dysfunctional in 5 votes. just over the course of today. kevin mccarthy has not gained a single vote at block of 20 voters plus one voting present has remained unchanged. that the only thing that changes is who they vote for. taking advantage of the fact that you don't have to be a member of congress to be speaker, one member of that block proposed that donald trump become this house speaker. he's not likely to get a lot of votes, but of the people who are not kevin mccarthy and are republicans. the votes have remained 20 so that throughout the course of this day and it is held steady, he hasn't gained a single vote despite the fact that he's given

a number of concessions. couple days ago, mccarthy agreed that he would allow only 5 boats to call to call the speaker to call a vote to remove the speaker overnight. he change that to one at the request of that block. nevertheless, today, not a single one of them crossed over and voted for mccarthy. so the impasse continues . and as we head toward the weekend, there could be members of congress leaving town. and that could change the numbers a bit, but there has been no break in the impasse hotel and wants to lock you to happen from now that well, it's a war of attrition right now. either that block breaks up and it doesn't look like it's doing so. but then again, neither is the 200 people who are voting for mccarthy they, they haven't changed their votes either. but what would have to happen is that block and have to break up or mccarthy would have to lose voltage and

a consensus candidate would have to come in and take over them. none of the people who have been nominated so far are house leaders are people the most in the house is likely to follow. and there are a few of those people whose names have come up as potential nominees. their, their names haven't been thrown out there possibly because everybody is waiting for an agreement that they will move on past mccarthy. what's likely to happen now is that they will just keep on voting through the weekend. and as i said, a lot of members of congress have to leave on the weekends. that's when they visit their constituents. they go back to their home towns and event happened. that could change the numbers a little bit. it's probably not likely to make a huge difference. and meanwhile, as you pointed out, nothing can happen. the members who are sitting there aren't even really elected members of congress at this point, or at least they're not sworn in their cold members elect. because until there's a speaker, they can't be sworn in,

they can't pass any legislation and pretty soon they're not going to be able to pay their staff. so there's some urgency going on. but so far, no break in the past as we head toward the weekend and day for on friday. so on. the thanks very much indeed with that update that but speak to also her son. he's a democratic political strategist and joined his life from burlington in vermont. welcome to the program. so no breakthrough. are there any alternative options for speaker in your view? the alternatives don't look good. so either some of the people that the just sort of the right wing extreme faction, people they've put up. there's those are some of those options, but they've only garnered about 20 votes. not nearly enough to become speaker. the other options are other members of mccarthy's leadership team people exceeds beliefs, or jim jordan, whose name actually has popped up, and people have loaded up. the problem with this is that the problems in the republican side aren't merely ideological. this isn't just find somebody more

ideologically palatable. there are also issues of control and power. and frankly, there are a number on the republican side. the freedom cock is to actually prefer the chaos. this is terrible for governance. so for republicans, there are no good options. they've cultivated throughout the election, a number of people who love to create a bit of chaos. they get good news and good coverage, and they motivate the bass. but when it comes to governance, they're left with no good options. so the people within the leadership team, people under mccarthy, people escalate, serge, him, jordan, they may not be palatable to some of these freedom caucus members simply because they're too close to leadership and then see power. but the people who are more ideologically right wing, i won't be palatable to the people who are close to leadership because they don't really have a plan for governance. the republicans have to solve their own problems. but they came in this election season without a plan to gover. let's be honest though,

if there were a degree of satisfaction from democrats watching the republicans in such turmoil had i think of you will have you view some of the twitter accounts for members of the house. there is a little bit of fun for you to happening, but honestly, this is while that exists because we can say, i told you so it is actually a tragedy for this country. there's a lot of good work that needs to happen while the democrats do agree with the republicans and a number. these policies there are or should be ways forward to govern that a senate is control by democrats, the white house, the control, the democrats, the leadership in the house, needs to learn how to compromise, to be able to work with the rest of government. so for this to be such an utter and unprecedented failure, both the ill for governance in the country and that's not good for anyone. that's not good for democrats, republicans or the vast majority of americans that don't actually care about which

party a person identifies that. so, yes, there is a little bit of the games mon shapeless thing. ha ha, but mostly we want to get stuff done. and is this damaging a tall for united states image internationally then? i mean, there's no doubt about that and force, i mean, you can tell me, but this doesn't look good for a superpower to not be able for one minority within one party and to hold up. the gears of governance doesn't look good on any stage where there's the world stage or the domestic stage. we won't be able to get major governance done without the house of representatives gambling into the session. we shall see what happens. how sound, thanks so much indeed for joining us. you're welcome. ukraine's president. but miss lensky has dismissed the proposal by russia's president. putin for 36 hour truce. put an order, the temporary seas for starting on friday to correspond to the orthodox christmas

holiday. then he says russia is attempting to stop the ukraine in advance. don't bus region keep insists they will be no truce. all peace talks until all russian troops leave ukrainian territory. cha, stratford is foreign developments from keith. this initially comes from a suggestion made by the, the moscow patriarch, carol, russia, patriarch. carol, they're looking for the study success. he's 5 from about, well, from mid day, which effectively would be own or that it was 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 padaya and he just called this a cynical trap. 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 in ukraine 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 whatsoever with the moscow patriarch united states and germany, both sending more of the modern combat equipment to ukraine, u. s. ascending about 50. bradley armored fighting vehicles. i'll germany's providing their martyr equipment. both are considered powerful options to take on russian armor. germany is also joining the u. s. in sending

a patriot missile defense system. now to states his expanding restrictions to rapidly expel cuban nicaraguan and haitian migrants court illegally crossing the us mexico border president joe biden announced the new measures on thursday in his 1st major speech on board of security. since taking office for the val has more from miami ah, a new year new arrivals and a new planned by president joe biden aimed at slowing the rising tide of migrants trying to answer the us illegally. today, my administration is taking several steps to stiffen enforcement for those who try to come without a legal right to stay. and to put in place a faster processor, i was as a faster process to decide. a claim of a sale that you measure would create a legal opiate narrow pathway for the growing number of cubans, nicaraguans and haitians making their way north of to $30000.00 migrants a month. those with sponsors and to pass background checks will be allowed into the

us to live and to work the 2 years. but they will have to travel by plane. if they try to smuggle themselves in by land or by say, and get caught. they will be bought. the numbers of illegal migrants has exploded in recent years, particularly at the land border states like california, texas, arizona. so more than $2700000.00 arrivals last year. way up from the 2021 number of 1900000. we're dissipate, this actually is going to substantially reduce the number of people attempting, attempting to cross our southwest border without going through a legal process. this week, the arrival of hundreds of migrants from cuba forced the closure of a national park of the coast of florida. on thursday, they were moved to the us mainland. and another measure aimed at reducing the number of illegal migrants. the u. s. is just resumed visa concert at services in cuba. it's hoping more people will follow this legitimate route instead. if you are

in a burning building, it does not seem right to say, but before you jump from the 2nd floor, please go to your computer, get online, schedule an interview, go to the consulate, come back to the burning building. wait for a couple of months and then you can jump right when somebody has to flee to be alive, they have to flee in our system, talk to honor and recognize that context. the new policy has the landlord firmly at its sites, but in florida where the border is at the water, the question is, how will it work? here? florida's republican governor has made it very clear where he stands on a legal migration run the census house and just spoken. i was against that. he is actively held other republican states move migrants to democratic areas. remember, this is a man who will though he hasn't for many set it yet is widely expected to declare run for presidency in 2024. if that does happen, expect a lot more focus on the board, particularly the maritime border. in the coming months. been lavelle, i'll just era miami still to come on. that was just era. the un security council

has meant to discuss the latest provocation on is ready minister at the axa compound and of royal bust up britons at prince harry makes docking revelations. in a memoir release next week, ah ah, hello, there was brought in east asia and we've seen gloomy weather, affecting much of china over the past few days. you can see that heavy cloud. but still there's a lot of warms to be found. his temperature is above average for the likes, beijing, shanghai, and hong kong. not through way of clear skies and sunshine to come for friday in to saturday. it's up in the northeast. we're seeing cooler conditions. thanks. so wintery mix blowing across the korean peninsula, knocking temperatures down here. so the snow, sorry,

is edging once again into western areas of japan stretching all the way from her hider down at so han shoe, but temperatures managing to sit in the double digits, 10 degrees in tokyo on saturday. that was move across to south asia. the story of extreme cold because northern areas of india and pakistan coupled with a full issue that is set to continue for at least the next few days, much wire farther south of this, a few sprinkles of showers on the eastern coast and popcorn cloud as well affecting the west for the wet weather, we have to look to sri lanka. we got some intense thunder showers, affecting much of the island with fun. the storms set to pop off in colombo, but still 31 degrees celsius temperature where we expect them to be not the case with new deli, 19 degrees. ah, after a lifetime in finland, an emigrant returns to somali land upon discovering his ancestral hopes could be

a gold mine. but to benefit his community from the minerals beneath the land, he must navigate the age old, tribal disputes above it or witness golden lie. on al jazeera lou ah, launching out his hair. amanda about top stories now kevin mccarthy's bid to become us how speak has become the longest and 164 years after 3 days and 10 that failed

votes through pumpkin is yet to secure enough of his party's support. ukraine's president for the mess lensky has dismissed a cease for proposal by russia's president vladimir putin calling it an attempt to stop ukraine. advances putin order the temporary truce to correspond with orthodox christmas present. joe biden has announced a new plan to clamp down on illegal border crossings. it forces migrants and asylum seekers from haiti, cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela. to apply it through a specific legal process. if they try to enter illegally will be blocked from the program in the future. un security council has held an emergency meeting on the recent developments that they are acts mosque and occupied east jerusalem. it's in response to a visit to the side by israel's new security minister. move that's been widely condemned, or diplomatic editor james base reports from united nations. around the security council table members expressed concern about the situation and the dangers of

escalation. but their words were measured and limited with little direct criticism of israel. the current situation with inflammatory rhetoric lead in the wrong direction, and we are concern by any unilateral acts that exacerbate tension or undermine the viability of a 2 state solution. the you k is committed to working with all parties to uphold the status quo in jerusalem. when it was the palestinian ambassadors turn, he was dismayed by the fact the council was taking no action. what red line does is that an ill need to cross for the security council to finally say enough is enough. it has displayed, i thought, a disregarded for the sanctity of palestinian life. the sanctity of international law. and the sanctity of al, had a mis shareef. he warned the council,

the situation could turn into an uprising all 15 members of the security council, restated as they always do their commitment to a 2 state solution. however, in recent days, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said his new government supports continued settlement across palestinian land, further undermining that internationally desired outcome. so what exactly is the israeli position? i tried to get an answer from the country's ambassador. does the current israeli government support a 2 state solution with jerusalem as the shared capital of both countries? yes or no. it's really simple. i, i know you're, i'm not sure if you can decide for me if, whether to give you an answer of yes or no. ok, you shouldn't have quite a simple question asked. first, the president abbas, why he refuses to come to the negotiating table. why he refuses to recognize the right of the jewish people to

a stay to the why he keeps trying to diligence demise, not in from kim is luasa. and i'm asking you a simple question about the main point of policy time and again to the palestinian or he continued to deflect, not answering whether israel accepts the key position of the entire international community which is enshrined in legally binding security council resolutions. boy james bays al jazeera of the united nations and his 2 people had been killed off to violence to routed, northwestern mexico. the arrest of the son of mexican drug, lord l. chapo, local media, se or video guzman lopez was taken into custody on wednesday night. security forces previously arrested him in 2019, but it was released after violent retaliation from drug gangs. he's thought to be a high ranking member of the scene, a la carte. tell one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in the world. i know rapper has more from mexico city. 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 sinaloa 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, this 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 seen the 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, there 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 go, 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. they say that we're paying particularly close attention to what happens next, because this is a scenario that has played out before in 2019 mexican authorities were going after the same target against a video was mine. they were able to capture him. but what happened in response from members of the sinaloa cartel was essentially an armed elements of the cartel, dispersing throughout the city of cool. you can terrorizing the city similar to what we're seeing play out now. so that's the concern. moving forward protests and the belief in reach of santa cruz had been ongoing for a week of the arrest of the governor lewis. and under camacho,

more than $500.00 chunks of blocked a major highway to demand his release. as part of the demonstration, the farming region is a stronghold of opposition to the left wing. the president there is arthur camacho was arrested by special forces last week and taken to a maximum security prison. the 23 rebel group has announced its withdrawing from another town in eastern democratic republic of congo. they say that putting out from women garbo, they also announced last month that they would leave nearby. bloomberg. congo accuses were wonder backing evan 23. something could only denies the most recent conflict force to thousands of people from their homes or tens of thousands of people have attended a funeral mass. the vatican for pope benedict the 16th. i didn't bother referrals aah applause. from some of the $50000.00 bonuses pope benedict's

coffin is carried into saint peter's square. ah, the cry from the crowd santo so bitter saints! now. calling for the beatification, the former head of a catholic church who died at the age of 90. 5 benedict stepped down in 2013 citing 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. he called it 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 national. a fearless preacher of your word, and a faithful minister of the divine mysteries. and andy spencer thought, clearly this wasn't on the same scale as the loss. 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 sent it off 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 holly 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 role of the vatican's. foreign secretary recently hinted that pope benedict's death could make that path easier. it was already very complicated having to van wearing white in the vatican. if philip frances had resigned, while benedict was still alive, who would have had to former popes and one reigning pope, put benedict was revered as a theologians by many catholics. but by his own admission, he was a leader who failed to act decisively enough on cases of sexual abuse by clerics. his legacy is long and complex. the dba al jazeera india supreme court has

delayed the eviction of thousands of squatters from the north of the country. the group have been living on a section of land and what a hand that's owned by indian railways. the majority of the people living in the area of muslim having natal has more from the deli, the supreme court order, has come as a huge relief to nearly 50000 people. families had come here off the authorities, austin, to vacate the homes in the northern town off hold. why they say these homes are illegally built and i quote you on land belonging to the engine railways. the eviction order is based on a high court order that also allowed officials to use force due to evict people. now this disputed land is also home to schools, temples and mos residents have questioned the order. they say that families have been living here for decades. they have water and electricity connection given to them by the government. some family said they have legal proof that shows the land

belongs to them and not the government hummel, nippy. we believed we would get justice and the courts will be fair. the railways will be given what they will land belongs to them so they can build real retracts or whatever they want to do with it. but what is not there will not be given by opposition party say these families were targeted by the governing b, g p. because most of them belong to muslim communities. the b g, b has denied this and says it's just following the high court orders. today the supreme court said that the government cannot evict people overnight and need to consider rehabilitating them 1st, the court will hear the case again. next month, returns at prince harry claims. his brother, prince william physically attacked him. g, cuz sussex made the allegation one of many in his memoir that's set to be published next week. journal reports. the latest sensational revelation by prince harry goes to the heart of a troubled relationship with his brother william to the throne. the pair seen here

after the death of the queen, in a copy of harry's upcoming autobiography, spare, obtained by britain's guardian newspaper. the 2nd line describes a 2019 meeting with his brother on the kensington palace. his state, it descended, he says into acrimony, and then physical violence. the brothers had met to discuss their failing relationship after harry's 2018 marriage to us actor megan michael and the intrusive, often insulting media coverage that followed harry rights. that william cold megan difficult, rude and abrasive after which things got heated. harry writes that william grabbed me by the collar, ripped my necklace and knocked me to the floor. it is the latest allegation to cast a pall over the house of windsor, headquartered here at buckingham palace. there's been no response. royal, inside his say the palace has adopted

a no comment policy in the media build up to the publication of harry's book next week. not so members of the public, healthy brothers have scuffles all the time. you know, i think there's probably some truth in it, but i don't think it was bad. these might though, surely you, you do sorted out within the family, but you want the whole world to know your dirty laundry. really? for millions, millions family attentions where most recently ed in a netflix documentary that amplified previous claims of races made against the royal household which the palace at the time denied. it went further planning megan suffered a miscarriage because of stress caused by negative media coverage and considered taking her life. and they'll be more in lengthy us and u. k. interviews to be broadcast on something. and i don't know how staying silent is ever going to make things better when your brother said, you, harry, how could you do this to me after everything of everything we went through, wouldn't that be what you would say? you probably say all sorts of different things.