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rushes. 36 hours seuss far comes into effect. but ukraine says it's a ploy to stop its troops advancing an eastern don't boss. ah, my resume, this is, i'll just leave a live from joe hall also coming up. the u. s. congress is powerless. republican contend to kevin mccarthy fails for the historic 11th time to secure enough votes to become speaker of the house. here at one of the biggest hospitals, invading the woods, i saw overflowing with people, and many have had to wait hours to see dr. hospitals in china under pressure from rising cupboard 19 infections just days before the country reopens its borders. and we report from nigeria, we're aid worker, so they're running out of resources as thousands of people free fighting in camera room. ah,

president vladimir prudence unilateral cease fire, has come into effect in ukraine, according to russian state television. but ukraine's leader has dismissed the 36 hour pause in fighting that coincides with the orthodox christmas holiday, nodded me as lansky says, russia is attempting to stop a ukrainian advance in the dawn bass region. you have to put those alter or what did you notice those who continued the terror against our country and sent all these people of yours to be slaughtered, rejecting our proposals to stop brushing, aggression? definitely do not value life. and moreover, do not strive for peace. they now want to use christmas as a cover all be a briefly to stop the advances of our boys in don bass and bring equipment ammunitions and mobilized troops closer to our positions. what will that give them? only yet another increase in their total losses. and it's

a bleak holiday season for millions of ukrainians who are struggling to get by without power and water. many are in need of food and medicine. others of fleeing the devastation left behind by fighting in the eastern regions shall stratford reports from cave. as reported by the into fact, russian state media, they are quoting, the russian defense ministry is saying that russian positions have come under attack in various locations along the eastern front line in the guns. don't ask and ins, parisha. of course we have no way of independently verifying this information, but it would be consistent with what we know was a rejection of this cease fire by the ukrainians presence of these guys. calling this a cynical ploy, giving the shooting to russians, potentially to move men and equipment closer to the front lines. and this comes in the context of renewed phase actually escalating phase amongst the ukrainian

military cranium government. they convinced that there is going to be a renewed offensive by the russians in the coming weeks and months as the temperatures get colder, as according to some military analysts, the ground gets harder, enabling them to do so. so yeah, as i say, we have no way of independently confirming this kind of information coming out of russia. what it would be consistent seeing as if this was unilateral is declared by the russians and something that the ukrainians never agreed upon. for the 1st time in a 164 years, the battle for the u. s. house speaker has been through 11 rounds of votes in 3 days. and yet, republican contender, kevin mccarthy, is in any closer to securing enough balance to win over hard line republicans blocking his bed. another round of voting said to take place in the coming hours is going to be held on the 2nd anniversary of january. the 6th attack on the capital building. john handed reports from washington. d. c. for kevin mccarthy. day 3 was

deja vu over 3 days. mccarthy has been nominated for speaker of the us house of representatives. time and time again. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy. i write to nominate kevin mccarthy, a speaker of the house. in time after time, the republican leader, his faced humiliating defeat, failing to win the majority of votes needed to get the job. a speaker has not been elected. yet most republicans seem willing to continue following their leader. for now, i think what's important that's easily forgotten is that democracy is messy. and i don't think we've necessarily taken this too long yet. the honorable hakim jeffries of the state of new york, has received 212 time and time again. democrats applauded as their leader akeem jefferies won the most votes,

though also short of the needed majority. this was the dangerous moment for americans and for the world. one of the reasons why the congress needs to organize . there are public health vulnerabilities. it's one of the reasons why the congress needs to organize and republicans need to get their act together. a block of 20 rebel republicans, mostly from the ultra conservative freedom caucus, plus one republican voting president had so far stopped mccarthy's years. long ambition to run the house. the stand off persists just fine. as series of last minute confessions, mccarthy made among them a promise to allow just one member of congress to call and vote to remove the speaker that would make him perhaps the weakest speaker in american history. like the so called never kevin block, nominated a series of other republicans like taking advantage of the fact that the speaker doesn't have to be sitting member one. congressman nominated donald trump for the office mccarthy currently occupies without the title. trump received one vote. i

would like to know what the basis is to allow somebody to occupy the speaker's office who comes in 2nd place 10 straight times. mccarthy has now faced more balance than any candidate in over a 160 years as the impasse approaches day for john henderson. al jazeera capitol hill was corresponding can hawkins joining the star any indications that republicans might be getting closer to breaching this deadlock? yeah, we are hearing that there may be a deal that's been worked out as we are approaching this from 12 vote on what we're hearing is that there is some sort of agreement that's been worked out between kevin mccarthy, mccarthy, and the block of republicans that are really from 3 very conservative states and some mix of the existing members and some newly elected members. and what they're

trying to do is really road the power of the speaker, because they feel that he's kind of an establishment politician that has ties to big corporations and they don't like that. so that's why they want to bring a reign in his power. so what they're looking for is to kind of pull back his ability to draft legislation without more consultation from members of congress. they also want to make sure that lobbyists and corporations don't have too much influence over the drafting of legislation. they want more influence on committees, and they also want to make sure that they can kind of have more give and take with the speakers office. so many people on both sides of our republicans and democrats think this isn't such a bad thing so that we may see this fight that's been going on now for 3 days resolved today on friday, here in washington it's, we're watching very carefully. it's been a bruising fight,

but ultimately this could be a good thing for kevin mccarthy if he does become speaker today because it would sort of signal that he is a strong leader. ultimately, if he becomes victorious after such a long battle to become speaker and ultimately win this gavel. yeah. and then kimberly, as we were mentioning before, of course the state made history for another reason is the 2nd anniversary of the storming of the capital building. yeah, and a lot of people are saying, look, if this is the way republicans are going to run the house of representatives in such a sort of raucous way. this does kind of bring back some of the memories of the political violence of january 6th. and that brings back a lot of painful memories. and that is something that the opposition democrats want to in vote today, including president joe biden. he's actually going to be holding a ceremony at the white house where he's going to be talking about that. he's going

to be awarding 12 members of the public with presidential metals, and one of them is posthumously. it's going to be a capital police officer and who died in the days following the riots. and this is a sort of to mark these sort of sacrifice that so many people made and sort of trying to push back the president says and protect the country and preserve democracy. so the president is going to be marketing this locations, very somber occasion. and we should point out that the democrat lead committees did recommend that a former president, trump, who did spark this, right? they say should be criminally charged for his role and all of this. but we should point out that now the house of representatives is going to be controlled by republicans, so it's unlikely that there will be any more investigation into that day. and it is sort of ironic that of the fight for the speaker as now come to culminating,

and this very sort of messy battle is coming on the anniversary of these sort of january 6th day. when republicans did try to overturn the presidential election as our white house correspondent, kimberly hawker, kimberly thank you very much. ah, chinese authorities urge people to limit the number of trips and gatherings ahead of the lunar new year because of the coven 19 outbreak. but they've stopped short of banning travel altogether. hospitals and crematorium are under pressure as infection surge. katrina, you reports from beijing in the fever clinic of the sporting hospital. the body of a patient is taken away to a hallway filled with people infected by covert. 19 beds and rooms are in short supply a sudden lifting of virus restrictions last month sparked

a nationwide surgeon cases. it's forced staff to transform this hospital knobby into a makeshift ward for extra patience. dozens, mostly elderly, are being monitored by a few doctors and nurses. medical staff are under immense pressure. many have fallen ill themselves. here, they've been instructed not to speak to media. we don't give in their use. the government says china's corporate lighting situation is under control and the worst of the outbreak is over. but here at one of the biggest hospitals, invading the wards or so overflowing with people. and many have had to wait hours to see a doctor. long queues fill emergency rooms, some who were turned away last week like this man. a trying a 2nd time, either way, but there are more than 100 people before me. what you can do, just wait. my father's 88 years old is very challenging for people. he's 8 to

recover from this virus. i'm very glad he still alive. others aren't so fortunate. discriminatory in paintings, east is inundated with families, waiting for the remains of their loved ones to be attended to. one man who didn't want to be filmed told us, a recent influx has led to delays. officially, china has one of the lowest curve at 19 death holes in the world, but the backlog here and at hospitals nationwide tells a different story. katrina, you al jazeera, dating health officials and south career se covered line 2 related data released by china is not transparent enough. you know, chem reports from so now required of short term arrivals from mainland china to board is a negative cove at 19 test results. in spite of this latest data from thursday show that there were at least 35 people who tested positive upon arrival,

accounting for some 13 percent of short term entries that day in a regular briefing by health officials here. and so they recognize the room for error siding, the viruses incubation period and indeed human error. but they also echoed caused by the. 1 world health organization for rapid, regular and reliable epidemiological data to be issued by beijing. but that in the absence of that they will carefully collect their own. what do not in south korea, east most adjacent country to china, and as one the implement thorough anti virus measures. we understand the world is watching us. as such, we are working to produce accurate information related to china. not only for the protection of our people, but also the world. once we have enough analyses, we believe we'll be able to draw in direct conclusions of the situation in china. and in an update to that time, these national,

who had fled his hotel quarantine oper testing positive to code on tuesday. authorities did find an arrest the man 2 days later, at a hotel in salt. according to local reports, the 41 year old was found with his wife, who had tested negative to coven. upon entry authorities are promising stern punishment in line with local health codes. first by police said by immigration officials, which court lead to jail time or future entry bands. but 1st, the men must complete his 7 day quarantine uncertainty, persistent democratic republic of congo as the i'm 23 rebel group occupies new positions in the ma, c. c region. last month the fighters announced they'd be pulling out of on gobble anchor bomb bub esparza regional ceasefire agreement. so far, 3 tones had been handed over to the congolese government. but the m 20 three's advance in new territories is raising doubt about the groups in true intentions.

catoosa has this update from nairobi. this military base, so we're talking about this is one of the largest basis in easton, d r. c. m 2, d $32.00 over this space of back in october and they took over that surrounding areas as well. so basically what is happening now is that em to do to, we will be handing over that base. a regional forces from east africa who have been in this area basically trying to help the government deal with the security situation. now i am to do to re say that what they're trying to do and they have been withdrawing from some areas. so what they are trying to do is to have these goodwill a. we've got the government because they want to sit with the government they want to negotiate. we have been speaking to government officials are saying that this

will not be possible because they say this, and i'm to do 3 has already been declared, a terrorist organization still ahead on al jazeera ducking, the bullets how to find the scenes on board a flight in mexico, after the arrest of a drug cartel leader triggers violence. were in manila for families are struggling to put food on the table because basic necessities are priced out of the reach. ah hello, that will start in south asia where a cold wave has tightened its grip across more than areas of the region in particular pakistan, india, as well as bangladesh. now we are going to see that cold start to ease over the next few days and the foggy conditions as well,

but they will still be there stretching all the way from the to the east auto pradesh. i've still got those amber warnings out for those foggy conditions, but further south of this, it does start to clear up with just some popcorn cloud pushing into western areas. a few scattered showers in the east before the heavier rang, we have to head further south to the likes of sri lanka. we are expecting some thunderstorms to roll into colombo as we go into sunday, pretty clear picture things are going to turn rather cold. however, across parts of central asia that'll drip down into northern areas of pakistan, the temperature in the horse sitting at 18 degrees celsius for below the average. not where we expected to be for this time of year, but temperatures in china as we move to east asia or above average. lots of 2nd wants to be found here stretching down along coastal areas. sunshine for shanghai, winter weather, however, still affecting the korean peninsula and western areas of japan and things are certainly going to turn wessa on the south coast of china for hong kong. we will see that rain through the weekend.

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you're to go to 0 wonderful top stories this, a unilateral cease fire announced by president vladimir putin has come into effect in ukraine, according to russian state television box, ukraine's leader has dismissed the 36 hour pause in fighting kevin, because he is better from us, hospitals become the longest voting process in a 164 years after 3 days. and 11 runs that are public and has so far failed to get his parties force. chinese authorities urge people to limit the number of traps and gatherings ahead of the lunar new year due to a surgeon covered 19 infections. but this stopped short of banding trouble altogether. stay at home, that's the message from mexican authorities, including the con, the capital of saint louis state on demand have attacked the airport and sealed off the city should be arrest of a cartel leader of video guzman. lopez is the son of the imprison, former sin, lower drug lord, known as and chapel fights have been. counsel schools are shot and at least 3

people have been killed from mexico city. his manual upload ah fiery roadblocks and empty streets in coolly a gun. the capital city of mexico's sinaloa state, says he and he's done those yet, but i can all this day like, are you? in the early hours of thursday, mexican authorities asked residence to stay in their homes as security forces carried out a special operation to capture the alleged drug trafficker obedient guzman, the son of walking guzman, better known as in chapel, a f. as in amy that alissa frequency and when carrying out land recognizance in the northwest of cooley, a can military personnel arrested a video and it was the result of 6 months of reconnaissance in the area of influence of this criminal group. the arrest of n chappell, sun set off a wave of violent confrontations on the streets of julia kinds between mexican security forces and the sinaloa cartel. the violence and siena law prompted the

closure of schools, businesses and even the click on airport. the airline, aero mexico confirmed that one of its commercial flights had been hit by gunfire before take off. this amateur video shows the moment passengers ducked for cover. i, in 2019 mexican security forces detained video guzman, sparking a similar wave of violence that ultimately led to an order for mexican president and this manuel lopez. but i thought to release him. security experts, however, argue that despite the high profile nature of the arrest, the long term impact for the sinaloa cartel itself is negligible to face or what was done with the rest of this court leader leaves the criminal practicing duct. these goes beyond the cartel, because the corporal has a composition, companies, banks, the government, and the military, and all that remains intact. the capture of a video whose mind in sinaloa,

comes just days before a scheduled visit to mexico by u. s. president joe biden, and canadian prime minister just and trudeau for a summit of north american leaders where they plan to discuss among other topics multilateral security strategy. manuel did apollo al jazeera mexico city, living protests in opposition. how there is in northwestern syria of demonstrators say that against efforts to normalize relations with, but at all a sudden regime, it comes up to the syrian turkish and russian defense ministers met in moscow. instead, no calling for stronger international action to overthrow the government. the country civil war has been going on since 2011. agencies in nigeria are bracing for the arrival of more refugees is fighting between soldiers and rebel forces intensifies in neighboring cameroon. but with global attention focused on other conflicts such as the war in ukraine, many refugees say they feel abandoned by the world. ologist reports from oregon.

the other gam refugee settlement opened with a few 100 refugees from cameroon. 5 years ago to day it houses, 14000 among them is dba. he arrived last month was his family, after spending months in the wild avoiding rebels and government forces they should have gone was for addie up to the point that well when the booties we had some cases of woollen. we doubt way, whether it is from those guys. the opposition group with the military, with the family arrived feeling traumatized, but unharmed on many of the refugees and so fortunate feminine. so much city arrives with gunshots with some half beds. and so the attacks me understand, i've been perpetuated by government so does and also by the amazon in mrs. parks

other i think he's attending long term residents of the camp like vivian cassy said, getting into the settlement doesn't mean an end of suffering for new arrivals. she says, dealing with a neighboring community can also be a big challenge. so that won't go to feature fail to push it off because of a lack of funding. monthly food ration have been cut by half and few here have the resources and skills to start a business. with more refugees fleeing the fighting in english speaking cameroon, humanitarian agencies are struggling to cope. last year alone, 20000 new arrivals have been officially registered by the united nations. what with donors pledging less money, humanitarian workers face a funding shortfall of at least 60 percent of vicious, acknowledged, many children here can be educated as a neighborhood. schools are overcrowded, is not possible to accommodate ollander ward antea learners significantly.

elliptical responsibility to involve a lot of places like this are sheltering about 18000 refugees from cam rule. what are the humanitarian agencies running short of funds? aid workers say their lives could become even more difficult if the fighting in cameroon doesn't stop soon. how many degrees al jazeera either go? south korea's biggest brand tech giant, samsung electronics has reported a 69 percent dropping quarterly profits is the largest alec tronics and ship maker in the world. and it says, profit sank to an 8 year low between october and december. economist, sale weakening global economy hammered memory, chip prices, and curb demand for electronic devices. the philippines is battling record high inflation. president federline, macos junior says it's out of control. despite a decline in oil prices. barnaby loan spent one day with

a family in manila was struggling to make ends meet 2 years of pandemic locked outs, and now soaring prices boldly. baldessari says he used to be able to provide enough for his family before the pandemic. he made daily trips as a driver, but restrictions now limit him to 3 or 4 journeys a week. and he gave up another law with them for, and i only make 6 or $7.00 a day. that's weirdly enough for food for that life has become really difficult pulled in the budget of less than $6.00 on the day we accompanied him to the neighbourhood, mercury on the down by a quarter of the money was spent on rice, another quarter on chicken rest on a bunch of bananas, some vegetables, and few pieces of sausages and fish. he said it was food for 2 days, for spammy of 6, develop lation prices in

a developing economy. this is how many filipinos describe the increase in cost, the face of commodities. one of the most significant, a cooking, staple onions at around $10.00, a kilogram. there. amongst them, the most expensive onions in the world. us, there was no way pulled. he could afford onions, but even the middle class filipinos are hurting. while the economy is growing, inflation in december was the highest in almost a decade and a half, even though oil prices have started declining. the does that mean prices are going to go down? that just means, but i say one go up as fast as before, and that's going to be a problem. if families are not going to be earning enough, not only for the best and well president ferdinand marcus junior has been touting economic recovery. he's also acknowledged the high costs of basic goods. are unemployment rate. this sir? ah, quite reasonable, considering the situation. however,

on the other side of that coin, there is still inflation that is running rampant and out of control. paul, he says he has no choice but to make do. but he hates seeing his children suffering . he hopes that whatever gains the economy makes in the near future trickled down. so ordinary filipinos finding below, i'll just 0 manila, maybe january. but in parts of europe, it feels like summer the winter has been unusually warm. in countries including france, switzerland, the u. k. and spain, several went to sporting events, have been cancelled all postponed large ski centers. i've seen very little snow fall in the u. k. 2022 was the warmest year on record and that continued during the 1st few days of this year. bob moore is policy and communications director of the london school of economics. he says, you repeat, resorts have and will continue to adapt to the new economic reality, driven by climate change. but certainly shows that although skiing is generally

when to both the general small part of the overall economy nationally, that the results are very locally. and this is a long term trend. the has been experiencing a decline in snow for because of the rise in our bridges. some of the results are beginning to adapt and using that facility to encourage people to come walking, particularly during the summer months. but this year, even, i think some of the results of already opened up some of their walking trails. so they're trying to pull back some of the losses from, from a lack of skiing by encouraging more people to come and visit. and that's the kind of thing we will have to see around the world as people have to cope with this changing climate. it will mean that many of our traditional businesses and activities need to change out, but there are going to be limits and it is going to be turn out to be increasingly costly to deal.