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rushes, 36 hour cease fire comes into a fax, but ukraine says it's a ploy to stop its troops advancing in eastern don bass. ah, by the baka, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up 11 rounds of votes and still no speaker. the u. s. house is paralyzed off to republican cabin. mccarthy fails to win over about 20 hard line members of his party. punishing measures. theists railey government says it will take action against the palestinian authority half you would approach the un over the occupation here at one of the biggest hospitals in banking the want that so i was flying with people and money had to wait hours to see doctors, hospitals and shine are under pressure from rising cove. it 19 infections just days

before the country we opens his buddhist. ah, president vladimir putin said, unilateral cease fire, has come into effect in ukraine. but both sides accused each other of ongoing attacks. ukraine's leader dismissed the 36 hour pause in fighting the coincides with the orthodox christmas holiday. florida me as the lensky says, russia is attempting to stop a ukrainian advance in the dumbass region. gifts are given us with those who continued the terror against our country and sent all these people of yours to be slaughtered, rejecting our proposals to stop russian aggression. definitely do not value life. and moreover, do not strive for peace. they now want to use christmas as a cover will be briefly to stop the advances of our boys in dawn bass and bring equipment. i, munitions, and mobilize troops closer to positions. what will that give them?

only yet another increase in that total losses. well as oblique holiday season for millions of ukrainians who are struggling to get by without power and water, many are in need of food and medicine. and others fleeing the devastation left behind by fighting in the eastern regions. with more from kiff, his charles stafford, 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 in zach 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 the sky. calling this a cynical ploy, giving the shooty to russians, potentially to move men and equipment closer to the front lines. and this comes in

the context of renewed phase actually escalating fears amongst the ukrainian military crane and 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, unless the ground gets farther, 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 would. it would be consistent saying as if this was unilateral is declared by the russians and something that the ukrainians never agreed upon. or daniel hawkins is a moscow based journalist. he says, the head of the russian orthodox church likely had the cremeans backing before calling for the sci fi. well, certainly this is far as an out. when it came more was surprised. most russians on the fact it subsequently broken down and it was came with a lack of a phone call between the russian and turkish presidents with wasn't acting as

a mediator to put pressure on pollution to announce the few natural fees for. and that would, of course, be widely as if the escalation by the crime which you will not see much short with a totally. so the last few months would be circle partial motivation and the widespread act across the whole of ukraine, the criminal was really taking off some off of that conversation. also saying that any dollar would only be possible if you train met the company demands, which was totally unacceptable to the recognition of territories which russia came to the 3rd. so on the back of that, i think this was quite a surprise to many russians all be a positive one. and the question was, maps more if this is a one time response from food into the cool bought nature real for this truth? or if this was pre planned as a sort of p r, a ration if you'd like, because if i'm likely to pay for is very supportive of this conflict, would have done this without approval from the operations of power in the permanent

. it's also perhaps evident the truth was in some ways, if not to fail, perhaps expect to fail because of course, the key respond negatively to this proposal from the very start. as soon as it came from the patriarchy real. and of course this also in some ways fits in with the comes version of events. they're the one seeking piece. they're the one seeking talks and diplomatic solution. here who are the ones being the obstacle to this sacred time for christians? thou for the 1st time and a 164 years the battle for the u. s. how speaker has been through a lever rounds of votes in 3 days. and yet, republican contended kevin mccarthy isn't any closer to secure enough ballots to win over hard line republicans blocking his bit. another round of voting is sent to take place in the next hour will be held on the 2nd anniversary of the january. the 6th attack on the capital building. john had run 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 has faced humiliating defeat. failing to win the majority of votes needed to get the job. a speaker has not been elected. yet most republican c willing to continue following their leader. for now, i think what's important that is we've 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 jeffries won the most votes, though, also short of the needed majority. this is the dangerous moment for americans and

for the world. one, the reasons why the congress needs to organize. there are public health vulnerabilities is 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 ultraconservative freedom caucus, plus one republican voting present have so far stopped mccarthy's year's long ambition to run the house. the stand off persists despite a series of last minute confessions. mccarthy made among them a promise to allow just one member of congress to call a 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 as sitting member one. congressman nominated donald trump for the office mccarthy currently occupies without the title. trump received one vote and i would like to know what the basis is to allow somebody to occupy the

speaker's office who comes in 2nd place. 10th grade times. mccarthy has now faced more ballots than any candidate in over a 160 years as the impasse approaches day for john henderson. al jazeera capitol hill. well, our white house correspondent, kimberly how could joins us now live for more and they say, and kimberly at room is a potential deal to and the deadlock to we know anything more about that while we're watching this a minute vote very carefully. it is the 12th time there will be a vote. we haven't seen a 12 vote since 18. $21.00 and many are hopeful that this will be the one that will be definitive in finally handing the speakers gavel to kevin mccarthy. of but certainly this is a tone that has been set for how the republicans will run business in the house of

representatives. and many are noting that it's somewhat ironic coming on january 6th, which is also the anniversary of course of the of anniversary of the of the anniversary of course of the riot that took place on capitol hill. when 2 years ago, supporters of donald trump tried to overturn the outcome of the presidential election and that presidential election, of course, that many questioned in the republican party. and so there is going to be a ceremony today where president vied and will mark that anniversary. the somber anniversary to mark that political violence, he will be handing out 12 different presidential metals, to individuals, to he believe, stood up for democracy on that day. and to mark the occasion,

including a capital police officer who died in the days following that. oh cation as well as the secretary of state in michigan who in fact pushed back on the political violence. and in fact it was. c able to withstand the political pressure to make sure to not overturn the election results in her state. so as this is significant give, and the fact that it is, is all culminating on the day the fact that there was this pushed back against this tone and tenor of b. o, sort of verb pushed back on american democracy. and the fact that this is all happening on this very significant day, or i can be many thanks. so i can really how come live for the white house? the israeli government says it will impose punitive measures against the palestinian authority after it approached the un over the occupation. on 1st day

the un security council held to the emergency session after the intrusion into the alex and mos compound by israel's national security minister. it's a mob been given the move and good palestinians and provoked international condemnation. last week, the un general assembly asked the international court of justice to give an opinion on the legality of the occupation. emron. com has the latest from occupied east jerusalem. the money says they are the national security cabinet match for the 1st time this year. and they swung into action. implementing a number of sanctions against the palestinians are just going to run you through them. the 1st 2 are about money and now they're going to stop transferring money to the palestinian authority. and instead that money will be used to compensate. well, they calling victims of terrorism is ready victims of terrorism. and then what they're going to do is any money that the palestinian authority is giving to

palestine is itself as result of compensations. and when it comes to the actions during the occupation, they going to offset that cash. and then we're going to give it to the palestinian authority. so those are the 2 financial ones that are also placed a moratorium on construction in area see in the occupied west point, which is effectively hollister encouraging what they think to the palestinians is your structures. anything that you construct now will be a legal dis, what 5 is actually p a territory. then other going to deny benefits a v i piece or who are leading the political and legal will against israel. what does that mean? was they just gonna make it much more difficult for them to have to leave the occupied westbank to go to international meetings to go and travel abroad? they just going to make it as difficult as possible. then finally, and this is alarming humanitarian aid organizations, they say that action will be taken against organizations and. ready judea and samaria was these ratings him, but he occupied westbank either promote terrorist attack activity or any hostile

activity. and that includes anybody working in the guise of humanitarian aid. so these are very tough sanctions. so had allowed just verifying scenes on board of flights in mexico after the arrest or a drug cartel leader triggers violence. families of the philippines are struggling to put food on the table with basic necessities price out of their reach. ah, how low they 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 bung additional. we are going to see that cold start to ease over the next few days on the foggy conditions as well, but they will still be there stretching all the way from the west to the east. auto

pradesh has 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 aren't 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. so below the average, not where we expect it to be for this time of year, but temperatures in china as we move to east asia or above average, lots of settled 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 west on the south coast of china for hong kong. we will see that rain 3 the we can't ah,

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a unilateral cease fire, announced by president vladimir putin has come into effect in ukraine as, according to russian state television. but ukraine's leader has dismissed the 36 hour pause and fighting kevin mccarthy's. bid to become us. how speakers become the longest voting process in a 164 years after 3 days and the lever rounds, the republican house so far failed to get his party support. this rating government will impose punitive measures against the palestinian authority after it approached the un over the occupation on thursday, the un security council held an emergency session after the intrusion into the alex mos compound by israel's national security minister that hundreds are protesting to demand. the resignation of peruse president dina below t a and the dissolution of congress. they have been demonstrations up and down the country since last month's impeachment of former president pedro castillo were over

to marianna sanchez now who's alive from reaper in the south of peru. and i can see protest, they're behind you. are they also calling to the lease of the former president pedro castillo the well need. we are indeed in the town of 40, but this is literally in a very remote area of the and this there's no one else of the friends, but off here and several 100 people coming down from different communities in the highland coming down to the center of this of this town and know they are not marching for the release of federal castillo, although on saturday will be one month since he was the chain. people here in these voted for more than 80 percent of the people here put him in office and the people here for the knowledge that you did not deliver on the promise of that she gave. but they believe blake, congress said blame lawmakers. they are demanding more than anything the

resignation of president will do that. they also want to close enough congress and they and they want a new constitution, which is something that most of the people are asking for. in the south of the country, the people are about to march to the area coaching channels, which is down the hill like how can our walking. but this is a place that is, is heavily guarded by police where there was the police was a charge in december. the police policeman was kidding up there. and the court were fern, and the police station was burned. so there's a lot of tension right now here in the box. of course, mariana, the attention hasn't gone without bloodshed. what more can you tell us about the investigation into the depths of protest in december? well, the investigation haven't begun just yet. just a couple of days ago,

the prosecutor, the top prosecutor in the country, formed a new investigation unit, specifically to investigate the 28th related to the protests that happened in december. this hasn't started yet. and so the families in this region and especially in iraq, woods, are, were, are 10 people died. one families are waiting for justice for a small alter for it got but aloe. the go to the night anglo spends her days alone, mourning the death of her eldest son. i be true to me whom as he was my son, he never let me be alone. he always said, i want to go and see my mother. all those soldiers have more compassion for an animal. on december 15th, the army showed at protesters outside like ugliness home and got a went out to help a wounded man at the doorstep and was fatally hit in the chest,

his neighbor and friend. maybe he's be, was looking out the window when she says helicopters flew over them. she and her husband ran to a back room for cover, terrified, but my son is luke. i am what i thought it was going to be like this years ago when there were people dead here and there. i thought we have to escape. we just pray to god for money and mimi naya colacho the violent the most racial, brought back memories of a deadly past. and yet quit all was at the heart of beatles internal armed conflict . the 19 eighties and nineties, security forces, and chinese path rebels waged a war that left nearly 70000 people did. most of them civilians. the lawyers are collecting evidence to build a case against the soldiers who opened fire in december, as well as those responsible in the chain of command on thursday, a lawyer filed the constitutional complaint in parliament against precedent. the know a lot of the and some ministers for the deaths and injuries of protesters by police

and the armed forces. many people who live through the hours the shootings went on around this area, told us they don't want to speak about what they witness because they say there are trade or retaliation. it is stock prosecutor said, a new unit of human rights, prosecutors will investigate the deaths. the government says the investigations will be respected badly. gardena doubts her sons killers, will be prosecuted, is no longer a bank. they will never fall. they will be free. that will be happy, they have done so much damage. they have made so many people cry, all they pay some day. thousands of people disappeared during the armed conflict of the eighty's and ninety's, and thousands of cases remain unresolved. like at the nephew's her son's death will suffer at the same fate. medina sanchez as us eda, a echo chill. stay home mouse, the message from mexican authorities and colleagues come the capital of sinaloa

state armed men of attack, the airport and sealed off the city after the rest of a cartel leader of video guzman, lopez. he's the son of the imprisoned foremost in the lower drug lord l. chapo. flights have been counselled schools are shut in at least 29. people have been killed from mexico city is man. we're apollo, fiery roadblocks and empty streets in coolly icon. the capital city of mexico's sinaloa state says he has done those yet, but i can all say 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 peasant named me that alyssa frequency and when carrying out land recognizance in the north west 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 a chapo son, set off a wave of violent confrontations on the streets of cool. yeah. kind between mexican security forces and the sinaloa cartel, the violence and siena law prompted the closure of schools, businesses and even the cool jak 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 believe in 2019 mexican security forces detained. obedient guzman sparking a similar wave of violence that ultimately led to an order for mexican president and this manuel lopez all, 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. it okay, so what was done with the arrest of this court leader leaves the criminal represent

duct. these goes beyond the cargo because the corporal has a composition, companies, banks, the government, and the military, and all of that remains intact. the capture of a video whose mon, in sinaloa, comes just days before a scheduled visit to mexico by you as president joe biden, and canadian prime minister just in trudeau for a summit of north american leaders where they plan to discuss among other topics multilateral security strategy. manuel rap a low al jazeera mexico city for it as have been held in opposition areas in northwestern syria against efforts to normalize relations with bashar al assad's regime. this comes after the syrian turkish and russian defense ministers met in moscow. the demonstrators of cooling for stronger international action to overthrow the government. the country civil war has been ongoing since 2011. 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 have stopped short of banding travel altogether. hospitals and crematorium is under pressure as infection surge. katrina, you reports from beijing in the fever clinic of this bulletin 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 dont

give in to you, but yeah, the government says china's carver, lighting situation is under control and the worse of the outbreak is over. but here at one of the biggest hospitals, invading the water so overflowing with people, and many have had to wait hours to see a doctor long hughes, fill emergency rooms. some who were turned away last week like this man. a trying a 2nd time. he thought, why better? 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. this crematorium and 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 decked holes in the world, but the backlog here and at hospitals nationwide tells a different story. katrina, you out a 0 dating the philippines is battling record high inflation. president ferdinand marco's junior says it's out of control, that's despite a decline in oil prices. barnaby lo spent a day with one family and manila, which 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 wild with an unwarranted. i only make 6 or $7.00 a day, a shop that's weirdly enough for food for that life has become really difficult.

pull the at the budget of less than $6.00 on the day we company him to the neighbourhood market a on the down by just for 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 the development economy. this is how many filipinos describe the present cost. the basic commodities. one of the most significant, a cooking, staple onions at around $10.00, a kilogram. there. most of 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. that 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 hauled. he says he has no choice but to make do, but he hates seeing his children's suffering. he hopes that whatever gains dichotomy makes in the near future trickle down to ordinary filipinos barnett below al jazeera bonilla. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories that you learn.