upon discovering his ancestral home could be a gold mine. but to benefit his community from the minerals beneath the land, he must navigate the jo tribal disputes above it. mm. witness. golden light on al jazeera is a wave of sentiment around the world. people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voice is not heard because it's not part of the mainstream use narrative. obviously we cover the big stories and report on the big events going on. but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice. and then whenever the child, my dad to never be afraid to put your hand up and ask a question. and i think that's what obviously we're really does. we asked the questions, the people who should be accountable, and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. ah,

the us house is reconvening for a 14 photon kevin mccarthy's bid to be speak up. he's now got the batting of some republican hardliners. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is almira live from della also coming up. acts of heroism are honored as events that helped him out the storming of capitol hill 2 years ago. israel security cabinet unveils tough sanctions against the palestinian authority of the u. n's top court is auster room on the legality of occupation and the phone out from the rest of a mexican drug. lord, a 1000 troops deployed following a night of violence. ah, a 14th round of voting to elect a new speaker to the us house of representatives is now getting underway.

republican kevin mccarthy has been inching closer to the 218 votes needed for the job. one of the most important in us politics will, over the past 24 hours, he's managed to flip 14 of 20 hardliners who had refused to back him. the house can't begin official business or swearing. you members until a speaker is chosen. let's bring an alan fish. he's lifeless at capitol hill, allan kevin mccarthy inching of a close to then to the speakers chair took us through the numbers now and what's happening like that the political logic would suggest that the mccarthy thinks he has the numbers and he said that out load he thinks he's got the figures. a 2 congressmen are coming back one from colorado, one from texas. they've been out of town at the mccarthy supporters. he thinks that he's flipped enough of the naysayers to at least at the very least for present which lourdes. the threshold for the number of votes he has to get, and he believes he's got the numbers among republicans to carry him over at the

limit that he needs to become the next speaker of the us house of representatives. of course, we've had 6 people who have been strong holdouts and said they wouldn't vote for mccarthy if they suggest some one else and then give their votes there. this is going to prolong the process, but what we're hearing from many of those who were holdouts is that a framework agreement has been put in place with kevin mccarthy, which will give in their view, ordinary members of the house, a lot more power. that the sort of thing they're talking about is that only one of them can raise the issue of replacing the speaker. that changes the rules from where we are at the moment where it has to be a majority of the party in power. also, they're talking about getting more power to scrutinize vote to scrutinize bills before they're passed to propose amendments, to be able to talk about how they cut budgets. all of these things at the moment or just in the framework. the details still have to be worked out, but it seems that this framework is enough for kevin mccarthy to carry the vote.

another interesting thing is that we have had guidance from the house from the people who run the house. that after the vote, if kevin mccarthy is elected speaker, then they will start to swear and members. and that could want about 34 o'clock in the morning. and they will vote on that rules packet that we haven't had that from the house any time over the last 4 days. this is the 1st time they've said after the vote, this is what's likely to happen. so it suggests that they've done the arithmetic. they've counted up the votes and kevin mccarthy, me just squeak this. not by much, but enough to make them the next speaker. yeah, alan, as they say, mccarthy is offered a number of concessions to these rebels. these never kevin's what, what some analysts say that this will significantly weaken his leadership. one is all of this, telling us about the deep divisions within the g o p itself. ok that the republicans are saying this actually strengthens their them because it makes them more democratic and of course they will say, nancy pelosi never

a load. this with the democrats at the reality is it could well we can kevin mccarthy because he has what many people have said is a broad church of republicans, and many of them don't like kevin mccarthy. speaker. and so if they don't like some of the legislation that he's pushing or he doesn't deliver on some of these promises, they could collapse the speakership and they could really still meet any possibility of pushing through legislation that they don't like with very slim majorities here . the republicans could find themselves in a real, with a real problem, and we've had this before with other speakers. if you think back to john bina, who was the republican speaker and paul ryan, who was the last republican speaker, they decided that look, i can't keep all these people together. it fell a bit like had been cats at times. and i, i'm better off away from this and they walked away from the job because they found it too difficult to keep ultra conservatives, conservatives centrist and those that were probably on the left wing of the

republican party altogether. and moving in the same direction. and so that is going to be the issue that kevin mccarthy has got. he's got a lot of cats to head and i'm not entirely sure that he knows the best way to do it . allen, just a final thought you before they tally all the votes in an hour or so. i mean, given all the political infighting we've had over the last few days that you just talked about. is this an omen? do think for the next 2 years as republican conservatives tron block, president biden's legislative agenda going forward. well, this is a couple of things to consider here. first of all, every one says, this is a bad omen. this is terrible. this will scar, the republicans forever. the reality is in 3 months time, no one will think about this and no one will remember if the republicans can get their act together. but if they constantly run into problems, if kevin mccarthy can get legislation through the house, which then passes on to the senate or he can get stuff this passed in the senate through the house. then people are going to see the republican party is just a mess. that has been an argument in america for

a long time that the republican party really is 2 parties, but they stick together in this broad church. because in america, there are 2 parties to mean parties, the republicans and the democrats. so be a real test of kept mccarthy's leadership. if donald trump can continue to exert pressure on those to support him in the house to get round some legislation and that is always going to be an issue as well. and so it is going to be a tough couple of years in the run up to the 2024 election. but the pressure is on kevin mccarthy. no, he hasn't flinched over the last 4 days. if you give them credit for anything is sitting in that seat seeing eventually i am going to be the speaker of the us house of representatives. and it seems we could be within the hour of that being confirmed. if as arithmetic is right or right, alan will come back to you or if the arithmetic is right with the numbers are alan fish are there at abner capitol hill? allen? thank you. what john jones, they political strategist,

he says things are looking up for kevin mccarthy. the last 4 days have been very long for representative mccarthy. but the last 24 hours have probably been the most promising for him. having been able to flip about 15 rebels and bringing him 2 or 3 boats shy of this number of both that he needs to become speaker. so he and his allies are much more confident today than in 3 days past. but it's going to be very interesting to see as a mr. mccarthy makes more and more concessions to the right way. will this upset centrist and disappoint moderate, within the republican caucus. busy and will it be challenging to actually bring all of these votes together? so that's going to be the big challenge for representing mccarthy going forward. it's going to be really serious for those who are looking to see how

strong centrist and moderates will be in the united states congress. and both the republican and democratic parties. what you're going to need in order to fund the government pass appropriation measures, raise the debt ceiling. alan is essentially a centrist governing coalition of republicans and democrats that are going to need to come together in a bipartisan matter to get those votes. and to in part from the government funded department of defense fund. the state department fund much needed elements within government. how stand a class of lead commemorations marking the 2nd anniversary of the john re 6 attack on the u. s. capitol members gathered on the steps of the building for a remembrance ceremony. they paid tribute to the officers who kept them safe. and remember the 5 people who died 2 years ago, the capital of storm by supporters of then president donald trump, who falsely claimed the 2020 election was raped. a white house correspondent,

kimberly hunk. it has more to mark the 2 year anniversary of the january 6 riots when supporters of former president donald trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. you as president joe biden on friday, awarded 12 people, presidential metals election workers as well as law enforcement officials for their role in what he says was a courageous act. standing up for democracy and pushing back against those, he says, sought to prevent the peaceful transfer of power is not an exaggeration to say america, ocean. oh, you all are really a debt debt of gratitude. well, we can never fully repay unless we live up to what you did more than 950 people have been arrested for their role in the january 6 riots. and among those at least

$350.00, have been convicted for a wide range of crimes, including trespassing and destruction of property house committee. looking into the january sex riots has also concluded that among those that should be charged. former president donald trump, for his role in sparking the riots. israel has announced sanctions on the palestinian authority off it pushed the u. n's, highest judicial body to give its opinion on these ready occupation. the decision was taken at the 1st security cabinet meeting of the new government that by prime minister benjamin netanyahu. last week, the un general assembly asked the international court of justice to give an opinion on the legality of the occupation at the request of palestinian leaders, human con, as more from occupied easter wisdom. on thursday, the national security cabinet match for the 1st time this year and they swung into action, implementing a number of sanctions against the palestinians,

or just going to run you through them. the 1st 2. ready 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 what 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 as health 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 authorities, lose the 2 financial ones that are also placed. camaro tore him on construction in area. see in the occupied west point which is effectively hollister encouraging. so what they say 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 or to v i p 's 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're 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 raids him for the occupied, where spike either promot terrorist attack, the activity or any hostile activity. and that includes anybody walking into the guise of humanitarian aid. so these are very tough sanctions. ah, the u. s. has confirmed another major military aid package for ukraine. we're $3000000000.00. it includes 50 bradley fighting vehicles, which can fire onto tank missiles, right, that were used in the gulf and iraq wars joining us today. and it'll take a couple of months. basically i to get this capability, feel did to get the ukrainians, trained on that,

that new training program that we're starting it, it's roughly a battalions worth of forces at a time. i so roughly $500.00 soldiers over the course of roughly a month. and we're adding on the bradley training. mean a lot to verify has been heard in ukraine despite the scheduled start of a 36 hour unilateral cease fire cold by russian president vladimir putin. ukraine rejected the offer on both sides or accusing each other of continuing the shilling . the temporary truce is to coincide with the orthodox christmas holiday, shall strike reports in the capital keefe. 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 the sky. 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. while the request of the sci fi came from the head of russia's orthodox church, patriarch curial, he led christmas mass in moscow,

which was attended by some of russia's talk officials. president putin took part in math and the cathedral on the kremlin ground. not one of the 2 of the churches in ukraine break with tradition and allow christmas to be celebrated on december 25th official breaker. now to 0. when we come back the west coast of the us for most of the schools. i'm remembering jim, look of the all god from comes of age limit 2 times per one of those things. ah hello, that will start in north america and the weather story is all about the powerful storm this hitting the u. s. west coast. now it's caused flooding in parts of california. we're lucky to see more of that because it's more wet and windy weather

sweeping in. after this storm system works its way east. we've got another one hot on its heels, not to give you an idea of how much rain is actually falling in san francisco. it's had its wet as a 10 day period in about 150 years. and there's more of that to come. if we look at the 3 day, some particularly heavy rain pulling back in on monday, now across the eastern seaboard, it's a much milder picture, lots of warm, but we are seeing cloud and rain starting to pull in from the storm system. sweeping the deep south night could also bring some flakes of snow to the ohio valley. much quieter to the southwest not joins up, requires a weather across northern parts of mexico. some heavy rain will set to pick up and belize as well as southern parts of mexico, but for the caribbean, the heavy rain that we've been seeing across the dominican republic starts to ease showers, stretching all the way, however, from southern parts of mexico down to panama, city and of course that joins up with a rash of intense storms, stretching all the way down to coastal areas of brazil.

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welcome back to pick them out about top stories here. this are a 14th round of voting to elect a speaker to the us. house of representatives is now getting underway. republican kevin mccarthy has been inching closer to the 219 votes needed on today's attempts . blocked by a small group of ultraconservative republicans. members of the us house of representatives gathered on the steps of the capital building to remember the january 6th attack 2 years ago. they paid tribute to the officers who kept them safe. and remember the 5 people die. and israel has an out sanctions on the palestinian authority off it pushed the un science traditional body to give its opinion on the israeli occupation. the decision was taken at the 1st security cabinet meeting of the new government. now a 1000 mexican troops are on their way to the northern city of cooley, our can, after a night of violence, over the arrest of a drug carto boss left at least $29.00 people dead. the military fort running gun battles with carto members. after a video, guzman lopez,

the son of imprison kingpin l. chapo, was taken into custody on thursday. flights have been cancelled. schools closed and people told to stay at home. john holmes has more from mexico city. that is quite a deaf po for something that was obviously a plan. the peroration, i think, gives a sense of the scale of this and how difficult it was to get to the video guzman. and also like how much the cost tell this in a lower cost controls can you can control the area and what a presence they have the the president under the manual up is over. the dog also said that things were calm. now in the state, in a lower and especially in cooler can we just check that independently speaking to a good friend, the journalist there that said yes, things do appear more calm. people are still reluctant perhaps to get out on the streets, but there are cars circulating there. there's not the sort of plumes of smoke that we are seeing on thursday when this operation happened in the retaliation was taking place. and it is

a different outcome to when the mexican government tried this the 3rd time around, back in 2019, they went to the same man over the guzman, son of the the new tour is probably the most famous drug trafficker from mexico ever chapel whose man, what king goes mad, and they tried getting that time round, they actually had them in hidden in their grass. and then they had to let him go because the city was just turned into a battle ground by the forces of this in a lower car. so it's a big humiliation, the president and there's many, all of his of the doors at this time round. as they announced in the press conference. they managed to get him out on an army plane within hours. they obviously didn't want the same thing to happen. and they got him intimate cri city on thursday as well. california is bracing for another round of severe weather pacific storms and lashing the u. s. state this week causing major flooding and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. the wind has been blamed for at least 6 deaths. santa cruz county has suffered the worse damage,

while downtown san francisco reported one of its western periods and a 150 years. parts of europe and experiencing record high winter temperatures, prompting calls a foster action against climate change. at least 8 countries are recorded there. warmus january de, ever with temperatures in parts of switzerland and southern germany exceeding 20 degrees celsius. several winter sporting events have been canceled or postponed, and large ski centers of clothes because of a lack of snowfall. but the unusually mild temperature have off at some short term relief to european governments, struggling with high gas prices. and just a few days into the new year, the u. k. island from spain of declared 2020 to the hottest year on record. but board is on the london school of economics. he says, european resorts will continue to adapt to the new economic reality driven by climate change. while it's certainly true that although skiing is generally, i went to 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 the walking trail. 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. it's changing climate, it will mean that many of our traditional businesses and activities need to change out, but they're all going to be limits. and it is going to be turn out to be increasingly costly to deal with each and a denise is in nigeria, bracing for the arrival of more refugees as fighting between soldiers and rebel

forces intensifies and neighboring cameroon. but with global attention focused on other conflicts, such as the warn ukraine, many refugees say they feel abandoned by the international community of an inner support from other gum. the other gum refugee settlement opened with a few 100 refugees from cameroon. 5 years ago. to day it houses, $14000.00 among them is david, and bah, he arrived last month with his family after spending months in the wild avoiding rebels and government forces. this short of gun was parody up to the point that where 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. because many of the refugees aren't so fortunate. feminine. some actually arrive with god. so it's was awesome. how

beds. so the attacks me out of the started popping up budgeted by for government so does and also by the amazon in his box. 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 acknowledge. many children

here can be educated as a neighborhood. schools are overcrowded. it's not possible to accommodate all ed martinez significantly elliptical responsibility to involve a lot of places like this, or sheltering about 18000 refugees from camel. what is humanitarian is just as running short of funds, aid workers say their lives could become even more difficult if the fighting in cameroon doesn't stop soon. i'm a degrees al jazeera article, italian football, or jan luke obviously has died from cancer at the age of 58 tributes for the star strike. i have come in from around the footballing world, including his club santoria event as and chelsea. david stokes looks back on his career brothers in arms. she and luke of the alley embracing rebecca mancini, its former teammate and friends for over 40 years after watching italy with the

euros in 2021. when she neither had coach, had hired the alley, as the teams delegation chief of only continued in until last month, before stepping away to focus on his health. the ollie was originally diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017, but given the old claire a year later, only for it to return a few months after italy's triumph at wembley stadium. he died on friday, leaving his wife and 2 daughters. the 3 step army of it's a sad day for me though, i say good bye to a friend by a colleague, a very nice person, girl, a great player, may he rest in peace. the ollie's career took off when he signed to sum doria in 1984. he's got $85.00 lea goes on the sorry, our title 3 italian cups and the european cup. when his cup as well. he was soon called up to the national team. i went on to play 59 times for italy, representing him. it's who will cups. mexico 1986,

an italian 90. in 1992, we secured a then world record moved. event is $15000000.00. he won another italian title, the wife, a cup, and the prestigious champions league. events is coach massey, emiliano a leg re let a minute silence at his press conference on friday before paying his own tribute. i represent that atlanta, so he represented a lot firstly, as a player, but even more as a man who they are. i think that for the younger players, he was a model to follow him. his therefore, we will all miss him terribly. there after event espy ali's next move was to the premier league when root whole it brought him in at chelsea. he ended up replacing the dutchman as player manager and guided the london side to 5 trophy this was somebody who introduced him to a new year or this year, the club whose ability to communicate the link between the class and the supporters was absolutely everything to us a minute silence will be held across all sorry,

our matches this weekend. in memory of the alley, italy's football federation president said his sporting success was matched by his extraordinary human qualities. the biggest tech event of the u. s. is underway in las vegas offering a 1st look at the latest gadgets virtual reality. an artificial intelligence are at the heart of many innovations. at this year's consumer electronics show several carmakers also unveiling new concept vehicles. new gizmos on display include products on the fields of gaming, agriculture, and health robbins as mona, from las vegas. this show showcases up products of from a, a huge jug companies like, uh, like behind me you can see a samsung offering a variety of the new new tv screens or appliances, laptops and what not. 2 very small start ups. in fact, there's one french company that's offering some electronic roller skates. allow you

to wiz along at about 30 people for about 30 kilometers, with minimal human efforts as it. it's until it's battery life runs out. b, m w, the german automaker has a, a, i equipped off har model, it can talk to the driver and learn their preferences. so the integration of tech into the automotive world continues and also a change in the world of virtual reality. and a, i is well represented here the matter versus slowly taking shape. and everyone is looking forward to a new headset product that amazon is expected to bring out onto the market later this year. now hundreds of people are braving the wind to ice and south korea hoping to catch their next meal ice fishers inhalation. i've been waiting patiently from vitally local ice festival.