week, some of those heavy rains have been affecting presuming its holland east, in the areas of south africa push up into southern areas of mozambique, madagascar as well seems very heavy ray, but for western areas of southern africa, lots of sunshine and warmth. vin took seeing the temperature sit at 30 degrees celsius on saturday. ah, for science, it's the evidence is irrefutable. but the americas climate change deniers, hubbard and mistrust of the fact. despite soaring temperatures, raging wildfires and shrinking water reserves, the world's largest economy still split along ideological lines. so can it ever reach consensus to avoid catastrophe? climate wars ought to on a j 0 aah!

kevin mccarthy, of the state of california. haven't received a majority of the votes. cast is duly elected. speaker of the house of represent up to 5 days and 15 rounds of voting. republican kevin mccarthy is sworn. it was us house speaker. ah, hello ne baka, this is al jazeera live from dough also coming up ukrainian celebrate orthodox christmas under the shadow war where rushes unilateral cease fire hasn't stopped fighting on the front line. mexican authorities confirmed 29 people killed in the day of violence, spoke by the rest of us in a lower drug cartel leader. and we meet a man who fed myanmar to the crack down by security forces, but will faces an uncertain teacher as

a refugee thailand. ah, now after 5 days of chaotic political scenes, republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives, duly elected speaker of the house of represent bid with point hard line republican policy members who repeatedly voted against him. but after 15 ballots, the managed to capture the speakers gl off to making major concessions to the hard line as revealing once again, a fractious republican party. and now, the hard work begins. what we do here today. next week, next month, next year, we'll set the tone for everything that follows. tonight. i want to talk directly

to the american people. that speaker the house, my ultimate responsibility is not to my party, my conference, or even our congress. my responsibility, our responsibility is to our country while and fish has been following all the developments on capital haley's life for us there. now arousing 1st speech by mccarthy allen after deep days of deep divisions at the heart of the republican party, was there anything in their speech to suggest the party is now prepared to put all of those divisions aside? well, whoever said the politics was boring. if anything, kevin mccarthy is drawing up battle lines so that there will be clear divisions between this congress and also jo biden's white host. let me just get left for that's going on, look, contacts going on to find out what's been happening on the hill. what is interesting is he's lead these battle lines and he had to do that because of course,

it's 2023. there's a presidential election in 2024, and most people's attention will turn to that. in short order. he's essentially said, look, these are the areas where we're going to go after the white house, the going to look at the origins of cobra. they don't believe the story that was told that it was perhaps from a wet market in china. they're going to look at the power of the f, b i and exactly how they investigated who the investigated and whether or not they were behind as a right wing conspiracy theory would have is believe january 6 insurrection, by putting paid informants into the crowd. they're also going to look at the withdrawal of, of janice done any money that they look at the withdrawal of, of chemistry from one to bite and came in to the presidency rather than the deal that was done by his predecessor. and of course the, the p steel that was signed by mike pompeo and the taliban. so you can see those lines already being drawn. kevin mccarthy said that we knew one cited investigation

. that was undoubtedly an attack on the 6th of january investigation, which is no, no longer. it is all over. and he's going to hold the heating on the southern border, which of course will highlight well, many people believe is the crisis and immigration here in the united states. and the fact that many people believe that job bite and hasn't done enough to confront it. interestingly enough to buy a movie down in el paso, in texas, on the border on sunday. so the battle lines are drawn. kevin mccarthy talks about working together at the break to lift the american people. but it's clear there is a real political edge to this. he's made many confessions to many parts of his party. he's no got to deliver on that, but he has all so got to make sure that they remain united at least through the next 2 years to the next election. right. and you touch on there and all of this, of course means the party now has to set it sites on the real opposition in the run up to that 2024 election. they intend to be a for one in the side of president. binds. exactly right. i mean,

the problem the go of course, is that they are not united and we saw that at through the vote in the last couple of hours. kevin mccarthy told us that he believed that he had enough boats to win on the 14th throne. he didn't, they were to hold oaks at the gates and loan but voted present. that meant that kevin mccarthy was one short, a becoming speaker, and that led to confrontations on the floor. there were ex voices that were raised . there were fingers that were pointed and one congressman had to be physically restrained from getting towards my gates to challenge him and fight. from what i'm hearing, someone said to matt gates. if he doesn't get the speakership, you're finished and republican politics. donald trump was involved in making phone calls as well. a kevin mccarthy is make confessions about how committees will operate, who will have the chance to unseat the speaker, how amendments are placed on the floor. all of these are in a framework. the details will become clear, we believe over the next couple of days, perhaps

a monday when congress is back in session. but kevin mccarthy has got to try and keep this party united. he's got to be a strong speaker. and it suggests from what we've seen over the last couple of days, and particularly over the last couple of hours that he doesn't really preside over united republican party. so he can focus his attention on your bite. and he can see that he is now the check on the balance of what happens in the white house. but he's also got to keep one eye over his shoulder because there is a very disruptive element in his betty on party nights of high drama and washington d. c. allen, fisher live a capitol hill. many thanks will staying with the elements of the united states. scott lucas is a professor of politics, university college dublin. he joins his life in birmingham, in the united kingdom. welcome to the program. as a correspondent to adam fisher was just saying, he mccarthy seems to be presiding over a divided party. but one thing in his opening speech really struck me. he said if

one thing over the last few days has been clear, it's that i never give up. do you think he goes into assuming this role looking stronger because of his determination or weakened by all this political infighting? wow. at a personal level, keller mccarthy finally gets to be speaker. his lifelong ambition. but at the level of significance, ah, as alan fisher pointed out, he's keeping that just wanted both eyes over his shoulder at a republican civil war. because here's the big takeaway that continues long after we finish discussing this vote. and that is that a trumpet st. and hard write minority is now holding not only kevin mccarthy hostage through a series of concessions he made to them. they are now holding the u. s. house hostage in terms of doing his business. and ultimately they may be holding the us system hostage over the next couple of years. it's going to be a big touch for the by the ministration. not versus kevin mccarthy,

but to continue to govern when you have what is, let's be very clear here for hard, right? maybe even an extremist element, almost all from support in toronto. trump's lunch, you denials, some of whom supported the planning for the rallies on january. the 6th, the match, the cap will attack, and those people on the power, they are the big winners out of the last few days. even if kevin mccarthy gets the speakers gather that talking about those possible concessions. what underpins the change of mind by these formerly firm opponents of mccarthy? what deals and arrangements do you think have been discussed? what we know has been struck is the fact that they will get a significant number of committee assignments. they now have veto power over the rules committee. now that is the committee that determines what business comes twos of the floor, the house because they have that veto power over one 3rd of the appointments to the committee. they will have other committee post, for example, the q

a non conspiracy theorist marjorie taylor. grain of the ban on our committee post has been listed. they will have the ability to call a snap vote at any point to remove kevin mccarthy. in other words, an a providence vote. if only one member demands that and a single member, only one member is necessary to institute a provision which objects to any line item on a government budget. in other words, they can hold up the government budget for days, weeks, even months. as a small minority just by being obstructionist against all of that, they have one in terms of power. you will note that there's not a single as it were positive policy that either that trump card, right french or kevin mccarthy put forth. there's nothing on education, health care, housing, the economy, foreign policy, all they can tried to do to claim suppose unity is to be obstructions. while of course, the house has been ranked by all of this indecision and the business of forming committees and legislating has been in limbo. what's the plan now for republicans?

what looms large in mccarthy's in trey, bearing in mind the presidential election? isn't that far away? what lazar for kevin mccarthy is to survive. i mean, kevin mccarthy is not the key player now in terms of where we move towards. 02024. where you're talking about candidates like florida governor, rhonda santas who will now try to finally eclipse donald trump. and most importantly, kevin mccarthy is not there when it comes to policy, despite all the obstructionist wait, let me tell you what i think the most important moment watch in the middle of the series of votes in the middle of this discord in the middle of this animosity in the house, it was the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, who stood alongside joe biden had a ceremony in kentucky that inaugurated a 1200000000 bridge across the ohio river. that symbol, which was part of the historic infrastructure bill passed by the, by an administration with bipartisan support,

is the fact that there are still adults in the room in the senate. republicans who will work with the, by the administration. no matter how wild the trumpet did in the house. scott lucas, professor, politics, university college dublin. many thanks. i hear now that victory came out is after a commemoration event to mark the 2nd anniversary of the attack on the u. s. capital in january. the 6th. democratic members gathered on the steps of the building, they paid tribute to the officers who kept them safe. i remember the 5 people who died. supporters of donald trump storm the capital 2 years ago. the former president had falsely claimed that 2020 election was stolen. ah, orthodox christians in ukraine, a celebrating christmas under the shadow of rushes war. this was the scene in one of the churches in eastern dumbass on christmas eve, where mass was held in

a basement. a si, fi ordered by russian president vladimir putin did not stop soldiers on both sides of the front line from exchanging fire. and in key if it's been a somber christmas morning. as charles stratford reports, christmas warning for millions of orthodox christians around the world, but of course a christmas head that has been blackened by more than 10 months of war. you join us outside this beautiful cathedral in king. this is the most important orthodox cathedral in the country and today for the 1st time the head of the newly formed ukrainian also dogs church will be holding praise, open to alicia. those praise already at always being held by a ukrainian orthodox church affiliated to moscow. it is a church that certainly in recent months has been accused of having connections with the kremlin. it has had its churches rated by the ukraine. it'll socrates the

craniums, accusing them of having links of potentially being even linked to saboteurs in side . ukraine. of course, this is something that is massively denied by that church that is linked to moscow . but i think that that is a big reflection of just how divisions, how this war has as cause divisions between countries, but also between the religious communities inside ukraine and russia. has been bloody man and attended christmas mass in the cathedral on the criminal grounds. senior government officials who are also in attendance, imposed to 36 south seas, 5 falling calls from the head of luscious orthodox church, a shout carol. meanwhile the u. s. is confirmed. another military, a package for ukraine is worth $3000000000.00. it includes 50 infantry fighting vehicles which can find anti tank myself that we used in both the gulf and iraq was

city. it'll take a couple of months, basically i to get this capability, feel dead 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 all over the course of roughly a month. and we're adding on the bradley training and other news at least 29 people have been killed half to the city of clark on and mexico turned into a war zone. it began after police arrested a drug cartel leader on thursday, a video guzman as the son of imprison drug lord l. chapo, and one of the major figures of the sinaloa cartel. there was heavy fighting street fighting after groups of gunman took to the streets in response to his arrest. most of the city has been shut down. authorities are urging people to stay at home. buyer. yeah, there is still no security. now one is telling us everything will be fine,

it still doesn't feel good. how would he though that and then we'll call me over, can walk around and few waiting for god to see was and that nothing else happens. i log on, i go out, afraid that they will stop us again. i work here at the supermarket, la jolla, home and reports from mexico city where the government released more details about the arrest. they said that everything is calm. now, in clear can in sinaloa, that's the state in north america where this all happened. and they revealed a little bit more information about the operation. so the key thing about this is the 2nd time around. they tried to do this in 2019 they went in for the same man over there goes man, he's the son of fucking guzman, otherwise known as old chapel probably met his most famous drug trafficker ever. they went in to get him in 2009. they did get him, they had him there in the city, and then there was such a battle. and so many coulier kind stories to lower cultural operatives went out on the street and vehicles shooting things, burning things, putting up ro, blockades,

and things like that. they had to let it go. the president was worried about loss of life and civilians being affected, the real humiliation for him. so this time around, they got there, man, 3 years later he said that things were calm. he was saying the differences between the 2 operations, for example, last time around, they tried to get a video guzman about mid day this time around. they went in the very early morning last summer and it was right and coolly a can the city which is a real center point to this in a lower cartel. and this time around they went to a sort of village on the outskirts of cooley, a can to do it, which made things easier. still ahead. hey, when i was just, there are more countries call for checks on travelers from china as it struggles with rising numbers of cobra 19 affections ahead of the lumen, new year. plus. i'm rob reynolds at cs in las vegas, the world's biggest and most exciting consumer electronics show. some of the products on display here might be the next big thing.

i use. hello there now 2022 was a hottest year on record for parts of europe and that wounds carried through to the new year. but of course those balmy conditions meant there wasn't much snow falling on the soap that is going to change. we're going to see more in the way of wind to weather across most central areas, but still a lot of rooms to be found in the west. not gonna match up with this busily, cold air blowing down in the east. no contemptuous down for the life of western russia, ukraine, and we are going to see that happen for some of the balkan states. that doesn't mean because it is warm in the west. it isn't wet. we have got those fronts rolling in from the atlantic, with blustery showers for britain and ireland. we've got warnings out for heavy rain for the south west of england and some of that rain edging across northern

areas of france. when it reaches scandinavia, it turns into snow significance, north norway, sweden, and finland remains very wintery here. now crossman central areas much clearer on saturday, but by sunday you can see that rain sweeping in. it's going to turn into snow and the ups we will see some of that wintery weather tripping across was the southeast, but still lots of sunshine and clear skies to be found in the likes of grief for athens, but heavy rain to come for portugal to weather update ah, in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world, which it did was it to them they have to sign because if they didn't get to frank assessments, do you think people with not very optimistic about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody tweets, everybody's on tick, tock, tick, tock doesn't vote. you have for the winter,

it's going to be on holder. pretty soon. inside story of al jazeera lou. ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top story is this. our republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the house of representatives after 5 days of political style made mccarthy's bid was blocked by hard line republicans who repeatedly voted against the ukrainians. the celebrating orthodox christmas under the shadow of war. despite to cease fire cooled by russian president vladimir putin fighting continues on the front line. at least 29 people have been killed in violence in mexico following the

rest of a drug cartel leader of video guzman on thursday, gunman and military police. we engaged in intense fighting in the streets of could you can iran as hangs to you man for alleged crimes committed during nationwide protests over the death of master. meaning the 2 men were habit, maddie and said mohammed her seine were found guilty of killing a security officer in november 22 year old master. i mean he died in police custody in september. he was detained for violating the countries dress code. portugal in the netherlands are the latest countries to require coven 19 checks for travelers from china. this week, the you urge member states to implement task before departure is china. china records a surge in cases. the dutch government is also recommending people wear masks on flights to and from china. or chinese authorities are concerned about the virus spreading as millions of people celebrate luna new year. the transport ministry is

calling for limits on travel and gatherings. officials are also edging people to wear mass, some public transport with me, you know, i haven't had to have it 19 yet. so if my relatives are positive, i'm afraid of carrying the virus back with me and infecting them. that would affect the health, but they have recovered from the virus for a while now. so i'm planning to visit them and spend the lid and eat with them. my grandparents have also told me many times that i miss me a lot. everyone in my family is having symptoms like fever and cough due to the reopening the cove at 19 positive, they've all been infected, but it's not a big deal. there might be some coughing still, but it's not affecting the elderly greatly. it's been any 2 years since the military crew in myanmar, but fighting continues between armed opposition groups on the job. this is led to growing humanitarian needs and math displacement, as many people flee to neighboring thailand. refugee spoke to al jazeera about his

attempts to help his community, even though his family's future remains uncertain. we have hidden his identity and a bit to insure his safety. no, no. no. my name is phillip local. i am a refugee from lake hall and kind of stayed after the military coup. many young activists came out onto the street to protest, but the ministry did not care correct down on the protest, causing many people to want to leave. i had to leave state and september 2021 because i was helping ended protested and had become too well known to the military view of my colleagues had been arrested and i began to feel unsafe. the military went to some of the people i had helped, wanted know, my name and where i lived, i feared for my family safety. so i decided to leave. when we arrived in mon state, they passed the new law of forcing people to report and register any get so visitors. we will easily identifiable strangers as we look different to the local people. ok, so we continued on melody. then like

a cool. so we faced the same problem. we had no choice but to cross the border into thailand i took, i wrote to the you and hcr in december 2021 and had an interview with them a few months later. but i heard nothing more. so i applied to australia for refugee status, but i was rejected. that affected me a lot, mentally. i have a wife and child, but life is so uncertain. i don't know if, when the time authorities will arrest him before me. i've sent letters to many embassies, including the u. s. canada. enjoy. all of them. tell me the same thing that i need to have a un registration number from the un. otherwise they can't help me in mesa on the board. i was arrested by the time police. i tried to call the you and hcr emergency number several times, but there was no response. when you don't, in the end, i'd pay a bribe to stop them from deporting me. i was very lucky. i worry as my parents and family members are still in me, and so i tried to keep

a low profile well continuing to support a freedom fighter job. i don't see why it's important not to draw too much attention from the military. i send food and medical supplies from thailand. i tried to help all civilians and kind of regardless of which group they belong to. we are all human beings inside me and my revolution is taking longer. and it's not easy to raise funds. i'm a singer and i plan to upload some of my songs youtube. once i get more than the 1000000 views, youtube will pay me, and i will donate the money to the cause. i. the molly's transitional government is suspended the prison sentences of 46 soldiers from ivory coast. the troops were described as mercenaries and convicted of undermining state security. they worked for a company contracted by the un to bolster a peacekeeping mission. have been 23 rebels who have handed by control of

a military base to the government of the democratic republic of congo. this part of a pledge to withdraw from territory seized in recent month, catherine sawyer reports. this is a big win for the congolese government and east african troops in north kiva province to help combat am 23 fighters rebels to control of the areas largest military base. in october, regional forces have been negotiating with the fighters to withdraw. we are showing our goodwill, giving hunting over he bloomberg, then hunting over room hon, but will never continue to be observed. while all of these are taking place. we will react a new year, giving a lust earning to the government. the coalition continuing to prosecute our people and violating the process. fighting is fierce in some parts.

government forces and the rebels have accused each other of starting the latest flare up in my c. c territory, an area rich in minerals. there was a big the rebel say they want to talk with the government, but kinshasa is reluctant to engage. it accuses ronda of supporting m $23.00 galli denies. that notion is not about trusting, then the question processes and trust the process. and we know the things must be very back in the ground, but we strong believe that at the end of the day, why not? because one that he's the one acting beyond 23. thousands of congolese are continuing to flee from their homes to the chicago. but it will and i need to born, but i tried going back recently with my family, but the rebels of m 2 to 3 was still around my home area in cuba is still not safe for us. so we decided to return back to the camps. the houses have been great that

they cannot reach ruins because of fighting all this is a consequence of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. catching sight i'll jazeera police have detained a 6 year old boy, shot, an injured a teacher in a school in the u. s. state of virginia. it happened in the city of newport news lease. say the boy fired a hanger, enjoying an argument in a classroom. the teacher suffered life threatening injuries, but she supported to be improving. california is racing for another round of severe weather pacific storms of cause, major flooding in the us state this week, and cut power to tens of thousands of homes. the weather has been blamed for least 6 deaths. santa cruz county suffered the worse damage, and downtown san francisco reported. one of his wet is periods in a 150 years. reco, breaking floods have left remote communities in western australia. isolated the kimberly region in the far north of the state was the worst affected authorities

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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 met a vs slowly taking shape. and everyone is looking forward to a new headset product that amazon is expected to bring out on the market later this year. hundreds of people to braving freezing temperatures in south korea, hoping to catch their next meal fishes in what shall have been waiting patiently for a bite at the local ice festival. daniel fara is one of the most popular in south korea is taking place for the 1st time in 2 years after being disrupted by.