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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 after 5 days and 15 rounds of voting, republican, kevin mccarthy sworn in as us house speaker ah, on the barker this is al jazeera life, doha also coming up ukrainian. celebrate orthodox christmas under the shadow of war . as rush as you launch will cease, fire fails to stop fighting on the front line. mexican police send an additional security forces to restore order after cartel violence on the streets of sinaloa. and we meet a man who fled a security crank down by beyond mars military need to face uncertain future was refugee in thailand.

ah, though after 5 days of chaotic political stalemate, republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives. mccarthy's bid was blocked by hard line republican party members who repeatedly voted against him. but after 15 ballots, he managed to capture the speakers gavel. he did, however, have to make major concessions to the hard liners revealing once again a fractious republican party, and official reports. after an historic queen and to leaking into the after a night of drama and contemplation, it was 15 time. lucky for kevin mccarthy, the california republican finally flipped enough foods to secure the position. a speaker of the us house of representatives, a 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. he told everyone he had the boots to win on the 14th and he didn't. 2 votes of president gates gates essentially blocked his way to the chair. as he fell short of the number of votes required by one. it led to incredible scenes on the house floor with the 2 being confronted by colleagues was when exchanged fingers pointed and physical confrontation apparently avoided as one congressman had to be held back by colleagues. the conversations continued and suddenly to adjourn to monday was rejected. mccarthy wanted to go again. the theme summed up by one democrat, if he offered his parties, no money for the poor. madam clerk, i rise to say, wow, the voting began again when congress women expense to exasperation at the extended

process. and then it was done because the finally became speaker of the $118.00 congress. kevin mccarthy moved into this because office earlier this week, but several times in the chamber. it looked premature. a group of ultra conservatives blocked his elevation, but slowly he groaned them don't offering a raft concessions, including a change of rules and who could challenge the speaker and the promise of seats on influential committees. democrats congratulated mccarthy and his when the warranty pieces, problems to control his own party, when republican said the issues of the last few days will have no impact on his party's long term prospect. the 2024 presidential election sleeping ever closer. i think it's been hard on the party and a little bit frustrating, but i don't think it's left a scar. i don't think it's anything permanent, as i've said a number of times as well. 6 months from now. no one will be thinking about this.

and that could be an issue for kevin mccarthy. he has an extensive agenda. he wants to push through congress. but to do that, he needs the united party and it has been anything, but in the last few days and hours, i was fisher, i'll just eat up on capitol hill in washington, was called lucas is a professor of politics at university college dublin. he explains what snakes for kevin mccarthy at the personal level. kevin mccarthy finally gets to be speaker. his lifelong ambition. but at the level of significance, he's keeping not just one, but both eyes over to shoulder at a republican civil war. because here's the big takeaway that continues more after we finish discussing this. and that is 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 us house hostage in terms of doing his business. and ultimately they may be holding the u. s. system

hostage over the next couple of years. it's going to be a big, tough 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. a hard right, maybe even an extremist element, almost all who supported trauma for washington idols. some of whom supported the planning for the rallies on january the 6th. and that's the capital attack, and those people are empowered, they are the big winners out of the last few days. even if kevin mccarthy gets the speakers gamble. and that victory came out as after a commemoration event to mark the 2nd anniversary of the january 6th attack on the u. s. capital democrats gathered on the steps of the building to pay tribute to the officers. he kept them safe. i remember the 5 people who were killed supporters of donald trump storm the capital 2 years ago. the former president had falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen ah,

orthodox christians in ukraine, a celebrating christmas under the shadow of rushes war. oh, a mass is taking place in keys. the orthodox church traditionally celebrates christmas on the 7th of january, instead of the 25th of december. and this was the scene in one of the churches in the eastern dumbass region on christmas eve, where mass is held or was held rather in the basement. a sci fi ordered by russian president vladimir putin did not stop soldiers of both sides from exchanging fire. in cave, it's been a somber christmas morning. as charles stratford reports christmas morning for millions of orthodox christians around the world. but of course, a christmas here that has been blackened by more than 10 months of more. you join us outside this beautiful cathedral in kia. this is the most important orthodox

cathedral in the country. and today for the 1st time, the head of the newly formed ukraine. an orthodox church will be holding prayers of until this year, those prayers at all deep. but always been 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 sir churches radiate by the ukrainian authorities, ukrainians, accusing them of having links of potentially being even linked to saboteurs inside 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, or as caused divisions between countries, but also between the religious communities inside ukraine and

a russia president vladimir putin attended christmas baths in the cathedral on the kremlin grounds. senior government officials also took part. moscow imposes 36 hour cease fire following cause from the head of russia's orthodox church patriarch carol. meanwhile, the u. s. has confirmed another military aid package for ukraine is worth $3000000000.00. it includes 50 infantry fighting vehicles which can fire anti tank misses that were used in both the gulf and iraq was 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 battalion's 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 and other news. com has returned to the most consider the of coolio can after a day of violence,

authority say 29 people were killed when members of the powerful sen, alerts and a low, a cartel confronted security forces. the government is deployed an additional $1000.00 troops to the city. the violence broke out when police arrested a drug kingpin on thursday. a video guzman is the son of imprison drug lord l. chapo in an important figure in the sinaloa cartel, diarrhea, there is still no security. no one is telling us everything will be fine. it still doesn't feel good. what the other 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 john, home and reports from mexico city, where the government released more details about the arrest. they said that everything's 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've tried to do this in 2019, they went in for the same man or video guzman, he's the son of walking guzman. otherwise known as old chapel probably met case most famous drug trafficker ever. they went in to get him in 2090. they did get him, they had him there in the city. and then there was such a battle. and so many coulier kind story, lower cultural operatives went out on the street to vehicles shooting things, burning things, putting up roadblocks 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 round, they got their 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 kind of 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. i can't do it, which made things easier. iran, as things to men for crimes committed during nationwide protests over the death of must have a meaning. the 2 men were found guilty of killing a security officer in november. 22 year old must mean he died and police cause the in september. she'd been detained for violating the countries dress code protests in peru blocking a major border. crossing with bolivia for 3rd day support, the former president pedro castillo at demanding the resignation of his successor. dina velocity, 22 people die during protests last love. the demonstrations broke out after police arrested consillio and challenges of rebellion and conspiracy. they restarted this week to week low. please have detained a 6 year old boy who shot an injured a teacher in a school in the us state of virginia. it happened in the city of newport news. police say the boy fired a hand gun during an argument in

a classroom. the teacher suffered life threatening injuries, but she supported to be improving. california is bracing for another round of severe weather pacific storms of cause, major flooding of the us state this week, and cut power to tens of thousands of homes. the weather has been blamed for at least 6 deaths. santa cruz county suffered the worse damage, and downtown san francisco reported. one of its wet is periods and a 150 years. a record 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. an air lifting supplies to people in towns cut off by flood waters. still ahead allowed to sierra all countries cool for checks on travelers from china. i was it struggles with a covered 1000000 tina break ahead of the lunar new year and hopes for peace. the democratic republic of congo was on group homes over a military base. ah

hello, that is a lot for mild weather to be found across europe this weekend, but just because it's warmer doesn't mean it isn't wet. so we got this area of low, precious, sweeping in from the west. that's going to bring some heavy rain and wintery weather across. we'll central areas, but on saturday, look at that warmth attempt just sitting well above the average, particularly in the west. and that's not the case for the north east. places like western russia, the baltic states and ukraine, missing temperatures well below the average here, bitterly cold. and that will start to shift its way further south to some of the balkans states. if we have a look at the 3 day for belgrade in serbia will be single digits by tuesday. as that heavy rain starts to move in. now on saturday it's going to be britain, an island, the best brunt of those blustery showers, with some severe gales across northern areas of scotland,

some heavy rain warnings for southern england and wales as well as of portugal and spain. winter. ah ah ah. ah, lou

ah, walk about you're watching al jazeera, remind of our top stories this out. republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after 5 days of political stalemate. the copies bid was blocked by hardline republicans who repeatedly voted against ukrainians of celebrating orthodox christmas under the shadow of war. fighting is continuing on the front lines, despite a ceasefire cooled by russian president vladimir putin. at least 29 people have been killed in violence in mexico following the arrest of a drug cartel leader, a live video guzman on thursday. government and military police were engaged in intense fighting in the streets of clia come portugal and the netherlands are the latest countries to require coven 19 checks from travelers from china. they squeak

the e urged member states to implement task before departure. as china records a surge in cases, the dutch government is also recommending people wear masks on a flight to and from china. or the 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 urging people to wear marks on public transport. we can hammer, you know, for you to ha, i haven't had cove at 19 yet. so if my relatives are positive, i'm afraid of carrying the virus back with me and infecting them, that would affect their health. but they have recovered from the virus for a while now. so i'm planning to visit them and spend the loony with them. my grandparents have also told me many times that they miss me a lot done better. every one in my family is having symptoms like fever and cough due to the reopening, they are covered 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 nearly 2 years since the military coup in myanmar, but the gender continues to target opposition groups. tens of thousands of people have fled, many fleet and neighboring thailand. one refugee has spoken to al jazeera about his experience, and we've hidden his identity to protect his safety. don't live, i don't. my name is philip local, i'm a refugee from like, oh, and kind of stayed here after the military. coups many young activists came out onto the street to protest, but the ministry did not care. they correct down on the protest, causing many people to want to leave. i had to leave class state and september 2021 because i was helping ended protested and had become too well known to the military of my colleagues had been arrested. and i began to feel unsafe because the military went to some of the people i had helped on wanted to 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 a new law forcing people to report and register any get or visitors. we will easily identifiable strangers as we look different to the local people. ok, so we continued on to me already. then like a cool. so we faced the same problem. we had no choice but the 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 and report 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 help me in may. so on the border, i was arrested by the tie police. i tried to call the you and hcr emergency number several times, but there was no response. down in the end, i had to pay

a bribe to stop me from deporting me. i was very lucky. i worry is my parents and family members are still in me and mom. so i tried to keep a low profile while continuing to support freedom fighters. i don't see why it's important not to draw too much attention from the military. i sent food and medical supplies from thailand. i tried to help all civilians and kind of say, i'm regardless of which group they belong to the powerful we're all human beings. inside me and my the 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 to youtube. once i get more than the 1000000 views, youtube will pay me, and i will donate the money to the cause. ah, molly's transitional government to 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. and 23 rebels to have handy back control of a military base to the government of democratic republic of congo. as part of a pledge to withdraw from territory, it ceased in recent months. catherine sawyer pours. this is a big win for the congolese government and east african troops in north kiva province to help combat m. 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 cushion process of an easy process. and we know the things must be very tough 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 $23.00. thousands of companies 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, and cuba is still not safe for us, so we decided to return back to the camps. the houses had been great that they cannot reach roads because of fighting all. this is a consequence of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. kathy saw al jazeera agencies 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, many refugee say they feel abandoned by the international community. i mean, interest reports from a dog on the other gum refugee settlement opened with a few 100 refugees from cameron 5 years ago. to day it houses, $14000.00 among them is david and bah, he arrived last month was his family. after spending months in the wild avoiding

rebels and government forces, this shot 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 go with the military. with the family arrived feeling traumatized but unharmed because many of the refugees aren't so fortunate. feminine. some actually arrived with gunshots was awesome. how best um, so the attacks me out of the spanish been perpetuated by government so does. and also by the amazon in his box other i think he's telling long term residents of the camp like vivian cassie 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 will go to feature failed 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. but 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 olette and martinez significantly elliptical responsibility to involve a lot of places like this are sheltering about 18000 refugees from cameron. what is 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. i'm a degrees al jazeera at ago. now, self driven strollers, the calming pedo and a tool to capture the rightness of an avocado. these are some of the latest gadgets unveiled at one of the wells largest tech events. virtual reality and artificial intelligence are at the heart of many innovations and the consumer electronic show in las vegas rentals as well. this show showcases up products of from a huge jug companies like what behind me you can see samsung offering a variety of the new new tv screens or appliances, laptops and whatnot, to very small startups. in fact, there's one french company that's offering some electronic roller skates. allow you to wiz along at about 30 point for about 30 kilometers, with minimal human effort 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 on to the market later this year. cuban baseball players who emigrated to the united states being allowed to join the country's national team for the 1st time. the country has a long tradition of producing talented baseball players. it's 13 and limpid gold medals in the past 3 decades. but players who joined leagues in the u. s. were forced to defect, and we're bob from keep is national side. it's now hoping to create

a competitive team again and allow 12 players to represent the country at the well baseball classic in march. hundreds of people, a braving freezing temperatures and south korea hoping to catch their next meal fishes in what should have been waiting patiently for a bite of the local ice festival. daniel fair is one of the most popular in south korea and taking place for the 1st time in 2 years after being disrupted by the pandemic. italian football gel luca valley has died from cancer at the age of 58 tributes for the star strike. have come in from around the footballing world, including his clubs, some doria event, his and chelsea. david stokes looks back and his career brothers in arms. john lucas, the ali embracing roberta mancini, it's former teammate and friends for over 40 years after watching italy, when the euros in 2021. when she neither had coach had hired the alley,

as the teams delegation, chief rowley continued in until last month, before stepping away to focus on his health. the early 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 other is their paramita of. it's a sad day for me though i say good bye to a friend or a colleague, a very nice person or a great player. may he rest in peace. the ollie's career took off when he signed for some doria in 1984, he scored 85 li 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 went another italian title,

the wife, a cup, and the prestigious champions league events his coach must emiliano a leg re let a minute silence at his press conference on friday before paying his own tribute and represent that aren't us. 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 this v ollie's next move was to the premier league when rude haul. it brought him in at chelsea. he ended up replacing the dutchman as player manager and guided the london side to 5 trophies this chelsea. this was somebody who introduced his to amine iraq quality of the club whose ability to communicate the link between the players and the supporters am, was absolutely everything to us. i mean it's silence will be held across all sorry our matches this weekend in memory of the ali.