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kevin mccarthy, of the state of california. heaven receive, a majority of the boats can, is duly elected speaker of the house of represent up to 5 days and 15 rounds of voting. republican kevin mccarthy is sworn in as us house speaker. ah, let me barker. this is al jazeera live from dough also coming up, ukrainians celebrate orthodox christmas under the shadow of war. as russia's unilateral cease fire fails to stop fighting on the front line. mexican police and an additional security forces to restore order, half to cartel violence on the streets of sinaloa and more countries crew for checks on travellers from china. as it struggles with

a coven 19 outbreak ahead of the lunar new year. ah! after 5 days of a 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. he 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. alum fisher, as this report, 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 was to our country. he told everyone he had the votes to win on the 14th when 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, what would 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 booting began again when congress women expense to exasperation at the extended crusade. and then it was done. mccarthy 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 is important. when republican said the issues of the last few days will have no impact on his parties, long term prospect. the 2024 presidential election weeping. 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 it up on capitol hill in washington. and rena sean is a former republican strategist and senior aide to republican members of congress. she says kevin mccarthy's election or questions about his ability to govern fellow party members. we are a representative democracy that is under so much stress. there was so much bitterness and frustration that played out, especially in the spinal moment of getting to the speakership from mccarthy that i think he is tasked with this monumental task of leading us towards responsible governance. and he's got to find

a way to good night. his own people that is the biggest take away from me to night and that i really believe he is a man who is not sure how he is going to do it. despite giving such a strong speech, saying he's up to the task he has wanted to speakership for so many years. and i remember on capitol hill watching him ascend in house leadership in the ranks of republicans and really thinking that he is a political animal. he isn't a person that is known for his policy chops. when he was a right hand man to speak of paul ryan, the republicans because best known for his love of policy making, kevin mccarthy was thought to be a man who could do the job of dirty political games and do it right. what we saw this entire past week is that he doesn't have much of his fine. he gave up a great many things and in these concessions, it's important to note we don't fully know what all of them were. many of these were leaks, but officially we will come to know in the weeks ahead what exactly was promised because some of these promises were made with

a handshake. and as we saw on display in the final day of voting in these last few ballots trust in his own caucus has been a wrote it. there are, there were 6 final hold out that essentially voted present to give him the speakership, lowering the threshold for him, so to speak, as well. and both people really do not trust him, and he really had to do anything possible to get their vote ah orthodox christians in ukraine, celebrating christmas under the shadow of rushes wor, oh, this is taking place in church traditionally celebrate christmas on the 7th of january. instead of the 25th of december, and this was the seen a one of the churches in the eastern dumbass regional christmas eve,

where mass was held in the basement sci fi ordered by russian president vladimir putin didn't stop soldiers both sides 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 ukraine. and also dogs church will be holding praise up until this year. those present already 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 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 think, reflection of just how the divisions, how this war has, has caused divisions between countries, but also between the religious communities inside ukraine. and over in russia, president vladimir putin attended christmas mass in the cathedral on the kremlin grounds. senior government officials also took part. moscow imposed a 36 hour cease fire following calls from the head of russia's orthodox church patriarch carol. meanwhile, the united states has confirmed another military aid package for ukraine is worth $3000000000.00 and includes 50 infantry fighting vehicles which can fire anti tank

missiles that we use in both the gulf and iran. cause now 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 over the course of roughly a month. and we're adding on the bradley training. now the news release of detained a 6 year old boy who shot an injured a teacher in the school in the u. s. state of virginia. it happened in the city of newport news. police say the boy fire the hand gun during an argument in the classroom. the teacher suffered life threatening injuries, but she's reported to be improving. calm has returned to the mexican city of korea can after a day of violence, authority say 29 people were killed. were members of the powerful sinaloa cartel confronted security forces?

the government deployed an additional $1000.00 troops to the city. the violence broke out when police arrested a drug kingpin on thursday, a video guzman as the son of imprison drug lord l. chapo and an important figure in the sinaloa cartel. yeah, there is still no security. no one is telling us everything will be fine. it still doesn't feel good hillary, the other animal. camille 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 lane. and john holman reports mexico city where the government's release 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 walking guzman,

otherwise known as old chapel probably met his 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 stories to lower cultural operatives went out on the street to the vehicle, 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 coolie at kansas 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. but us as in peru blocking a major border,

crossing with bolivia for 3rd day support as a form president petro casea, demanding the resignation of his success at dina. velocity. 22 people died during protest last month. the demonstration is broken up to police, arrested christie on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. they restarted this week out of a 2 week, lo, still had allowed 0 hope so peace in the democratic republic of congo as an on group homes over a military base. plus, i'm rob reynolds at sea. yes. in las vegas, the world's biggest and most exciting consumer electronics show. some of the products on his way here might be the next big thing. ah hello,

they will look to southeast asia. it's northern areas of the region that seeing the heaviest rain we're gonna area of low pressure that's been sitting in the south china sea chucking very heavy rain at coastal areas of vietnam. the philippines as well. still under some extreme flood advisories, those have shifted further north as the wet weather has worked its way further up. down in the south. however, a much clearer picture of a parts of indonesia as we go in to monday and this good news to come from northern areas of australia in particular for kimberly, that's after that stagnant system shifted its way for the south and to the east. however, we do still have some flood warnings out here. the wet and windy weather can also be found off the coast of australia. we've got a bit of a swirling system here that's expected to bring some heavy rain to the likes of new caledonia. later in the week, but for now for sunday, western parts almost straight. sing a lot of heat here. lots of hot and dry weather. the temperature in perth recovers the temperatures on the up, across the se, for places like adelaide 37 degrees, nearly 10 degrees above the absolute average sunshine,

lasting it through to choose day for new zealand. it has been rhonda unsettled for both islands, but have a look at that. it clears up on sunday with lots of warmth in the very south that she weather update. ah, hey . ah.

ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories this our republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives up to 5 days of political style. made mccarthy's bid was blocked by a hard line republicans who repeatedly voted against it. ukrainians, the celebrating orthodox christmas under the shadow of war fighting is continuing on the front lines. despite a cease fire cool 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 video guzman on thursday, gunman and military police were engaged, intense fighting in the streets of clia. portugal and the netherland saw the latest

countries to require coven 19 checks for travelers from china. this week, the you urge member states to implement task before departure. as china records the surgeon cases, the dutch governments also recommending people wear masks some flight to and from china. well, the chinese authorities are concerned about the virus spreading. there is 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 mass on public transport with their hammer. you know for you to ha, i haven't had cobit 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 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. though it's been nearly 2 years since the military crew, myanmar, but the gender continues to target opposition groups. tens of thousands of people have flared, many flea to neighboring thailand. more refugee has spoken to al jazeera about his experience. 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 the correct down on the protest, causing many people to want to leave. i had to leave the state in september 2021 because i was helping ended protested and had become too well known to the military . few 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. and he told me i feared for my family safety. so i

decided to leave. when we arrived in mon state, they passed the 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 call that 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. 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 help me in may. so on the border i was arrested by the tie police. yeah,

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 as 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 send food and medical supplies from thailand. i tried to help all civilians and kind of stay calm regardless of which group they belong to or to propose. we are 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 you to you. once i get more than the 1000000 views, youtube will pay me and i will donate the money to the cause. oh yeah. iran is hangs to you man for crimes committed during nationwide process over

the death of master. a meaning. the 2 men were found guilty of killing a security officer in november 22 year old master. i mean he died in police custody in september. she'd been detained for violating the country's dress code. israel has announced sanctions on the palestinian authority after requested the opinion of the you ends highest judicial body on israeli occupation. the decision was taken at the 1st security cabinet meeting of the new government led 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 in ran con, has more from occupied east jerusalem. on thursday, the national security cabinet met 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 or 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 really victims of terrorism. and then what they're going to do is any money that the palestinian authority is giving to palestine is as help as result of compensations. or 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. 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, the encouraging 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 piece or who are leading the political and legal will against israel. what does that mean? was they just going to 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 ready them for the 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. marley's transitional government has 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. m. 23 rebels of handed by control of a military base to the government of democratic republic of congo, is part of a pledge to withdraw from territory had seized in recent months. catherine sawyer reports. this is a big win for the congolese government and east african troops in north cuba

province to help combat and 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, remarkable, but will never continue to be observed. while all these are taking place will 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 a government, but kinshasa is reluctant to engage. it accuses rhonda of supporting m $23.00. king galli denies that she liked about trusting then the question process of an easy process. and that 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. thousands of companies are continuing to flee from their homes to the chicago, but it will not need to move. 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 have been great. they cannot reach roads because of fighting all this is a consequence of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. catherine saw al jazeera felt self

driven strollers coming pillow and a tool to test the ripeness of an avocado that some of the latest gadgets unveiled at one of the world's largest tech events. virtual reality and artificial intelligence are at the heart of many innovations, and the consumer electronics show in las vegas. rob rentals was there. this show showcases up products of from a huge companies like what behind me you can see the 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 people 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 onto the market later this year, california is bracing for another round of severe weather. pacific storms, of course, 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 in downtown san francisco reported one of its wet, his periods in the 150 years. and reco breaking floods have left remote communities in western australia. isolated the kimberly region in the fall north. if the state

was the worst effected authorities and lifting supplies to people in towns caught off by flood waters, tourists are flocking to hawaii's erupt in kill away. our volcano acts as authority say, residents, homes are not in danger. is one of the world's most active volcanoes. it took a one month pause though it's once again, spewing fountains of lava kilowatt has been a rupture almost continuously since the 1980s. italian football, m j. luke obviously has died of cancer, the age of $58.00 tributes for the star striker, have poured in from around the footballing world, including from his clubs, some doria, juventus and chelsea. david stokes looks back on his career brothers in arms. jan lucas, the hourly embracing. roberto mancini, its former teammate and friend for over 40 years after watching italy with the euros in 2021. when she neither had coach, had hired the ali,

as the teams delegation, chief rowley 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 other is their paramita of. it's a sad day for me though, i say good bye to a friend by a colleague, a very nice person or 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 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 alike, re let a minute silence at his press conference on friday before paying his own tribute and representative tant 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 aventis 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 trophy his chelsea. this was somebody who introduced him to a new era of policy, of the club whose ability to communicate the link between the players and the supporters. um was absolutely everything to us. i mean it's silence will be held across all sorry our matches this weekend in memory of the alley. italy's football

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