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this is al jazeera ah. hello, i am sammy's a dan. this is the news i live from dow coming up in the next 60 minutes. kevin mccarthy, of the state of california, heaven received a majority of the votes cast is duly elected. speaker of the house of representatives. after 5 days and 15 rounds of voting, republican kevin mccarthy has sworn in as us house speaker. oh, ukrainian celebrate orthodox christmas under the shadow of war, where roches unilateral cease fire hasn't stopped fighting on the front line.

mexican authorities confirmed 29 people were killed in violent sparks by the arrest of a similar drug cartel leader and opposition parties. and been in that gearing up to a contest parliamentary elections for the 1st time since 2019 in sport marcus rush, fit 5, manchester united to victory in the f. a. kept the england striker scoring in his 5th strike game in a 31. when the edison with while they took 5 days and a chaotic political style made, but now republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the u. s. house of representatives. his bid was blocked by hard line republican party members who repeatedly voted against him. but after 15 rounds of voting and major concessions

to them, mccarthy managed to secure enough support from washington is on sasha. oh, 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 votes to win on the 14th when he didn't. 2 votes of president gates gates essentially blocked his way to the chair because 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 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 scene 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 process. and then it was done with coffee. 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 parties, 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 it up on capitol hill in washington. ross, find gold is a political risk analyst, and a former asia chair of republicans abroad joins us live from time. pay good to have you with us. so 1st of all want confessions,

did my coffee offer that were key to breaking the deadlock in the end? it's a great question because there's a difference between the procedural. busy or the functional concession, such as giving committee sheets to some of the more conservative members and the really significant. what about how easy it would be to challenge him as the speaker at some point in the future, that is the reputational damage. and how much did he, ruth, in that regard? by wading through the whole say that it shows what a fighter i am. but critics will say it just shows that you like to take a punch and you gave in a lot more than your predecessors. speakers typically would have to critics within their own party. so he's got to overcome. i would say both of those and maybe people won't remember this much. and in the coming months or 2 years from now, when they're a little less than 2 years from now when there's the next election for the house.

but it certainly he came out of this west with was shrank. then he would have liked to have had that we can him and weaken the position of the speaker going forward. so the thing there is, is given that the republicans only control the house, they don't control the senate and they obviously don't control the white house. so whatever they might have achieved in the next 2 years is frankly very limited, and the most significant one will be debt ceiling and budget negotiations. and the options there are going to be pretty simple or you make a deal with the senate democrats and with the white house. or you bring me about a government shut down and or a debt to fall. so one of the frustrations for those more conservative members of the house republican caucus is in past years, including with mccarthy as part of the leadership is republicans have usually came in. so republicans often say that there for smaller government last spending. but when it comes to the debt ceiling and budget negotiation, they usually concede at the last minute. so again,

that's been very frustrating for the more conservative republicans. however, i think of a social policy nature. there is no way they're going to pass something in the house that would then get approved by the senate and signed into law by the president, but really leaves them with one other thing where they will try to make their mark . and that's in oversight of the bite in ministration for we get to that is an important point. but i want to ask a little bit about more about the struggle within the republican party that was revealed in this whole process of getting my coffee is the how speak up. what does that tell us about how much of a republican majority mccarthy will be able to muster? how much of of ma, republican unity will he be able to gonna probably not much. and again, given the low expectations for any legislative action that would actually have

a consensus with the senate be signed by president by it into law. really, the key things that they need to achieve are going to be debt yelling, and budget. and there's $212.00 democrats coming the another election for an open c that will probably go democrat, and they just need a few republicans to pass something. so if it really came, push to shove with the dad with the budget, it was the only need a very small number of republicans to peel off and vote with the democrats to pass those most important thing. and everything else, frankly, are unfortunately 3 american people. it's just going to be talk. all right, let's focus a little bit on foreign policy. something that i know is close to your heart. will the action of my coffee now opened the way for the house to impact foreign policy? well, certainly impacted in the sense that again, there'll be a lot of oversight. at a minimum, there's going to be 3 things. there's going to be at the house. republicans are

going to investigate what happened in afghanistan, the chaotic withdraw. so probably be very embarrassing revelations about decision making, where the lack of decision making on the bite and team during those crucial weeks in august the 20, 20. what ukraine policy, as well as my part, he's already famous for saying there will be a blank check for ukraine. so although a lot of that money was appropriated in the recently passed on the bus bill at the end of 2022, they're still going to conduct oversight and try again. try to embarrass divided administration with you too much being spent to buy supplies and things like that, cost overruns, etc, catcher. and then there's the big one, china. so these are the republicans already said they're going to set up a new committee today and will be bipartisan, but it's going to investigate all aspects of the budget administration, china policy. and the result there. we know what that is. it's going to say that the bided administration is way too soft on china and they're going up on the,

by the new ministration to take a lot more action, whether that's our trade or human rights, sanctioning chinese government officials. so we should certainly expect versus the previous house control by the democrats, a lot more talk about china and a lot of proposals. and frankly, a lot of criticism of divided administration more. i a lot more talk about china, but should we expect the same sort of direct intervention that nancy pelosi had, particularly when it comes to china and taiwan. that issue. well, there is the big question. speaker mccarthy, are you going to visit? ty wad you kinda sorta said he would because people asked them last year if you become speaker you're going to follow. speaker pelosi is example and visit taiwan. and if he wants to really be top on china and not getting used to being talk, you know, action frankly, he's got no choice. it would be very difficult to find some justification for not qualifying through on a commitment to visit ty,

why i would imagine the body administration will call him and ask him not to do it where they were more reluctant to do that with speaker pelosi, i just kind of did, they didn't want to visit tar, what i would expect bided to directly try to persuade mccarthy not to visit taiwan, which will probably only encourage him more to actually come here and then we'll see how trying to respond. all right, thanks so much for your analysis. thoughts on that ross find go. well, that victory came hours after a commemoration event to mark the 2nd out of a 3 of the january 6 attack on the us capital. democrats gathered on the steps of the building to pay tribute to the officers who kept them safe and remembered. the 5 people who were killed supposes of donald trump storm the capital 2 years ago. the former president had falsely claimed the 2020 election will stolen a white house correspondent, kimberly how could explains to mark the 2 year anniversary as the january 6 riots

when supporters of former president donald trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election us 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, thought to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. it's not exaggerated. say, america. oh you all. i really mean this. a debt debt of gratitude. when 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. a house

committee looking into the january 6 riots has also concluded that among those that should be charged. former president donald trump, for his role in sparking the riot. the orthodox christians in ukraine are celebrating christmas under the shadow of rushes wor. oh, this is 1000 year old christine monastery. the service was held in the ukrainian language for the time. ukraine officially split from the russian orthodox church last year. 2 of the stablished and independent church 30000000 ukrainians identify as orthodox christians. we celebrate christmas on the 7th of january. in cave has been a sombre 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 at all, but 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 reflection of just how divisions and how this war has as cause divisions between countries, but also between the religious communities inside ukraine. and this was the scene on christmas eve in the east and dumbass region where one church held mass in the basement. the cease fire ordered by russian president vladimir putin did not stop soldiers on both sides. exchanging fire or to mentally, deliberately nick, over the past 24 hours the enemy launched, warned miss tyler talkin and made 20 attacks from multiple rocket launch systems. the danger of air and miss silas strikes, remains throughout ukraine. the benefits of the enemy are focused on attempt to completely capture the don't the exc region within the administrative border. it conducts offensive operations in the back much direction. and russia,

president of anatomy, pooty attended christmas mass in a cathedral on the kremlin grounds. senior government officials also took moscow, impose the 36 south seas by falling cold from the influential head of russia on church patriarch kiddo. whose back the cry and offensive mob us has confirmed another military, a package for ukraine worth $3000000000.00. it includes 50 infantry fighting vehicles which can fire anti tank missiles that were used in 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 there, 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 ah, over the course of roughly a month. and we're adding on the bradley training for him all still had on the news

hour, including east africa has been held by devastating drought forcing many people to rely on aid. all find out what one cherokee says, life is like for those on the ground. more conference call for checks on travelers from china as it's struggles with occur with 19 outbreak ahead of the lunar new year. and it's for le bron james leads. the los angeles lakers to their full, straight when i'm here with that story. ah, with commas returned to the mexican city of cooley, a can, after a day of violence. authorities say 29 people were killed. a members of the powerful sinaloa cartel confronted security forces. the government has deployed an additional $1000.00 troops to the city. the violence broke out when police arrested

a drug kingpin on thursday of video was man, is the son of imprison drug lord l. chapo. he's an important figure. the sinaloa cartel, diarrhea. there is still no security, no one is telling us everything will be fine. it still doesn't feel good. how would he though of it? 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 to holman revolts from mexico city where the government released more details about the rest. they said that everything's calm now in clear kind 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 the guzman. he's the son of fucking guzman, otherwise known as chapel probably met his most famous drug trafficker ever. they

went in to get him in 2090. they didn't get him, they had him there in the city. and then there was such a battle. and so many coulier kind, sorry, low cultural operatives went out on the street in 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 video guzman about mid day. this time around. they went in the very early morning last time around. it was right and coolly a 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 account to do it, which made things easier. countries in east africa and the horn of africa are in the midst of the most severe drought in 70 years. the un is warning of famine if

aid is not provided soon. but it says at least 36000000 people are affected. children of the most vulnerable nearly a quarter of those in need of assistance or in somalia and make up almost half the population of 17000000. in the p o p n. and 11000000 people need support. a conflict in the to cry region is worse than the situation causing a humanitarian crisis. and in northern kenya, the u. n says 4000000 people are going hungry because of a lack of rain causing consecutive harvests to fail. catherine saw reports from to kind of in east in kenya. this is a familiar site in somalia, capital mogadishu, hundreds of families, i heading to the capitol from areas across the country. they are fleeing a drought that has wiped out their livestock and left them without food and water.

some of their children have died many r, malnourished. amena mohammed recently arrived at his camp. she's struggling to make ends meet soccer and the butcher it. when i wake up in the morning, i make j a popcorn. this will be my children's only meal. the last 2 years have been hard on people in countries like somalia, kenya, and if you appear for rainy seasons have failed. it's likely the 5th season won't make much of a difference across east africa at least $36000000.00 people are affected, including children who are severely malnourished. 11000000 ethiopians and 4000000 canyons are close to starvation. more than 8000000 families have nothing to eat. millions of farm animals have died, and 16000000 people cannot get enough water. we normally of averted the farming was

the tuition stiller critical adults also affected the food production. ah, we mean 70 percent of her who bought ocean somalia has been affected by the by the throat ah, on so it's affected the education where all those young people under age who are factored by the drought are not going to go to the school agency. say some districts are heading towards a family in the last time one was declared in somalia was in 2011 o t is low surgeon, but at the same time we are calling to focus on the recovery under yes. does most important to us as we wanted to profanity the cares of the humming height is in canyon leaving in irish areas are relying on the government and humanitarian organizations. kenya has declared the trout

a national disaster because all through the year i'll jazeera visited several counties in the north to cover the deteriorating situation. people are receiving, maine and cooking oil, but this wood does not come often. and will it is a we are talking to say it's not even enough. doctor's dealing with malnutrition cases say some children who live in remote areas often come to the hospital when they are already too weak to be saved. wildlife has also been affected. the government estimates at least 200 elephants died because of the drought in 2020 to the region as in the middle of another rain season. some areas have hard rain fall, but weather experts say it may not be enough. that means millions of people who desperately need help may go into the next year. even was off katherine sawyer, all jazeera nairobi. nicholas johnny is the head of program of w,

f. p. that's the world food program in somalia joins us now from ly. robi, good to have you with us. so 1st of all, are we going to see famine in east africa? what do you think now, thank you. yeah, that's a very good question. i just want to start by making clear that so i mean, i've been at base on now and this is patricia, remain very, very critical. but the technique of the stress, or far as that being met. yet though people continue dying, we see mortality to the extremely critical level. and we are really worried the coming at mom said if we do not manage to maintain to stay the same level of human,

especially you might have an interest in some idea. is this crisis in a large part down to climate change? yes, of course. the main driver of these cries is if you make, i'm crazy. so my, you know, that in the, in africa, the whole is the program to grow. so in some mind, yeah. so population is poor range for season with 80. consequently, on the live, our lives, the still being the tro by the growth crisis. so that is where the growth in the k in. so my area, and that is why in the life is being intervention that they leave it by w h t more sustainable under a solution to climate should also need to be in the resilience of the traditions so

they can better cope with as future. climate shows, i'm glad you mentioned that building resilience because if the part of the core problem here is climate change. is there a quick solution? is there a quick fix to this? how do you build resilience and away when you don't simply give people the a but prevent the scenario from recurring again and again. know exactly. i mean, we need to come with innovative solutions that speaks to the management of the resources in country and especially work resources as saw you resources to give an opportunity to invest in the recovery to, to unsure that trying to show just not that's not bring some money back to the brink of disaster. so it's another quick speak that's a long working with community have your hand with community there. so we

look at authorities at all of us building the capacities of my situation to, to better cope with, with, with climate change. these come to the speaking. i'm trying to know, what does that mean, relocating communities, i mean, how do you build a system to sustain people in an area which is now looking like it's going to be prone to drought for a very long time? yeah, i mean that solution exists solution exist to include water management area where you know that january 2022 due to the contract on the consequences of the growth is that more than 111000000 people have been displaced with somebody. yeah. so that's a reality curity and but we know that solution to what we are missing now,

especially our resources, financial resources to invest in long term development project. that's also about switching perfection. and that's a very good example. so we won't bank backs and government own social protection programs to provide. we've predicted to more than 1200000 people didn't have the people that media and these, these a long term protection, making you shop responsive as being one of the bonus that w estie emergency response to the dual credit. on the other hand, let's talk about the other impact. so this is as dreadful, of course it is to see nutrition, even loss of life, but it's also impacting on other long term instructional things like education,

right? knowing, you know, that's a very good, very good question. given the criticality and extreme emergency situation, most of the resources that indirect into saving last rather than changing lives and education, it's very much a changing right intervention. and it is true that application of resources to sitting and being somehow done at the cost of education program for instance. so now we are reducing partnerships and reinvesting with or take orders in the education that goes to a reading in education, to one of the consequences. i mean of the suspension of french and the schools the being. so media is drove us a number of young children,

not getting to school any and younger because the situation doesn't have the need to keep them at school. so now we are and i think all the stakeholders and working closely with the government to revitalize our education program. and whenever we talk about malnutrition impact on children for sure, that having also a specific impact on women, right. in his bedroom situation, young children and christmas died down most of the tradition and we see yes, you know, are in union and i did this show very clearly, very high mandatory sion among these 2 very been the other tradition

groups. that's a reality. but also i needed, i mean other throat infection and in a different way. and that is about protection issue road that's that expose woman to get the coping strategy and that can even put their own liking denture. so in, in many, many, many should be at the time of this placement woman, particularly teresa of, of violence, of sexual exploitation and other type of prediction related each. all right, thank you so much for your thoughts on that. nicholas john nick fell head on al jazeera, the chinese 1000000000 tycoon jack ma gives up control of financial tact giants and group i. lin, sport,

joy for football fans and iraq. has it house the 1st international tournaments for decades? ah ah. hello there. the cell lot for mild weather to be found across europe this weekend, but just because it's warm, it 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 mill central areas. but on saturday, look at that warm for temperature, 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 balkan 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 of northern areas of scotland, some heavy rain warnings for southern england and wales, as well as for portugal and spain. wintery weather as well for scandinavian blustery winds being felt across. yeah, and as we go into sunday, you can see that system shifting its way further east. it's going to bring for welcome snow to the alps, wet weather for a lot of fronts. as we go in to monday, we can see a changes in the mediterranean nasty storms affecting parts of italy and coastal areas of the adriatic. that sure weather ah oh for ah

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ah, you're watching al jazeera time to recap, our headlines bow republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives. after 5 days of political stalemate. mccarthy's bid was blocked by a hard line republicans who repeatedly voted against him. ukrainians, a celebrating orthodox christmas under the shadow of war fighting is continuing on the front lines. despite the cease fire called why russian president vladimir putin . at least 29 people have been killed in violence in mexico following the arrest of drug cartel leader. video guzman on 1st day gunman and military police were engaged in intense fighting in the streets of clear can portugal and the netherlands of the latest countries to require cov, 19 checks for travelers from china. or this week,

the e. you urged member states to implement tests before departure as china records a surge in cases. the dutch government is also recommending people wear masks on flights to and from china. chinese authorities are concerned about the virus spreading. millions of people celebrate luna, new year transport ministries, calling for limits on travel and gathering officials, all urging people to wear moth on 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 bar respect 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 loony with them. my grandparents have also told me many times that they miss me. a lot doesn't go to the. 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. iran is hang 2 men for crimes committed during nationwide protests. so over the death of massa, i mean me. the 2 men were found guilty of killing a security officer in november 22 year old massa. i mean, he died in police custody in september. she'd been detained for violating the countries dress code. protest is in peru blocking a major border. crossing with bolivia for a 3rd day supporters of former president pedro castillo, demanding the resignation of his successor dina bull. our day 22 people died during protest. last month, the demonstrations broke out as the police arrested castillo on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. they restarted this week off through 2 week long, but it was top prosecutor is appointed a special unit to investigate the killings of $28.00 people during protest in

december. several men and children were killed in the city of hutu when the army open fire to protect the airport. should warn you that this report by mariana sanchez, contains images. some viewers may find disturbing. a small altar for it got but aloe. they go to the night angle, spends her days alone, mourning the death of her eldest son. i mean true to me, whom is he was my son. he never let me be alone. he always said, i want to go and see my mother. all those soldiers have more compassion for an animal. on december 15th, the army showed at protesters outside like ugliness home and got away now to help a wounded man at the doorstep and was fatally hit in the chest, his neighbor and friend. maybe he spi was looking out the window when she says helicopters flew over them. she and her husband ran to

a back room for cover terrified. oh, my son is luke, i am what i thought it was going to be like this years ago when there were people dead here and there, i thought we have to escape. we just prayed to god for money and many naya cojo, the violent demonstrations brought back memories of a deadly past and yet, which was at the heart of peter's internal armed conflict. the 19 eighties and nineties, security forces, and chinese path rebels waged a war that left nearly 70000 people did. most of them civilians. the lawyers are collecting evidence to build a case against the soldiers who opened fire in december, as well as those responsible in the chain of command on thursday, a lawyer filed the constitutional complaint in parliament against precedent. the know a lot of the and some ministers for the deaths and injuries of protesters by police and the armed forces. many people who live through the hours the shootings went on around this area,

told us they don't want to speak about what they witness because they say they are afraid of retaliation. i do stop, prosecutor said, a new unit of human rights, prosecutors will investigate the deaths. the government says the investigations will be respected, but because the not doubts her sense killers will be prosecuted, is nora by they will never full, they will be free. that will be happy, they have done so much damage. they have made so many people cry, all they pay some day. thousands of people disappeared during the armed conflict of the eighty's and ninety's, and thousands of cases remain unresolved. look at lena fears her son's death will suffer the same fate. medina, sanchez as us eda, yoko chal 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 work for

a company contracted by the u. n. to bolster peacekeeping mission, voters and been in will head to the polls on sunday to elect members of parliament . the electoral commission has approved 7 political parties to contest the vote. among them is the opposition democrats party, which won a constitutional court case in november to allow its candidates to run amended research reports from call to know the final push for vote was politicians campaign a head of sunday parliamentary elections in been in for many voters. they excited about the prospect of restoring confidence in the countries democracy. the last legislative election in 2019 sparked clashes that left several people dead after the opposition party was banned from participating. the data only to political parties supporting precedent poetry still while allowed. oh,

a constitutional court ruling last november gave a green light to the opposition known to have a position patty's. i think at least we have 2 democrats in indian, the jacqueline with him. but at the festival the bill would come unto the girls to have those. but the, that any, any is governing cornell is concerned about opposition parties including the democratic, grow large number 2, that political number excluded from the balance is 2921 and want to when i'm on hold. yeah. parliament to change laws make consider right. but sundays vote is more than just the election of parliament members. the results will determine who runs for president in 2026. the electoral court requires any candidate for president to get endorsement from legislators and mares in order to run a political part to can only get representation in parliament if it gets 10 percent of the total votes cast nationwide, regardless of whether it wins. acosta quincy,

a lot of the election commission says it's ready. we've been applauded. the proposal must valley department. the prison wanted to quit when we started distribution of election materials from the furthest to the regions nearest to cultivate mode. now all areas have received the needed election materials that were oh, to see hoping this election would restore opposition politics in been and that the country will avoid violent clashes of 2019 observers or the watching. not only the conduct, but also the outcome of this election, it will determine whether or not the streets are calm. ahmed edris al jazeera, quarterly, california is bracing for another round of severe weather. pacific storms have caused major flooding in the us state this week, and comp power to tens of thousands of homes. the weather is being blamed for at least 6 tenths. santa cruz county suffered the worse damage, and downtown san francisco report to one of the west is periods in

a 150 years. record breaking floods of left remote communities in western australia . isolated the kimberly region and the far north of the states is the worst effected authorities are lifting supplies to people in towns cut off by flood waters. chinese financial tax giant, the and group says found the jack mar is no longer in control. the company says they entrepreneurs voting rights will be reduced to be organized, visit shareholding structure. ma reportedly have a little more than 50 percent of the rides, but that's now dropping to about 6 percent. he found that i'm groups parent company, alibaba in 1999. andrew calia is managing director of orient capital research, which conducts independent research on china, joins us now live from hong kong. good to have you with us. so 1st of all, why is jack mall doing this?

jack is either made the choice or most likely it's been forced out of control of the company. the founded a number of years ago, because he's perceived as a threat to the chinese government. there's a couple, there's 2 problems with jack mar, according to beijing. one is that he's a well funded very popular billionaire who could gradually it controls to large company financial and bob, which is the amazon china. and the 2nd thing is that he actually was starting to compete because of and financial with some of the state banks in china, which are the backbone of the economy. so for those 2 reasons, they thought he was a threat and they're cutting them down the sides, so perceived as a political, as well as financial threat to the system. what message does this send to other corporate giants to startups to well, it's a terrible message. china is struggling with the slowing economy and they're putting money into, into this state sector,

which is not going to help their growth going forward at a time when, of course, they've got the cobit problem. the large tech giants have been the one area of hope in china because they're very effective and very efficient, but they are perceived as a threat. and meanwhile, the smaller companies that employ the vast majority of chinese workers. these as a need, small businesses are having difficulty getting financing and in fact and financial was one of the best ways of getting that bank. well. so the whole thing is a bit of a mess. does this move? reinstate the states control over the culprit scene, or is this still a question of it being challenged? they're not directly. what they're basically doing is, is taking steaks and a lot of private companies in order to exert control. they don't have enough money to buy all the private companies, and they do want some of the efficiency they bring to the market. but they just want them to tow the line. unfortunately,

the chinese communist party has never been known. it's very efficient that managing the private sector. so this is going to be disastrous for growth going forward. what does this leave the regulatory scrutiny of i'm group now? is that chapter close though closing? well, be sure, i mean, once you get your what you get the government employees in charge of some of the management of the company, then a lot of your regulatory problems are gone. you simply just tell the your managers that are employed by the government, that this is what they want to do, or they know they're marching orders ahead of time. so this solves that problem, but there wasn't really a regulatory issue, man. well, what does this mean then? for van groups, i p o, well, they probably can go forward. i mean, they'll be a strip down much smaller company, and that's will be less interesting because it won't have the growth potential or the drive that it had under jack law. but at some point they probably can do an ip . oh, i don't know if they'll do it domestically or they do overseas at that point. all

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and they're just ignite. the passion can stand up and play generation change on al jazeera lou. ah tara and sports finds time to change gears a little. let's catch off on all the news from the green with andy. thank you so much, sammy. well, no fewer than 22 games coming up in the english half a cup on saturday. the 3rd are on action like started on friday, manchester, united beating everson, $31.00 everson and a huge pressure right now near the bottom of the family that they were offered for the rest i saw the on the screen on a cody with the gold level became a warm, warm,

united marcus rush with the game changer having already select united open in the 2nd hope cody ended up putting focus is on a late penalty or in the, in a, in the market sort of thinking for if we keep chances, i'm gonna keep getting in the air isn't, you know there's no reason why i shouldn't. this is colin goal. so in my mind it's just, you know, after after a game, i just risa and me focus, you know, through our homework on the next physician and, and see what we can do. we need to win. yeah. for sure. because people will love the and this many wins in dallas had many losses in this many games. the reality for me is just clear. we're in a resignation, but we were in one for most part last season. and we're in one again. and then we just have to fight to try and get out of it. now, many games around the world on saturday plays will be remembering sean lucas,

the only the former italian strike has died of cancer at the age of just $58.00. david stokes takes a look back at his career brothers in arms jan lucas, early embracing rebecca mancini, it's former teammate and friend for over 40 years. after watching italy, when the year rose in 2021. when she need the head coach had hired the earliest, the teams delegation chief of early 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 all clear a year later, i me 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, 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

saint doria in 1984, he scott, 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 movie event is $15000000.00. he won 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 atlanta as he represented the lat. 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 you event us v. ollie's next move was to the premier league when route whole. it brought him in at chelsea. he ended up replacing the dutchman as player manager and guided the london side to 5 trophies. this

was somebody who introduced him to me here. what is he of the club whose ability to communicate the link between the class and the supporters? um was absolutely everything to us. a minute silence will be held across all sorry, our matches this weekend in memory of the ali. italy's foot will federation. president said his sporting success was matched by his extraordinary human qualities. a host nation, iraq has been helpful goal is to buy a man in the opening game with the array be and go cup iraqi staging and international form for the 1st time. more than 40 years, and while there were no goals to cheer in this opening game fans and faster were treated to a spectacular opening ceremony. a correspondent mac mood, though what was the munch iraqis celebrate what they considered a major victory for the country by hosting the 25th edition of the ruby and gulf

cup in this other city of buffalo. despite the fact that the national teams to match against mine ended with a goal list drove, but they still celebrate this to sing and dance. they say that because they're happy that their country is finally finally hosting this what they considered historic event. they say that hopeful that this event is the beginning for hosting get more championships and also to in the installation the country has been suffering from for the case. they say that the hope that this tournament will improve its ties with its neighboring countries, especially with gulf and arab countries. but also hope that this tournament will open at the doors in front of gulf investments in the city of basra to also boast tourism in the city of basra and to highlight the attraction of the city.

another joke of it and no method of playing each other in the semifinals of the adelaide international. this much just getting underway. both players setting up their preparations, the 1st grand slam of the strain on the 16th of this month 21 time grand slam champion is one is previous 3 meetings with the russian method of last week, jock of which in the 2020 want to us open final bad news. meanwhile foyle number one cause alcaraz. he'll be missing from the australian open. it's g to a leg injury he picks up in pre season training, and on senior old might history. by becoming the youngest plants hold the number one ranking that came after he won the u. s. open at the end of last year. his absence in melbourne means at ruffin. a dow will be the top seat cocker golf. she's playing at the

a s b classic in new zealand. the 18 year old through to the final in oakland. the top seated american. it reached the front sharp and final. last year, but this is the 1st time she's reached a hard caught title decided since back in 20. 19 on the brown. james returned from illness with a game winning performance for the lake. his james school 25 points out of 10 assist in this victory over the atlanta hawks. it is a full, straight wind for the lakers who are still down in 12 spots a little under that little weston covered rebound and took it 94 feet. that's out. all right, those high schools looking for now. sammy, thanks so much sandy. well, that's it from me, sam is a band for this new sound, but good news is navy's back in a moment. another full shout. ah .

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