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now remember, what a 180 for us republican cabin mccarthy takes over a speaker of the house on the dramatic 15 ballots, overcoming opposition from his own ranks. ah, i'm sammy's a them, this is al, just they're alive from dell hall. so coming up, oh, chris is in the middle of war, holmes, christians in ukraine salad. right. while fighting continues in some areas, despite roches unilateral c spot mexican authorities, confirmed 29 people were killed in violence, sparks by the arrest of a drug cartel lead the

aah! surviving a devastating drought. we report from east africa on the hunger and displacement, affecting thousands in the region. ah, well, after 5 days of a chaotic political stalemate, republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives. his bid was blocked by hard line republican party members who repeatedly voted against him. but after 15 ballots and some major concessions, mccarthy managed to secure enough support from washington d. c. his alan fisher. 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 how 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 4 people. 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. once would exchanged fingers pointed and physical confrontation, apparently avoided as one congressman had to be held back by colleagues. the conversations continued, and suddenly a boat to a john to monday was rejected. mccarthy wanted to go again. it seemed summed up by

one democrat, if he offered his parties know many 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 with county 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 to concessions, including a change of rules and who could challenge the speaker and the promise of seats on influential committees. democrats congratulating 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 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 eat up on capitol hill in washington. from washington high to jo, castro has more on the concessions mccarthy was forced to make. we know that the speakership that he has now taken is a much diminished one than what we've been accustomed to seeing under nancy pelosi, the outgoing speaker for wine mccarthy, had to agree on allowing just one member, any member of the chamber at any time to call for a snap boat to oust him, essentially that's been described as signing his own death warrant of the

speakership prematurely. he also had to agree to allow a 3rd of the, a seat on the very influential house rules committee to go to this ultraconservative faction. why does that matter? woods this committee that essentially says which laws even have a chance of being debated and possibly passed in the chamber. finally, he also had to agree, therefore these government spending bills which are essential in keeping the federal government operational. now there will be the ability for any member of the chamber to call for a debate and to introduce amendments that could go on for an, an unlimited amount of time. essentially, what is all about add up to all this ultraconservative freedom. hawkiss has been bent on limiting government spending and also on disrupting a day to day government business, which we saw in full display over the last 5 days. the european union says it's

a poll. byron's execution of 2 men for crimes committed during protests. over the death of masa armine, 2 men were found guilty of killing a security officer. november 22 year old domini died in police custody in september . she had been detained for violating the country's dress code. the orthodox christians in ukraine, a celebrating christmas under the shadow rushes invasion o. this is 1000 year old christine monastery. the service was held in the final language for the 1st time, the crane efficiently split from the russian orthodox church last year instead towards establishing an independent church for 1000000 ukrainians identifiers, orthodox christians. they celebrate christmas on the 7th of january in cave,

it's been a sum, but christmas morning. 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 prayers of actually share those prayers already at always being held by a ukrainian orthodox church affiliated to moscow. it is a church that certainly in recent months, has been accused of having connections with the kremlin. it has had its churches radiate by the ukrainian or socrates in the craniums 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 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 this was the scene on christmas eve in the eastern don bass region where one church held mass in the basement seas fire ordered by russian president vladimir putin did not stop soldiers on both sides from exchanging fire worked on mentally the super scenic over the past. 24 hours the enemy launched one missile attack and made 20 attacks from multiple rocket launch systems. the danger of air and missile strikes remains throughout ukraine. the main efforts of the enemy are focused on attempts to completely capture the don't yet region. within the administrative border, it conducts offensive operations in the back mode direction. and russia president

vladimir putin attended christmas mass in a cathedral on the kremlin grounds. senior government officials also to pop moscow and pose the 36 hour seas thought following calls from the influential head of russia's orthodox church, patriarch kill. he's back the ukraine and offensive career criticized ukraine for cracking down on the bronx. reveals the dogs church of ancient ties with moscow. yep. him zillow. i wish everyone will experience this christmas nice in a special way. feel god's presence. i pray you from the bottom of my heart for your loved ones. we are self for homeland and for those who are suffering today for our brothers in ukraine who being expelled from the key pictures of love for a monastery today. this is the lava which for centuries has been the guardian of genuine and adulterated. orthodoxy will anatole leave and is director of the erasure program at quincy institute for responsible state croft. he says,

russia's orthodox churches long been tied up with identity in politics in ukraine. the russian orthodox church traces its lineage back to the medieval kingdom of rome, which was based in p. s. and for centuries. now, the question of whether the orthodox church in ukraine should align with moscow or well in the past should live over to the catholic church. has been central to the politics, poverty of ukraine. it's, of course, not just between russia and ukraine, but it, within the ukraine, you has a report from the dorm bass which is occupied by, by russian. and they're obviously, in part, of course, because russian decisions the churches, the ukrainian orthodox church, it's still completely loyal to moscow. so that would be an additional obstacle to

ukraine ever trying to reintegrate the areas of ukraine, which and i won't get paid by russia. in many ways, the russian orthodox churches reverted to its ancient identity as a pillar of the russian stage. and a central force in russian nationalism and patriot carol moscow, while, you know, he has called for christmas cease fire in ukraine, has in general been extremely supportive of this war, which of course, naturally has caused great anger among ukrainians. still had on al jazeera, more countries called for checks on travelers from china, struggles with the cobra 19 outbreak ahead of luda new year. and we, me to, man, inside the crack down by me involves military, but now faces an uncertain future as a refugee in highland ah,

how low they. let's look to south asia. it's a relatively dry outlook. we're just seeing some wet weather creeping into the very south places like sure, lanka, thanks to the monsoon rains. we've had thunder downpours in colombo. we are expecting those to last into the early part of next week. much dryer farther north of this, from cloud. the blossoming across southern areas of india with some showers creeping in as well. well, settled up in the north, but we still have those fog warnings out stretching across northern areas or to pradesh. seeing some of those warnings, but they do tend to ease as we go into monday. those fun conditions continuing, however, for bangladesh and we will see some of them in pakistan. but it's going to be more of a wintery and wet mix that we deal with over the next few days. as that winter weather moves across. a mountainous area now was moved to east asia. it's been

a relatively common quiet picture for much of china temperatures. well above the average for the likes, beijing and shanghai, lots of sunshine as well, but it is going to get wet in the south. we've got an area of low pressure pulling up, bringing some heavy force, the likes of hein, an island that would be sweeping in to hong kong. censorship flurry is expected as well for western areas of japan, but it does start to clear up across the north, east of china and the korean peninsula. ah, the examining the headlines. how big a breakthrough is this story moment for all towers, research, unflinching journalism. i can see the part of the tree where 2 of the bullets hit their about my head high, sharon personal stories with a global audience. nature is so much more than income for shareholders. if the library else, my people explore an abundance of world class programming on al jazeera.

oh the me you're watching, i'll just hear a time to recap on headlines now. the republican kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the house of representatives out of 5 days of political daily coffee was blocked by offline republican, repeatedly voted against him. the european union says it pulled off the iran hang. 2 men for crimes committed during protest over the death of a woman. they had been found guilty of killing a security of 22 year old martha. i mean,

he dined in police custody in september. ukrainians is celebrating orthodox christmas under the shadow of war. fighting is continuing on the front lines, despite the seas fall whole by russian president vladimir putin. meanwhile, the u. s. is confirmed. another military, a package for ukraine worth $3000000000.00. it includes 50 infantry fighting vehicles which can find anti tank missiles that we used in the gulf. and the rank was it'll take a couple of months basically i to get on 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 soldiers. ah, over the course of roughly a month. and we're adding on the bradley training. com is returned to the mexican city, a cooler cow after a day of violence. authorities say 29 people were killed. were members of the

powerful center, lower cartel confronted security forces. the government has deployed additional troops to the city. the violence broke out when police arrested a drug kingpin on thursday. video guzman is the son of imprison drug lord and chapo, and an important figure in the senate lower cartel, diarrhea. there is still no security, no one is telling us everything will be fine. it still doesn't feel good to hear what the other and then will 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 frances kurdish community is holding its 3rd march in a month in paris. protest is a marking the 10th anniversary of an attack which killed 3 circ kurdish activists. they're demanding justice. the march comes just over 2 weeks after another attack in the french capital. when a man opened fire on a kurdish center, killing 3 people. portugal in the netherlands are the latest countries to require

coven 19 checks for travelers from china. this week the you urged member states to implement task before departure as china records a surgeon, cases without 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 loon and new year transport ministries. calling for limits on travel and gathering officials are also urging people to wear mosques on public transport, which really, honestly, i haven't had it 19 yet. so if my relatives are positive, i'm afraid of carrying the virus back with me and infecting them, that would affect the health, but they have recovered from the virus for a while now. so i'm planning to visit them and spend the lid and eat with them. my grandparents have also told me many times that i miss me a lot 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. chinese financial tech giant, the and group says found the jack mall is no longer in control. the company says the trouble is voting rights will be reduced as it reorganizes it. shareholding structure mar reportedly had a little more than 50 percent of rights, but that's now dropped to about 6 percent. he founded and groups parent company, alibaba in $199900.00 collier, is managing director of orient capital research, which conducts independent research on china. he says, chinese government sees jack mar as a threat. 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 and financial and bob, which is the amazon china. and the 2nd thing is that he actually was starting to

compete because it and financial with some of the state or 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 him down to size. it's a terrible message. a 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 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're 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 them bank. so the whole thing is a bit of a mess. what they're basically doing 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, up to the chinese communist party has never been known as very efficient at

managing the private sector. so this is going to be disastrous for growth going forward. it's been nearly 2 years since the military coup in may and not, but the gender continues to target opposition groups. tens of thousands of people have fled. many to neighboring thailand. mon refugee spoke to al jazeera about his experiences. we've hidden his identity to protect his safety. don't live in, i don't. my name is phillip refugee from like, oh, and kind of stayed after the military coup. many young activists came out onto the street protests, but the ministry did not care. they correct down on the protest, causing many people to want to leave. i had to leave state and september 2021 because i was hoping 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,

i feared for my family safety. so i decided to leave. when we arrived in mon state, they passed the new law of forcing people to report and register any get so visitors. we will easily identifiable strangers as we look different to the local people. ok, so we continued on melody. then like a call that 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 him deport 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 mesa on the board,

i was arrested by the time police. i tried to call the you and hcr emergency number several times, but there was no response. 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 so i tried to keep a low profile while continuing to support freedom fight. and so i see why it's important not to draw too much attention from the military. i send food and medical supplies from thailand. i tried to help all civilians and kind of regardless of which group they belong to. we are all human beings inside me and my revolution is taking longer. and it's not easy to raise funds. i'm a senior and i plan to upload some of my songs to youtube. once they get mold and the 1000000 views, youtube will pay me, and i will donate the money to the cause. i. molly's transitional government has suspended the prison sentences of 46 soldiers from ivory coast. the troops were described as mercenaries convicted of undermining

state security. they worked for a company contracted by the un to bolster a peacekeeping mission. the whole of africa and east africa experiencing the longest droughts in full decades. millions of people are at risk of starvation together with high prices. the conditions are limiting. farmers efforts to grow crops, raised livestock by food cover, and soil reports from qana in eastern 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 that will show it when i wake up in the morning i make che, and 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 people are affected, including children who are severely malnourished. 11000000 ethiopians and 4000000 canyons are close to starvation more than 8000000. so marley's 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 still are critical or also so 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. 0 boy realty is the 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 prevented 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 g 0 visit had several counties in the north to cover the deteriorating situation. people are in the navy and cooking oil,

but this wood does not come often. and villages are we are talking to say it's not even enough. doctor's dealing with malnutrition cases say some children who leave 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 $200.00 elephants died because of the drought in 2020 to the region as in the middle of another range 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. catherine, soil al jazeera nairobi. now california is bracing for another round of severe weather. pacific storms of calls major flooding in the us state, and comp power to tens of thousands of homes. the weather has been blamed for at

least 6 deaths. record breaking floods of left remote communities in western australia are isolated. the kimberly region in the far north of the state is the worst affected of ours is our air lifting supplies to people in towns cut off by flood waters. former italian football star jan luke of the alley has died of cancer at the age of $58.00 tributes for the striker of poured in from around the football world, including from his clubs, some per doria, you've enters and chelsea. david stokes looks back on his career brothers in arms. jelic of the alley embracing roberta mancini, its 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 all clear 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. they are to reach their paramita of it's a sad day for me. all i say good bye to a friend by a colleague, a very nice person or a great player. may he rest in peace? the alleys career took off when he saw him for some doria in 1984. he's got 85 lea goes on the sorry, our title 3 italian cups and the european cup when his cup as well. he was soon called up to the national team. i went on to play 59 times for italy, representing him. it's who will cups, mexico 1986 and italian 90. in 1992, we secured event world record movie 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 real or the minute silence at his press conference on friday before paying

his own tribute and represent thought of tant us. 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 event us 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 this was somebody who introduced his to renew your of quality of the club whose ability to communicate the link between the players and the supporters am, 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 football federation president said his sporting success was matched by his extraordinary human qualities. tourists are traveling to see to the killer why a volcano.