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ah ukrainian to celebrate christmas under the shadow of war, rushes, unilateral cease, fire hasn't stopped facing the front line. ah, i've got a very sort of hearing this is al jazeera by from dough also coming up. kevin mccarthy, of the state of california having 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 swore them as us. how speaker iran hangs to men convicted of killing a member of the paramilitary during so the death of masa meaning

a month or more public anger over political chaos in through with people calling now for its new president to resign. fighting has continued an eastern ukraine despise, a unilateral cease fire declared by russia during the orthodox christmas. moscow says that his forces repelled for ukrainian attacks, but that its troops were otherwise hold fire until the end of saturday. it's the 1st orthodox christmas since rushes invasion, 11 months ago at a char stratford reports now from keith. for the 30000000 members of the church. attending mass is not early a spiritual act, but a political one. 0 churches have stood here for almost a 1000 years,

gives elaborate. cathedral is one of the most important orthodox christian institutions in the world. but this is christmas service is different. it by law, for the 1st time the liturgy is being delivered in ukrainian by recently formed ukrainian orthodox church. for centuries, the ukrainian church is conducted the christmas service in ancient slavic, and russian. the times of changed. she has m, i saw it. i think people have changed, the stays is changing. we see historical justice and the nation is being formed. it's very important to eradicate everything russian from ireland, i guess, or russian church said, oh, was here before i ever supports in like her rush energy input is regime or so. know when lee jen, have you bring in church? oh, i'm really glad. so, oh,

sentiments like these have been growing since roches illegal annexation of crimea and areas of the dumbass in 2014. they have now been institutionalized in the country that suffering a full scale invasion. and more than 10 months of war as the newly formed orthodox church of your gray and holes christmas pres. here, for the 1st time, the ukrainian church affiliated with moscow has no choice but to hold a service at another site post by ukraine accuses it of supposing and even helping russia in the wall. something the church vehemently denies the priest. he is one of a number on a ukrainian sanctions list. the police and army have rated numerous russian orthodox churches across ukraine since the war started orthodox priest metropolitan . clement says, his church has no affiliation with moscow other than

a spiritual one and accuses ukraine of flouting its own constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion worship so much he thought simply let us have tom was sure. this is shown by the fact that the contract for the use of the cathedral by our church was terminated without appropriate procedures. another denomination was allowed to conduct the christmas service in the church, and course europe as it is aggressive and discriminatory towards the worshippers of our church. it reminds us of the situation that existed in the totalitarian days of the soviet union, the condo city. there are a few of worshippers at this church on christmas morning. this jessica suddenly though, sure, of course we're a little sad that to day we're not in a cathedral. that is god's will. the main thing is to pray humbly and then go to decide as needed. rushes invasion hasn't only pushed ukraine into the arms of the west. it's further dividing its orthodox christian communities to chance travel al jazeera,

give up to 5 days of chaotic. republican infighting. kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in a speaker of the us house of representatives. it took 15 rounds of voting for the california to be elected. but after conceding major concessions to an ultra conservative block, but he say his power has been diminished from washington. allan fisher reports after an historic queen and to leaking into the after a night of drama and contemplation. it was 15 time. lucky for kevin mccarthy. the california republican finally flipped enough foods to secure the position, a speaker of the us house of representatives, a speaker, the house. my ultimate responsibility is not to my party, my conference, or even our congress. my responsibility, our responsibility is to our country. he told everyone he had the 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, 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 voting began again when congress women expense to exasperation at the extended crusade. and then it was done because the finally became speaker of the $118.00 congress. kevin mccarthy moved into this because office earlier this week,

but several times in the chamber. it looked premature. a group of ultra conservatives blocked his elevation, but slowly he groaned them don't offering a raft to 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 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. well, let's go live now to capitol hill al jazeera. how did your castro is that for us? tell us more heidi, about the concessions slip of coffee had to make to get the butch adrian, one of the holdouts, a gates to lead the conservative wing against mccarthy. he was asked, why did you change your vote at the end and allow me to when the election he's a well is he already gave me everything that we asked for. and that kind of sums up just how much of the power, let's figure mccarthy was forced to give away to this conservative wing of his party. first of all, only one member now can ask for a vote at any time to try to oust the speaker. also now at least one 3rd of the seats on the influential rules committee will go to this wing of the party that matters because this committee clears all of the legislation prior to allowing it

to go to the floor for a debate or for a vote. and then when it comes to critical bills that keep the government open and keeps the u. s. from defaulting on debt, for example. now this conservative wing will have additional power during those specific debates, their members intend to introduce amendment that could really gum up the works. which means those frustrating days and nights when the us gets closer to default or not funding the government, we likely will see many of those moments play out in the coming to years. ultimately, what this says is that in there, fighting within the republican party will make the speakers job very difficult during this congress and there will be more stagnation expected. former president trump had tried and failed to get my coffee elected speaker sooner. what does that say about before president influence no over republicans? right. and it is interesting to see how much or how little perhaps influence that

former president trump had. there are reports now that he made critical phone calls to at least 2 of these ultraconservative republicans before that final vote. and that may have pushed them into allowing mccarthy to win the speakership. but earlier in this process, we know that trump very publicly told members to elect mccarthy, but there was a public defiance that was greeting greeting back, coming from lauren bober, who was one of trump's strongest supporters. so certainly there is some cracks if you will, in, in the, the feel t to former president trump among back ultraconservative republican wing. and it is ironic knowing that it is his ascension to the white house that sort of paved the way for this wing of the republican party to gain power l 0. how did your castro live for us the in washington dc? how do many, thanks into the european union, says that it's appalled after

a wrong hand to men for crimes committed during protests. over the death of masa armine, the 2 men were found guilty of killing a member of the power military in november, 22 year old. i mean he died in police custody in september. she'd been detained. a violation of the country's dress code naga mortars. avi is a journalist and host of the wrong podcast. she says that recent executions are only fueling more dissent. it seems like the government by rushing through these cases and world human rights organizations international specifically say without any resemblance of justice or due process is essentially trying to instill sierra and send the message to the rest of the protesters and the sensors that this is what's going to happen to you and that they're using any need to try to crash the protests to essentially send the testers back home. the previous 2 execution follow the same pattern, young man, failure, known, executed through rush courts,

and also abruptly in the early hours of the day. and this time also, it seems to be the same to men, $20.21. and both hang, especially then the goal of this is to still here, but what is actually doing is generating more anger, generating even more protests with the funeral of poor testers, turning into new quotes. has them felt? actually the 2 men that were hands were arrested around the tests that were for the funeral of one of the other killed protesters. so it just seems to be generating more and more interval of protest and essentially energizing more people to join this body of movement and then we'll get a weather update next to on. i was a syrup then east africa

continues to suffer a devastating crowd sourcing many people to rely on. aid will tell you will meets about who flip the character bar mailbox for the free, but found faces on. so can future is a refugee in thailand. ah . hello there. 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 sri lanka, thanks to the monsoon rains. we've had thunder downpours in columbia. we are expecting those to lost in the early part of next week. much dryer, farther north of this 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 fall 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 of beijing and shanghai lots of sunshine as well, but it is gonna get wet in the south. we've got an area of low pressure pulling up, bringing some heavy falls to the likes of, hine, an island that will 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 northeast of china and the korean peninsula. ah. for science this, the evidence is the refutable. but america's climate change denial stubbornly

mistrusted the fact. despite soaring temperatures, raging wild fires and shrinking water reserves, the world's largest economy, it's still split along ideological lines. so can it ever reach consensus to avoid catastrophe? climate wars ought to, on a just 0 lou . ah, again this is al jazeera, this reminds you of the main news. the south 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 hard line republicans who repeatedly voted

against him. the european union says it's appalled off to iran, hanged to men for crimes committed during protests, over the death of a woman they'd been found guilty of killing a member of the power military. 22 year old massa immediate died in police custody in september of ukrainians. and celebrating orthodox christmas under the shadow of war, fighting is continuing on the front lives despite a ceasefire called by russia's president, letting me up with christmas celebrations of also been tense for orthodox palestinians. a christian cemetery has been desecrated at jerusalem. a judge o and land is being occupied by his wally settlers built at smith's reports now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. oh, oh, the world's oldest christine community says it's feeling the pressure like never before. rumors, orthodox church was packed for christmas day mass. even though christians make up just one percent of the population of the occupied west bank down from 11 percent

at the end of the ottoman era in 1922. and now with the most far right is really government. there's ever been few here see that trend reversing. who thought, hey larissa, but most of the plans of these extreme parties and what they believe in our based on expelling the other from holy places in jerusalem and all of polystyrene that is unrealistic because we palestinians have a long history here. we are very rooted in this land. israel's occupation, the stranglehold it has on the economy and the security situation. what drives most palestinians to leave. church leaders here have warned the christians become the target of frequent and sustained attacks by fringe radical groups in jerusalem. and the holy land, it's a reminder the palestinian christian say they suffer as much under israel's occupation as muslims do. and this conflict is much more about land than it is about religion. settlers occupied this privately held church land in jerusalem with

police protection 2 weeks ago. they say that carrying out archaeological digs, the church says it's not granted permission. more than 30 christine graves were desecrated earlier this week. israel's foreign ministry says the vandalism wasn't immoral act, that is an affront to religion. to teenagers have been arrested william m t out of the list, the hard we are exposed to is there 80 aggression and settlers edition did not lead damage corps on roads destroy places. we are used to that yet either. it's not noon, but it's increasing with the new administration need that resale it. the message of christmas is that one day, this landlord returned to the palestinians who have the right to it, and that rate will never be lost with my could he lie allen on face the whole world, the west and the arab? well, can see what is happening here. we hear the words, but we did not see their action. it had a burden of fish. palestinian christians are often called the living stones of christianity because they can trace their history to the birth of the church. 2000

years ago and in a speech to mark orthodox christmas present mahmoud abbas said our people will continue to stand firm on our land. the land of our ancestors, bernard smith, al jazeera ramallah in the occupied west bank. it's been a month since peruse for president was removed from office. as prosecutors build a case against petro castillo, some voters are still waiting for the changes that he had promised brianna sanchez report south for one of castillo strongholds. oh, from their mountain homes to the streets of the small town of lipa higher began. oh, hundreds of farmers doing danny. the moment demanding the rights to promises former president bill castillo made during his campaign. yes, i don't know that lydia bianca says she will not give up on the expectations she

had when she voted for him 18 months ago. 11 the laws are made to favorite. the rich, we don't have a voice or a vote. we want a constituent assembly to close congress and we want president dina bullard to, to resign. she does not represent us. well, many protesters here say kathy's removal from office and arrest making a political prisoner disorder. cathy, you're ordered the dissolution of congress, and the rest of the prosecutor investigating him on corruption allegations. now he faces charges of rebellion and up to 20 years in prison. oh, i see a one with more than 80 percent of the vote, although people here say he didn't fulfill any of the promises he made this a customer's point about. yeah, because not allow me to worry though dusty you, these farmers see their expectations for better living conditions slipping away.

they blame the new precedent. deena vulnerability, i have an idea that it castillo promised agrarian reforms, and we voted for him. but noble artie has betrayed us. she was our sister, but now we want her out. for a month it was witnessed, protest, death, and destruction. the country is in a state of emergency. farmers here are continuously on strike, taking turns to block. the mean highway is key estimate consoles, the dunphy. we are so tired, all of us know the elderly children, young, but we're not taking part in a plan. that's the only way loan economics didn't listen to us. we will continue with our fight. you well continue. one month on bidder castillo, as a symbol fading away. but the people of rudy bessy, his promises are now a force for renewed hope and the only way for change they see is to continue fighting mcginnis and just i just see that we did a booty mc calm has returned to the mexican city of calia con after

a day of violence, 29 people were killed were members of the powerful sinaloa cartel confronted security forces. the government was deployed an additional $1000.00 troops to the city. violence broke out when police arrested a drug kingpin on thursday or video goes. one is the son of the imprisoned drug, lord l. chapel and an important figure in the civil law cartel. countries in east africa, the whole of africa continue to suffer the most severe drought in 70 years. the you and his want of famine. if aid isn't provided soon, the conditions are limiting. farmers efforts to grow crops and res livestock. katherine sawyer reports now from the corner in eastern kenya. this is a familiar sight 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 life stock and left them without food and water

. some of their children have died many r malnourished. amena mohammed recently arrived at this camp. she's struggling to make ends meet soccer and the missouri. when i wake up in the morning, i make tea 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 $36000000.00 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 not only of,

of her to the farming was the tuition is still her critical. adult also affected the food production. ah, which means 70 percent of her who bought ocean somalia has been affected by the by the throat. ah, also it's effect is the education where all those young people under age who all affected 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. b o t is the low surgeon, but at the same time we are calling to focus on the recovery under the still yes. does most important to us if 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 was all the to the yeah, i'll just 0 visit had several counties in the north to cover the did to your rating situation. people are receiving navy and cooking oil, or this hood 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 elephants died because of the drought in 2020 to the region as in the middle of another rainy season. some areas have hard rainfall, but whether 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 al

jazeera nairobi. it's been nearly 2 years since the military crew at me and bob junko continues to target opposition groups. tens of thousands of people float, many of them to neighboring thailand. one refugee has spoken to al jazeera about his experiences. we've had in his identity to protect the safety. don't live. my name is philip. i'm a refugee from like hall and kind of stayed here after the military coup. many young activists came out onto the street to protest, but the ministry did not care to crack down on the protest causing many people to want to leave. i had to leave the state of september 2021 because i was hoping ended, protested, and had become too well known to the military view of my colleagues had been arrested and i began to feel unsafe. the military went to some of the people i had helped, wanted to know my name and where i lived. i feared for my family safety. so i decided to leave. when we arrived in mon state,

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

in the end, i'd pay a bribe to stop them from deporting me. i was very lucky. i worry as my parents and family members are still in me, and so i tried to keep a low profile while continuing to support freedom fighters. so i see why it's important not to draw too much attention from the military and food and medical supplies. from thailand, i tried to help all civilians and kind of say, regardless of which group they belong to, we are all human beings inside me and my revolution is taking longer. and it's not easy to raise funds. i'm a singer and i plan to upload some of my songs to youtube. once they get more than the 1000000 views, youtube will pay me, and i will donate the money to the course. i the portugal in the netherlands, so the latest countries to require covered 19 checks for travelers from china. this week the you urged member states to implement tests before departure. china records

a surgeon cases. the dance government is also recommending that people wear masks on flights to and from china, which on his health ministry says that it's concerned about the virus spreading is billions of people celebrate lunar new year. transport ministry is called for limits on travel and gatherings. government verging people to wear masks when using buses and trains with me and i haven't had to have it 19 yet. so if my relatives are positive, i'm afraid of carrying the 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 every one and 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.