innovation, you must never, ever get tired of developing resistance strategies and they're just ignite. the passion stand up and fight generation change on al jazeera i just, he does our country with high poverty rates, with inequality. and these are here, the thought is not an exception. many of the footballers in this country come from poor areas such as this one is many of the members of argentina, national team come from places such as this one where the football field do not have to rush. but the soil just play the one that you can see right here. we've been talking to some of the children that live in this place. and they said that they would love to follow the steps of your tell missy until monday. yeah. and other members of the national team ah

ah vladimir putin se 36 our cease fire fails to stop the fighting. is ukrainians celebrate orthodox christmas? ah. our journal, this is al jazeera alive from london. also coming up. iran executes 2 men for allegedly killing a paramilitary officer during the nationwide protests over the death of martha armine after 15 votes, heated exchanges answered major concessions. republican kevin mccarthy is finally elected. speaker of the us house of representatives and hundreds of desperate somali families had to mogadishu fleeing east africa's worst drought in 7 decades. ah,

went out into the closing hours of rushes, unilateral 36 hours cease fire in ukraine for orthodox christmas, and it appears to have been a cease fire in name only russia says its forces of repelled for ukrainian attacks along the front line, but have otherwise held fire the ukrainian government did not agree to the temporary truce and said russia has continued its attacks with exchanges of artillery fire on both sides. it's accused russia of trying to use the situation to move its troops into better positions, shall fall, could be clearly heard in the frontline town of back moot, which has been abandoned by most of its residence. yes, you are town used to be so beautiful. there were flowers everywhere, it was clean, everything was kept in order. just a 30000000

ukrainians are orthodox christians. and as charles stratford reports from keith for them attending mass is not just a spiritual act, but a political one. ah, churches of stood here for almost a 1000 years cubes. elaborate cathedral is one of the most important, also talks christian institutions in the world. but this year's christmas service is different if you're a barrier love 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 times have changed. oh, certainly i saw it. i think people have changed the stays, it's 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 that. oh, was here before i ever supports in lake there. runners input answers, you know, so now when we can have rudy korean church i, i'm really glad to 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 ukraine 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 close by. you korean 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, little 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, automatic or separate. 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 inquiries tube, 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 condo city. there are few of worshippers at this church on christmas morning,

but it isn't alicia to get some natasha. well, of course we're a little sad that today we're not in a cathedral, but if god's well, 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. ah, d'you says it's appalled after iran hanged 2 men for allegedly killing a member of the bus cj militia in november during protests. over the death of masa armine in police custody mohammed metty carol mi was a national, karate champion and side mohammed has seine, was described in court as a volunteer coach for children. amnesty international says both convictions relied on forced, confessions,

i'll say in his lawyer also said he'd been severely tortured, but he ran denies this for protests as of now been executed since demonstrations began in september 3. others have been sentenced to death in the same case. and 11 received prison sentences on iran's supreme leader has named mad reza read down those the countries new police chief, he's frequently called for stricter enforcement of the islamic dress code for women . and in 2010 was placed on the us sanctions for human rights violations. negarra motors, avi is a journalist and host of the iran podcast. she says recent executions are only fueling more dissent government by rushing through these cases. and while human rights organizations, international, specific the 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 protesters back home. the previous to execution follow the same pattern, young man, failure on 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 hands especially. then the goal of this is so still here, but what is actually doing is generating more anger, generating even more protest with the funeral testers. turning into new quotes has themselves actually the 2 men that were hands were arrested around the protests that were for the funeral. of one of the other killed protesters, so it just seems to be generating more and more intro balls of protest and essentially energizing more people to join this body of movement. and this

sense when it took 4 days and 15 rounds of voting, but republican kevin mccarthy has finally been elected speaker of the us house of representatives. but he had to make several concessions to win over hard line members of his own party who voted against him. diminishing his power, a speaker that debacle exposed the deep divisions among the republicans and raised questions about his ability to govern from washington his alan fisher 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 in a foot to secure the position, a speaker of the us house of representatives. a speaker, the hell. 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 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 appeared to a john to monday was rejected because he wanted to go again. the thing that summed up by one democrat, if he offered his parties, no money for the poor. madam clerk, i rise to say, wow. the booting began again. when congress women expense to exasperation at the extended crusade, and then it was done. mccarthy finally became speaker of the $118.00 congress.

kevin mccarthy moved into this because office earlier this week, but several times in the chamber. it looked premature. a group of ultra conservatives blocked his elevation, but slowly he groaned them don't offering a raft concessions, including a change of rules and who could challenge the speaker and the promise of seats on influential committees. democrats 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 it up on capitol hill in washington. but heidi to a castro is live for us now on capitol hill. thanks for joining us, heidi to tell us a little more about these concessions that had to be made in return for the support of those few holdouts and the republican right. and the extent to which they may feed the speakers ability to pursue his legislative agenda or jonah. this has been described by some as mccarthy signing his own death warren in advance in terms of his speakership. why so? well now it only takes just one member to voice an objection to call for a snap vote to try to remove him from power after going through all this. that is just one of the many concessions that mccarthy had to give up to this ultra conservative wing of the republican party. others are that now they will have

a 3rd of the seeds on the powerful rules committee, which is in charge of deciding which and how pieces of legislation can even be discussed on the house were much less voted upon. and also as when it comes to passing government spending bills. now, it only takes one member to introduce an amendment that could lead to on and on discussions votes that could potentially push the u. s. government into default or shut down the government. what this all boils down to is that there's ultra right conservative wing the house freedom concord caucus. they are bent on disrupting the business of government and, and not spending government money, but to the extent where perhaps the government itself, the act of ruling eye is in jeopardy. and that is what the, the republican party is now confronted with this on ruling right wing of the party that appears to not want to govern at all. and a much diminished

a speakership as far as the concessions that mccarthy had to give away. meanwhile, comments by see the republicans key distressed the course of the party as emerged from all of this essentially unscathed fit for business. despite this historic display of this function, as the dust settles off to the vote id, is that a prevailing view in washington? well, you have to imagine that some of that optimism must have been expressed through gritted teeth after enduring this debacle. ah, but this also comes down to what direction the republican party goes from here and many are asking that question because key among another concession that mccarthy gave, ah, was that his pack, his political action committee aligned with him will now no longer a tap these far right, republican candidates in the primaries that is significant because now this may enable more of those candidates to go on to win elections,

which could me more conservative ultraconservative members joining the house. and so this right word churn that we're seeing where it's still the minority of the republican caucus that are pulling the party this way, perhaps with a disproportionate amount of power. well, their numbers may only grow as time goes on. i d. j, castro, on capitol hill for us. thank you. a 6 year old boy is in police custody in the united states after shooting his school teacher. it happened during an altercation in class at an elementary school in the state of virginia. no of the students were injured. the teacher, a woman in her thirties, is being treated in hospital for life threatening injuries, but her condition is improving. the individual is a 6 year old student. he was right now in police custody as were working at the best way to our partners in different resources to address that situation. the altercation was between the 6 year old that the student who did have the farm and

the teacher and then around was fire. like i said, she suffered a gunshot wound, has been transferred to the hospital. that's what i thought to players are at right now. this was not an accidental shooting. still to come this half hour, making a song and dance about democracy. why this sunday there will be genuine joyce in been ins, election, and a month after peruse. president was removed from office and arrested protests. still calling for pedro castillos promises to be fulfilled. ah hello, we got more very mild weather, pushing it across so much of here. no great changes there, but i think it will become less mile for some as we go through the next couple days, big hook of cloud as rolling in from the atlantic. and that's another intense area

of low pressure amount at this time of year caused. does me wet and windy we are seeing that so wet and with the weather streaming in from the atlantic, bringing cloud and rain then in that wet weather will set in across western parts of the central and eastern areas. still a good deal of dry weather around in terms of the temperature cities, sir. still the cool cyber he's very cold. there for moscow should be about minus 6 celsius might have 15. not as cold as it has been though. still plenty of mild weather across central parts and it stays that way as we go on through the next couple of days. you can see how moscow will see those temperatures, just flicking and flying a little bit. as we go on through the next couple of days, we'll say 12 celsius there in london. so still plenty of mild weather around here. that will be a tad corners to go on through s sunday wet and windy weather coming in across much of france. southern france, seeing some heavy rain, some snow over the apparent east dusting a snow to at last. coming back into the outs as we go through the next couple of days. little more widespread as we go on into monday. we'll see when windy weather

developing around italy and the balkans as we go through the next few days. ah, the activist radical and a founder of african cinema, out just in the world, tells the story of the more italian direct. but if i with his filmmaking style for that he made a breakthrough in sooner to find a way to me yesterday with mud was a fighter, but his weapons were his mind and his intelligence made honda rebel african. tell me on how to see lou. the me

a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, russia's unit lateral, 36 hours cease fire, and ukraine is in its last couple of hours. but there have been exchanges of fire on both sides. the ukrainian government did not agree to the temporary truce. the you says it's a poll that iran hang 2 men for allegedly killing a member of the passage militia in november during protests. over the death of masa, a meaning in police custody. mohammed met the cut army, it was a national, karate champion inside mohammed or seine, was described in court as a volunteer coach for children. and there was almost a physical alteration on the floor of the us house of representatives. shortly before republican kevin mccarthy was named speaker up to 15 rounds of voting across 4 days, mccarthy eventually won a majority now,

countries in east africa and the horn of africa are in the midst of the most severe drought in 70 years. the un has warned of famine if aid isn't provided soon. it supposedly 36000000 people are affected with children, the most vulnerable. nearly 8000000 of those needing aid are in somalia, that's almost half the country's population. in ethiopia, nearly 11000000 people need support. the conflict in the t gray region has worsened the situation, causing a humanitarian crisis. and in northern kenya, the un says 4000000 people are going hungry because of a lack of rain that's caused consecutive habits. harvests to fail. catherine sawyer reports now from nairobi. 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 this camp. she's struggling to make ends meets sac and the will surely 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 molly'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 is still a 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 drought. ah, also it's affected 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. 0, brianna t is the low surgeon, but at the same time we are calling to focus on the recovery and resilience does most important to us if we wanted to prevented the cares of the humming height is in canyon leaving in our 8 areas are relying on the government and humanitarian organizations, kenya has declared the trout, a national disaster,

all through the yeah, i'll just 0, visited several counties in the north to cover the deteriorating situation. people are in the navy and cooking oil app, but this would, 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 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 elephant died because of the drought in 2020 to the region as in the middle of another rain season. some areas have hard rainfall, bad 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, on sunday voters in been in will elect their next parliament. the electoral

commission has approved 7 parties to contest the vote. among them is the opposition democrat party, which won a constitutional court case in november to allow its candidates to run after a de facto ban in the last election from cotton. at mid address reports. the final push for vote was politicians campaign, a head of sunday parliamentary elections ebony and for many voters they excited about the prospect of restoring confidence in the countries democracy. oh no. the last legislative election in 2019 sparked clashes that left several people dead after the opposition party was banned from participating. that year, only 2 political parties supporting president patrice to load while allowed. i constitutional court ruling last november gave a green light to the opposition known to have

a position patties. i think at least we have 2 democrats in indian, which at peel was impetus. and if it's affordable, could come on fall because they have blue, spotty danny bananas governing coalition is concerned about opposition. political parties included the democratic, growing large number of people to their political rallies. lebron excluded from the bullets as 2019 and one to win a majority in parliament to change the laws. they describe as repressing the governing cornish in here describes them as insignificant but sunday 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 the endorsement from legislators and mares in order to run. a political party can only get representation in parliament if it gets 10 percent of the total votes cast nationwide. regardless of whether it wins a constituency. present the election commission as it's ready go to plenty to prop

his own muscular department. the prison wanted to quit when we started distribution of election materials from the furthest to the regions nearest to cultivate one mode. now all areas have received the needed lecture materials that were oh, to see how hoping this election would restore opposition, politics and benign. and that the country will avoid valid clashes of $10.00 to $19.00 observers. what, watching not only the conduct, but also the outcome of this election. it will determine whether or not the st. com comedy reason. i'll just go to the from sunday, china is eating restrictions on inbound and outbound travel after ending it's strict 0 coven policy. the number of outbound flights from china is currently only 10 percent of its pre pandemic level. the easing of the restrictions coincides with the start of the moon, a new year travel rush, and it comes as cobit cases. surge in china with reports of hospitals being

overwhelmed. some countries have already introduced testing before departure for travelers from china. with me or not. i haven't had cove at 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. and staying in china, hundreds of people have protested outside show rooms owned by electric car company, tesla car owners demanding rebates and credit after surprise. price cuts on friday and they overpaid for the cars that they bought just months early in the show. you

will expiration of a government subsidy at the end of 2022 drove many to finalize their purchases. it's exactly a month since peruse, president was removed from office after trying to dissolve. congress sparking deadly protests as protest, prosecutor's bill, the case against pedro castillo, some boat is still waiting for the changes he promised around. essential has more now from one of custio's strong holes. oh, from their mountain homes to the streets of the small town of lipa high up indiana . ah, hundreds of farmers doing daily the moment demanding the rights to promises. former president bill castillo made during his campaign, yet little lydia bianca says she will not give up from the expectations she had when she voted for him 18 months ago. 11 the laws are made to favor the rich. we

don't have a voice or a vote. we want a constituent assembly to close congress, and we want president deena bullard to, to resign. she does not represent us. many protesters here see kathy's removal from office and arrest. make him a political prisoner, diesel. rarer castillo 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, the theo, one with more than 80 percent of the vote. although people here say he didn't pull any of the promises he made the lawmakers responsible. 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, dean of unworthy. i have an idea, amer sally 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 who has witnessed protests, death and destruction. the country is in a state of emergency. farmers here are continuously on strike, taking turns to block the mean highway. this gets done. what consoles the dunphy we are so tired. all of us long elderly children, janice, but we're not taking part into and that's the only way lonely comics didn't listen to us. we will continue with our fight. you welcome to not one month on video castillo is a symbol fading away. but the people of what he perceive his promises are now a force for renewed hope. and the only way for change they say, is to continue fighting mcginnis. and just i just see that would hipa a put a mac and ice fishing festival in south korea has made a major come back after a 3 year break because of warm weather and the pandemic.