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rushes. 36 our cease fire fails to stop the fighting as ukrainians celebrate orthodox christians. ah, i'm how much i'm doing this is alger alive from door. also coming up, iran executes to men for killing a paramilitary officer during protests, over the death of masa, meaning my responsibility. our responsibility is to our country. kevin mccarthy faces a divided party and a number of challenges as he is elected speaker. after 15 votes, china and travel restrictions for inbound passengers just as cobra. 19 infection serge across the country,

ah rushes unilateral. 36 hours cease fire in ukraine for orthodox christmas has ended, and it appears to have been a cease fire in name only. russia says its forces have repelled for ukrainian attacks along the front line, but otherwise held fire. the ukrainian government did not agree to the temporary truce and said russia continued it attacks shall fire, could be clearly heard in the frontline town of buck. mood which has been abandoned by most of its residents. ukrainian president vladimir lensky says the gunfire and bachman came from russian positions it graciously till william quoted his meal. by the way, once again the world has seen how deceptive any statement at any level coming from moscow is that i was saying something about the supposed cease fire. the reality however, was that russian trails once again hit back moot and all the ukrainian positions. 30000000 ukrainians or 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 have stood here for almost a 1000 years. cubes, lover cathedral is one of the most important, also talks christian institutions in the world. but this is 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. she has m, i saw it. i think people have changed the stays, it's changing. we see historical justice on the nation is being formed. it's very important to eradicate everything russian from ireland, i guess, or russian church it. oh was here before i ever supports in like her rush

centers in put in so she was so know when lee jen, have rudy bring in 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 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 close by. you crean accuses it of supporting 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 that she could 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 and the church and courtesy of 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 were kansas city. there are few of worshippers at this church on christmas morning that it isn't under shariska some later. sure. of course, we're a little sad that today we're not in a cathedral, but if 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. it's all said ox christian communities to chance travel al jazeera keith. there has been international condemnation of iran after to hang 2 men accused of killing a member of the country's revolutionary guards in november, o hammond, magic her army, was a national karate champion and said mohammed her seine was described as a volunteer coach for children. amnesty international says both convictions relied on forced confessions. the e you says it's appalled. the u. s. is demanding sham trials stop. now gar, more tis avi is a journalist and host of the iran podcast. she says 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 with emma of justice or due process is essentially trying to instill fear 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 crush the protests, to essentially send the testers back home. the previous 2 execution follow the same, had a 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 to still see above what is actually doing is generating more anger, generating even more protest with the funeral of protesters turning into new port. 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 anger and more intro balls of protest and essentially

energizing more people to join this body of movement. and then harmon, mirandi is a political analysts and professor at the university of to ron. he believes there's little popular support for the hanged men and says rights organizations have an ulterior motive. we have to be careful about the human rights organizations, which are funded by western governments or funded by institutions, both the affiliated with western governments, amnesty international. we now have supporting nato and honest and it is post affiliated with the political establishment in the magazine. we have to remember that over 60 police officers were murdered during this period. if you compare this to that, say the united states found be roughly comparing it with taking into account that

the population of the united states is 4 times greater than iran. that would mean like 226060 police officers in the united states being killed by a riots. so i think if we take it look at things in, in, in this sort of context, then it would be far more complicated than what these western and human rights organizations was saying. it took 15 rounds of voting across 4 days, a string of concessions and a physical confrontation in the chamber. but republican kevin mccarthy is finally speaker of the us house of representatives. one mccarthy back or had to be physically restrained as a heated exchange with opponents threatened to boil over. eventually, mccarthy managed to persuade enough dissenters from within his party to back him. i do want especially think uh president trump. i don't think he should damage anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote the doubt of what it was there and he was all it he would call me and he would call

others. and he really was, i was just talking to him to night help and get those final votes. what he's really saying, really, for the party in the country that we have to come together, we have to focus on the economy. we gotta focus, make our border secure. we gotta do so much work to do, and he was a great influence to make. that'll happen. so. thank you. president trump allen fisher joins us now live from washington, dc allen. what were the concessions that kevin mccarthy gave to secure the votes he needed to become speaker the house. while essentially he went to the bottom of the toolbox and gave everything that he possibly could have been talking about these concessions since before the election. but clearly everyone's attention was focused on the last few days at the altar. conservatives are held out, wanted to make sure that they had prominent positions on important committees that looks as if that's been given. they want to give rank and file members more opportunity to hit any spending bills to make sure that taxes are raised. and also

to make sure that the debt limit doesn't go up as well. but there's also an important point which is at one member of the republican caucus can no call for the removal of the speaker. it would normally take a majority. there would have to be an election and they would still have to get the majority. but before you had to have that in place, no one member of the republican party is upset with the speaker can make that call . so these are important concessions at the moment. we're told this is just a framework deal a and clearly if they don't deliver on what has been promised, there could be more problems in the republican party. but it was enough enough to get kevin mccarthy over the line of become the 55th speaker. and alan, where does all this leave the u. s. congress going forward? i well kevin mccarthy, li though to his agenda in his speech, immediately after getting the speakers gavel. and what he did was essentially down

at the the, the battle lines for the 2024 presidential election. the fact that he's to rely very heavily on donald trump is important because of course donald trump is at the moment the only candidate who is declared for the presidential election. you remember on january the 6th, 2 years ago, kevin mccarthy criticized donald trump and then a few weeks later went to morrow lago, essentially, to pledge his loyalty to the leader of the republican party. he needed donald trump to get over the line, and that means a lot of what he'll do will be aimed at damaging joe biden. and we're certainly had from that that there's going to be a hearing about immigration on the border. the going to talk about the politicization of the, the f, b i, the federal bureau of investigation. they're going to talk about the withdrawal from afghanistan at the border crisis, inflation of fuel. all of these things, the republicans believe could damage joe biden. and clearly, kevin mccarthy believes could strengthen donald trump as we creep ever closer to

that 2024 election are right algiers. alan fisher live for us from washington d. c. thanks so much. alan. a string of storms have pounded the u. s. state of california and more bad weather is forecast. there are reports of up to 6 deaths. 2 days of strong winds and torrential rain have damaged power cables. leaving at more than $50000.00 homes and businesses without electricity, much of the northern 2 thirds of the state is under warnings for floods and strong winds. the u. s. government has deported dozens of venezuelan migrants to mexico, mexican authority say 100 people who had crossed the border were sent back to the city of flores on friday. it follows the introduction of new border control measures aimed at discouraging asylum seekers or than 850000 venezuelans were caught crossing the us mexico border last year. still had on al jazeera, ah, ruth president, was removed from office,

which sparked deadly protests one month on. as anything changed and opposition parties and benign are gearing up to contest parliamentary elections for the 1st time since 2019. ah hell i welcome to another look at the international forecast. you got the next area, very wet and windy weather piling into that west coast of the us. you will see further outbreaks of frame, very strong winds. and of course, some snow this disturbance extending all the way up into we're western parts of canada. so that's the set up as we go on through wes sunday. there's that wet weather coming in across the pacific northwest when she weather for a time sunny down towards the cascade through the sierra nevada easing little further race was cloud and rain, continued it as pulse its way in across the pacific northwest western parts of

canada somewhere whether to just around the deep south just easing across mississippi, alabama, running up towards eastern seaboard that will clear through as we go on into our monday temperatures picking up by that stage as well. net is a little bit of snow there. eastern areas of canada, the central parts of the us will be dry and fire and back up towards the northwest . more rain and snow like that, yet more unsettle. whether that is it can be pretty heavy. they said will cause further problems for a good part of california. for the south miss had problems lottie, find a dryer across the caribbean and also into central america, a scattering a shower for the east in dallas for a time, making the way for the west. ah ah ah

ah ah ah, you're watching all 0 reminder of our top stories this our rushes, unilateral, 36 hours cease fire in ukraine for orthodox christmas has ended keep did not agree to the truce and said russia continued attacks. it accused moscow of trying to use the situation to re position its troops. iran is facing international condemnation

. after it hanged, 2 men accused of killing a member of the countries revolutionary guards in november. the you says it's appalled. the u. s. is demanding an in to what it called sham trials. and it took 15 rounds of voting across 5 days, a string of concessions and a physical confrontation in the chamber. but republican kevin mccarthy is finally speaker of the us house of representatives. china has lifted pandemic restrictions on foreign travel, ending almost 3 years of self imposed isolation. quarantine is no longer required for inbound travellers, but several countries are demanding pre departure. cobra, 1900 tests for people heading abroad. it follows a surgeon cases in china in recent weeks after the government abandoned its strict 0 covert policy last month. the lifting of restrictions coincides with the start of lunar new year travel rush, trying to health ministry says it's concerned about the virus spreading. as people gather for celebrations,

the government is urging people to wear masks on public transport. and these are live pictures. this is the scene from an immigration checkpoint at loc. my child station in hong kong passengers are queueing to board a train to mainland china ahead of the holiday season. residents from the financial hub, no longer have to warranty, but still have to provide negative cobit test results. which really, honestly, i haven't had 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 i miss me a lot. 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. yeah, john wong is

a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations. he says the concerns about travelers coming from china are understandable or impart because the re, yes, 0 coby to approach that. not all arrayed, any new fashion, even though as resolved, most of the people in the country was not re exposed to the buyer. and because of the epic, the re, a lack of effort could be of the chinese that being so the and high body level most the chinese people walk very low. so that allows the virus just to, to bang and again, the back in the country by the way, the be resolved of these 0 coby approach. well, i think people in the country have reason to be concerned about the i was trying to

. but i don't think it is reason to be the pastor or so by there is no evidence of emerging new stuff bearing from china and given that most of the destination countries have learned with the fire in the, in the chinese visitors and not going to be to the spike up in the country. around 200 people have been moved to safety and a hill town in northern india, after their homes developed severe cracks. the problem is believed to be caused by shifting soil underneath the town of joy she might in the himalayas. it's a popular destination for pilgrims and tourists that fled to the construction of new buildings and roads. in recent years, thousands of demonstrators have marched in central paris to pay tribute to 3 kurdish activist, and 10 years ago,

the anniversary came just 2 weeks after 3 curds were shot dead in an attack in the french capital. the act of his killed in 2013, had links to the separatists kurdistan worker's party or p k k, which is classed as a terrorist group. in turkey. benjamin as in yahoo is back as prime minister of israel. and so are the saturday night protests against him. thousands of people gathered in the israeli city of tel aviv to oppose his government, which was sworn in this week. the protest her lead by left wing and arab members of the israeli parliament, netanyahu's coalition is the most right wing. and israel's history. with the election of the new government in israel. christmas celebrations have been tense for orthodox palestinians, who say they're facing increasing hostility. a christian cemetery has been desecrated in jerusalem, and church own gland is being occupied by israeli settlers. bernard smith reports from ramallah in the occupied westbank. hello, 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 railey government. there's ever been few here. see that trend reversing? who thought, hey le zabel most of the plans of these extreme parties and what they believe in their 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, or what drives most palestinians to leave. church leaders here have warned the christians have become the target of frequent and sustained attacks by fringe radical groups in jerusalem. and the holy land. it's a remind of 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 is privately held church land in jerusalem with police protection 2 weeks ago. they say they're 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 and thought of mister hod, we are exposed. is there 80 aggression and settlers edition the, the damage corps and roads to destroy places? we are used to that yet either. it's not noon, but it's increasing with the new administration need. that was there, like in the message of christmas, is that one day? this landlord had turned to the palestinians who have the right to it, and that right will never be lost. mercurial ireland, on face the whole world, the west and the arab well can see what is happening here. we hear their words,

but we do not see their actions. but the nurses, 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. to subway trains have collided in mexico city, killing one person. at least 57 others were injured. emergency crews rescued. 4 people trapped and one carriage. mexico's capital has seen several accidents on its metro. in recent years, 26 people died in may 2021. when a rail overpass collapsed. com has returned to the mexican city of calia. com, the focus of a shoot out between security forces and members of a drug cartel that left 29 people dead. the government has deployed an extra $1000.00 troops to the area. the violence broke out on thursday when police

arrested a drug kingpin of video guzman is the son of imprison drug lord l. chapel and an important figure in the powerful sinaloa cartel. though i have yeah, there is still no security. now when he's telling us everything will be fine, it still doesn't feel good. how would he does that? and then we'll call me evelyn 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 ally, it's been a month since peruse left. his president was removed from office after trying to dissolve. congress federal casias arrest sparked to wave a protest that left 22 people dead. and as prosecutors bill the case against the former leader, many of his supporters say they've been betrayed by the government. arianna sanchez has more from 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 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. let 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 dina bullard to, to resign. she does not represent us. many protesters here sake, atheist, removal from office and arrest, make him a political prisoner disorder. cathy, you 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 this, the lawmakers was points about because not allow his meal to work without gusty, you, these farmers see their expectations for better living conditions slipping away. they blame the new precedent deena of unworthy. i have an idea, a 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 is key as double consoles, the dunphy. we are so tired, all mostly the elderly children's youngest, but we're all taking part in the fight, and that's the only way lonely come. if they don't listen to us, we will continue with our fight. you welcome to not one month on busier castillo is 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 said, is to continue fighting and innocent as i just see that would be a pretty mac. molly's his 49 soldiers from ivory coast to were accused of being mercenaries have now left the countries they were pardon. on friday, 6 months after being detained at bama co, airport ivory coast says the soldiers were part of united nations peacekeeping mission. and molly, the arrests sparked a diplomatic dispute between the 2 countries. voters and benign had to the poles on sunday to choose their next parliament and what's seen as the tests of the nations democracy. the opposition is back on the ballot after a de facto ban. and the last election triggered political violence from cotton new . i'm a dangerous reports. the final push for vote was politicians completing a head of son this parliamentary elections. it been. and for many voters,

they excited about the prospect of restoring confidence in the country's democracy . the last legislative election in 2019 sparked clashes that left several people dead after the opposition party was banned from participating this 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 patty's, i think i'll, is we have to democrat in indian. the jacqueline was invited at the fest, affordable could come unto the girls to have those back. 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 balance string to $19.00 and $1.00 to win a majority in parliament to change the laws they describe as repressing the governing cornish of yeah, describes them as insignificant but son,

this 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 party can only get representation in parliament if it gets 10 percent of the total votes cast nationwide. regardless of whether it wins a caustic wency prevent the election commission as it's ready with been appointed to proper unc my spelling department. the presumed one you took with when we started distribution of election materials from the furthest to the regions nearest to culturally on hold. now all areas have received the needs of the lecture, materials that were oh, to see are hoping this election would restore opposition politics and benign, and that the country will avoid violent clashes. of 2019 observers would be watching. not only the conduct, but also the outcome of this election,

it will determine whether or not the st.