ah ah ah ah, this is d, w is live from for political chaos in washington mass republicans failed to unite behind the choice for leader in the us house of representatives. having the coffee is blocked by his parties, hard writing 3 rounds of voting. also on the program,

you officials discuss calls to coordinate testing rules with travelers from china. infections in that country. surge, europe experiences record high temp winter temperatures after last summer's heat waves, a part of the continent including alpine ski resorts and now smashing winter record . look at the bigger picture of global climate trends. and brazil, bits of final fell out of pallet warner lined the streets as he's coughing passes through the city of santos, at the football legend spend most of his life, where he has now been late to read. ah, i'm sure gail, welcome to the program. the u. s. house of representatives is caught in a historic dreadlock after it's a 1st day under republican rule. aright lawmakers blocked the election of among the

majority leader by refusing to vote for the front runner, which is usually a formality. senior republican kevin mccarthy had been tipped for the post, but his previous criticism, a former president donald trump, moved hard right lawmakers to back other candidates. it's the 1st time in a 100 years the leadership vote has failed. in the 1st round, it was a night of pandemonium. on the floor of the us house of representatives, after republican kevin mccarthy failed to win the $218.00 votes needed to be elected speaker of the house. there was shock in the chamber after the nominee failed to win for the 1st time in a century that annabel kevin mccarthy, of the state of california has received 203.

the republican front runner is seeking to take over from democrat nancy pelosi after his party when a majority in the november mid term elections without to speak of the house. new members are unable to be sworn in on business isn't able to proceed. democratic minority leader hockey jeffries, called it a sedate for democracy today for the 1st time in 100 years the house of representatives failed to organize on opening day, sad day for the house of representatives as an institution. sad day for the microscope. it's a sad day for the american people. house democrats are unified, ready, willing, and able to get to work on behalf of every day.

americans voting has been postponed until wednesday, but need the mccarthy, all those voting against him appear ready to back down. like how responded caroline, a cheer more in washington told us why some republicans were refusing to back kevin mccarthy. the republicans at on support support. mccarthy are clearly among the, at the far right in this party to the vision is clearly in this extreme m at the heart, right once mccarthy, to give up a certain concessions. and he is obviously not aligning with their positions because he needs or them. but he also need some moderate republican votes and now he is paying the price for trying to keep the balance between the far right in the republican party and the moderate ones. mccarthy is trying to make a the far right happy, but he is also trying to get the,

the roads are of the moderate majority among the republicans. and now it's going to be interesting to see how they solve this problem. am is the far right finally, are going to accept mccarthy as a speaker, am, or, or the republicans going to name a new nominee. a situation that we have not seen since 1923, any or as congress. and at this sill and teens are the u. s. congress completely greeted logged until they finally vote for a new speaker. carleen that you more in washington, or the kremlin, has revised upwards the death toll from ukraine's air strike on a russian. ben she barracks from 63 to 89. he says, the real figure is in the hundreds, it's thought with a deadly single attack by ukraine, against a russian target fooling. domestic criticism against russia's armed commanders. the members, she says, the unauthorized use of mobile phones by soldiers allowed ukraine to pinpoint their location. ah,

russian crowns gather in somber ceremony in the city of samara to morn, soldiers killed, and ukraine. people who lived here are among those who died in a new year's eve bombing in the keep care so that we get there to honor the memory of oil did soldiers of the special military operation. we get there because it's hard for everyone was when it's hard, we should be together, which mr. huge piles of rubble are all that remains from the bombing. now rush and nationalists end some lawmakers are demanding punishment for commanders. they say ignored dangers. some reports, claim soldiers were located next to our munitions depot, which exploded in the strike. others say people had been able to use the russian mobile phones, giving away their location to ukrainian forces. the strike

has not flowed russia's own shelling of ukraine. it's defense ministry, claiming responsibility for fresh attacks and the de needs region. one of them destroyed this ice rank, which local say was operating as a humanitarian warehouse. as a result of 3 hits an ice rink and the center of town was damaged, as well as parts of the residential and industrial sector. robinson ukrainian authorities report that one person was killed and another was injured in the strikes shapes of the ukrainian capital van where a joiner corresponding sir roman gotcha rank a welcome roma a. let's start with those russian attacks in the denotes region. what can you tell us? well,

the fighting continues with both sides trying to hit a miniature ammunition deposed and rationale, claiming that it has destroyed that a high mass rocket launcher that was used by the ukrainian army in the attack on mckee go new year's eve. we cannot verify that, but in the past rush, a claim that many of the high mar systems were destroyed and the ukraine inside to know they are all safe. and we know that ukraine is using fake home. our systems are to distract the russian rockets. so in general, i would say the situation is very, very tense and both sides are preparing for a possible escalation in the coming days. right. and there's continuing a fall out from the attack and mccain care with rushes defense ministry saying the barracks was located. and because of its soldiers, unauthorized use of mobile phones. and what does that tell us about that, that the state of the, of the discipline within the russian army well,

and it is important when it happened. it happened on the new year's eve when people were celebrating drinking, and of course, the moralist, well very low on such an occasion. and of course, ukrainian army knew that and prepared for that. definitely the use of mobile forms could be helpful. the ukrainian army to target that facility, but not just that ukrainians, definitely have intelligence in on the occupied territories. and we have unconfirmed reports by ukrainian officials that i'm after that attack. russians are now trying a very being very, very aggressive against ukrainian civilians. and are they are killing? maybe some civilians are. this is at least what we hear from, from some ukrainian sources as a kind of revenge for that attack. ah, in general, you have to remember that the many of those killed are new on the front as they were not military. they were civilians who were mobilized by by the russian army in the past months. so they were not really aware of the danger. i would say,

and this, this all together led due to the killing of so many people. and so, so this was a ukrainian strike against russian troops, obviously. so how, how is this changing the narrative around the war there in russia? it seems to be one more big crack on the image of the russian army. and there were many crags before the russian army failed to take key of the ukrainian capital. it failed in the north, so in the region of hark, if it failed in the south, in the region of her son, it had to retreat. and the russian forces are not moving in the east of ukraine or in the region of don bass, which is the core region that president brought in claims it wants to liberate, and the cranes are defending their so the cause for replacements or for russian commanders are getting louder, but i would say at the moment, i don't see any signs of present putting to replacing for example,

the defense minister, the head of the, all of this of the general stuff. a face that roman a roman gutter anchor, gone to ranko in keith. we'll take a look at small stores making headlines around the world now. rescues in vietnamese, struggling to fear boy chaps and a country concrete tube on a construction site. the 10 year old fell into the narrow shaft and the 35 meter mom support miller. 4 days ago, it's not clear whether he's still alive around a 100 soldiers and professional equipment have been deployed to the side x crypto boss, sand bank, mon fried, has pleaded not guilty to u. s. a criminal fraud charges. 30 year old former digital currency, billionaires and accused of cheating investors and looting customer deposit of his crypto currency trading platform. f t x llc, and your state department has joined several arabic governments. in criticizing of

our right israel minister's visit one of jerusalem's most sensitive religious sites . national security minister, national security minister, m r been via a toward the temple mount, which is sacred to jews and muslims. access to the site has long been a source of dispute between israel and the palestinians. the european union officials a meeting today to discuss a quarter to discuss coordinating their response to china surgeon coated 19 cases of people arriving from china coming under scrutiny. following the recent relaxation countries, 0 covert policy and the explosion in cases that followed r e u countries that france, italy in belgium were the 1st in the block to reintroduce a testing for arrivals from china. spain requires that proof of full vaccination or a negative test on germany still has no restrictions. beyond the e u. a britain, the u. s. at india, australia and japan are some of the countries the placing restrictions on ad

arrivals from china. beijing has described the rules as discriminatory as chimes cobra. infection rates continue to spike. a shanghai hospital pushed to the brink. doctors working around the clock to save patients. after the relaxation of the so called 0 coven policy, led to a spike in corona virus infections. yet even as hospital strain, many chinese are heading abroad after years of not being allowed to travel stoking fears that they will bring the virus with them in december, half of the passengers on 2 flights to italy, we're later found to have cov it italy started testing all arrivals from china. as more countries joined in china's foreign ministry pushed back both and what the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting china lack scientific basis

. and some of these excessive practices are unacceptable. we are firmly opposed to attempt to manipulate the coven 19 measures for political purposes, and will take count images that day. it's unclear just what counter measures are on the table, but the patchwork of requirements as lead to confusion as well. the voice is the family and my, my brother who has not been allowed to travel for 3 years. he is coming from china and didn't know anything about the testing. we had to tell him before he boarded to be careful because they were going to do a p c r on arrival there yet. it's been 3 years since the corona virus started. it's trip around the world and the end of the journey. it's still not in sight. let's look at the situation in china and with ben cowling. he is a professor of epidemiology and co director of a w. h o collaborating center for infectious disease,

epidemiology and control at the school of public health to hong kong university. welcome to a d w. a professor at china says these restrictions on travelers from china, a discriminatory and, and lack of scientific basis. what do you say? well, if you are, i wanted it, i know today we clearly to do a p c r test. before we travel and our, the test on arrival, that's going to change it later this week. but the policies that have in place at the moment are actually not that different to what china has been asking for for the last 3 years. so i'm not sure discriminatory is the right word, but i would agree that, that they're not really evidence based. they're not going to make a lot of difference in terms of the global spread of new strains, right. and what are the concerns that new more infectious variants may search in china, and consequently spread around the world? right now what's being detected in china is be a $5.00,

which is 1st of the 2 and then also b, f, 7. those strains have been detected around the world in the past 3 months or so. they're not new strains. the one strain that i think we might be a little bit more concerned about is x b b point 1.5, which is being detected in the us, not in china at the moment. so i don't know who, who knows where the next. the strain is going to come from the next. a significant strain is going to come from maybe china, but at the minute it looks like the one in the u. s. is actually more of a threat, right? i were 2 and a half weeks away from the china's loon and new year's celebrations. that's pink, travel season of that, as that likely to affect infection rates. where it looked like in major cities, the numbers of infections may have already peaked, although there's not a lot of data to go on. but that's what it seems like from, from various other sorts of a social media or not. but in rural areas, probably there's still a lot of people to get infected. and i think in the chinese new year,

the new year celebration, this will be the, the opportunity for the virus to go to every last place in china. that it hasn't yet made its way to because of that massive travel around the country. and the, the chinese approach now seems to be sort of to, to effectively just live with this disease. and one does what a country of nearly one and a half a 1000000000 people living with cove. it looks like when so many people are refusing to be vaccinated in the chinese, a vaccines that are available seems to be so much less effective than the m r and a vaccines that are available in the west. i would, i would push back a little bit on that. actually the vaccine uptake in china is probably one of the highest in the 92 percent according to the ministry of health. but the vaccine coverage and older people is not as high for various reasons. one of which is the director of the policy the she would get them from, from the risk of getting code. but anyway, so the vaccine coverage is actually not too bad. what i think is

a surprise is the child is gone from containment with almost no case is to suddenly living with the virus in a complete you turn. and in the middle of that we're having right now a surgery of infractions probably a 1000000000 infections this winter that could have been mitigated. it could have been slowed down with face loss with other social distance. it measures and has not been, they've gone from like step by step. so you without going through step 3 in the middle. if you know what i mean, there's a step in the middle of mitigation that hasn't been done. and i think that that was a surprising decision to, to myself, into many other people that they've jumped directly to what the rest of the world is now doing that's living with the virus. right. as very clear and very interesting. thank you so much, professor, band colleagues from the university of hong kong. a number of european countries have recorded record high temperatures for january in recent days. unseasonably warm weather sweeps across the continent. poland. so

temperature that reach 19 celsius on yes day. it was one of 9 countries to set new national records in romania capital book, harassed. it felt like spring with the mom sitting 20 degrees. the balmy conditions of course, havoc in the were in the winter tourism industry. with ski resorts struggling with a lack of snow. scientists of warm extreme weather will continue without taking a drastic measures to stop global warming. climate report a tim showing the cast this outlook for the climate in the year ahead. devastating floods, droughts, apocalyptic storms and rising sea levels. the past year in the u. s. pakistan, italy, and the horn of africa was just the beginning. the scientists are able to give an attribution very quickly to pakistan flood. they gave an attribution 50 percent more, a flood because of human induced climate change. the hurricane ian that hit florida,

the said 30 percent more. a flooding rainfall because of climate change. ok, so we now have a climate change element to all these disasters. there's no 0 climate change disaster left anymore. the energy crisis fueled by the russian invasion of ukraine will continue to play a major role in terms of how quickly countries reduce their emissions in the long run. there are 2 main developments. the 1st is the exploration of new gas and oil fields. new pipelines, refineries and l. n. g terminals are being built. so nations no longer have to depend on russian fossil fuels. the 2nd and even bigger trend, major investments in solar and wind power and hydrogen capacities, particularly in the u. s. t. e u, china, and india. everybody always understood that banking on cheese gas is not a good idea when needs to have a different plan. and the plan is to save energy and to install more renewable

energy. so when you have 2 competing trends, and the main question for me is which one wins? one important step forward that we may see in 2023 is a deal between the g 7 countries and india along the lines of an agreement made with south africa last year. under the just transition partnership. the us, germany, france, the e u and the u. ki agreed to provide south africa with barry engine financing to speed up its coal phase. our plans a deal of this kind with the world's 5th largest economy. india would accelerate its switch to renewables and potentially represent a big move towards climate justice and the curbing of global warming. and if i bought a country which has 5 times bigger economy, what a much it sort of i serve in a new padded aim of descriptions, which can actually keep up with a b as needed. the next united nations climate conference call 28. if you were to

take place in the united arab emirates at the end of the year, scientists agree that we cannot afford to miss any more opportunities when it comes to stopping climate change every year count new year to you as well. let's look at this. we've our environment reporter louisa osborne. welcome louis. so this all looks very, very gloomy in this new year. yeah. and it's, it's easy to see it that way, especially with the record high temperatures that we've already seen that you were talking about earlier this year. but there is hope, actually, i mean, we have the new brazilian president now who has promised to put in measures to protect the amazon, which is the major carbon sink. and we can help us with dealing with climate change . he's also promised 0 deforestation by 2030, so we'll see what happens. and obviously, although the energy crisis is still biting and, and it's difficult, there is the hope that that will push us further towards renewable energy, which is positive. okay, so that, that,

that will sound like mitigation that all sounds like slowing down this inexorable progress towards a doom and destruction is. is there anything else that we can do to actually pull back from the brink? well, i mean, sadly, emissions rose in 2022 again, the to record levels and it looks like we're not going to lower them in 2023. or even if we do cut emissions, or is the a greenhouse gases that are already there that are still going to cause higher temperatures. but we're hoping, or scientists hope that we will still be able to cover some of that. and so we just have to see what happens and how we can look at reducing our carbon emissions. ok, so does that mean that we are likely to see more of the, of the, the demonstrations that, that was seen over the last few years. and even the more sort of radical actions that have been taken on on climate change. so interestingly extinction,

rebellion has said that it's going to pull back from those kinds of actions. instead, they are looking to get more people involved, rather than taking rad collections that kind of push people away. it saying that that's not going to be an end to these radical actions. i mean, we're already saying in germany, obviously the are the protest taking place in that circuit where people are coming against the police to try to stop the ex, that expansion of a coal mine. and then there are other groups like just up oil and last generation that have also said that they are willing to take the extra penalties of oh, which, you know, regardless of the findings and the extra attention time that they might have to make sure that this issue really gets the attention that it arguably needs thank of that are the ways osbourne environment before to thank you. i to brazil, which has been an emotional farewell to football legend to play. the star striker

was laid to rest in his home city, santo's fans queued for hours to pay their respects. oh, emotions were running high. as hundreds of thousands of people gathered to see the procession of pallet's coffin through the city. the 3 time world cup winner died on thursday at the age of 82 the world owes a lot to pillay, especially the dignity of a man that was born poor black rob in a country where you ratchet is still high. and play did not let this affect him. he knew how to be politely shaped the best and the most humble medulla. i'm a very said after a few people pack the streets, standing on rooftops and leaning from balconies to get a glimpse of the brazilian icon. the procession came to a halt when it passed the house where his 100 year old mother still lives. it was

a day of mourning for the men brazilians called our king, but for many, it was a moment to celebrate him to you. polite mckinney represents a lot because since i was a kid, i saw him and i was very moved. it's pure emotion to day. my son and we are here at his funeral and you can see that the whole city has stopped to use it. the whole world has startled because a pill accidental mark that he, that is so pele, arguably, the world's greatest ever football player was laid to rest in a private ceremony. at this most liam in his hometown. it reminded not top story at this hour. yes, republicans have failed to unite behind the lida and the house of representatives that paralyzing the chamber started. when you session moderate, carrying the coffee was blocked him, 3 rounds of focusing by hard rock members of his own party. it's the 1st time in a 100 years that the leadership as failed. and

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