[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah this is the w is liar from berlin. political chaos in washington asked republicans failed to unite behind a choice for later in the us house of representatives. kevin mccarthy is blocked by

his parties. hard writing 3 rounds of voting also on the program. do you officially discuss calls to co ordinate cobra testing rules for travelers from china? infections and not countries in europe experienced his record, high winter temperature factor last summer's heat waves, parts of the continent including outside ski resorts, now smashing winter records. look at the bigger picture of global climate traps and brazil bids a final farewell to foreigners line the streets. essex coughing passes through the city of santos, or the football legend spend most of his life where he's now been made to rec ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. the u. s. house of representatives is caught in

a historic grid lock after it's stay under republican rule. hard rights at lawmakers have blocked the election of a majority leader by refusing to vote for the frontrunner, which is usually a formality. senior republican kevin mccarthy had been tipped for the post party's previous criticism of former present. donald trump wrote his colleagues on the far right of his party to buy other candidates. it's the 1st time in a 100 years the leadership vote as 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 $203.00 b republican front runner is seeking to take over from democrat nancy pelosi after his party when a majority in the november mid term elections. so today is the day i wanted to have, you know, i mean there's a lot of things we want to do. we want to repeal 87000 iris. i just want to set up a number investigation. we want to notice the living to live here. we have actually on the board learn, i got transferred. but if we're able to work out our differences and take this time to only be strongly, la congress, without a speaker at the house, new members are unable to be sworn in. and business isn't able to proceed. 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 neither mccarthy, all those voting against him, appear ready to back down. oh peter matthews, can guide us through this. he's professor of political science at cyprus college in long beach, california. a welcome to the w. a professor. what do you think is this a saturday for democracy as we just heard? he not only sad but his chaotic, and it's a very dangerous situation because there are so many things threatened right now. the republicans can't find a speaker or get find not most to get the speaker in place. the united states is facing a debt ceiling crisis, so they don't raise the debt ceiling congress. then what happens is you as to fall

from its loans, it holds back on the budgeting process. there's a lot of problems out cause financially and not only that, but there are many other kinds of issues at stake here that need to be done. immigration reform, climate change, although will be held back completely until this is subtle. and this is also very unnerving for other allies marcy around the world actually what's going on. and so what does this chaos tell us about the state of the republican party? it tells us the party is not ready to ready to govern. and even though it was elected by very small, very simple majority in the house there they are. so divided 20 of them refused to vote for the mccarthy for speaker this congressman mccarthy speaker. and that was way too short. in fact, the democratic nominee for speaker was put up there just for fun. basically, a mr. hakim, congress marketing jeffries received, i think about a 212 votes to 202 votes from mccarthy. he got more votes,

him with looks potential speaker. it tells us the republican party in total disarray because of the mag and republicans of many who found the freedom caucus thereof stopping the support from mccarthy. and that's also connected to president trump evil to present from supports. mccarthy is totally chaotic to that party right now. okay, so chaos ahead. let's deal with big problem. first do, do you think my coffee will eventually get the support he needs? that is really very difficult to say because he just doesn't have the numbers on the what's what dividing people is that the far right freedom caucus members are opposing mccarthy, especially. they want in to concede a lot of things. they said we have to make it easier for us to be able to, to get the speaker to step down. it's called a vote of no confidence in britain. but today in the united states is called a motion to vacate. that's what the freedom caucus wanted to be able to get the speaker at a time that even agree with him. he wouldn't go for the full amount. he did in fact consume some of that to them, he conceded, but he wouldn't go all the way to make it easier for them to get him out of office v. they need to in like that. it is like the fact that you also start demanding

committee assignments, which of course, he's not obligated to give them. and there was too much of a demand put on the mccarthy silent mccarthy himself by this writing. okay. miss dodd? i don't think it's going to happen with mccarthy. we don't know, but the who's gonna be alternative with owner that either you're right. so whoever does become speaker what do you think this fractured republican majority in the house of representatives is gonna made for the bible ministration. will i just depends, if enough moderate republicans could be appealed away to vote with the democrats on key issues that present by and was to push forth. then things will get done. but we don't know if the republicans, the moderates, will actually join the democrats in some key votes, for example, on the infrastructure bill that they need to get climate change under control. there's so much more to be done on the financial side. and i'll issues like health care, we don't know if there will be enough republicans. i will join the democrats, make a viable majority of the house to pass the laws. right. so it's not

a parliamentary system, as you know, you've made that very clear and thank you for guiding us through that professor peter mathews from cyprus college in long beach california. thank you. my pleasure . thank you. now to the war in ukraine and the kremlin, has that revised upwards the death toll from ukraine's air strike on a russian military barracks. from 63289 cave says the real figure is in the hundreds, though it saw to be the deadly single attack by ukraine, against a russian target fueling domestic criticism against russia's army commanders. the military says the unauthorized use of mobile phones by its soldiers allowed ukraine to pinpoint their location. russian crowns gather in somber ceremony in the city of samarra. to morn, soldiers killed in 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 to honor the memory of all dead soldiers of the special military operations. we get there because it's hard for everyone with when it's heart, we should be together, which mr. huge piles of rubble of all that remains from the bombing. now, russian nationalists and some lawmakers are demanding punishment for commanders. they say ignored dangers. some reports, claim soldiers were located next to ammunitions 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 in the de nits region. one of them destroyed this

ice rank, which local se 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 throughout the circle. ukrainian authorities report that one person was killed and another was injured and the strikes law correspondence in kiva roman got ranko told me more about those russian attacks in the den that screech well, the fighting continues with both sides, trying to hit a miniature ammunition depots and rationale claiming that it has destroyed that a high mass rocket launcher that was used by the ukrainian army in the attack on my keith co 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 in mckinney care with rushes defense ministry saying the barracks was located because of its soldiers unauthorized use of mobile phones. and what does that tell us about that, that the state of, of the discipline within the russian army well, and it is important when it happened. it happened on a new year's eve when people were celebrating drinking. and of course the moral as well very low on such an occasion. and of course ukrainian amin knew that and prepared for that. definitely the use of mobile forms could be helpful. the ukranian army to target that facility, but not just that ukrainians are definitely have intelligence or 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 to the killing of so many people. a thanks that roman a roman gutter anchor. gone to ranko in keith. and let's take a look at small stores are making headlines around the world now. me and mars marking it's 75 for independence day where the military parade and mass pardons of

more than 7000 prisoners. it's not clear whether those release will include people jail, his partner, they are cracked out on descent. the country is a ruling military leader also. i described plans for an election at this year. we ex crypto boss. some bank when fried has pleaded not guilty to us at criminal fraud charges. the 30 year old former digital currency billionaire stands accused of cheating investors. and due to customer deposits on his crypto currency trading bottle f t x rescues in vietnam, struggling to free a boy trapped in a concrete tube on the construction site. the 10 year old fell into the narrow shaft of $35.00 little homes for 4 days ago. to clear whether he still alive and a 100 soldiers, actual equipment deployed. o e u officials are meeting today to discuss coordinating their response to china's surgeon cove 19 cases.

people arriving from china coming on the scrutiny following the recent b like section of the countries at 0 covert policy on the explosion in cases that followed you. countries of france, italy and belgium were the 1st in the block to introduce that testing for chinese arrivals. spain requires proof of full vaccination or a negative test, while germany still has no restrictions. beyond the e u. britain, the united states that india, australia, and japan are some of the countries placing restrictions on arrivals from china. beijing has described roles is discriminatory and chinese covey infection rate is continuing 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 coven italy started testing all arrivals from china. as more countries joined in china's foreign ministry, pushed back booth. and what is the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting china? lack sign to effect 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. 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 when 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. let me say about that. 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. so all those restrictions on travelers from china discriminatory. i asked her professor ben cowling, who's an epidemiologist, that to hong kong university to day weekly to do a p c r test before we travel and other tests 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 us is actually more of a threat, right? i were 2 and a half weeks away from the china loon and new year's celebrations. that's pink travel season event as likely to affect infection rates. where it looks 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 source of a social media and whatnot. but in rural areas, probably there's still a lot of people to get infected. and i think in the chinese new year, new year celebrations, this will be the opportunity for the virus to go to every last place in china that it hasn't yet made its way to because of 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 11 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, i, vaccines that are available seem to be so much less effective than the m r n. a vaccines that are available in the west. well, i would, i would push back a little bit on di, actually the vaccine uptake in china is probably one of the highest and about 92 percent according to the ministry of health. but the vaccine coverage and older

people is not as i for various reasons, one of which is the zip code, the policy that she would get them from, from the risk of getting co. but anyway, so the vaccine coverage is actually not too bad. what i think is a surprise is the china is gone from containment with almost no case this to suddenly living with the virus in a complete you turn. and in the middle of that we're having right now a surge of infections, probably a 1000000000 infections this winter that could have been mitigated. could have been slowed down with face loss with other social distance measures and has not been they've gone from step 8 to step c without going through step b in the middle of 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 and to many other people that they've jumped directly to what the rest of the world is now doing that's living with the virus. a very clear and very interesting. thank you so much, professor ban cowling from the university of hong kong. a number of european

countries have recorded the record high temperatures for january in recent days, as unseasonably warm weather sweeps across the continent. poland saw temperatures of 19 celsius on new year's day. it was one of 9 countries to set new national records in romania capital book arrest. it felt like spring with the mom was sitting 20 degrees. the balmy conditions, of course, havoc in the winter tourism industry however, was ski resorts struggling with a lack of snow. scientists, a warning that extreme weather will continue without taking drastic measures to stop global warming. devastating floods, drought 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 in 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 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 field by the russian invasion of ukraine will continue to play a major role in terms of how quickly countries reduced 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 safe 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 cold face. our plans a deal of this kind with a world 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 a data entry, which has to be 5 times bigger economy, what a much it sort of serve in a new padded aim of flaming descriptions, which can actually keep up with a b as needed. the next united nations climate conference call $28.00 is due 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 counts. let's look at this river environment reporter and 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 birth, liam president now who has promised to put in measures to protect the amazon, which is the major carbon think it could 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 there will sounds like mitigation that all sounds like slowing down this inexorable progress towards doman 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 am to record levels and it looks like we're not going to lower them in 2023. or even if we do cut emissions, or there is the a greenhouse gases that are already there that are still going to cause higher temperatures. but we're hoping or, or science has hope that we will still be able to curbed some of that. and so we just have to see what happens and how we can look at reducing our carbon emissions . okay, so does that mean that we are likely to see more of the am of the demonstrations that we've seen over the last few years and even the more sort of radical actions that have been taken on on climate you? so i,

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. i'm 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 louise osbourne environment before thank brazil has bred an emotional farewell to football legend, palo the star strike was laid to rest in his home city santos and 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 police coughing 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 bob in a country where you ratchet is a still high. and pillar did not let this affect him. he knew how to be politely shaped the best and the most humble. i'm very said. after a few people packed 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 minnie represents a lot because since i was a kid, i saw him and i was very moved. it's pure emotional 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 go to puerto because the pet accidental mark that he doesn't is so pele. arguably the world's greatest ever football player was laid to rest in a private ceremony. at this most, a liam in his hometown. i'd set you up today. it's all half, but more at the top of the hour eco, india is a good ah ah,

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