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to become us house speaker. right wing us have blocked him in 3 rounds of voting so far. and other ways jew in the coming hours, also coming up no snow at many of europe's top ski resorts, even the most famous alpine retreats and not immune to the effects of human and used to climate change plus birth. taking pictures from the far reaches of the coast books, one of the astronomers running the web space telescope talks through the images, originating millions of light years from ah m, anthony halbrook into the program. the european union is considering tightening the rules on travelers arriving from china. there's been a search in cases in china since by jean abandon it's 0 covey policy.

elsewhere, france in italy were the 1st e u. countries to introduce testing for arrivals from china. elsewhere, spine requires proof of full vaccination or, and negative taste, while germany for its pot still has no restrictions in place. broadening out beyond the a, you know, britain, the u. s. in the australia and japan are among those oh, ready? restricting travelers from the chinese mainland biking coals, the rules discriminatory to spot. the dramatic rising covey notated infections by shanghai hospital pushed to the brink. doctors working around the clock to save patients after the relaxation of the so called 0 cobit policy, lead to a spike in corona virus infections. yet even as hospitals strain, many chinese are heading abroad after years of not being allowed to travel stoking fears, that if a new barian to were to emerge there would be no containing it. in december half

the passengers on 2 flights to italy, we're later found to have covered 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 curve at 19 measures for political purposes. and we'll take count images that day. it's unclear just what counter measures are on the table. but the patchwork of requirements has led 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 bordered to be careful because they were going to do a p c r on arrival. let me say radio that it's been 3 years since the corona virus

started. it's trip around the world. and the end of the journey is still not in sight or i asked a d, w, brussels, be wretched alexandra phenomena. why the u. s. so concerned about coverage, not in evictions of china. while anthony, there are multiple factors at play here. a bitter experience from the past to fear of new variance and also mistress of information coming out of china. let's a take italy for if, for instance, to country that was the 1st to introduce trouble restrictions for travelers from china or the country. was it incredibly hard at the beginning of the pandemic, and they'll sororities, there are saying that they need, they have to protect their citizens. that's exactly what the french authorities are saying as well. they have to take into account. there are indicating that china's

population is a little image, is less immune that probably there you opinions that there are vaccines are less efficient than those that are loose in europe. but i think a major factor here is really the mistress of information coming out of a china, or with many experts seeing even at the world health organization that china needs to be a more force coming with sharing important information. we know that the country is dealing with a massive search in new coverage cases where its hospitals and funeral homes, seeing that they are over a want, at the same time, according to official data, only few deaths were registered as since the country has opened up and ended, it's a 0 coverage policy. so your opinions are concerned about this information a policy in china. so that's what's driving what sort of action is being considered today. what could and the response look like?

well, there are different proposals on the table and i am told to buy officials or he and brussels at that. the majority of you members deeds are, is in favor of introducing pre boarding task, sir, for all travelers before a day or leave china. and so of course, the question is, or where it is going to take place, or what kind of tests, et cetera, that is something that they would need to discuss today. other measures include worrying mask during the flight or a testing waste water from planes. that is something that belgium has announced are going to do. they want to test or the waste water from planes a to a detect potential new variance attorney early days. but how likely is it that they will agree to any measures and find a solution that everyone agrees on? well, i think that with more and more european nation saying that they are going to introduce

travel restrictions that they are going to demand. and nick, a negative covet test or to enter their country. and the pressure is growing on the whole european union to have a solution. there are to have a common policy because of course it doesn't make any sense for italy just to demand a negative covered test from people who could enter the european union and especially their shane and zone are from a different european countries. so actually they need to have a joint solution it to add to that added a joint answer. how to deal with this sir. he messes a search in you covered cases in china, the w, brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena, thank you. o the u. s. house of representatives is in gridlock after its 1st day. under republican rule, hardwood lawmakers have blocked the election of a house speak of something that is usually a formality front. rather,

kevin mccarthy is so far filed to gain enough votes. it's the 1st time in a 100 years the leadership vote has filed at this early stage, and another round of voting is due in the coming house. 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 o. 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 look at today is the day i wanted to have, you know, i think there was a lot of things we wanna do. we want to repeal 87000 iris just want to set up the number investigation. we wanted to notice the living committee here. we have actually on the board again, can't but, but if we're able to work out our differences and take this time to only be strongly leucon push the thing for me without to speak of the house. new members are unable to be sworn in on 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 need the mccarthy, all those voting against him appear ready to back down or date of the washington correspondent sumi, so must go. they told me more about kevin mccarthy's chances of becoming house bigger. it really isn't clear, anthony. i mean, there hasn't actually been much movement since tuesday. i mean, there are some reports that one republican law maker who voted against kevin mccarthy for speaker. the house could change his or her vote. and as i'm talking to you, there's probably a lot of last minute wrangling and horse trading happening. there's discussions about a possible concession candidates of somebody who might be a viable candidate who could get enough votes. but the reality is that this is a completely deadlock situation, and there isn't a clear path to get it unstuck. and what's interesting to note is this was actually pretty clear before all of the voting even started. the republicans essentially

have an open revolt on their hands in the party, the vote for the speaker of the house or another vote. now there's been several rounds, or there could be several rounds to come. they have really laid bare just how influential that revolt can be. we're talking about a handful of republican lawmakers who are willing significant power to me as that's all happening. it's hard not to wonder what happens if he fails again in the next foot. well, according to kevin mccarthy, they will keep going until he's elected. and we don't know, as i said, how many rounds that might be. and there are 2 reasons that that is really significant. one, as we heard in that report, congress is essentially paralyzed right now. so all of the new members of congress, both democrats and republicans who are supposed to get sworn in that can't happen until there's a speaker of the house. selecting the speaker is the 1st order of business and from domestic to international affairs. there's a lot to get done. i mean bills have to be paid. congress has to operate in all of

that is being held up right now. and anthony, the 2nd reason that this is important is this power struggle tells us a lot about where the republican party is right now. this is again, as i said, a hard right faction of the party. it's a small number of law makers who have a big amount of power over the party on a whole. they want a say over what is happening in the party. what happens in congress. they want to move the party further to the right and the rest of the republicans in the house. they're not happy with them. i mean, they promised voters to take quick action, hold, president biden accountable. they can't get past this step. and this is going to be a problem for the party, especially over the next 2 years looking ahead to the next presidential election, 2024. and this faction has been really supporters of for a former president of donald trump. and he did way in on social media, he actually urged these members to vote for kevin mccarthy. i'll tell you what he said on truth social his as social media platform. he said,

make sure to vote for kevin to close the deal. republicans do not turn a great triumph into it, joined an embarrassing defeat. it's time to celebrate. you deserve it. it's not clear, however, anthony, if those words from president trump are actually going to have enough of an impact o lives on washington dc, yet again, they probably corresponded to me. so just kinda thank you so much. his look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world, rushes president vladimir putin has announced the deployment of new sonic cruise missiles. he said a frigate and with the weapons was now on its way to the atlantic ocean. military is under pressure at home after its worst ever losses. he got from a single cranium attack. as the local reports, enough around say that authorities have released permanent actress had any eligibility on bio. the oscar award winner was arrested nearly 3 weeks ago. after criticizing a crackdown on government protests, she posted at least 3 messages in support of the protest on instagram before her

account was not by me and maria, marking 75 years of independence from britain with the military parade and pardons for thousands of prisoners. it's not clear whether this will include people jail for the same military late us about life plans for elections might have processes. he's his weekly audience, the price, his predecessor bennett. he does a great communicator of the catholic faith. francis is preparing to conduct benedict funeral at the vatican. thousands of dollars paid their final respects afford. the po benedict is also remembered for his work in africa. a 3rd of the population of cameroon is catholic and gave the former pontiff of war . welcome. in the early years of the papacy that his visit was not without controversy. as the deputies place a young reports. reverend father hale, but never was spot or 6 under strong choir thus sent to greet bennett. when he

visited cameroon in 2009, he remembered it well. when i met him in the basilica, oh, from a distance, i could see the humility of a great bustle. oh, some one wor, has the church or has in a certain sense is hoyt at the helm of the church. but the humility of a past door in walking down the aisle and greeting a pew grims, he was been at his 1st visit to africa as poor. he came down in the central african country to a warm reception. but as where the focus was on comments, he had made one to flight. it did a monster pause. i would add that the aids problem cannot be solved by money alone . even if necessary to land america cannot be solved with condom distribution. i'm

supposed to put out a. com that is good condom distribution. only makes matters worse. our men don't know, probably more. lesser is turner versus or the point is remark spock our reach from health organization trying to save lives by promoting condom use. at a time about 22000000 africans, we're living with h. i v and aids normal motor, the competency router, but farther near boss, suppose the puffs message that the best way to stop the spread of each ib include chastity. i fidelity marriage. i do agree with the stance of po benedict, the 16 desperate and distribution of contraceptives increases promiscuity and given the fact that contrast is are not 100 percent efficient because of perhaps a synthetic lapses are. it gives the illusion of pope i get in a safe sex. there are and for us use are widely echoed across the african continent

. it's fair to say poor ben assisting will mostly be remembered here. what a buggy had on the african people with bennett spoke about women's rights violence and he criticized. yep. news on our income. a rule at a time when many after fairly does we're doing all the court to stay in office. need us like his horse, bobby, a host he has the country 40 years after taking office hominy to walk, i do not and got to thinks the poor understood the struggles of young africans. benneditas is not just a speech. our father is staff of a similar morgan poem and it's more of justice for all young people. so mom was there for us as well. us control versus bennett, left africa and mrs. uh huh. how renewal it may be. does that many of the good

number of colleagues on the continent or remember him for a human induced global warming is being blamed for a poor start to the winter sports season. and many of europe's most famous ski resorts, lack of snow means that some have not opened and all of us have had to close or rely on man made snow to cape skis and snowboard is on the slopes. it looks like a summer trip up the mountain, but this is january and europe green grass blankets, hills that should be covered and snow right now. and ski slopes have been confined to a narrow lane. as this bush, it's really weird. everything is green left and right of the slope. if the temperature is of up to 10 degrees celsius, have caused the last snow on these slaves to melt. and what little snow you see here didn't fall from the sky. there the hammer and the 2 had fresh,

natural snow in salem see about 40 centimeters. this will be far too little. so we filled it out with artificial snow because of that we've cope well was here with it won't nickel and the last significant snowfall in the area was at the start of december ski slope operators. a feeling the pinch puts better, helps as a main season. we should be hosting up to $4000.00 guests ambia, but now there's only half of the usual guess. switzerland and france have also been feeling the heat. numerous slopes remain closed over the festive season, forcing holiday makers to consider taking up alternative sporting activities for the for 2 other trulia. on aut arlene, wellington, we hear the news about global warming that i don't know, but the factors that we can't deny it. if i take you out of the burden you sulk and rain instead of snow while by name means comparable to the humanitarian disasters

caused by global warming around the world. the current state of european ski slopes is yet another sign that the climate emergency affects all of us. it's been just over years since the web spice telescope was lords and the detailed images it's delivered. i've been among the most breathtaking pictures of the past year. although the telescope was 14 years behind schedule and vastly of a budget for scientists and star guys's, it's already proved well with the white. the james web space telescope is about $100.00 times more sensitive than it's 30 year old predecessor, the hubble space telescope. and oh, it's mirror is around 25 meters square. it's made up of 18, hexagonal segments coated with a thin layer of vaporized gold that reflects in for red light especially well. the mirrors body is made of beryllium,

a light weight metal that holds its form even an extreme cold hard to believe, but it took only 48 grams of gold to coat all of its segments. remote controlled actuators are mounted on the back of each segment. the small motors can pivot and turn them in 6 directions. the main mirror collects light and reflects it onto a smaller mirror it and turn focus as the light to the telescopes, measuring instruments. probing the universe is mysteries with a hitherto unknown sharpness and clarity and recording stunning images. like this shot of a vast stellar nursery called the torrential, a nebula pat with young stars. or this one from the corina nebula, that has been dubbed cosmic cliffs. there are razor sharp images of

galaxies far beyond our own milky way, like the cart wheel 500000000 light years away, but also magnificent shots from our immediate neighbourhood, the solar system, among them, jupiter, in exquisite detail. and the ringed gas giant, neptune seemingly close enough to touch for months. now the james web space telescope has been revealing the wonders of the universe and unprecedented ways. and this is just the beginning. oh, well eric, fight of sarah kindred and astronomer working for the european space agency in baltimore as a member of the james webb spice mission. i asked her if it was worth if a yes lab was absolutely worth the effort. it was a long ride to get that back and the data that we're seeing on from the telescope, where only one year into this mission and everything that comes back, it's just

a tough stake and quality in depth in detail that we can see. and we're already seeing so many new things in different areas of the universe. and so we're really excited about the rest of the mission and very pleased where we are, the day. the images, the times web produces are being described as windows, into a history of our universe. in layman's terms, and i show you, you're talking to one, what do you see in these images? and how does that help us way understand life, the universe? everything? yes. so astronomy as a science, you know, we don't, we don't work in a lab like a chemist or biologist word. so really for us to learn about the universe, we just have to look all around us. you know, the universe department is all lab. so what we try to do is observe and record lights and as many different ways as we can at different wavelengths all the way

from the radio to the x ray. so what we're seeing with web in the infrared is huge technological stepped forward for that particular kind of life. and so it's kind of opening up a huge new kind of parameter space in terms of how deep we can see in the universe and the level of detail that we can see in the images. so in that sense, it really is a kind of a new window into the universe that's showing us the universe in new and exciting, different ways. and it's giving us new pieces of a puzzle of understanding the physics of everything we see around us. just how much has and it's only been a year, but how much has the web telescope shaken up our knowledge of the universe is history. yeah, that's a great question. i mean, it's still very early days. we are learning a lot about how the tell us the operates and how to get the best quality data out of the observatory. but

what we're seeing so far is just been staggering. the performance is really fantastic. domestic, a lot of things, a lot of new things to learn. there have been some really tantalizing hints that, particularly when we look at galaxies in the very early universe, which is something really well optimized. a study that there may be some challenges to our understanding of what these galaxy should look like. it's really getting us very excited for what new things we will discover in the us to come. it's extremely early days. science progresses slowly. it takes time to understand and interpret what we're seeing. but there's absolutely no doubt we're going to be discovered lots of new things about us. okay, very quickly. it's a hard question to answer quickly. will the telescope help us find life in space? yeah, that's hard to answer quickly, but i mean finding life in space like definitive evidence of life and space. big

dream lee challenging because you have to rule out every other mechanism that could have caused the, the tv tiny signal that you'll see it. and we're definitely doing already is helping us understand better the physics and chemistry of these x a planet to be the planet orbiting other start galaxy every planet we have observed with web, it's already showing us new, different chemistry that we have never been able be before so it's going to give us a really big step towards that goal of finding life and excellently done secondary from the james web space telescope mission. thanks so much. thank you. before we go, he's a reminder of the top story by following for you. the european union is considering tightening restrictions for travelers arriving from china because of rising cove igniting infections by ging says, the entry curves imposed on the citizens by some nations are unreasonable.

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