ah ah ah ah ah, this dw news lie from berlin a 2nd day of chaos in the us congress. republicans fail to break a historic deadlock over a new house speaker right wingers have so far blocked the front runner of kevin mccarthy. he appears to be heading for defeat in a 6 round of voting. also coming up,

the european union wants to tighten the rules for travelers from china. officials are calling for pre flight covered 19 checks and mandatory face masks. to tackle rising infections. and russia deployed new hypersonic cruise missiles, as ludovic putin's armed forces come under a growing pressure over setbacks on the battlefield in ukraine. ah, i'm the cough really. it's good to have you with us. the lower house of the u. s. congress remains in deadlock after another failed attempt to elect a speaker of the house of representatives. as 6 round a voting is now taking place. these are live pictures you're seeing here. previous rounds ended in defeat for republican kevin mccarthy. some 20 right we members of his own party continue to block his election even after former president donald trump appealed to them directly to support mccarthy. jeffrey miller.

and he w correspondence to me, so mascot at join me from washington. she's following all of this very closely. so me this thinks mode is taking place. now, what's the latest? nicole reminds me of that saying it's deja vu all over again. we've seen another round of voting and right now the numbers don't appear to really be budging at all . what we are hearing is that republicans or representatives might decide to adjourn after 6 round of voting and then pick it up again on thursday. republicans are saying that is likely, but if you're keeping record that would be 2 days and 6 rounds of voting and pretty much the same result. and what we're seeing is tensions are really rising in the house among republicans, especially among those who want kevin mccarthy to accept his fate and step aside and let someone else be nominated. but also against other of among other

republicans. we're saying we need to get something done here. we need to come together and move the needle somehow. right now though, where things stand is that there is still no consensus among republicans on who they want to be the speaker of the house. and even though there is a lot of horse trading and wrangling happening on the sidelines between each vote, no candidate seems to be able to get a majority. this has been going on for a long enough for us to start running out of metaphor is right. it's data ruins groundhog day. how much longer can just go on? well, this hasn't happened in a century, so lawmakers themselves, this is new to them. and the last time this happened a century ago, nicole, they went 9 rounds of votes. but what we do know is they do need to select a speaker, so as we understand they will try to keep voting until they find one. there have been some reports here that after adjourning there will be a lot of huddling and negotiating happening to try to actually make changes and that there might be some progress. a could be that kevin mccarthy might not be the

candidate who becomes the speaker because other candidates are seen as a better proposition for the republicans that could possibly break the deadlock to, to put forward a different candidate. but right now, to your question, it could go on to another several rounds of votes until they land on someone who everyone can agree on. that obviously, there are many pressing issues for representatives to be getting on with. but what can the house actually accomplish at the moment while it's in this gridlock? they're stuck, nicola, this is supposed to be the 1st thing that they do is to elect a speaker of the house. there was a lot on the congressional agenda affecting both domestic and international policy and all of it is on hold right now. even the swearing and of all the new members of congress is on a hold. they've just been sitting there and waiting and voting essentially. and that has a lot of people frustrated on both sides of the aisle. they want to see something change, so that congress can actually move forward and take action. and president biden himself wants to see that happen. he was asked on

a wednesday what he makes of this power struggle in the house of representatives. and he said, this is embarrassing for him that america can't seem to get congress to work. so that sentiment seems to be a certainly growing here in washington. and i'm sure voters are not loving what they're saying. thank you so much. d, w correspondence. and we some was kind of in the european union. once people traveling to europe from china to produce negative coven 19 tests, a for boarding flights. the ease crisis response group is also recommending that all passengers should wear face masts on flights to and from china. britain, the united states, india, austrian, japan already restrict travelers from the chinese mainland. beijing has vehemently rejected travel restrictions against it and is planning to ease its own travel rules. further, despite surgeon corona virus infections, a 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 variant 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 sign to effect basis. and some of these excessive practices are unacceptable. we are firmly opposed to attempt to manipulate the cove at 19 measures for political purposes and will take counter measures affecting 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 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 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. professor steven bancwest is an expert on biology and head of the belgian institute for health. a short while ago, i asked him about the ease discussions on coordinated entry restrictions on travelers from china. well, it's, it all has to do with a lack of transparency and a lack of trust. i think that's really the issue here. we have difficulty in believing the figures from china. and there are also some distrust that maybe we are not fully aware of what kind of a variety of the fighters are circulating over there. and it's really this,

these distrust which is a public sensitivity and also a political sensitivity. and i think this is really what he's playing here and we in belgium, we proposed that it would be good not so much to impose restrictions. but specifically, when people return from china and did the philip symptoms, we didn't, we didn't one week after returning from china, they always get tested. and we also try to characterize the fighters that they have been infected with as a way of doing an independent control to see what kind of mutations are circulating in china. and whether discourse pulls with the data the china is giving us. so that is important. i think do this independent check or surveillance, but for me really restrictions or even asking vaccination certificates and the pre departure testing requirements. i think there are of relatively limited cell,

you know, with stevens and growth of the belgian institute for health. russia's president vladimir putin has announced a deployment of new hypersonic cruise missiles. he says, of forgets and armed with the weapons is now on its way to the atlantic and a show of force. russia, china, and the united states have been in a race to develop hypersonic weapons, highly desirable because of their speed. ant maneuverability. by a video link, russian president vladimir putin joined a sending of ceremony for a new frigate equipped with missiles. but, but the celebration looks like a distraction tactic off to russian troops suffered heavy losses in her son. and my give her the criticism of the military's leadership is mounting. moscow says 89 russian soldiers were killed in my keefe. k dozens, more than the death till it initially announced its thought the men were killed in the school building where they were staying in part of a russian controlled area of east in ukraine. military officials say the soldiers

themselves were partly to blame. moses is just such a commission is working to investigate the circumstances of the incident. but it's already obvious that the main reason for what happened was the switching on and massive use contrary to the ban of mobile phones by the troops who were in the zone of enemy weapons. yep. this allowed the enemy to locate the troops for a missile strike. okay, okay, i will do like karen samara on tuesday, people around russia a morning, the dead investigations by the military's commission ongoing. meanwhile, some politicians on military commentators of venting that anger at the russian military leadership on the online service telegram and calling for revenge. deputy do my speaker andre met viet if says housing, troops and buildings rather than bunkers is akin to helping the enemy and well rush as steps up its attacks on ukraine civilian infrastructure. it plans to protect

itself within you hypersonic missiles system with no if you're just go and i am sure that such powerful weapons will make it possible to reliably protect russia from potential external threats to receive them. and so when you see who's with that, put in, sent off the new frigate and it's hypersonic cruise missiles for now on a training mission. and i asked you to be a correspondent, uria shadow in riga, who the critics of the military and russia are. and what exactly they're saying, look at the larger the disaster, the great as the criticism of what happened in new juris day is not only as a huge dimension for the russian army, but also for russian society. reportedly the victims were manly mobilized soldiers of those are soldiers who obviously didn't go to war voluntarily. alternately, their loved ones might be very angry now and because there was so many casualties, even the tied to live to minister of defense can't cover up the problem. so russian

war reporters, but also bic ventures, political beg ventures are criticizing as the military for the fact that several 100 soldiers, a war gathered in one place and they became easy prey for a mass attack on top of that. the soldiers, while ethical living are now ammunition dump, which may have caused a huge explosion as an minister of defense on the other hand, has fired back blaming the soldiers for using their cell phones when they will not allow to do so. all these sounds like a finger pointing enter, blame shifting, carry re shadow reporting there. a sound. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world to day. french president ammonium icon says his country will deliver a light tanks to ukraine. the announcement came after a phone call with ukrainian president, followed him as the lensky, the mother governments have been reluctant to send similar weapons to avoid risk of escalating the conflict with the ticket. that a fo israel's new government has unveiled a plan to overhaul the country's judicial system and weakened the powers of the

supreme court. the proposed measures would mean the country's parlour and could override some supreme court decisions with a simple majority critic say, the plan will append israel system of checks and balances and undermine its democratic institutions. here induced global warming as being blamed for a poor start to the winter's board season in many of europe's most famous ski resorts, lack of snow means some have not opened at all. others have had to close or rely on human, made snow to keep skiers and snow orders 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 a school 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 the slopes to melt. and what little snow you see here didn't fall from the sky near 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 coped well. she had to with it won't nickel mom. the last significant snowfall in the area was at the start of december ski slope operators, a feeling the pinch. pittsville helps as a main season. we should be hosting up to $4000.00 guest severe, 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 to other trivia or not on in volatile. we hear the news about global warming. i don't know, but the fact is that we can't deny it. if i take you out of the burden you fog and

rain instead of snow, while by no 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. and that's all for me for now, daniel and tara will be here with d to leave business next. another top us tech firm is flashing jobs. do stay tuned . for that, for more headlines you can always head to our website. that's as always. fidel utica event. ah, what secrets lie behind these was discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites d w world hair.