ah ah ah this is the w news live from berlin the 2nd day of bad luck in the u. s. congress. republicans failed to break the empath. so brand new house speaker, party hired line. there's a block front runner, kevin mccarthy, and the sick leadership. also on the program, russia deployed a warship carrying hypersonic cruise missiles for training in the atlantic. mosque

. military leaders come on to growing pressure of a setbacks in ukraine. european union officials recommend travelers from china should have negative coping 19 tests for boarding flight emitter. search in infections and germany's interior minister blames man with a migrant background for violence with other members of the government only has to suit the jump to conclusions. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. we begin in washington where the 2nd dramatic day in the us congress, republicans in the house of representatives, have failed to elect a speaker following a fixed vote. conservative kevin mccarthy, it's better to leave. the republican majority of the house is being blocked by a group of right wing blindness leaves defied an appeal from the former president.

donald trump almost in a coffee, half lawmakers have adjourned until noon on thursday to allow republicans to seek away out of the own pass. mccarthy. but is there a way out we asked our correspondent in washington to me so scandal. we don't know exactly how they're going to solve this crisis. we just know that they're working on it. we've heard rumblings and rumors that kevin mccarthy has been huddling with his critics. those have been standing in his way in the path to be the speaker of the house and tried to crank out some concessions to bring them over to his side. it looks like things might be moving in his direction, but none of that has actually played out into a vote on the floor of the house of representatives. so that means we're going to head into a 3rd day and a 7th round of voting. and some of our viewers might be wondering where does this actually go? what the says, pretty new territory here in modern politics. it hasn't happened in 100 years. so law makers themselves are navigating the situation, but we know they're going to continue to vote until they select

a speaker of the house. that could be kevin mccarthy. it could be someone else. we could just see several rounds of voting ahead of us. but let's see what progress is made in negotiations through the night in the morning. to me, so misconduct in washington or russian president vladimir putin has announced the deployment of an armed warship, veggies, armed with the hypersonic cruise missiles, are to be atlantic. a show of force comes as western allies move towards increasing their support for ukraine by supplying armed vehicles. deployments of the new generation missiles also comes after what's believed to be russia's biggest single military loss, to re ukrainian strike. by a video link, russian president vladimir, who tim joined, the sending off ceremony for a new frigate equipped with miss the celebration, looks like a destruction tactic after russian troops suffered heavy losses in her son. and my case, criticism of the military's leadership is mounting. moscow says 89 russian soldiers were killed,

in my case dozens more than the death till it initially announced it 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. notice each sent you 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. this allowed the enemy to locate the troops for myself. strike. like karen tomorrow on tuesday, people around russia a morning, the dead investigations by the military's commission ongoing. meanwhile, some politicians on military commentators eventing the anger at the russian military leadership on the online service. telegram and calling for revenge. deputy, do me a speaker. andrew met viet if says housing troops in buildings rather than bunker's

is akin to helping the enemy. and while rushes steps up its attacks on ukraine civilian infrastructure, it plans to protect itself with a new hypersonic, missiles system. with through that, you know, just because i am sure that such powerful weapons will make it possible to reliably protect russia from potential external threats and send over us with that, put in, sent off the new frigate on its hypersonic cruise missiles for now on a training mission or from ukraine, from our correspondent roman conch ranko, who's in keith. welcome, roman at the cranium, presidency warning that rushes planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive. and what are you hearing? well yes, we're hearing and such, such statements nearly every day hear from top ukraine and officials from president himself from the ukraine and military. they're saying that russia is preparing an

offensive. nobody won't knows when exactly and at what place and some say that could happen. and maybe in the coming days or weeks, other site would happen in february or march, and the weather conditions are decreasing here in ukraine. so frost is coming with temperature sinking on to minus 10 degrees celsius. and this will make, make it possible for russia to use a heavy tanks, but it will also make it possible for you. great, you have a thanks though, this an escalation possible. as question coming, we don't know that for sure are, and ukraine is also considered. well, russia could strike from the north, from belarus, or from the east at the moment, the heavy fighting continuous, especially in the east, around the city of baltimore. but on the other hand, we hear reports from ukraine and not yet confirmed by independent sources that the ukrainians were able to push back the russian forces in baltimore at least a little right. and that, that talk of taxes is interesting and timely because it does look now as though

france will become the 1st western country to deliver light tanks to ukraine. and how is that likely to change things?

israel's new governments has unveiled a plan to overhaul the judicial system and weaken the powers of the supreme court. if proposals would allow parliament to override some court decisions with a simple majority, critics a, the plan would append israel system of checks and balances and undermine its democratic institutions. anti government protest in peru over the ousting of former president frederick sta resumed. after a brief pause during the past weeks, with sources reported that roads have been blockaded in dozens of provinces, protest as in lima tried to reach congress to demand with resignation of e commerce, joined to amazon, says it'll cut more 18000 jobs. it's given a gave current, economic uncertainty and wrapping the hiring for the pandemic reasons for the letters. and some of the terminations will take place in the company said,

amazon announced at $10000.00 in the event will go now to rome by the funeral of a pope. benedict, the 16th will take place in a couple of hours. thousands of people are gathering at saint peter's square ahead of the funeral, which has been presided over by better success at pope francis. please estimate around a 100000 people will attend some heads of states and royalty are also expected to pay their respects about it. benedict was the 1st german in almost 500 years to have the catholic church. and germany is president frank, about a shy my is due to be there at the ceremony or bring you live coverage out of the funeral, which is set to begin in about an hour. i had a that we can i speak with that jack at paris? who is on the line from rome. welcome a jack about the light. pope said he wanted a simple funeral. what are we likely to see today?

well, it will be rudely, i think, to an external. i look like a feel for a sitting. the vatican has said that the burial of benefit will be a sullen, the marketplace implicity. that will be sort of changes to how the eucharistic structures all continue. but broadly, that will be a lot of people live on foreign dignitaries, all of because of the catholic church and all of that sort of big, big, big faces at the back and we'll be in attendance. so we'll broadly look like a paypal funeral. but saying it has, it would have to stick to the scaled back, said from the, from a religious point of view. and that's what to be marketing. what happens over the last few days we've had the, the laying and state of benefits in where he was dressed in this sort of

paypal road. but he didn't have some of the signifying mom to the 15. so that's, that's kind of being the way that this is happened. but this is the provide over which we get going. and the initial while my now my while you bring to see the night popes that body lying in state and what is the atmosphere at the vatican light? well, i think says sort of an interesting atmosphere in the sense that the stream, the international people from all over the world. but it's descended on the bicycle . you can leave the delegation, some different sex, different parts of the, the catholic church. i'm just the normal people, 200000 people. when to when to see the lying and state in the present. i think there's a 95 year old man here resigned the position in 2013 over ailing

health, so abroad vacuum. it's not between a t t and a really unprecedented period of to being being allies at the same time, but also logs the work that bennett did. he was controversial. he wasn't university love that he was very support especially by the more conservative, more traditional fraction in the catholic church. i think there's a lot of people that are very fond towards him, and a lot of them has been here in the last couple of days and will be attending the funeral. a mocking the policy of someone that was not only opposed to clean being the kind of heavy weight in the catholic church. well, thank you for that. jack. jack park in room. the european union has a greater number of restrictions on travellers from china, in response to a certain coven infections there,

but stopped short of making the restrictions mandatory for member states. recommendations include a, requiring negative cope with 19 tasks from passengers departing from china, as well as a face must be warned on flights to and from china, beijing threatening countermeasures against restrictions which is condemned as discriminatory and not being based on science. get more from our brussels bureau chief, alexandra founded in welcome alexandra. so recommendations rather than mandates. why no more definitive response because member states could not agree whether it is urgent to take action. right now, italy, spain, friends are saying yes it is. they do not trust information coming out of china. they say they want to protect their citizens, and that is why they of them there are already demanding and negative coverage tests from anyone arriving from china. other member states,

such as germany are saying this is not a science based approach to situation. not. it's not as bad as, as it is being pictures other as states are. for instance, austria are hoping for their chinese new year and try a trouble rush to start. they don't want to discourage tourists from china from coming to their country because of course, at that is also important for their economy. right. will the pandemic coverage actually ended in the e. u. we have 7 day averages in germany in france, running at more than 33019000 cases a day. so what a brussels got specific concerns about china? i think that then the major concern is of course, the fear of new variance and there mistrust her of information coming out of china . china was a withholding information at the beginning of their pan deming. and now critics are seeing it's happening again. even experts of their world health organization are

complaining they, china is not very transparent. a bit about what's coming, what's happening in the country that china should be more for, it's coming with sharing data. we know that hospitals and funeral homes in china, china are overwhelmed and still according to official data. they're all in only few official data registered. so i think that they were parents are not trusting that data coming out of china. and that's to me, major reason for their their concerns. thank you so much. alexander alexander, phenomena in brussels. o, here in germany, a health officials are meeting today to discuss how to save the countries health system. waves of winter viruses of push to many hospitals to the edge, forcing the country to face problems that have been accumulating for years. children's hospitals have been particularly hard hit in december, each clinic had on average less than a single available

a bed. or this is largely due to a decades old trend, which has seen the number of children's hospital beds across the country fall from about 31000 in 1992 around 18000 today. so that's despite enormous spending in 2020, the last year for which comprehensive data are available. germany spent 441000000000 euros on healthcare at some most in europe. by far. meanwhile, many doctors and nurses are leaving the service governments study predicts that 9000 people are quitting the medical profession every year in an aging society that will require more medical care in the future. and one big effect will be the closure of many clinics in rural areas. and nurse dagmar is working days in this hospital are numbered. st. joseph's hospital in the rural ad now area is set to close soon. and best of the put

a jacket over her husband was very worried that she'd freeze before getting home if more than 50 other hospital employees are also affected by the closure. yet often one saturday from we all have our families living here and there won't be any more emergency care on site here. and there's actually a lot of fear sick horse during the week. there's only one ambulance to serve. 15000 people, the nearest hospitals are at least a 30 minute drive away. and st. joseph is just one of many hospitals that are closing this year on average one hospital in germany closed down every month. many have to few patients combined with high maintenance costs and staff shortages. okay. that's who clunky a few do you? there's a lot of discussion regarding more remote areas. doctors are also increasingly unsure about going to small towns and villages because they're worried that these

might have no future company. not that combination just makes it incredibly difficult. she'll like us to be in the hospitals. parent company is working with the mayor and other local stakeholders to provide medical care on site. but in just a few weeks, the company will leave. but i'm at the residence here down that's long enough to put real solutions in place. dozens gather in the town market square to fight for their health care. because that's where tax the side it a high time to stop thinking that people in rural areas are 2nd class citizens and to stop treating them that way or taxpayers and have the same right to health care as city dwellers, lately for long before got involved, lima she's not the only one who's angry and concerned, including you and both ankles. our region needs a hospital in one fella, accidents happen to us. it gets slippery and people fall. people have heart attacks

like everywhere in the world, their mothers who want to give birth. where should we go? was on in me a good time. the system at the heels rotten about it because i've worked at this hospital for 31 years. i can't, and i don't want to move away from here to be closer to work or to access health care would i is on type issue resolved for better or for worse. many people here will have to turn to other clinics in the region. few believe that there will be a solution anytime soon. ah, we can take a closer look at this river, andrew. all man who's a doctor and a member of the german parliament for the business from the f d p, which is our coalition partner in the government. good morning, welcome to the w, dr. almon. could you help us understand ones? what looks like a discrepancy? many hospitals with too many patients and staff shortages while at the same time, hospitals, in, for example,

a rural areas are having to close because they have to few patients. and of course, the cost therefore to high well, we have different problems our health care system in germany. and it was really neglected for it for many years, basically for decades by the previous governments. and what we now need is a revolution of our health care system. i'm talking about health care system because there are 3 levels of health care that are very important for 1st of all, of course the in patient care of the hospital care, the ambulatory care, the outpatient care, and a 3rd level is the emergency care. and there's a big discrepancy of how we spend our money. we have one of the most expensive systems of the world. i think only the united states are more expensive compared to the population here in germany. and it's very inefficient. we have to also see that there are many inpatient these in the hospitals that are not necessary that could be done in the ambulatory care. and we have to now switch those systems

around ambulatory care to have more ambulatory carrying instead of inpatient care. and this system is the revolution that we're starting right now. and we also have to ensure that the sectors are more open because we have a very strict sector and a separation of our health care system with hospitals and the ability care and the emergency systems. and we have to bring them together as a network to work better on the same time. we also see in the hospitals. however, the, the pain or the, the amount that is being paid is not enough. because there are restrictions a budgetary restrictions, and the frustration of the medical staff is very high and low people are leaving the hospitals because they say they can take it any more. and these are the things that we're now changing and to day in berlin. we have a conference call with the states of germany and get that together. and so a quick would that about what is prevented these changes from being made given mass

as you, as you say, that they've been in the system for so long. i think the emotional situation is making a lot of a german angst as like to call it and that a lot. politicians are free to change the system because they are afraid not to be reelected. there's, there are a lot of things that have to be done here at hospitals have to be more efficient after better care, we have to increase our emergency systems and see that the outpatient care is also deal with. and these a lot of the problems that we have to solve. ok, thank you for that, doctor german lawmaker andrew almon. thank you. new year's eve here in germany is a rodney and rowdy night, especially here in berlin, after dozens of police and firefighters were injured in attacks involving fireworks debates, raging about who's to blame the cities mass. calling for a summit on how to deal with a violence amongst young people. but comments by the countries,

the interior minister suggest failures in migration and integration could be partly responsible riot like seeds in the heart of berlin. the ushering in the new year escalated into street violence in many cities across germany. as usual, berlin was one of the main hotspots with the intensity of this years. violence was described by police as far worse than in previous years. police officers were among those attack during the night, along with fire fighters, another member, so the emergency services one fire fire to had to be hospitalized. many others were injured. in berlin, a 145 were rested in connection with the rights of those detained. 45 german citizenship in that's turned the debate from a potential banner pyrotechnics into one about migration and integration. in a sweet germany's interior minister nancy face are said. we have

a problem in major german cities with some young men with an immigrant background who despise our state, commit acts of violence and it's very difficult to reach them with the education integration programs. the statement is said arts with another wise cautious approach by the german government let for victo an ortho course. the debate about what happened on years eve, but it's not about the so called immigration background, or the demand for ban on firecrackers hinder wonder what it's about is much more fundamental. this is about an attack on the rule of law to the registered other members of the governing coalition have warned, against jumping to conclusions. it's blowing 9th, and we've never seen a phenomenon like this before. men's got at least not to this extent. i'm at home. and so of course i have a problem with a response like this in the mean. it's hardly a just description, totally discuss people of an immigrant background, attacking emergency workers and stuff. in amps,

these are log i shot that english that the scobee finished understand. precedence of brilliance, no couldn't. district are not surprised that the violence flared up in their neighbourhood. but he has his absence. this part of berlin is the worst in these high rise buildings. i'm speechless. it's the same every year as of the burn trash cans, set cars on fire or smash bus stops to stella get caught, put up one job and hustle. will some do it because i hate the police some because i think it's fun. most so angry because of cove. it's more for some people. it's in the nature much. i'm into it because it's waste of money ish, mothers to one. to use fireworks. let them bundle up, my friends are into it like tomato, my, the finances all summer. and it's nice to let the fan down again. it's kind of normal for berlin, bumping to las vegas muscle. on this gum somalian, ben berlin's mayor, francisco, if i has called to summit against youth violence,

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