and me imagine dolly's teachings for relevance to. ah, gandhi's legacy starts january 20th. come on d, w ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news live from berlin, no let up in the fighting and ukraine despite a ceasefire proposed by russia. heavy shelling is reported in the countries east after keith dismisses moscow's truce announcement as a ploy to reposition and soldiers also on the program. in the united states,

kevin mccarthy inches closer to becoming speaker of the house of representatives. the republican congressman wins the votes of some hard right whole doubts, but again appears to fall short of the majority. he mexican security forces capture, the son of the drug, kingpin known as al chapo, the operation these dozens dead, including at least 10 mexican soldiers. ah, i'm nichol fairly to those of you joining us on p b. s from the united states and all our viewers around the world. welcome. it's good to have you with us. we start with the lead is from the ground of ukraine. we're a unilateral of russian ceasefire ordered by vladimir putin appears to be having little effect. heavy shelling from both sides has been reported along the front lines in eastern ukraine that despite moscow's claims, it would observe

a 36 hour christmas truce. keith, which never agreed to the cease fire, has dismissed russia's offer. as a trick, skepticism was running high and ukrainian capital. as the start time of moscow's declared cease fire approached people he and saw numerous missile attacks over the new year's period and expectations were low. oh, never fly. think this cease fire is irrelevant as it will only be another chance for the russians to attack ukraine with missiles. 3 gentlemen with alliance, weekly, missouri. you can never chassy them never but they do nothing to join whatever they promised. they don't deliver them because they said they wouldn't be a war. how every live, let say one thing, one day and another the next of those. we don't trust them when it over then

shortly after it was announced on thursday, keith rejected the truce saying it was a stunned by moscow to buy time to reinforce troops before the cease fire was due to come into effect russian missiles writing down on the southern city of his own ukrainian authority, say one rescue worker was killed and for others injured. and in the east of the country, rockets slammed into a residential building in the city of climate hoist. many of the units fighting for russia in the dumbass said they would not recognize the ceasefire in a message published online. dennis, pushin the head of the self proclaimed don, it's people's republic rhodes that can be no talk of any truce. our president's decision as an orthodox person refers to the orthodox people who go to church to attend the service on the feast of the nativity of christ. and just as the truce was set to kickin,

there were reports of heavy artillery far from both sides in the eastern town of pa moot ukraine blamed russia while moscow quickly pointed the finger at keith. his mother elizabeth in it was like the fact that the russian military observed to cease fire to day january 6 from 12 pm. moscow time the cave regime continued shelling, residential areas and positions of russian troops like you feel as if you're worth the unilateral cease fire would have been the 1st complete lewellen fighting since russia invaded in february 2022. but keith says the only way to restore peace in the country is for russian troops to leave ukraine for more on this way can cross now to cave and speak to dw correspondence on your father, kara sonya. good to see you. what more can you tell us about the status of this

very, very of brent elsie's fire? well, that is too, it's been a very shaky ceasefire and hasn't really held, you know, i mean, less than an hour after that cease fire was supposed to take hold. we saw this white spread our air read alert across almost almost across the country in the cave region, but across the entire country. and even though there were no actual mythics strikes, these arid alerts, a can be very disruptive. we. we saw people scrambling to get to eric shelters, and that area to load lasted for 2 hours and also elsewhere in the country view created media has been reporting off of incidence that the governor of the city of care on, in southern ukraine has talked about one rescue worker being killed after a russian forces. he said, you know, shell, the fire station in come a task in the eastern daniel robins. we've also heard off of russian fire, you know, damaging an entire, a residential neighborhood with many private homes damaged, though there are no reports of casualties. and of course, as you report mentioned, you know, there's been a,

there's been no let up in hostilities on the frontline in the east, in the, in the eastern city of buck worth in particular which, where we're seeing some of the bloodiest fighting in this campaign. residents have told ukrainian media that, you know, there has been no pause in the sound of fighting in sound of explosions. so i think the cease fire has yet, though it seems to have had absolutely no effect. ukraine says it's applied, joe biden says it's voting. buying time, what would you say was behind the announcement? well, russia says, you know, it announced the screws because it wanted orthodox christians who lived in and around the front lines. it wanted them to, to, you know, have a proper holiday and go to church. but of course, this argument has really been blustered by the ukrainians. it's been met with a lot of skepticism, a lot of derision, president zalinski saying, you know, russia really using christmas of the cover to, you know, kind of hold to the advance of the ukrainian military in the east. we've also heard

other ukrainian officials seeing that this is really an excuse my russia to, you know, regroup its forces of the east launch, maybe relaunch friends, fresh offensive operations. and the feeling here is that, you know, you cannot when you speak up a truce to russia, really withdraws its troops from the territories that it's occupied in the thought and the east. and you quinn's position who has really been that it's not possible really to cross russia because in the past, in the recent past it hasn't really upheld any kind of limited localized these fires. you know, for example, it hasn't really allowed us for humanity in evacuations or a deliveries to the speech areas like mario sandeval, a car and key. thank you so much and stay safe. meanwhile ukrainian president vollmer zalinski has personally thank chancellor or left shots falling germany's decision to send armored combat vehicles and other heavy equipment to ukraine. the government in berlin said germany, we'll send about 40 martyr armored fighting vehicles by the end of march,

and will also send a patriot missile defense system. the decision came a day ago and what was seen as a major policy shift by berlin. russia has criticized the announcement as a further step towards escalation. earlier i spoke to defense analysts february 14th, who ceo of political consultancy rasmussen, global. i asked him if the new tanks heading to ukraine could be a game changer. and the conflict is clearly a concerted decision by both the united states. france and germany took to cross your threshold here by delivery, not main button tanks, but as close as it gets to main things like some things that will allow the ukrainians to operate more in more consistent areas in this house and in the us. so in that sense, i think this is an important not to say good change, or this is an important step forward to basically prepare the ukrainians for

possibly ukraine and see what comes off and see in the, in the or the stream. our word vehicles and light tanks are one thing that berlin, like other western allies, is still under pressure to send, have a more modern battle tanks. do you expect western allies to shift into that direction eventually? i would hope so because the reality is that for the moment the solution to this coffee is a military solution and unless we're providing ukrainians, we've longer range weapon systems as well as main battle tanks. it's unlikely that would be a good week over in off their territory and fleeting off the cost of the russian activities in the territory to be able to sit down and have a piece of negotiation that would be on ukrainian terms. so i do think this is a pretty just one step towards

a more important decisions to call. but i think it's also an attempt again, by the nato countries to give just, you know, si fi does make a difference. and if indeed they can afford, the more i was a political decision, remember, do you think have a battle things could be instrumental in winning the war, or at least forcing russia to the negotiating table on ukraine's terms? i think what we're seeing since a couple of months is, is it, is it gonna sort of stalemate in the main battle? frogs. and at the same time, the russians having go since the 10th of october, another month or so by engaging these massive rocket, the size and draw strikes over the studio population of critical infrastructure. and to that, frankly, the western response has been pretty muted. a pretty strong declaration, so we have to adjust. oh, really, sorry, supply strategy to allow ukrainian,

again to put an extra cost on the russian activities. and i think these things, but hopefully down the line main. but with a lot of your grants, much more pressure on the russian operation and go to the search for sure that the russians we see more interesting possibly sitting down and having a more open negotiation than what they're doing. now. the fence analysts factories 14. thank you so much. thank you very much. to other news now and republican politician kevin mccarthy has lost a 13th vote to become speaker. the us house of representatives, one of the most important jobs in us politics. this fall is 4 days of failures to garner enough support. the latest votes have shown signs of progress in mccarthy's show down with a group of hard line members of his own party who are blocking his election. mccarthy is the 1st candidate in over

a century who has had to face multiple ballots. the chamber of me cannot move on to any other business until a speaker is chosen. mccarthy, and it seems like groundhog day w washington bureau chief amos pulled joins me from dc and has all the details movement at last, but not enough ink. how do we proceed from here? right, so even though my coffee was able to gain re significant support here in this last bill, it, he still not able to convince enough rebels to vote for him. so this is indeed the 1st time in history. this process goes on for so long, and this sheds not only a dark cloud on the republican party, but you know, also on the democratic institutions here and in the us. and i think we have to keep in mind the really important work can't be done, not only in the districts from the house members from the elected house members, but from an international perspective,

there really is concern that the chamber would not be able to respond to a crisis in this very moment. we're actually thing live pictures of the chamber right now in his mccarthy finally managed to pick up support from several hartline republican rebels blocking his election. and what can he do to convince the handful of holdouts that are blocking his election? yeah, well he pretty much gave everything he had to give his strengthened for he found, for example, the hard liners by promising them that one road is enough to start the process of hosting the speaker. basically kicking him out again and in the split party as the g o p appears to be, this is very likely to happen rather sooner than later. so this weakens his power tremendously. he also promised inc stream right, being house members to be, pardon,

very important committees committees which for example, are in charge of the rules of the house. most importantly for our international audience. again, he promised cab defense spending by $75000000000.00, which will most likely affect the support of ukraine and other international military engagement and 8 the battle, as you say, could be far from over been and just looking ahead, how damaging is this power struggle to the g o p and he was politics and general. yeah, right. as you said, early on, the disposition of the speaker is the 3rd most important position in the house and he really is diminishing and not in the house in the united states. sorry. and he really is diminishing the power of this role. and, and we also, what we're seeing here is that this kind of minority was in the g o. p is really

strong enough to hold the whole party hostage, which makes it very, very difficult. not only here in this very moment to find the speaker, but also in, in the future really to govern for the a g o p, for the republican party. so i think it's fair to say what we're experiencing right now in these last 3 days. might be just kind of a preview from what we will be see over the course of the next 2 years until the next presidential elections in his poll. many thanks. always great speaking to you . you're watching. did it when you knew still the come? oh, we look at the language of bells and why millions of children in spain, we're looking forward to these chime for 1st, some other stories making headlines around the world today. germany has shortly condemned the trial of a jail villa, rosie and noble laureate alice be etzky calling it

a politically motivated show trial. the ascii and 2 other activists are accused of financing anti government protest after the 2020 election, if convicted, they could be jailed for up to 12 years. canyon police are investigating the death of a prominent l. g. b, t campaigner, whose body was found stuffed in a metal box. earlier this week at winchell lobo was a fashion entrepreneur and model human rights groups have decried the killing you as regulators have approved and all time rest drug that's been shown to slow cognitive decline. it was developed by japanese pharma company eyesight and you as biotech from biogen doctor's war and the treatment comes with potential risks and side effects for patient. mexican security forces have captured the alleged cartel leader of video guzman lopez, son of the notorious drug, notorious drug lord known as l chapo authority. se 10 soldiers and 900 criminal

suspects were killed in the operation in the city of coolio con. as cartel members trying to prevent the arrest, the city's airport was even caught up in the violence terrified air passengers dock for coverage. their plane comes under fire during takeoff. outside cooley, a con airport national ramos captured the moment a mexican air force plane was shot at harold of my mouth, destroyed the phrase from super nervous he and hundreds of others took shelter in the airport. as the terror unfolded, the thought on the i was filming when the armed forces arrived here at the airport . and they were welcomed with shops. we tried to leave walking towards a friend's house for them, but we couldn't because they were shot into plane had to take off again in our last

elegant orchestra. unbeknownst to them, their cities most wanted man had just been arrested, unleashing a violent backlash. cart tail foot soldiers set up road blocks and waged war on the police as they try to free their boss right below the rules of life yet. so what is being done? we have 7 state police person injured. we knew that their military personnel also injured, were still working to control the situation. one of our lot of video, guzman lopez, no one as the mouse was previously arrested in 2019 barton, an embarrassment to the mexican authorities. he was later released after the cartel did battle with federal forces. authority see his rearranged lands, a powerful blow. he died in june for that he was a rest roast the result of 6 months of reconnaissance and surveillance work in the

area of influence of this criminal group based where it was known that carried out elicit activities yet. okay. you have other counselors activities are this elicit us officials confirmed guzman lopez was flown to central mexico by nightfall. he was behind bars, transferred to a high security prison outside the capital, his chaotic capture major coup for american unmixed 2nd law enforcement. laura carlson is director of the americas program at the center for international policy in mexico city. and i asked her a short while ago about the situation now after the violence around nicholas months . arrest right now. as mentioned, there are a confirmed 29 people dead on both sides. the identities have not been released. there could be more, there are many people that are hospitalized and severely wounded in the confrontations that took place after his after his arrest. there are at least 5

other mexican states that are on the alert, especially border states, that they're expecting something of a cockroach effect, or the violence to spread over into their own states or taking measures as well. it looks as though most of the road blocks have been lifted according to local reports, however, it's expected that the violence will continue. we know this because of the pattern of violence in other situations. similar situations throughout the history of the war on drugs here in mexico, when a drug lord is taken out in what's called the kingpin strategy, there's almost inevitably an uptick in the violence both localized and eventually on a national level as it causes a fragmentation, a re mobilization of the car tell it causes turf wars. and so we're actually expecting that there will be more violence to come. he allegedly helped run the

scenario cartel for his father al shabbos. of course serving a life sentence in the u. s. sinaloa is the world's most powerful car. tell how big of a blow is guzman arrest for them. we have to put this in the context. first of all, it's very important to mention that video goes man. the son of chapel is not a major leader in the seen a lot cartel and the seen a la carte till now has major rivals. it doesn't help the, the hedge a monic strength that it had in mexico in the past. and so this blow on the level of the cartel hierarchy is not the highest ranks of the cartels. he's not the one who was calling all the shots. in fact, his older brothers are really in a far more powerful position as well as other leaders that were left within the similar cartel. so in that sense, we don't expect to see an immediate dismantling or weakening of this in a low cartel. in fact,

when we look at the overall effect of an act like this of the rest of the video guzman, we expect it to be negative, negative for public security and safety in mexico with no substantial or perhaps even none whatsoever effect on the float on this address to the united states, and this is simply because this war on drugs model of taking out the drug lords while leaving the structures, including the huge demand in the united states in place, doesn't work. it never has worked anywhere and certainly never worked in mexico since it was launched at the end of the year, 2006. and so we really are many experts. and those of us who have been studying this issue for years here in mexico are not expecting a positive outcome from this arrest. unfortunately, what do you make of the timing of this arrest? because joe biden is set to visit mexico in a couple of days. i think the time is it is everything. the secretary of defense

mentioned that they've been working for 6 months on intelligence, but everyone knows where video guzman was. he never left since his arrest in 2019 what we're seeing is that the, the arrest in 2019 was actually a success he was captured. and that was the mexican government that made the decision based on a calculation of widespread violence. and the cost of the civilian population to let him go. the decision in retrospect, was a good. what if you're putting priority on human lives rather than on this cat and mouse game between the cartels and the u. s. and mexican governments over the past years, which as i say, as lead to no positive outcomes either in the, in the traffic in of illegal drugs or in public safety in either one of the countries. so this was a timed to be really

a gift to joe biden. president joe biden has been a drug or promoter since his role as vice president. he has rejected public health solutions to the problem of illicit drug use and traffic in and he has, he's the architect of plan colombia and he's been very firm in enforcing the same model failed model in mexico and in central america. so the mexican government can now say, see, we're not soft on these cartels. we captured one of the persons who had been, if you had a 5000000 dollar reward on him from the state department, and they'll be able to use that as leverage and some of the other negotiations. but it's not a good calculation for the populations themselves across and says that this is for show, but it won't change anything. thank you so much. joining us tonight from mexico city, laura, coughing. you any questions around the world or

a celebrating epiphany to day? also known as 3 kings day, among other things at marks. the baptism of jesus christ in the jordan river by john the baptist, according to christian belief. oh, in the greek harbour, city, purell, and elsewhere, believers celebrated by plunging into the water and re thing to retrieve across, thrown by a priest, successfully fetching across from the water as traditionally held to bring good luck and help for the following year. in spain, people have been ringing the grand church bells in obeta. let's take a look. oh, sometimes it requires a fine touch o and sometimes a little more effort. these are the church bells and out by the spam they rang in the new year and announced the death of pope benedict the 16th. but today they are

ringing in the feast of the epiphany. when the bible says the 3 kings visited jesus for many spanish children, that means gifts and so needle. look at this sound, how it feels. it's just fun to announce faith aids for the people for everything. the owner desperate zone us as though this musical language recently came under united nations protection. as part of unesco, intangible, cultural heritage of humanity, lis it has the social's a social function that she does that is connecting all the people together did money regardless of the all her background in about $1000.00 spanish villages. bell ringer sil, worn a fog or fire, or when there is cause for sadness or joy. there now world heritage custodians lady up ortho lacking the it's a joy for all the people who ring these bells in many villages often alone across spain,

audio to day that joy is ringing out to announce the epiphany. and a quick reminder of the top stories were falling for you. there has been no let up in the fighting in ukraine despite a unilateral rush and cease fire announced for friday. keith had rejected moscow's proposed truce as a trick to reposition russian troops and mexican security forces have captured cartel leader of video was man, a son of the drug, lord known as al chapo. his capture comes just days before a visit to mexico by us president joe biden stick around because i'll be back in just a moment to take you through the day hope to see them with

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