a venture full of hardships, dangers, and death. magellan journey around the world starts january 19th on d, w. ah ah, this is g w news. why from berlin? a historic battle for one of the important jobs in u. s. leadership is over after 15 ballots. republican kevin mccarthy, as one vote to become speaker of the house of representatives, will talk about what he had to give right wing, hold out, and how that could shape

u. s. policy. also on the program, no led up in the fighting in ukraine. this find a cease fire proposed by russia. heavy shelling is reported in the countries east have to keep this mrs. moscow's truce announcement as a ploy to reposition its soldiers and the rest of an alleged cartel leader in mexico turned to city into a war zone. leaving a trail of destruction and doesn't stand mexico deployed hundreds of police in military to reign in the vials. ah. in a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael oke, who the us house of representatives, has elected kevin mccarthy as speaker after days of turmoil and 15 rounds of voting . the republican has faced fierce resistance from members of his own party,

resulting in multiple losses. mccarthy clinton victory with 216 votes, but has been forced to compromise on his agenda to secure the when without a speaker the house has been unable to swear in new members or proceed with any business to bring a close to this mini series me her yellow cushions from al washington bureau now joins us mikayla 15 rounds of voting in many ways. a bitter sweet victory for mccarty, but a victory nonetheless, that came with a lot of drama. what can you tell us? absolutely. in the end, the supply, the tightest of margins, it really counted whether those that hard, right wing of republicans, those individual members in the end it was less than a handful who were basically blocking his path to become the speaker. you say i can different deliver closer. well, i can't because this closer will deliver actually an opening into what's this new

house will be like. and what the republican block is likely to be like in the house of representatives that is so important to shape a laws here in the united states and kevin mccarthy, himself. and he really came from a background of having criticized donald trump in the past one. now, and this is the kind of drama we saw, donald trump phoning up those individual members who will, blocking his path to become speaker was not enough. during that 1st school, donald trump is reported to have made to all of them. and so we were all asking ourselves to so while ago whether this could yet again be adjourned. well, it didn't, but it did drag out even longer and went into yes again, an extra round when most analisia and actually the numbers were looking like it could be done in the 14th round of voting so high. a democracy drama here in the

united states. hi drum indeed. i did that new speaker, i suppose we can call him nell, had to make concessions to get this road, given the concessions he had to make. will mccarthy be the weakest speaker in modern history? well the thing is that we don't exactly know which concessions exactly he made when he did. those individual deals with hands sakes at to get the votes he needed. it looks like his art critic is set to become the head of the m defense a committee. so that means he could actually have a huge role, the armed services committee in defining a what policies and what laws it will actually be put forward. this could have an impact on defense spending, also with a view on ukraine. kevin mccarthy,

of course, in the past having said that there won't be any blank checks anymore. so this makes the life of do biden harder when he vowed that ukraine that he would do whatever it takes. although we do expect there to be solid funding to go forward, we expect yet more high drama when it comes to policy areas that also even impacts the war in ukraine. where there is broad support that the u. s. wants to be that staunch ally and pushing back russia with its ambitions in europe and potentially further field also with a view on china. so a kevin mccarthy himself, he criticized donald trump in on january 6th. a windows protest is stormed as the capital here in the united states to the day 2 years ago. then he still backed donald trump, the someone who's gone from being a progressive himself to become a trumpets and then unable to rein in those who have taken

a trump isn't further than double trumpeted himself. so these will be testing times . they will be stormy times here on the hill at the capsule. and at what we got this week is just a taste of what policy making will be like of the coming to years, the last 2 years of do biden's term. and we'll have to entered there that d. w 's, michelle, yellow, coroner, in washington dc. many fact a unilateral russian ceasefire ordered by vladimir putin in ukraine appears to be having little a fat. 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 the cranium 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 no reply. 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 trust them, never. but they do nothing. only join whatever they promised they don't deliver. okay? and they said that wouldn't be award. oh really? they say one thing one day and another the next of those. we don't trust them when it again 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 si. fi 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 al 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. for obvious reasons, we do not consider the leadership of the rest of ukraine to be orthodox. and just as the truce was set to kickin, there were reports of heavy artillery fire from both sides and the eastern town of bach moot. ukraine blamed russia while moscow quickly pointed the finger at keith.

his mother at the beginning was like the fact that the russian military observed to cease fire to day january 6 from 12 pm. moscow time. the key regime continued shelling, residential areas and positions of russian troops like if there is, if there was the unilateral cease fire, would have been the 1st complete laulan 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. early we asked our corresponded in chief sonya santa car about the status of this so called cheese fire. 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 area 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 last for 2 hours and also elsewhere in the country. the ukrainian 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 and come across in the eastern daniel robins. we've also heard off of russian fire, you know, damaging an entire residential neighborhood with many private homes damaged though there are no reports casualties. and of course, as you report mentioned, you know, there's been a, there's been no let up in hostilities on the front line in the east, in the, in the eastern city of buck. ruth, 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 and found of explosions. so i think the cease fire has. yeah, that it seems to have had absolutely no effect. mexican officials now say dozens of

people were killed during thursdays, catcher of alleged cartel, leader of video guzman, the son of the infamous imprison drug, lord, known as al chapa 10 soldiers and 19 suspected gang members were killed during the operation in the city of clinic gun a heavy police presence in the mexican city of coolio. com. reinforcements keep pouring in the rest of drug kingpin of video guzman prompted a violent response from mexico's infamous sinner. lorca toe peace has been restored for now, but at a price $10.00 soldiers and the policeman died. in 3rd place, fighting according to the government lament that most mucho let better be that we regret the loss of lives, of those who died while carrying out their jobs. again, they say that the owner, we also regret all other losses. it can be lemon damaged. all allison,

this is what the cartel members shot at army helicopters with heavy machine guns in a bit to stop guzman from being flown out. they also attacked the cities airport. this footage shows passengers. no commercial flights. ducking for cover as the aircraft is hit by stray rounds. but authorities anticipated problems at the airport and flu guzman to mexico city from another location, is the sort of n as in these criminal organizations shot with weapons at across from the mexican air force. and from commercial airlines and at the international click on add port facilities, golardo woodville. nevertheless, they did not achieve that goal of rescuing the alleged offender who know that because we've taken him down until delinquent as i lucas

a little. so note that he says young a botched arrest and 2019 and with police releasing guzman pictures here, gang violence spiraled out of control. having the hornet's nest, once more security forces managed to come up and talk this time laura colson is director of the americas program. at the center for international policy in mexico city, we asked her how big a blow guzman arrest is for the sin, a lower cartel, the world's most powerful. first of all, it's very important to mention that o b p. o, good man, the son of chapel is not a major leader in the seen a lot of cartel and this, you know, a cartel now has major rivals. it doesn't have 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 deal, man, 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, lora colson, talking to a short while ago. that's all for now. shift with a report on a connection between pornography and suppressing information on protests in china is up next. remember, there's much more news on our website. that's d, w dot com. and you can of course, find us on twitter or instagram. the handle is you guessed it at the w news, i'm michael. ok. more news with me in 45 minutes for every journey. the prizes we've gone all out to give you some test one day in the.