for the present, a future that heads filled with ideas. so get ready for the brain update. 40 to the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on dw with ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, a historic banner for one of the most important jobs in us leadership is over. so i do. congratulations. i after 15 ballots, republican kevin mccarthy wins a vote to become speaker of the house of representatives. will talk about what he

had to concede to right wing hold out and how that could shape us policy also on the program. no let up in the fighting in ukraine, despite a cease fire proposed by russia. heavy shelling is reported in the countries east after keep dismisses moscow's truce announcement as a ploy to reposition it. soldiers and the rest of an alleged cartel leader in mexico, turns his city into a war zone, leaving a trail of destruction and dozens dead. mexico deployed hundreds of police and military terrain in the violence. ah, a warm welcome to our viewers round the world. i'm michael ok. the us house of representatives finally has a new speaker. kevin mccarthy has been elected to the post after days of turmoil.

the republican was sworn in after he won on the 15th ballad. he faced fierce resistance from members of his own party. mccarthy. finally claimed victory with 216 votes, who has been forced to compromise his agenda to secure the when without his speaker the house has been unable to swear in new members or proceed with any business. in his speech, after he took office, mccarthy said it was time to move beyond the divisions of the past few days. you know, my father always told me it's not how you start. it's how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. now the hard work begins. what we do here today. next week, next month, next year, we'll set the tone for everything that follows. a speaker, the house,

my ultimate responsibility is not to my party, my conference or even our congress, my responsibility, our responsibility country michelle yellow cook know, has been covering the leadership struggle from our washington bureau. and i asked her if this was a bittersweet victory for mccarthy. absolutely. in the end the, it's a boy the tightest of margins. it really counts. it's where the those, that hard, right wing of republicans, those individual members in the end it was less than a handful who are basically blocking his 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 will 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 analysts, he 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 drama. 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 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 to get 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 the capital here and united states to the day 2 years ago. then he still backed donald trump's. he's someone who has 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 enter there that d w's me. hello kutner, in washington, dc, many facts. and now to the war here in europe, 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 dismiss 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 so numerous missile attacks over the new year's period and expectations were low. oh yeah, no,

go. i lie. think this cease fire is irrelevant as it will only be another chance for the russians to attack ukraine with missiles. but i get them. what are the weekly unit? you can never trust them, never. but they do nothing to join whatever they promised they don't deliver them. they said they wouldn't be a ward of the live. they say one thing one day and another the next of those. we don't trust them in 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 roads. there 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 in the eastern town of bok. moot, oh, ukraine blamed russia while moscow quickly pointed the finger at keith it's well known as the beginning. it 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 you're what 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. i talked about the status of this is fi without corresponding in keith max sander the re max hall. mean we just heard it in the report. this the, the cease fire is a, was a one sided announcement by the russian cy, keith never agreed to anything, in fact, that they were quickly to, to react to it and, and call it a manipulation by the russian side. and there has been us, there have been some heavy attacks on ukrainian cities, a in, in the east yesterday. and even during that, after the cease fire would have kicked in numerous reports of outgoing fire

exchange of artillery fire, both from ukraine and on the russian side. around the town of buffalo, but also other places along the front line. now the russians are claiming that they're merely reacting to a violation of this. we call it a so called cease fire by, by the ukrainians. but there is no way for us to to actually i can confirm this. so it does seem that the fighting in the east is still going on and there is no cease fire in place. again, keith says it's a plot. washington says it's putin buying time. what's the sense your getting about that? what the stress is about? right, so the, the russian president and he claimed he was some following a recommendation of the leader of the russian orthodox church to give people in the frontline areas some russian or orthodox people. the possibility to celebrate christmas in peace. and now she talked to ukraine in some they added

a different view on this. some, it's big seen as a ruse, as, as a trick or by the russians or perhaps to, to catch a breath. after having dealt with severe setbacks on the battlefield. to replenish, to bring in fresh troops to bring in fresh weapons and possibly to advance or even, or stop a the ukraine in advance. and i just thought be add to that the ukrainians actually had asked for a ceasefire last year during the celebrations of orthodox easter. and the russians denied this, claiming a just that, that the ukrainians would use a to, to regroup and hit with a stronger force. so there's no, no trust here. um the ukraine is don't, don't trust this. russian sees fire and yet they see it as a. yeah. as, as a m, as a maneuver that is a d w's mac xander in key. as always, many thanks. max mexican officials now say dozens of people were killed

during thursday's capture of a ledge cartel lito a video guzman, the son of the infamous imprison drug, lord, known as al shopper 10 soldiers in 19 suspected gang members were killed during the operation in the city of quill yukon, a heavy police presence in the mexican city of kula. khan. reinforcements keep pouring in the arrest of drug kingpin of video guzman prompted a violent response from mexico. as infamous siena, laura, cato peace, has been restored for now, but at a price $10.00 soldiers and a policeman died in 3rd place. fighting, according to the government lament that most mitchell let better be that we regret the loss of lives. of those who died while carrying out their jobs. they cannot say that the owner, we also regret all other losses. it can be lemon. them install

a la fitness in 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 aircraft, from the mexican air force and from commercial airlines. and at the international click on add port facilities, good luck, it wouldn't. but nevertheless, they did not achieve that goal of rescuing the alleged offender who know that i don't because we as 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, as gang violence spiraled out of control. having stood the hornet's nest, once more security forces managed to come out on top. this time. that's all for now . up next dog film presents the 1st part of endless war. looking at the origins of the conflict between iran, israel and the united states, a michael oak, who in berlin, i'll be back with more news. in 45 minutes. departure into the unknown. to day. this means flying to a foreign planet in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route.