unleash on violet pass and re imagined these teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on d. w. ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin new death sooner, ron's cracked and on descent. as the islamic republic hangs, 2 more prisoners detained during nationwide. protests in all 4 have now been put to death and many more are facing execution. also coming up. so i do. congratulations. i've done after 15 ballads, republican kevin mccarthy wins

a vote to become speaker of the us house of representatives. but his concessions to hold out could have repercussions around the world. and the rest of an alleged cartel leader in mexico, turns a city into a war zone, leaving a trail of destruction and dozens dead. mexico deploy hundreds of police and military to reign in the violence. ah, a michael. ok, welcome. iran has executed. 2 more men involved in anti government, protests state media said the 2 were hanged in the early morning. it said they had been convicted of killing a security official. their execution follows that of 2 other men hanged last month

. amnesty international had described the trials as a sham, designed to intimidate protesters. for more on the story, we are joined now by journalists and middle east expert gilda. so he b, whose long been covering the protests in iran, killed up. what do we know about the men who were executed today? ah, one was mama, matey cat at cat, and he is a was 22 years old. he was a karate am champion, and iran. and the other one was say it, my mom was saying he was 39 years old and he was a worker and upholstered company and he had mental and mental disease. he was taking excited trucks and they were both tortured in prison. that's when we know do, do we know if there they were people that the government had been targeting, had to had their eyes on not before. know like most of the protesters that,

that the, facing the death penalty. and that happened that sentence. they were just randomly part of either part of the protest or not even that forensic science, or one of those to the 39 year old. he was just walking this and this morning towards a cemetery where he wanted to am griffith to slay parents this on the morning of the 3rd of november. and he got into this place area where this procedure was a leaded to killed and only for being there. he was taking you taken in and he was tortured. and all these confessions with which are now not real confessions, they are just like tortured out of his people. and none of these people who were in hank now and who are still pacing death of that sentence had anything to do with any crime gilder. as you well know, human rights activists shay these executions are clearly intended to silence political opposition and discourage the protesters. in fact, how successful is this approach?

for instance, today, i think it's a very strategic timing of the regime tomorrow is gonna be the 3rd and, and like anniversary of the anniversary. but the 3rd time that 33 years ago, the shooting down of the plane, the cree, ukrainian machine by the revolutionary guards. and it happened in 2020. and so to more all over the world and also in iran, a lot of people want to protest this because of this. and so to day it, just the hangings to day our own mean of this regime to stop the protests. what i have been hearing since the 1st hanging since the 1st executions in december and also this morning talking to friends in iran is that they are just in shock of course, but also really, really angry because the regime just keeps killing young people. most of the people who are on death row right now are really young people and most of the protesters have been killed or young people or even children. so i can see that there is a lot of anger and i do nothing that the strategy mother didn't resume is actually

going to work. do the we have less and half a minute. but i do want to ask you to your knowledge, how many other people are currently facing the threat of execution? we don't know the number exactly. amazon nash international said last month, 24 people are still facing executions. i believe it. there are more because we have 18000 posters who are in prison right now. and from a lot of them we don't even have news. we don't know what's going on. so i believe that there more than these $24.00. that is a journalist killed us. so he be many, many thanks for your time and perspective. thank you. the us house of representatives finally has a new speaker. kevin mccarthy has been elected to the post after days of turmoil. the republican were sworn in after he won on the 15th ballad. he faced fierce resistance from members of his own party. mccarthy finally clinch victory with 216

votes, but has been forced to compromise his agenda to right wing hardliners to secure the when without a speaker the house has been unable to swear in new members or proceed with any business. the small group of republican holdouts angered many within their own party, and during the 14th vote, things nearly got physical. when representative mike rogers to burly fellow seen there walking up in the middle of the shot, got into a heated discussion with one of the main obstructionist mac gates. rogers had to be pulled back from lunging at gates. the florida congressman refusing to vote for mccarthy at one point, even caching his ballot for former president donald trump. the after the longest fight for the house speakership in over a 160 years, mccarthy finally made it across the finish line. 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. our system is built on checks and balances. it's time for us to be a check and provide some balance the president's policy. let me be very clear, we will use the power of the purse and the power of the subpoena to get the job done. the change in house leadership is likely to have implications. extending far beyond the united states, including the war in ukraine, says our washington correspondent, michelle yellow cushion. 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 any more. so this makes the life of do biden harder when he vowed at ukraine that he would do

whatever it takes. although we do expect there should be solid funding to go forward, we expect yet more high drama when it comes to policy areas that also even impacts and the war in ukraine and 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 if you on china to the war here in ukraine. now, a unilateral russian ceasefire ordered by vladimir putin in ukraine 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 the cranium capital. as the start time of

moscow's declared cease fire approached people here saw numerous missile attacks over the new year's period and expectations were low. they will go and lie, think their 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. john, whatever they promised they don't deliver. them, they said they wouldn't be a ward of you live, they say one thing one day and another the next of those. we don't trust them when they would end 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 rained 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, the self proclaimed donuts 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 elizabeth again, 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 there was the unilateral cease fire, would have been the 1st complete loan 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 the ceasefire with our corresponded in keith, max and michael. so i think it's really important to reiterate that this cease fire was announced one sided. it was you uni lateral announcement by the russian side in the, the ukrainian side was very quick to dismiss it as a what they call it, a manipulative diversionary tactic. so the fighting appears to have continued

a we to sought in the report that have been some attacks on ukrainian cities. there has been exchange of showing a, along the eastern ukrainian frontline, and the russian side claims that they downed a ukrainian drone over crimea. now ukraine did not confirm this. they haven't done this in the past, but there have been attacks drone attacks by ukraine on, on crimea in the past. but all in all bottom line is that it seems that to the fighting at here in ukraine, the does continue and the ukrainian defense minister justice morning came out and made an announcement saying that fighting in fact, continues at routine levels. so there doesn't seem to be a ceasefire here at o. d w's max xander. mexican officials now say dozens of people were killed during thursday's capture of a ledge cartel leader of video guzman, the son of the infamous imprison drug, lord, known as el chapa,

10 soldiers and 19 suspected gang members were killed during the operation in the city of quill yukon, a heavy police presence in the mexican city of coolio. khan. reinforcements keep pouring in. the arrest of drug kingpin or video guzman prompted a violent response from mexicans. infamous sina lorca tell piece has been restored for now, but at a price $10.00 soldiers and a policeman died and thursdays, 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 as a viola. we also regret all other losses. it had been lemon thumb starla. dennis here what the cocktail members shot at army helicopters with heavy machine guns in

a bit to stop guzman from being flown out. they also attack 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, good lady wouldn't go. 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 i lease as young a botched arrest in 2019 and with police releasing guzman pictures here, asking violence, spiraled out of control. having stirred the hornet's nest,

once more security forces managed to come out on top this time. and we'll have to end it there up next shift with the report on the connection between pornography and suppressing information on protests in china. remember, there's much more news for you on our website. that's d, w dot com. and you can find us on twitter or instagram. the handle is, as you may have guessed at d. w. news a michael. ok. thanks for watching. more news and 45 minutes. ah, the question of the question about life, the universe and everything. do you know the answer? well man did it here. 42.