oh, imagine that these teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on b, w ah ah, this is d w's live from berlin, new deaths in iran's crack down 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 in worse guard ukraine, orthodox christmas is celebrated on both sides of the front lines. even if

a holiday truce declared by russia hasn't stopped the violence. so i do. congratulations, john. after 15 ballots, republican kevin mccarthy wins a vote to become a speaker of the us house of representatives. but his concessions to hold eggs could have repercussions around the world. ah, i'm pablo folios. welcome to the program. ran has executed to man 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 at last month. amnesty international has described the trials as a sham, designed to intimidate protesters. well in the studio with me is

helga lambert. he is a member of the german parliament and a political sponsor for a 100 navy kurama held up. welcome to d. w. now as i've just mentioned, you've been actively campaigning a suppose against the execution of mohammed medic, ramey, devastating news obviously. and what will your next steps now be? of course it was a shocking, a terrifying moment this morning when they got the news from iran. but the regime won't to reach what they want to reach that we be quiet nor we in germany will be quiet. neither the people in iran or anywhere else in the world will be quiet to this violation of human rights. have you been in contact with his family? and i am. i don't want to talk about the details in this situation because of course, you know, you don't know what to which consequences it was would have an iran. let me say

that there is a group of democratic activists in berlin and germany who have contact to people in iran. and they organized and match this a political on the ships. tell us a little bit about this political sponsorship because you're one of many political sponsors, as you mentioned, tear in the german parliament, tell us what they're actually entails. the political sponsorship is so one possibility to take action for us as individual members of parliament to, to make sure that there is public on the, on the special cases. because what the regime want us to, to oppress the opposition country without international public. and we try to make it public to bring it to the world. what happens in the run and to bring the names to the faces of activists and iran were tortured, were imprisoned, were an unfair trials. and so,

so not to allow the regime to were to press in silence the you impose new sanctions on iran in december and we're seeing people being executed, which is what we're discussing today. and obviously that's horrendous. what's happening there. but i want to know how effective are the sanctions that sanction, so always something for the long run the long run, not for a short term. so of course it's a, it's ongoing process to always see what new sanctions can be set on iran, on a person's of iran regime of the security of the security services at the run. so let me say, of course we will keep in mind that these new executions and always discuss with new sanctions. we can set 2 people in the one with the government of iran. well,

that brings me on to the next question. what can we expect from say, the german government and the you in response to what we're seeing, taking place in around at the moment, the german government and the u. s. whole have never been quiet sort of situation in the run. and of course, especially our foreign secretary, the establishing of human rights for which are are, which are valid all over the world as well in the run is very important, a very important factor in our foreign policy. so of course, this new executions will have consequences at the moment that is not pretty clear which on the goods accept that will be what there will be consequences. we won't be quiet, the german government, nor the you will be quite to this violation of human rights held in board member of the german parliament and political sponsor for mohammed maybe try me. thank you for joining us on d. w. thank you very much. the us house of representatives finally has

a new speaker. kevin mccarthy was elected to the post after days of turmoil. the republican was sworn in after facing fierce resistance from members of his own party. mccarthy clenched victory with 216 votes, but has been forced to compromise his agenda to secure the when the animal kevin mccarthy, of the state of california, heaven receive. a majority of the votes cast is duly elected. speaker of the house of representatives. after days of deadlock and 15 rounds of voting, kevin mccarthy finally secured enough support to land the 3rd most powerful job in us politics. the republican struggle to win the votes needed for a majority as an arch conservative faction of his party held out there were heated scenes in the chamber when mccarthy supported mike rogers almost

came to blows with fellow republican mat gates. ah, after taking the oath of office install, mccarthy swore in new members of the house elected in last november's a mid term elections to the same as your chess speaking shortly afterward, emily mccarthy gave a controversial bank to a former president of age. i do want to, especially thank uh president trump. i don't think you should edge, anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote the down while you was there and he was all it. but these celebrations over the combination of this protracted leadership struggle

a likely to be short lived. mccarthy had to concede some powers to those in the right of his party. who will now have an inflated influence on big ticket issues, including government budgets, immigration policy, and how much congress is prepared to spend to continue to support ukraine. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. demonstrators have blockaded high waste throughout peru as on rest continues following the ousting and arrest of president pedro castillo. in december, they called for his release the resignation of his successor, deena bold. why did they and constitutional reforms, the protests restarted following a christmas. lo, china has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1000 critics of the government's policies on the coven. 19 i break. the ruling communist party

ended its harsh locked ends, quarantine measures and mass testing last month, leading to a search, a new cases that have stretched medical resources to their limits. the un has called on authorities and burkina faso to swiftly and transparently probe the killing of 28 people whose bodies were found days ago in the ethnic fulani town of known rights groups blame a pro government militia for the killings the felony. people have increasingly been targeted over their support of h. a. hottest insurgency. orthodox christians have packed churches for christmas services. a holiday darkened for many by the conflict raging between neighbors, russia and ukraine. in keith, hundreds of people including men in military uniform, attended a historic service at the famed church. laura monastery, which was under moscow's jurisdiction until the beginning of the war. at the

eastern front line, russian troops have also been attending services after president vladimir putin called for troops, which ukraine rejected. bootable man says russia will observe it, see fire until midnight, local time. well, i talked about the orthodox christmas mass with our correspondent and keith mac center ray you just mentioned at the orthodox church of ukraine, held its 1st christmas mass mass in the a contested monastery of caves here in key if and that was an if the, this imitation was followed by several 100 believers as well as the culture culture minister. so all across the country where possible a church service is taking place. people are indeed celebrating orthodox christmas . today. it's been a credibly difficult year for ukrainians with the beginning of the full scale invasion of ukraine, with many people with the seeing the fighting family members having fled,

having lived under occupation and more recently here in the cattle key in other places. every now and then a harsh attack. so with russian rockets, they also can, are taking place in other parts of the country and not despite this. but because of this, some people tend to want to mark this day, celebrates, come together with their family, if possible. and yet spend the day and spend some few hours with their, their loved ones in peace and quiet, hopefully with without further rushing attacks. max, tell us what's the latest status of this so called ceasefire right, essentially there is no real ceasefire here. this was a one sided announcement by the russians. it was never agreed on by the ukrainian side. in fact, they quickly dismissed it as a manipulative as, as, as a rule. so to say um,

since the beginning of or when since the beginning of since the time that this is for would have started yesterday. and there has been have been attacks on ukrainian cities on ukrainian settlements. there has been exchange of showing along the eastern front line, both from ukrainian and from russian side. the russians have announced that overnight a drone ukrainian drone was down over russian occupied crimea. so it seems that the fighting does continue, and in fact, the ukrainian defense ministry came out with a statement this morning announcing that the fighting continues at routine level right now. so you can't really, we can't really talk about a ceasefire here. thanks max max xander in keith the general music director of berlin state opera. daniel baton blame has announced he stepping down, the acclaimed conductor and pianist says his health has deteriorated in the last year and that he's no longer able to deliver the performance required of the role.

the 8 year old began performing as a pianist at the age of 10, before becoming a lead conductor. later in life, the me but decades, donnie, a button boy's name, have been synonymous with excellence in the arts. and a willingness to experiment can even occasionally break the room. a polyglot what citizenship, his musical talent was obvious from an early age. ah, at 7 he gave his 1st consort in argentina. he was hailed of a child prodigy than they both stuck, even after his family moved to me that can get fed. i like the term child for the genius. i feel like i can say the prodigy is gone, but the child is still here. baron boy, him is all compassionate about politics. holding both israeli and palestinian

possible. he travelled frequently to israel and the west bank. he said he hoped to read that of gets over the model for peace. in 1999, he founded an okay drug aiming to promote understanding between arabs and israelis . together with edward tell you the palestinian american carlo, the best ethan devonne orchestra, a symbol of reconciliation. years it was a game. every musician in the orchestra has exactly what a human being needs and what doesn't exist in the region. equality, right? everyone in the orchestra has the orchestra mains, baron barnes, personal and political legacy highlight every year. the fully booked concert at berlin vall been ah, in 2017, he found it the piano bullet sons in berlin, praised for its excellent acoustics, an even better roster of the world musician. despite the criticism of his

management style, his musical rank is undisputed the recent feel bad boy had been playing with a new to logical illness. despite his resignation as general music director, he's not planning on giving up his butt on completely and sees he plans to conduct the odd show in the future. ah. all right, well that's all for me for now. the next world stories follows the paramedic saving lives in ukraine. i'll be back again at the top of the next hour with me and the team here like to watch with our sports, all a scoring we say they're about giving up sports like every weekend on d w.