this is the poll unleash on violet pass and re imagine that these teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on d, w. ah, ah, ah . this is deedee new news, live from berlin, more depths of anti government protesters in iran, the islamic regime hines, another 2 prisoners detained during nationwide protests. many others face execution also in the program. orthodox christmas in ukraine,

a holiday troops declared by russia fails to hold the violence. so i do congratulations. on after 15 ballads republican kevin mccarthy wins a vote to become speaker of the us house of representatives. but his concessions to hold outs could have repercussions around the world. ah, i'm pablo for lily as welcome to the program. the european union has condemned duran for executing to men allegedly involved in anti government protests, state controlled media, say they were convicted of killing a member of an official militia. amnesty international has called their trial a sham aimed at intimidating other demonstrators. for people are now known to have been executed over the reason to unrest. protests began following the death of

a young woman arrested for supposedly not wearing her head scarf correctly. will come run. martin from the university of sussex in the u. k. told us more about the men who were executed. yes, these were mohammed committee, kara, me, who was 20 or 22 years old and they send you professional karate champion. and the 2nd man was how much was saying, who was 39. they were both arrested back early november during a protest in the city of courage in the ups gets up to the wrong during which a member of a speech militia, a part of the gc revolution got, was killed. so nice to were part of a group of 1616 people who are arrested in relation to that case. 3 others have been also sentenced to death. and the other ones also facing charges

which carries this penalty potentially come around what legal support to imprison the protesters receive if any well, as i'm going to be in class or that also human rights center and iran have consistently made clear political prisoners, prisoners arrested. the relation to protest are denied proper judicial support. they are usually given court appointed lawyers who i do not do their job properly because they are close to the court and the officials or when they do want to put some effort into representing them. they are actually not given enough time in this particular case. one of the, those who was hang today, my mother, karen was in fact had been on hunger strike for part 4 days in protest to being denied access to his chosen lawyer. the other person's lawyer court appointed

lawyer. busy was, was reported saying that when he met him in prison, how much seni, his client was in tears reported torture. and even the court appointed law in this case, had said that this his, his confessions had no really the legal standing given that it was extra extracted on the, on the torture and pressure camera on human rights activists. these executions are intended to silence political opposition and of i'm discouraged. the protesters do you believe they are having that effect? well, i mean, the protest had already sort of slowed down a bit in terms of intensity scale before the 1st execution took place. and this i believe, had more to do with the harsh repression mission regime carried out, especially in so called ethnic minority regions and curtis on and baluchistan in

particular making kind of a showcase for the rest of iran. how the regime would potentially track down on the protest, but the fact is that the process actually still continues sporadically. even last night there were reports on video footage is all processed in sun and that. so the process that says are more like regrouping and reflecting their methods and protests having, being and fully by the regime at this point camera. martin an expert on politics in iran. thank you. thank you very much. orthodox christians have packed churches for christmas services. the festivities in ukraine have been overshadowed by the ongoing war there in keith hundreds attended a service at a monastery which was under moscow's jurisdiction before the invasion. on the front line, russian troops also held services. president vladimir putin called

a christmas truce with which ukraine and western allies rejected you from a party. oh d w correspondent, a minute. shes in keith says ukrainians have been marking the orthodox christmas. but there is no real truce. well, i apparently has been quite interesting to witness that i've been here for a few weeks now. so are we? does the 2 christmases? any so. so at my dinner, ashanna and everett generational. sorry a matter younger ukrainians. ha. celebrated in de majority christmas on the 25th of december, while older generations will celebrate to day. so that means that families often celebrated christmas twice. and it's something that has been allowed by the ukraine and orthodox a church, which as said that at the sierra, given the circumstances, it wanted to dis fancier itself from the a moscow patter arcade, to enter. and they allowed those to celebrations on the 21st of december and had to

day for an orthodox christmas. emmanuel, what's the status of this so called sees far well, you just said it, it's a so called cease fire, a scene from key if, because a really i d swore doesn't start for ukrainians. they're still being invaded by their neighbors. they neighbor, russia as some colleagues who are on the front line on the moment from agency a if be said that her artillery fires were continuing. there were report self, i'll shelling on had a son yesterday. a firefighters died. they were targeted by russian assailing was the russian side, saying that he was ukrainian, or shedding ongoing. so really there is no christmas choose. and, you know, we had the reaction from a german foreign minister and not a not banburg staying boutwell at e for me put a really wanted a that, you know, a choose this would be, you know, getting the troops out of that ukraine,

that people wanna feel safe because of a christmas truth, and that's very much pretty much how people feel here. thanks for manual and manual shes in keith. let's take a look at some other headlines making use around the world. demonstrators have blocked highways across through and protests against the rest of the former president pedro castillo, supporters or calling for his release. and the resignation of his successor of vienna boulevard. china has blocked the social media counts of hundreds of critics of beijing's handling of coven. 19. the government has ended locked anne's quarantines and mast testing. the easing has brought a search in new cases. the united nations is calling on authorities and burkina faso to investigate the killing of 28 people in the ethnic fulani town of known

rights groups, claim a pro government militia for the deaths. the fulani people have been targeted for supporting age, a hardest insurgency. well, the us house of representatives finally has a new speaker. kevin mccarthy was elected after days of turmoil. the republican was sworn in despite fierce resistance from right wingers in his own party. mccarthy clenched victory after 15 votes. the animal kevin mccarthy, of the state of california having received 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 where 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 chair speaking shortly afterward, emily mccarthy gave a controversial thanks to a former president with a v. i do want to, especially thank uh president trump. i don't think you should edge, anybody should doubt his influence. it was with me from the beginning. somebody

wrote the doubt of while you was there and he was all it. but these celebrations over the culmination of this protracted leadership struggle a likely to be short lived. mccarthy. hot to conceal some powers to those in the rights 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. or the change in house leadership is likely to have implications. extending far beyond the united states, including the war in ukraine, says, are washington correspondent, the calico for them. 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 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 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 a view on china and calico from our reporting, there were mexican officials say dozens of people were killed during the capture of the alleged cartel leader of video guzman. he is the son of the infamous drug lord known as of chapel chart vehicles. barry kate and blown out windows. these are the scars left by 24 hours of terror and a bloody battle to stop the arrest of a video cushman, the son of mexico's most notorious struck lord. they are. the

violence now appears to have subsided, and cartel road blocks are slowly being dismantled. but the sense of insecurity is making it hard for residence to move on. and then will call me a living fear, hope nothing else happens was because mom was extracted by helicopter before being taken to a maximum security federal prison. his arrest spurred, the powerful sinaloa cartel was headed by his father to go on a rampage. setting vehicles on fire blocking, wrote and fighting security forces. because by government we were told to leave because the shootout was really bad. we just had to leave murphy, cause man has allegedly help from the cartel since the extradition of his father to the u. s. in 2017. he was briefly arrested in 2019 and then released again as gang violence spiraled out of control. after last week's events,

authorities have enhanced security and military presence in the city of calia khan and the saddler. we guarantee you that we are taking care of security. we are on it somewhere and you can go back to living in normal conditions. normally, it is not clear whether guzman will suffer the same fate as his father, but his arrest is seen as a costly victory for the mexican government in the war and rocks ahead of jo biden's visit next week for a north american summit. now in south korea, tens of thousands of braves to bone chilling temperatures for a chance to get their hands on some fresh trout. the annual ice fishing festival sees angler is dig through a frozen lake north of the capital. so those who are feeling particularly adventurous jump into the freezing water to catch a trout with their bare hands. a very

talented. here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. iran has hanged to man allegedly involved and anti government protests, state media save a 2, were convicted of killing a security official, amnesty international colds, their trials, sham proceedings, to intimidate demonstrators. that's all for now of next a d, w documentary, the great toilet battle detailing revolution in human wastes. stephanie chicken for that. take elsie, a very soon 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 just.