the for the rest of the world. usa volumes of the also rise starts january 18th on dw, the this is the deputy news alive from the canada, as prime minister announces his resignation. just for guy says he'll step aside as leader of the ruling liberal party will stay in office until the success of his charge and a powerful window. stone blankets, much of the east in the united states crippling travel, no camp pounds, a hundreds of 1000 the anthony held welcome. kenneth, it's justin true though has announced table resigned as prime minister and his head

of the liberal party. true to say the internal party struggles had made it clear that he couldn't lead the liberals into a coming election. he said he would stay on his prime minister until the party chose his replacement. even the elements went on just in crudo side, as he came out to a know his resignation. i intend to resign as party leader as prime minister after the party selects it's next leader to a robust nationwide competitive process. this country deserves a real choice in the next election. and it is become clear to me that if i'm having to fight internal baffles, i cannot be the best option in that election. so scheme of those internal bustles suddenly became fall to public such for the last month when he tried to remote his

then finance minister and long time allied, christie, a freeland, she resigned, instead of accusing the prime minister, pursuing political gimmicks browser. and it kind of does best interest a criticism, a 100 more, i mean, nation to treat those opponents in his own policy. who have been pointing to months of polls showing the liberals on calls for a crushing defeat in upcoming elections for you love. with all 3 of position parties already promising to topple true does minority administration. when parliament returned from its christmas break news of his resignation came as no surprise in onto a forklift wavering it wasn't there. he was by himself. i feel bad. but on the other hand, we need to move forward. i mean, literally the never, i guess. i think he probably like you should have resigned over a year ago. it was

a reasoning, but i wish you just called little action of this. like i would have, and that would've been the better choice. the canadians will now have to wait for a little longer for those elections, parliament to set to remain suspended until march 24th. to give true to his party time to replace the man who led the country from nearly a decade. the c o olden bonneville is i generalist in the canadian capital. although i asked earlier why trigger is resigning now as well? and that's a great question, because his numbers, his popularity, has been plummeting for for more than a year for, for many, many months. and by all occasions he was expecting to stay on until the next election, which was expected to be this coming october. but when the bomb shell hit and christian freeland step down in uh, in december, about 3 weeks ago, all the wheels seemed to came off the liberal boss. and at that moment i think the guy was cast and it will, he, he,

it just became untenable for him to stay on as leader. the calls became louder from within his own party. and so he gave it the holidays to think about it. but to day came out and, and announced what many people were expecting that he had to resign because after christopher freeland laughed, it just seems like he just could not hang on any longer. so let's see. the wheels have rolled off the bus and rolled into the bushes the decision is made. now it's made, is that decision being sold as the the noble thing to do? i what joe barton wouldn't do soon enough for the democrats in the us. i ordered some say this was him leaving his party in that time if need. oh no, i think not leaving in the time of the definitely time to go. don't let the door hit you on your way out, buddy. but what they are saying, what they're critical of is that he's left, it's so late because of all this internal fighting with the liberal party, with the looming threat of donald trump, who has been trolling canada,

who takes office 2 weeks, 2 weeks today. he's left a mess when he probably didn't need to, if he had left much sooner and, and people are arguing that it was, it was arrogance. and a we're in a refusal to read the room that kept him there as long as he did. so that seems to be the mood right now. he has left it way too late and he's really, he's really handicapping the next liberal leader in terms of fighting the next election. so the next liberally the elections must be held. this is so that's very much on the horizon, but who is likely to succeed mister turnover and is perhaps most the most important skill, the ability to stand up to donald trump or well, that's going to be a very important scale because he has, he has already threatened that the camera should become the 51st state and sees the, the prime minister as the governor. so, and the, the looming threat of 25 percent, tara this as a whole country talking. it is very concerning. it would be

a real blow to our economy if he goes through with that threat. so there are a long list surprisingly, given how low in the polls the liberals are of people who want to run to succeed adjusting trudel, a number of cabinet ministers, including christian freeland, who, who, who we've been talking about here. she's seen as one of the front runners, but another outside or who is seen as a real front runner is former bank of canada, the governor, former bank of england, a governor, mark carney. he is it. he is a canadian. obviously he is a real. he is a former investment banker and he's also a progress if you see him on your screen there. so he is, i think considered the, the leading candidate right now. a man who could stand up are both to donald trump, but also to canada's conservative leader, peer probably asked when it comes to the economy. it was the economy ultimately that started into the road, the support for don a for, for justin trudel. and how he is, he has managed it,

is in post pandemic. so mark carnie is the front runner, christian freeland, and then the current finance minister don liquid law. melanie shall lee, who was the foreign affairs minister. um are seen as, as, as, as real contenders here including anita and, and who is the administer of labor right now. it's a hard thing to do, i guess, but you've had time to think about it for a while giving us the best. 30 seconds on justin for dies legacy to well, you know it's, it's a complicated thing to do because for a while he was seen as a celebrity, prime minister. he was known around the world. he was young, he was attractive. he was a great speaker. he comes from a political dynasty and canada is called, or was was a, was a glamorous prime minister. he also got us through the pandemic. many people credit him with saving, saving, lives, keeping with the economy afloat during the pandemic with other nations were really struggling. he's also really strong on climate change, so he will have

a legacy. he's left the low number of progressive policies, whether it's child care, whether it's his response to, to climate change. he's seen as, as a real. he will have an impressive legacy. i think when, when the, his, when history books are written, read stuff, listen really appreciate your time generalist lucy than pleasure upon it. felt inaudible thanks so much on his look at some most doors making headlines. us congress, as formerly certified donald trump's victory in november presidential election. the joint session was presided over by vice president campbell, a harris. it comes on the 4th anniversary, the storming of the capital. when trump support has tried to stop jo broadening certification as the winter of the 2020 election. the speaking of judge lied and then the president has visited the side of the new year's ramming attack in new orleans that killed 14 people and wounded dustin spot. and then these was jill light flowers at

a make shift memorial at the district and met survivors and local law enforcement officers affected by the attack. most good president vladimir, put in as attended a russian orthodox christmas service slaves by patriarch. here was one of the most prominent back as of the will against some orthodox church as not the holiday. according to the julian calendar on january 7th, last days you can switch to observing christmas in the same path. a winter storm is tumbling parts of the east and us off to sweeping through the midwest. some areas have seen that heavy snow full in decades. the storm has been blamed for 3 deaths and hundreds of thousands are without power. the united states is being pummeled by a mass of winter storm system ice and snow, but a deep freeze on this highway in ohio as traffic ground to a standstill for 7 hours in kansas city. elbow. grease was the only way be stranded

motorists could get back on the road as the snow continued to pile up. forcing the governor to send out the national guard in some regions. further south, the snowfall cause travel chaos for states not used to heavy smells like here in louisville. kentucky is airport. across the u. s. over 2000 flights were cancelled . and 20000 more delayed. and some locals have already lost patients within your record snowfall. it can be worse and with more snow on the way it's already back to the shovel that i got to work tomorrow. so making sure i get this even the nation's capital wasn't spared from the arctic blast. much to the delight of this former olympian by athlete. yeah, we're so happy to be here and we're so grateful that we have this beautiful public

space that we can enjoy in all weather. especially this one. the winter storm advisories remain in effect for many parts of the us. until tuesday i asked the major ologist matthew, you can put you how much longer is stone can go on. so right now i say like 90 percent of the storm is done, the entire system is kind of working, not the eastern seaboard right now into the atlantic ocean. so it's almost entirely over, but not quite yet. part of the reason being, it has that cold air wrapped around the cooler backlash and the backside which is pushing through west virginia into the major, into the virginia region. eventually, washington, dc. these next few hours we'll see kind of cold air temperature dropping. and of course, a little bit of additional snow $3.00 to $7.00 centimeters, which doesn't really sound like much like to move a little bit more than frankly, just don't need on top of we already have. yeah, you're saying some people using this know to go skating

a minute ago for washington d. c. a people adjusting the travel plans and just keeping on moving forward. matthew will, has this don't really put the brakes on where you are in the capitol. i think this is a really well anticipated winter storm. so a lot of folks ahead of time are reaching out to me saying, hey, what do we do? should we change our travel plans that said roughly 90 percent of flyers or reagan national airport? the main airport in dc what were cancelled, and i think as a result of that, so many folks, we kind of scrambling to change your plans. i think these next 24 hours will be really rough for people in the city. not only do they have, you know, roadways that are really tough, but all the planes, the planes that should have been reagan national are sort of not in the city. they're down in charlotte throughout further north and boston. those wants to take time to kind of get back into the city so we can have flights out of the city. so it'll be a little while for folks to sort of catch up here at least me aviation sector. but that said, you know, it once in a while, the city needs to kind of slow down. i think this is one of those times do you and

how cold the air is. we won't really see any melting anytime soon. and until we get really late into tomorrow and early wednesday, we won't really see much improvement. it describes, well, they cities that have got the experience like washington uh on this, these windows stones where they're pretty common. what about all the places the time? perhaps? i get these extremes how like cutting the kansas city saw there. the 4th grade is no false single day snowball on record 11 inches, which is roughly about $2627.00 centimeters and they have regular same bath in 19 o 4. this entire system track about 2200 kilometers across the entire country. and we saw some really impressive totals with it. so in addition to kansas, missouri, ohio saw some really bad totals and it was really just the snow. it was a freezing rain that came down to a purchase of it, a centimeter and a half by secretion. nothing of power to so many people as an earlier this

afternoon, roughly 300000 americans were without power. and it'll take a while to get the lights back on for them because you know, the freezing rain took the lines down. there's no warm up any time soon. the other thing that i think is really worth mentioning is that in about 3 ish day is we'll have another significant winter storm coming in from texas all way in the middle at the co sign. eventually, new england will see upwards of probably 1015 centimeters worth of snow in texas, and that's a really big deal for them. they're down the southern us. they don't see snow that often to get a cloud of snowfall is one thing to get problem. snowfall and then ice and freezing rain to as another. and that's kind of what it's looking like right now. so texas could see a really bad storm and we're kind of waiting to see how bad it is at this point. yeah, more on the why matthew can put you in washington. they say, thanks so much. i thank you. and that's where we leave it for this hour. coming up next on the general planet, i looking at why a swedish city had to pump

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