lesya orobets. _ intelligence reports. lesya orobets, thank _ intelligence reports.y i intelligence reports. lesya - orobets, thank you very much for interrupting your christmas with your family to talk to us. thank you so much. you are watching bbc news. the headlines: signs that the historic deadlock in the us house of representatives could be coming to an end — frontrunner kevin mccarthy appears to be making progress. a six—year—old boy has shot his school teacher in the us state of virginia, in what police say was not an accidental shooting. the mexican president has defended the military operation that captured a drug cartel leader, ovidio guzman — the son ofjailed drug trafficker el chapo. violence erupted in culiacan, a stronghold of the cartel. at least 19 members of the sinaloa cartel and ten members of the military were killed. the arrest comes ahead of a visit by president biden to mexico on sunday. shelley phelps reports. the son of the notorious drug lord el chapo arrested and taken to the same maximum—security prison his father escaped from eight years

lesya orobets, who is a ukrainian mp, told me that the russians have never kept their word on ceasefiress time around either. truth is, nobody bought it. we had so many attempts of ceasefires since 2014, when the war actually started, and there was not a single attempt when russians kept their word. and this isjust like a tradition. none of the agreements signed by russia — starting with the budapest memorandum and the friendship and border agreement in 1987 — isn't worth the paper they took it. moreover, we gave up heavy bombers and rockets which are, right now, falling on our heads. two hours on the christmas eve, each and every ukrainian spent in a bombing shelter, because there was an air siren. bombers were in the area, detected over the air of belarus, so no ceasefire is happening right now. it's clearly an important day for russia and for russians, should there have been a ceasefire? erm, i would love to. but as i said, we have russians who believe that they are russian empire, and we have a madman leading their army, and getting more and more troops on our borders these days. so,