a speaker of the house of representatives. will talk about what he had to give right wing hold out, and how that could shape us policy, also on the program, no let up in the fighting in ukraine. the spider cease fire proposed by russia. heavy shelling is reported in the countries east after keep dismisses moscow's truce announcement as a ploy to reposition it's soldier. and the rest of an alleged cartel leader in mexico turned to city into a war zone, leaving a trail of destruction and doesn't stead mexico deploy hundreds of police and military terrain in the violence. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome. the us house of representatives finally has a new speaker. kevin mccarthy has been a acted to the post after days of turmoil. the republican was sworn in after he won on the 15th ballad. he faced fierce resistance from members of his own party. mccarthy finally clenched victory with 216 votes, but has been forced to compromise on his agenda to secure the when without a speaker the house has been unable to swear in new members or proceed with any business. michelle yellow cushion her has been covering the leadership struggle from our washington bureau and i asked her if this was a bittersweet victory for mccarthy. absolutely. in the end the it's a boy the tightest of margins. it really counts. it's where the those, that hard, right wing of republicans, those individual members in the end it was less than a handful who are basically blocking his his path to become the speaker. you say i can different deliver closer. well, i can't because this closer will deliver actually an opening into what's this new house will be like. and what the republican block is likely to be like in the house of representatives that is so important to shape a. ringback laws here in the united states and kevin mccarthy, himself, and he really came from a background of having criticized donald trump in the past will now. and this is the kind of drama we saw. donald trump phoning up those individual members who will, blocking his path to become speaker was not enough. during that 1st school, donald trump is reported to have made to all of them. and so we were all asking ourselves to so while ago whether this could yet again be adjourned. well, it didn't, but it did drag out even longer and went into yes again, an extra round. when most analysts, he and actually the numbers were looking like it could be done in the 14 round of voting so high a democracy drama here in the united states. i drum indeed, did that new speaker, i suppose we can call him nel matt to make concessions to get this road, given the concessions he had to make. will mccarthy be the weakest speaker in modern history? well the thing is that we don't exactly know which concessions exactly he made when he did. those individual deals with hands sakes at to get the votes he needed. it looks like his art critic is set to become the head of the defense committee. so that means he could actually have a huge role, the armed services committee in defining a what policies and what laws it will actually be put forward. 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 to ukraine, that he would do whatever it takes. although we do expect there to 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. 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. so a kevin mccarthy himself, he criticized donald trump in on january 6th. a windows protest is stormed the capital here in the united states to the day 2 years ago. then he still backed donald trump, the someone he has gone from being a progressive himself to become a trumpet. and then unable to rein in those who have taken a trump isn't further than double trumpeted himself. so these will be testing times . they will be stormy times here on the hill at the capsule. and what we got this week is just a taste of what policy making will be like of the coming to years, the last 2 years of do biden's term. and we'll have to entered there that d w's me, hey, on a corner in washington dc. many facts, 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's despite moscow's claims. it would observe the 36 hour christmas truce key, which never agreed to the cease fire as dismiss 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 he and saw numerous missile attacks over the new year's period and expectations were low. oh, never fly. think the cease fire is irrelevant as it will only be another chance for the russians to attack ukraine with missiles. but i get them with alliance equally, neither you can never trust them, never. they do nothing, only join whatever they promised they don't deliver. that when they said that wouldn't be a war. however they live, they say one thing one day and another the next of those. we don't trust them when it again, 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 sci fi was due to come into effect. russian missiles writing 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 of 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 far from both sides in the eastern town of bach. moot. ukraine blamed russia while moscow quickly pointed the finger at keith . it's by the end of the beginning, it was like the fact that the russian military observed to cease fire to day january 6th 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 lewellen 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. dw correspondent, max xander, joins us live now from keith. max. good to see you. what's the status of this? he's fire now. the right may call me, we just heard it in the report. this the, the cease fire is a, was a one sided announcement by the russian sy. keith never agreed to anything, in fact that they were quickly to, to react to it and call it in many collation by the russian side. and there has been us, there have been some heavy attacks on ukrainian cities a in, in the east yesterday. and even during that, after the cease fire would have kicked in numerous reports of outgoing fire exchange of artillery fire, both from ukraine and on the russian side around the town of buffalo, but also other places along the front line. now the russians are claiming that they are merely reacting to a violation of this. we could call it a so called cease fire by, by the ukrainians. but there is no way for us to, to actually, i can confirm this. so it does seem that the fighting in the east is still going on and there is no cease fire in place. again, keith says it's a plot. washington says it's putin buying time. what's the sense your getting about that? what this truce is about? right, so that the russian president, um, he claimed he was some following a recommendation of the leader of the russian orthodox church to give people in the frontline areas some russian or orthodox people. the possibility to celebrate christmas in peace. and now she talked to ukrainian some, they have a different view on this. some it's big seen as a ruse, as, as a trick or by the russian. so perhaps to, to catch a breath after having dealt with severe setbacks on the battlefield, to replenish, to bring in fresh troops, to bring in fresh weapons and possibly to advance or even, or a stop a, the ukraine in advance. and i just thought be add to that the ukrainians actually had asked for a ceasefire last year during the celebrations of orthodox easter. and the russians denied this, claiming a just that, that the ukrainians would use it to, to regroup and hit with a stronger force. so there's no, no trust here. um the ukraine is don't, don't trust us. russian sees fire and yet they see it as a. yeah. as, as a m, as a maneuver that is a d w's mac xander in key. as always, many thanks, max for some other stories making headlines around the world. protestors have blockaded highways throughout peru as unrest continues following the answering and arrested president pedro castillo in december, demonstrators, or calling for his release the resignation of his successor dina below. at the and constitutional reforms, the protest we started following a christmas low in kenya, police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of the prominent algae b. t campaigner whose body was found earlier this week and went to lobo was a fashion entrepreneur, entrepreneur and model. human rights groups have condemned the killing 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 al chapa 10 soldiers and 19 suspected gang members were killed during the operation in the city of cool yukon. a heavy police presence in the mexican city of kula khan. reinforcements keep pouring in. the arrest of drug kingpin of video guzman prompted a violent response from mexico. as infamous siena, laura, cato peace, has been restored for now, but at a price 10 soldiers and the policeman died in thursdays, fighting according to the government lament that most mucho let beg of you, that we regret the loss of lives. of those who died missouri while carrying out their jobs again, they say that they are not. we also regret of all other losses development them starla. dennis cato 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 gallery. what at the nevertheless, they did not achieve that goal of rescuing the alleged offender who no longer because we've taken him down until delinquent as i lucas a little. so note that alisium, he's had a botched arrest and 2019 and that with police releasing guzman pictures here. as gang violence spiraled out of control. having stirred the hornets nest once more security forces managed to come up on top this time. and we'll have to end it there up next sports life goes to munich to discover how boxing help the young man with his struggle to integrate into society. i'm michael local in berlin from me and the rest of the news team here. thanks for your company. in the land of contrasts, of ambitions of inequality 75 years ago mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to india.