as assistant to the secretary of state, and the international trade economist rebecca harding. welcome to the programme. if at first you don t succeed, try, try and try again seems to be the game plan for kevin mccarthy in his bid to become the speaker of the house, after failing three times yesterday to get enough support from his party. but 2a hours on, the stalemate continues. he s lost twice again already today and now we are heading to a sixth vote, all because a small group of right wing republicans are blocking his path. some of them say they will never support him, no matter what concessions he gives. but mr mccarthy isn t backing down. this is the scene live in the house now, where that sixth vote is expected. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, no bills can be debated, no decisions made. so, it has to be resolved, no matter how long it takes. it could go on and on until some sort of deal is made behind the scenes. to give you a bit of history if you
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let this play out and it could take a while. , ., ., ~ let this play out and it could take a while. , ., ., ,, ., a while. ben y, good to talk to you. thank a while. benjy, good to talk to you. thank you very a while. benjy, good to talk to you. thank you very much. let s look at some of the other stories making headlines today. russia has said a missile attack that killed at least 89 russian soldiers happened because troops were using mobile phones, defying a ban and allowing the enemy to locate its target. ukraine claims the real number of losses from the attack on the occupied town of makiivka is much higher it says 400 soldiers were killed. uk food price rises rose at a record rate in december, with retail industry leaders warning high inflation would continue this year. new data released today by the british retail consortium show annual food inflation jumped to 13.3% last month, up from 12.4% in november. jumped to jumped to 15%. temperatures forjanuary have reach
is representing him with a list of demands, however high it might seem now, if they are negotiating with demands, there may be a solution. that s a question we don t really know the answer to yet, and he probably hinges on. let s bring in the panel. what do you think it s going to take to move this on? , , you think it s going to take to move thison? , ,, ., ., this on? ben y is spot on, and it s unclear. right now, house republicans are ungovernable and they don t even want ungovernable and they don t even want to ungovernable and they don t even want to govern. it looks like they ust want to govern. it looks like they just want to have an internal cleansing just want to have an internal cleansing again. we haven t had multiple cleansing again. we haven t had multiple votes for speaker of the house multiple votes for speaker of the house for multiple votes for speaker of the house for a couple of days now. so, this house fora couple of days now. so, this is house for a
named abdelhamid abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the paris attacks that happened on friday night, killing 129 people, injuring many, many more. as i understand it, we re joined now by ben pleser, nbc news producer who travels with richard engel. and ben y, you were there when happened. take us through it. thanks. we arrived here and there was still gunfire heard across this neighborhood. this is a neighborhood predominantly of migrants. neighbors were standing around, trying to understand what was going on on their street. it was a very heavy police presence. they sealed off a very large cordon around the building they were apparently targeting. there was a helicopter overhead that was shining light constantly on an apartment on the third floor of this building that we believe was the target of this raid.