royal family relations are shrugged off or cause further damage to the royal bran. jonah, how al jazeera and ah, era, and these are the top stories now. kevin mccarthy s bid to become us how speak has become the longest and 164 years of the 3 days and 11 that failed votes. republican is yet to secure enough of his party support. a coffee can t convince a group of 20 hard liners to vote for him. john henry reports from capitol hill is either the definition of insanity doing the same thing and expecting a different result. or perhaps eventually an example of how practice makes perfect mix so far. what we have seen today has been all deja vu after 3 days and 10 votes each of them with a humiliating result for kevin mccarthy who has dreamt of this moment for years. so as the votes go forward tonight, it looks like mccarthy would probably like to call a pause in the voting because it just proves one humiliation after the other ukraine s precedent but a mess. lensky has dismissed a
a destination once again for war championships and gulf investments. mahmoud abd we re head algebra in basra city, southern iraq. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories. russian president vladimir putin has ordered a 36 hour cease fire and ukraine for orthodox christmas. it will come into effect at mid day on friday. a senior ukrainian official dismissal as a policy saying, a truce would only happen when russia left its territory. charles stamford has more from keith. this initially comes from a suggestion made by the, the moscow patriarch, carroll, russia patriarch. carol, they re looking for this $36.00 assays far from about, well, from mid day, which effectively would be an orthodox christmas. a christmas eve, right. the way through the next a christmas day until 12 midnight. and it was a response to patriarch carol s suggestion that we heard from an adviser in the president s office, mikhail padaya, and he just called this a cynical trap us president joe biden