hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and everywhere around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn those opposed, no. no! no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has not been elected. dna evidence, a suspicious vehicle and a new witness account. critical information released publicly for the first time. now they want to use christmas as a cover to at least briefly stop the advance of our guys in donetsk. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, january 6th. 9 a.m. in london, 4 a.m. in washington where the house of representatives still doesn t have a speaker. we ve seen 11 votes over the last three days and each time publicly kevin mccarthy has fallen short despite his party s narrow majority in the chamber. no nominee having received the majority of the votes cast. a speaker has
that went into effect a while ago. president vladimir putin ordered them to have a 36-hour cease-fire. ukrainian officials are saying this is pure propaganda and an attempt to buy time. the deputy of russia s security council said ukraine said no to the hand of christian mercy. meanwhile, these satellite images show months of fighting had done extensive damage to the eastern sea of bakhmut. russian fire pummelling the city which is still in ukrainian hands. 60% of bakhmut is now destroyed. ukraine is also getting more fire power foreground operations against russia. the u.s. and germany are pledging to deliver armored infantry vehicles as there is expected to be an uptick of fighting. the idea that putin is