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