new memoir out next week. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. paralysis continues in the us congress the republican leader in the us house of representatives, kevin mccarthy, appears to have failed in his 11th bid to get elected speaker, extending the government deadlock into a third day. the house is now voting on whether to adjourn the session. you are looking at live pictures right now in the scenes inside the room where a small group of right wingers in kevin mccarthy s own party is trying to derail proceedings. the republicans took control of the house in november s mid elections. but the deadlock has left the chamber unable to swear in members or pass legislation. gary o donoghue reports. the total number of votes cast is 434. it hasn t taken this long to elect a speaker in more than 160 years, and that was before the american civil war. now, into a third day, the deadlock remains. the republican lead
the yeas are 219, the maze 213, the yeas are 219, the maze 213, the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands adjourned until noon tomorrow. it feels like groundhog day again, doesn t it? the house has been adjourned until noon tomorrow. this means there is a little bit of respite, a break before proceedings gets under way again. as we were listening to peter bowes a short while ago, a lot of what happens behind the scenes continued to take place, i imagine that the lobbying, the dealmaking. so far it has not helped kevin mccarthy i have to say but, who knows, it could be lucky that next time. we will bring you updates when we get it. let s leave the political drama in washington for now. let s take a look at some other stories
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peter bowes who has been watching throughout the week at events in congress. we don t know when this is going to end. kevin mccarthy could decide enough is enough. there is absolutely no sign at all that he is going to do that. in fact, all the signs are that there s lots of behind the scenes manoeuvring going on, deals are being done or at least attempted, to try to resolve this, to try to find someone that the republicans can rally around. peter, as you point out, there s been a lot of dealmaking, lots of concessions as we understand it, but still no deal. what else does kevin mccarthy need to do to convince the people that are not voting for him to do so? that is the question that a lot of people are asking because it seems the concessions that he has offered so far are quite significant, in terms of one move to make it much easier to get rid of a future speaker, in terms of the rules of the house. they have been talking about
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: i speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. the longest race in more than 150 years kevin mccarthy repeatedly loses the vote to be elected speaker of the house. china rejects criticism it s been under reporting the number of covid deaths it s set to reopen to the world this weekend. as pandemic rules are eased for travellers between china and hong kong, there s increasing concerns covid could spread over the lunar new year. the battle to protect filippino forests devastated by illegal logging and mining. and prince harry reveals his brother william physically attacked him in his