and as ukraine celebrates its orthodox christmas, russian backed forces say they ve downed a drone in breach of a temporary ceasefire. hello and welcome to bbc world news. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took four days, 15 votes, and numerous concessions, but the 20 or so rebels within his own party were eventually persuaded. sancha berg reports. after more than four days, it was over. ..of which the honourable i kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. cheering and applause ..to cheers from republicans in the house. chanting: usa! usa! usa! the democrat leader, hakeem jeffries, handed over the gavel. . .. kevin mccarthy. cheering and applause ..to the new speaker s clear relief. that was easy, huh? laughter i never thought we d get up here. this should have been a straightforward process, after republicans won a slim majority in the house
from the west. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took four days, 15 votes, and numerous concessions, but the 20 or so rebels within his own party were eventually persuaded. sancha berg reports. after more than four days, it was over. ..of which the honourable i kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. cheering and applause ..to cheers from republicans in the house. chanting: usa! usa! usa! the democrat leader, hakeem jeffries, handed over the gavel. . .. kevin mccarthy. cheering and applause ..to the new speaker s clear relief. that was easy, huh? laughter i never thought we d get up here. this should have been a straightforward process, after republicans won a slim majority in the house last year. it usually takes just one ballot. not this time. a speaker has not been elected. a speaker has not been elected. it took 15 ballots because right
Doing work on the houses in the shop was full. So far, they are saying that four were killed in a couple of dozen wounded and so, i think for people here, its another blow and the firefighters went into the building have been incredibly busy this week because theres been other attacks and on the central part of the city not long after that it the shop. President zelensky has said repeatedly that all of this proves the point that he keeps on Making Witches they need more effective air defences and for those, he is looking to his allies and particularly, the united states. Is particularly, the united states. Is caught this madness, the scene you described, exemplifies a typical weekend. Civilian existence, a diy store is civilian infrastructure and there should be protection under International Humanitarian law, every we heard anything from russia . Not that im aware of. Over the last weeks and months, ukrainians at their side as well and they say they have lost civilians to attacks laun
is an act of russian madness . officials say at least six people were killed and more than 30 others injured on saturday when two glide bombs struck the diy store in ukraine s second city, kharkiv. an air raid warning sounded moments before explosions tore through the building, starting an intense fire. the ukrainian leader again urged western allies to send more air defences to ukraine. ukraine s military says the two glide bombs that hit kharkiv were among a0 that russia dropped on ukrainian army positions and civil infrastructure saturday. the ukrainian military says russian forces are continuing their offensive in the kharkiv region, with six attacks repelled by the ukrainian military. the bbc sjeremy bowen is in kharkiv. i spoke to him a short while ago. jeremy, very good to have you with us. this airstrike took place on a crowded superstore there in ukraine s second largest city. what more can you tell us? it was mid afternoon, it s the weekend, it was a pretty nice da
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo signed on May 28 a 10-year bilateral security agreement between their countries.