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president zelensky welcomes the announcment of us military as ukraine celebrates its orthodox christmas, russian—backed forces say they have downed a drone. 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. chee...

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 rec...

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...

That would suggest to me thatjeff sessions has told him, this is too risky, perhaps you need to dial it back, if you really want to make sure to not lose this. But i think that the hallmarks of the Trump Presidency seem pretty clear, people who think that he is going to pivot and become more president ial in his style a nd and become more president ial in his style and manner, they are going to be left disappointed. His style is to attack, personally, people on twitter, judges, corporate executives. There is a real risk to that, going forward. Not only is he tying himself very personally to Po...

And that the party is vetting potential leadership successors. Now on bbc news its time for Dateline London, with gavin esler. Hello and welcome to Dateline London. President trumps travel ban ruled out by a court mr trump responds with see you in court. Is he now the litigant in chief . And russian intervention in libya another tactical victory for putin . My guests today are. Abdel bari atwan, who is a writer and broadcaster on arab affairs, Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news, Yasmin Alibhai brown, the author and commentator, and vincent magombe, who is an african commentator. President trump...