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welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s great to have you with us. the first sitting of the new us house of representatives has been full of drama. as speaker of the house have failed. he hasn t been able to secure enough support from his own party. a group of right wing republicans have refused to back him, and the california congressman has refused to drop out of the race. it s the first time in a hundred years that a speaker hasn t been elected in the opening round of voting. our correspondent in washington, will grant, explains the significance of the impasse. this is not the way that kevin mccarthy or the republican leadership wanted their first day as the majority in congress to go not by a long way. with each round, it seemed to be getting gradually worse for him and by the third round of voting, as many as 20 republican colleagues did not vote for him, denying him the chance of taking speaker of the house. why does any of this matte ....
Process to perhaps lower the threshold of votes needed. that would not be that seems very unlikely also. i think what we re going see as both sides continuing to dig in mccarthy says he is going to be able to flip some votes and get to 218 and they think that is what we are going to see in the coming day if not multiple days ahead. a ahead. max, the republicans have pitched another - have pitched another candidate against him who has openly said he doesn t want to stand. how can that be resolved?- he doesn t want to stand. how can that be resolved? yes, jim jordan is kind can that be resolved? yes, jim jordan is kind of can that be resolved? yes, jim jordan is kind of the can that be resolved? yes, jim jordan is kind of the number i jordan is kind of the number two that we re looking at. interestingly, jim jordan has voiced support for kevin kevin mccarthy s position in this. butjimjordan traditionally as part of this right wing flank that is opposing mccarthy. so he only ha ....
Votes, may be 19, so that is a long way away from the 20a or 203 mccarthy had today. that is a number two that is really trailing behind the number one for this. ., ,. ., , for this. fascinating stuff. max kutner, for this. fascinating stuff. max kutner, thank - for this. fascinating stuff. max kutner, thank you i for this. fascinating stuff. i max kutner, thank you very much. the chinese government says that travel restrictions imposed by several countries on chinese arrivals are politically motivated and has warned that it may retaliate. some countries have already introduced their own measures, but an eu wide decision is expected on wednesday. china adopted a zero covid strategy with strict restrictions for most of the pandemic, but abruptly eased them in december. azadeh moshiri reports. china is opening up again, or at least it is trying to. the country has seen almost three years of strict covid restrictions, and mostly closed borders. now, china is scrapping its travel restr ....
It s a face off that could last days potentially. in 1923, the last time there was an event of this kind, it went on for nine rounds. this time it looks to be equally protracted and bitter. we can now speak to us political analyst max kutner. he joins us from new york. max, how has this extraordinary situation been allowed to come about because yellow well, there had been indications that there had been indications that there was going to be this fight going back we. obviously this is not fight going back we. obviously this is not the this is not the way the republicans and the house wanted to start a majority, but there have been these indications and both sides have dug in and there is no indication yet of when this is going to end. and, also, the longer this goes on, and it will continue to be a bad thing for the republicans, and every day this goes on that s not a ....