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The United States Congress has passed a bill to fund the government for three months and avoid a shutdown. The Senate comprehensively backed the legislation after two days of political brinksmanship in the House of Representatives, where there were two failed votes.

Also in the programme: American diplomats have been in Syria for the first time since Islamist forces took control of the capital Damascus; and the Canadian Prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has carried out a major reshuffle changing a third of his cabinet.

Joining Gary O'Donoghue to discuss this and more are Dimitar Bechev, lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, and Olga Oliker, programme director for Europe and Central Asia at the Crisis Group.

(File photo: The U.S Capitol building taken on December 19, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden)