A powerful typhoon slams into the philippines. And im leah harding and doha with all of your sports argentina and barcelona superstar lionel messi wins his 6th ballon dor title it equals the number one by his great rival christiane arnaldo. Police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people were killed on monday during protests in the eastern town of banning 3 protesters and one policeman gunfire was heard as civilians marched on a Un Peacekeeping base in the area the call of these army has been deployed to block them from getting close the locals are protesting against what they feel is a lack of protection from the un after a recent spate of attacks by on dreadful groups at least 100. 00 people were killed in november and beyond the Democratic Forces militia has been blamed for much of the violence well the army has issued an appeal for locals to avoid protesting as its preventing the soldiers from carrying out security operations. It. We are calling on our populations and all other members of society in north kivu province to stop working with our enemy population should not forget about the real enemy the police is not the enemy do your c soldiers is not the enemy un is not the enemy the real enemy is the a. D. F. Rebels unfortunately the a. D. F. Rebels are operating throughout the population the protests are disturbing the army from its objective of military operations well the United Nations has been trying to stabilize the eastern democratic republic of congo for the past 20 years its mission which is known as sco has more than 18000 personnel and is the 3rd largest peacekeeping operation in the world where that 100 armed groups are believed to operate there raiding villages and running gold mines the allied Democratic Forces or the a. D. F. Is one of the best known militia formed by ugandan rebels more than 2 decades ago its accused of widespread atrocities catherine so is ingo mother its the largest city in eastern she says the security personnel will continue to use force in an effort to gain control. Its still very unsafe on the streets the situation quite uncited as weve had our producer in bed all day talking about you know gunshots throughout the day running battles between Security Forces and protesters who are trying to get to this u. N. Base which is one of the main u. N. Bases which is very close to an airport to Security Forces say they cannot allow protesters to get to that base because its going to ground everything i have been talking to the governor of north kivu here in goma. Benny is in north kivu province so ive been talking to the governor who is saying that it seems that this port the Security Forces are not anymore battling ordinary protesters that hes saying that people are armed with weapons like a machete is he saying that theyre violent theyre even attacking residents of many who do not want to be involved in this same Security Forces are going to continue using force to contain the situation. And giffen is the director of the peacekeeping program at the center for civilians and conflicts she joins us now from washington d. C. Madam thank you for joining us here on aljazeera many people speaking on behalf of the u. N. Say that in many ways the peacekeepers they are being used as scapegoats what do you make of that assessment. The government of the democratic republic of congo has the primary responsibility to protect its civilians both through the political arm of the government as well as through its Security Forces police and military so in this case i would say while peacekeeping operation should do everything they can to protect civilians they are not the primary actors in that regard so are you saying that the un peacekeepers there they are doing everything they can but ultimately their hands are tied to what else do you think they could do to try to calm the situation or i suppose address some of the issues that people obviously have against them in the r. C. Well i think we should acknowledge that peacekeeping operations dont always have the capabilities thing to protect civilians from different kinds of threats right now the peacekeepers that are based in beni are really military units that have lethal force and have been trained to operate in conflicts not necessarily to deal with popular unrest like were seeing in beni right now i think this is an indicator that peacekeepers need better training and there need to be other kinds of capabilities that peace keepers have such as u. N. Police so that they can deal with this kind of civilian unrest having said that i think this is also a really important opportunity to recognize that military solutions are not whats going to root out the a. T. F. Or other rebel groups in eastern d r c there needs to be more comprehensive approaches that use Political Economic and other types of tools in order to bring stability to eastern of course stability is something that the r. C. Has you know thats a mood that they are see for many many years were seeing the renewal of when a man coming up in the next few weeks i mean what do you see that going in ultimately seeing as the reaction has been so negative towards the peacekeepers rightly or wrongly do you think they should continue to be there or do you think in a sense this kind of perpetuates the problem of the people who are responsible for stability not stepping up to the plate civilians are rightfully angry at both the government of d. Or c. And other actors for not providing protection to them. There is going to be a mandate renewal of the news go and there was just a big Strategic Review of the peacekeeping operation there is an expectation that new sco will be drawing down and withdrawing in 3 years but its very important to look at this. Situation eastern d. R. See as an example that there cant be an arbitrary arbitrary timeline of 3 years set here benchmarks for withdrawal of the peacekeeping Mission Needs to be set on different indicators such as how is violence being perpetrated against civilians what is the level of that violence how can it be reduced both by menu sco and by the government of d r c and other actors. Given the rector of the peacekeeping program at the center for civilians in conflict thank you for sharing your views with us thank you Syrian Government there strikes have targeted 2 busy markets in the rebel held province of idlib killing at least 14 civilians into a gate and b. Is more on that story and the warning her report contains some disturbing images. But the attacks are intensifying and they are indiscriminate i believe that was a lot of the syrian army backed by russian add power targeted this market in an area controlled by fighters from hyatt. And group which form a link to al qaeda witnesses say civilians are the majority of the casualties. Out of here assads warplanes carried out a right against this market civilians have been killed and injured the right also caused a lot of damage to property the Civil Defense teams are recovering bodies and helping the wounded we still dont know how many people have been killed. In. The air strikes in the North Western province and to minor russian guaranteed ceasefire thats been in place since august of 2 towns targeted by the man and sorry kid pulled on the m 5 highway that connects the provincial capitals of hamma and aleppo before the war it was a major trade route and the main access road to the north. We were working and all of a sudden warplanes were in the sky and they attacked us of our people have lost their lives and others have been wounded in addition our fruits and vegetables have been destroyed. The increase in attacks is worsening the humanitarian crisis in Northern Syria but the government seems determined to retake this final piece of territory that still under the control of opposition fighters victoria gates and the aljazeera. Iraqs rival Political Parties are negotiating over the makeup of a new government following the resignation of Prime Minister either the and his cabinet but before formally stood down on sunday his position was made untenable by pug public criticism on friday for the nations leading cleric in response to 2 months of antigovernment protests the masses of ministration will stay in charge until every placement government can be agreed on a process that is expected to take some time. Well the changes at the top are not stopping antigovernment protests from continuing across iraq including the 1st all female demonstration in the southern oil city of basra meanwhile Human Rights Watch says it is evidence that at least 7 people including a boy of 16 have been abducted in the vicinity of protests in baghdad in the past 2 months it says 4 of them are still missing. The best all from samoa as measles crisis says risen to 5348 of those victims aged 4 years or younger since it began in october schools have been closed and travel restricted infection rates are climbing in just over 2 weeks the dest toll has jumped more than 10 fold well some or has been scrambling to control its Measles Outbreak for weeks but with little success it had already been struggling with low immunization rates with less than a 3rd of children under 5 vaccinated last year but that was partly due to the deaths of 2 children who were given a wrongly makes vaccine by big november more than 1000. 00 cases of being confirmed forcing the government to declare a state of emergency as well as closing schools children are banned from public gatherings to stop the disease spreading measles mumps and rubella vaccinations are not compulsory for everyone with tens of thousands of people in ocular aged joe sagen is a medical officer of the World Health OrganisationRegional Office for the western pacific he says vaccines are the safest and most effective way to tackle the current Measles Outbreak. The truth is that vaccines are some of the safest interventions that we have access to measles vaccine alone has prevented over 21000000 deaths since 2000 people were under vaccinated are people who live in. Situations where they dont have access to that they live in conflict areas they may be part of marginalized populations that dont have the same access to services. And so and so the fact that these pockets of people who are not immune as been growing over time in some populations leads to this sort of a tinderbox situation and once the disease introduced its place resume rapidly coming out on the news hour from london. Angry scenes in maltese protesters demanding the Prime Ministers immediate resignation over the murder of a journalist stop politicians from leaving parliament plus. If we dont simply change our way of life we just put guys life itself is still weeks of un climate talks kick off in spain Scientists Say the worlds 2nd biggest ice sheet is unstable and breaking up. And host nation capital when a politically charged gold cup match against thing you wait the i would be here with the balls and so on. But 1st the dollar and Global Stock Markets have fallen after the surprise announcement from u. S. President donald trump that hes really imposing tariffs on steel and the many in the imports from argentina and brazil. Really. Pushing hard. To think straight are. Various. Areas. Are you sure. Brazils government says its already in touch with washington about the tariffs with president. Saying that hes cold feet and trump will listen to brazilian economic concerns in argentinas Foreign Ministry says it will begin to go see asians with the u. S. State department that i suppose has reaction from buenos itis that will warm relations between the United States argentina and brazil especially with precedents when i go but also modi so markie apparently him and trump knew each other for very very of her a long period of time because modi so mikey used to be a businessman salut this is certainly happened because back in last year argentina and brazil were even shielded when the United States implemented. In union canada and mexico among others it even lifted 25 percent tyree from teal temper sent tyreese minium last year so this is totally coming as a surprise donald trump old who is accusing this countrys of evaluating the currency in argentina and brazil saying that this is something that hurts farmers in the United States because brazil argentina exports mostly commodities like so you have been wheat. Other things. Saying in argentina the Vice President elect Cristina Fernandez de kia scherr has appeared in court when a former president is being investigated for alleged corruption during her time in office from 2007 to 2015 and the hearing is just days before shes due to be sworn in as Vice President will better fit in and is who used to be her chief of staff when she led argentina. A vigil has been held in the United Kingdom for the 2 People Killed in fridays London Bridge attack by a man who had been jailed for terror offenses jack married. To death on the London Bridge by an attacker who was released halfway through his prison sentence paul brennan was at the vigil attended by both the Prime Minister for a strong and Opposition Leader jeremy corbyn. This was a brief but very dignified ceremony the v. I. P. s over there in front of the guild hall observing a moments silence and short speeches from the bishop of london before they went into this art gallery here a condolence book has been opened and theyve been signing that away from the media away from this place the political wrangling continues both labor and the conservatives the 2 main parties locked in battle for the upcoming election arguing over who exactly is to blame for the fact that the kill it was man can was released only half way through a prison sentence for a previous terrorist offense now into that fray the father of the victim jack maritz has weighed it with a social media post on twitter in which he said the following dont use my sons death to promote your vile propaganda jack stood against everything you stand for hatred division and ignorance and its important to say that mr merrett wasnt referring to those monk cons propaganda or his hatred he was referring to the politicians ramping up the rhetoric around the response to these kind of incidents and using ever more stronger and hardline type of policies in order to reference them and respond to them mr merrett clearly not happy about that bearing in mind his son and the other fatal victim saskia jones were very much in intent on rehabilitation as a response to the crimes. Protesters in malta have blocked politicians from leaving parliament israelis continue over the investigation into murder journalists. The family of the victim are calling for Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat to step down immediately to allow or full investigation into her death he announced his resignation on sunday but said that he would stay on until next months neve barker reports now from walters capital valetta. Also this political crisis is deepening demonstrators surrounded parliament trapping government ministers from the Ruling Labor Party inside for several hours the Prime Minister resigned on sunday under a surge of public pressure but joseph muska wants to stay on until a replacement leader is elected in january demonstrators say muskrats too close to people implicated in the murder of journalist a blogger. They want him out of office now the journalist sun believes the protests are a major turning point. In the past week as something other country was never seen those relying on the streets and i think one of the reasons people also are angry is that. They put their trust in our government betrayed it completely never been lied to brazenly for 3 years space they called a new Prime Minister of state during his televised resignation on sunday muscat expressed deep regret for carolina murder and spoke of the need for a fresh page but his tone was defiant this case cannot define everything that our country is he said. Was killed in 2017 when a remote controlled bomb went off. She be looking into the secret accounts of some of multiple most powerful people and had investigated corruption in politics the police and banks 3 men arrested for carrying out the attack or awaiting trial but until now little has been done to identify who ordered the killing. At the heart of the murder probe is this man youre going to fenech hes one of the richest businessman because times to government ministers he was arrested 2 weeks ago accused of being complicit in the murder of the journalist he denies the charges after his arrest fenech attempted to implicate the multis Prime Ministers closest political ally Keith Schembri as a coconspirator schembri resigned last week his chief of staff to the Prime Minister he was interrogated for 2 days by police before being released without charge 2 other ministers also stepped down and being questioned by police they deny any involvement in. The resignation of top level officials within the labor party has done very little to calm protests that still remains hugely popular amongst many here multi hes credited with bolstering the economy but he swept to power promising to stamp out all forms of corruption and now some of his closest associates are embroiled in allegations