A typhoon bears down on millions of people in the philippines. And a warning from scientists about how much quicker the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet is breaking up. Into the program mexicos president has promised hugs not bullets well as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on hes witnessing the worst day of homicides in the countrys history since records began in 197127 deaths on sunday alone. With some of them the 22 killed in the gun battle between drug cartel and Security Forces in a town near the u. S. Border its the latest embarrassment for president and the rest Manuel Lopez Obrador who vowed to tackle violent. At its roots by fighting poverty and inequality with social programs rather than the army lets get more on this from our correspondent alan fischer whos in mexico city really worrying figures about this. I mean what more is the president saying because he in during his Election Campaign his platform was all about cleaning up those crime figures there are those who are close to the president they will tell you look if youre going to change this strategy is going to take some time to take effect it simply wont happen overnight and theyre trying to or turn the policy that was followed by several administrations up to this point but certainly 127 homicides do not does not look good when you also take into the fact that on average there are 97 murders in mexico every single day the president well he says look people have got to do their job and that what all the way from Regional Governors all the way down to the local administration to making sure that policeman are paid enough so that they cant be bought by the cartels and he says that in the next few weeks hes going to issue a report which will sure the people who are not doing the job he Still Believes in this strategy he Still Believes that that is the way to defeat the cartels but just yesterday on sunday we were on the streets in mexico city he was marking one year in office but there were tens of thousands of people who were complaining about the rule that the president plays particularly when it comes to securing society they simply dont think that hes doing enough and people dont feel safe is that the general feeling among the public because next question really allan was about public sentiment on the street how how wide and varied is it. Well they are worried about it theres absolutely no doubt about it and the more people i speak to one here in mexico the more people comment on the fact that theyre worried about the security situation theyre worried that things are not happening to make people safer they look at the figures every day and they are deeply concerned certainly it must have been a surprise to the president these figures are for and then before he has his morning News Conference every single day and they would have tallied the figures and realized that over the weekend including the shooter in the far north of the country over the weekend pushed those figures to record high since records began in 1970 the other thing you have to remember here which plays into the politics is that the u. S. President donald trump says that he is in the process of designating the drug cartels as terrorist organizations no if that were to happen mexico is opposing that as much as they can they dont want to confront donald trump but they simply dont see that as the way ahead here but if the pressure continues to go or grow then the president may be in a position where he has to ease back on some of that opposition quite simply because people here dont want to see another day as bloody as december the 1st 2019 for the moment i will leave it there of course follow events with you from mexico city thank you. Meet African Police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people have been killed during protests in beni on monday 3 protesters and the policeman died as demonstrators tried to storm a u. N. Peacekeeping base the Congolese Army has been deployed to protect the protests 1st broke out last month over what locals feel is a lack of Un Protection from armed rebel groups at least 100. 00 people were killed in november and the Democratic Forces militia has been blamed for much of the violence richard consoler is a spokesman for the d r c army he says protesters have lost sight of the real goal set up. The nope will be less 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 d. R. See 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 aljazeera producer you can is in ballet and has been following the protests he says although the tensions have calmed for the day more protests are likely to come yes they will not stop there will not stop protesting against un. Peacekeepers of the un and all the office of the un will be close so that the u. S. Government the responsibility to protect civilians against. These a. D. s rebels coming from. Killing people every day here in this town. Catherine saw we heard more from goma the largest city in eastern democratic republic of congo. Its still very unsafe on the streets the situation quiet and sartain as it hard 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 so 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 he would here in goma not. Benny is enough 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 hes saying that theyre violent even attacking residents of many who do not want to be involved in this process they say Security Forces are going to continue using force to contain the situation the United Nations has been trying to stabilize eastern democratic republic of congo for the past 20 years its mission. Has more than 18000. 00 personnel the largest peacekeeping operation in the world more than 100. 00 armed groups are believed to operate in the d. L. C. Raising villages and running illegal mines the allied Democratic Forces also known as the a. D. F. Is warm of the most well known fold by ugandan rebels more than 2 decades ago its accused of many atrocities. Adam de is the head of programs that the universitys center for policy research who was previously a Senior Advisor to the uns. He joins me now from new york good to have you with us on the programs though it seems that the government the u. N. Have both been late really in stating that position and indeed speaking really to each other all they know on the same page after that official statement. Thanks i think they never really werent on the same page in the broader message about the idea of being the enemy and just to say that there is a much longer pattern about unrest in beni thats being tapped into here and the un has been supporting government led operations against the idea for the last 5 years and theres a very predictable pattern that has occurred which is that there will be a government offensive against the a. D. F. The idea for then attack the civilian population in reprisal and the civilian population will have resentment and sometimes. Attack the government or in this case the u. N. That certainly reached a higher pitch now but that pattern has been in place for years and the sentiment has also been in place for years and so i dont think that well this is worse than it was before its not necessarily a new dynamic or an unpredictable pattern when you see the government launching an offensive one month ago again against the i. D. F. But it is all about the messages in the other really because the message might be the say but their actions a very different and thats not going to change because of the legal status of each of the respective positions of those 2 groups. Yes that thats true and i think what you see now is monusco also will join joint operations with the government again even though the one last month was bias by the government the message does matter but i think the underlying approach is is that there is a military use of force against the a. D. F. And in my experience that use of force hasnt been effective in reducing the ability of the idea to attack civilians there is even some evidence that after offensives against the a. D. s there is actually an increase in attacks on civilians in kidnappings and so i think one of the key messages that i think needs to happen is that there isnt a purely military solution to the problem of the a. D. F. And what i didnt hear from the spokesperson from the army at least was that recognition it seems to be again that theyll be more military operations against this group. That we talk about sort of the peacekeeping effort by the u. N. The protection of civilians we see the military operation by the congolese the r. C. Army is there any opportunity from your knowledge to actually find someone on the side of the a. D. F. To talk to earlier in the week when we spoke to our correspondents in the field this is the a. D. F. Has been going on for such a long time its been established for such a long time they may have themselves forgotten what theyre fighting for. Yeah its a really interesting point about the a. D. F. They are one of the most secretive and difficult to contact groups when i was living there we had lines of communication open id say with every other major group except the a. D. F. And they have really kept themselves sequestered from contact which makes obviously a non military approach more difficult the 2nd aspect is that the a. D. F. Is not just a military group but theyre deeply embedded in the social fabric of much of the beni area they participate in some of the land and Natural Resources disputes some of them wear many hats and theyre difficult to discern as as you heard from the the spokesperson mentioning that they were within the population thats very much the case and certainly during my time there we never opened a line of political communication with their leadership it was never a real option and thats one of the real difficulties with this group but one which i think. Can be dealt with by looking more at the communities and at the Community Level and less at targeting them just militarily but seeing if you can address the underlying disputes that may be generating some of the communities going to the a. D. F. For support so the story were going to be keeping a very close on in the coming weeks for the moment out of date thanks for joining us the hundreds of thousands of people who have been forced to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon makes landfall in the philippines largest most populous island. Lose all of monday evening local time and its continuing to strengthen its beginning bringing with it damaging winds and torrential rainfall but lives International Airport has also been temporarily closed there are warnings of severe flooding in 3 provinces. Its long for us in a province in south east and lose all that was the but for the moment jubilant terms of the areas but being hit by side close. Well you know sohail its hard to say exactly the kind of devastation that we might be facing here in alone we are still on the able to get out because the situation is just slowly starting to stable out i mean we have been up all night we were up in our rooms and when the water started to go in many of the guests have had to evacuate to the ground floor but the wind is too strong for anyone to have gone out last night but what were seeing from where we were were houses. And trees being basically swayed like like paper by by this typhoon it made landfall at about 9 pm local we were we saw the military rushed to evacuate civilians from. Difficult areas from vulnerable areas they were moved to government facilities like schools we spoke to the office of the Civil Defense here who told us basically that hundreds of people have already been developed evacuated at about 112 pm to midnight. We were right in the eye of the storm so there was about a period so we live about an hour and a half of of silence of eerie quiet and then it went back to a very best to us whether again with massive winds really threatening to tear down power lines we are getting reports that the airport in the gas been damaged both the arrival and departure areas we have yet to hear about the situation of civilians living in the islands around the because the region there is still an advice force of. And to stay put and were hoping to give you more in the coming hours ourselves. In situations like this information is very scarce and scanty as well we appreciate that but also in advance of the storm making landfall the government would have made plans to evacuate people as you say and where to evacuate them to because the philippines is no stranger to typhoons its had lots of experience in the types of damage and the loss of life that can incur and does happen when these natural events hit the islands. That is correct so hale i mean im sure youve covered the philippines as well youre quite aware about how severe natural disasters can be here but we are in the region of because you know what and that possibly best. The region that has always bore the brunt of the extreme natural disasters you know weve had threatened the threat of a volcano exploding but over the past 2 years this region has done well in responding to natural disasters like this one and over the past few years they have even achieved their 0 casualties target that is something that they hope to achieve this time however sohail having covered. You know the philippines for quite some time i have to say though that this typhoon is not only perhaps the strongest this year but one perhaps this is one of the strongest typhoon to hit since the haiyan strikes in 2013 there is a big difference though obviously the impact on the strings this is category 4 that is category 5 but again the beagle region has always responded well it remains to be seen though how this has impact other areas because this isnt the only region that has been affected and according to the government they have been prepared we saw how provisions have been prepared for food and spaces to move people to see for errors as early as sunday morning. Well drill of course well come back to earth through the day as our situation develops jamila island in the force in the philippines. Still ahead here on the aljazeera news our multiple political crisis worsens as demonstrators demand the Prime Minister step down. Others familiar face receiving battledore award for Football Player of the year well have a story in the. U. S. President all trump has intensified 2 fronts in his tariffs battle one on france over its Digital Services tax and another all steel an alum minium imports from argentina and brazil trump has accused both south american countries of artificially devaluing their currencies to benefit exports truth about reports of from the argentinian capital port as iras. Brazilian argentine steel and Aluminum Industries where the latest targets of the United States tirades on monday trump tweeted the main reason for the change in policy was the massive devaluation of the currencies in brazil and argentina which does not benefit u. S. Farmers. 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Argentinas central bank has spent more than 5000000000. 00 to bolster the pestle says the primary elections in august which triggered a collapse in the value of the currency trump now says the devaluations where intentional for many the latest u. S. Measures is also a consequence of the increasing commercial activities between china brazil and argentina in the middle of a trade war these are some of the im forcing consequences of u. S. Policy investors have been moving from emerging markets to the United States and to developed economies and that you know in argentina its one of the reasons behind the countrys currency crisis in 2018 major devaluation which of course has made its its its primary exports more competitive so in some ways you know the trumpet ministration is now reacting to something that helped create competitive exports which in part are heading to china argentinas president. 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