The rush to find shelter of the typhoon bears down the millions of people in the philippines. Bought into the program because president promised hugs and not bullets as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on hes witnessing the worst day of homicides since records began in 1997127 deaths on sunday alone. Mexico so we can the violence 22 people were killed in a gun battle between the drug cartel and Security Forces in a town near the u. S. Border its the latest embarrassment for president on the rare smuggler Lopez Obrador whos vowed to tackle Violent Crime at its roots by fighting poverty i did equality with social programs rather than the army lets get the very latest from alan fischer in mexico city and of course these figures now being digested by the president what else is he been saying seize got quite a lot of people that are listening to him at the moment both politically and in Civil Society. Well im sure it must have been a shock for the president and his staff these numbers are collated in the morning the governors of the various regions call in and give their figures at some point someone must have realized there were 127. 00 deaths that is certainly the watched the Bloodiest Day in mexico in recent history now the president has said that there has to be a whole change in attitude he believes in hugs not bullets as you say he needs to address the social problems that lead to the economic power of the cartels and hes saying that hes changing what has been done over several administrations know in mexico so its not going to happen overnight that hes also been saying that while he doesnt think what happened in the weekend was exceptional there are people who would argue with that what he intends to do over the next few weeks is published a report which shows that people who arent doing their job from governors to mayors who arent doing enough to combat violence dont to Police Officers are they being paid enough hes asked so that they cant be corrupted by the cartels he also says that he wants to increase the number of National Guard soldiers across the country he says they have the money to do that the problem is simply getting them trained up in time so he sees this is a project that is going to stretch over 5 years but there is no doubt people are deeply concerned about what theyre seeing certainly from the mexicans ive been speaking to they dont feel any safer and on the 1st anniversary of the president taking office we saw a huge rally in support of him in the main square there was more than 100000 people there according to the local police but there were tens of thousands of people on the streets in mexico protesting the president and one of the biggest groups where they were saying that hes not doing enough to address the security situation is certainly those concerns will be borne no by the news that has been confirmed by the president ial palace in the last few hours where you say. People that say that the president isnt doing enough and yet the president has a 5 year plan and it seems difficult to find where the middle ground is where both sides would be happy with each other. Well the problem of course is for Civil Society if you feel scared someone saying dont worry you wont feel scared in a couple of years isnt going to make you feel any better so the president has to move any has to move quickly and hes very much aware of this so while hes in office for the next 4 years he wants this plan to be in place as quickly as possible he wants those in the regions to do what they can to make people feel safer but heres a big problem for the president and also for mexico donald trump the u. S. President has said that hes going to designate mexican cartels as terrorist organizations their people as soon as they had that in mexico work in sand that that would lead to the United States perhaps carrying a drone strikes into mexico and they would see that as a huge breach of their sovereignty a huge breach of International Law and it would cause a real problem between between 2 close neighbors mexico is a pause that idea but can he keep opposing it if people dont feel safe and sadly there will be consensus if the president doesnt do something to address the moderate particularly if there are days as bloody as the center the 1st 2911 in mexico city thank you. Police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people were killed during protests. Protests 1st broke out last month over what locals call a lack of u. N. Protection from armed rebel groups. The Congolese Military has been reinforcing in the eastern town of benny but the protests and the shooting continue. Conny gave this graphic updates of the chaos. Around the siege of. Protester did not discourage him but. You have killed a Police Officer and his body was even supported by the protesters. On the. Big challenge for soldiers right now chris. These people are marching on a u. N. Peacekeepers base furious at what they see is the failure of u. N. Forces to protect them against attacks by rebel groups including the so called Democratic Forces determined to keep the mission outs protestors have already damaged a number of u. N. Building since process started a little over a week ago the Congolese Army has been sent to end the violence but has failed to stop the a. D. F. Killing more than 100 people in the last month and more than 1500. 00 in the last 5 years now theyre ordering the public off the street. They in the un are on their side so. Were calling on the population and all members of society in north kivu province to stop working with our enemy the population should not forget about the real enemy the police is not the enemy the r. C. Soldiers are not the enemy the un is not the enemy the real enemy is the rebels but on monday alone for protesters and a policeman died the violence in benny is now hampering efforts to contain an Ebola Outbreak thats killed more than 2000 people. In the democratic republic of congo since august the militarization of the medical response and this ruling reads distrust in an area where Government Troops and sometimes peacekeepers are not always seen as well as i am and now the World Health Organization has been forced to scale down operations in the area so to hide out al jazeera. The other day is the head of programs at the un the University Center for policy research was previously a Senior Advisor to the un and with but he says that a large thing to in the us failure to achieve peace has been the lack of contact with the Democratic Forces all of the main rebel groups 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 nonmilitary 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. U. S. President donald trump is intensifying 2 fronts in his terrorist battle one on france and the other on steel and alan minium imports from argentina and brazil shortly after arriving in london for a nato summit he threatened more than 2000000000. 00 in new levies on french exports the movie is in retaliation for a new french did Digital Service tax that is that will hit his u. S. Tech companies. Trump accuse argentina brazil of artificially devaluing the currency histories about has that story for. 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. Few really existed and that was she was a good example. For that for some very serious some furious some. In brazil which is slowly recovering from a recession the news came as a shock and the Steel Industry which accounts for more than 2000000000 in exports to the us talked about retaliation precedent. Trumps main ally in south america believes the situation can be worked out. If necessary ill talk to trump about that but were not backing off the lead out meanwhile in argentina with its struggling economy the announcement did not go unnoticed you would carry it on 15 and i will not only add up to the end certainty that already exists in this country in one week argentina will have a new president i read about a man there and he will happily deal with double digit inflation rate currency unfold and the possibility of a people on foreign debt. Argentinas government has been battling devaluation for months as people are turning to the u. S. Dollar to protect their savings. Argentinas central bank has spent more than 5000000000. 00 to bolster the pestle says the primary elections in august which triggered a call. Lapse in the value of the currency 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 unforeseen 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 one of the reasons behind the countrys currency crisis in 28 major devaluation which of course has made its its primary exports more competitive so in some ways you know over the trumpet ministration is now reacting to something that helped create competitive exports which in part are heading to china argentinas precedent. And. Have experienced a warm relation with donald trump since taking office but for many dealing with china these days is enough to put the best of friends at odds. Strategist at the National Education association the former foreign the Program Fellow of the Foreign PolicyResearch Institute well he says the decision shows that traditional audiences mean very little to donald trump. There are 3 things that are taking place here one is a demonstration of how president continues to demonstrate an love of unreliability so president also now one of his biggest if not his biggest champion in south america is going through the same experience that japanese Prime Minister and the kurds and nato allies have all experienced which that is that traditional alliances mean very little to the president the 2nd thing is that this is part of the blowback from the china trade war argentina is one of the largest producers of soybeans and so they benefited from this and the 3rd aspect which cannot be overlooked is the continual use of communities of color particularly countries in latin america as punching bags for the president s narratives to his base so here is a place where he is able to take unilateral action seemed to get tough on latin american governments for a situation that he has helped to create in order to demonstrate to his Political Base that hes acting unilaterally on their behalf but the irony here is of course that brazil putting tariffs on brazilian steel and aluminum has almost no impact at all with regards to providing relief for American Farmers and the effort with regards to argentina is really to sort of backfill if you will a problem that has been created by his trade war without seeming exit strategy with china. The former u. S. President jimmy carter has been readmitted to hospital hes been treated for a year in retracked infection that of facility in georgia the 95 year old was discharged last week from another hospital after undergoing a procedure following a recent fall carter is the countrys oldest living former president. Still ahead here on aljazeera were at the scene of an ass strike in libya that left at least 5 people dead. And nato leaders gather in london to celebrate the Alliance Even as questions hang over its teacher. Hell i watched winter prop was tucked into northern china its yet to come much further south that is cooling down admittedly the cloud in the west but its a dry picture there will be a foster the night in the land areas in 7 is a max would suggest that its going to feel a little bit colder in hong kong and in shanghai we are in double figures and were hanging around that way the cloud might increase on wednesday along this east coast largely because the typhoon on its way through the philippines is just bringing everything in his general direction but the dry picture the Mainland China apart from little bit up in you know. Now i just mention the philippines thats where the typhoon is ways through that wraps itself with this cloak of showers and drags them back through southern philippines but thats a line that still active otherwise back through permissiveness the Southern Thailand still kuala lumpur Singapore Still the sherry regime a good part of borneo and some of into the zipper theres a lot yes there could be a few showers and western java but its in that story at the moment is not really a proper rainy season nor should it be quite january is more the time it gets really heavy rain this is unusual theres been flooding around chennai the shouldnt really be rain that far north at this time of the year but it could well be repeated on tuesday. Whether sponsored by cattle is. An investigation of how Foreign Companies plunder africas Natural Resources the trust is showing porton in the question revealing how new medias officials demand cash in exchange for favors. With confidential documents provided to aljazeera by wiki leaks people are going to say but you can really contras the camps and im not denying it our jersey or investigations the anatomy of a bright. Kid watching of 0 with me so horrible a reminder of our top stories mexicos homicide rate hits historic levels with 127 deaths reported on sunday thats the highest number in a single day since records began in 1997 it comes as president obrador completes his 1st year in office. Also police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people are being killed during protests in betting on monday demonstrations demonstrators are in fact upset about what they say is a lack of u. N. Protection from armed rebel groups. Also President Trump is intensifying 2 fronts in his tariffs battle trump threaten more than 2000000000. 00 worth of levies on french exports hes also announced plans to reimpose new tariffs on steel and alimony and imports from argentina and brazil. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon makes landfall in the philippines largest and most populous island community. It was on monday evening local time and is continuing to strengthen its been bringing damaged wind damaging winds and torrential rainfall manilas International Airport has also been closed or warnings of severe flooding in 3 provinces. And its our correspondent joins us now from a province in southeastern new saw the island of course. The filipinos of course no strangers to be sorts of natural events. And certainly got everybody on standby. Yes definitely i mean we are hopeful that here in the hotel. That arrived at about 10 pm 9 pm local time and it continued to barrel this region for a good 3 hours until we got to right in the eye of the storm now we were in our room outside basically so hey like a full blown war but everything every inside everything was holding until it didnt until the water started to get in and the glass was started to shake that we had to evacuate on the ground floor right now at this point this is about 80 am local time we are getting reports that some coastal villages on the eastern part of been severely affected that some houses have been severely damaged its hard to get information at the moment because power lines have been out since 8 pm local were also getting is the airport here in vegas has also been damaged both arrival and departure and some areas leading into the air by an outside you know this is about 12 hours from and the are also. Not possible are blocked by deep breathe because of the typhoon were hoping that in the coming hours were getting more information about the situation in other smaller islands that would apple boreas the cow these are i. And that in fact. Local rescue Emergency Response operations leaders have already talked about being most vulnerable to take full income henri as you know the beagle region have always been bearing the brunt of severe typhoons like this one but over the last few years it has done very well when it comes to responding and evacuating just in time in fact theyve achieved their 0 casualties targets over the last 2 years now it remains to be seen though whether this can be achiev