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Miguel marquez has the latest from haiti's capital. >> reporter: for nine days, haitians took to the streets fighting with police, lighting fires, tires on fire, creating road blocks across the city. essentially shutting down the main city here port-au-prince for nine days. in the last 24 hours, there has been a lull. a very tense lull at the very best. people basically looking for the very basics of life. food, gas and water. all of them in short supply. throughout the city, large crowds of haitians gathered looking for water. gas stations were, for the most part, shut across the entire city....

With the european union, now the deal goes to a vote in the british house of commons in 2 weeks if it passes the uk will leave the eu on march 29th of next year, but if voted down the government can try to extend the deadline. we shall see. french president emmanuel macron expected to respond today to a weekend of violent protests, demonstrators angry over rising fuel taxes in france and cost of living. the french really know how to protest, thousands of protestors flooding the streets in paris, lighting fires and clashing with police, officials force today use water cannon and tear gas to try...

Danger would have been put in even more dangerous position given that it's definitely an issue that's receiving more and more debate as the recovery is going on ok and there's also word out that the saudis are looking into what caused this fire apparently there was a week power line that went down on what are you. don't have an official word on that obviously an investigation from this takes a long time but there's it's run the gamut and there's conspiracy theories that you'll hear it runs the gamut of there's people running around lighting fires to a downed power line which then was taken by ...

But where you can get to through down the trees and a down power wires, you really gets the sense that still, puerto ricans are fending for themselves. they are chopping up wood in the arts, lighting fires, they are bathing, they are trying to prop up poles so that they can drive in and out of streets, it is really a diy effort, the government has said that he may be on your own for 72 hours, and largely, they are on their own. often, there is damage from the wind, holes in the roof, water on the floor, it is very bleak circumstances. when you look at the south, 95% of cell phone services out....

From there things pretty quickly went pear shaped. police turned water cannons and copious amounts of tear gas. the protesters threw rocks and bottles at the police. by nightfall the protesters were lighting fires in the streets. we don't know how many protesters were arrested or injured. we are told more than 75 police officers were injured today. three of whom had to two to the hospital, including one who had an eye injury when the officer had a firecracker blow up in his or her face. right now as we speak it's after 3:00 in the morning in hamburg. things are died down after the big and viol...