arrested in this is what's happening throughout the capital and the country paramilitary police deployed to try to arrest and stop any form of violence. security forces shot dead several protesters and scores are injured human rights watch accused the government of banning street protests for over a year now and cracking down on dissent presidential elections are a full year away but the political deadlock has already set in there is a sense of fear and apprehension of what is to come nicholas hawk al jazeera. for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back mexico's government says it's getting to grips with the country's appalling murder rate but the evidence on the ground doesn't support the. president trumps former russia testifies to congress as part of the impeachment inquiry stay with us.

i once again you see it's a very heavy snow move just spinning out of canada through the northern plains of the u.s. of the coaches in particular seeing some big snowfall most accounts for around 91 centimeters of snow in space of 24 hours assistance pushing further eastward quite an intense area of low pressure here but it's in the process of fizzling out somewhat based in places of snow on the side of the border was a result of that and some heavy rain too just pushing up towards the midwest but further south some really heavy rain rot across the deep south as we go through tuesday there is the potential for some localized flooding that right still in place as we go into wednesday not as intense but it is still we have it will be falling on saturated ground by that time the eastern seaboard also seeing a fair bit of cloud and right and the backwash from that's a previous system that will just filter its way across many of those parts through the ohio valley as we go on through wednesday but that's the essential service nazi

back up through the pacific northwest western parts of canada we have got some cloud and right in the forecast for some snow i with the high ground cloud are right on the focus was a good part of central america some big downpours coming through here in circulation just off the coast of mexico making its way little further north over the next day i'll say come into the caribbean fine dry and sunny. they say to really know someone you must walk a mile in their shoes. follow in their footsteps as they forge their way in the was. found as iraq shares these personal journeys. inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen path. and weakness documentaries on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder of our top stories here on the al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military campaign in kurdish held areas on the ground in syria a group of government soldiers enter the strategic city of manby day after being invited in by kurdish forces but this sets up a potential clash with turkish forces stationed on the outskirts. of these 4 people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in guinea there is widespread

anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow president alpha condé to run for a 3rd. now the recent arrival of migrants on a tiny italian island is polarising attitudes towards migration lampedusa has been a key landing point for thousands of people trying to get to mainland europe in the past 2 days hundreds of migrants have made the dangerous journey across the mediterranean mama john jhoom sent us this report from lampedusa. they knew they might die at sea but these migrants took the risk leaving from tunisia on a dangerous voyage across the mediterranean that this year alone has claimed more than a 1000 lives arriving hours later on lampedusa a tiny italian island closer to tunisia in italy. this is the 4th group of migrants to have arrived here in the past 17 hours or so now all the migrants i've spoken with here in lampedusa they've been too afraid to be interviewed on camera

most of them are traumatized by what they describe as a harrowing journey across the mediterranean and they're also terrified about the uncertainty they now face days earlier a far sattar scene when a boat carrying approximately 50 migrants capsized off the island of lampedusa 22 people were rescued but at least 13 migrants all women died others are missing ambulance driver giacomo matina helped transport bodies pulled from the water in the lumpiness on the wee people from lebanon to settle so they always held at these people and we always will nima i don't like it when you speak to say that we don't want here. but it's not just newspapers expressing those sentiments carmella majority who owns a boat rental business says she used to support those arriving here but she says that changed when migrants stole one of her boats can mail it to me again and nowadays even if one of those women come here i'm not going to welcome her because

they cause me harm i know that not all are the same but after a while you become harsher and you can't do what you would do before known as the gateway to europe lampedusa is increasingly at the forefront of an intense debate in italy on whether migrants should be welcomed or turned away the hardline closed ports policy a former interior minister met teo salvini has at least for now been replaced by a more humane approach to migration under prime minister just have to go on to a center left coalition government italy is working with germany france and malta to establish a quota system for distributing migrants rescued at sea so far they've been unable to get potential partner countries to agree. the identities of most of the migrants buried in lump a duce a cemetery are unknown. aid workers are there to a mulatto believes it's important for him to be among the 1st europeans to welcome people who've suffered so much he blames italy's politicians for polarizing opinion

unfortunately. he's an italian i know they're. influenced by their overall public break and right now well many people even if they raise their right clearly. there are people that see this sentiment i would say. on other parts of the island sit other types of graveyards the remains of vessels that were meant to deliver so many desperate people to safety i start reminder that futures in vision but never realized. and produced in italy. protests have erupted in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 catalan separatist leaders who've been sent to prison for their role in the region's failed bid for independence thousands of catalans separatists fought with police but testers

blocked access to barcelona's airport more than 100 flights were canceled on monday spain's supreme court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison. echoes president has signed a decree scrapping austerity measures that led to almost 2 weeks of violent protests and digitas leaders who led the demonstrations call for field prices to return to previous levels by tuesday and while the situation remains tense the breakthrough has been a relief for many ecuadorians who live on a low income but over apple as more now from the capital quito. in a neighborhood near the outskirts of the ecuadorian capital freddy and carmen are walking back from their home their house is modest and they share the space with other members of their family. the couple make a combined income of about $500.00 per month which is just enough to get by. for the past few days however the 2 haven't been working. instead they were participating in an indigenous movement that was calling on the ecuadorian

government to abandon austerity measures that threatened to increase their cost of living a movement that was ultimately successful. say. finally the voice of indigenous people is being valued finally the government has listened if they hadn't we would have continued to go after the corrupt government that only puts money in their pocket. there are thousands of people from indigenous communities from across ecuador who like freddie and carmen flooded the streets of people for more than a week the protests were against a proposed cut to a fuel subsidies program that's been in place for decades weak analysts like other to. say this policy would have had a devastating impact on the poor. and then i would be sentencing people to poverty or sending entire swaths of the ecuadorian population into poverty there are many people who live off a subsistence economy where $1.00 means the difference between a decent meal or not eating. this is for low income families like freddie and

carmen's avoiding the increase in fuel prices is being viewed as a win the carman says the fight is far from over. we say that this is only to beginning until all of the corrupt leaders leave this doesn't end here to fight continues until all the corruption has gone. on monday indigenous leaders cheered the victory over the government but reiterated their demand that fuel prices be reduced to earlier levels this is the scene in downtown with. hundreds of demonstrators no longer protesting in the streets arriving at this auditorium for one last address from indigenous leaders one last celebration before they go home now that a call has returned to the streets of the ecuadorian capital and the agreement between the ecuadorian government and indigenous demonstrators means the unrest in the country has ended the government is now faced with a new pressure to establish economic reforms that are more inclusive or otherwise

face a backlash from a sector of society that has lost confidence in the country's leadership limited up a little dizzy to do it with all. of these 14 police officers have been killed in a single attack in mexico it occurred just hours before president on that as money lopez obrador announced that he was getting to grips with the country's high murder rate his speech was overshadowed by monday's killings which happened in in majok on state violent turf wars between rival drug gangs a common that gentleman sent us this update from mexico city. so mexico's president and his head of public security came out on the morning of monday and gave a press conference in which they said it's nothing to boast about but we think we might just be getting on top of the murder rate in the country they called it a point of inflection in the homicide rates in the country and they said that what they're doing is continuing to send out the national guard that's a newly formed and quite militarized police force out into key hotspots in the

country to draw and deal with things and also having social programs that would try and give employment to people to give some hope put it money in the pocket of people who otherwise might be tempted into organized crime so the message was quite positive coming from the top and then the news came out that image to a can the state in southwest mexico police officers have been. killed by presumably organized crime in that region now michu a kind is a state in which there's different criminal organizations battling over it one of the strongest of those organizations if not the strongest is the cartel new generation and there were banners left with the burnt out vehicles of the police seem to was signed as if they were from that cartel now sometimes those banners can be used misleadingly but that is a strong organization in that part the country that has been involved in murdering

policemen and law enforcement authorities before now the president obviously and the head of security would say things are getting better little by little in the country i think one of the worries that perhaps analysts that we've talked to have had is that the national guard may be that they're not being rolled out to all areas of the country and taking up the law enforcement activities as fast as they could do some or even worried about more of the same ahead on confrontation of organized crime using another. quite blunt force to try and put a stop to the it didn't seem to work for past administrations why would it work now but what happened on it but what's happened in the last 24 hours in mexico a sign that the government still is grappling with the problem and a sign that the problem remains and that more deaths tragically are still happening brazil's northeastern bias state has become the 1st to declare an emergency after

a mysterious oil spill contaminated dozens of beaches they army as well as city and state officials are involved in the cleanup crude oil has washed up along more than 2000 kilometers of brazil's coast gable is under has more now from much ale on brazil's northeast coast. the situation is still very critical in the beaches here in the northeast of brazil there is still crude oil that is washing up on the beaches here in more than 150 different locations in an area that's nearly 2000 kilometers long no matter where this oil is coming from it's already having a devastating effect on some marine life now this is video that's very hard to look at it is a video of a marine sea turtle that was rescued near the state of by. this turtle had swallowed some of the crude oil and was about to die but it was rescued and these veterinarians there are trying to save the turtle by cleaning out the oil from

its mouth this just gives you an idea of the kind of work that's being done to try to save as many animals as possible and the question is where is this oil coming from the brazilian government continues to say that this or oil they believe is coming from venezuela however in recent days there's been images like this barrels of what appears to be oil that have washed up on some of the beaches in the northeastern brazil and on the barrels of oil it says shell in reference to the american oil company however in response to this show has said these particular barrels are actually lubricants that probably fell off of some ship show claims that these barrels do not have anything to do with the current oil spill however on sunday brazil's minister of environment demanded that show provide more answers to this it's probably going to take weeks perhaps even months to clean all of this up

as one person told us this is absolutely an environmental disaster. now a former aide to the u.s. secretary of state will testify on wednesday to a closed door session of a congressional committee holding impeachment hearings into president trump on monday former white house russia adviser fiona hill gave her testimony she resigned days before the july phone conversation when trump asked ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son jabatan she has more now from washington d.c. unlike before my ambassador to ukraine is testimony on friday there was no opening statement for fear in the hills or nothing that could be leaked almost immediately to the press number less we have been receiving briefings from those around her about what she is saying and the key the key point is yes there was a shadow foreign policy operation underway at the at the control of rudy giuliani

on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes fairly he'll say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s. national security this was about donald trump's personal position about may be key in any articles of impeachment now judges for this year's booker prize of ripped up the rule book a name to win as british author ben that in every stolen canadian writer margaret atwood have both been given the prestigious literary award has won for her dystopian thriller the testaments while every stone was honored for her novel girl woman other it's at would 2nd book a prize the 2 authors though would have to split the $60000.00 prize. it would have been quite embarrassing. for persons of my age.

to have one the whole thing and they're trying. to capture a younger person in a different stage of their career from going through that door i'm not thinking about sharing and thinking about the fact that i've got it and i think that's some an incredible thing considering what the prize has meant to me in my history life in the fact that it just felt so unattainable for decades. talk a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military campaign in kurdish held areas meanwhile u.s. vice president mike pence says he'll be heading to the region to discuss to his campaign let me say the president could not have been more firm with president

aired want to. the united states of america simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down to end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president sending me to the region to make his intention very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard meanwhile in syria a group of government soldiers has entered the strategic city of man be a day after being invited in by kurdish forces well this sets up a potential clash with turkish forces who are stationed on the outskirts of the city. at least 4 people have been killed in government demonstrations in guinea there's widespread anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow the president alpha condé to run for

a 3rd term protests erupted in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 newcastle and separatist leaders who've been sent to prison for their role in the region's failed bid for independence thousands of cattle and separatists fought with police testers blocked access to barcelona airport over 100 flights were canceled on monday spain's supreme court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison and acquittals president has signed a decree scrapping austerity measures that saw almost 2 weeks of violent protests indigenous leaders who led the demonstrations called for fuel prices to return to previous levels by tuesday in the capital quito workers clean the streets of daybreak caused by the protests which left at least 7 people dead president lyndon marino says he'll work on the new economic policy approved by the indigenous groups . so those were the headlines the news continues here on. the witness statement also watching. on counting the cost president threatens to destroy turkey's economy

again will find out how his conflicts of interest in istanbul. lebanon goes from one crisis to another and can gold hit a record high of $2000.00 counting the cost. to

. let. you. know that i gave you the moon. and leave an able to. do so. and a half from and not. back any. role . and.

i know that. there's no listening. to. what you. want. them to. say. oh. from i told you might. have some fun if you are up last yet you are my most of the business that you're going to mention how. i've always been listening to the soup and what up till now.

so i. didn't know when you got it and i thought oh well. and one local town meeting. was out with the fact that the boy in the bush. was out that it would be. baghdad the home that i am. proud to know not one of those.

only very dangerous living. who goes to this is. not good. that i am family. the only those who could. live in. that. that you know down. to me but. i wanted to let you. live because that's the service she said. you know that. the system had to leave so soon. but this. time it didn't make the best. that's.

i would say someone cuts on a. lot of.

bad.

well. i have. had our. * oh i doubt that. we'll know.

anything yet. it was. when. i was coming down. employment as well and i

believe there are a buyer for the money when i was there last. year the. obama mile well we're. fine now but the soonest but i know my name is dan laying it down letting you know that i weigh in i learned i would. hope one of the things i hope i've got senior. body. was. found what i was.

driving. was a local store saw a dog. on the it's not. check.

it. out of my ammo now i. am. tired of that bud. was.