a witness documentary on al-jazeera. security forces in eastern democratic republic of congo stalled by an angry crowd from marching on a u.n. base. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back also coming up u.s. president donald trump slaps tariffs on metal imports from brazil and argentina open a new front in his trade war. some are shuts down its government and orders staff to help contain a measles outbreak that scales more than 50 people. plus as world leaders gather for urgent climate talks in spain we'll explore what cent stake for. in kenya.

security forces stopped an angry crowd from marching towards a u.n. base in the east of the democratic republic of congo they were heading to the peacekeeping compound near the airport in beni one of 2 bases in that city at least 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u.n. peacekeepers there for more than a week now saying they're failing to protect civilians from attacks by rebel groups that speak to their as producer. who is in beni for as he is on the line understand that there was a press or a press conference with the congolese army a short while ago tell us about what they have been saying. yes. 4 folks. who are trying to justify their actual no doubt need to be. good most.

people probably the group that did not commission which group but he said he would be more tough because. a he said. you know what it is not to get him in. the forces even to please. the people trying to. unify to do the. talking about. good again. what's going on to put this situation is more to. me going to go. against. the. big thing right now the more. these tyrants thought this was referring to to what happened today

because this was a real. gun shop this morning. no one. it was not a level again anything. that was a message to becoming big thank you for that update county on the line there from benny unit speak to another of our correspondents and democratic republic of congo katherine sawyer who is in the regional capital goma kathleen at the anger the u.n. is not just in betty but also in goma way you want to tell us about what's been happening than them. absolutely people here are quite angry but fully let me just fast go back to that press conference that arlo was talking about he says that the military did not mention which armed groups are saying and have infiltrated these protests who these men are will come from outside benny but

i did speak to that governor of north q will benny is a territory in north to the governor who said to me that they believe that this potus have been infiltrated by members of a militia a rebel group called my my this is a group that is more entrenched in the community is more accepted by most many people in that area so he says that there are fears that this group has infiltrated this protest he says that the government the government forces are going to continue using force until this situation is sorted out but then even up even with him saying that there is genuine anger in the streets of many and here in gomers while here in goma we've been here for a week and we've seen protests every day last week people saying that as long as the people of benny are on the streets people of goma will also protest supporting those in beni they say that it's unacceptable the security situation saying that

how is it when there's an ongoing government offensive against rebels in the forest this rebels called a.d.f. are still able to come back to the villages and kill people so brutally for the past week now catherine people in eastern d r c have been demanding that the u.n. peacekeeping mission. the u.n. has been in the d r c for a very long time now obviously but how much confidence is there that if the u.n. were to leave that the congolese army the congolese security forces would be able to take to take on security responsibilities in the east. well that's a big question for ali i mean i've been talking to researchers here people who've been researching on the security situation i've also been talking to human rights campaigners one of the human rights campaign i talked to said that it's time that army took charge of the security situation he says that to you when has been here

for so long and he should of given. 2. forces but this is a huge area and that dozens of rebel groups really controlling remote villages and forests fighting for minerals and things like that and it seems very much of the congolese army is thinly stretched and doesn't have enough resources to deal with that situation ok thank you very much for that catherine sawyer live for us in goma in eastern democratic republic of congo and other world news now the white house says it will not take part in the next step of the beach one inquiry into donald trump the u.s. president had been given until sunday to confirm whether he would send legal representatives to the house hearing on wednesday trump is accused of asking ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden and son exchange for military aid live to our white house correspondent kimberly harkat in washington where president has been speaking about the impeachment proceedings so what happens now

kimberly that the president has said he doesn't want to take on. yeah well the process will continue folly this is a really pivotal week in washington with regard to the impeachment inquiry it's very clear that democrats are on a tight timeline we hear that they want to try to vote to impeach by the end of the year so we have this 1st hearing coming up on wednesday and that is the focus of some pushback by the white house the u.s. president as he left the white house in the last hour or so on his way to london did speak about the impeachment inquiry in fact he echoed what we had heard initially from his lawyer that the feeling of the white house is this is a partisan process that there has been no opportunity for the president to defend himself and as a result there is really no effort to fight back in fact the president talked about this directly he said he did nothing wrong he calls this a disgrace but then he was asked directly by reporters look at if you've done

nothing wrong if this is no there's been no opportunity for you to defend yourself why not even though you're going to london perhaps send your lawyer to have him or her defense you the president simply responded that this is a hoax so we've heard this from the president before but essentially the president has doubled down on what we've heard from his counsel and other white house officials that they feel by participating in this process even though they've criticized it saying that there's no due process they don't want to validate what they see as an invalid process and kimberly before the president left for london he announced that he would restore tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from argentina and brazil he made the announcement on twitter saying that the 2 countries hopefully we can see that tweet just now have been presiding over a massive devaluation of their care and seas which is not good for off alma's therefore effective immediately says i will restore the tires on all steel and aluminum that is shipped into the u.s. from those countries kimberly a both these countries were among u.s.

allies that president actually exempted from c.n.n. and when i'm tired and march 20. brazilian argentina also had warm relationships with donald trump why is he making the phenomenon want why not. yeah well as you point out there was this exemption that had been carved out out more than a year ago sort of a little bit of a surprise to hear from the president it seems that some of the comments coming out of latin america in recent weeks have really sparked some anger by this president namely he's accusing them of what he has accused other countries of doing including china where the u.s. is embroiled in a trade war as well as centrally of devaluing their currency and compared to the strong u.s. dollar it's making it very difficult for many of those who support donald trump to continue their businesses whether it's in the manufacturing sector or whether it's in the farming sector you have to remember the farmers also hit hard with this

trade war with china so it seems that some of the devaluation that has occurred in recent weeks in both argentina and brazil has really pushed the u.s. president to be very vocal about the fact he spoke about this as he left the white house saying that he feels this is very unfair for the farmers and the manufacturers these are key supporters of the president of the 2020 u.s. election he wants to keep them happy so that may have something to do with all of this sort of abrupt announcement coming from the u.s. president thank you for that kimberly how good life or is the white house while both brazil and argentina has said they will renegotiate with the u.s. to stop this move to reassemble has a view now from when a sign. that will warm relations between the united states argentina brazil especially with precedent. but also mode apparently him and trump knew each other for very very a for a really long period of time because modi somebody used to be a businessman suit this is certainly happened because back in last year argentina

and brazil were even shielded when the united states implemented tariffs on the romanian union canada mexico among others even lifted a 25 percent tariff from temper sent terrorists on many. am last year so this effectively coming as a surprise donald trump both always accusing this country's of devaluating the currency in argentina and brazil saying that this is something that hurts farmers in the united states because brazil and argentina exports mostly commodities like so you have been wheat among other things some all as prime minister is shutting down the government and ordering staff to help deal with the spiraling measles outbreak so far at least 53 people have died on the pacific islands most of them young children as many as 100 people are falling ill every day josie hagen is a medical officer at the world health organization regional office for the western pacific he says vaccines are the safest and most effective way of tackling 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. the deaths of that did occur couple years ago were extremely tragic because they were preventable errors do occur but it was not a problem with the vaccine it was a that was it was an unfortunate error and administration people who were under vaccinated are people who live in. situations where they don't have access to the vaccine they live in conflict areas they may be part of marginalized populations that don't have the same access to services. and so those 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 again the disease introduced its place resume rapidly and unfortunately to spreading across the world and that leads to

a lot of exportations through international travel which affects small countries like some off. still ahead on al-jazeera concerns for the future of democratic reforms in mauritania after plates in the ruling elite class bracing for a typhoon thousands are evacuated in southeast philippines. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across the philippines we are watching the typhoon making landfall on late monday as a pushes across the area on tuesday as well heavy rain is expected across much of the central philippines as we go through the next 24 to 72 hours we could be expecting to see anywhere between $3400.00 millimeters of rain by the system makes its way towards the south china sea for manila expect to see widespread flooding

across the area expression in those low lying areas winds are going to be quite strong as well but we still expect to see a typhoon strength storm as it makes its way towards the west of the philippines we will keep you informed of that over the next few days over here toward southern india the rain has been quite heavy of the last 24 hours a lot of the the rain showers have been really plaguing not only india but also down here toward sri lanka a little bit better news as we go towards tuesday a little break in the area but the rain is going to be quite heavy just towards the west not too much of a break though for colombo with the temperature there of 30 and as we go towards wednesday we are expecting to see rain continue for colombo but we are going to see more clouds making their way up here towards mumbai to the north though for new delhi the temperatures are coming down we do expect to see a temperature of $22.00 in kolkata attempt a few of 26 degrees. county

recalls what started the protests in ecuador would it be a multi-billion dollar load with full time for goodness to the corporation sturgeon's of the poorest. part of the spectrum of all the state did it help your plan recover from a small stuff. counting the cost on oil just. a recap of our top stories on algis iraq security forces have stopped an angry crowd from marching towards a u.n.

base in the east of the democratic republic of congo and he's 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u.n. peacekeepers for more than a week now saying they are failing to protect civilians from rebel attacks u.s. president donald trump is restoring tires on steel and aluminum imports from argentina and brazil he's accused of both countries of hurting american farmers by massively devaluing their care and seeds and some more as prime minister is shutting down the government to allow public servants to deal with a spiraling measles outbreak so far at least 53 people have died on the pacific island most of them young children. now fears are growing in the west african nation of mauritania that hard earned democratic gains might be reversed they follow a sudden dispute between 2 army generals who have been ruling the country for years reports in the capital for. president mohammed and his predecessor mohammed abdul aziz are long time friends who staged coups together since 2005. as

easily as president as well as chief then minister of defense well as he's completed his terms in office he supported the candidacy of us when he was elected in doing what their alliance came to a stop and last week. backed by a few loyalists as he's wanted to leave the ruling party a union for the public which he founded 10 years ago as one his supporters injected the move which they describe as an attempt by the former president to sneak back to power. our position as majority in the administrative comedy reinforces that this is the party of the government so it should be run by the sitting president mahmoud. not literally but in consultation with all party members as to form a president you can pursue is in bishan within the party like any other member but he can't have a special status. has this is the 1st fragmentation within the ruling party since

its inception we now have 2 sides one owns a majority of 22 members in the administrative committee the other owns the leadership of the party. fears of a serious escalation increased after the arrest of the commander of the presidential guard and his deputy to loyalists of the former president as the come through celebrated the anniversary of its independence rumors spread out about a failed coup attempt. the sudden reappearance of the former president on the political scene coincided with the launch of a foreign power by the us government people say the former president should be brought to justice for corruption and abuse of power i know that would often let us the fact that they've reached this point now means nothing will stand in the way of reform. despite that hope tension remains and there's uncertainty over what the next move of the former president might be so strong as presidential election there

has been speculation as to who is really running things in this presidential compound behind me some have said that president mohamed was one it might be under the influence of his predecessor but that has turned out to be wrong. in a clear break with his predecessor's antagonistic policies president as when he made peace with all opposition leaders and invited them to work with the government for the public good but there are fears that both the reforms and the national consensus that's being built may well decide if the present crisis isn't sort of solved. a disease or a. syrian government airstrikes have killed at least 14 civilians in the province. but. at least 20 others including children are injured busy market. city were targeted and there are reports of more airstrikes in the area. now reports suggest saudi arabia wants opec to reduce oil

production as it prepares to state owned oil firm on the stock exchange sources tell his news agency that the plan would see another $400000.00 barrels per day added to existing cuts of 1200000 that so while prices will stay high enough cheering around cause initial share offering but a number of countries are producing oil well above their cult is there as economic editor abbott alley explains why saudi arabia would consider such a milf. it would be really helpful if oil prices were stable over the 1st 6 months of its flotation now. this is important because they have a lot of retail investors which are small investors who are pretty members into the market possibly for the 1st time huge loans to take a big bet on this particular company after 6 months if they keep. their money in saudi aramco they will get extra shares and the hope is that

a non followed market would encourage them to keep their money in the saudi aramco and so the saudis of very keen to make sure that this flotation is exorcise they don't want to have to put their hands in their own pockets that it's using their state funds to stop mopping up to buy excess excess shares the whole idea of trying to sell aramco was to make sure that there was additional new money coming into the economy so that they could spend that money elsewhere. the international court of justice in the netherlands held public hearings on an appeal relating to the blockade of qatar egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates and bahrain have been imposing the blockade for nearly 2 and a half he is they accuse qatar's government of spreading instability and supporting terrorism which it strongly denies on june 5th 2017 saudi arabia close only in land border access to the sea is restricted as well and routes were also close forcing

qatar airways to make detours and look for auction it fried paths says the airspace restrictions by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. violates international law from the hague. on the arguments and defense of the blockading nations the 1st day of hearings here at the international court of justice centered on the blockade in countries egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates rain century explaining through the courts why they believe an earlier decision by ike how that is the international civil aviation organization which ruled that's of the arab. contravened international agreements why they believe that this should be overturned essentially the blockade in countries are asking that the i.c. jury or overturn this decision and their argument seems to be a bit strange because on the one hand they say that i can help by taking

a stance in favor of cutting this essentially politicizing the organization and it's taking a political stone but on the other hand they were complaining in their statements made at the courthouse behind me that the reason why the blockading countries took the decision to close their airspace was because of political decisions and were complaining that i coul never took that into consideration. typhoon camorra is strengthening and making its way towards southeast philippines they are warnings of severe flooding in 3 provinces operations at the manila international airport will be temporarily suspended starting on tuesday jamila linda gun is in by philippines we are in lagos the other by one of the areas expected to bear the brunt of typhoon camorra an operations like this one have started as early as sunday morning and the situation is similar all across the region of the call where thousands of families have already been

evacuated but those living in the islands remain more vulnerable because region always where the brunt of the deer in the country but over the last few years they have achieved even their 0 casualty targets still they're not leaving anything to chance because officials here tell us i think i'm worry is expected to be the strongest typhoon to hit the philippines this year and annual un climate conference has opened in spain where delegates have been warned planet is fast approaching the point of no return chilean politician carlina schmidt took over as president of cop 25 in madrid the event was meant to have been held in chile but weeks of violent street protests there forced the government to cancel in killing in chile and globally we are seeing social and environmental crises in order to address these we have to go back to the grassroots we have to build trust and confidence again if we need to dialogue with openness to change the climate crisis is the greatest

challenge that we are facing today. there is mariana horn takes a looks takes a look at what stood in the way of action so far. nations have had their differences over how to keep our planet cool but the need to act well that something they have long agreed on will date as did that back in 1992 at the youth summit in rio de janeiro signing up to the u.n. framework convention on climate change even in the ninety's they recognised through this international treaty that climate change was a problem that human activity was the driving force and that we all need to weigh it but what the treaty didn't address was how to reconcile the different interests of every nation on this planet so every year since 995 the conference of the parties to that treaty what we now refer to as the co-op have come together to try to work it all out thousands of observers have joined them there's been debate

negotiation a lot of science a lot of jargon and some major disagreements which makes the deal in paris in 2015 all the more remarkable countries united behind limiting warming the same tree to well below 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels ideally one and a half they pledged to reduce emissions and developed nations committed to $100000000000.00 a year fund by 2020 to help poorer nations adept and develop a new planet friendly way. last year they agreed to most though not all of the rules on how to do it all with an eye on 2020 when they will lay be a what they have done and plenty to custom missions which is why what happens in 2019 really matches if rich nations failed to deliver on that $100000000000.00 climate finance it could revive disputes with developing nations over emissions of

countries fail to agree on carbon trading rules with bipolar to pay for their emissions it could interrupt the world's transition to clean energy and if nations fail to commit to new more ambitious pledges well that could undermine faith in the cup itself donald trump's plan to pull the united states out of the paris agreement late next year isn't helping and carbon emissions is still on the rise but as it stands every nation is at the table and politicians are still being confronted by the science no matter how unpalatable some i find it the years warmed by half a degree celsius in the 20 years after that 1st cup meeting a 995 but despite it some perfections the cup is the only multilateral climate for and we have when nations can work on their differences and right now the future

of our planet to pins on it well africa's already struggling with the effects of climate change and as nick clark reports from kenya it's a water surprise that says especially at risk. yes you join me along side the mara river in kenya and we're ready to demonstrate the kind of thing that's at stake in madrid now the rhythm our images from the foothills of the mount forest to go on and flow through the mass i'm our game and into the serengeti national park and then it flows into lake victoria 200 kilometers away downstream and the whole river basin is worth economically around $7000000000.00 a year from agriculture to tourism it is a vital water supply for more than a 1000000 people nearly 2000000 head of cattle and a spectacular a wildlife man and animal rely on the river mara flowing all the year round and yet it's like waterways around the world it's in trouble because of climate change only this year the ribbon nearly disappeared completely in the dry season and in the wet

season rain is falling with more intensity through and deforestation soil degradation and pollution and you have a toxic mix. well earlier i spoke to kevin koe shangri from w w f he runs a program to restore the mar river basin so we have 2 weeks of climate change talks going on in madrid what the regions like this need to come from those talks i think the most important thing to come from those talks is a global commitment for me to get because it's a busy little we can do in africa or mitigation but we understand it's a global problem that needs to be handled at a global level and we also need to look at optician for in the case of africa the communities around america based in to be able to cope with effects of climate change well in recent weeks there's been an almost constant flow of science showing that we're not even close to doing what we need to do to reduce emissions and even stabilize the situation that is the urgency of the position the climate delegations

face in madrid and you would think that with the growing public recognition of the dangers ahead that world leaders would do what is required madrid must build momentum because in places like this time is running out. there again i'm fully back with the headlines on at least 2 people including a police officer have been killed in the east of the democratic republic of congo after a 100 self people march towards one of the 2 un peacekeeping bases catherine so is in goma the largest city in east india explains who the government thinks is behind the violence. i did speak to the governor of north q will bernie is a territory so i spoke to the governor who said to me that they believe that this potus had been infiltrated by members of a militia a rebel group called my my this is

a group that is more entrenched in the community is walk cept it by many people 7 in that area so he says that there are those fears that this group has infiltrated this protest he says that the government the government forces are going to continue using force until this situation is sorted out u.s. person donald trump is restoring tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from argentina and brazil he's accusing those 2 countries of what he called massive devaluation of their currency hurting american farmers both brazil and argentina say they will negotiate to stop the more. syrian government airstrikes have killed at least 14 civilians in the province at least 20 others including children are injured busy markets in marathon man and stock of city were targeted in libya an air strike has killed at least 5 people in the capital tripoli a jet targeted the neighborhood in

a southern tripoli on sunday military sources say the attack was carried out by forces loyal to the warlord highly for have to some or as prime minister is shutting down the government to allow public servants to deal with a spiraling measles outbreak so far they say 53 people have died on the pacific island most of them young children china has suspended all visits by u.s. warships to hong kong the ban comes a week after president donald trump signed a nod that imposes sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials for human rights abuses you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera as always more now upside to al-jazeera dot com coming up next it's counting the cost to stay with us.

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