this is al jazeera. so robin you're watching the al-jazeera news our life what headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 60 minutes a fierce gun fight between a drug cartel and security forces drives up the death toll on what's become mexico's worst day in history homicides. also the un's not the enemy played from the congolese army chief after stopping an angry crowd marching on another u.n. base. and the rush to find shelter as

a typhoon bears down on millions of people in the philippines. and a warning from scientists about how much quicker the world's 2nd largest ice sheet is breaking up. into the program mexico's president has promised hugs not bullets well as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on he's witnessing the worst day of homicides in the country's 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 it's 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 let's get more on this from our correspondent alan fischer who's 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 you're going to change this strategy is going to take some time to take effect it simply won't happen overnight and they're 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 can't be bought by the cartels and he says that in the next few weeks he's 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 don't think that he's doing enough and people don't 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 there's absolutely no doubt about it and the more people i speak to one here in mexico the more people comment on the fact that they're worried about the security situation they're 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 don't want to confront donald trump but they simply don't 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 don't 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 al-jazeera 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.

it's 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 it's going to ground everything i have been talking to the governor of north he would here in goma not. benny is enough province so i've been talking to the governor who is saying that it seems that this port the security forces are not anymore battling ordinary protesters that he's saying that people are armed with weapons like a machete he's saying that they're 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 it's accused of many atrocities. adam de is the head of programs that the university's center for policy research who was previously a senior advisor to the un's. 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 weren't 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 that's being tapped into here and the un has been supporting government led operations against the idea for the last 5 years and there's 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 don't think that well this is worse than it was before it's 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 that's not going to change because of the legal status of each of the respective positions of those 2 groups. yes that that's 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 hasn't 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 isn't a purely military solution to the problem of the a.d.f. and what i didn't hear from the spokesperson from the army at least was that recognition it seems to be again that they'll 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 it's been established for such a long time they may have themselves forgotten what they're fighting for. yeah it's 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 i'd 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 they're 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 they're difficult to discern as as you heard from the the spokesperson mentioning that they were within the population that's 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 that's 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 we're 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 it's 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. it's 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 it's 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 we're 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 we're 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 it's 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 i'm sure you've covered the philippines as well you're 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 we've 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 isn't 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. we'll drill of course we'll come back to earth through the day as our situation develops jamila island in the force in the philippines. still ahead here on the al-jazeera 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 we'll 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 ira's. 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. feelings thank you for being here thank you thank you for fee thank you big frank thank you thank you

thank you thank him 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 by. talk to trump about that but we're not backing off. meanwhile in argentina with its struggling economy the announcement did not go unnoticed you on thursday and i don't mean only add up to the end certainty that already exists in this country in one week argentina will have a new president i'll bet the farm on this and he will have to deal with a double digit inflation rate currency controls and the possibility of a default on the sovereign debt. argentina's government has been battling devaluation for months as people are turning to the u.s.

dollar to protect their savings. argentina's 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 i'm 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 it's one of the reasons behind the country's 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 argentina's president. and also nat'l 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. i'll just see the. when i cited this. use of our of his electoral strategist at the educate a national education association and a thorough program fellow at the foreign policy research institute joins me now from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the programs is this really about farmers or is there another narrative here at play well i think there are 3 things that are taking place here one is a demonstration of how president continues to demonstrate an level of unreliability so president wilson are 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 experience which that is that their traditional alliances are mean very little to the president 2nd thing is that as your report indicated this is part of the blowback from the china trade war argentina is one of the largest producers of soybeans and so they've benefited from this and the 3rd aspect which cannot be overlooked is the continual use of communities of color and 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 a 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 he's acting unilaterally on their behalf so can i just pick up on one of

those points that you mentioned about. the increased sale of those to china obviously the u.s. president would like china to be buying it soybeans off of the u.s. a by punishing brazil for example is you might say sending a message to his base in constituencies where farmers are watching these events very closely. yes 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 of he will a problem that has been created by his trade war without seeming exit strategy with china is that ever a possibility with president trump that that he's always trying to or could be trying to find a solution but what we actually see up front up close and personal is nothing but

turmoil as you suggested more sort of unconnected confusion coming from the white house about how to deal with an economic problem. well i mean that's evidenced by the fact that the treasury department in their may report gave no indication at all of concern with regards to devaluation of argentina and brazil in currency against the dollar which is why neither the treasury department nor the office of trade of the trade representative have commented on this and you'll note that in the president's initial tweet he talked about the strength of the stock market and yet his actions today precipitated a fall at the close of the stock market in all 4 indicators so you know again this is a situation where no one really knows where this has come from even from within the administration and his policy by tweet it is not only caught here is what the few allies that he has in latin america off guard but not even his own administration

has any coherent rationale for it right now all this is even in our discussion now is trying to discern based on a set of i mean from sort of information devoid of fact as to what the president is trying to accomplish in the goal which is what he's trying to accomplish maybe the next few weeks as well if we can get clarity on that for the moment luis navarro thanks very much for your time sir well staying in the region argentina's vice president elect cristina fernandez de kirchner has appeared in court just days before she's due to be sworn in she's being investigated for alleged corruption during a time in office from 22007 to 2015 is accused of awarding construction projects to firms that pay bribes to government officials she says she's been unfairly persecuted by the justice system over here and now a protesters in malta have blocked m.p.'s from leaving parliament as rallies continue over the investigation into the murder of journalists daphnia could see

her family was prime minister joseph must go to step down immediately and allow an investigation into her death needs barca has more from the capital letter. also this political crisis is deepening demonstrators surrounded parliament trapping government ministers from the ruling labor party inside for several hours the prime minister resigned on sunday under a search of public pressure but joseph muska wants to stay on until a replacement leader is elected in january demonstrators say muskets too close to people implicated in the murder of journalist a blogger. they want him out of office now the journalist sun believes the protests are a major turning point. what happened in the past week is something about a country i was never see those relying on the streets. i think one of the reasons people also are angry is that. they put their trust in our government

arbitrators completely have been lied to brazenly for 2 years. pretty minister of state during his televised resignation on sunday expressing deep regret for carolina police he has murder and spoke of the need for a fresh page but his tone was defiant this case cannot define everything that our country is he said. was killed in 2017 when a remote controlled bomb went off. she'd been looking into the secret accounts of some of multiple most powerful people and had investigated corruption in politics the police and banks 3 men arrested for carrying out the attack or awaiting trial but until now little has been done to identify who ordered the killing. at the heart of the murder probe is this man fenech he's one of the richest businessman the close ties to government ministers he was arrested 2 weeks ago accused of being

complicit in the murder of the journalist he denies the charges after his arrest fenech attempt to implicate the maltese prime minister's closest political ally keith schembri as a coconspirator schembri resigned last week his chief of staff to the prime minister he was interrogated for 2 days by police before being released without charge to other ministers have also stepped down and being questioned by police they deny any involvement in murder the resignation of top level officials within the labor party has done very little to calm protests that still remains hugely popular amongst many here in multan he's credited with bolstering the economy but he swept to power promising to stamp out all forms of corruption and now some of his closest associates broiled in allegations of shady dealings corruption and even murder muskrats departure say these demonstrators must not be a substitute for a full investigation into the journalist death they want the guilty to face justice

leave barca al-jazeera for lesser. staying in the region hundreds of refugees and migrants remain in a makeshift camp in bosnia despite concerns for their welfare amid freezing weather but aid workers have for the migrants will be in danger if they stay at the check in northern bosnia during the winter the campus few facilities and tense are covered in snow the government says a new facility will not be ready for at least another 20 days. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news out syrian government asteroids target a market in the rebel held it lead province killing basting civilians. and calls for action across india after the latest gang rape and murder of a young woman. the host nation with a politically charged arabian gulf car match against the united arab emirates the whole look no in school.

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look like you're watching the observer of news are with me so rob the reminder of all top stories mexico's homicide rate hits historic levels with 127 deaths reported on sunday that's the highest number in a single day since records began in 1997 and this comes as president andrea smuggler lopez obrador completes a year in office. police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people are being killed during protests in beni on monday. demonstrators are upset about what they say is a lack of you had protection from armed rebel groups and hundreds of thousands of people have had to leave their homes in the philippines is a powerful typhoon makes landfall in new song it's bringing damaging winds and torrential rain in the lizard's national airport has been temporarily closed. syrian government strikes have killed at least 14 civilians in rebel held into the province too busy markets were targeted and there are reports of more as strikes in

the area victoria has the story. but. attacks are intensifying and they are indiscriminate i believe. 'd a lot of the syrian army backed by russian add power targeted this market in an area controlled by fighters from hyatt. and on. to al qaeda witnesses say civilians are the majority of the casualties. here assad's warplanes carried out a right against this market civilians have been killed and injured the right also caused a lot of damage to property the civil defense teams are recovering bodies and helping the wounded we still don't know how many people have been killed. the s trikes in the northwestern province and a minor russian guaranteed ceasefire that's been in place since august towns targeted newman and sorry kid pool along the m 5 highway that connects the

provincial capitals of hamma and aleppo before the war it was a major trade route and the main access road to the north. we were working on all of a sudden warplanes were in the sky and they attacked us people have lost their lives and others have been wounded in addition our fruits and vegetables have been destroyed. the increase in attacks is worsening the humanitarian crisis in northern syria but the government seems determined to retake this final piece of territory that still under the control of opposition fight is that during his era. in libya their strike has killed at least 5 people in the capital tripoli targeted a neighborhood in southern tripoli old sunday military sources say the attack was carried out by forces linked to the walled khalifa haftar or report a bomb or a blue wire hit the ceiling told us it's not the 1st time civilians have come under attack. this is a swanny area in southern tripoli where

a number of innocent civilians including women and children were killed and wondered why airstrikes lunch had by a fighter jet loyal to the world plea for help that on sunday these are parts of the rockets that targeted this area and neighbors here tell us horror stories about bloody parts of the victims that they picked from this area on sunday they say that school children were just coming back from school and they were just playing here before the airstrike killed them they say that the shrapnel killed other innocent civilians in this 2nd floor can't even thought i'd feel right one of the victims was a girl sleeping on the 2nd floor when shrapnel killed her innocent children like angels were playing here even a displaced child he was the only son for his widowed mother. now the neighbors

here are wondering why this area is being targeted despite the fact that it's not a front line and it is far from the front line neighbors here are in a state of anger and a state of panic people here at least those who we spoke to or are still in shock and the are calling on the international community to intervene and to protect civilians and also to sanction those whole carried out the attack this is not the 1st time that initial areas being targeted by have tears forces since he launched the military campaign to seize to really back in april and that tripoli because the government of national accord is accusing have to his forces of committing war crimes by targeting residential areas and killing and wounding innocent civilians iraq's rival political parties are on the go showing the makeup of

a new government following the resignation of problem as the by the of his cabinet for sunday following public criticism from the nation's leading clerics in response to 2 months of antigovernment protests where these administration will soon charge into the replacement government can be agreed on. antigovernment protests will continue across iraq including the 1st all female demonstration in the southern city of basra human rights watch says it has evidence at least 7 people have been abducted during protests in baghdad in the past 2 months. registration for candidates in iran's upcoming parliamentary elections has opened iran has just come out of an internet blackout following mass demonstrations over an increase in fuel prices with turnout expected to be low or thirty's are indicating a willingness for more open elections are sebag reports of tehran. countrywide unrest and internet blackout that cut iranians off from the rest of the world but

now it's time for political engagement they have to be aged between $30.75 and hold at least a master's degree potential candidates are then vetted by the guardian council a constitutional watchdog the protest followed an increase in fuel prices and took place in $29.00 out of the $31.00 provinces according to officials it's unclear how many people died during the demonstrations amnesty international puts the figure at $161.00 with thousands arrested the iranian government says those figures are exaggerated the unrest has prompted the guardian council to reconsider their approach the elections which are scheduled for february 21st. i'm all for them we don't consider ourselves immune from criticism we may also accept that mistakes have been made in the past but for the next legislative elections we're trying to reduce our mistakes and respect the rights of candidates. analysts predict a lower voter turnout compared with previous elections partly due to disappointment

in the failure of president hassan rouhani as reformist to achieve meaningful change but for the 290 seats available there's still considerable interest in a kitchen on a matter of my purpose is to serve the people and improve their lives i think all the prospective candidates have the same goal if their numbers have grown compared to recent years it's because they want to help with their citizens to live in better conditions but when. i was a member of parliament in 3 previous terms and now i want to stand again i'm here to bring welfare to the people and to minimize the economic problems the country is grappling with in 2016 the cancer that i had more than 6000 candidates to stand around half of all those who submitted applications the country has experienced some of the most widespread demonstrations seen in decades and by loving more candidates to stand the political establishment is hoping for more people to turn out at the polls and to restore some level of confidence in the political system i said big i just run. spreading over india across over the

case of a young woman who was raped and murdered near the city of heather about there were angry marches and sit ins with people demanding justice for the 27 year old she was gang raped and her body was danced to fuel and burned police say 4 suspects are in custody demonstrators want a fast investigation and strict laws to ensure the safety of women don't get it going to doctor was right in the mood and to condemn her murder the entire country is furious they have a voice inside them asking why such incidents are happening against women come out of a surgical strike. when will a surgical strike happen on the rapists men rape and then run away and the judicial system keeps running the way it does for 5 years pass and nobody bothers. you. when i return from college i know how unsafe it feels my parents keep on calling and asking me if i've reached home or not i know how tense they are when they're

living far away from our homes how long will this go on the government should do anything do whatever but please keep the girls safe. all of the highest ranking ethnical we go officials in china has been sentenced to life in prison for except in bribes norbeck really was the former governor of changing province and served as head of a national energy agency is accused of receiving more than $11000000.00 in bribes the court certain the statement he confessed to his crimes while on trial and would not appeal. overture has been held in the united kingdom's capital for the 2 people killed in a stabbing on the friday jack marriott and saskia jones was stabbed to death in their london bridge by a man convicted of terrorism offenses paul brennan was at the vigil. this was a brief but very dignified ceremony the v.i.p.'s over there in front of the guild hall observing a moment's silence and short speeches from the bishop of london before they went into this art gallery here where

a condolence book has been opened and they've been signing that away from the media away from this place the political wrangling continues both labor and the conservatives the 2 main parties locked in battle for the upcoming election arguing over who exactly is to blame for the fact that the kill it was man can was released only half way through a prison sentence for a previous terrorist offense now into that fray the father of the victim jack marriott has weighed it with a social media post on twitter in which he said the following don't use my son's death to promote your vile propaganda jack stood against everything you stand for hatred division and ignorance and it's important to say that mr merrett wasn't referring to those man cans propaganda or his hatred he was referring to the politicians ramping up the rhetoric around the response to these kind of incidents

and using ever more stronger and hardline type of policies in order to reference them and respond to them mr merrett clearly not happy about that bearing in mind his son and the other fatal victim saskia jones were very much in intent on rehabilitation as a response to the crimes. prisons have lined the streets to order 13 french soldiers killed in mali last week these soldiers died when their helicopters collided in the town it was the largest loss of french troops in one day in nearly 4 decades france has been leading a 6 year military operation in malise a hell region fighting groups linked to eyesore. 3 emergency workers have been killed in france when their helicopter crashed on its way to help with flooding in the southeast 2 other people who died in the floods france's mediterranean coast has been hit by heavy rain over the last week. the former u.s.

president jimmy carter has been readmitted to hospital he's being treated for a urinary tract infection that a facility in georgia the 95 year old was discharged last week from another hospital after undergoing a procedure following a recent fall president carter is the country's oldest living former president. u.s. president all trump has landed in london ahead of a nato meeting to mark the 70 of the vestry of its formation and the talks are meant to cover security issues and explore ways the military alliance can adapt to current and future challenges but as our diplomatic editor james bays reports it comes against a backdrop of growing tension within the organization for the next couple of days this is the man in the hot seat secretary general yens stoltenberg has the un enviable task of chairing a meeting of nato leaders at a time the alliance faces big challenges this gathering in london is supposed to mark nato's 70th birthday its 1st headquarters we're actually here in the british

capital in an area that now houses embassies there are 3 main things those souring the mood 1st the trump factor the u.s. leader arriving here at london's stands today airport doesn't like summits and he has a particular dislike of nato summit repeatedly claiming other members aren't paying their way. he has particular gripes against nato he feels despite increased spending on defense that other countries are not doing enough and he has this soft spot in his heart for russia and so you know very much i think we will see at this summit all of the worst instincts of trump come out and to be exacerbated by the current political conditions to be exacerbated by his rough relations with other allies then there's the growing tension between france and germany in an interview

the french president emmanuel mccrone told the economist that nato was a brain dead this infuriated the german chancellor angela merkel and exposed a growing rift between the 2 countries last but not least the mounting doubts other nato members have about turkey not about the words of president but his actions by the s 400 missile system from russia and carrying out its recent incursion into northern syria i covered the last nato summit that was held in london here at lancaster house 29 years ago that was just months after the fall of the birdland wall and the end of the cold war and then there were questions about nato's future but the alliance then expanded taking in the countries from the east before creating new roles for itself in the balkans and afghanistan. almost 3 decades later nato's internal differences this time are even more public being expressed by

leaders themselves and therefore a potentially much more damaging james pays out 0 london. but scientists are warning of the exhilarated breakup of the world's 2nd largest ice sheet in greenland and its likely effect on rising sea levels researchers from the university of cambridge in the u.k. say lakes on top of the stalled place here are draining through holes in the ice formed by warmer weather the water under the ice then list the glacier causing it to move it accelerate its melting we can see big changes in the greenland ice sheet . having no effect on sea level rise just 25 years ago and now it's a roughly a 3rd of all the sea level rise and planet is from greenland alone. and so there's a very significant increase and this is an increase that's ongoing and we think it's unlikely to continue so it is clearly an adverse effect. and this comes

against the backdrop of the un's annual climate conference in spain 25 began in madrid with leaders urged to address what's being called an urgent an existential crisis the conference for shuttles the chilly but weeks of violent street protests forced the government to counsel countries or return to its hope the conference will increase global commitments to fight climate change efforts which the u.n. chief has called utterly adequate by the end of the coming decade we will be on one of 2 bad when is the path of surrender where we have sleepwalked past the point of no return your provides in the health and safety of everyone on this planet do we really want to be remembered as the generation debt birdied fair in the sand that. while the planet burns the other option is the path of hope oppressive resolve

of sustainable solutions. a past where more fossil fuels remain where they should be in the ground and when we are on the way to god about no doubt if the by 2050. still had in school soon everyone in switzerland will get to have a piece of cetera will explain.

book about thomas bordeaux his lawyer. thank you very much argentina and barcelona superstar lionel messi has won this year's ballon d'or messi equals the record 6

ballon d'or titles won by his great rival christian oren although. the bondo lost the ball does a 90. 1 to. the 32 year old helped his club win their 4th league title in 5 seasons earlier this year he scored 54 times for club and country over the last year. i am aware of how old i am and you enjoy these moments because the time of retirement is coming and it is difficult i want to repeat that i still have many years left but time passes boy and everything happened so quickly but it's a good while qatar have won a politically charged match against the u.a.e. but qatar is came out on top for 2 and now qualify for the arabian gulf cup semifinals on home soil this was particularly tense because the u.a.e. are one of the countries currently blockading qatar a thief scored the 1st 2 goals for qatar in the match that happened to be on the emirates independence day their morality is then scored one only to have the 2 goal

lead restored thanks to captain has on a haye the us again the u.a.e. reduced the lead before he finished it off with a late header after the final whistle things got heated between the 2 sides with the immoralities eliminated from the competition along with yemen and the richardson was at the game and sent us this report i read it it's hard to imagine me trusting experiences for these 2 sets in place of the one experienced knights of the one they went through the start of a new and united arab emirates with sides made in the semifinals of the asian cup most of the old it seems to be only going to look a bit in the u.a.e. the moment it is illegal to show any sort of public sympathy towards france also as you can imagine during that game that's off by some of the stuff the spirit what they're rio to be dealt with that's always been schuster and the guy they want to win they were nailed to the activity didn't stop at the final whistle with the u.a.e. going on to complain that counts over fielding an eligible play as you can find it

was rejected by the asian federation was nothing like the sort of experience tonight besides it was thanks to the signs of exchange so here we started the year with it's so nice couple of reasons for that this week fulfilling states that people are with the agent. about to much time or so when they go i don't start the hunting on this occasion so that we simply need to go through to the semifinals of the feast celebrating the coming of age and forward you with a couple of goals no one has to be said to write the bill they have a feeling that some sort of the only relationship causing you it seems like each other in the asian chance to speak and also in the case of the u.a.e. and saudi arabia since you know that's to countries who are determined to carry on hosting like banks the saudi weekend for example we have the heavyweight fight

between now and the reason unsecured coming out so those countries looking to show you the full 6 are necessarily serving their schools for follow us for the students in these times because it's not not what he was letting me agent that he thought of me the all 370 finally they stay on full steam with a 2nd choice free of 2090. qatar's opponents in the semifinals will be saudi arabia one of the other nations involved in that diplomatic watch kate the saudi secured their place in the semifinals by beating defending champions oman $31.00 on monday as a result you monies are eliminated. and behind and scored a late goal to wrap up before 2 win over kuwait that goal was enough to put the bahamians ahead of the kuwaitis in the group the standings it means behind progress to a semi final against it off while clete go home. meanwhile one of qatar's players been named asia's footballer of the year at the a.f.c.

awards afifa was part of the qatar side that won the asian cup as well as leading his club team to the a.f.c. champions league semifinals he's a 3rd qatari player to win the award following on from his teammate a bill cutting has on who won it last year his club coach job it was in hong kong to pick up the award on his behalf japan's a sucky coma guy went for the women. an austrian court sentenced to time olympic judo champion peter and boxer to 5 years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse the victims were 2 minors whom he coached the prosecutor accused him of abusing young girls who saw him as a father figure and barker and his defense now have 3 days to accept the verdict file an appeal or face an entire trial. champion andy ruis jr will defend his 3 world titles against britain's anthony joshua in saudi arabia on saturday the american shock to many people 6 months ago when he won the i.b.s. w b a n w b

o belts from the previously undefeated joshua in new york who is junior stop joshua in the 7th round but says he's expecting a tougher fight this time we've been working hard you know we had a longer reparation than we gave for june 1st though i'm pretty sure he has a really good game plan up the sleeve but we've been doing is going to be perfect for his days into trying to do this so we're going to be working with our well pretty soon everyone in switzerland will get a piece of tennis great roger federer in their pockets the swiss will be the 1st living person to be honored on a 20 franc a coin the government said the 20 time grand slam champion is a perfect ambassador for switzerland the head side of the coin will show federer playing a one handed backhand 95000 of these coins will be available for your wallet starting in january well that's all your sport for now will have more for you later hugh thanks lee and of course i'll be back on the other side of the break with the full half hour news you have been watching the news hour with me said robin bunce who

time a company. on counting the cost what start the protest in ecuador could it be a multi-billion dollar loan with both types of the goodness to the cooperation of the stereotypes of the poorest buskin zoabi on the part of the economic policy did it help japan recover from its last decade. counting the costs on algebra. descended on al-jazeera as this year comes to an end we look ahead to 2020 and the

stories that may shape the year people in power investigates the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern europe is an excuse of a look at the world's largest conference on h.i.v. in rwanda will be efforts achieved an aids free africa a true part series charging china's rise of the 21st century super bowl. un leaders will gather in spain to discuss issues about climate change and examine the possible global solutions join us for live coverage to sound on al-jazeera. al-jazeera world meets 2 arabs. left the middle east but for successful careers and other parts of the wall. the lebanese kind of the just stand on attention in brazil . the norwegian oil industry. news one chinese leading to unexpected places. the doctor and the oil move on

al-jazeera. a fierce gunfight between a drug cartel and security forces drives up the death toll of what's become mexico's worst day in history the homicides. bansal robin you watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the un's not the enemy a plea from the congolese army chief after stopping an angry crowd marching on another u.n. base. also u.s. president donald trump threatens tariffs against allies on 2 fronts. and

a rush to find shelter of the typhoon down the millions of people in the philippines.