unexpected. and not well. on al jazeera. a fierce gun fight between a drug cartel and security forces drives up the death toll of what's become mexico's worst day in history homicides. so rob and 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 again allies on 2 fronts. and

the rush to find shelter of the typhoon bears down the millions of people in the philippines. bought into the program because president promised hugs and not bullets as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on he's witnessing the worst day of homicides since records began in 1997127 deaths on sunday alone. mexico so we can the violence 22 people were killed in a gun battle between the drug cartel and security forces in a town near the u.s. border it's the latest embarrassment for president on the rare smuggler lopez obrador who's vowed to tackle violent crime at its roots by fighting poverty i did equality with social programs rather than the army let's get the very latest from alan fischer in mexico city and of course these figures now being digested by the

president what else is he been saying seize got quite a lot of people that are listening to him at the moment both politically and in civil society. well i'm sure it must have been a shock for the president and his staff these numbers are collated in the morning the governors of the various regions call in and give their figures at some point someone must have realized there were $127.00 deaths that is certainly the watched the bloodiest day in mexico in recent history now the president has said that there has to be a whole change in attitude he believes in hugs not bullets as you say he needs to address the social problems that lead to the economic power of the cartels and he's saying that he's changing what has been done over several administrations know in mexico so it's not going to happen overnight that he's also been saying that while he doesn't think what happened in the weekend was exceptional there are people who would argue with that what he intends to do over the next few weeks is published a report which shows that people who aren't doing their job from governors to

mayors who aren't doing enough to combat violence don't to police officers are they being paid enough he's asked so that they can't be corrupted by the cartels he also says that he wants to increase the number of national guard soldiers across the country he says they have the money to do that the problem is simply getting them trained up in time so he sees this is a project that is going to stretch over 5 years but there is no doubt people are deeply concerned about what they're seeing certainly from the mexicans i've been speaking to they don't feel any safer and on the 1st anniversary of the president taking office we saw a huge rally in support of him in the main square there was more than 100000 people there according to the local police but there were tens of thousands of people on the streets in mexico protesting the president and one of the biggest groups where they were saying that he's not doing enough to address the security situation is certainly those concerns will be borne no by the news that has been confirmed by

the presidential palace in the last few hours where you say. people that say that the president isn't doing enough and yet the president has a 5 year plan and it seems difficult to find where the middle ground is where both sides would be happy with each other. well the problem of course is for civil society if you feel scared someone saying don't worry you won't feel scared in a couple of years isn't going to make you feel any better so the president has to move any has to move quickly and he's very much aware of this so while he's in office for the next 4 years he wants this plan to be in place as quickly as possible he wants those in the regions to do what they can to make people feel safer but here's a big problem for the president and also for mexico donald trump the u.s. president has said that he's going to designate mexican cartels as terrorist organizations their people as soon as they had that in mexico work in sand that

that would lead to the united states perhaps carrying a drone strikes into mexico and they would see that as a huge breach of their sovereignty a huge breach of international law and it would cause a real problem between between 2 close neighbors mexico is a pause that idea but can he keep opposing it if people don't feel safe and sadly there will be consensus if the president doesn't do something to address the moderate particularly if there are days as bloody as the center the 1st 2911 in mexico city thank you. police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people were killed during protests. protests 1st broke out last month over what locals call a lack of u.n. protection from armed rebel groups. the congolese military has been reinforcing in the eastern town of benny but the protests and the shooting continue. conny gave this graphic updates of the chaos.

around the siege of. protester did not discourage him but. you have killed a police officer and his body was even supported by the protesters. on the. big challenge for soldiers right now chris. these people are marching on a u.n. peacekeepers base furious at what they see is the failure of u.n. forces to protect them against attacks by rebel groups including the so called democratic forces determined to keep the mission outs protestors have already damaged a number of u.n. building since process started a little over a week ago the congolese army has been sent to end the violence but has failed to stop the a.d.f. killing more than 100 people in the last month and more than $1500.00 in the last 5 years now they're ordering the public off the street. they in the un are on their side so. we're calling on the population and all members of society in north kivu

province to stop working with our enemy the population should not forget about the real enemy the police is not the enemy the r.c. soldiers are not the enemy the un is not the enemy the real enemy is the rebels but on monday alone for protesters and a policeman died the violence in benny is now hampering efforts to contain an ebola outbreak that's killed more than 2000 people. in the democratic republic of congo since august the militarization of the medical response and this ruling reads distrust in an area where government troops and sometimes peacekeepers are not always seen as well as i am and now the world health organization has been forced to scale down operations in the area so to hide out al jazeera. the other day is the head of programs at the un the university center for policy research was

previously a senior advisor to the un and with but he says that a large thing to in the us failure to achieve peace has been the lack of contact with the democratic forces all of the main rebel groups they are one of the most secretive and difficult to contact groups when i was living there we had lines of communication open 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 nonmilitary 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. u.s. president donald trump is intensifying 2 fronts in his terrorist battle one on france and the other on steel and alan minium imports from argentina and brazil shortly after arriving in london for a nato summit he threatened more than $2000000000.00 in new levies on french exports the movie is in retaliation for a new french did digital service tax that is that will hit his u.s. tech companies. trump accuse argentina brazil of artificially devaluing the currency histories about has that story for. brazilian argentine steel and aluminum industries where the latest targets of the united states tirades

on monday trump tweeted the main reason for the change in policy was the massive devaluation of the currencies in brazil and argentina which does not benefit u.s. farmers. few really existed and that was she was a good example. for that for some very serious some furious some. in brazil which is slowly recovering from a recession the news came as a shock and the steel industry which accounts for more than 2000000000 in exports to the us talked about retaliation precedent. trumps main ally in south america believes the situation can be worked out. if necessary i'll talk to trump about that but we're not backing off the lead out meanwhile in argentina with its

struggling economy the announcement did not go unnoticed you would carry it on 15 and i will not only add up to the end certainty that already exists in this country in one week argentina will have a new president i read about a man there and he will happily deal with double digit inflation rate currency unfold and the possibility of a people on foreign debt. 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 call. lapse in the value of the currency now says the devaluations where intentional for many the latest u.s. measures is also a consequence of the increasing commercial activities between china brazil and

argentina in the middle of a trade war these are some of the unforeseen consequences of u.s. policy investors have been moving from emerging markets to the united states and to developed economies and that you know in argentina one of the reasons behind the country's currency crisis in 28 major devaluation which of course has made its its primary exports more competitive so in some ways you know over the trumpet ministration is now reacting to something that helped create competitive exports which in part are heading to china argentina's precedent. and. have experienced a warm relation with donald trump since taking office but for many dealing with china these days is enough to put the best of friends at odds.

strategist at the national education association the former foreign the program fellow of the foreign policy research institute well he says the decision shows that traditional audiences mean very little to donald trump. there are 3 things that are taking place here one is a demonstration of how president continues to demonstrate an love of unreliability so president also now one of his biggest if not his biggest champion in south america is going through the same experience that japanese prime minister and the kurds and nato allies have all experienced which that is that traditional alliances mean very little to the president the 2nd thing is that this is part of the blowback from the china trade war argentina is one of the largest producers of soybeans and so they benefited from this and the 3rd aspect which cannot be overlooked is the continual use of communities of color particularly countries in

latin america as punching bags for the president's narratives to his base so here is a place where he is able to take unilateral action seemed to get tough on latin american governments for a situation that he has helped to create in order to demonstrate to his political base that he's acting unilaterally on their behalf but the irony here is of course that brazil putting tariffs on brazilian steel and aluminum has almost no impact at all with regards to providing relief for american farmers and the effort with regards to argentina is really to sort of backfill if you will a problem that has been created by his trade war without seeming exit strategy with china. the former u.s. president jimmy carter has been readmitted to hospital he's been treated for a year in retracked infection that of facility in georgia the 95 year old was

discharged last week from another hospital after undergoing a procedure following a recent fall carter is the country's oldest living former president. still ahead here on al-jazeera we're at the scene of an ass strike in libya that left at least 5 people dead. and nato leaders gather in london to celebrate the alliance even as questions hang over its teacher. hell i watched winter prop was tucked into northern china it's yet to come much further south that is cooling down admittedly the cloud in the west but it's a dry picture there will be a foster the night in the land areas in 7 is a max would suggest that it's going to feel a little bit colder in hong kong and in shanghai we are in double figures and we're

hanging around that way the cloud might increase on wednesday along this east coast largely because the typhoon on its way through the philippines is just bringing everything in his general direction but the dry picture the mainland china apart from little bit up in you know. now i just mention the philippines that's where the typhoon is ways through that wraps itself with this cloak of showers and drags them back through southern philippines but that's a line that still active otherwise back through permissiveness the southern thailand still kuala lumpur singapore still the sherry regime a good part of borneo and some of into the zipper there's a lot yes there could be a few showers and western java but it's in that story at the moment is not really a proper rainy season nor should it be quite january is more the time it gets really heavy rain this is unusual there's been flooding around chennai the shouldn't really be rain that far north at this time of the year but it could well be repeated on tuesday. whether sponsored by cattle is.

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deaths reported on sunday that's the highest number in a single day since records began in 1997 it comes as president obrador completes his 1st year in office. also police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people are being killed during protests in betting on monday demonstrations demonstrators are in fact upset about what they say is a lack of u.n. protection from armed rebel groups. also president trump is intensifying 2 fronts in his tariffs battle trump threaten more than $2000000000.00 worth of levies on french exports he's also announced plans to reimpose new tariffs on steel and alimony and imports from argentina and brazil. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon makes landfall in the philippines largest and most populous island community. it was on monday evening local time and is continuing to

strengthen it's been bringing damaged wind damaging winds and torrential rainfall manila's international airport has also been closed or warnings of severe flooding in 3 provinces. and it's our correspondent joins us now from a province in southeastern new saw the island of course. the filipinos of course no strangers to be sorts of natural events. and certainly got everybody on standby. yes definitely i mean we are hopeful that here in the hotel. that arrived at about 10 pm 9 pm local time and it continued to barrel this region for a good 3 hours until we got to right in the eye of the storm now we were in our room outside basically so hey like a full blown war but everything every inside everything was holding until it didn't

until the water started to get in and the glass was started to shake that we had to evacuate on the ground floor right now at this point this is about 80 am local time we are getting reports that some coastal villages on the eastern part of been severely affected that some houses have been severely damaged it's hard to get information at the moment because power lines have been out since 8 pm local we're also getting is the airport here in vegas has also been damaged both arrival and departure and some areas leading into the air by an outside you know this is about 12 hours from and the are also. not possible are blocked by deep breathe because of the typhoon we're hoping that in the coming hours we're getting more information about the situation in other smaller islands that would apple boreas the cow these are i. and that in fact. local rescue emergency response operations leaders have

already talked about being most vulnerable to take full income henri as you know the beagle region have always been bearing the brunt of severe typhoons like this one but over the last few years it has done very well when it comes to responding and evacuating just in time in fact they've achieved their 0 casualties targets over the last 2 years now it remains to be seen though whether this can be achieved this time so he'll well of course that will leave it there phenolic continue to monitor events with you through the day jamilah thanks very much similar window in the philippines. in libya strike has killed at least 5 people in capital tripoli they targeted a neighborhood in southern tripoli on sunday 3 sources say the attack was carried out by forces linked to the ward cleaver have to observe journalists were the only ones able to get access to the site of the strike our reporter mahmoud abbas had was on the scene and told us it's not the 1st time civilians have come under attack

. this is the area in southern tripoli where a number of innocent civilians including women and children were killed and wondered why they were strikes launched 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 the 2nd floor again they've been 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. and 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 we 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 it eventually areas being targeted by have to forces since he launched the military campaign to seize to really back in april and that tripoli based a government of national accord is accusing have to his forces of committing war crimes by targeting residential areas and killing and wounding innocent

civilians. the into the. court of justice in the outlands says hold public hearings on an appeal that was made in connection to the blockade of cattle the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and close that as space to catalyze national airline. aspace restrictions by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. violated international law has made a number of claims to the court after the gulf states imposed a land and sea blockade more than 2 years ago from the hague his trial a share a lot of the arguments in defense of the blockading nations. the 1st day of hearings here at the international court of justice centered on the blockading countries egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates rain century explaining to the courts why they believe an earlier decision by that is the international civil aviation organization which ruled that the arab located on qatar contravened

international agreements why they believe that this should be overturned essentially the blockading countries are asking that the i.c.c. jury. 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 stand in favor of cutting this essentially politicizing the organization and it's taking a political stand 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. saudi arabia researching the group of oil exporting countries opec to reduce production as it prepares to list its state owned oil firm on the stock exchange sources have told the reuters news agency that the plan would see another 400000 barrels per day and into the existing cuts of 1200000000 this would keep oil

prices high in the jury room cose initial share offering but a number of countries are producing oil well above their quotas as there is economics editor explains why saudi arabia would consider such a move. it would be really helpful if. prices were stable over the 1st 6 months off its flotation now this is important because they have a lot of retail investors which are small investors who are putting their money into the market possibly for the 1st time taking get huge loans to take a big bet on this particular company and after 6 months if they keep their their their their money in saudi aramco they will get extra shares and the hope is that a nonvolatile market would encourage them to keep their money in in the saudi aramco and so the saudis are very keen to make sure that this flotation is x.'s sess they don't want to have to put their hands in their own pockets that it's use

in 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 u.s. president all trump has landed in london ahead of a nato meeting as you monthly $17.00 of us 3 of its formation but also meant to cover security issues and explore ways the military alliance can adapt to current and future challenges but as our diplomatic editor james baines 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 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 buying 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 out 0 london. and of course you can find a much more on all the stories that we're covering by logging onto our website at al-jazeera dot com of course our top story there about students in iraq. defying the government's stance of the moment. your child is there in the cell running a reminder of our top stories mexico's homicide rate hits historic levels with $127.00 deaths reported on sunday that's the highest number in a single day since records began in 1997 and this comes as president and less manuel lopez obrador completes his 1st year in office alan fisher has more from mexico city the president has said that there has to be a whole change in attitude he believes in hugs not bullets as you see he needs to

address the social problems that lead to the economic power of the cartels and he's saying that he's changing what has been done over several administrations now in mexico so it's not going to happen overnight though he's also been seeing that while he doesn't think what happened in the weekend was exceptional there are people who would argue with that what he intends to do over the next few weeks is published a report which shows that people who aren't doing their job. police in the democratic republic of congo say fall people are being killed during protests and many on monday demonstrators are upset about what they say is a lack of u.n. protection from armed rebel groups. president trump is intensifying 2 fronts in his terrorist battle president trying threatened more than $2000000.00 worth of levies on french exports he's also announced plans to impose new tariffs on steel and elemental imports from argentina and brazil. the former u.s. president jimmy carter has been readmitted to hospital he's been treated for

a year in retract infection in a facility in georgia carter is the country's oldest living former president he's 95. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon makes landfall in the philippines. luzon on monday evening local time and is continuing to strengthen that brings with it damaging winds and torrential rain manila's international airport has also been temporarily closed international court of justice in the netherlands has held public hearings on an appeal that was made in connection to the blockade of qatar the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt and bahrain close that airspace to qatar is national airline qatar says airspace restrictions by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. violate international law those are the headlines about that more news in a half an hour next its inside story.

prime minister joseph moscow to resign over the murder of a journalist who exposed government plans to corruption is this enough to stem public and with those responsible for death and the one i got to see is death face justice this is the inside story. hello and welcome to the program. supporters of malta prime minister called him the king praising him as a national hero but josef moscow's critics say he allowed corruption to run rife

now he's been forced to resign over the murder of an investigative journalist 2 years ago a car bomb killed.