ask and use the sanitizer immediately when i'm home. last year, vietnam was praised as a model country of how to respond to the pandemic. it had some of the lowest numbers in the world. now, with the move virulent strain among them, its people must rally once more. charlotte bellis al jazeera. ah. type a quick check of the headlines here. there's our thousands of mullins and gathered in the capital by my coat show support for the military gentle. it's the 1st rally since colonel. i see me going to see the power last month. the demonstration was organized by the influential opposition group, the m 5 movement. nicholas hawk has more now from what's interesting is that most malia and didn't come out in support of the military didn't i chose to stay home. and that's because, in fact, since the military that took power, the security situation has gone from bad to worse just this week. we saw attacks

from the kite affiliate joe martin thought in the law mostly mean in the south of the country, not in the center in the north. we saw a tag on the un base just a few days ago, perhaps orchestrated by the slimy state and the greater so hard to groups. there are gaining ground and gaining areas where the molly army are retreating and losing control. israeli forces of fire tear gas and stung grenades of palestinians taking part in maryland and occupied jerusalem. it was held in solidarity with families on the threat of losing their home histories. railey settlers, the run began in shira and ended him still. one protest against israeli occupation were also held in nablus in the occupied west. frank israeli forces 5 gas and rub because it's 2 bullets a demonstrators at least 20 people were injured or un human. if erin chief is warning that the therapy has northern to grow region is on the verge of famine,

low caucus urging a c 5 allow aid to reach millions of people. he says food insecurity is reaching levels last seen in the 1980. facebook has suspended former us president donald trump for 2 years. the social media company says trump was banned for violating community standards. and connection with a capitol hill arrived by his supportive on january the 6th the f b i, director has compared the threat of cyber attacks to the challenges posed after 911 crystal re reveal the agencies investigating more than a 100 attacks. many of them originated from russia, brazil's drug regulator has approved corona virus vaccine, some russia and india. v and kofax in have been given the green light. brazil is the 2nd worst effected country in the world, in terms of new cases and debt. those are the headlines, the new continues now to 0. after the full report, living in mexico killed the fish. and i

was wrong to keep sheltered away from their parents and hurt them into a school against their will. there was no money or no father fingers. they put us in a big playroom and we sort of look after ourselves. i don't remember the children's names. never forget canada's dark secret. on al jazeera, the we're heading down a dirt road towards an empty center of met screws, violence. right now. this is the only route to the small town of lee and the state of mitchell. it's trapped between 2 cartels and cut off from the rest of the state . we've been told that this side track is a back way that even that's under control. we've just seen in quick succession,

a check point that we had to pass through with guys by the side of the road truck and then the initials at least a new generation called ho actually rolled on the road itself. no real doubt about whose territory, where we don't the least go cartel commanded to permission to travel this way. otherwise we'd never risk it on the way we passed soldiers for the call till they say that the special this isn't a desperate rebel. it's a private army and it's advancing. eventually we arrive at the local centerville operations and asked for an interview. they greet what they say is a crime, this the master in 10 minutes away. you gave it to you because you wanted to make

a point. what is that point? and my number is the reality is that the fool letters is that cool. hit a brutal, roofless, they kill police and disappeared civilians across the country. and now they're invading mix. what can we hear was what that means for an already traumatized population. and who is going to stop them? we're heading into a woods on the, the south, which they mich we can is where makes the struggle began. thank next

president, philippe calderon, sent the army to stop the call till almost 15 years ago. but it didn't work. the conflict only group is rival criminal groups. vigilant is fought for the state, extorting and terrorizing the population. but now these former enemies have come together under the banner of united cartels to fight another will powerful force invading from the state next to the least go new generation cartel its leader. no monsieur. together alias domencio is from the galleria municipality himself. he wants his home town and state badly on and on the conduct denay stripped, his men are on a publicity drive to justify their invasion because you can do

this and then you can go over a lot more than a decade. mitchell can now different groups have said the same thing. last, amelia, the nice tensor organization. no, we're not going to get involved with the population. we just doing thing, we just trafficking drugs, and in the end, all of them have done extortion. the things that they said they wouldn't do. why should people believe that you and your car tell a different get when the interview was over, i left feeling he hadn't revealed the cartels true motives. me. michel can got a lot to offer, besides drugs, a lucrative mining business, the world's leading of a car. the industry must be drawing them here to the states, a real price. we were on the final stretch for ag aliya,

the town at the center of this conflict surrounded by natural riches coveted by the cartels it might soon be won. locals told us that thousands of people have already left slipping past the siege and away in the buildings we saw the scars of the battle between united cartels still here and the advancing lisco. new generation forces see holmes in this building. this happens just a week or 2 ago industrial people here come in to set up a service called the time of the visit, police could take an order of the land around the town. meanwhile, united cartels placed a blockade fervor up the only official road in medicine. cooking gust basic food

stuffs were all scared. even petro had to be smuggled in. this is how you fill up in businesses a di lafferty. it's just about surviving. it's where we met teacher fernando, who became famous locally when he confronted the state governor savano. already all these are the only ones on his 1st visit. tiger leah in years by a helicopter. just as election season kicked off. you'll need to come in monday. we're ordering up what, but then the governor did this, the yeah, the battle, i mean, you're going to, i mean, i live without medical another sign of governmental

indifference towards this town, an impact in the region. it embraced townspeople like gabriella talbot house and her sister daniella already dealing with their own personal tragedy. their grandfather had a burst stomach, also on the 1st day of the blockade. they couldn't get him through to the hospital on the other side. he died when this happened, that you guys still was running 3 with one time in then see up what? nobody will check it out. okay. well it was all we got. it must be court after would it be like living like this last shale sale, but k own?

we thank you for that. jody. no problem with the new port. it sounds like that up in full size, which i believe. okay. and what, give moment for the night, we found out what she meant. we can probably hear the sound of gunfire just outside of privilege church. no, it is only just schooling and they started shooting a town m region trap between cartels who would come to save them. perhaps the state security chief is royal patrol. the next to show up off to the governor's face visit with the battery of police trucks. we had a couple of questions for him that will return to the next, the next 30 minutes. and as i said,

i sent it also duper criminal court in the middle. not the route that was done in the criminal it's it's almost like you, but it's coming to park as possible. going in and you guys are going to start from the way stuff is so profound. the other, there's no, no soviet bodies that anything google them and will never give him a bus for nothing. but no more than that. it was bizarre that he claim not to know about the blockades that he come to list. ok, but the people he say they use to the government turning a blind di although as an army barracks in uglier towns, people say they rarely patrolled. and before the security chiefs visit, we see no police in the town. still, he promised that the main road would now be cleared. it seemed a ticket out of relief,

not to have to take the mountain track. but it was eerie who put mt lines with both fields below road signs. an empty villages here perhaps is a vision of agony as future. these ghost towns where all have fled, they become common across meet you can, as the authorities have see the ground to the content that you feel very initial. at least the new generation the ah ah

ah, pretty completely deserted image. ah, there's no one asked me . the me just said a gun shop so we're getting what we've seen in the village stayed with us. we knew there were thousands of people who fled the violence, not just here,

but across the state. where had they gone? what were they doing now? we set off for a nearby community look so corners to meet one of mich weekends this place. on a hot language afternoon, we waited for the camden audio salon. the last one is there in the other is when it comes to mario fled his religion of coaches a couple of months before. now he's staying with whoever will take him in 71 years old. and suddenly homeless young man give will say stadium only get every week he goes back to check on his

land. this time we went to school to buy a self defense group from tiptoe, cut to pick a nearby town. it was the only safe way to travel there in the village. come denado showed us where he lived since he was forth and before the violence laid his dad to rest. give him your thing. this is the old step to make a vandal. now let me . oh, oh my you wanted me to leave arisen if you can, you know, get him all hello. yeah. you

can get me with animals to get them the the houses, the church, the village school coolant thing. can denado doesn't think you'll see them full again. and then get us back in the counsel you're looking at with some terms haven't died out. instead like back in

2013 self defense forces began springing up across the state level, rank tech groups of pounds. people taking up arms against the car. so this was typical to pick one of the original groups back then and this is them. now. he is late. this is a professionalized force on the front lines against the least new generation caught . so this look out bunker has rooms a forum thick. it's a military installation. so that's a, you know, the new york person, not even the soldiers a full time now like command the leg. he's only 21 of many young towns people here

. how do you feel about your job? personally, this must get lonely. maybe a little bit boring, being up here. and also wherever you may dial, i can think of women and then one. while many of the self defense groups have disappeared, wiped up by the gangs are absorbed into state forces. hippo cut depicts remains to a strong support from the towns, people up to suffering terror and extortion before now they live in relative peace. but there are questions about this force, many of mich, what kinds other remaining self defense groups? a lot of people have accused of getting into the same business as the criminals. drug trafficking most flour, denying the commander. she had a surprisingly frank,

i think it was you don't know what i meant, but i don't know. so what's the difference between them and the call tells me that all about the new want them to my bank and i don't know. i know that's a very fine line between legitimate protectors and a criminal group. even that guns really go. you're not crucial for him. to

come in with them, we get a lot of men with a lot of guns veering towards the legality. the risks seem opiate the during our visit, they pulled this young man with bus suspicious was going to let them know when they find further evidence they detain. you say, well, you gotta do solisco. know what's up, says roger. they told us he be sent to a rehab center before the end of the

souvenir and testament to their authority. the to me it also looks uncomfortably like the photo is posted by the call, tells me so this nothing is black and white here. and tip of cut to pick is just one of a multitude of om groups operating in the states. hinterlands with varying degrees of legitimacy. it begs the question, where are the authorities in all of this? while they in control? when we saw police in the borderlands with a least go state, they seem nervous as if trespassing an enemy territory. the national guard, militarized force, created to stop the violence hasn't made much of a den. successive governments have failed to turn things around. but if there's a moment to change this,

is it elections a here? not just any old elections, but the biggest mexican history emitter kind. everything's up for grabs from state government down. this is where you put the you, he's running for mayor and with tumbled promising to stop the violence. let me see on a job because look like you see on the blue one. the think i was more just not in and you must be in throughout. i so i was in a few minutes and then again the blue light study, a city of the for the you know, one of the campaign people seem inside in the variable field. could this be with tunnels and part of mich weekends?

new stuff. oh yeah. but in this state, that waste, hidden under the current deals campaign was just lifting off. this suddenly emerged he was wanted by the us drug enforcement agency, the d. e. a for a ledger links to organized crime. i love the this is one of michel kinds, biggest problems with journalist analysts and even criminals told us that many politicians themselves are in bed with the not when pl. 2 you stop for breakfast series, campaign headquarters. a put that to him. there's always a reason why you can't in the list of wanted the why are you about miss why he was effect on the book and get up and plus you don't get me.

you know, they want to come in because they, when they went to our interview, he admitted to nothing. personally with did say there's endemic corruption here i just was are not is because it was either specific. i meant the image organ gans at the oh. and if you go the mentality was going to be a part of the silent the money up in there are obvious benefits for politicians going into business with the north coast money power. but it's not that cut and dried. the member valencia knows that better the most in 2013, he was accused of colluding with the cartel when he was married to poke perkins so that he says him, michel can hinterland. politicians often have no choice. i think you know, if it's valid but it will get it ready for

you, but hopefully that that whole thing now he's running from mitch weekends, capital morelia saying he'll clear up criminals there. but after we met him, this happened coming up with my neck and he wasn't in his truck at the time. but in mitchell and the other parts of mexico were going to dominate politicians who don't get on the side can have a short flight expectancy. the ruthless not columbia, the growth vigilance, the helpless or corrupt politicians and daily

tragedies its oblique panorama. for many people, it made living here impossible. they formed a wave of mitchell migration heading all the way to the us border, looking for asylum in the final stop in our journey, we went to the border to, to speak to them. but even 2000 kilometers from the gangs they fled, most were too scared to talk. only letitia on a 100 and her family agreed on the condition that we didn't reveal the city they'd run to when the whole family including had disabled. that one year old granddaughter had been sleeping rough in the stone 80 tent for 5 nights before a visit. they fled when a gang came from the tissues. 17 year old daughter. i don't i don't need an implement when it was

a long way to get up with the family, resisted then came a last qu from one of their neighbors. it was blunt, on my case, he had to come in with him. please level my normally it would be when i started it, but we don't know how many people have made this journey from michu account to the us border in the 15 years since the drug will began leaving everything behind but with peace and security. not even on the horizon in their

state. they certainly won't be the last i the important thing if you are walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. fall off, we heard gunshots. i was the 1st one to flee, the hot battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights, and there were no prisoners at the end control over the in, and you control the region around. and that's why this is an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war bay route holiday in war hotels on al jazeera. ah, welcome to portal your gateway to the very best to volunteer. there is online content that you may have met a new program that the for our platforms makes the connections and presents

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