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wildfires the now killed 80 obviously every time, so you in malware and inquiry is now underway, him to why it was occupational there's one issue before flames and gulf behind a crisis meeting of army chief of west african nations is to spend it as much as to the is remain defined on donald trump joins are the republican candidate. so the iowa states that 2024 us presidential campaign keeps in to get the beginning, according to with thousands of police and soldiers have rated a prison to remove a powerful gang leader. he's accused of threatening presidential candidates of the, of a sense here a week before his assassination. the man known as fi tow has now been transferred

to a maximum security prison. he's been serving a 34 year sentence for drug dealing and mad authorities have link tim to the mexican drug trafficking guy in the center. know, a cato of to 4000 offices were involved in the joint operation of prison in the countries. the 2nd largest city in black keel, a lot of funding the assassination off. and then the, the other senshi on wednesday. echo is that presidential candidates issued a statement, claiming the government for political violence in the country is running a ton. jack gonzalez is offered to take his place. you have a sense, it was a vocal critic of corruption and organized crime. 6 suspects had been arrested, the se then linked to criminal gangs. that's bringing the money with a pig. now she's professor of international relations that invested that san francisco, the key to the drawing just from key to welcome to the program. so the country must

still be reading from this assassination. what's the mood like now? months the population there's a lot of attention, a lot of fear, and then i'd look 0 error or this is just the less that the nation of a row we have had kind of an average of one politician was estimated true week over the last month. and in the beginning of the year there i, the rates of crime has increased 350 percent compared to last year. this via the son says, running mate is now step 10 to take his place. what's the reaction been to that? well, it's not clear yet who will take the place of the candidate this estimated she was an investigative journalist to answer the legislative position last elections. and now he was running for president is vice president who is the young woman

environmental is, is about to take his position, but there are some problems with the law and her changing the positions. we hope she will take the lead. she's a very progressive young woman who could gather a lot of the votes. this was the time because we love, we think it's all about the votes. that where does this leave the election overall going forward in terms of who's likely to, to win? if there is a big change you are currently into the system issue. we don't have official numbers yet, but it's very clear that the top running i tend to dave louisa gonzalez who is running for the grade level has fallen a lot because this party is seen as an ally to the, to narrow, the criminal gang. who is the so the, the responsible for the time of delivery st as to who has denounced a lot of the corruption scandal,

a link between politicians and the criminal gang. so some parties went up to the left. he said to himself has an estimated 4 extra point system she was killed and the party of the top running candidate has fall in the lot between $5.00 to $10.00 percentage points depending who you're doing the estimates. the 2nd candidate remains echo better. so the conservatives are left who is associated with the jonetta, the criminal gang falling very quickly in the, in the reports, in your thoughts on the danza. i'm and how the gang instance play into this with, with the non accused of the threatening via of a sensor, not move to another prison. so he was moved to another prison today, but it's the prison from which he came back in 2008. so we don't know how much it is actually going to change. this is trisha. the root of the matter is that criminal, a game that have been ensuring politics in what is becoming an article states in ecuador. so we can move to have someone jail to the other,

but the reality is that the level of corruption has secured over the last decade. the participation of various criminal gangs will 2 additional live politics. and they are allied and associated with very political parties. i understand you are campaign manager and wife for one of the candidate. so yeah, competitors, what town bell? i mean on a human level, how concerned to you about the safety and we are all very scared about our safety deliveries. safety just the last one. but once a week we have had colleagues assassinated, we're all wearing bullet proof jackets. some of us helmet. we're all using bullet proof cars. so it's a very high level of and security and chair for ourselves and our families. and what is the most, gary? there is, is that we don't think there is

a return in the near future. we think there is another consideration of politics in ecuador and the international level. i would compare this with the condition of the weather in politics in which there are lots of regional geo politics, global geo politics that play in the local context. and it goes there and they're going to pay a price for years to come. might want to take, we very much appreciate your time. thanks for joining us here. and i'll just thank you for having me wise, confronting the devastating off the mouth of the west, natural disaster in its history. this 80 people are dead and more than one. thousands of on accounted for a family assistance center has opened up in that community to try to help people unable to find missing loved ones, frontiers having distributing what to food and other essentials. the questions are being raised about the emergency response survivors say they didn't get enough of warning and how to scramble for safety. the attorney general has no,

it's an investigation into what happened. let's talk to see how that, what time see now. joining us from the audited moment here, what more do we know about those who are still missing? she what would you want being told to expect the death told arise? we have a better understanding of why they keep saying that it's because they're really just really beginning to go through the ashes and rubble, those damage, buildings that we keep keep saying, especially in the, in that historic central area on the ocean. but also, you know, moving further back north, she eats the surprises of accounting for that. that is only just beginning. we will see that i do have some breaking news as if there was another attempt to allow residence. um that i had to return to the judge for themselves, the scale of a damage. this happened on friday as well, but it was cut short after about 4 hours because it seemed like authority to lose control of the situation that, that appears to have happened again. and now we're being told,

no one's going to be that in indefinitely, the highway has been shot. and definitely we happen to be with, with skipped scouts here who thought you might be able to see is always belongings or in the back about that color of that he's a residence of, of the if you with that yesterday visit happened yesterday. do we have with instead of the sun? why not exactly as a thank you for asking me 1st of all, but yes, we were able to get back into our home, which was in what kind of town we stayed there for for a night. and then the next day we, we were told that we would have a 10 o'clock curfew about 5 30 pm. the police came through evacuating everyone from behind us. we were told that it was on safe. and um, you know, to be honest, there were still fires going on, there's lots of rubble around. so, you know, we're, we're not trained. we, we were told that they would say there was people going into the areas they should live in. and yeah, and i think that was real problem there, a lot of residents that just wanted to see if their house was still standing and just to assess, you know, what they're going to do next. i mean, a lot of us are trying to make tough decisions and whether or not your,

your house is still standing or not is, is a big factor in that. and i think a lot of people are just so curious and wanted to know that they were kind of slipping around barricades or trying to find ways to park in certain places and, and sneak around the, the national guard or whatnot. seems williams understandable, you think? but, but let's go back to the use it. i mean, you with uh yeah, what was it like as the flames were approaching? was there any warning? how did you know generally there, there really wasn't much warning and actually to be honest, there wasn't much warning the night before that the winds were going to be like they work. a lot of people were surprised tuesday morning when they woke that the winds were so strong and before the firemen started, we woke up tuesday morning with trees up rude, trees laying in the ground blocking streets. powerlines were already down, the power was out. and this was before the fire even started. so then the fire starts and it just use that. when does it's vessel for destruction and it just ripped through so fast or like anything that i've seen. i've seen that it was time to go. well, we just kind of picked out a certain spot,

it was across the highway from us and we just decided if it jump to the highway and hit to the other side were gone. and i literally looked to the other direction for maybe 30 seconds to a minute and looked back and they did sure jumped the highway and the apartments across me were already on fine. yeah. i think it certainly left for you. i mean, there are neighborhood fared better than most of the majority of the houses in the condos in our neighborhood are okay. it's a newer neighborhood. we, we, we did better than most of the neighborhoods to both sides of us are completely designated and you are telling me something really interesting, which is, who lost everything of this 5 democrats, the people who serve the result. absolutely. you know this, this didn't really affect the terrorist that much, they just had to leave. but this fight really took out what i would call a lot of the meat and potatoes of, of the culture and the workforce. the orientation of our workforce has a lot of servers, bar tenders, blankets, you know, managers,

things like that of all the restaurants and the people who serve the tourist. the people give you your plate of food, those of the people that lost everything. they lost everything, they don't have a home, they don't have a job. and they've got a really tough decision on their hands. a lot of them worried that was affordable housing prices on my end there, there was already, you know, coming out of the pen demik. and this, the price is skyrocketing, the way they did if you didn't own and you had to read it was already almost impossible to be in ohio. and the, the last affordable, strong hold lying to luna's is the main road up to the high school that was completely destroyed for the most part and, and that's going to be a big issue. so it's, it's taking a really tough problem and it's making it even worse that i'm, it's going to be tough to see how we recover from that. when we're going to do it, you seem to be in good spirits, keep everything you've been. well, you know, honestly and just the last 3 or 4 days i've seen what people can do when they're not divided and united in

a cause. and they set their mind to it and they want to help people. the last period is so strong, more than i ever realized, and it's not even just the people here. there are so many people outside of hawaii that have come to a high no year after year, whether they have time shares or whether they just loved the island. so we're seeing just so much support in outreach from people all over the place. people on the mainland, they can't really do anything to help us. but they'll texas anyway and say, what can we do to help? just tell us what we can do to help. so we've had a lot of support. it's been amazing to see people rally. but it's, it's going to be a tough road to recovery. there's no doubt like you so much. thank you. it's really appreciate you guys. yeah, it's interesting that we have heard that several people to visit the area that was really about to, to, to the ground was that area of affordable housing, the people who served with the results. and that was already. yeah. what was the property prices in skyrocketing? this is probably mine because in valley there were fears about kind of disaster

capitalism to kind of remember hearing things. i got off to how i could live in puerto rico, the, the developers will come in, but the actual original residence way. and so we, that's what, that's the other issue that we're gonna have to keep an eye on is how this rebuilding will take place, how, where the money will come from, who will get it. and whether those who don't own with ram to others will ever be able to make it back. but these are other demographic questions which go to the heart of the economy of this this resorts, island apache. indeed it is. she have thanks very much for that. well james, talk to you, okay, is direct to the why state department of business, economic development, interiors and he says, funding accommodations for people who don't stubs in the 5 is a priority for the government. you can only imagine the stress and the emotional trauma. it has gotten to these people who lost everything a many people who were there, their homes are breakdown to the ground. and i had a personal friend who we couldn't find for, you know, at least a day and

a half because there's no signal, no cell cell towers. the cell towers were all down and we waited, finally connected with them. we found out that their daughter was one of the the waitress is at a popular restaurant that had to escape into the ocean. so now, you know, we need to house these people. so what we're doing is the immediate issue is we just got power to. ready the on a poly area on the island, and what will be doing is utilizing hotels to take people out of shelters and put them in hotels. so we're going to start with a ports of them. the women and children and families with special needs and putting them up in the hotels and i will say low, high now and on a poly. ready tell us have been awesome as far as assisting once they got the power back, which was last night, they offered hotel rooms up to their employees. so

a lot of the employees in that area lost everything. so employees are going in there, and people that are in the victim of victims that are in the shelters are going to be going into these hotels. so it really is a total effort on the whole entire community right now to make sure that we can do the best to house people. so those are come on out this era. these 6 people have died off the boat, carrying migrants thinks of trying to cross the english channel, the route to you by visit capital color. we have more of those live the storms around the old place of us pushing down to what was your high valley easing over to what was the eastern seaboard little touch of storms, just down towards the oklahoma as we go on through the next couple days,

while the system came out see about the between the last hall task and the ready hall test and in place across the past that was still getting into the forty's. there's been some time that it hasn't made it up into the full seas. but as we go, what's the positive next week? i am optimistic. so it makes 38 degrees celsius. that's the 100 and found high. so i've still plenty warm enough, but you can see the majority of the heat just going to squeeze a little further southwards. as those live the south roll across the plains, some big a down, pause, law child damaging winds. always a possibility may even have the alternate. i mixed in sunday going only to monday, but what the weather is is i the tools the appalachians able to will cease to save or seeing some bigger finery. so i was coming in back, find one of 3 showers to down towards the south west that so was gonna be welcome at this time of the lobby. sure. i was to just making the way across the crates around to this and what the weather here that will pull its way from the westwood side, with the coming days into the company is best gathering the shelves across central

america. wanted to further east west quote to you by visit inspirational winning accounting. we wanted to gather the largest number of young women and showed the entire nearing performers was the 1st to ma'am z to pay it in jordan out to see her well celebrate female taking traditional out in a new direction. they go on stage. it's motivates other girls to join citizen. so jordan and egypt pon outages here, the, the, the here without just here i mind to up on

a storage. thousands of police and soldiers in ecuador rated a prison to remove a powerful gang lead by and then his fee to it was accused of threatening a presidential candidate. since the week before his assassination has been serving, 34 prison sentence for drug dealing more than 1000 people are still on, accounted for. of the wildfires ravaged in one out of my way. haines of 80 people have been covered as crews continue this search. many, including the states attorney general, asking why the island sirens didn't sound well on the sisters, faith west africans, region of the echo says it will send a delegation to ship to try and convince cooley this. we have to step down the countries, minute trace testing has no sense to say find summit before when i say sions

defense has been suspended by the interest reports from the border between jet and now jerry, where communities are concerned about the future, it is all quiet on the frontier between nigeria and is your republic now, just a few meters from here, hundreds of trucks are lined up. they've been stopping from coursing into an idea. yeah. because of the directive from echo, as just as the plan, old trade links and communications with miss. yeah. as the cool enter the 3rd week, very all leading with good. some of them had a ship of goods that drive a site. it's a total or a complete loss for them because they not shot when the boat is one open on whether or not they will leave this place any time soon. now the fact of this functions, i guess miss you is telling on the economies on personal relationships that up communities on the border with me. she had to probably go into marie and also have cultural and religious observations was affinity with people is and people in

nigeria. and that is old beat that is all suffering at the moment. apart from that, the prizes of goods have gone up to a level that ordinary people cannot easily go to the market and buy food and eat or feed their families. nope. in terms of the situation imager, rhetorics are still being wrapped up on both sides from it course and the military . you want to ensure that for me, that's only defined the breezes by m uh, pointing senior officers into that governments. for example, on friday, a new inspector general of police and also the head of customs were announced and dot shows they are they are digging in for a long time off my degrees. i'll just, you know, do be out when the niger into your border, the residence of the capital, sits in the army, according for peace as tension continues to escalate. many of worried that the standoff between the community does an echo us could result in more violence. some believe that should be

a peaceful transition of power at the head of the judge to should be the nation's leader. does it, does it, but what kind of vehicle was it do now? are they going to attack a new she is presidential palace to say president mohammed by zoom. that's good, makes no sense. a lot of series. i think the echo wise heads of state will be forced to come to negotiate with the dune, to impala, initiate what china should be in a while for a while, but to nibble should seem windshield forcible time to give the pow wow to a cd and government renew on there that we support 100 percent and we want to piece, you know, country with around the country. we want peace. that's our goal. okay. and that conveys and until the it was deputy africa direct to the human rights watch. she says, and it says, ministry leaders of violating international human rights. no. a continuing to detain that present the hobby buzzing. indeed we received a post of today. she was able to see his doctor. but the situation remains

concerning. we were told by his family that they've not had to look tricity, as mentioned since august, 2nd, no contact with the outside world since august 4th, including with his lawyer and the doctor who managed to see him. according to the reports of today, family members and other friends was not, you know, have, we're not able to bring the family food and other supplies. we will also told that we thought that it tricity the somebody has now been reduced to eating dry food. and i think one of the most concerning a piece of people's views was that a president bedroom, son has a serious heart condition. i needed to see a doctor um and the doctor alongside the family lawyer about time had not been able to access a present as we meant and any of the family members, anyone. we spoke to including present cousins, going daughters and others, including his former communication adviser with a new share,

a broad informed human rights watch that they were concerned by the length and arbitrary nature of the president's detention. because of the toll that is obviously taking on the president of his family as well as of the senior government officials who have been arbitrarily arrested and detained or returning to the top story. now, in this such a nation that one of echo is that presidential candidates, and i'm the, the, the sense here his wife was just given, the press conference in ecuador is capital key to and that's in america. and that's what we see a newman was that and joins us now. the sale, what did she have to say at that press conference? a? well 1st she made an extremely dramatic entrance to the only gas that alice came in with the, with a bullet proof helmet. she was also accompanied by a policeman with a, with a helmet of the same size and were carrying an automatic weapon kind of pointing it

at the media. that was there. we hadn't been searched. so it was rather strange. but then she said that, 1st of all, she blamed the stage of ecuador. please excuse me. she blamed the state of ecuador for not having provided sufficient security to save her husband for not having provided a bullet proof vehicle while he was campaigning. and then she went on to denounce the, his running mate, and they have, on silas who has just earlier today was nominated as his replacement. as we have like to laws in ecuador, say that if a candidates steps down or dies or for whatever reason cannot run, his political party has to replace him or her would someone else? well, on one side of this was the running made. she had said that she will run, but now according to the sense of widow that is called an outrage and illegal. and she said she would not stand for it. she says that would destroy her husband's

legacy and would mean that his death had been in vain. and i'm quoting her now, she is referring of course to the electoral laws of this country, which apparently do not allow a person who has already been registered to run, for example, as a vice presidential candidate to switch it during the middle of the campaign. but we haven't heard yet from the electoral authorities yet on that matter. so the sale, what's loyalty to happen now that in terms of the election moving forward for nobody knows, it's an open question right now at our house as widows. i said, i was said that she would be willing to support a candidate who would carry on with his campaign against corruption and drug trafficking. for example, hinting that she's already having conversations with other possible candidates to replace fernando, the sense you'll on the other hand, there is a, the final television debate for the old selections is less than 24 hours from now. there will be no candidates sitting in for him because the vice presidential

candidate isn't allowed to do that. so there is a lot of, but there are a lot of questions here about how many candidates there will be who they will represent, whether the law, whether they will be an exception to the law or not. a lot of confusion, a lot of questions and very little security for the presidential candidates that are still running. and there are 7 of them at this moment. and they've been complaining that the government has not done enough to secure their safety or that a voters when they go to the polls next sunday. saying even thank you. us republican, that presidential hopefuls a routing full support to the iowa state fence, which attracts nearly a 1000000 visitors to the american hot gabriel. and as on reports, donald trump spoke to thousands of supporters here at the iowa state fair. and he had 2 key messages. number one, he said that he would be the best person to support iowa farmers. this is

a big agricultural state any also him or his supporters to continue to stay strong. in his words, as the former president spaces, 3 criminal indictments in washington and new york, as well as florida. but he wasn't the only presidential hopeful here. there are more than well for central candidates. here tara was deeper, including ron descent is, was trying to revive his struggling campaign. but he, according to the latest news, is at least 22 to 25 points behind donald trump. now why do all the candidates? what do the i was state fairy for years. there's 2 reasons. number one is there are a lot of voters here. expect over a 100000 people here just on saturday and over the course of 10 days more than a 1000000 people. the 2nd reason is they are important for voters,

their own people that could potentially be voting in the 1st in the nation, all important iowa caucuses. that will happen. on january 25th, gabriel was under the more potent ins defense minister says the country's board and we bet it roost is in danger. he says, minutes back to my most guy was encouraging illegal crossings to destabilize potent rushes. wagner groups that top of bass in, but it rece last month, and the polish border also responded by deploying troops with the ends to send up to $10000.00 to the area. it's all been job. it is following developments, navy published, but it was seen border as the to build up continues along the poland brothers border. the defense minister has now visited his troops. he's telling them that his government is going to do absolutely everything possible. do not just make sure that it is frank sitting the polish ministry with us in the end equipment and forces,

but also to ensure that any threats that is coming from its border with the roof is met with full force. this obviously is also coming at a point where the government is going to be going into an election. so it is not just for its threats that it faces, but also to assure the people living alongside the border and the troops that the government is serious about security. and when it goes up, there is no doubt the opponents. boda is in danger, ongoing pressure on the polish border by migrants to cross it illegally is by the bel russian regions. there was no doubt that they called the rate with the kremlin . this is to destabilize our country as this action will fail because of the punish on me, and straightening the boat up with bad orders. in addition to the defense minister, we've heard from military come on, does as well. the thing that they're not only looking after the type of legal migrants and the threat from on groups guides as migrant. but also any incursion