john holeman is correspondent tracking that story for us. this as with mexico city, john. hi there. why is the government bringing this lawsuit against these companies? what, what are they spending accused of what the mexican foreign minister says is that these come, these big companies, basically washing their hands once they sell their guns and say we've got no responsibility for where they end up. and the mexican government is claiming that, in fact, they do, it's actually the mexican government and the met, some foreign minister came out and said these companies are actually making guns. the 2 that have features, especially to appeal to met cannot codes in terms of the, the way they work. and even the aesthetic of the guns it says as well that it could be disciplining that, distributers to work out where the guns are going to prevent them. from falling into the hands of makes can criminals, that it should could be doing marketing campaigns of both sides. the border against the illegal arms trade. the word that he repeatedly used and his lawyers was negligence on the, in the hand

john holeman was that the patient prime minister re riding it his 1st press conference since enough quick writ through the country, south west, leaving more than 130000 families homeless. we have a lot of questions about his government's handling of the disaster, especially why a week later, a still not getting to the many destroyed villages close to the epicenter. one of the regions has been completely flat and this last bill we went to last year and they said they haven't had any one from the government coming up for them made when they took he told them to white to that. why are they not getting a sooner since 98 percent of the houses are destroyed? but the prime minister chose not to answer the question. passing the mike to his head of civil protection, we are formulating a response or mechanism is in action. evidently, we have some issues related to security, but we are doing our best to accelerate the process. but it's not just the villages lacking aid. it's the cities too. and we also went to like a, an in the cave as a camp full of people just know, even though it just sticks with

john holeman has more from top to low on mexico, southern border with guatemala. this started actually before these flight for something called ty, 242, which is a decades old health provision, which basically means that anyone's showing up in crossing the us border and possibly ask for asylum, doesn't necessarily need to be seen. they could be turned straight back because of a health emergency and president trump's administration started to apply that saying that that applied to the pandemic to cove. it president bite. and now as continues to sending people across the border from the u. s. but what seems to be the case, the administration is worried that they keep coming back. so to stop that from happening there now flowing them here to top to, to where we all right now, which is right at the south of met her next to the border with boss amount. they're also flying into another city on the board or some other code, the masa. so that's the u. s. sort of strategy, a new strategy. it seems to try and stop people repeatedly trying to cross into the united states. wh

john holeman has more from the case like high football stadium has turned into a rough camp for those left homeless by saturdays, earthquake, and a symbol of the lack of help that getting schools of families is struggling in this muddy field. there's no water boiler or effective shelter, a piece of plastic to cover your family is a luxury here. value is when it rains, we get wet. when you lay down, you get whit. we don't have a top poland. we have nothing but problems. when we visited them, they've been there almost a week, but nobody from the government had come to hell. and options are even worse, or i can lead to and others we talked to told us that the materials that do arrive a being taken by thugs or even law enforcement officers. you have a good luck for me to know when, when the police come to provide security, they take the 8 away. i mean, never comes back. when we get to the police station, we see them taking it to they cause corruption has long been woven into haitian political life. but right now with the president recently assassinated, she organizational capacity also se

or a letter from john holeman who has more from puerto prince, haiti, still reeling from subsidies earthquake. every day, more bodies have found and the death toll continues to rise. but even in the country moons those ready last another potentially ruinous problem has arise tropical storm grief with the risk of flash floods, landslide, and yet more obstacles hampering the search the survivors. it's a fresh challenge for the government and aid organizations. rudy struggling to get help with disaster area down the road, gangs battling over the view and is allocated $8000000.00 to help or humanitarian colleagues are telling us that access to the southern peninsula where the quake hit is challenging because gangs are controlling movements haiti's prime minister did make it to the sea front town of like ty, one of the worst effected cities, then even on food. when i arrived in the south of the country, resorted destruction. many houses are streets, rescue teams are working to find victims and survivors in the rubble. one thing i noticed was the dignity of the people despite the situation. they ar

john holeman is on the mexican southern border with guatemala. from there he sent us this report. this is just one of the flights that began a week ago, taking migrants turned away by the us back down to the very south of mexico. the new measure from american authorities is to stop them immediately trying to cross the us border again. the flights a heading to be masa. and here top a jeweler right on the border with guatemala. those getting off and then almost immediately bus further back down the route by mexican authorities into guatemala. it coordinated southern reversal of a long hard journey seemed to shock those arriving in temper tula, it's tough because you have no chance if you suffer to get there. every one on this flight was what merlin will reportedly from dawkins and salvadorans have also been returned. this way, after their arrival, they were ushered onto the bus. this is where the migrants were left by mexican authorities in the border bridge between mexico behind us was that wait quite remote and they would drop here and just told to go back into their own country.

john holeman reports now from lake high on the worst effected cities. the aftermath of storm grace in the south west of haiti down pool wasn't quite as bad as fit, but some spent that they bailing out their houses and getting the water out because this is the only space we have to do everything. we can't live in water when we feel after shocks we have to be able to move out of the house quickly. those were the ones who still handhelds. others had spent the night in the field in the rain, victims of saturday's earthquake 1st above the earthquake, then this and i can't even get a tarpaulin. i asked god to take my life. there still there. still more or in hospital. the quake left more than 9000 injured. this young man was in too much pain to talk. murray was with her young daughter. her leg got sworn up but not broken. i've been with her saturday. yesterday she was going to be operated on, but they wanted to amputate the lake. i don't want that. if there was a government, she wouldn't be suffering the way she is. she's talking about the late president assa

john holeman has more from puerto prince, the haitian prime minister already el rey is already spoken in that meeting. and he gave the up day in italy of the dead. you also said that there were more than 12000 people that were injured in this he gave the number of homes that have been destroyed, which is all the time increasing as well. but he said that the haitian government has good its loins. those were his was to deal with these calamities and that they've been sending heavy digging. they've been sending civil protection. but he said that even all of those efforts have hardly put them in the destruction. that's been caused in the earthquake, we just actually go back from the da's office. we just spent most of the last few days looking around to see what's happening with the communities that. and i think some people, especially in those communities, would disagree with his assessment of the haitian government doing all that it could we went to one community called for on whose local representative said that 98 percent of the houses were destroyed that we spoke to. so many homeless

they're still waiting for guffman fee to arrive for john holeman is in the capital puerto prince jones is no more form that george spring us up to date on the situation. it's a double whammy really, very 1st that devastating earthquake. and there were a tropical storm. definitely, although the impacts of the tropical storm, which is now larger, all over the country could have been worse. it seems at the moment than, than transpired. in the end, we've been speaking to people on the ground, including our colleagues over in the u, which is one of the major cities that was hit by this. and in the end, it seems that that was and as far as we know so far, too much flooding or lines slides, which was the big worry about this. but we still have, as you mention, a lot of people sleeping out in the open even because they're worried about what might happen in terms of off the shots food because that houses with damage and destroyed. we've also got a lot of people in hospitals about 6000 people injured apart from the more than 1400 people that side in the crate. so the relief efforts ongoing, as y

john holeman reports now from reynosa with hundreds and i camped in one of the worst effected areas. a migrant camp out in the open, and one of the most dangerous cities in mexico. this is very no sir. it's known across mexico is a black hole where several criminal groups battling and even new struggles to get out. it's one of the places where us authorities ascending but people that they've caught trying to get across the border. and you say more arrived every day. when it was in the day we are ok, but when the night comes, it's terrifying. reynosa is very dangerous. we've heard shoot out for reno says into years violence just a month ago, a group of men drove down the town streets randomly killing i. stunned is when i was actually kidnapped in a nearby town. my son nathan will lessen. yes. i have the scars a lady burnt me, but i didn't tell the police. i just healed myself the best i could. i was held for more than a month and a half. there are more stories like dot com as well as those years sent back across the bridge through. so those who were trying to cross for the 1st time th

hardest at city of lake k, but as yet to reach rural communities near the craig stumpy center, john holeman reports. this is the as yet little known center of haiti's dissolves design to i was from the city that captured attention following subsidies . earthquake things worse. we drove through 10 kilometers of countryside in which most of the houses were simply destroyed. we start when we saw this building in the village of florida. how's the communities, hospital, church and school for 50 for years on saturday. in a heartbeat it was gone on sunday, fell out. now we're trying to find to at least find a 10th to help the kids back to school. so they don't miss the year. the for on district chief says 90 percent of the houses have went down to. judy was washing clothes just like when we met her, when her house collapsed behind her i saw the us moving and we started running. there were 2 people inside. fortunately they managed to get out. now she and her family of 9 homeless. just like most of the community here, some lives have been lost to rahman and so been son was out in the fields with his