the right correspondents definite cafe in ecuador's capital quito thank you very much indeed. and let's bring up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world the white house has announced it will not cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry of u.s. president donald trump the probe is trying to find out if held by aides ukraine to push the country to investigate democratic presidential candidate joe biden and his son sage's. phone as in france have been blocking highways with their tractors to protest the government's agricultural policy they're angry about recent trade agreements and a growing a trend of quote acrobat showing what she did say disregard safra fashion. police in berlin have cleared the last of around 300 climate activists blocking a street in the heart of the city the demonstrators from the extinction rebellion movement were demanding action to counter global warming. where prosecutors here in germany have charged a man who hijacked a truck and crashed it into a line of cars with attempted murder 9 people were injured in th

curfew after protests is still in the congress though rick thousands of demonstrators joined rallies in quito with some clashing with the police over cost to fuel subsidies and other austerity measures also coming up after a phone call between german chancellor angela merkel and u.k. prime minister or a strong scent a leak in london make nights claims that merkel told johnson his plans to leave the e.u. will not work but did she will analyze the story. and one of germany's greatest football players announces his retirement from the game but to try and strike it is hanging up his boots off for a long career that included $800.00 league titles with by munich and a world cup championship. i'm having a humphrey glad you could join me thousands of indigenous people have converged on ecuador capital cater to join anti-government protests clashes with security forces led president anymore to you know to move his administration out of the capital he has also imposed an overnight curfew off to. he has stormed the congress building ecuador has seen 6 days of nationwide protests following cuts to fuel s

all right correspondents definite careful in ecuador's capital quito thank you very much indeed. now did germany's chancellor really tell britain's prime minister that a break is a deal is overwhelmingly unlikely that's what a source close to boris johnson has told the british media following a phone call on tuesday morning between the prime minister and merkel now the leak has prompted e.u. council president 1st to warn mr johnson that regs it should not become a bill aimed a ukase jews leave the european union at the end of this month. $23.00 days until breakfast time is running out and now it's too late to reach a deal with the e.u. at least that's the latest mood music coming from london the british government no longer believes an agreement can be reached and that's coming from downing street they're blaming chancellor angela merkel e.u. council president donald tusk is outraged boris johnson what's at stake is not winning some stupid blame game at stake is the future of europe and the u.k. as well as the security interests of our people you don't want a deal you don't want

to avoid any confrontation so but they stayed in quito for lunch and there was a lot of. violence which were not used neck water which came from abroad this is something that is paid off for from a political movement related to other forces which want to create chaos and they want to so overthrow the government so really this is more a political thing to what what is the way out of this for lenin merino well the way out is 1st to talk with indigenous people which he already said several times to talk with them and he's doing so but then the 2nd part is to use force with the armed forces is to control all these criminal forces that are traveling through the country and that is perhaps not a get it let me ask you one thing that some of the protesters there are saying that that's actually a reason that they've they're even more upset is because of the way that they have been dealt with. no that's not true the things here is that indigenous people came to this city destroying everything they had and their weight the local population is angry at them. because they were so this

let's get more now top story now the unrest in ecuador amanda rapido is in quito for us minor is the curfew being respected at the moment. it is at the moment we have actually moved to a different part of town than where we were before where the demonstrators actually are still concentrated right now you might be able to see a slow trickle of people that are leaving that area in downtown near the national assembly building there they are respecting the curfew a lot of people say that they don't want to risk arrest since that curfew was announced earlier on saturday now there are still thousands of people that are not relenting that he refused to leave these are being led by indigenous leaders from different parts of ecuador that are calling among other things for the resignation of the president now these are protests that have escalated significantly over the course of the last over the course of more than a week really earlier on friday they were they were tense clashes between demonstrators and police police using tear gas using rubber bullets there have also been accusations of p

quito is more than a 1000 kilometers from venezuela yet some people who have fled the chaos there have made it to the ecuadorian capital even on foot. about 50 of them live in this compound at the edge of the city and keep busy tending the kitchen garden. when i water the garden i always think of my house back home in venezuela. we used to water the garden every evening it relieve the stress. this garden was set up with the hope of the city backed participatory urban agriculture program. so far the gardeners eat what they grow it's a step towards self-sufficiency. and his family fled venezuela last autumn. when the homeless i don't know if he threatened me and said we should leave the country because we were not cooperative and were there for traders. the calm here stands in stark contrast to the commotion and crisis back home coming here the sound arriaga has left everything and everyone behind. left venezuela with my wife. say on health and marianne the 4 of us. we have a house there. and we let the opposition use it while they were preparing for the elections. they were. the refugee

free glad he could join me the president of ecuador has moved his administration out of the capital quito amid mass protests now thousands of indigenous people have joined anti-government demonstrators who have clashed with security forces in the capital the protests kicked off off to the government cut fuel subsidies activists have since for public transport to hold. blocked roads and seized oil installations the fuel subsidy cuts were part of a deal with the international monetary fund to develop the economy. so let's get more now from correspondent stefan krishna joining me now from the ecuadorian capital stefan was seen some violent scenes on the streets of quito what is the situation currently. there will depend on which part of the city they are still probably some clashes going on between the congressional building and the historic city center where the presidential palace and some other. important government buildings are putting ready interior ministry of the other. and the other ministries while other parts of the city are largely quiet. pro-democracy rally going on in alongside

to measure we saw some quite extraordinary scenes in quito with protesters trying to storm the national assembly building who was behind the violence that we've seen in these past few days see indigenous leaders say they're not the ones behind the violence so who is to blame for the chaos that is a really big question benzo you are if you are. the president. the former president used to blame because he says put some or i'm on the people who. are some parts of the justice department of the prison so you have to say these are not indigenous people or these are people who know. that. this guy you know i would say shows so you better who you are you will come in for a gun for our let's ask long in paris ski on long you were foreign minister under rafael correia let in more right now is accusing caray out of all castrating that the chaos this crisis alongside the venezuelan president with the help of the venezuelan president nicolas maduro he says what do you respond to that is rafael correa in deep behind the current crisis in ecuador. i thank you for having me on the show no i think it's

un sonoro cacerolazoretumbÓ esta noche en quito, ecuador, luego una jornada de protestas. vÍa de diÁlogo entre el presidente y los indÍgenas que lideran la movilizaciÓn. freddy nos trae la crÓnica de un sÁbado violento. freddy: en la forma que reclaman paz y democracia. y es que despuÉs de 10 dÍas de paralizaciones y bloqueos se hace necesario el diÁlogo. en todo el paÍs, al momento rige el toque de queda. las fuerzas armadas intentan imponer el orden en quito donde se produjo una serie de bloqueosclaros intentos de atentar a la democracia. acompaÑado de la jefe armaesta desapariciÓn cadena de radio y televisiÓn para respaldar a la democracia. >> con esta medida las fuerzas armadas y policÍa nacional estÁn facultadas para efectuar acciones de control de espacios pÚblicos, lugares de asociaciÓn y reuniÓn. freddy: la estrategia consistiÓ en bloquear las principales calles de la capital,atacan instituciones pÚblicas y medios de comunicaciÓn. barricadas en inmediaciones del parque de las protestas y manifestaciones indÍgenas. se investigan actos de corrupciÓn del gobierno de c

se vive al momento acÁ en la capital ecuatoriana, quito.s cuales le han arrojado piedras y bombas molotov. hay intensos bloqueos en varias partes de la capital ecuatoriana y es que varias calles se convirtieron en campos de guerra. se construyeron barricadas con lo que los manifestantes encontraron a su alcance. >> miren cÓmo nos atacan a la pobre gente, estamos desarmados. >> decenas de personas comenzaron a colocar obstÁculos en las principales calles de la capital ecuatoriana. ingresaron a la contadurÍa, prendieron fuego sus instalaciones en esa entidad estÁn varias investigaciones en contra del ex presidente rafael correa y su rÉgimen socialista. frente a los desmanes el gobierno se vio obligado a hacer toque de queda y sacaron los militares a imponer el orden en las calles. >> vamos a establecer el orden en todo el ecuador.anunciamos el toque de queda. es dispuesta, no, unto de las fuerzas armadas inmediatamente. >> ellos respaldan el rÉgimen democrÁtico. esta tensiÓn se mantiene a pesar de que la maÑana la organizaciÓn indÍgena de la

feel lighter capital quito our correspondent nicholas donovan is there follow you venture what's the latest. ok i'm not sure we're going to hear me there just to. ok no we have some trouble with the connection with our correspondents in quito we have been following events there throughout the last few days has been a lot of unrest we will come back live to if indeed we can restore the connection. in the meantime let's talk about the legendary soviet cosmonaut alexei leon of who has passed away sadly today at the age of 85 in 1965 he conducted the 1st ever space walk that marked a major milestone in the history of space exploration there and had an illustrious career he commanded the soviet half of the historic apollo mission in 1975 the 1st joint space mission between 2 superpowers the capsule docked with the american apollo capsule for 2 days in space with astronauts and cosmonauts traveling between the space ships. or nasa has expressed condolences on the loss of alexei low enough they interrupted the live broadcast from space to commemorate the cosmonauts. enough was also a writer

so heated in the capital of quito that the president literally walked his government out of town to the coastal city of kill after reports that angry residents stormed the general assembly building archie correspondent nick sanchez o'donovan is on the ground in ecuador and brings us the latest from the protests in quito. ecuador remains under state of emergency after days of protests following president lenin merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies on monday those protests turned into riots as students and other groups violently clashed with police forces afterwards thousands of indigenous people came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the presidential palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the edmonton minister to capital from here from quito to kill those 2nd largest city imo those that are thought are some of the most perfect ways. but what's behind these protests well at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government has implemented under a $4200000000.00 financing deal signed with th

anti-government demonstrations thousands of indigenous people marched on the streets of the capital quito angry over fuel price hikes introduced by president men in modern no. roads are empty and businesses closed across the country as part of the strikes against the austerity measures has refused to resign says he's negotiating with dozens of indigenous groups unless an american editor lucien human is in kill which has become the temporary seat of government. in some places of the demonstrations have been bigger another smaller here and there have been street protest vote in favor and against the government and a very very large deployment of security forces including now for the 1st time members of the army i have seen here on the streets right behind the police riot police they too are armed with that with riot gear and this is significant because the armed forces has just put out a communique saying that it will not take responsibility for any consequences that may occur in the line of their duty to preserve public order and they say that the only ones responsible for these consequenc

to avoid any confrontation so but they stayed in quito for lunch and there was a lot of. violence which were not used in ecuador which came from abroad this is something that is paid off for from a political movement related to other forces which want to create chaos chaos and. so overthrow the government so really this is more a political thing. france and germany have stopped weapons exports to turkey or its offensive on kurdish groups in northeastern syria turkish forces say they have taken control of the center of ras al-ain that's a key syrian border town but kurdish forces deny that the u.n. says at least 100000 civilians have been internally displaced since ankara launched an offensive on kurdish held areas on wednesday when the kurdish led forces in syria's northeast say nearly 2200 civilians have been killed and 200000 others displaced since turkey launched its operation on wednesday charles trafford has mana from a jackal a in the turkey syria border at a press conference and s.d.f. spokesman denied the turkish militaries claim that it had full control of the to

good evening to you i mean we've seen some violent scenes on the streets of quito tonight what's the latest what can you tell us is the situation is impressive because protests in ecuador have tended east in over the past decade to extremely peaceful we've got a large group of people who apparently will successfully try to break into the congress again trying to run some political tone or general's office is just it is just across the street from congress listens to noon and also to try to take control of the city's historic center even though as it stands the government is no longer working from the prison. and how is their owing what number of earl of. 7 if i can just ask you how that's going to how is it going to work we've got the president moving the government basically outside of the capital will it look it could one could say it looks like he's running away from the protests and the problems is that what he is doing there. well it's yeah well you could consider consider it that way but you could also call it a strategic retreat according to the government it's a it's also a m

i guess another day of protests and violence here on the streets of quito as riot police clashed withrotesters specially with members of the indigenous communities that came here to tito from all around the country. where. hundreds of indigenous people came from all across the country to join the large group that has been camping in the city center for the days this new group came from the amazonian region to shoot shoot shoot and was well organized and ready to clash with police forces and that's what they did 1st in old town quito and then they surrounded the national assembly and again dozens of injured on both sides president lenin marino hasn't moved an inch and remains firm on implementing his economic measures merino did propose direct talks with indigenous leaders but for now these a stand in the ground and say they will be no talks as long as the president doesn't provoke his economic plan so many here it's time for the president to step down they are here killing people it is unjust lenin miranda should resign we mourn the people who. or not with us the president can't gover

desde quito, freddy barrios, univisiÓn.procesal y soborno. vamos a pasar con jesse baquero. jesse: muy buenas tardes, saludos de de la corte suprema en bogotÁ, colombia. hace pocos minutos el expresidente uribe abandonÓ este recinto tras pasar mÁs de siete horas en la indagatoria que forma parte del proceso que se le sigue por la presunta manipulaciÓn de testigos. temprano en aras del amaÑo una-- maÑana arribÓ a este lugar en el palacio de la justicia fuertemente custodiado y seguido por muchos medios de comunicaciÓn tratando de obtener una respuesta. hizo una declaraciÓn de mÁs de 100 preguntas y no se sabe cuÁntas hasta ahora hasta el intervalo en horas del almuerzo, quedÓ de pequeÑo descanso redes o para seguir respondiendo. la zapata de este edificio varios activistas tuvieron algunos conatos de enfrentamientos y protestas permanentes, arengas respaldando el gobierno de uribe y otras en contra de Él. hace pocos minutos saliÓ de acÁ, se dirige al centro donde aparentemente darÁ algunas declaraciones. es la informaciÓn de

as the latest from quito. there is a lot of anger a lot of passion and somewhat of a confused situation here in the capital ttyl where thousands and thousands of indigenous ecuadorians are gathering inside and outside of a cultural center that has become now the headquarters for the indigenous confederation of ecuador and its leadership just a short while ago there was a religious ceremony for one of the protesters who was killed in clashes with police on thursday there also were these there were 8 policemen inside one of them was detained early in the morning and then we spoke to a colonel who is the boss of that particular trooper he went there with another group to try to secure his release he said that they were well treated to they were trying to make a have a put a peaceful solution to this but when i asked whether he was allowed to leave whenever he wanted to he told me that he could not they were not mistreated he said after the funeral there were moves from exodus from the confederation at 1st they we

they won't back down until president lenin merino resigns let's go live now to manor upolu who's in quito as a tell us you've i gather you've had to move what's the situation on the streets now. that's right lawrence we were downtown to go where earlier today there was i think a lot of optimism from many people given that sunday was the day that the national dialogue was supposed to begin but i think emotions are still a little a little too high tensions are still quite high and it honestly just looks like a war zone in downtown he's the several of the street clashes taking place what we saw was with a tremendous amount of tear gas our entire team had to i'd actually leave to take cover because things are getting a little bit too heated and really it's a continuation of the same sort of clashes that we've seen over the course of the last few days demonstrators charging police with sticks and rocks and sort of makeshift shields and then police responding with tear gas with rubber bullets just anything at their disposal to disperse these crowds so it's still quite a tense scene and just a c

this is protester santiago iguamba in the streets of quito. ofjust like in the period the economic reforms in 1983, we want these economic measures to be canceled. indigenous communities are here in front of you. we have the vote. long live the indigenous movement. amy: president moreno declared a state of emergency last week, allowing police to raid homes without warrants and suspending the right to assembly. hundreds of people have been arrested. the government is also cracking down on the media -- police raided the community radio station radio pichincha universal on tuesday. meanwhile, the defense minister has called prorotesters terroris and criminals, threatening them with the threat of lethal weapons in a television interview monday. yesterday's mass protests come one day after president moreno saidid in a national address h e is tememporarily moving governmt from quito to the southern city of guayaquil. he accused his political opponents of a attempting a coup and vowewed not to restore the fuel subsidy. >> what has happened here in re

loan our last america editor lucien newman has more from quito. i'm about 200 meters from the entrance to the doors national. to tear down the barricades and almost make it inside they were pushed back with tear gas and other 2 other methods for sleeping doing this all day long trying to cast. simply must get out of the white house says it will not cooperate with an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump says the investigation not just by the house democrats violates the constitution democrats have already warned that such a move would be viewed as obstruction of justice. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has found that russia was behind a social media this information campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election intelligence chiefs trace the accounts to the internet research agency that is a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin kurdish forces have warned that any military escalation in northeastern syria could lead to a return of eisel and cause a mass displacement of people turkey's pr

man who has the latest now from quito. tensions remain high in ecuador there is now a curfew that in fact the government has ordered the military to take control of the streets and public spaces not only here in the ecuadorian capital quito but across the country there are still thousands of demonstrators that are defying that curfew meaning that clashes are expected to continue this evening there have been plans for talks the government the president of the country has called for a national dialogue with indigenous leaders but many of the people that we've spoken to here on the streets of key go see that that time has come and gone they're not willing to go to the negotiating table they're seeing that the situation has already gotten out of the control out of the hands of of the government and the there's been hundreds more people that continue to arrive continue to ride from different parts of the country to lend their solidarity so it's no longer just an indigenous movement that that's protesting against austerity measu

as they vent their fury at the decision to end fuel subsidies nicholas o'donovan reports now from quito. i'm. not i am i was was ecuador remains under state of emergency off the days of protests following president lenin merinos decision to scrap fuel subsidies on monday those protests turned into riots as students and other groups finally clashed with police forces afterwards thousands of indigenous people came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the presidential palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the edmonton minister to capital from here from quito to why a kill those 2nd largest city that's not done as much innocence it less. time but what's behind these protests while at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government is implemented under a $4200000000.00 financing deal signed with the i.m.f. ecuador wants to use this money to cope with a large foreign debt and fiscal deficits parts of the package include the scrapping of subsidies to gasoline diesel that had been in place for the $

groups violently clashed with police forces afterwards thousands of indigenous people came here to quito and violence continued throughout the night as protesters surrounded the presidential palace the tension was so high that the president decided to move the edmonton minister to capital from here from quito to kill those 'd 2nd largest city that's none other than our own innocence it was. but what's behind these protests well at the center of it all is an economic reform package that the government is implemented under a $4200000000.00 financing deal signed with the i.m.f. ecuador wants to use this money to cope with the large foreign debt and fiscal deficit parts of the package included scrapping of subsidies to gasoline and diesel that have been in place the fuel to clean the rising fuel prices has triggered a domino effect and other basic goods are going up in price to create an uncertainty among the people but many here say that fuel prices are just the tip of the iceberg and they disagree with the neo liberal agenda but in place by lenin marina now the government is also implement

there are celebrations taking place on the streets of quito right now if you can hear behind me there is fireworks going on cars honking their horns horns people celebrating what would been deemed to be in agreement finally between the confederation of indigenous communities from across the country that have been protesting for over a week calling on the government to reverse course on a economic policy that sought to and decades were decades long fuel subsidies and austerity program that the government that many saw as being damaging for the country and they seem to have managed to come up with an agreement with the government where that's exactly what they're going to get. they've been celebrations into his ears exit polls show a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become the country's next president i sayit is projected to win more than 70 percent of the vote beating media mogul now bill kind of the japan's military is deploying tens of thousands of soldiers to help with rescue and cleanup efforts after a powerful typhoon ripped through the country's east

loan in america editor lucianne human reports from quito. indigenous ecuadorians continue converging on the capital people to give their president in ultimatum either repeal highly unpopular austerity measures or get out they say well. we've come from the middle of ecuador to reject this unpopular government that's taken measures dictated by the i.m.f. . president lyndon would in all says he's open to dialogue but insists he can't back out of his commitment to reduce the fiscal deficit by lou. fuel subsidies something he vowed never to do when he took office was the demonstrators were further angered when they found out that president wanted or had moved the executive branch overnight to the coastal city of by a key. for hours and well into the night the protesters tried without success to overcome riot police. in an attempt to surround the presidential palace and national assembly was some of the indigenous leaders are asking them to the way things are that they don't put their lives at risk into march store another part of the city but the

are let's introduce our panel now in quito ecuador via skype is as a bell a professor of journalism at the university of us away and paris we have long a former foreign minister of ecuador currently a researcher at the french institute for international and strategic a phase and in manchester in the u.k. is cotton harding director of latin form a consultancy which provides political and economic analysis on latin america welcome to you all gentlemen thank you so much for being on inside story much us in quito let me start with you indigenous that protests have toppled 3 presidents in ecuador in the past few decades just how serious is this current crisis. hello yesterday was from the national assembly watching indigenous people are trying to take or. they are earliest they're on course as you say the story they are they. are really strong course but for what i saw yesterday i was the economy is more i live in peace 5 guys lending more and you know if they really want. to measure we saw some quite extraordinary scenes in quito with protesters trying to storm the national assembly buildi

controlar la crisis en ecuador especialmente en la capital, quito.lo mÁs triste. no sÉ lo que va a pasar.habrÁ soluciÓn o no habrÁ soluciÓn? no tengo ni idea. podrÍa haber una alternativa o una salida pero no se iba a ver. dialogaron con representantes de sectores sociales e hicieron un llamado a defender la democracia. >> sectores que quieren ganar protagonismo en una lucha legÍtima de los pueblos y nacionalidades. unÁmonos. que otros sectores no quieran arrebatar la lucha de ustedes. >> lenin moreno asegurÓ que estÁ dispuesto a revisar el decreto de los combustibles que fue el detonante de la actual crisis. >> polÍtica organizada dirigida pormaduro en complicidad con el narcoterrorismo. ciudadanos violentos causaron violencia nunca antes vista. atentaron contra el patrimonio, causaron miedo a muchas familias. secuestraron policÍas y una larga lista de elementos >> siguiÓ en la capital ecuatoriana. allÁ en el. en lo que se puede apreciar es una cortina de humo donde se han concentrado en las manifestase iones. se espera que esta tarde se conozca el

thousands of protesters have clashed with security forces in ecuador's capital quito during a 6 day of violent demonstrations over the fuel price rises. the united nations is suffering a cash crisis and is warning its operations around the world could be compromised a 3rd of its member states haven't paid their share of the costs including the u.s. which owes more than one $1000000000.00 it's told al-jazeera it will provide the vast majority of what it owes by the end of the year all diplomatic efforts have james base reports. if the un hadn't already made severe cuts to its budget it wouldn't have had enough money to stage the high level week of the u.n. general assembly when world leaders visited new york last month secretary general antonio good terrorists said the organization is confronting its worst financial situation in a decade the organization is facing a c.v. here financial crisis to be more specific as c.v. a liquidity crisis the question is simple without cash the budget cannot be properly implemented our work in the already forms and at risk the secretary general was very

hundreds more indigenous protesters have poured into ecuador's capital quito to join the tense day of demonstrations against austerity measures they want the president lenin merino to repeal a law that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy riot police have fired tear gas to break up the rallies and protesters responded with fireworks at least 5 people had been killed in the unrest and has the latest from quito. tensions are very high in quito ecuador right now after an entire day of protests and demonstrations in clashes between demonstrators and police even now that night has fallen there are still demonstrators in the streets marching for the most part people here have been very peaceful marching marching calling on the current president of the country to reverse track on an economic policy that ends decades worth of fuel subsidies now these clashes they've been taking place for the last week and it only appears as though they're intensifying even now with the with the night falling if you can see these images behind me that is the national assembly building and people are protesting pea

let's go live now to minor upolu who is in quito so what's the situation like now. lauren as you can see it's a lot calmer now than what we were broadcasting in hours before we're now just over an hour past curfew here in the ecuadorian capital and behind me all you can see is possibly just a slow trickle of people that are making their way from the area where the largest concentration of demonstrations were taking place the scene over the past 24 hours with thousands of people if not tens of thousands of people on the streets near the national assembly building where they actually set fire a group of about 30 demonstrators set fire to one of the main administrative office buildings in quito for the national government so it's been very tense it's been. many scenes of clashes between demonstrators and police with demonstrators using sticks and makeshift shields against authorities. who have been using sound breeding season using tear gas and rubber bullets they've also been accused of using live ammunition to disperse the crowd so it's been very tense emotions have

fuel subsidies after holding talks with protest leaders celebrations are taking place in the capital quito demonstrators say they will end there until austerity protests have lasted nearly 2 weeks. and these are celebrations into his ear as exit polls show a conservative law professor and political outsider is poised to become its next president he had his projects to win more than 70 percent of the vote beating media tycoon not billed carly. at least 37 people are confirmed dead after a powerful typhoon struck parts of central japan on the weekend tens of thousands of troops are still trying to reach people left stranded by widespread flooding and landslides when he reports from tokyo. there was plenty of warning before typhoon had arrived but the power of this storm caught some of japan's most vulnerable by surprise intense rainfall cut off many people and communities including dozens of elderly in a retirement home and calico a northwest of the capital tokyo after the storm passed they were brought to safety by risky workers. the storm brought damaging winds in excess of 200 kilometers

the top stories here on al-jazeera a curfew has taken effect in ecuador's capital quito and the president has put the city under a minute to knock down. forces say movement will be restricted across the country for 24 hours after another day of violent protests against austerity measures. france and germany have stopped weapons exports to turkey over the assault on kurdish groups in the northeast of the country the operation is now in its 4th day and turkish forces say they've taken control of a strategic border town. protest against offensive taking place across europe demonstrations accuse the us president donald trump of betraying syria's kurds. a roadside bomb has killed at least 10 kenyan police offices near the border with somalia the vehicle had to devise the kenyan authorities believe was planted by the group al-shabaab no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. at least 3 people have been killed as typhoon haiyan bass made landfall on japan's may 9th and honshu fierce rain and wind has paralyzed tokyo leaving rivers flooded a normally busy streets deserted 9 people still m

they've joined together in the same tens of thousands of people who are taking over the streets of quito president lenin moreno poland is going to see in what is going to hit is a message. certainly riposte so his government his ministers and say the measures that deal with the i.m.f. $4200000000.00. we're told that struggling with that not the people who say that the government is going to save a banks and big business instead of the people and that's why all of these people are protesting this is a national strike and. take acts with smoke it's practically on bearable a tragic day and for those history. when fuel subsidies were cut prices reportedly rose by a 120 percent and leading to knock on inflation on other products the decision came as part of a deal made by the president with the international monetary fund in march in exchange for another loan it to the country marina has so far refused to scrap the cuts but on saturday said that he would have a 2nd look upon human rights lawyer dan quality told us that public discontent with president merinos policy go. i think there are some

police cracking down on the demonstrators last america at its elisia newman joins us live now from quito and what's happening where you are at the moment. hello merriman it's a very very volatile confusing the sometimes situation we are right outside the culture center here in a lot of that has become in quito rather this is become the headquarters for the indigenous confederation and all their supporters thousands and thousands of people are inside and outside of the building that is behind me they've been listening to their leadership at the beginning they seem to be asking for the demise of president lenin what annual immediately they say that he was responsible for at least 5 people who according to the human rights on between have been confirmed dead in fact at this hour they are waiting for some of the caskets to arrive here as well that they're going to hold a religious ceremony we don't know how many people were injured but right now we're hearing that that what they're demanding is for the resignation of the interior minister and the defense minister some are calling for some di

reports from quito. unrest has continued on the streets of the ecuadorian capital on saturday thousands of people flooded downtown quito. demonstrators calling for the resignation of the country's president once again clashed with police there's a conservative who must of thought that this president is using public funds to kill us and shoot at us but we want to run away if we have to give our lives then so be it. but i have hundreds of women from across the country joined in the demonstrations and held a march of their own in solidarity with indigenous demonstrators that they called all the government to end with they say is a violent repression of peaceful protesters who doesn't take the stuff. that women are protesting for life because we are life we've had enough of the brutal repression against ecuadorian demonstrators and indigenous ecuadorians. throughout the day smoking tear gas filled the air as more and more demonstrators filled the streets once again in doubt take a tour it appears as though m

quitó la vida si cuando éste pulsamos en 1989 eso ocurrió la falla de san andrés una muy cercanas y queeron en esta imagen desde que es nuestra graficada la cercanía de el epicentro a la falla de san andrés, está muy cerca pero nos comentan que no están tan seguros actualmente dt confirmar y si ocurren sobre la pda sonando así también dicen que es poco inusual . >> así que estaremos vigilando la situación. >> hablemos de las condiciones tenemos tema de alta presión con condiciones calientes por lo -1 par de días más alcanzando casi 90° en ciudades al norte de la bahía precisamente vemos un aviso que estará vigente hasta mañana a las 10:00 de la mañana los condados afectados son marín, ráfagas que alcanzarán 35 millas por horas, si que mucha precau, >> también tenemos otro aviso, dada la pobre calidad del aire de esta mañana, recordemos que el sistema de alta presión mantiene a las partículas atrapadas en la atmósfera,

man who has the latest now from quito. tensions remain high in ecuador there is now a curfew that in fact the government has ordered the military to take control of the streets in public spaces not only here in the ecuadorian capital quito but across the country there are still thousands of demonstrators that are defying that curfew meaning that clashes are expected to continue this evening there have been plans for talks the government the president of the country has called for a national dialogue with indigenous leaders but many of the people that we've spoken to here on the streets of key go see that that time has come and gone and they're not willing to go to the negotiating table they're seeing that the situation has already gotten out of the control out of the hands of of the government and the there's been hundreds more people that continue to arrive continue to run from different parts of the country to lend their solidarity so it's no longer just an indigenous movement that that's protesting against austerity mea