A continues its military build up for an operation against kurdish fighters amid warnings a cold trigger a new humanitarian crisis and. I would work. On a risk running out of cash the United Nations says its a worldwide operations are in peril. Ecuadors government says its open to International Mediation is the country grapples with the 6th day of anti austerity demonstrations for testers angry alan scrapped 40 year old fuel subsidies as part of Economic Reforms linked to an i. M. F. Loan well protesters in the capital of briefly stormed the heavily guarded parliament and clashed with Security Forces and other government buildings in quito were also attacked and damaged it comes hours after president lennon mourinho announced that he had temporarily moved Government Operations from the capital which has been the center off the protests to the port city of. No with the belief that its a democratic system cannot be violated the constitution cannot be violated you cannot damage the assets
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Demonizing the successful. News this saturday welcome to the program 1st to south america then. In the grip of a wave of protests after a state of emergency was declared on thursday demonstrations began over the governments decision to end fuel subsidies with prices of petrol and diesel expected to more than double. I students and transport workers have been leading a National Strike and the countrys president is using Emergency Powers to deploy troops in a bid to maintain order but there have been scenes of chaos as Police Clashed with protesters and have been at least 350 arrests. The fuel subsidies have been costing the government more than a 1000000000. 00 a year and it says theres no chance theyll be reinstated its all part of the president s plan to cut public spending to meet the terms of an i. M. F. Loan agreed in march he goes down of takes a deeper look at the impact its having. The i. M. F. Is the generous dessie and open handed and giving and seeing whenever a countrys econ
Sense of a 380 to pick up tourists stranded by the bankruptcy of trouble for thomas cook. The deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding are adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one has yet certain exactly what happened in the most a color region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base where they killed fighters and arrested others the question is why so many civilians died lets go to our correspondent rob mcbride who joins us live from kabul rob there seems as i mentioned that to be a tremendous amount of confusion about the death toll and what exactly the intended target was what more do we know. Thats right i mean all sides it seems are still trying to ascertain exactly what happened on sunday night what everybody is agreed on of course is that there has been a substantial loss of life part of the problem here is mr color district is a taliban stronghold deep in Helmand Provin
An end to rubbish collection and renewed concern about the spread of disease. Going. President leonine modano has ordered an overnight curfew in areas close to government buildings thousands of protesters of class with the Security Forces in the capital in a 6 day a violent demonstrations protests as angry after the government scrapped 40 year old field subsidies as part of an economic reform plan linked to an i. M. F. Loan. With a belief that the democratic system cannot be violated the constitution cannot be violated you cannot damage the assets of the ecuadorians and the ecuadorian people in general and of course even less damage to the physical integrity of people thats why were here. Heres our latin america new man reporting from quito. Im about 200 meters from the entrance to the doors national. Short while ago. 7 to tear down Police Barricades and almost make it inside they were pushed back with tear gas and by other 2 other methods the been doing this all day long trying to cas