A race against the effects of Climate Change. Could have a company on the news are the battle against drug crime in mexico has taken a deadly turn for the worst the countrys just not stopped the most homicides in a single day since records began in 197127 now many are questioning the president s strategy of hugs not bullets in tackling Drug Cartel Violence as alan fischer reports now from mexico city. Itll take a while to repair the damage to your own city hall the memories of what happened here will last much longer. Saturday afternoon a convoy of vehicles covered in the initials of a local drug cartel c. D. N. Drove into town and began firing this the authorities believe was sending a message to the Regional Government to. Security forces surrounded the turn 60 kilometers south of the texas border by the time the gun battles ended on sunday 22 were dead 16 gunman 4 Police Officers 2 civilians pictures of local politicians were riddled with bullets locals had to literally run for the lives you mustnt ground up passing yellow plastic thank you we were arriving at the plaza without children many began to shoot at us from the hill and we had to run in another direction the attacking ended on the day its no been confirmed was the deadliest since makes a call began keeping records 127 people were killed on december 1st the day that marked the 1st anniversary of president and days Manuel Lopez Obrador taking office he had promised a new approach to tackling mexicos violence and it is morning News Conference claimed the incident quite realize it was unusual its de castle this case is lets say unusual it is not something that happens in quite real every day we have a plan for the National Guard we need 140000 guards but we only have 70000. Later in the did the president met members of the law guard and family 9 of them were killed in a cocktail ambush near the u. S. Border in early november we were updated on the investigation into the murders 4 people have been arrested and didnt speak after the meeting. Poses took to the streets on sunday to protest against the president s 1st unit office one of the largest groups demanding you do more to curb the violence yes President Donald Trump says hes begun the process to designate mexicos drug cartels as terrorist organizations mexico opposes that idea but may find itself under increasing pressure to do something about the murder rate especially if theres another day as bloody as the same for the 1st 21000. 00 alan fischer aljazeera mexico city. Police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people have been killed during protests against un peacekeepers demonstrations started in the city of bending over what people see as a lack of protection from rebel groups. The Congolese Military has been reinforcing in the eastern town of benny but the protests and the shooting continue. Carney gave this graphic updates of the chaos. Around the siege of. This protester did not discourage him but. You have killed a Police Officer and his body was even supported by the protesters are not very. Big challenge for soldiers right now chris. These people are marching on a un peacekeepers base furious at what they see is the failure of u. N. Forces to protect them against attacks by rival groups including the socalled Democratic Forces determined to keep the mission outs protestors have already damaged a number of u. N. Building since process started a little over a week ago the Congolese Army has been sent to end the violence but has failed to stop the a. D. F. Killing more than 100 people in the last month and more than 1500. 00 in the last 5 years now theyre ordering the public off the street. They in the un are on their side so. Were calling on the population all members of society in north kivu province to stop working with our enemies the population should not forget about the real enemy the police is not the enemy the soldiers are not generally the un is not the enemy the real enemy is the a. T. F. But on monday alone for protesters and a policeman died the violence in bennys now hampering efforts to contain an Ebola Outbreak thats killed more than 2000 people in the democratic. Republic of congo since august the militarization of the medical response has really raised distrust Government Troops and sometimes you are not always seen as i am and now the World Health Organization has been forced to scale down operations in the area so to hire aljazeera lauris carney is the founder and executive director of friends of the congo which is an Advocacy Group promoting peace he joins me now from Silver Springs in maryland or in the u. S. Could have you with us live on the program sir is such a military response going to appease the public in the affected areas right. Now its highly unlikely public if there are 20 years of appearance experience with the u. N. Troops and there will be the Congolese Military and to date they have not been secured there hasnt been stability theres been an erosion of trust between the people and the government in the people and the u. N. So its going to take more than a. Event where the u. N. And the congolese government to show a force of unity its going to take time to rebuild whatever trust can be rebuilt with it with the population and if we just put the the un and the Congolese Military to one side how much sympathy is there within the community for these rebel groups they are disparate they have different support structures and in some cases they have no communication with. The government in kinshasa its a very complicated jigsaw puzzle isnt it of trying to find the right people to talk to to calm the situation down. Yeah it is complicated however remember that people are victims of the. Different militia groups that is to say they have been assassinated theyve been kidnapped theyve been displaced our own one of our own Spokes Person lost his grandfather who went into a Hunger Strike because of the insecurity and and he wound up dying so theres this sense of terror that cross the border in the community so theres very little sentiment for for the militia groups in fact its because the people been such victims of the militia groups and. Entities that were there to protect them by the United Nations and economies government have not done so so there is a tremendous amount of anger tremendous amount of distrust across the board and indeed the underlying threat to the community which was the reason why the u. N. Were then sent in to try and protect. The public at large. Its debatable about what their role has been but how about the message of why the u. N. All of that has that been lost was it lost on the public was that message is just not got across to the public at large well its interesting that you say that the message of the message is very clear right the population is very clear about why the u. N. Is there the u. N. Is there to. Protect them to provide stability provide security and it is because the people embrace this message and they feel betrayed because theyre being killed just meters away from u. N. Bases so there is no confusion about the message as to why the u. N. Is there the population is clearly responded. Vote of no. No confidence in the in the United Nations because they havent been able to protect the population the issue of trust is so very important for the public at the moment both when they think about the un then when they talk about their own National Army is it too late for trust to be rebuilt and if trust has deteriorated to such an extent what do you think is going to happen next i dont believe is too late i believe carlies government renter the president in particular can clear Critical Role by prioritizing the people and benny by spending time there by articulating a vision for bringing about peace and stability by actually Holding Accountable top leaders in own military i think there are a number of confidence Building Measures that can be taken primarily in firstly by the congolese government that can help to rebuild the trust thats been lost between the community and the government in the community in the United Nations or a very difficult situation im sure your monitoring from where you are in the u. S. For the moment more is current from friends of Congress Thanks very much for joining us on the program sir thank you. U. S. President told trump is intensifying 2 fronts in his terrorist battle one on fronts on the other on steel and alan minium imports from argentina and brazil shortly after arriving in london for a nato summit he threatened more than 2000000000. 00 worth of new levies on french exports the move is in retaliation for a new French Digital Services tax that will hit u. S. Tech companies rosalyn jordan is in washington d. C. With more on what happens next. The u. S. Trade Representatives Office said on monday that it is considering levying a 100 percent tax or sensually doubling the price of certain french goods intended for the u. S. Market this is because the trade representative has determined that a new Digital Services tax and acted by the french government earlier this year essentially is punishing Us Digital Companies that want to do Business Inside france so these new tariffs would be a form of economic punishment now the goods that would be targeted would include dairy would include champagne and would include luxury make up skincare and personal law products such as handbags this is also a situation where the u. S. Is only having a very short period for Public Comment a hearing will be held here in washington an early january and after a written and Public Comments have been made the u. S. Trade representative says it hopes to make a determination very quickly it says that this new Digital Services tax is harming u. S. Businesses and that frances government needs to be held to account its likely that the french government will react and. Well hours earlier trump accused argentina brazil of artificially devaluing their currencies truths about explains from border czar is going to brazilian an argentine steel and Aluminum Industries where the latest targets of the United States tirades on monday trump tweeted the main reason for the change in policy was the massive devaluation of the currencies in brazil and argentina which does not benefit u. S. Farmers of your life yes we really feel that it was shabby guys are going to be very hard because we did have a big breakout account for that for some very very uncertain out. Various in brazil which is slowly recovering from a recession the news came as a shock and the Steel Industry which accounts for more than 2000000000 in exports to the u. S. Talked about retaliation precedent. Trumps main ally in south america believes the situation can be worked out. If necessary ill talk to trump about that but were not backing off the lead out meanwhile in argentina with its struggling economy the announcement did not go unnoticed you would carry it on feet and i dont mean only add up to the end certainty that already exists in this country in one week argentina will have a new president ill bet about how to manage it and he will have to deal with a double digit inflation rate currency unfold and the possibility of by default on foreign debt argentinas government has been battling devaluation for months as people are turning to the u. S. Dollar to protect their savings. Argentina central bank has spent more than 5000000000. 00 to bolster the pace all says the primary elections in august which trigger. Collapse in the value of the currency trump now says the devaluations where intentional for many the latest u. S. Measures is also a consequence of the increasing commercial activities between china brazil and argentina in the middle of a trade war these are some of the 1st thing consequences of u. S. Policy investors have been moving from emerging markets to the United States and to developed economies and that you know in argentina is one of the reasons behind the countrys currency crisis in 28 major devaluation which of course has made its its primary exports more competitive so in some ways you know over the trumpet ministration is now reacting to something that helped create competitive exports which in part are heading to china argentinas president. And. Have experienced a warm relation with donald trump since taking office but for many dealing with china these days is enough to put the best of friends at odds. Ordinariness voice president Cristina Fernandez de kirchner appeared in court just days before shes due to be sworn in shes being investigated for corruption during her time in office between 220072015 because she is accused of awarding Construction Projects to firms that pay bribes to government officials she says she is being unfairly persecuted by the justice system. Well plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including thousands of people of all from their homes as a powerful typhoon pits the philippines. Heard a warning from scientists about how much quicker the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet is breaking up. And thats a familiar face receiving the battledore ward for Football Player of the year well have that story in sports. Protest as a multi blocked m. P. s from leaving the parliament rallies continue over the investigation into the murder journalist daphne corona. Her family wants Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat to step down immediately and allow an investigation into her death weve parker reports from the capital letter. Also as political crisis is deepening demonstrators surrounded parliament trapping government ministers from the Ruling Labor Party inside for several hours the Prime Minister resigned on sunday under a surge of public pressure but joseph muska wants to stay on until a replacement leader is elected in january demonstrators say muskrats too close to people implicated in the murder of journalist a blogger. They want him out of office now the journalists believe the protests are a major turning point. What happened in the past week is something other country has never seen those relying on the streets. And i think one of the reasons people are so angry is that. They put their trust in our government betrayed it completely not been lied to brazenly for 2 years by. Premise which date during his televised resignation on sunday muscat expressed deep regret for carolina. He has murder and spoke of the need for a fresh page but his tone was defiant this case cannot define everything that our country is he said. Was killed in 2017 when a remote controlled bomb went off under her car shes been looking into the secret accounts of some of multiple most powerful people and had investigated corruption in politics the police and banks 3 men arrested for carrying out the attack or awaiting trial but until now little has been done to identify who ordered the killing. At the heart of the murder probe is this man fenech hes one of the richest businessman because time is to government ministers he was arrested 2 weeks ago accused of being complicit in the murder of the journalist he denies the charges after his arrest fenech attempt to implicate the maltese Prime Ministers closest political ally Keith Schembri as a coconspirator schembri resigned last week his chief of staff to the Prime Minister he was interrogated for 2 days by police before being released without charge to other ministers of also stepped down and being questioned by police they deny any involvement in murder the resignation of top level officials within the labor party has done very little to calm protests that still remains hugely popular amongst many here multi hes credited with bolstering the economy but he swept to power promising to stamp out all forms of corruption and now some of his closest associates are embroiled in allegations of shady dealings corruption and even murder muskets departure say these demonstrators must not be a substitute for a full investigation into the journalist death they want the guilty to face justice. Staying in the region hundreds of refugees and migrants remain in a makeshift camp in bosnia despite concerns for their welfare amid freezing weather aide workers have all the migrants will be in danger if they stay at the camp in northern bosnia during the winter percy facilities and tents are covered in snow the government says a new facility will not be ready for at least another 20 days. But Scientists Say the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet is green in greenland is melting at a faster rate pool kristofferson is a scientist with the Scott Polar Research institute he says warmer weather has created holes in the ice which is changing projections for rising sea levels. Green and i said today the single largest contributor to