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Ecuador’s President has declared that his country is engaged in an internal war with ruthless drugs gangs, after unprecedented violence on the streets.
Armed groups linked to drug cartels have launched a wave of bomb attacks and more than 130 prison officers are being held hostage by inmates in jails.
The violence began after a notorious drug lord escaped from prison. Tourists are being advised to stay indoors.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Will Grant in the city of Guayaquil, where masked gunmen stormed a TV studio.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
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@NorthernIrelandConflict
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
so sad, i know what its like growing up in a war zone, prayers from Northern Ireland
@ermilasalas7375
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
They need a president like in El Salvador 😮
@MI-hs2vw
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
sick just sick I saw on a site how they slaughter people like it's nothing legs arms heads every limb is chopped off mercilessly for parents or children, women are slaughtered, people are shot for whatever reason, the fact that you do or can do something like that is evil. you are heartless, not a human being, not an animal, but a devilish beast. so many murders are committed in the world. is not normal, wars, Africa, South America where no laws are observed, everyone does whatever, ALLAH (GOD) says in the Koran that the angels said when he put Adam the first man on earth "They said: "Go on it (earth) appoint one who will cause corruption in it and shed blood, while we magnify You with Your praise and sanctify You?” (Surat al-Baqarah: 30) and Allah said, “Verily I know what you do not know.”
the angels already knew what was going to happen. But Allah does everything for a reason, after all, he is the creator of everything and we will all be accountable to him.
@wamteng3790
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
The drug business from there will just migrate to UK.
@user-ei2wy2jb5u
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
كيفكم صح النوم
@natalie022
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
I was there a few years ago… my class almost had to leave early because of the first wave of violence
@user-oj2ry2bc9s
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
President Noboa is trying to rule Equador with, as Stalin had tried, an iron fist trying to "neutralise" gangs instead of learning to co-exist in relative peace and harmony, as Mexico has done, with its cartels. It is believed that cartels in Mexico are, in fact, the 5th largest employer raising the livelihoods of many of its citizens. In lieu of branding 22 gangs as "terrorist organisations", Noboa should be open to peaceful coexistence. I wonder if President No-boa is just a puppet for US interests trying to constrict underground enterprise and eliminate the wild snakes of Equador in hopes of paving inroads and quelling resistance for American intervention & expansion?
@alexandergorman3037
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
I wish the best of luck today Ecuador to get rid of the drug gangs and drug lords
@rafaelzuniga5069
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Sad
@rafaelzuniga5069
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Smh
@My2CentsYall
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Cant hold elections in a war can you.
@yrooxrksvi7142
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
I hope the president of Ecuador is taking cues from El Salvador's Nayib Bukele on this matter.
@C.A._Old
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Poor South America…
@theenchiladakid1866
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
unprecedented is just another buzz word
@Genghiskhan007
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Now what did American do?
@user-cp3tw6sm5q
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
What is really going on in Ecuador?! Can you say that Satan is planning all this chaos under his sleeve. All hell has broken loose.
@The-Black-Serpent-Syndicate
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
This looks like Hollywood Movie plot 🤯🤯🤯
@alexandrufrangulea6097
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Why do people take (dangerous) drugs?🤔🤔
@Emporior.
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
ok bro got jealous of all the attention on the middle east
@durbanpoison8622
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
This is what happens when u hang around doing nothing to a problem you know exists. Fix the problem before it gets out of control.
@graceg2716
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
There should no mercy, shoot them dead!!!! The President must take a string stand.
@venturefanatic9262
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
I wish the Ecuadorian Government the best in this endeavor.
@myless789
January 23, 2024 at 4:03 pm
What’s so sad is that If you look at the gang members, they look like kids. Like I swear some of those guys couldn’t have been 16 17 or 18….that’s just sad to be hooked into something like that at such a young age…