16:30 LIVE | From the South: Ecuador's capital, Quito, becomes a virtual war zone, as police fired volleys of tear gas at the mainly indigenous protesters marching towards the Presidential Palace, and the National Assembly. This is the ninth day of demonstrations and strikes against the IMF-backed austerity measures decreed by president Lenin Moreno. And further afield in Trinidad and Tobago, the bell for Local Government elections has been rung- the island nation will go to the polls on Monday 02 December, 2019. More on these and other stories now.