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u politicians after being exposed to potential prosecution in spain. protesters defied me and miles military rule this even as another top political figure is killed. the w.h.o. at its most extensive report it says younger women are more at risk of sexual violence and the pandemic is making the works. of spending more than 3 years as a political outcast the man once held as the most popular politician on earth brazil's lewis and also knew that the silver is poised for a comeback as supreme court judges thrown out his conviction on corruption charges and that means the former leftist president could potentially face brazil's current right wing leader john abell scenario in next year's election we'll find out more from monica you know live in rio de janeiro in just a moment but 1st has her report. the reason nasa. was leading the polls

and $28.00 team the left wing political leader would have probably been elected brazil's president for the 3rd time had not been convicted on corruption charges and banned from running now less back in the political scene as the country faces its worst moment in the cold in 1000 pandemic and he poses a serious threat to right wing president john abell so narrow in next year's elections well it's good news that comes at the right time because the political situation in the country is so dire over to get here i would not believe a politician who has already been arrested for corruption and i don't think lula is the right person to run our country. has always said that he was wrongly convicted and imprisoned he says the bribery money laundering in corruption charges were part of a scheme to strip him of his political rights after years of judicial battle

a supreme court judge on monday a no because fictions against. the decision has nothing to do with the lolas innocence or guilt the supreme court judge argued that the former president had been tried in the southern city of quote a chip when you should have been tried in the capital brasilia it may be a technicality but one that could be shaped presumes political and judicial landscape the fact is that moolah can now run for the presidency and he still has the support of half of brazil's voters according to a recent poll. some of them took to the streets to celebrate and to protest against what they call president bows and arrows mishandling of the pandemic. 7 reacted on twitter saying be an element of the charges proves he has always been right. accuse the supreme court judge of acting on behalf of the workers' party brazil's political divisions deepening in the midst of

a deadly pandemic. speak to monica now so monica not only has the ms conviction been and nulled but now the evidence against him may be thrown out altogether because of these allegations against the judge who sentenced him as the the allegations that he didn't act and possibly i mean this is this is this is huge and it's all coming to a head now. yes exactly this is like the battle between 2. superheroes that have fallen in disgrace and we have more waiting for the problem because today the supreme court is most things change and they're changing every minute there's close to meet the 5 supreme court justices and decide whether whether sergey morrow acted in partially or partially or he had a political agenda let's remember that session malto is the judge that unveiled of

the whole car wash scandal involving most important business men construction companies to oil company politicians presidents former presidents from other countries as well and that resulted in the impeachment of former president also from the workers' party and the imprisonment of. it's always said that sasha morrow acted in a political agenda and when searching will accept it to become the. justice minister of. the natural the right wing candidate that won the 2018 elections that been loyal said will here's proof that he would speak was not impartial and one of the reasons i show you both a not a one was because lola had been banned from running in the 2018 election although be a low being a front runner in the election polls so but that wasn't enough. what happened after

that was that there was that hard wash and a week and conversations between fashion moral and the prosecutors and some prosecutors of that were investigating this case were leaked by the press and they showed that there's a model did parents information to the prosecutors and he wasn't really acting impartially so this is what they're going to decide today now if there is more to is considered to have been partial then that means that all the proof that would spur lead to. jury investigations against all of those have to be thrown out of the window like they say through promote poison tree and i guess that could also have a flow on impact have set a precedent for the others who were convicted in that corruption probe we will have to leave it there for now we'll check back in with you monica because things are changing by the have there in rio de janeiro. european parliament has stripped the

immunity of catalonia as president and to office former ministers they set abroad to declaring independence and 2017 and now sit in the e.u. parliament in brussels which have given them immunity and reports. it's a move that's rekindling the debate over the future of spain's catalonia region and its independence movements the result of the bruising session of monday the march european parliament has removed the immunity of colors which demands for the catalan presidents and 2 associates all of whom have seats in the assembly they fled abroad in 2017 following an independence referendum and subsequent declaration of independence which the spanish government deemed illegal it is a sad day for european parliament. we have lost our immunity. but their opinion parliament has lost more than that. and as a result european democracy to. this is

a clear case of political persecution. the decision could help madrid's bid to extradite the trio colors courage to mont tony come in and color ponce have been charged with sedition in spain which to monton kamin are also accused of misusing public funds but ponce 30 who's based in scotland told our jazeera they're confident of winning an appeal we will go guest these are not immune he didn't do them justice because. it means that these are both the go persecution and the sides . should not have believed that. they sometimes bury its own government and struck hopes that we were on the heel the 2017 independence referendum stoked major tensions between the spanish government and the leaders of catalonia an autonomous region of 7 and a half 1000000 people the bitterness of the debate has diminished since socialist

prime minister pedal sanchez came to power in madrid in 2018. but in last month's regional elections separatist parties gained 4 additional seats in the catalan parliament they independently if parties who come from the right to attend the collect so there are all kind of political opinions in the independent the inst party if they want the majority the couple in parliament told this process that we still have that their elephant in the hall meanwhile a belgian court recently rejected spain's request to extradite another former catalan cabinet member and it's far from clear how authorities here and in scotland will cooperate with madrid now the barber al jazeera. me and miles military leaders have recalled their ambassador to the u.k. for public denouncing the coup this comes as a 2nd official with political policy dies after being arrested by security forces the. cause of death is not the spa's not the night of violence demonstrators have

once again turned to reports. the campaign of intimidation reaches new levels in yangon hundreds of young protesters were trapped after they were surrounded by police and myanmar's military in the city's essential district threatening door to door searches they fired guns and use stun grenades as they patrolled warning that anyone hiding protesters would also be punished but. it lasted all night the protesters were finally able to leave in the early morning hours after the security forces pulled out in a rare and risky nighttime gathering protesters in yangon broke curfew went to the streets calling for the release of the others their reports at least 2 dozen were arrested overnight unfazed by the heavy hand of the security forces across the country protesters came out and faced the continued crackdown just a few hours after the trapped protestors in yangon were finally able to leave.

since the february 1st coup an advocacy group estimates 1800 people have been detained several lawyers have stationed themselves in front of insane prison helping relatives of those arrested find out if they are inside and if they need a lawyer they say they are dedicated to serving those who have been detained free of charge but also getting information to the families. we are not afraid of people threatening is because we are doing this in accordance with the law and if they do you threaten us is illegal we are prepared to carry out until the end. in nearby malaysia a court has given rights groups amnesty international and asylum access the right to challenge the deportation of myanmar nationals a big step in the country because its laws often make it difficult to challenge immigration decisions in court 1086 citizens were sent back to me and mar on february 23rd it's unlikely they will return to malaysia but it will prevent more

than 100 others from being deported the next hearing is in 2 weeks. while it's clear myanmar security forces plan to continue their crackdown the protesters are also not backing down on the streets. coming out to continue putting pressure on the jointer scott hurdler al jazeera. at least $39.00 refugees and migrants of $165.00 that they rescued off the coast of to his the coast guard recovered the bodies and survivors saw for their boast boat sank coast to the cannon islands the people on board were reportedly from several different countries including. to the ivory coast now where president alassane ouattara is governing party has won the parliamentary elections well. he has taken 138 of 255 seats both his party and the main opposition have claimed victory the opposition says there's been widespread fraud which the government rejects. that interest reports

from abidjan. the last 3 contentious. seats have been declared just a few minutes ago on stage by the election officials and the seats for you. and way so from indications now the governing party of the president of us the water as more than half the seats in parliament in fact the projections that he the party has won 138 seats in parliament leaving the rest to the other political parties now this is the official statement so far all the official stand so far and we expect a formal statement from the election commission to tell us how they went about this so it's almost settled now but the election has been won and lost by the respective political parties the president's part was projected to do well because last year

when the opposition to the presidential elections. wanted to be negatively impact on its performance in subsequent elections and this is what is p.c. in their own right across i because the death toll from a number of explosions in equitorial guinea on sunday has risen to. more than 600 people were injured in the powerful blasts in the port city. officials say the explosions at a military base were caused by improperly stored along with stubble burning in the . still ahead on al-jazeera after a delay the jury selection in the murder trial of their calvin will go ahead. and shortage of microchips highlights how a monopoly on production is high tech industries around the world.

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the. the i. got charges there a reminder of our top stories this hour brazil's supreme court has thrown out the criminal convictions of former president louis and also alluded to silver ruling paves the way for that to run and next year's election. the e.u. parliament has stripped 3 catalan separatist politicians of immunity from prosecution the former regional leader pushed him out to others i wanted my spade for organizing the illegal independence referendum 2017. miles military leaders have recalled the u.k. ambassador after he publicly denounced the coup and another official of aung san suu g.'s political party died after being arrested overnight by me and my security

forces. a judge in the us city of minneapolis has started selecting a jury in the trial of a white police officer charged with killing george floyd 3 weeks have been set aside to choose 12 jurors in a case which caused a global outcry these are live pictures from the court the process was year to start on monday but was delayed while lawyers for the officer pushed last minute appeals floyd died in may after derek shelf a kneeled on his neck for nearly 9 minutes a correspondent john hendren is in minneapolis john just bring us up to speed what's happening how's this process all going to work. right now although the trial is in jury selection and it's going to take a long time they took a couple hours to go through 2 jurors one was just qualified and one was selected this could go on for 3 weeks we are told before. the trial begins on march 29th

and when it comes to witnesses and actual in trial testimony but the city of minneapolis is bracing the reason you don't see protesters around me right now is that it's just in the early jury selection stages we even see the city is not taking any chances having gone through riots here before they've got prison style temporary fences around the courthouse if you hear any drilling across the street from me that's because the building across the street is putting up plywood. and the issue here is really whether this one police officer or the other 3 are in a separate trial later. is guilty of murder for killing derek show and by kneeling on his neck i'm sorry by killing george floyd by kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes that police officers name is derek chauvin and we are told that the defense is expected to argue that floyd did not die of suffocation due to the police officers kneeling on him but that he died from

a combination of heart trouble and drugs the specific drug that was found in his system according to authorities is fenton know a very powerful opioid like drug so right now we're in the jury selection phase of this city is bracing for the kinds of activity you had from protesters in this summer this city you may recall went up in flames and that happened in city after city in chicago elsewhere because of this really kicked off the black lives matter movement which had been around for years but this really energized it and of course then you had attacks on other african-americans across the country so the whole the family of george floyd his lawyer others they want a conviction there there is no 1st degree murder charge that requires premeditation . the officer faces 2nd degree murder and manslaughter charges and there's. also talk of instituting

a 3rd degree murder charge that appeals court has asked that that be considered but meanwhile they're selecting the jurors you can hear police cars around you that may or may not be related but minneapolis is bracing for this trial and the verdict could come in as soon as a month ok thank you for that john hendren there in minneapolis. for the 1st time the u.s. health regulators have issued recommendations for people who have been fully vaccinated against covert 19 the guidelines offer people 2 weeks after their 2nd dose of pfizer and the dirt of jabs and the single dose johnson and johnson vaccine the centers for disease control says fully vaccinated people can visit each other in doors without mosques also szell distance that they can have contact with other unvaccinated people who are living in the same house and are at lower risk of severe infection without lost all physical distancing and they can skip quarantine

and testing if they come into contact with someone with copd at 19 and they show no symptoms. to go to a sauna is a clinical epidemiologist electra at queen mary university of london she says there's uncertainty about how effective vaccines are at preventing viral transmission. we don't know the effectiveness of these vaccines in preventing infection or what transmission particularly in the elderly age groups even in the younger age groups these are likely to be between about 60 to 70 percent of the elderly they might be even dora so allowing people to sort of mix with others protective measures when he puts other people at risk if they pick up infection and passes on to others and this uncertainty is even higher with the large number of variants we have now circulating in different parts of the world many of which are we know are associated with lorax a defective nest particularly again symptomatic disease which will very likely translate to lower effectiveness in preventing infection and transmission

particularly nor data in those elderly people and even in younger people the effectiveness of preventing infection is thought to be 60 to 70 percent a quite far from the 100 percent i mean you know i understand the need to sort of allow people to make because we've been investigations for a long time we need to remember that people have been distractions for a long time because we haven't managed to get on top of the pandemic and you adopted several hydras strategies in the face of uncertainty and i'm worried that we're doing that once again and what would be really bad would be if such a strachey led to another sort of increase in transmission or cases which lead people needed to be in destructions what even aga the best strategy to adopt is a strategy with the least amount of uncertainty which countries like new zealand and australia taiwan be at now have adopted where we bring cases down to extremely low levels so that there is no community transmission and then we open up to everyone not just people who are vaccinated and they don't need to worry about things like vaccine effectiveness new libyans because there isn't that transmission happening in the community and most of the population is not at risk. a surge in

coronavirus cases in jordan is forcing the government to roll out new restrictions and not tomko if you will be extended and some businesses will have to show us other measures including school closures and a total lockdown on fridays are already in place more than 7900 cases were reported on monday driven by the spread of the more turning away covert 19 patients it ever has more from ramallah we're standing here in one of the main governments of the hospitals dealing with 900 patients and the hospital officials have been telling us that they're turning away tens of patients every day who need medical attention we're here in front of the emergency room and we're seeing patients waiting for their turn to get a room inside this hospital. staff told us that she is a priority when there's a vacancy they would need her immediately i know that they're doing their best

given the circumstances. the doctor told us she has to sleep in the hospital but we can't keep waiting in the corridor my mother in law is tired she's 92 years old people's concerns were confirmed by the palestinian prime minister the fact that the hospitals are very pull up your presence and even though the government has doubled the i.c.u. since the start of the pandemic he says that this is left the government with one of those birds and more social distancing and wearing masks but people have been this type of spied with the government they say that not only did this government not compensate people for the consecutive closures over the past year but also some of the few 1000 arrived in the occupied west bank have been given to missiles and their families which is raising a lot of concern for my people about the integrity of any future vaccine program. saddam's covert 19 vaccination campaign has just begun 800000 doses of the asters

that. shots arrived there just a few days ago they were provided under the un bed kovacs initiative making sudan the 1st country in northern africa to receive vaccines under the scheme. devastatingly pervasive and made worse by the pandemic that's the dire assessment from the biggest report into violence against women which is being released the world health organization says one in 3 is subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime 736000000 women and girls worldwide a quarter of young women who have been in a relationship or suffer violence at the hands of a partner by their mid twenty's the highest rates of violence are in the poorest countries will have a 40 percent of women are affected and covered 19 has increased women's exposure to violence because of lock downs and disruptions to support services the prevalence of violence intimate partner violence is unacceptably high well we have seen

more women disclosing things to movements like me to stop the blame in others the issue remains highly stigmatized and many still few the blame and the repercussions of the speak out. there are new reports out of japan that overseas fans won't be allowed at the tokyo lympics because of fears they'll spread covert 19 games organizers will meet officials from the international olympic committee this week with confirmation expected soon the games are due to begin in just over 4 months in another blow gymnastics event scheduled for tokyo next month has been canceled the all around world cup competition was meant to act as a qualifier and test for the games. a global shortage of semiconductor chips is hurting high tech industries from the makers of game consols to cars auto plants are reporting production delays of up to 1000000 vehicles and the problem has highlighted the dominance of 2 of the world's leading chip makers taiwan and south

korea reports from seoul. between them south korea and taiwan have a near monopoly on the world's production of processing and memory chips it's a dominance in a strategic commodity that's been developing over years but now making itself felt as the world becomes increasingly technology driven but from here on out it's going to broader considerately to egypt with everything modern fighter. it's not a semiconductor electric vehicle if you cars can have it and retrieve it it's getting old like other car makers this general motors plant outside seoul has been experiencing delays because of a global shortage of chips it's been a wake up call for many world leaders but the investment of time and money needed to become a chip maker means south korea and taiwan will maintain their lead for years to come it's

a global shortage that's been made worse by the pandemic when car factories ramped up production again late last year it coincided with a surge in demand for consumer goods also needing chips and a move towards online activities requiring greater data processing that needs yes ever more chips frank wiring is the founder of one of taiwan's chip manufacturers whose business has grown as the island has come to dominate the sector this is a burning portal with a one continual sub why a bell in the porch opinion i'll be staying at other your country on this so buying toys in. the laws your processor if we have a problem the war or have a problem it's this indispensable that works well right now taiwan's chips are also indispensable to mainland china providing it with the so-called silicon shield against beijing's expansion in the region but also raising the stakes in the

increasing comp. tition between china and the u.s. semiconductor is strong taiwan is strong but it's becoming so strong in a so we need to be careful so is the better to keep a neutral because if semiconductor or silicon shield you know distress is being used as a weapon one way of getting off it with it was the conflict between us the in china and that is the dangerous there is to do it is not to get it increased region great little importance it has that extra drury washington beijing in taipei trying hard a conflict in competition south korea's and taiwan's production mastery of a tiny component that makes any potential conflict in east asia a matter of glow.