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security forces in brazil, you have now cleared the supreme court congress and the presidential palace after they were invaded by supports as of brazil's former president char ball, sanara ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. china re opens it's board is after 3 years lifting quarantine requirements for travelers despite a surge in cove it infections. joe biden visits us mexico border for the 1st time since becoming present to address it politically charged. issue of migration and turn out is, mutate is benign votes for its next parliament by opposition. parties being back on the ballot off to being bod, last time round. ah,

we begin as our brazil security forces of now regained control of the congress building the supreme court and the presidential palace after they were stormed by supporters of a former brazilian president jar ball scenario in scenes, reminiscent of the storming of the u. s. capital building 2 years ago by donald trump, supporters, thousands of protest has invaded the buildings and priscilla smashing furniture. balls narrow left off is a week ago after losing the election to president luisa nasty olu la da silva. but he and his supporters have refused to accept the defeat lula is currently in sao paolo. he's vowed that every one in mold is going to be found and punished. he also declared federal security intervention and brazilian until january 31st verb. you'd be right with everybody knows that this was encouraged by several speeches

made by the former president. he encouraged the invasion of the supreme court of the presidential palace. he encouraged the invasion of the 3 governmental powers whenever he could. this is also his responsibility. and as the responsibility of the parties that supported him, all this will be investigated forcefully and very quickly or video from earlier in the day shows thousands of ball scenario support is marching towards the government complex along a major road. they're surrounded by police at with you can see security cars at the front of the march. this is that the accusations that security forces might have escorted protest is into the buildings. brazil, solicitor general's office as requested. the arrest of priscilla is public security secretary. so earlier i spoke to oliver stone color professor of international relations of the vargas foundation in sao paolo, he says, the lack of security might indicate the involvement of brazilian governor or security forces. but as india is supposed to be an accessible city. so

congress is transparent, it's really quite remarkable. anybody can just walk in to the building. it's not easy. it's not difficult to, to enter, watch the debates that are going on. so it's supposed to be easy to, to circulate. and i think that has certainly been used by the protestors, but the governor of the capital is somewhat aligned to both scenario. he has just he's just announced that he is firing his the person in charge of security. but i think a lot of questions will be asked because it would have been fairly easy to protect the building. so that i think shows that potentially that has been some involvement in either the govern. the, the governorship of brazil, or the security stablish meant which is known to be relatively close to both financial well, my can

a casual in his life now from rio de janeiro. we understand the situation is now calm with protest is having being cleared from the 3 powers plaza as it's cold. so they are no longer occupying congress, the supreme court or the presidential palace. yes, they're no longer occupying the buildings which they smashed there. all these 3 buildings are made of glass, the brazilian was supposed to be the city of the future. so it has a very peculiar architecture with very open spaces. a lot of glass, a lot of marble. ah yes, but they are still in the, in, around the area and they are all over brazil. i mean, it's not limited to these people that stormed are these 3 buildings. this is considered to be more serious than the capitol hill storming, for various reasons. one of them is because it was

a tragedy that was waiting to happen. it had been announced. everybody knew that former president j able sonata followed to the t former u. s. president donald trump's playbook. ah, everybody thought that this was happ would happen make perhaps not to day. they were thinking that there was very tight security in brazil here for the non duration on january the 1st to but our buses with the supporters have been coming into brazil. yeah, this was known all their social media has been, they've announced and other social media that it's time for the people to take power. i. it wasn't something like totally unexpected. although president lula was somewhat taken by surprise. he was, are far from brazilian. it's a weekend, brazil. yup. that area of brazilian is usually there's nobody there on the weekends as an empty space. so he was taken by surprise and he will have to be more forceful . because as oliver stung cool was saying, the analyst who just spoke. it is true,

the military police has always been one of the strong supporters of ours, able so narrow and the, the people that took these 3 buildings. they, they really had the, the didn't go through a lot of trouble. they just walked up to it and stormed through the buildings and trash them. so and in minutes when finally the forces came and started acting, they were dispersed. so that is why everybody is asking why was nothing done to prevent this tragedy? which for has been announced for months now and monica, and we know that it will you just looking actually at footage from earlier on the day showing thousands of bull snar supports is marching towards that government complex along a major road to those security cars. actually in front of them, which has led to questions about whether they will lead directly to the building itself, but it thousands involved in that march. but actually a very small number entered this congress where you have this complex. we have

congress supreme court in presidential palace or just a few 100 people. yes, a few 100 people but they're glass building, so they're very easy to, to, to attack. it's not a building. you know, like a made out of stone or anything it's, it's all, all glass and the 3 powers were attacked. and both financial supporters, they have been saying until now that they think that the supreme court is biased, that it should never have accepted the electoral results. because they think that the election was stolen, they also don't trust, of course, or lula because they think that he should never have been elected president. in fact, i think he was not elected president, and they don't trust congress. also because our congress, they say, has been wheeling and dealing with the government. so they think it's time for them

to take matters in the hands a you just go into their telegram channels and they're all sorts of post saying this is now the turn of the, the time that people should come and, and take matters in hand and, and defend what's rightfully ours, so it, it is, and it is an opposition that is widespread in brazil are not all of them are violent. of course, not all of them believe. most brazilians don't believe in violence, but this small minority is very vocal. all right, thank you. very much, i'm on a kenny given me. diginero leading while focus have reacted strongly to the violence down brazilian u. s. president joe biden is just branded the situation. outrageous. new secretary of state antony blinkin tweeted this. we condemn the attacks on brazil's presidency congress and supreme court to day, using violence to attack. democratic institutions is always unacceptable. we join lula in urging an immediate end to these actions. and then the president of the

european council, charles michel rose of his absolute condemnation of the assault on the democratic institutions of brazil, full support for president elect to silver, democratically elected by millions of brazilians, through fair and free elections. graziano tester is with the school of public policy and government at the g tuleya vargas foundation. she joins me now from when, as iris, so obviously would've of condemnation there from the u. s. in europe as you would expect. but do it figures outside of the country have to be a bit cautious as to how they approach it in the sense that it could actually inflame existing perceptions about a type of manipulation of politics inside brazil. it's very hard to deal with the market to nowadays, you know that mariel, i think that's an issue around the whole role. that's not a problem. but at these,

this kind of of opposition, which is actually it's not a legal opposition. if i ask a group that is trying to make a coup and take the power in this, this is not to this to happen in your life. keeps all women 23, you carry for the whole war. it's not just from brazil, and it's a formula that we had seen in the united states. it's very similar to what happened there. and i, i'm really call them that. but didn't distortions are going to deal with that in the way that it's going to process. as the faith shoot, proctor with the legal to thing and by the law, by the book and present louis to silver has spoken about this. he said that those who carried out the invasion of this congress building were fanatic

fascist. those are the, was that he is used, he said he represent everything that's abominable in politics. how much is known about a set of extremist, radicalized grassroots movement maps. it's not so cohesive, but so there's something similar to the what we saw in the capital riot in the us. it's similar to the capital in the us, but those sites like the france because in brazil we have a very recent past of a military coup in there. those there, those people who are still carrying this nostalgia about the times that we didn't have a democracy. most of the people didn't even v leave it while there was a big baker ship. they just had this idea that it was a good time in brazil while that was a big day to ship

a military big data shit. so i think that the biggest difference is this one we, we do, we do have a big paper should pass off 3640 years ago. and those people missed this time. and this is odd. this carries a lot of weight, especially for the people who lost some one during the big states or ship and the whole loss of someone for political reasons. so this is a strong, this is something very heavy to a residence. but again, i believe we are able to process this a legal environment and we are going to get past that the same way that you'll us did and we're going to come back to the rolled off the market. all right, thank you very much. i do appreciate joining us from when his irish causality.

thank you, mary. ah . beijing is reopened, its borders dismantling the final pillow of a 0 cove. it policy which shielded its people, but also cut them off from the outside world. huge cues formed as people stream back into the country by air, land, and sea, with incoming travellers no longer required to quarantine. it coincided with the beginning of the lunar new year, travel period and a surge in cases across the country. as katrina, you reports from bay jing for the 1st time since the beginning of the pandemic punk, they is getting ready for a trip to thailand. he says he's overjoyed, china has ended. it's strict 0 curve at border controls. absolutely, i'm so passionate about him and because i'm in stock here for i for years. the urge is so strong. a read on travel abroad, like i lived to thailand,

somewhere easy from sunday, those returning to china no longer have to undergo a quarantine. the change has sparked a surgeon, travel begins, japan, south korea, and the united states are among popular destinations. thailand has tops the list staff in this bangkok hotel, a looking forward to welcoming back chinese tourists. $5000000.00 are expected this year. on hill c. d. home. allah hawk or chinese visitors, a vital for the tourism industry throughout the country. though not only spend money in bangkok, but the usually travel nationwide are china's borders with hong kong have also been reopened. these passages are among the 1st to cross without needing to isolate at a government facility. this weekend also must the beginning of to noon. the travel period leading up to noon and new year. chinese railway department expect 2000000000 trips to be made over the next few weeks, many by migrant workers who are unable to travel,

harming previous years to strict 0 curve and policy. but widespread corporate 19 infections have prompted the government to issue guidelines cautioning against spreading the virus and rural areas. governments abroad have also raised concerns with more than a dozen countries, including the united kingdom, france and australia, imposing restrictions on passages from china tongue. they says he'll steer clear of those countries for now, and is just relieved that china's days of global isolation seem to be ending. katrina, you al serra, beijing watching out. is there a license on that will still add on the plan with the clean up begins in california after days of devastating storms, but full cost is worn more extreme. weather is on the way. in miles trailers, military recipes, hundreds of people from communities cut off by once in a century. floods that northwest

ah hello, our old tropical cyclone. any still bringing some very heavy rain in? see west central possible strike. still see a little bit of cloud lurking away here. sure, we have probable side cloud hale just making its way away from the north. east of australia to south was the south of new caledonia, and it will sink further southwest as we go on the next few days, making his way toward new zealand. there's like local weather for the time being where we have some very right, whether it's a central possible australia, back up towards the cape york peninsula, nor the pos, the queen that again seeing some live the infantry showers could latest localized valley south of that a. this on the wall side, not bad in adelaide. $31.00 celsius a $27.00. the 4 at melbourne, and we getting up into the 30s. once again, imperfect temperatures will just ease off as we go one through tuesday and

wednesday. by wednesday we are looking to somewhere to whether we should have made its way across northern parts of venusian to see that wet weather, that windy weather still swirling away for the middle part of the week. about the stage we could see more heavy rains for good part of queensland turbulence in melbourne. returning to around $31.00 degrees celsius. a pleasant sunshine coming through here. smells the sunshine is the central and northern parts of china at present wet down towards the south and we got more snow. the japan ah, a new generation of young people are more politically engaged in the one that came before. welcome to generation change a global theories and attempts to talent, and understand the ideas that mobilize youth around the world. in south africa, if women who are at the forefront as the woke generation, you must never ever get tired of developing resistance strategies,

and they're just ignited patching to stand up and fight generating change on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back. look at the main stories of following now security forces in brasilia back in control of the congress, the supreme court in presidential palace after they was stolen by supporters of brazil for president chapel scenario. he left office a week ago off to losing the election to louise in asio alluded to silva. video from earlier in the day shows thousands of both scenarios suppose is marching towards the government complex, surrounded by police, led to accusations that security forces might have his score to the protest is that

the solicitor general's office is requested. the rest of priscilla is public security secretary and by jane is reopened. his board is dismantling the final pillow of a 0 coven policy, which shielded the population, but also cut them off from the rest of the world. huge cues formed as people stream back into the country by air, land, and sea, with incoming travellers no longer required to quarantine. now president joe biden is arrived at us mexico border for the 1st time since being elected. he's visiting the town of el paso in the state of texas on his way for a summit in mexico. trip comes days after he announced plans to curb illegal immigration from 4 central and south american nations. the new rules will bar people from cuba, nicaragua, haiti, and venezuela, from applying for asylum if they've entered the u. s. illegally. john hendern is live for us in el paso, texas. and what is joe biden looking to do over there? why is he making this a quick stop over before he adds to the summer in mexico city?

had a question, a lot of republicans on capitol hill are asking because they had been urging him to go for 2 years. it may have something to do with the fact that there is now a republican house of representatives. it may just be that this is the 1st time he has gotten around to it, but he's certainly doing it now. and he's landed on the tarmac. he visited the bridge of the americas, which is the busiest crossing here in el paso, which is currently the epicenter of the migrant crisis. he saw some demonstrations of border patrol dog looking for drugs. some of the technology that can be used to search cars for drugs and other paraphernalia. and, and he went to a migrant services center. he has just a little less than half an hour to remain here if he sticks to his schedule before heading to mexico city. but one thing he hasn't seen is this. this is

a spot downtown in el paso. we're a lot of migrants are living literally on the street as they do all around downtown . you can see people here hanging their clothes here. they're sleeping here. they're here that's a food truck where people are getting meals and churches are donating meals 3 times a day. that boss behind it, by the way, is a warming center. people go inside to charge their phones and to get warm, particularly at night when it's often below freezing or near freezing. so biden hasn't come out here to see this and some people here asking why he has it and we talk to some of the people here about what it is they would say to president biden . if they had the opportunity and one of the young man i talked to said, we need some kind of solution to the migrant crisis here because all he said he wanted to do a young man named raphael was to work. he said he was willing to work his way through this country like everybody else does. but there was really no path for him

. he's been out here for 20 days, and that's a lot less time and a lot of other people who have been out here. so people are glad that the president has come out here. i think there's some feeling here, at least among the migrants in the street, most of them from venezuela, by the way, but they wish he'd come here to see them to talk to them. but they are glad that he is here surveying the crisis, even if it has been 2 years into his administration. oh, thank you very much. john had been there in el paso, texas. ukraine's military has dismiss claims by russia that it's killed, more than $600.00 ukrainian soldiers in a rocket strike in the eastern city of crime. a tourist ukraine's at a school was damaged, but that no one died in the attack. russia said this strike was in retaliation. for ukraine's new year's strike, which killed dozens of russian soldiers, but provided no evidence to support that claim. john is at the scene, said there was no sign of any casualties while local said windows blown out

buildings. but that there was nothing notable about the attack. good, you reboot the raw as an explosion and then another a series of explosion and was made the windows shake really. there's nothing else to tell you. just a normal day worked. i just went back to sleep. i thought about what to do next, but i just went back to bed. will you claim present? autumn is zalinski says russia lied about the unilateral truth that declared for orthodox christmas over the last 2 days in his nightly address. he also accused rusher of shelling the harrison region using incendiary ammunition. and if again, targeting civilian infrastructure seems not pull by shots in the world is seen again that russia lies even when it draws attention to the situation on the front line with its statements rushing, shelling of her song with incendiary ammunition. right after christmas he strikes on crumbs tools and other cities of don barzyk precisely on civilian objects, and exactly where moscow reported on the alleged silence of the army. more threats

from russian officials to europe and the world. all this when moscow was talking about the alleged truce, no attempt of russia to manipulate democracy and politics will ever work again. when you on alley, take you to benning where vote counting his underway in the parliamentary election opposition. parties were back on the ballot. after being banned from the previous note, their exclusion in 2019 led to violent protests against the president, patrice, talon, and damage. the country's image is a bastion of democracy in the region, but turn out for sunday's vote was muted amid address reports on this now from cotton, her servant, 5 year old vizier acquit, casts her ballot with only the future of our grandchildren. on how mine mimi thought, where we go me, then i want a better future for our years jobs for them so they can have a prosperous life. but for many voters, this election is much more than just about jobs. they say it's also about the

future of the countries to what chrissy means. opposition is back on the ballot after being excluded from the turn to 19 parliamentary vote. a move that lead to violent protest president patricia laws as the election rally dates, the countries dual credit credentials. you walk in the summer to live. i think we are definitely leaving behind the dark pages of our political history. the election was approached with susan and o boycott. if the opposition gets into parliament with significant numbers, some of its candidates could run for president in 2026 under the current and looked from all candidates must be endorsed by members of parliament. and mass opposition also wants to get rid of knows that it's would impede the conference democratic process. the election could also see a record number of women elected to parliament. nearly a quarter of the $109.00 seats are reserved for women. what to turn out, however,

was low in many areas. a surprise too many after the opposition candidates were allowed to run. the election commission says it was satisfied with the vote. good for our know if even in the north of the country where we fed terror attacks, if there was no incidentally valez and protest at maud the election 3 years ago. haven't been seen so far this time. but where they stayed that way depends on the result. and how the opposition and the people have been received them. with it. reason al jazeera cottle more than $330000.00 homes and businesses in the usa of california are still without power. after days of devastating storms. the clean up was started with the forecast is for more severe weather in the coming days. at least 6 people have died since the new year's weekend. alexandra, by his reports. dominic kings restaurant would normally be full of dinars, enjoying food, an ocean views,

but not any more the village of capital, it was among the worst to be hit by last week's storm. it stirred up some of the biggest swells in years waves as high as 7 meters tore up historic piers and damaged homes and businesses. it's our family restaurant, you know, we've had it for like a decade it's. it's definitely places where we thought a lot of good memories, it's more than just a business. so it's, it's really hard to see kind of in the state that it's in utility companies are working to restore power to tens of thousands of people. california governor declared a state of emergency to help with the clean up. but the damage bill is in the millions while they're reasonably feeling just traumatized. i mean it's, it's a, it's emotional, our community. we know that, that when you look around at the wreckage, there with the rebuilding looks like in an arduous process.

the storm was powered by 2 phenomena. a large airborne stream of moisture called an atmospheric river and a hurricane for system known as a bomb cyclone. for 2 days it battered the region with fierce winds and torrential rains. we actually witness the appear go down, and it was not only your sight to see, but to hear it, to hear the pylons rapping against each other and the dish active force of the water was just incredible. and now to come the day after and to see it looks like a war zone here. it's the 3rd storm like this to hit california in a week. researchers say climate change is making them worse and more frequent. the severe weather has killed several people since new years and as communities try to pick up the pieces,

there's no reprieve just yet to back to back storms or barrels in from the pacific . and more than 15000000 californians remain under flood watch. alexander buyers al jazeera. meanwhile, in west, in australia, hundreds, hundreds of people that have been rescued from flooded towns and communities cut off by record breaking rainfall. an extreme weather system brought heavy rain to the kimberly region in the far north of the state, causing what emergency services calling once in a century, floods recovery, rebuilding operations are expected to take months. people in the kimberly are experiencing a one in 100 year flood event. the worst flooding western australia has had in its history. the situation continues to change and is proven to be extremely challenging for residents in the region. again, we are asking people to postpone any non essential traveled to the kimberly region ah.