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security forces regain control of brazil's congress supreme court and presidential palace after they were storm by supporters of former president, jaya, ball sanara, president lula promises to punish those responsible while region. little world leaders condemned the invasion as an attack on democracy. ah, i me, bark at this is al jazeera life window are also coming up job items, all right, to mexico, after visiting the southern border is immigration policy is under fire. climate activists and germany dig in to protect a village said to be bulldozed for an expanding coal mine ah

welcome to the program. we begin in brazil where security forces, if regain control of government buildings attacked by supporters of former president john bull sanara. oh, hundreds broke into congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace in the capital, brazilian riotous, mash furniture, windows, and chanted slogans. it comes a week after you louis now. so luna da silva was sworn in as president following his narrow election victory in october. also narrow supporters have refused to accept the result. what international reaction has been swift, the u. s. president joe biden, colby outragious, and tweeted, i condemn the assault and democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power. in brazil, brazil's democratic institutions have our full support and the will of the brazilian

people must not be undermined that the french president pledged his supports, the brazilian leader tweeting the will of the brazilian people and the democratic institutions must be respected, equal the assaults and unacceptable questioning of the result of a democratic election, emmanuel micron, the an argentine as president called for regional unity against attacks on democracy. alberto fernandez, voicing his repudiation of events in bazillion. he went on to offer lula, his unconditional support in the face of what he called an attempted coup. let's get more from monica yanna care of who joins us from rio de janeiro and monica. we've seen what appears to be in a coordinated attempt to store multiple buildings. what do we know of what's happening now there? well, 170 people have been in prison so far the security forces have regained the control of the 3 buildings that were under attack. but this does not mean that the problem

has been solved far from it. our president lula is back to, has, has returned is on his way back to brazil. ya. he said he wants to investigate who has been stimulating and who has been financing these attacks because it is a costly operation. we were with these people on the non duration day. on january, the 1st, they were camped outside of the military barracks. they had said that they were waiting for the military to intervene. they wanted a military coup. and if that would not happen, that they would take matters in hand and they did now the they have been orchestrating these attacks on their telegram channels during the past week. buses have been arriving at brazil. yeah. so it came as a surprise that the security forces in brasilia were so slow to act and that cast

some doubts about their loyalties because the military police, the army, the armed forces in general have been staunch supporters of former president zabel . so now who, by the way is in florida, so who was going to have a very tough time reuniting this country he wanted, that was his main goal. but now his main goal is to stop any attempted coup or any other situation like this. you must remember that although there are few people that entered the 3 buildings and destroyed windows and furniture that both nato has. many supporters throughout brazil who believe that the elections have been rigged. who believe the supreme court is biased? who believe that congress will we'll and deal with the government and who believe that they are right in stopping the lula from governing that they should take

matters in their own hands. monica, as you say, the president responded. so saying that anyone involved in this will be found and punished, but given how potentially widespread support for balsam arrow still is, looks like he's going to have his work cut out. yes. now the interesting thing is that these people like the people that storm the capitol hill, they'd take selfies, they were all filming themselves. there are sharing these images on their social media. so people have their buses that have been paid for to take these people to transport them to brazil, year from other parts of the country. so in that sense it won't be that hard to track down, at least most of them now they have been saying that they are being censored, that they can't voice. their opinions. now, brazilians, in general,

do not want violence. as soon as a lula one, the truck drivers paralyzed the country, which is something that they're promising to do again. and, and there came a moment where are people said no enough is enough even bull. so now to supporters, because that stops the economy that stops the big farm lobby, that, that exists in brazil that supportable so not a but also wants to exports grains than meat. so a situation of instability is not good for anyone. monica of any thanks for the update. monica in a cave in rio de janeiro was monica was saying that the president was in sao paolo during the attack. and all this is on his way back now to brasilia. he laid the blame firmly at the feet of his predecessor booth abbey. it be ready for. 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 it's the responsibility of the parties that supported him. all. this will be investigated forcefully and very quickly saying with developments and brazil, vinicius rodriguez vieira, is an associate professor of economics and international relations at the amanda alvarez, potato foundation. he joins me now from sao paolo welcome to the program. what was this in your view? was this an attempt to we're sure, 1st of all, thank you very much or didn't the asian for sure that was good. the am on the far off those on our old moles radicals orator and add something that both an arrow while he wasn't hours in the late that particularly against the supreme court. because the supreme court was always trying to, or scuse issue roles against bosa narrow are right. those issues. so that's,

we're stealthily or great that he's not by both americans now. certainly, 8 that resulted constant and of heath ms behaviors, president that didn't really follow the course if no groups and how much i mean you hinted it in there. but how much personal influence, though, does ballston are continue to have? he's apparently not in the country at the moment, nevertheless, something like this. apparently a coordinated effort to cause trump problems there in bolivia has happened. wow. there is something quite we are to say the least. the chief of police are brasilia and are some power is, was made this afternoon after the riots after the invasion of the 3 main buildings and brazil for the national congress and the presidential palace. he's currently florida. so our interest in the show report, he has a match both on our during the face. so somebody that we should take seriously is

the hypothesis that both tomorrow coordinated with mr. tar raced. be lenient of police forces that black. literally, they left the invaders, the rioters, the terrorists headed by those field. these images are typically showing back be a policeman, even sports than from the barracks to be a 3 hours aspire, where the venture policy secret or, and the national congress are paid. and they arrived at the palace at the, at the squire, the policeman. most of them did nothing, they seek a watch and the invasion happening. so there is a preliminary evidence that some articulation on the part of both. so now are perhaps, and that should be the gate to peers. and this is potentially very, very serious, isn't it? that was an attempt, of course, just to remind our view is to blow up the airport in brasilia ahead of the inauguration of lula and reports release one person with

a knife and explodes if close to the inauguration fight itself. this is incredibly risky for the lulewicz administration in his 1st few weeks and office yeah. yeah. oh thats husband happening brazil and not only after the election but he event and so from arrow was foreign power was this type of this to move towards action against any type of our end typo storage that would cause both scenarios 1st with all the credit hours what we witness in between the election bay member to target and the middle of nowhere ration last sunday was just the consequence of both scenarios. escalation for the social networks through what's up a towel, brand, cadillac often made on the how in by he sounds, 3 of the sons. they are issues with mandate in brazil,

they are in office in brazil, vision with the power and therefore they having unit b, b, d, d show power. so they are taking, they were taking advantage of that. but as the reporter saying from real reckless, there is also a. busy strong arm support the strong foreign lobby and those the dance shows that some of the largest farmers that spark is of the found 3 in the hinterland. they are active supporters. all those rioters who are not from brazil that must be fed. they arrive in several buses in the last phase in brazil, and they will already be presented documents worse than the washing. and i saw the work saying that the governor presented himself usable for our rece, the support awful scenario. so he says that there was an article asian crime, the law against lula. so it looks like more turbulence to come. vincent, vince,

yes, for sure. he gets vieira many. thanks for joining us. thank you very much. j. varden has made his 1st visits his presence to the us border with mexico days after announcing plans to curb illegal immigration after whistle stop tour of our paso texas biden is now on his way to mexico city. he'll meet with the mexican and canadian leaders. the 1st 2 years of the, by the administration of seen a dramatic increase in the number of migrants entering the u. s. john handwritten has more from el paso. i think the president is trying to highlight this humanitarian crisis, which you can see all around me here on the streets of el paso. he has long called for a comprehensive immigration policy that would require congress to enact a broader law to address things like them. millions of undocumented americans here to decide what their status is, i think also is answering

a lot of criticism. we now have a republican house of representatives who has been hammering him on immigration policy. and 2 years into his administration. he has shown up the 1st time at the southern border here in el paso. you went on the tarmac, he went and surveyed as a crossing. the busiest border crossing here is called the bridge of the americas, and this is become the epicenter of the crisis. the people with talking here said they wish that he had come here, rather than talking to officials, they would come here to talk to the migrants about what their issues are. they say they're relying on him for his health and they say what they want is work. they want to work and they say they're willing to work hard. i've been sitting in the car and looking over the news on this, at the feeds the pool feeds and, and such, people keep knocking on the window, the car saying turbo, turbo work. they're asking anybody who looks like they might be able to supply them with

a job for work they can do in the interim while they wait here on the sidewalk of el paso, for the united states, to come up with some kind of immigration policy that allows them to leave this to status letter a saying from el paso bite him will travel to mexico to me present. andras', manuel lopez, abra daughter is a bo has worn out from mexico city on that's and teresa this hasn't always been the best of relationships. how's it between the united states and mexico and given all that's been said about the u. s. immigration policy in the flow of narcotics, how will this visit be seen there? well, this is the 1st best fit by joe biden to latin america, but also to mexico, and he should be landing food. he's going to be landing on a new airport just outside mexico, mexico, mexico city. he's going to be greeted there by the way. lopez for what they're going to drive towards mexico city. together. this cuffing the current situation

between both countries that you just said it's been a tense relationship under him and we'll look, we have we fisted several times. the interference of the united states not wholly domestic policy here in mexico, but also throughout latin american fact he did not attend the american summit that happened in june this year, mostly because the venezuela and cuba were not invited. so many are hoping that this will be a game changer in a way you a fresh start for both countries. so as my colleague john henry was just mentioning, among, of the things that are going to be discussed in this, in this summit that's going to be taking place here is, can all make this climate change. but also migration. thousands and thousands of people are trying to make it to the united states. many are trying to cross illegally. but the united states is trying to open up and agreeing some type around 30000 people from countries like nick, i what cuba, venezuela, and have to reach the united states legally. but it's also warning them that if they're trying to enter the country legally,

they would be banned from entering once again to the united states for 5 years. so you know, this are many of the discussions that are going to be the baby in this country encountering not kotik biden is arriving here just a few days after or be be spun. that's the son of the famous drug florida chapel man who's currently detained in the united states being detained in this country and possibly expedited to the united states. many people here in mexico are saying that this is a gift for joe by den, and that's what we're looking for. so we're going to have to see whether any, not the type of discussions are going to be going. what requests is the united states going to be macon mostly because in staking power back in 2018? no press. although i said that he wanted a policy with hugs and less bullet. so we're gonna have to see whether any of this it discussed. and the outcome of it, of course, right, are busy and historic visit for the us presenter is about live in mexico city. thank you. still had allowed jazeera,

a new era for china as it opens its borders. after nearly 3 years of isolation and vote counting begins and benito parliamentary elections set to test democracy. ah hello, the weather is looking pretty quiet across a good part of china at the moment we have high pressure in char, so light winds warm sunshine as well. just around the central areas and little bit of woods, even to the north of that you can see this area or a cloud. they just cross southern parts and that's producing some heavier rain down towards hong kong shanghai at around the 17 celsius. well above the seas, no average should be into single figures at this time of the year, beijing and so again, about the seasonal average. so 6 celsius there on the mile side, once again, not somal in c, western parts of japan,

more snow rolling through here as we go through the next couple of days, temperatures falling away in support. rather lemme celsius, therefore tokyo and again with plenty of sunshine. it's sunshine to show us across the se, asia, and i will the next couple of days we will see where to where the coming to central and southern parts of the philippines were st. in wet weather, recently into vietnam, pushing across into cambodia, this area of low pressure, every piping up, we'll see some have examples chances, some localized study see that went to weather coming to the central philippines as we go on into tuesday. elsewhere good scattering a showers across the region, one or 2 shower since the southern parts of india. a long wishful anchor. further north is generally dry, but showers for pakistan. ah, activist, radical and cinema out just a, a with his thumb making style with he made the break. feliciano,

a friend to well to east with mode was a fighter. his weapons were his mind and his intelligence met honda, rebel, african count, make on how to see lou . ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera, remind of our top stories. this out. security forces in brazil of regain control of government buildings attacked by supporters of former president john bull sanara. hundreds broke into congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace in the capital. brazilian president

lewis and osteo lula da silva, has promised to swift investigation and punishment for those responsible. the violence comes just a week out. he took off his following his narrow election victory back in october. joe biden has made his 1st visit is present to the us border with mexico days after announcing plans to curb illegal immigration. he's now on his way to mexico city to meet with the canadian and mexican leaders. about carrying a $185.00 range refugees, mostly women and children has arrived in western indonesia. hundreds of ranger reached ha, province in recent months. range of muslims are persecuted in the home country of myanmar, or the 1000000 have sought shelter in neighboring bangladesh. since 2017. ukraine has dismiss russian claims that hundreds of its soldiers were killed in an overnight strike. schools and apartment blocks were damaged in the attack in the east and city of clamor tours. when you cranes military says no one was killed. local residents said windows were blown out of buildings,

but there was nothing notable about the strikes. google, cuba. there was an explosion and then another, a series of explosion in one made the windows shake. really, there's nothing else to tell you. just a normal day. i just went back to sleep. i thought about what to do next, but i just went back to bed. thousands of climate activists have gathered at the gods while a coal mine in germany in an effort to stop expansion plans for boston reports from loops. rough protestors are digging themselves in erecting barricade and preparing for confrontation. police have started to cord enough. listen about the last remaining village on the edge of the gas wild mine, one of germany's largest league night mines in the country's most industrialized region. league night of brown coal is known to be one of the most polluted forms of coal and under little lice, millions of tons of it. the government says it needs to call to prevent energy

shortages. activists say it violates their climate policies. it looks good on paper, right? the germany is going to leave coal by 2030. actually it's only the west of germany up to now. but the thing is at the same time, they said ok, we're going to keep more co plans running now that they were going to phase out by now. so actually we're just going to been the same amount or even more coal in shorter time, which is even less of the climate, climate activists from all over europe travel to live in that are to protest against the expansion people from all generations called on the government to change its mind while the original villages have left dozens of activists have moved to live in the rod and bill tree houses, a tiny village has thrown into an international protest sites with hundreds of activists saying they won't follow police orders and leave a standoff that could possibly turn violent, but also become an embarrassment for the government and its promises to abide by

the paras agreement climate activists like your 100 income and say the expansion of the mine will mean to 1.5 degree temperature, right? globally agreed and paris, home be feasible, that's the thing, the room. that's why she moved to little rock months ago. now is the moment to defend this village and to defend climate justice if we wouldn't stay here, this machinery of destruction that we see just a couple of meters behind us would have already raised all this to the ground. the activists are disappointed with the greens who 1st supported their course and are now in government responsible for the expansion. the energy company are w e, who owns the mine and the authorities in north ramos valley ad declined, or request of comment. the eviction of lit and ard is expected to start in the next few days, unless protest was gone, hold their ground and manage to stop it. stop fasten al jazeera ended in her.

there were the 1st solomon nearly 3 years. china has lifted all corona virus related restrictions on foreign travel with all this comes during an increase in coven 19 cases inside china. as katrina. you reports from beijing. 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 it. and because i've been stuck here for a for years, the urge is so strong. a read on travel abroad, like i lived at highland somewhere easy. from sunday, those returning to china no longer have to undergo quarantine. the change has parked a surge and travel pertains japan, south korea and united states are among popular destinations. thailand has tops the list staff in this bangkok hotel and looking forward to welcoming back chinese tourists. $5000000.00 are expected this year. i hello, hello, cindy. how marla?

huck, our chinese visitors vital for the tourism industry throughout the country. they not only spend money in bangkok, but they usually travel nationwide. china's borders with hong kong have also been reopened. these passengers are among the 1st to cross without needing to isolate at a government facility. this weekend also must the beginning of tune. 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 hardly previous years to district of 0 cove and policy. but widespread covered 19 infections have prompted the government to issue guidelines cautioning against spreading the virus and rural areas. governance abroad have also raised concerns with more than a dozen countries, including the united kingdom, france and australia. imposing restrictions on passages from china. punk,

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 out sera, beijing, vo counting has begun and bernini parliamentary election, where opposition parties were on the ballot off to being banned from the last elections. i'm a digits, reports of cotton, him. 75 year old. he says, yeah, a quick cast her ballot with only the future of our grandchildren on how mine really thought, well, we'd better go meet them cuz 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 democracy. benita position is back on the ballot. after being excluded from the 2019 parliamentary vote, i moved that lead to violent protest. president patricia laws as the election

validates the countries to aquatic credentials. yes, you're welcome to some of them that i think we are definitely leaving behind the dark pages of our political history. the election was approached with confucianism 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 luck from all candidates must be endorsed by members of parliament. and mass opposition also wants to get rid of laws that in its would impede the confess 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 law in many areas, a surprise to many after the opposition candidates were allowed to run the election commission as it was satisfied with the vote. good of ro gnawed if, even in the north of the country where we feared terror attacks,

if there was no incident 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 receive them with edris al jazeera cottle. now, a woman who's been called the most dangerous spy, and america is free after 21 years in prison. annabella montez was released on friday on to is as an american citizen, and was recruited by cuba in the 1980s while working for us intelligence services. jim pumpkin is the author of a new book, an anemone says his operations and the investigation that exposed. he has more details on the secret she gave to cuba. she worked for a u. s. intelligence operation called the defense intelligence agency, kind of like the cia for the u. s. military. the entire time she was leaking classified documents to the cubans. she also turned over the true identities of

americans working, undercover in havana, the need of hundreds of other americans working on the cuba account through the intelligence community. and importantly, she also revealed the existence and the inner workings of a very secretive classified stell satellite that the american military had been using to spies. busy successfully on russia, china ran and other u. s. adversaries. she revealed that to the cubans, it was a multi $1000000000.00 program that never worked as well after she revealed it. she essentially had to job, she would work during the day, memorizing hundreds of classified documents. then she would go home to her apartment in washington dc and type them up into. ready to sheba computer laptop computer.