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ready ready security forces regain control of brazil's congress supreme court and presidential palace after they were storm by supporters of former president j. both iraq, president luna promises to punish those responsible while regional and well leaders condemned the invasion as an attack on democracy. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up u. s. president jo biden's in mexico on his 1st stake visit with his immigration policy on the fire back home and climate activists in germany. dig in to protect a village set to be bulldozed on expanding coal mine. ah, we begin in brazil where security forces have now regained control of government
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buildings attacked by supporters of former president, j bowles and arrow hundreds broke into congress. the supreme court and the presidential palace in the capital. brazilian rioters smashed furniture and windows and chanted. slogans comes a week after louis and i see a lily. the silver was sworn in as president, falling his now election victory in october, boston ira supporters. i refused to accept the result. while the president was in south palo state during the attack, he laid the blame firmly at the feet of his predecessor. but do sabby it be well if both 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. roger,
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both arrow has responded condemning the violence in a series of tweets. he says, pillaging and invading public buildings is outside the law, but has denied encouraging his supporters saying there's no proof to back up, lulu, accusations, monica, you not give as more from re edition error. we were with these people on the inauguration 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 the 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 brazil 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 james
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. so not who, by the way is in florida. so let's 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. we must remember that although there are few people that entered the 3 buildings and destroyed windows and furniture that both when i 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 wheel and deal with the government and who believe that they are right in stopping the law from governing? well, international condemnation of the attack has been swift to us. president joe biden called it outrageous and tweeted, i condemned the assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power in
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brazil, brazil, of democratic institutions, of our full support. and the will of the brazilian people must not be undermined. the french president emanuel micron pledged his support to the brazilian leader tweeting the will of the brazilian people and the democratic institutions must be respected. he called the assaults and the unacceptable questioning of the result of a democratic election. argentina's president called for regional unity against attacks on democracy. alberto fernandez, voicing his repudiation of events in brasilia. he went on to offer lula, his unconditional support in the face of what he called an attempted coup. marcia cobra is the president of the economic freedom of foundation. he says, events in brasilia could strengthen the government in the long term. what we're seeing here in brazil earlier is that democracy came stronger after everything that happened today because as an outcome, the results of all the demonstration because they've seen today at the regions of
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public buildings. it showed that there was a power of reaction from the government and the government could fix it and pulled back all the demonstrate years back out of resilience. so it looked like that after 400 people that are in jail after that. and the police that came to the demonstrators and pulled them back out of the government building to look like us now that there is a lot of support for the new government and for democracy in brazil, he says he has nothing to do with those protests. but we know everybody knows in the country that he has, and it was supported and financed by people that are his supporters. so he's is still trying to show his influence with the depot. yes,
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president joe biden has arrived in mexico on his 1st visit to latin america as head of state, he'll be holding towards the mexican counterpart and that money lovers, offer dog, migration and drug smuggling are expected to be high on the agenda. the joined by canadian climate has been just intruded for a north american leader summit. theresa bo has more from mexico city. this is the 1st time that joe biden as president traveled to latin america the 1st time that asked rapid and he comes to mexico and there's lots of issues on the agenda to be discussed. there were tense relations since i'm getting when we look forward to coughing, back in 2018 has been resisting interference by the united states and mexico domestic affairs. in fact, he did not travel to the america summit last year in a way will pose him because the united states did not invite countries like cuba and venice with lots of issues to be discussed among them. climate change, the economy, of course,
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migration of thousands and thousands of people are trying to make it to the us. also, of course, counter narcotic bite and he's coming here right after the arrest of a video of mine. he's the son of a couple of mine, a major drug, or that's currently detained in the united states, and for many years, mexico. and this attention is a gift to joe biden. there's lots of discussion about what could happen. and also, i think that what the united states would be asking from mexico, they would like to see more detention more to be done to stop the trafficking of fentanyl to the united states that killing thousands of people every year. and on the same time, mexico acting from the united states to help this country fight weapons traffic. and again, around 500000 weapons. i traffic into mexico every year. of course, lots of things will be discussed throughout this next few days. the promise it could be made by the big question is how this promises and how, you know, how this is going to be turned into our real reality. what on the way to mexico
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biden's stop to the southern board in the us state of texas. the visit came just days after his administration announce plans to curb illegal immigration. john henry 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 a long call for a comprehensive migration 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 we the answering a lot of criticism. we now have a republican house representative 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. he went on the tarmac he went in, surveyed as a crossing the busiest border crossing here is called the bridge of the americas.
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and this is become the epicenter of the crisis. the people will talk to 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 or looking over the news on this at the feeds the pool feeds and, and such. people keep knocking on the window, the car, st. 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 twilight status, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses that are left without power in california. as a state continues to be batted by severe weather forecasters are wanting of more heavy rain and snow until tuesday. at least 6 people, including
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a total have died and weather related incidents in california since the new year. protest as in peru back on the streets to modern new elections and the resignation of the president dina blotted oh. demonstrations in the southern city of moody, aka shut down the international airport and cause disruption of major highways on the water. took off his off the removal and arrest a president federal castillo last month on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. it detention triggered weeks of nationwide protests which left 20 t people did tie one's defense ministry says 28 chinese aircraft crossed into its territory. in the past day. the chinese military confirm what it called combat drills around tie one, which it considers a break away province in december tie, pe reported the largest ever chinese incursion. and 2, it's a defensive katrina, you as more from beijing, chinese people's liberation army says the joint combat and patrol exercises were
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designed to kinds of collusion between tylen, separatists and external forces. staging, seize the island as roared. chinese territory has been intensifying these exercises in recent years to assert their claims. taiwan said on sunday they detected $57.00 chinese aircraft $28.00 of which crossed into ty, once a defense. so which means they cross the unofficial bottom line between the 2 sides . taipei also said a detected to nuclear capable gomez among the aircraft agent conducted similar exercises late last month after the u. s. agreed to finance weapons on the island. china considers any military support for taiwan as provocative has not been without the use. of course. in order to eventually reclaim the japanese soldiers have conducted a joint military exercise with the u. s. u. k. and australia. as the 1st time british in australian troops of taken part in the annual exercise, japan recently began its biggest military build up in decades of tensions with north korea rise. but counting has begun and buildings parliamentary election. my
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opposition parties were on the ballot after being banned from the last elections. often just reports from caught on the 7th, 5 year old. he says, yeah, a quick casts, have ballot with only the future of our grandchildren on how mind. when he felt very good, me then person, i want a better future for al yates 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. oh, you're welcome to somebody and i think we are definitely leaving behind the dock pages of our political history. the election was approached with these as him and o boycott. if the opposition gets into parliament with significant numbers,
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some of its candidates could run for president in 2026 under the current and look for more 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 law in many areas, a surprise to many after the opposition candidates were allowed to run. the election commission says it was satisfied with the vote. good of our nod, if even in the north of the country where we fed terror taxi, there was no incident rawlingson protest at mod the election 3 years ago. haven't been seen so far this time. but where they stayed that way depends on the result.
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and how the opposition and the people have been received them. with edris al jazeera cottle that is 40 people of di, than a bus crash in central synagogue described as one of the worst in the country. in recent years, 2 buses collided in a village in the caffeine region and nearly as of sunday dozens more injured. synagogues, president moccasin has declared 3 days of morning starting on monday and will hold a government meeting to discuss road safety measures. most of the company are not here, including ukraine, dismisses rushes claims that have killed $600.00 ukrainian soldiers in an attack on climate tools and thousands of his rainy's protest against the new government and its plans to cut the power of the course more that sailors ah, hello we have some very wet weather in the forecast across the middle east,
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over the next couple of days. the wet season really has sets in. you can see the light of cloud here that is making its way across us. even here in canada, we will see some significant rifle as we go through the next couple of days. the weather weather will be further north, north pass, a saudi arabia, kuwait, some iraq see some heavy downpours that sinks further southwards as we go through tuesday, says rain here in 18 celsius. really freshening out the weather. weather will be on the other side of the waters though. western parts of iran seems a big samples that will cause some localized buddy and some snow there, across his eye glass mountains that snowy weather stretches up towards the caspian sea, a line of snow. they're just pushing out 30 minutes down his back is down into northern afghanistan. central asia really turning somewhat cooler, some cold as you go through the next couple of days. couple at just 3 degrees. is that snow sets in some wet weather? some wintry weather. also making its way towards turkey over that to care. over the next couple of days, we have a few showers just across the northeast of africa. much of north africa is looking
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ah, welcome back to pick them out about top stories here. this our security forces in brazil have now regained control of government buildings, attacked by supporters of former president jebel, from arrow hundreds broke into congress. the supreme court and the presidential palace in the capital presented. president luis tenacity alluded to silver, has promised a thorough investigation on punishment for those responsible. the violence comes just a week after he took off his falling is not a reflection. victory in october of initiates, varies from the out. amanda albano, as pont yada foundation, he says bolts, tomorrow's role in the violence must be investigated for sure. that was a good depends on the part of both scenario, most radical supporter. and that's something that both scenario while he was the powers in the late that are differently against the supreme court. because the
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supreme court was always trying to enforce if no roles against both scenario, far rifles issues. so that's was vocally pick wait, that it's not by both scenario himself. certainly it's a reserves, it's the consequence of ms. behaviorist press and that didn't really follow the constitutional groups, the chief of the police off brasilia anderson, fer it was to me this afternoon after the after invasion of the 3 main buildings and the supreme court, the national congress and the presidential palace. he's currently florida. so a court, each is elisha report. he has a match both scenarios during those days. so something that we should take seriously, the hypothesis that both scenarios are naked with mr. tories. the lay me and i'll police forces that last literally the last the invaders, the rioters,
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the terrorists. and by. busy those feel the images are typically showing that be policemen. even sports have been from the barracks to be a 3 hours this far, where the venture policy from fort and national congress or repay. and they arrived at the palace at the, at the squire. the policemen, most of them did nothing. they seek a watch. the invasion happening. so there was a preliminary evidence that some articulation on the part of both and are perhaps, and that should be investigated. here's ukraine has dismissed russian claims at hundreds of its soldiers were killed in an overnight strike. schools and apartment blocks were damaged in the attack in the eastern city of crime tours, but new queens military says nobody was killed. local residents said windows were blown out of buildings, but it was nothing notable about the strikes. google, google, the raw as an explosion and then another,
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a series of explosion and one made the window 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. ah, meanwhile, 50 ukrainian soldiers were freed on sunday as part of a prisoner swapped with russia. video on social media show, the men news heads had been shaved, singing the ukrainian national anthem. moscow says 50 russian soldiers were also released. sweden says is confident that turkey year will approve its application to join nato and applied along with finland in may. 2 months after russia's invasion of ukraine began, a feature kia has objected to their membership, accusing them of harbouring what it calls militants, including those on the kurdish p. k. k group took e as our sweden to expedite some individuals, but so far, the swedish government has refused to key it more debbie character,
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kia confirmed that we've done what we said we would do. but it also says at once, things that we cannot or do not want to give them. now the decision is with turkey . thousands of his rain is a protest against proposals to strip the supreme court of its powers to overturn laws voted on in the candidate. are correspondent in one con reports from west jerusalem on why the changes are so controversial. if israel's new government has its way this building could, how's a far less powerful supreme court potential changes announced by the justice minister would enable parliament over all the court decisions. reversing a decades old system of checks and balances. as benjamin netanyahu returns to powers prime minister, he faces 3 court cases involving charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. changes to the legal system were a major demand of right when politicians who back netanyahu and that sparked anger and protests, we're accept fully the elections that took place
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a few weeks ago. but then what happens with the new government is that, that they really create a major and significant danger. do what israel's existence of democracy with the extremist, the extremity that are there in the government. we see with all the intention of putting forward legislation that lay ruin village, the judicial system, the potential changes are unpopular in televi. the city has long been seen as a center of liberal thought in israel. and now thousands of people began to protest weekly. so we came here to protest against the gain of the israel, the democracy. we see. a a process where the rights of the people will be over time consumed by this your chronic government. and we want to avoid that. but it's not just by internal israeli politics. the supreme court has also ruled on the legality
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of settlements. the occupied west bank, which were legal under international law. but with this government being backed by extreme brighton parties, it's unlikely the demonstrations will have the impact, the purchasers hope. for now, it's being discussed in a parliamentary committee, if and when it gets the cadets it parliamentary floor for vote at its past, it will be a significant erosion of a system of checks and balances on this right when government, around con, our desert was treutlen. a group say thousands of displaced people in northwestern syria are in desperate need of assistance. cold weather and lack of basic facilities are increasing. the risk of disease. mohammed al jazeera is of the als, a tune. camp in italy, marquis armed at the carolina in as ancient claim at winters, prolonging the suffering of syrians living in camps for displays. people overnight rain caused damage. here, as you can see, the tensor in poor shape. the wet weather is also made it difficult for people to move around easily. my mom with me now is one of the cam residents to explain the
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situation. alarm lower ledger toya who had been suffering since the beginning of winter. i'll 10th us. flooded took a long time to get rid of the water and clear the space for the children to sleep. while we spent the entire mate in this miserable condition slowly, every time it rains or tens is flooded for one of no energy lift. only god can help us now. oh my god, i am on to say by then who now there are more than 1600 camps like this in northern syria. they're located outside the cities of rural areas and they're not equipped for these conditions. there's no drainage system drinking water or electricity more than 2000000 displaced. people live like this suffering year after year can if he was to say fossils or climate activists have gathered up. god's violet, coal mine in germany, in an effort to stop expansion plans are to 0. steadfast reports from woodson, rough protested, digging themselves in erecting barricade and preparing for confrontation. police
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have started to court enough lipson about the last remaining village on the edge of the gulf while are mine, one of germany's largest league night mines in the country's most industrialized region leak night of brown coal is known to be one of the most polluted forms of coal and under lipson that lies millions of tons of it. the government says it needs to call to prevent energy shortages. activists say it violates the climate policies. it looks good on paper, right. the germany's gonna leave cold by 2030, actually 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 power plants 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
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change its mind while the original villages have left dozens of activists have moved to live in the us and build 3 houses, a tiny village has turned 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 mine will mean to $1.00 degree temperature rise globally agreed, and paris, home be feasible that's the thing, the room. that's why she moved to live and months ago. now is the moment to defend this village and to defend climate justice. if we wouldn't stay here, this machinery of the structure that we see just a couple of just behind us would have already raised all this to the ground. the activists are disappointed with the greens who 1st supported their course and now and government responsible for the expansion. the energy company r w e,
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who owned the mine and the authorities. in north ramos valley declined a request to comment. the eviction of leads and ad is expected to start in the next few days, unless protest was gone, hold their ground and manage to stop it. steadfast and al jazeera ended in britain's friends. harry has defended his controversial new memoir in an interview on u. k. television, it describes tensions within the royal family. it also includes an admission of drug use and the claim he killed $25.00. people are serving with the army in afghanistan, but he says the book isn't meant to harm anyone. i love my father, i love my brother. i love my family. i always do nothing of what i've done in this book or otherwise there's ever been any intention to home them or heard them. no institution is immune to accountability or taking responsibility. so you can be immune to criticism driver and you talk about, you know,
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scrutiny and my wife and i went scrutinized more than probably anybody else. i, i see a lack of scrutiny to my family towards a lot of the things that happen in the last year. a woman who's been called the most dangerous fine america is free off the 21 years in prison. on a montez was released on friday. montez is an american citizen, and was recruited by cuba and the 1900 eighty's, or working for the us intelligence service. she passed secrets to have on a for 17 years before her arrest in 2001. but jim, pumpkin is the author of a new book on an a montez is operations. he has more details on the secret she passed to cuba. she worked for a u. s. intelligence operation called the defense intelligence agency, kind of like the c i a 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
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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 still satellite that the american military had been using to spies. busy successfully. ready 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 sheba computer, laptop, computer, encrypt, and then every few weeks she would meet with her cuban handlers in washington in restaurants and passed them all along on disks. she was an ideal watch.
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