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of former president john bull sanara. ah, let me barker, this is al jazeera life and are also coming up. the popular mac peach you tourist site and peru is closed indefinitely, is protest against the president spread the u. m. 's top ranking female official holes talks with the taliban. she tells al jazeera women and girls who have gone to star cannot be abundant. kennedy is opposition, holds its 1st rally and almost 7 years after a ban against such political gatherings is lifted ah, working to the program, brazil's president lewis sincerely la da silva has fired the chief of the army. he suspects security forces were involved in the storming of congress early this month . thousands of support is a former president, john ballston,

arrow attacked government buildings on january the 8th demanding the results of october's election be overturned. general julio says that a ruder had been commander of the army since december. well, cloudy, alcorto is a political scientist and associate professor had the opportunity of august foundation. he joins us live from sao paulo. welcome to the program. so what exactly? all the allegations leveled against the ousted army chief, julio says a root. is this a symbolic firing? what does it go? much, much deeper than that. i think who have the both. but firstly, then there was a break of confidence, a bank of trust in the com either or the army. and this was said by the minister of defense himself, few minutes ago. and so i think this is the 1st explanation of this break of trust . i think that has to do with the denial of the commander of the, of the army to arrest the demonstrators that were responsible to the all for him, for the attacks in general, the 8th,

through the branches of government. he's refused to arrest them. exactly the same day at night when there was a water from the supreme court to arrest those guys that were there. and secondly, there's war. there was a 2nd denial of this commander of the army, a denial of firing the, the auxiliary, the assistant variable. so not always with him now in orlando florida, and that will be appointed as the next commander of the group of the army that is close to brazil close to the capital of the counter. and that is responsible for the security of the capital itself. and for the secret of the present and secret of the 3 branches of government as a consequence. and so there was a break of confidence to say, failure to carry out rest. so stop the demonstrators actually mean that the military or least members of the military's tacitly support. both nora

certainly there were many leads, were there some of them retired military, many members of the military family as the minister themselves called. this group there is wives sans daughters of the minister, even in some cases, military on the active service. but there were present in these demonstrations without their uniforms, but they were there. and for this reason, certainly there was this denial of the commander of the army to arrest the guys there. and they left the police of the federal district to arrest this people in the day before and sorry in the day after 9 in the morning of the after. but when it happened, many of the demonstrations that were there, probably this relatives or friends or close people to the military, they were gone. and this is one of the main reasons for the problem that you have today. what do you think the overall impacts? so if the removal of this commander will be, will have a lasting impact. what does the whole military need deeper route and branch reform?

i think that is quite important. this is me. so 1st of all, because to present shows that he's the man all taurus in the country over the army . and since we know that there are many members in the armed forces, not only the army, but also the navy, also the air force that don't recognize president lula as the legitimate president that was elected. these men of them are supporters of also not if not openly, at the least in their personal preferences for the president to reaffirm his condition of the commander in chief of the arm of the forces is really important. now to avoid some problems of military turmoil in the next future. and this is me. so of the indians, commander of the army, it was quite important to show this to show that he is the chief and not the commanders themselves. what or do we know about the man whose replaced says that

our router general tomas miguel barrow pi over well by that was an assistant of the former president for another he car. those are do you're stir at that time. he was not the, at the general, and now he's the medical mander of the, of the, of the military in the southeast of the country. death is more, is more populous region, the country. and he was settled in some barlow and yesterday, quite a dental. you could say, but well, it's a very curious cute confidence. this commander gave a speech to durham forest with her soldiers in a celebration in the army. and the, this is speech. he said that was very important to respect the result of the latches and that the military people them new to personal. they couldn't it, and they couldn't deal, they couldn't, and they were political issues. they couldn't even have political preferences, but they never go to talk about them openly. and i think that there's

a speech was quite important. shows that this is the leg a list and professional military, but some people that know very well how it works are curious. also about this class events of visit speech appearing one day before the fire. any of the com either in chief. then claudio caught a great to hear your thoughts in the us unless a claudia caught a professor at the community of august foundation, speaking to us from south palo now the e. u has condemned the widespread violence in peru during anti government process on saturday, police and the capital lima evicted demonstrators from a university. where demonstrates us it's set up camp. they want president dina bewell, r t a to resign, and her predecessor pedro castillo to be released from jail. he was impeached and arrested on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. in december, at least 50 people have been killed in confrontations with security forces. while

the protests of force peru to close the famous tourist site, much you peach you indefinitely. hundreds of tourists are stranded at the base of the inquiry into the town of august client us. the tourism minister says the railway line has been damaged and that some tourists are walking 6 hours to the nearest road. brianna sunshine, it's more from lima. this is jaime. there are people are gathering here at the pluses. i'm up here to the center of the capitol. i see less numbers than we saw at this time yesterday. but what we are seeing more and more is reinforcement by the police not only here at the plaza, but in other places in the center of the capital on many policemen, and many people ended up injured in flashes yesterday. so there's more police now, less people about people still deciding to continue their protest, many of which have come from the provinces in south korea. they came by boston

cars and vans. there's also protest in other parts of the country in the south. there's been a acoustical, pu, not, and inadequate by the 2nd largest city in peru. oh, well, there's been violent protests there. people professors trying to take over the airport. now. we've been speaking to some of our, the demonstrators here, people who are very angry, up the government, very angry at dina would love to, for the deaths that have occurred in the past all 6 weeks. people say that that she must resign because they cannot do. there cannot be one more death. in these protests in the country. united nations highest ranking, female official says, what's happening in afghanistan is a grave crisis for women's rights and a wake up call for the international community. the taliban has bought women from

education and much of public life. the restrictions were top of the agenda for you and deputy secretary general amena mohammed who's just wrapped up afford a visit to afghanistan. she says much remains to be achieved. or con reports afghan women's rights to education, to university, to work, and to fulfill their dreams. all of this was the focus of talks between the united nations and the taliban in couple this week. on her return, your deputy chief amena mohammed told l 0. she was there to amplify women's voices . the women are getting trodden on. they need to breathe. they need to come back, they need to have their rights and protected. and given back to them where they've been taken away, it is incredibly important. last month, the taliban band, women from attending university. they've also been barred from secondary education and some government jobs. the taliban says it's looking for solutions, but also wants to discuss international sanctions. there was schools open,

there was universities and they have been again a suspended. and we are working on finding a permanent solutions that this phenomena situation was precipitated by the 20 year occupation. and it has been investigated by the re imposition of sanctions by by acid phrases and by restrictions on banking. when the taliban to power in august 2021. the us froze $9500000000.00, and the african central bank money that was held in the us a later announce a transfer of $3500000000.00 of that money to fund. it says will help us get funds economy. but the money will be managed directly by the african government. continuing sanctions means i've kind of sons. banking system remains largely cut off from the rest of the world. meanwhile, the un says 9 of 10 households aren't getting enough to eat some unless, say, even if sanctions or ease is unlikely, policies on women

a going to change the underlying foundational principle about islamic emerett is that the amir shay hyper toler, has or unchallenged authority to pass any decree which he likes over muslin un deputy chief, a minimum homage says she hopes to convince the taliban otherwise. the 1st we're on, we're talking about knowledge speaking lights, but i don't see anywhere that, that says, you know, we don't have the right to education. the us says it will continue to push for progress. so women and i've kind of son and not excluded from public life. laura han al jazeera, thousands of opposition activists have march the 10th day and city of windsor to celebrate the lifting of a nearly sick she about on political rallies are also take the opportunity to demand reforms to election laws. ma'am, at val reports, it's a new chapter in town. sunny in politics,

opposition parties are celebrating the end of a 7 year ban on political rallies. thousands of members of the main opposition party shut them up, marched in the streets of mazda on the southern shores of lake victoria, in north western tanzania, and gathered at a sports stadium to mark the occasion. oh, do we have faced mountains of hardships in foot for 30 years? some of the parties decided to compromise the government, but we inter demoss stood firm. we approach have built an institution that could fight for our rights to have a new constitution and all of the needed reforms in our country. the ban on political robins was imposed in 2016 by then president john michael. fully his successor, samuel slew hudson lifted the band 2 weeks ago as part of a broader set of reforms,

but also warned against violations of law and order. since coming to paula in 2021, she has introduced limited reforms including lifting a band on pregnant girls at tendrils at school and launching a covey 19 vaccination program. opposition activists expressed relief, but say more reforms are needed. they are calling for a new constitution, but guarantees more political freedoms. really about all what comes on yet. we think the president for the decision to allow political reli so we can exercise our constitutional right. now we expect the police not to cite with the government was, i mean, i'm sure who i see now need the new constitutional reforms and free and fair elections . the constitution we have now does not favor the political system we have has any is preparing for civic pauls next year. and a general election 2025 opposition parties are promising more rallies and demonte.

but the election laws to guarantee that those are free and fair mom and fun of this year. a danish far right politician has burned a copy of the koran outside the turkish embassy in the swedish capital. russ most polluted holds both danish and swedish nationalities was granted permission by police to state the rally. it prompted anchor to cancel the plan visit by sweden's defense minister. the swedish foreign minister says the government doesn't endorse paladin's views and that islam phobic provocations are appalling said. of course yearly has more from istanbul, all reactions by the turkish authorities say the same thing. they condemn this protest, and they accuse swedish authorities for giving permission to such, such an act that in their terms and courage, hate crime and is i'm a phobia in width and, and that's why the reactions from the turkey sides from the turkish politicians

have in har so far and at a turkish foreign ministries, calling for it and, and other countries in the west to take necessary measures because for the, for on these kinds of process just provoke, different actions, different emotions in people. this is what they have set so far. of course, the protests are not limited. with on burning, there have been protests targeting true care for the last couple of weeks since finland and sweden are trying to be members of nato. and everything is packed to true kids approval as a new to member things are critical. 3 countries signed as 3 way agreement that would finally allow these countries to be an 8 on members for these kinds of acts by sweden, or just violating the agreement, signed by the $3.00 to $2.00. you also have a list of 130 people that wants to be expedited from sweden and turkey has been

accusing sweden for not taking the necessary measures and being committed to the agreement. so had allowed to 0 thousands of demonstrators gather in, tell of even west to slim, to protest against israel's new far right government. plus i'm gabriel's are new in new york, 3 years on from the 1st covey case. being discovered in the united states are still hundreds of people dying from the disease. every single day. that story coming up, ah, with right the extremes of weather have blown through now the time being that's the storm on its way, answer east in canada. so probably the place to look for the next day or so is further south this here wanting up in cold. i will bring some snow to the plane

state where the snow meets the rain. you got heavy rain, i think this se in color, and then transition to snow in places like pennsylvania, but not likely in new york or washington where it's been other snow free so far this winter. so pittsburgh is a good example of the rain turning briefly to snow and then disappearing altogether, temperatures hover above freezing that we go further south. the breeze here pretty standard. now the trade winds brings a big shout off if you're unlucky, overcast, and conditions for nicaragua. costa rica, the heavy rains, just touching florida is in the gulf of mexico. but mexico itself. some rain, i think in the middle, but not very, very much to south america. different sort of story. there's a pretty big shout around and forecast all the way from ecuador through brazil, down towards the bottom right hand corner. and in argentina where there has been some pretty hot weather in the north sound that's being eaten away now as showers

are induced to bills are no longer 45 degrees. just big thunder. ah, to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism world wide. and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lulu ah,

they're watching out was era remind of our top stories this our brazil's president lewis unnecessarily. la da silva has 5 the chief of the army lula suspects. security forces of being involved in january the 8th attacks on government buildings that were led by supporters of former president john. both of our, the famed tory sites might shoot pete, she has been closed as anti government protest spread across peru, upwards of tourists of being left stranded, the demonstrations of demanding the resignation of president. deena blotting, the un deputy secretary general has told al jazeera, the women and girls of afghanistan cannot be abandoned. amena mohammed has just returned from high level meetings with the taliban. tens of thousands of people have joined protests against israel's new right wing coalition and its plans to reform the judicial system. for the 3rd straight weekend demonstrations have been held in tel aviv and west jerusalem. public anger is mounting after the new justice

minister unveiled reforms that will weaken the powers of the supreme court critic say the changes will undermine freedoms and give absolute power to the far right government. around con was that the protest in western reason? we have a just a quick look around, you'll see there's an inflatable red line that actually represent the red line for democracy. the protesters say that benjamin netanyahu cannot cross that line all throughout. hey, you see all of the slogans that we've been seeing in these protests. and this protest, including the benjamin netanyahu, is a criminal that the democracy must be defended as real concerns her over civil rights. for example. now, 3 weeks ago this protests were spots by proposed changes by the justice minister to the supreme court. they were effectively going to strip the supreme court of any. now they have to overturn parliament decisions. it's got bigger than that. this is

a much school about people wondering, worrying about a threat to democracy and you have to say in jerusalem, there aren't really protests of this. so there were some in 2020 large in number, once again against the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. government, but they're getting bigger and that's because jerusalem is where religious city, very conservative city. so a lot that values a lot of people's values. they align with the governments. but because of this threat approaches to say to democracy, they are incredibly concerned. but it isn't gonna change anything. well that's the question i put to the purchase as well. you see here, people from all, all kinds, all kinds of various policies. is this thing those change with which would we feel that with radical change really expecting would be the same

one? 0, already experience in hungary and the lights and this is something that would very much like prevent i think that the more people that go out it will give more pressure to the government to stop this law likes laws against a demo democracy. now it's not just here across israel in high for example, and in televi that have been mass protest. tel aviv is by far the largest, although there is a lot of people here. in the 1st week, you saw 50000 people, 80000 people in the 2nd week in the process, the organizes are suggesting there might be anywhere up to a 120000 people out on the streets in television. that's a significant number. now the idea for the protest organizes is to get as many people out on the streets as possible so that the politicians have to pay attention and they get worried about some of their support. leaving them that they may will

be able to have a vote of no confidence in the government and try and force trigger new elections to france. there were protests were back on the streets of paris angry at a plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. the government says the plan is vital to safeguard the state pension system. saturday's rally follows a nationwide strike on thursday or protest a plan for later this week. and another ma strikes being cool for january the 31st and tens of thousands of people gathered in spain's capital madrid to protest against the leftist government. there demonstrates a say the administration has undermined spain's constitution. they want prime minister pedro sanchez due to step down. it's been cool for ball, right. leaning civil society groups back by conservative opposition parties. and does that, can you get any this idea of a need? i think it was necessary to come and say enough is enough. the important thing is that we get out of this economic crisis,

and that money is not spent on superfluous things that do not matter to the spanish people. bless equally. i think i'm in jeopardy letter i came because of the slogan on the podium for spain, for democracy, for the constitution to defend the covent spain, which allows us to live in freedom to spain. that was born with the 1978 constitution that's allowed us to leave many years of democracy, which i believe must be defended because right now it could be in danger. you. the king of fossils. military government has given french troops one months to leave the country. it comes a day after hundreds of people demonstrated in the capital, we could do go against the french military presence. many say the former colonial power has failed to improve security. according to the un, thousands of people have been killed and became a faster since 2015 a. nearly 3000000 displaced in violence linked to armed groups. canada says it will help guide peace talks between cameron's government and separate his factions in his english speaking regions. he is arm separate,

his groups have been battling government troops to form a break away state called amber sonia cameron's english speaking community say they've been mont marginalized by. the french speaking majority in october 2017 angler phone separatist, declared independence and created the new amber sonia state. but the republic is not internationally recognized, or the 6000 people have been killed in the conflict. i bought and cut. and congo is the president of the center of human rights and democracy in africa. he says there's a lot of optimism that these talks might help at an end to the fighting. i'm very optimistic. i think the population, especially those in the southwest on the dog, was not very optimistic. if you people are still very cautious because i think that the government will not be. but you see the reaction on line on social media. the people i've talked to this, treat this a lot of up to me. there's a lot of excitement, people want this conflict to come to an end. it's been 66 years of school boy on

economic stagnation dead, some kids in prison. so there is a lot of questions if it is clearly that in the beginning, not every good would that no peace process in the world has had all the goes to present that the i g of the cycle. i'm also chris and with the i know to present it, but i think what time it will come to the people because there's no one to realize that the essence is putting the people, but the essence is protecting the popular song. in this i was on an old way, so i did, i think, i think that the boys of all the progressive agenda to try to come to the discussion table. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is joined mourners of the memorial service for the victims of wednesdays. helicopter crash, 14 people were killed, including ukraine's interior minister and 6 senior officials. the helicopter came down in thick fog on the outskirts of the capital key. if an investigation is still ongoing, into the cause of the crash, january the 21st months,

3 years since the 1st case of coven 19 was reported in the united states, just over a 1000000 people have died in america since that number. and that number rather continues to rise. gabriel is owned by reports from new york for angela praia. it's a never ending nightmare. in april, 2020, her beloved father went to the hospital after falling ill. he was put on a ventilator 10 days later, he died. one of the early victims of covert in the united states. that's what makes cohen couldn't crawl if you think they're getting better and the doctors are like, they're getting better and the next day, their dad like so many others, he died alone. no family members were allowed inside the hospital to see him because it was deemed to unsafe. that still hans angelina. i didn't see her. i didn't touch him. i didn't get a hold his hand as he passed away. i didn't get to tell him i loved. alas,

kissed that that never happened when you're not able to do those things. you're in a state of suspended morning, i think probably forever to day 93 percent of americans over 65 years old or fully vaccinated. but issues persist. it's estimated nearly 10 percent of americans suffer from so called long coven depilatory adding side effects that linger months after contracting the virus and anxiety still shadows the 7000000 and you know, compromised americans who face a heightened risk of catching cove. it there still hundreds of people every single day dying from covert in the united states. those who study the disease and track its progress, say the u. s. needs to do a better job of learning from those deaths. we have upwards of 500 deaths,

at least, of covert every day in the us. and we know very little about who these people are, why they're falling through the cracks. and you know where there may have been missed opportunities along the way, where whether it be vaccination, or whether it be, be up to date on vaccination, whether the axis to antivirals. this is important to course, correct, our implementation, and our, our response to the pandemic. even now, 3 years into the, into it for angelina. any progress made fighting cove. it is too late for her loved one. my father was in good, genuine kind, gentle, sweet, generous person. and he didn't deserve to die like that. or any of the people who continue to 3 years later gabriel is hondo al jazeera new york. oh.