after an engagement equal to trail, when so many find themselves worlds apart and we choose to look for common ground. ah, my maid, ongoing riots and rallies in brazil, facebook's parent company meta centers, all posts with an empty president. lula, sloane, we take a deeper look at wine the west fully by some protests, but not others. with slums, france for double standards on the hypocrisy, not to the latest, surely don't cover that picks around supreme leader, sparking angry protests. partis justifies that publication, citing freedom with israel's national security minister,

cracked stone on palestinians hugging national flags in public, claiming there are a symbol of terrorism a from moscow to the world. this is our team. thanks for giving us some of your time today for the global news roundup. let's get into it. the former leader of brazil you had both scenario has been hospitalized in the u. s. state of florida with abdominal paid. it comes emit violent protests in the brazilian capital for his supporters have demanded new presidential elections. ballston aro, has condemned the violence saying he only supports peaceful demonstrations. but protestors have now taken to the streets of sao paulo blocking road ways of this monday. this is betty we've received from the country's largest city, several cars where torched by the protesters, while brazil supreme court has suspended the governor of the capital,

brazil. yeah. after crowd storm, the presidential palace and other government buildings on sunday. ah, be protest. her storm, the official residence of the left is president lula da silva, who was inaugurated on january 1st. hundreds also entered the senate chamber vandalizing the premises before police arrived. ah, well, i made the heavy clutches, law enforcement use tear gas am detained at least 1200 involved in the rallies, according to police, at least 70 people were reportedly injured with several in critical condition. president lula house declared a state of emergency for the rest of january, and has deployed the military to maintain peace in the capital of the

51st. if i would like to tell you that all those people who did this will be found and punished, they will understand that democracy guarantees the right to freedom, the right to freedom of expression. but it also requires that it must be respected . these institutions were created to strengthen democracy. the lay protesters are believed to primarily be supporters of the previous leader. yeah, your bulk scenario last october's election by a relatively small margin uncontested. the results. he's denied any involvement in the protests and has condemned the violence. the current president, leila, has said, authorities are conducting an investigation to rooted the perpetrators of the riots we well joe biden and other western leaders of issued scathing condemnation of the violent demonstrations. i condemned the assault on democracy and on the peaceful transfer of power and brazil. brazil's democratic institutions have our full support and the will of the brazilian people must not be undermined. i look forward

to continuing to work with president lula. my absolute condemnation of this soul from the democratic institutions of brazil, full support for prison, lieu of the silver. democratically elected by millions of brazilians from fair and free elections. full support to lula da silva and his government to congress and to the federal supreme court. brazilian democracy will prevail over violence and extremism. however, when it comes to denouncing protests around the world, western leaders can be selective to say the least earlier. my colleagues worry, sushi and murat as the of talk through washington and europe's approach. let's talk about perspective here. moran, if we can, because i so certain western professional partners, they, they support protests in certain countries that say latin america for now, but then they don't support protests in many other countries as well. it, it almost seems like there's some sort of preferential treatment going on here. how

would you pick up the reaction so far to brazil? well it's, it's much more simple. what drives them the people who, who support or condemn these protests ease, entirely selfishness that is, that is the world we live in. so what bought joe biden? ah, what joe biden of the instructions for him, or what is good for america? what serves american national interest is good. so if, if a protest he's there and potentially could unseat someone that the united states doesn't live like the chairman and e in china who will of the spiritual leader in, in iran, and they're all forward. and they couldn't care less if it is in the country that his credit friendly with the united states. and that is going to cause pain for the united states. but of course they that they will never support such a purpose. i mean, look what happened in a, in it, for example, venezuela, right?

you had them event, a president, just label a guy a president. there was no condemnation when he attempted to school military buildings military, so sorry, say building that even a military airport. there's no condemnation, but no one elected this guy. no one ever elected him. and here's another example right here, 2030. what led to these bloody conflict that is currently that is currently happening and you, craig, so, so they're saying that this was an attack on, on democracy. what happened in what happened in brazil? the same words that they use for what happened on, on capital hill. so going against an elected president, your 6th, you're talking about actually yes, in ukraine. my doug, you had protesters burning police alive. you had people killing each other, storming state offices the govern, trying to unseat a president who was elected legitimately, who was congratulated by the state,

the part and then who was on the stay on the stage in my down square. you had victoria newland angela kane, as you only can other american politicians fighting out the flames in ukraine because it served us national interests serve to regime change interest for regime change. in some instances, it is more beneficial to, to change the regime in other instances as a result of that, that keep it in place. and you talk about m protests, demonstrations and you know, if indeed there is some hint of potential regime change there as you well, no more than that. that's just straight out of langley virginia's playbook when it comes to regime change. you know, well about the. 8 arab spring, that kicked off in 2010. what, what about the color revolution? serbia? 2000 georgia, 2003. i mean, i'm preaching to the choir on so i'm glad what precisely, and you have the state department pollutants resources u. s. a band. now in so many, many years. yeah, because that is the instruments that they use to fun opposition to fund radical

nationalists, the fund various, a liberal pro western media outlets added to so the so da said you do have companies on board now for example, made her facebook has just come out and said that it will now start censoring any post that is in support of the protesters. in brazil. in advance of the election, we designated brazil as a temporary high risk location and have been removing content, calling for people to take up arms or forcibly invade congress. the presidential palace and other federal buildings. we're also designating, this is a violating event, which means we will remove content that supports or praises these actions. you now have these huge tech jobs, censoring so as they did it said the stories to, to protect joe biden. sudden, for example, twitter, facebook, we have now learn. and then now involved here in this,

in protest and demonstration, which, where they go. a, you have very can companies. starling, for example, sending terminal to a wrong to help the protesters. oh, organize their hold. this is about freedom and democracy mirage surely. well, it's about american national interest. it has always been about about american national interests. and that is, that is the naked truth. while i'm happy to say we can welcome on to the program, not for his talk. political analyst and senior editor for the issue, insight analysis site, john catholic, john, you're welcome. so meta has blocked selective posts on the anti government protests in brazil, basically any that are against the current president lula. should they be doing that? i'm not so certain terms of whether they should or shouldn't be doing it. i'm. i would like to suggest that there's, there may be more of an interesting element to this. and that is when you look at

the 3 top social media and social communication tools that are being referenced as important in terms of what happened in resilient you have twitter, you have facebook, new telegraph. in the case of twitter, it's controlled and owned i a u. s. national. facebook, a publicly held company as controlled by us. national and telegram is controlled by 2 russian nationals. so i think it's, you know, it always like to look at these in a little anecdotes that are sometimes instructed in terms of, you know, who's behind the platforms and what their experience in life experience brings to the decisions they make. there's no question that all 3 are your political beings, or you could call them political animals,

but they respond to domestic politics. meaning what's in their own countries. they try to be responsible. i think that most of them do, do they get it right all the time? no. and is there going to be a pull if a ration of using these social tools, these communication tools for events like we saw in brazil? yeah. i think yes. in that, what happened in washington, on january of 2021. what happened in brazilian 2023. not the end of it. and we've seen it, you know, and others of and there's going to be this continuing concentration. well, we have these 3 apps that are ironically on either they were given birth in the united states or in the russian federation. and we should say perhaps courtesy of helen must. there appears proof now of how social media giants form the

public narrative in terms of their significance. all vance john, you know, when it comes to twitter for one, you had governments able to pile the pressure on a social media beast that behemoth around the world. to, to alter a post to, to put stories to the top in terms of what is happening in, in brazil is, is this restricted to one social media giant, or is this a proliferation across the board. you, thing is proliferated across the board and in, and also you have, you know, the united nations as a 193 members. you have basically a 193 owners of these platforms because as they penetrate further into countries and as they are used as tools for what the government in place isn't happy about,

you're going to see more and more activity and regulation and control the european union is a great example of that with respect to the constant fines on and investigations that they're doing into the social platforms as well as to, you know, search engines like google. i think that's going to continue to, to take place and, and then you, you get to question. all right, if you have a 193 or so, i focus points on these. let's say 3 companies are eventually doesn't knock the companies out. and i think that the answer will probably be, you know, in 3 to 5 years, they're either going to be new companies, or we're going to see your further consolidation. and these governments, you are gonna look more more carefully because they saw what happened in the united states. they're seeing what happened in brazil. they'd seen what happened. you know,

the, the arab spring and see what happened in that as well. all ukraine, russian federation. we me and governments generally have in some way of been a party to everything that's happening and more the more exposure, you know, i think that it's healthy don't vice, real time. always good to speak to john cadillac, senior editor for issue in so i thank you, sir. thank you. well, as the protests in brazil continued to make sure to stop by our website for, i explained all their origins on the world's reaction to this general history to bring you to a dozens of iranians gathered outside the french embassy in tehran, on sunday, protesting against cartoons of iran, supreme leader, published by the french satirical magazine, surely upto the crowd set fire to a french flag while chanting death to france. 2015,

a dozen people were killed when islamist opened fire. in the shirley of 2 offices in paris, after the magazine published cartoons of the prophet, muhammad iranians say, the latest magazine coverage is provocative and disrespectful of the country's culture. artie contributor ritual margin gives us her take now on how the french government has rejected taking any responsibility in the matter. instead accusing around suppressing free speech i i well really seems like all and the french government are kind of blowing all of it. all french officials are using these caricatures of the supreme leader of iran, which her submissions to a contest held last month by the french satirical magazine shackle yet due to basically say, look, we, the french government aren't going to get involved with whatever

a french magazine is doing because we are above that and we believe in free speech . have a listen. does everyone can i'm of is, is pretty ticky said keith v, the wrong policies. the one followed by era which practices violence against his own population, which is particularly shocking. let's remember that in france, press freedom exists contrary to what's happening in iran, and that this is overseen by a judge within the framework of an in and then judiciary, which is something that iran knows little about. so they're not only refusing to take any responsibility for the shot me of dough cartoons, but they're even projecting or throwing the responsibility back on to iran. but the iranian government sees things much differently. the foreign affairs ministry now is slamming france for complicity through silence over the cartoons. in other words, failure to act. to do anything about all of this. and t, ron has characterized the cartoons as insulting and offensive,

not just totally wrong, but to all muslim countries. france has no right to insult the sanctity of other muslim countries and nations under the pretext of freedom of expression thereon is waiting for the french government explanation and compensate reaction and condemning the unacceptable behavior of the french publication over the weekend. friends present in mandarin mac hall honored the 17 victims of the attacks by al qaeda inspired gunman on shadley ed those paris headquarters back on january 7th, 2015. now that incident was also linked to shortly of those religious caricatures, specifically of prophet mohammed, my call has consistently defended shortly abdul caricatures, in general, back in september 2020 during a visit to lebanon. he said, quote, it's never the place of a president of the republic to pass judgment on the editorial choice of a journalist or a newsroom. never because we have freedom of the press. but apparently,

mac haul doesn't quite feel the same when it comes to free speech that targets him personally. back in 2021. mackerel, sued a french billboard owner michel alice flow. he who had made these huge satirical images of mac hall and posted them up there for the world to see including one depicting mac hall as adolph hitler in the artists. protests against mac holes covet vaccine mandates and other restrictive mandates related to the pandemic. now my calls the lawyer jaw in though she said at the time that the loss it was brought against this person, this billboard owner. because quote of the offensive nature of the comparison of the president of the republic with adolf hitler. so an insulting depiction of the french president is worthy of vicious legal pursuits to personally punish the

person responsible. but when it comes to insulting the leadership of another country, well then free speech absolutely needs to be defended. all costs asked for french officials, newfound respect for freedom of the press. again, it's easy, be reserved for press, they like and not for say, r t or other russian affiliated media, which has been banned by the european union with apparently france is blessing because they don't seem to be raising the issue at all. so when it comes to both freedom of speech and freedom of the press in france, the government's mileage clearly varies depending on how it squares with their own interests and agenda. yet we also spoke with side mohammed moran. the dean of the world studies faculty at the university of to run, he is of the view francis guilty of double standards against iran, while also insulting the nation's culture. french journal was not just trying to

insult the iranian leader. it was trying consult iranian religion and culture and the religion and culture of hundreds of millions of people in west asia and abroad . and for them that's called freedom of speech. but when it comes to iranian voices, west, the west and the french, the french, they sanction all persia, iranian media, all media affiliated to its allies. and the, the french also, ah, in have media incursion that encourage riots and violence in iran. so for them, freedom for, for the french side, is very different from freedom for iranians. they have extraordinary that will standards an internal ra, has broken, i to, among republicans in the us congress over a deal on the military spending,

which came to lights when kevin mccarthy was elected as the new speaker of the house of representatives. no, some report, se, budget cuts were not discussed during negotiations, while others, including from republican congressman tony gonzalez, say that reducing defense spending is a bad idea. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defense, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you've got a growing threat of china in the pacific. you know, i'm going to visit taiwan here in a couple of weeks. how am i going to look at our allies in the i and say, i need you to increase your defense budget, but yet america is going to decrease ours. ah, well, let's head stateside on speak to ortiz, kill up my pin. hi there, caleb. a pretty tense kick off for the brand new house speaker. indeed, it was a historic 15 rounds of voting. it hasn't taken that long to elect a new speaker,

the house since 1859. quite a historic moment now. it exposed very big divisions within the republican party. there are very, very different perspectives within the single party that has taken control of the house of representatives. now at one moment, this intense war of words looked as if it was turning into a physical fight. there's an image that has surfaced of, we had a situation where republican a mike rogers from alabama was being physically restrain as he was yelling at matt gates. now matt yates voted against kevin mccarthy, being the new speaker. i got rather intense and then we had mat gates voted against kevin mccarthy for ultimately changing his mind. we had matt gates, i got to the point that matt gates was being called a fraud by his own party. this is what was said. matt gates is a fraud. every time he voted against kevin mccarthy. last week he sent out

a fundraising e mail. what he saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions. we don't know what they got or didn't get. we haven't seen it, we don't have any idea what promises were made or what gentlemen's handshakes were made. now one of the key issues of contention was a propos cap on funding to you. great. some in the more conservative and far right wing of the republican party just jumped by and the idea that more us money should be flowing into ukraine. they are not happy with the huge amounts of money behind states has been pouring into kia. ah, and it's also important to note that kevin mccarthy now that he has been elected speaker, the house, he still has a big fight ahead of him. i'll be fighting over the rules were debate in the house of representatives. yeah, the point you make about ukraine. caleb, i would suggest keith is closely following the the fight for the speakership on, on what kevin mccarthy will now do. as you say, billions have already been shipped over. they'll want that to continue. oh,

sure. and zalinski, the granny leader was the 1st to congratulate kevin mccarthy on social media and congratulate him on becoming speaker. the house of representatives. our bought the twitter exchange didn't go the way many were expecting. here's how things went down . lens lindsey chimed in to congratulate kevin mccarthy. he was got to be joking. you pathetic little welfare queen. so now you got your boy kevin, in your little hands, are out begging for our money again. you discussed me. zalinski is excited that his unlimited h. e. m is back up and running. no one wants to give you money any more, go away. so as you can see. 8 this is not exactly the image that biden is administration of tried to present. they've tried to present the united states, is all in favor, all and supported boring, more and more money and weapons into key of i. however,

the details don't seem to match that public opinion. polls show that americans are more concerned about problems here at home than they are about the situation in eastern europe. it's also important to note that kevin mccarthy, while he may now have the speakership, is probably going to have a tough year ahead of them. 2023 is a year in which there's not only going to be intense division between democrats and republicans. but now we see pretty blatantly there will be intense divisions between republicans and other republicans taken us through the office, our ortiz, caleb and well journalist on p. r, especially as john rowley sees the u. s. isn't inclined to reduce military a to ukraine as doing so. would be own profitable. he can say all that he wants, and let's look, let's look at the results when, when push comes to shove, let's see what happens there. they're not going to cut. they're not going to put a to ukraine. american aid to ukraine is only going to intensify. they will push it

somehow through a hook or by crook. they're going to push more and more weapons and into ukraine, more and more money down the black hole that ukraine is. so i, i do not trust anything. he says, he would say him, we probably will say anything to appease that patriotic wing of the republican party. so with, with be very clear about that american support. america has gone too far. they may not america let's please just be very clear about this. the white house really to white house. 1 together with the establishment republicans and the democrats, right. they have gone too far. they've done, they've crossed the rubicon. they've committed far too many resources to ukraine, as they caught is our investment, right? remember, quote unquote investment. as zalinski said, when he spoke to congress, your investment yet for them, it's a big business. it's a big business investment, too much money in ukraine. and they, they can't back out now, they can't back out. so what do you do?

they're going to keep investing, as they say, investing more and more money in this war. this is for them as a business venture. so unfortunately, we're all good news for the ruling elite and here, but all bad news for the ukrainian people. i think we're going to lose in ukraine. yes. and i want to be very clear. we are going to loosen ukraine. israel's new national security minister has given an order for palestinian flags hanging in public places to be taken done, claiming they glorified terrorism. it is inconceivable that lawbreakers will waive terror flags, incite and encourage terrorism. i have issued instructions for the removal of the flags which support terrorism from the public space into stop incitement against the state of israel. freedom of expression does not extend to identify with the terrorist and those who want to harm idea of soldiers. well, let's have a listen to what supporters of palestine had to say, but mr. ben, give years order. daniel tablet debt. the step in decision to remove palestinian

flags from public places or to criminalize their display is not surprising from a fascist government that is taking off in israeli society. and somehow this government always tries to cancel the other from a racist view and a zionist view. mother, we are accustomed to the oppression of the occupation with regard to the palestinian people, but we did not expect anything less from these steps because ben veer's approach is clear, i abolition of everything that is palestinian and restrictions on us while he is coming with a clear approach to the world that he is against everything related to the palestinian identity in jerusalem and in all of palestine. been here the thought, all 3 of them, this decision is the height of racism and israeli extremism. and contradicts all international laws in the world. first, it forbids raising the palestinian flag in the city of jerusalem, but the city of jerusalem is the capital of the palestinian state. also, the city of jerusalem is an occupied city, according to you and resolution 42. which means that it is not recognized as the

capital of israel. so this is against international laws. i would add to that every citizen has the right to raise his flag wherever he is. the us flag is raised in jordan, and it is raised in france in italy, as well as the french flag. any frenchman raises it in any country. he is in there no international laws that prevent a person for raising the flag of his country, which he cherishes. additionally, israel has suspended a trouble pass for the palestinian foreign minister, which allowed him freedom of movement in the west. but that came in response to palestine efforts to involve the united nations court of justice to moderate the decades long conflict assistant minister for multilateral aversion polish buttons. a mar had josie told r t is people will continue to speak out for freedom. unfortunately, as it has never been accountable for any of the violations of international law, including the violation of the you and charter and coordinate of international law,

international human rights and human human material. and this is why is there any schemes free and has a free hand to, to apply all of these kinds of punitive measures against the international again, seeking justice at the national level or the for the senior people. and the struggle to achieve the right subject combination. and of course, forgetting that knowledge and of israel also started with the united nations biosolution 181, which is the only legal document that i tested to the stablish ment of this fate. so is there it is fighting also the, the body that, that's created it in the 1st place. but the senior people do not intend to relax in their struggles to fight and to continue pushing.