today whether the nation's most influential politician is guilty of corruption former president louis ignacio silva is hoping to overturn a sentence of nine and a half years in prison for accepting a bribe he wants to stand for election again next to a but he if his conviction stands he will be allowed to you know supporters have been protesting against what this see as political persecution off the leftist icon . the feelings of these brazilians are clear they love their former president and they want him to run for office again ahead of today's ruling fountains of loser supporters have been converging on porto alegre to demonstrate against what they believe is an attempt to prevent him from running an october his presidential election. and they found justice system does not want to go down in history as garbage it only has one option to absolve because there is no evidence against him. as long as there's no proof he's an absolutely innocent person. last july lula was convicted of handing out political favors in return for a penthouse apartment in this beachside building loser denies ever having o

a court in brazil is upheld a conviction against former president louis ignacio lula da silva for corruption and money laundering it's a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists he will contest october's election officials in turkey are disputing the white house's version of a phone call about its offensive against kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria the white house says that president donald trump urged his turkish counterpart to curtail ankara's campaign in africa which is now at its sixth day but he says trump did not force concerns of escalating violence when you see here on i was here right after the stream next. zero. where every you. ok and you're in the stream today as part of aspect from the sundance film festival you'll meet some brilliant young mind set to change the world their stories are part of a new documentary science fact. and i'm only.

beginning of december at a court in brazil has up held a conviction against former president louis ignacio lula da silva for corruption and money laundering it's a major setback for his plans to run again for the presidency but he insists he will contest october's election. as u.s. president donald trump has urged turkey to curtail its military offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria on saturday turkey launched an air and ground operation an effort to push out why p.g. fighters whom it considers to be terrorists the u.s. sees the fighters as allies helping it in its fight against i saw in a phone call trump told turkey's president earlier want to exercise caution or risk conflicts with u.s. forces. january twenty fifth marks the seventh anniversary of the egyptian revolution that brought down president hosni mubarak downtown cairo is in lockdown with security forces sealing off all entrances to tahrir square the focal point of the uprising al-jazeera is but smith has been speaking to some of the people who were there seven years ago i i chance of down with mubarak wants have been enough to