amy: i wanted to turn to former president lula.sonaro's response to covid-19. >> many of the deaths could have been avoided if there were a government who did their job. this country is disorganized and falling apart because it has no government. if there was a president who invented hydrochloric and, a person who said those who are scared covid are sissies that covid was something for coward that he was a former athlete it would not affe him. that is not the role of the president of a republic in a civilized country. amy: lula went on to say the brazil is falling apart under bolsonaro's government. >> this country is disorganized and falling apart because no government. i repeat. this country has no government. with fake news, the world elected former president donald trump. with fake news the world elected bolsonaro. amy: now a judge has cleared their convictions against him. he served hundreds of days imprison. talk about the significance of lula now out. will he be running for president? where you see brazil needs to go right n

talk about the significance of lula now out. will he be running for president?now? >> well, you know, even lula himself is concentrating his attention in the present situation that you describe from the health point of view. also big unemployment. brazil is a poor country. much poorer th the unid states. you can imine what happens to people. they do not kn where to go. so the need for emergency help for worke or informal workers is one of the main points that lula has been insisting. i think, -- a bit far away in some respects, not chronologically but the hurdles we have to surmount in terms of the health tragedy we are going through, in terms of unemployment, in terms of the lack of income for the poor people, all of these other priorities for lula now. of course, it is impossible to escape from the realities of politics. i think from our point of view, as we say from the point of view of democratic forces in brazil to have this election on the horizon is of energy. i have to say also that i was worried -- i think it never happened to have the dense ministry an

led to the indictment imprisonment of several politicians including lula. the former president was convicted on charges of money laundering and corruption and since it's a $9.00 and a half years in prison he appealed but was shocked when the sentence was increased to 12 years and one month. 5 almost 2 years later was released by the supreme federal court which said the legal process had been on little full and in march this year it's an all the corruption conviction ruling the court you know was tried by did not have proper jurisdiction over the cakes. he's now $75.00 and a free man citizen little haven't bishan to become brazil's president again and which he secret vengeful he says was the international political prosecution he was a victim of brazil's former president who is enough the latest silver talks to al-jazeera. luis in the silver thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera. lately has been quite critical of the current president's handling of the situation in brazil especially the coronavirus allow me to ask you do you think you could do a better

luis in the lula da silva thank you so much for talking to al-jazeera. lately you've been quite critical of the current president's handling of the situation in brazil especially the coronavirus allow me to ask you do you think you could do a better job if you were running brazil today. for the president to go but a view to study your we don't know mad dog a bit of you. do with a view. you. don't know but a view we must be going to thug or problem we have to go. through it you know mark could do tone of utils no one could do to appoint a media darling nobody could be thought of her med you know what could be. a fair side of being evolved. for didn't see for people to come into you know what could be moved to the mosque or to a. head may do you need to have command in turn over that. to put it there general see the. president. you knew try to do more where for. you to hear me do you. think it. would you money you put it into the i think it is element of you too but have enough of a cross on it talk to me now to. the wall very good b.p. i got when we. move

translation: if lula comes back by legal | and auditable vote, that's fine.he'd bring into the presidency. if the two equally polarising politicians go head to head, it's sure to be an explosive campaign, one a leftist icon seen by detractors as a symbol of corruption at the very top, the other a far—right populist at the centre of a political crisis in a nation ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, an issue the election campaign is bound to be fought on. tanya dendrinos, bbc news. a man from doncaster is raising money for the hospital that saved his life. fraser lamb was born with spina bifida which occurs when a baby's spine and spinal cord does not develop properly in the womb. he had to have life —aving surgery at sheffield children's hospital when he was 12 years old. and to say thank you, he's now started a very special fundraising campaign. mark ansell has the story. go, fraser! one thing fraser can be sure of when he clocks up the miles in bawtry is the backing of his village. he is pushing 2,021 miles in and around bawtry in the year 2021, to raise mo

if lula comes back by a legal vote, that is fine.nd of people he will bring into the presidency. in the last hour new figures have been released showing china's economy grew by overjust18% in the first three months of this year. a record rebound compared to the same time last year. the numbers, released by beijing, so the biggest increase since 1992 and suggested the recovery is accelerating. the figure is so substantial because it is in comparison to the first three months of 2020, when china ground to a halt because of covid—19. the statistics bureau says continued momentum of stable recovery but it warned the international landscape had high uncertainties and instabilities. let's speak to our china correspondent robin brandtjoining us live from shanghai. took us through these numbers. —— talk. fin shanghai. took us through these numbers. -- talk.— numbers. -- talk. on one level they are _ numbers. -- talk. on one level they are staggering, _ numbers. -- talk. on one level they are staggering, and i numbers. -- talk. on one level th

supreme court has confirmed his decision to a no criminal convictions against the former president lula da silva last month the court ruled that luna was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations the justice common c.-a reversed her earlier position tipping the court's 5 judge panel in lunas favor he's now eligible to run the next year's elections against the current president julia polson auto monica kiev has more now from rio de janeiro. it all started with one justice from the supreme court saying that moolah had been tried convicted and imprisoned. by a court that had no jurisdiction over his case a court in the south of brazil and the judge there was judges more to the judge that was in charge of investigating the carwash scandal that what this justice said was that moves should have been tried in brasilia of brazil's capital that does not go to say that moolah is innocent it just says that he was tried in the wrong place so it's a technicality and today the supreme court ratified this decision it said that it's true he was tried in the wrong place so what this me

no criminal convictions against former president hu that the silver last month the court ruled that lula was treated unfairly in a series of corruption investigations justice carmen the sierra reverse or other positions if in the court's 5 judge panel in the us favor lula is now eligible to run the next year's election against presidents jr both sonando. the u.n. envoy for yemen has warned of dangerous signs of escalation in the country's conflicts once and griffiths was speaking during a virtual meeting of the un security council he urged yemen's warring parties to accept the proposed peace plan. to give a progress toward a peaceful settlement because the continued violence on the ground that everybody hear from are almost certainly moderate as we have endless lead discussed in this council referring to the major center of gravity and this is politics it is either true today as it was last year through those many mosques the party marilla. receivers. in the fall ball. reforms of escalating once again. the u.s. is calling for the immediate withdrawal of eritrean pfizer's from ethiopia re

supreme court has confirmed its decision to a null criminal convictions against the former president lula da silva last month the court ruled that luna was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations justice commonly reversed her earlier position tipping the court's 5 judge panel in lula's favor. eligible to run in next year's election against the current president. the u.s. is calling for the immediate withdrawal of eritrean fighters from ethiopia's to grave reachin there have been reports that eritrean forces are dressing as ethiopian military in order to remain there there also been widespread reports of a continuing conflict in that particular region let's get the latest report from that story. her 2 children were waiting for her to come home with food when she was pulled off a bus in ethiopia region to be gang raped and beaten by $23.00 soldiers over the course of 11 days the incident happened in february in the city of. she recalls what one of the men 1st said. he said to me listen to me you go where we tell you to go otherwise we will blast your belly out with this

not a was elected and partly because lula was not running for the election because he was unable to do so. india has reported more than 200000 new covered 19 cases the highest daily tele in a country that's now the 2nd worst affected in the world authorities are looking to import oxygen as levels run dangerously low and stricter measures are being imposed as elizabeth prada reports from new delhi. this has become an increasingly common sight on the streets of india's capital long lines of people waiting to be tested for covert 19 the country is facing a 2nd wave with cases of rising much more rapidly than the 1st labs are overwhelmed and the waiting time for results is encreased from a maximum of 12 hours to at least $24.00 and often longer the mince imap mutable since the past 3 days i've been running around for my report where's my report here the officials have no answers for me asking me to go from one place to another if i am ill if i am sick where should i go what am i supposed to do like many indian states of delhi has been recording its highest number of cases since the pandemi

supreme court has confirmed as decision to a no criminal convictions against the former president lula da silva last month the court ruled that lula was not treated fairly in a series of corruption inquiries the just is commonly reversed earlier position tipping the court's 5 judge panel in his favor is now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president the incumbent jailable sonera. greece and turkey's foreign ministers have held a heated press conference in ankara where both accuse the other of provocation the ministers met for the 1st time in over a year in a bid to resolve a wide range of issues including a territorial disputes in the mediterranean the press conference started amicably but things got heated after reeses foreign minister said violations of greek sovereignty would be met with sanctions efficient. greece's position is clear he has violated in the h e n and in the eastern mediterranean international law and the convention of the lore of the sea but not only that it has violated the very rights and sovereignty of greece with 400 flights of a great

which is a corruption scandal there is an investigative judge rather sergio mauro former president lula right for president who was thinking of running in 2018 and charges because of operation charge carwash didn't stop him from being able to run in 2018 now it's come out that sergio mauro the judge in charge of that case was biased so he was colluding with the prosecution to do as good a job as they could to convict little to dispel the one of the judges and on the supreme court carmen lucita had voted to. uphold the ruling in 2018 she reversed her decision so that was the swing vote that this was a huge deal recently was a huge deal and because of documents that had been released revealing this collusion she changed her mind so now lula is able to run for office in 2022 so the kind of beloved more left wing candidate can now run again against the neo-fascist so far they might find a way to make that not happen don't put in a new policy that if you have a war brown shoes you can't run and there's photos of him in bronze that's bad for you in brazil bad for me. unless you squeeze it in

lula will now be able to run in next year's presidential election, challenging the far—right incumbenterts have expressed deep regret overjapan�*s decision to dump into the sea a million tons of treated radioactive water from the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant. china has called the decision �*extremely irresponsible' and summoned the japanese ambassador in protest, president biden has urged russia to work with him to ease tensions after announcing a raft of sanctions against moscow. he said the measures were a response to russian cyber attacks and attempts to interfere in elections, but said he could have gone further. buckingham palace has sets out the plans for prince philip's funeral — including the list of those who'll attend the service. will not walk shoulder to shoulder when theyjoin ——it�*s been revealed that princes william and harry will not walk shoulder to shoulder when theyjoin senior royals in the duke of edinburgh's funeral procession. buckingham palace has also announced that the queen will wear a facemask, as will the 30 invited guests. ukraine says russia has

supreme court makes a final decision on overturning criminal convictions against former president lula da silva. france reports more than 100000 deaths are covered 19 coming in the world to suppose that number. once again was time for big thunderstorms on the gulf coast and there they are with these yellow flashes lightning they were big storms they produced hail and flash flooding from the amount of rain and it's not unusual we are talking about spring weather but this unusually cold up in colorado in wyoming and that cold that snow has moved across into nebraska the cold air sinks south and we tend to get this meeting of minds of the the gulf air coming up and the cold the 2 together produce big thunderstorms a repeat performance quite likely on friday a name move east was into florida and certainly through georgia that string saturday but this time the snow has faltered but the cold distil that not as cold as it was admittedly is warming up steadily we're talking about spring sunshine after all and when these fronts leave the u.s. a can often build bigger showers for the bahamas his

the ruling paves the way for lula to run for the presidency again in next year's election, challengingformer president was jailed in 2018 on charges of taking bribes from companies looking for lucative contracts at brazil's state oil giant petrobras. the us secretary of state anthony blinken has visited afghanistan to reassure leaders there of america's ongoing commitment to the country, coming a day after president biden confirmed the withdrawal of all remaining us troops in afghanistan by september 11. mr blinken said the us would do everything it could to pursue peace. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: paint supplier blinken is accused of a whitewash after removing a series of social media posts mocking one of its clients, tottenham hotspur football club. pol pot, one of the century's greatest mass murderers, has reported to have died of natural causes. he and the khmer rouge movement he led were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million cambodians. there have been violent protests in indonesia, where playboy has gone on sale for the first time. traditionalist mu

justice common assia reversed earlier position tipping the court's 5 judge panel in lula's favor who is now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president jaya bowles and are one of the key have reports from rio. it all started with one justice from the supreme court saying that i had been tried convicted and imprisoned. by a court that had no jurisdiction over his case a court in the south of brazil and the judge there was judges more to the judge that was in charge of investigating the carwash scandal. what this justice said was that move should have been tried in brasilia of brazil's capital that does not go to say that rule is innocent it just says that he was tried in the wrong place so it's a technicality and today the supreme court ratified this decision said that it's true he was tried in the wrong place so what this means is that he can still be tried in brasilia but it also means that he is no longer a felon therefore he can run in the 2022 presidential election and people from his party have said that. he's been vindicated it's what he have been sayi

supreme court has confirmed its decision to a novel criminal convictions against former president lula da silva last month the court ruled that lou was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations now eligible to run in next year's presidential election. france's coronavirus death toll has surpassed 100000 making it the 8th country to reach that number it's been struggling to contain a new outbreak 1st with localized lock downs and now the national one the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout from saturday jobs will be available for many government workers over the age of 55 as the headlines when you see here on al-jazeera after witness say that by. check. your program here. at. the center of the fuse or. to. let. you know to make everything less wrinkled. i've come from a trapeze family and the last time i performed with bianca and my sisters and my mom it was actually one of the saddest days of my life i remember like it was yesterday to the last show and i was actually balling up there smiling to the audience with tears in my sisters were crying because that was

ms rousseff, like her predecessor lula da silva, also accused mr bolsonaro of genocide for failing tothreat posed by the virus, refused to order lockdowns and initially opposed vaccinations. here's our correspondent mark lowen in sao paulo talking about the criticism faced by jair bolsonaro. dilma rousseff describing jair bolsonaro's response to the pandemic as a genocidal response, and saying that there was a repulsive normalisation of the death toll here in brazil that is now almost 350,000 people, second only to the united states. last week, for two days running, there were more than 4,000 deaths a day. so there is growing criticism of president bolsonaro's handling or mishandling of the pandemic. notjust from former president dilma rousseff, but as you say, also from her predecessor lula, who has had his corruption conviction overturned in the courts and could now stand in the election next year. and that is thought to be behind president bolsonaro beginning possibly to change tack now, appearing in public wearing a mask, having spoken out against masks, against social distancing,

supreme court has confirmed its decision to a no criminal convictions against the former president lula da silva last month the court ruled that lula was treated unfairly in a series of corruption investigations is now eligible to run in next year's election against president. cuba's leadership is passing to a younger generation ro castro before his brother fidel ruled the island for 60 years is a lesson america editor lucianne human. his seuss navarro and his wife haven't missed an episode of the series conquering a dream a special state t.v. production about the cuban communist party. it's part of the lead up to the end of the castro era when doubt castro renounces his last and most powerful position for tomorrow by the secretary general of the only party that has ruled cuba for nearly 6 decades that means that throughout your battles entire life a castro has been in charge. if you see it would be hard to watch raul leave but will have to accept it. was unlike his older brother fidel castro has been a family man what gregg arius he and his wife the in my spin joined fidel castro to ov

lula home to an ancient christian community. the war came here to. in september 2013 and are not militants of the al qaeda affiliated al nusra front invaded the village days of fighting ensued between the militants and government troops. buildings and artifacts dating back to antiquity were badly damaged some were directly targeted by the militants. right now things in manila are quiet. hollows has a range to meet professor needs are zob or he's a well known artist who has studied the history of syria including this special place called. ok. he says that even during those terrible weeks back in 2013 there were courageous people who helped their neighbors. when the militants and the muslim residents from the village of. helped the christians of mali. for some even hit the christians in their homes a few minutes of. this relatively peaceful coexistence between diverse cultural groups set syria apart before the war that is the 4th could you imagine syria without this diversity things different religion it's really the story if you don't plan which syria

was necessary to get rid of president joe miller it was necessary to you know of why did president lula to be a candidate so that they can take over the oil prospects jeanette's or destroy the engineering companies in generic of his or brazil so the american companies contractors could come to brazil. britain south secretary has voiced concern over growing unrest in northern ireland's the region has seen a space of violence overnight incidents since last week and there are fears that breaks it stalked tensions under simmons reports. 6 nights of violence in northern ireland this the scene in belfast a bus has been hijacked and set on fire the driver escaped shot but not injured a journalist was attacked and also hurt my. at least 7 police officers were injured bringing the total to more than 50 in less than a week. most of the trouble over the past week has involved young progresses loyalist rioters angry at a number of issues many are enraged by the new post brick city trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. they say they're becoming more and more alienated but

and he's trading -- trailing lula in the polls. he is still holding the conservative base.the health crisis is here and causes social impacts of the pandemiche has begun to flag in the polls. that will be of serious concern to him next year in the election. katty: mark, thank you. another country that is struggling to immunize its population is slovakia. which has been caught up in a political storm over russia's sputnik v vaccine. the government -- after the prime minister struck a secret deal to buy the jab, despite opposition from his partners. the country's drugs regulator is now refusing to certify that russian vaccine. meaning that for the last two months it has been sitting unused on the shelves. here is the bbc's royal cameron. >> >> so lucky us vaccination -- slovakia's vaccination effort, proceeding, plagued by the same supply problems as the rest of europe. which is why they then prime minister, seen here on the left, took matters into his own hands. earlier this year he secretly ordered 2 million doses of the sputnik v vaccine from russia, without waiting for ap

supreme court has confirmed its decision to end all criminal convictions against former president lula to silver last month the court ruled that lulu was not treated fairly and a series of corruption investigations unit is now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president. francis coronavirus death toll has surpassed 100000 making it the 8th count country to reach that number it's been struggling to contain a new break 1st with localized knock downs and now with the national one the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout from saturday jobs will be available for many government workers who are aged over 55 years old was the headlines i'll have another update for you here on al-jazeera right after inside story which is coming up next we'll see the end of life now. 2 more years somalia's president defies global pressure and extends his mandate which will then move undermine elections or strengthen them and how old regional and international players react this is inside story it. hello and welcome to the show i am sam is a than somalia's president has signed a co

criminal convictions against former presidents lou that the sylva last month the court ruled that lula was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations justice common the sierra reversed her their position safe in the courts 5 judge panel in list favor he's now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president gyre ball son otto. the un's world food program says almost a 1000000 people are facing severe hunger in northern gaza and the 700000 people have been displaced by fighting between government forces and armed groups linked to i saw around 2600 people have died since the conflict started 4 years ago her. report from a camp in cavill delgado province. zubair to our marshes 3 months ago dragged him into the forest saying they were going to chop off his head when he tried to escape they shot him. there are any. one of. they kept shooting at me and i kept running i hid in the bush for 3 days and 3 nights i was weak and i lost a lot of blood somebody found me and carried me to a place where boats were rescuing other people from my village that is how

this drum and also i think another reason for the whole is collation is in or they have to develop lula after 4 years of saying to the russian is behind everything right more or less wildly up to say they have to say deal or get to acknowledge 'd a good was all. that it was all political ploy so now they say russia will the final is it will not have the will sanction so again i guess biden is in a bind he happens yeah i mean if this would have been saying this on this program you know even during the hoax and after it was debunked i mean i everything is being debunked a bounties thing is being debunked ok dan i mean what rush the rush to get hoaxes bled into policy in this. what i feared most ok i understood the dynamics of it domestically obviously it was a it was a operation to get rid of trump but he's gone but this mindset is here and there's no way in the world they're going to walk this back no way at all and plus you know in a policy sense it's nato expansion that's on the table here that's what this is about go ahead dan. yeah well that's absolutely right so 1st of all the n.l.

ms rousseff, like her predecessor lula da silva, also accused mr bolsonaro of genocide for failing toe of edinburgh's funeral will take place next saturday. 41—gun salutes have taken place across the uk and the world in honour of queen elizabeth's husband, who died on friday at the age of 99. buckingham palace has announced that the duke will be laid to rest at st george's chapel in windsor castle. the royal ceremonial funeral will be scaled back because of coronavirus restrictions. people have continued to lay flowers outside buckingham palace and windsor castle. prince charles, his eldest son, said the duke would have been amazed by the touching things that have been said about him, and that they would sustain the family at a time of loss. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good evening. it was a cold and frosty start for many this morning, but there was some lovely sunshine around early on. however, as the day progressed, we quite literally had four seasons in one day. a frosty start, some sunshine, then some showers. and the shower is turning increasingly wi

rousseff, like her predecessor lula da silva, also accused bolsonaro of genocide for failing to slow deaths. india is in the grip of an overwhelming second wave of coronavirus. the country recorded more than 145,000 new cases on saturday and the highest number of daily deaths in five months. the wealthy maharashtra state has started a weekend lockdown after a rapid surge in the local area. activists in myanmar say soliders have killed more than 80 people in the central city of bago. the mass killing occured during violent clashes on friday. despite the bloodshed, thousands of people returned to streets across the country on saturday to protest the military rulers and the ongoing atrocities. phil robertson, from the advocacy group human rights watch, spoke to us earlier. there was an ongoing resistance by a lot of people. they had built barricades in parts of the town. and the military surrounded those barricades and the protesters, starting at 5am, and attacked them with machine guns, rocket—propelled grenades and other heavy artillery. it was basically a massacre that took place ove

rouseff, like her predecessor lula da silva, also accused bolsonaro of genocide for failing to slow the is in the grip of an overwhelming second wave of coronavirus. the country recorded more than 145,000 new cases on saturday, and the highest number of daily deaths in five months. the wealthy maharashtra state has started a weekend lockdown after a rapid surge in the local area. officials in france say they will offer the astrazeneca vaccine to all people aged 55 or olderfrom monday. the country is stepping up its vaccination programme, as the country still averages around 40,000 cases a day. but different vaccines will be given to anyone under the age of 55, even if they've had their first astrazeneca jab. the bbc�*s tim allman reports. reputation has at the french don't like vaccines all that much. doesn't seem to be the case here in the city of bovier, north of paris. this gymnasium has been converted into a vaccination centre to administer potentially thousands of jabs. administer potentially thousands ofjabs. but does it matter which vaccine you get? translation:— translation: hes

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tell la quinta certain nicholson in the law and order had a dish of i do a show for holly tara for lula da lola their mom home while home alabama mom. my officium in the perfect afia child officium in the behind at jalan was bonnie i will at home all in the actual. mako to be fair no i know one. condition. i had been near them in order to know what their mahtani. their medical achievement jordanian doctor nodded off so as have improved the lives of thousands of her patients. while dr. international humanitarian work has also had a major impact. in quite different ways they both change conflicts lives for the better. hello there we're dealing with an unusual disturbance over the middle east i'll talk about why it's unusual in a sec but 1st let's look at the impact that it's had this is toward mecca after severe thunderstorms rolled through on tuesday some hail here and flooding just because of all that rain it had to go somewhere and it did and it's unusual here is why it's unusual because we've got the rain for yemen not just in the mountains but this is also falling over lower ground a