well, let's be to monica yanna. can. she's at a protest. canton the heart of the brazilian capital monica. this is a decision that obviously has huge implications for a number of indigenous groups. so katie, no surprise, we're seeing the level of protest up quite a turn out within that yes it is. you must understand that they come from all over brazil. so some, some of these indigenous people live like a 2 hour flight away from the capital brazilian. some need 6 days to get here because you need a boat. then you need to take a very long ride through, through roads that aren't really paved or anything. so it takes a lot of effort and they are here because this is very crucial to them. if the supreme court accepts the ruling of setting of a cut off date and not allowing and borrowing any claims made by people who are not occupying their land before 1988, then this could, this would be a big setback for them. there are a 100 pending cases, many cases that have already been denmark, been decided, lines that have been marketed

being reviewed monica yanna care of reports from poverty time seems to have stood still in the colonial video, but i cheat 250 kilometers south of rio de janeiro. but upon the hills. a conflict is brewing. indigenous leader near the back of his fighting to reclaim what she says or what any unsettle lambs i was in. she was so frail, we are constantly being invaded. even during the day we surprised men with knives, and somebody set fire to our bathroom. what we were having a village meeting. you know the father, the village chieftain bought a hector's of land in 1998. since then 32 people have settled here, most of them women and children. until recently, the village got along with the neighbors, not anymore. now there was something tension cleared when they went on, he asked the government to denmark in their lands and brazil's national engine foundation for ny said the tribe had the right twin area $300.00 times larger than their plots. one of those majors i said in 2017, when i officially recognized that 2370 hector's were indigenous lands. the next step should have been to decide what

but 5 years on one pledge has been realized, a forest dedicated to athletes, monica yanna, kiev reports 5 years ago this was barren land, and many thought it would remain. so another broken promise from rio de janeiro summer olympic games. like cleaning up the beautiful and still very polluted when i bought a bait. but as the world is watching the olympics and tokyo, the athletes forest and rio de janeiro, its finally blooming and even expanding this forest. it's an important legacy from the olympic games. the rio because we have here, right inside of the west, part of the city, 13000 trees inside of a future green corridor, the restarting right now to be for the next 10 years. it took an uphill battle to fulfill the dream, which began at the 2016 olympic opening ceremony with athletes per waiting feebly of $207.00 brazilian native tree. each one representing a different country. they were taken to a private farm until the necessary preparations could be made to plant them in 2017 . but the economic crisis, corruption, scandal, and politics got in the way. the seeds of hope would have b

tribes, the camping out in the capital awaiting the decision which would come as early as thursday. monica yanna, kiev hospital from presidio. the crew to attend to test for cooper 19 before marching and dancing under the scorching sun on their way to the supreme court. it's in the building. it stands in front of the presidential palace. and it's where the future of more than $300.00 ethnic groups will be decided in a landmark case setting a precedent for $800.00 land dispute. this is the most far, some judgments in the history of indigenous people because it will define the saddles, the jury, the saddles of the indigenous lands here in brazil, the land disputes center around the interpretation of the 988 constitution. it says indigenous people have a right to claim ancestral territory, but there is a question mark on how far back that extends indigenous groups argue that they've been expelled from their ancestral territory for century, and are still being attacked by farmers miners in margaret big farming groups and the countries right, when leader said there should be a time limit for with the

pressure the judiciary to protect their ancestral reservations from illegal minors and farmers. monica yanna care has more now from virginia, just for the people here were losing hope and starting to pack their bags to go home. they heard that the supreme court would finally sit down to discuss a landmark case that will decide the future of brazil. $1000000.00 indigenous population rise to claim their own self through thousands of indigenous protesters have been camping in the heart of the capital and have been marching for 3 consecutive days to the supreme court, just sitting outside, dancing, and waiting for their voices to be heard. if the largest indigenous gathering here since 1988, and the democratic constitution was approved, giving the indigenous people the right to dedicate their territories. now, the powerful form lobby and president wilson out of itself. the constitution should only protect the land that were occupied by indigenous peoples, 988 when the constitution was but indigenous people, they say a cutoff date is unconstitutional and unfair because many were kicked out of the

in the amazon rainforest, it could eventually lead to the return of land to indigenous people. monica yanna kit has more from brazil. yeah. this is the largest gathering of indigenous people in the capital brazilian and 988 when the democratic constitution was approved. if the same constitution that gave the indigenous people the rights to claim their ancestral land. and now they're afraid that these rights will be curt tail. that's why they're holding a vigil here. right in front of the supreme court. the supreme court will decide on wednesday a case which will set jurisprudence for $800.00 other pending cases of indigenous people, claiming their ancestral land. and this case will determine whether there will be cut off date or not. the former lobby present tre, both or not. and so the miners and the loggers, they want a time limit. they want to bar any land claims that were made by indigenous people who are not living in that specific land in 1988. so they have been a belt before that which has been the case of many here, then they would no longer have a right to claim their land. now the

pushing to an electronic voting claiming it's open to fraud though he hasn't provided any evidence. monica yanna kit reports from re diginero armored vehicles rolled in front of brazil's congress as lawmakers were preparing for a crucial vote. they were debating a proposal backed by president jadem ball so now to, to change the electronic voting system to paper ballots ahead of next year's elections. chances of approving the constitutional amendment were already slim. the military parade made them slimmer. both matters opponents and even some of his supporters accused the president of putting the tanks on the street to intimidate the lawmaker and say he was threatening democracy once more. there was just really sort since the 1st empower present was scenario has been progressively the strength, brazil's democracy. it was time to stop. and we just by rejecting the proposal to change the voting system. digital ballads have been successfully used in brazil since 1996 and also now to has repeatedly said they are not to be trusted. especially after recent polls show him losing next year's election to

type ballads nelson road claims it's necessary to avoid a vote of fraud in next year's election. monica yanna kit has delighted from where do janera he's been trying to convey the heb that the next year's election will be rig. and the, the only way to avoid fraud is to change the electronic voting system. has been used for the past 25 years. and by what she was like to read your paper balance one. now this is because even though you suffer when his popularity and the reason both show that he would lose next year's election to former brother generally enough to rule of those who from the workers party. so i and supporters was this for the problem is the defense minister of hall told them out who is the military allowed to pressure phone to say that they should go to change the system. and this was not well taken at all was the south. and by the opposition, they see it as the military pressure, you know, cause really bad, bad dictators should. so this is where things stand now with the opposition taking to the $3.00 to $4.00 times already been made, asking for most of them and both. so now also

30 years ago. indigenous people say many of their communities were expelled decades beforehand. monica yanna, kiev is outside the supreme court in brazilian. it's been a very, very long day. there was a screen set up here behind me where they were listening to the supreme court justices vote, but instead of voting on the indigenous issue, which is which should have been addressed today. early in the afternoon, they started talking about the central bank and a proposal to make it independent from the government. and so during the whole afternoon, you had all these different indigenous people. just camp out here listening to this, to this wrong session in receipt. but they were chanting, they were praying, they're waiting for it to end because next in line comes the decision on, on their, their, their issue which is who have the right to claim indigenous land. only those that have that were there until 988. so what happens to those that were expelled from the land before that? there's land is tied to also the environment because by allowing a commercial agriculture or illegal mining by making

proposal to replace the electronic voting system with paper ballots for next year's election. monica yanna kit reports from rio de janeiro. the thousands of brazilians rallied in support of brazil's president jane bull, some out of their backing. his plane that brazil current electronic voting system is not to be trusted. they will don't feel like i believe both scenario was elected president in the 1st round of the 2018 elections and not in the 2nd round. like the official result, say, low make isn't just must respect the will of the people who want paper ballots, not just digital one, washington going awesome. the follow the president has offered no evidence of problems with the current system that has been used since 1996. but his supporters believe him. they want a paper print out of every digital ballot cast. and they're putting pressure on congress and the supreme court to change the system. but 11 political party in many brazilians question both. so natalie intention was getting versus the people want to change the x running quoting was the paper side to ask what the majority of bra