Your Tuesday Briefing: Brazil Arrests Rioters

Brazil reeling from Sunday’s riots

At least 1,200 people have been detained after rioters stormed government offices on Sunday in the Brazilian capital, officials said yesterday.

The detentions took place after one of the worst attacks on democracy in Brazil in the 38 years since the end of the military dictatorship. On Sunday, thousands of people stormed government offices, falsely claiming the October election was stolen the words Jair Bolsonaro, Former president. This is video of the Sunday riots.

Yesterday, authorities also began dismantling the tent city where Bolsonaro supporters have been camping ever since. he lost the election. The dissolution took place peacefully, despite concerns that it could cause further tensions.

Brazil’s justice minister said authorities had identified about 40 buses that brought the rioters to Brasília and that those who financed the trips would be traced and held accountable. Voices on social networks provided free transportation and food to protesters.

Fierce fighting near Bakhmut

Ferocious fighting broke out yesterday around Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine that Russia has been trying to capture since the summer. The fighting seems to be centered on Soledar, a nearby town.

Russia claims to have captured a village near Soledar. Ukraine says it repelled Russia’s attempt to attack Soledar, where the deputy defense minister said “fierce battles” were raging. Ukraine generally avoids battles with a high risk of casualties. But in Bakhmut, without hesitation, it will confront Russia.

If Russian forces capture Soledar, it will be their most significant advance in Ukraine in months. But fighting in the east is slow and non-stopand there is little sign that the entrenched Ukrainian forces will soon abandon the city.

Bakhmut: The city has become a symbol of defiance of Ukraine. Some worries may cloud military judgment, but analysts say Ukraine’s belligerent strategy has paid offweaken Russia.

Wagner group: The group’s Kremlin-linked founder says Soledar “made only by Wagner units,” which Western security officials and analysts say operates primarily outside the Russian military’s command system.

The ozone layer is on the way to recovery

A United Nations-backed report shows that the ozone layer can be restored within a few decades, China has now begun to successfully crack down on counterfeit emissions of a banned chemical.

That’s big news: In 2018, scientists revealed that global emissions of CFC-11, a chemical most likely used to make insulation foam, Has increased since 2012. Investigations of The Times and others strongly suggests that small factories in Eastern China defying the global ban are the source.

In 2018, the head of the United Nations Environment Program said harmful emissions, if continued, could delay ozone layer recovery by a decade. But now, scientists say, levels of interpolar ozone will reach pre-1980 levels by 2040. The ozone hole will also recover.

Ozone: The protective layer in the upper atmosphere blocks ultraviolet radiation from the sun, which can cause skin cancer.

Text definition: The Montreal Protocol, the treaty negotiated in the 1980s to phase out the use of such chemicals, is often considered the most effective global environmental treaty ever enacted.

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