Selams, you're watching the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's first take a look at today's headlines. A new report shows Israel used Pegasus spyware to advance its diplomatic interests. 11 years later, what is the legacy of Egypt's revolution? Brazilian labor bears the brunt of pandemic and reform. Our first story is about the latest revelations from the Pegasus scandal which continues to rock the world. A new report by the New York Times has explosive details on how the Israeli government used the export of Pegasus as part of its security strategy and to build ties with countries around the world. As we mentioned earlier, Pegasus is a highly powerful spyware which was supposedly sold only to governments to help crack down on illegal acts. And over the years, many reports have emerged of Pegasus being used all over the world to spy on dissidents, activists, journalists and opposition politicians. The latest New York Times report shows how the software was a key part in Israeli establishing ties with Arab countries which led to the Abraham Accords whereby they recognized Israel. Another revealing fact was that a similar program made by the NSO group called Phantom was considered by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for use domestically, but the agency ultimately decided not to use it. Pegasus was also sold to right wing governments in countries such as Poland, Hungary and India. We now had to Egypt which marked 11 years since the January 25th uprising that overthrew dictator Hosni Mubarak. The promise of this mass agitation was however betrayed in the following years as the then army chief of the Alphata Al-Sisi, came to power and put in place a brutal dictatorship that has curb dissent and thrown critics and activists in jail. Today, there may be as many as 60,000 political prisoners in Egypt. We recently spoke to Egyptian academician and activist Leila Soef, the mother of jailed activist Ala Abdul Fata on the situation in Egypt. Here's an excerpt from the interview. But the present issue is really far, far more viscous than anything we have ever seen. This is also a psyched madness. I regime this emergence that this can stop every single, this is a device. In a country of 100 million, I know India is much bigger than that. So 100 million maybe doesn't sound very big to Indian. 100 million is 100 million. I'm a mathematician. And I know that in 100 million there will always be 20, 30,000 who are, yeah, there will be far more Muslims than that, but there will be 20, 30,000 really not many trials at any price. So trying to silence absolutely every Muslim's wife and greedy, yeah, me, beyond the faith. In Egypt, it manifests itself in a very true way, exactly because we had the revolution. Because we had the revolution, it was a popular revolution. And we saw the possibility, we saw the, you know, the, another world is possible. And so it takes this very, very, very brutal, Russian to make people, to, for a regime to hope that this can make people give up on that. Okay, you can hold on to power like that for a long time. It really depends on the circumstances, but you cannot stabilize the society. You cannot stabilize it. It just is not stabilizing. It's all going from one crisis to another, from one crisis to another. And the way that is too manages to strike this is by the pressure. By ignoring the poor whores and just, I have like the manifestations and so on. And our final story is from Brazil, which is getting up for a major election in October this year. In early January, senior members of the workers party, including former President Lula, spoke about repealing the 2017 labor reform. Approved by the Tamar administration, these rules weaken labor rights and made work precarious. Over 40% of workers in Brazil have jobs in the informal sector with little or no access to social protections. Circumstances worsened under the pandemic, prompting protests like the strike by app delivery workers in 2020. The country is still facing high levels of inflation, rising prices and indebtedness. Here's a video by Brazil DeFato on the current situation of labor in Brazil. On January 11th, former President Lula, together with leaders of the workers party in the trade unions, met with representatives of the Spanish government and delicious mature, together experiences on the reversion of the labor reform. Sociologists Clemente Ganslúcio from Peseo Abram Foundation were at the meeting. He shares comments on the changes led by the Spanish Socialist Party. The changes are mainly taught to improve the employment contracts and combat the existing short-term employment contracts. Brazil's labor reform changed at 300 legislative topics, allowing the outsourcing of all activities. It weakens the worker's burying power and undermines the union's actions. According to data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the number of formal jobs in Brazil fell by health in 2020 compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, the total of Brazilians informally working skyrocketed, reaching 36 million workers last October, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. The business environment has changed a lot since the beginning of the 21st century, and that's a central issue to a possible Brazilian labor counter reform. Also, the employment relationship was absorbed by the new technologies, especially in the service sector. It's necessary to create a new protection model to face a different reality of labor. One where communication technology opened the door to a universe of possibilities that were seen too recently. We must present ways to protect workers that are not necessarily in a classical wage-earning work relationship. Nevertheless, their rights must be guaranteed as those of any other worker. A bill that introduced protection measures to help delivery workers during the pandemic became law after almost two years underway. Federal Deputy Ivão Valente, the Bill Zalvar, complains about the delay in adopting the measures but celebrates having contributed to initiating a broader discussion on the precariness of work. One of the democratic, progressive and popular government comes to power here in Brazil. It must review this legislation that was perverse and proved to workers. It is cruel to the workers on a daily basis. That's all we have on today's episode for more on all of these stories. Please visit our website, peoplezespac.org and give us a follow on all the regular social media platforms. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.