The Brazilian president Dilma Roussef has accused her deputy of ploting her down for and has branded him a traitor. Mrs Roussef, who faced a preachment vote on Sunday said vice president Michael Tema was conspiring with the speaker of the Lower House of Congress to depose a legitimately elected president. Candice Piat reports, President Roussef's office has made clear that she wins a battle for the remaining wavering votes in congress and survive Sunday's vote to impeach her, Michale Tema, would be expected to resign. Ms. Rousseff has said his mask has slipped when he released a recording of a rehearsal of the speech he will make if she is removed from office. She said the tape highlighted the threat to the democracy in Brazil.
The President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov has granted a pardon to all politicians embroiled in a massive corruption scandal. The country has been paralyzed by the crisis which included the allegations that the governing party and the intelligent chiefs had tapped the phones of more than 20,000 people including journalists and judiciary. Mr. Ivanov said his decision had been taken in the national interest. The move was condemned by the EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn.
The South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar has returned to the country for the first time in more than two years to part of a peace deal. He is used to resume the post of vice president, with the details, here is Tommy Aladipo. Rayek Machar's spokesman confirmed to the BBC that the position leader had returned to the country. Mr Machar is current at the rebel headquarters in the east near the border with Ethiopia. The international community has to step in to make sure the government of opposition in South Sudan implement a peace agreement which both sides signed last August. Last week, more than 100300 rebel troops had flow into the capital of Juba, as part of the terms of the deal. These soldiers and police are expected to provide security for Mr Machar who said he would not come to take up his new position untill these security measures were put into place.
The Rock star and Poverty campaigner Bono has told congress in Washington that cash spent on overseas aid is vital for America's national security. Adressed at senate panel, Bono said properly targeted aid could be the best defense against violent extremism. The singer calls for a multi-billion funding program to help refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. As we European has learned, if the Middle East catches fire, the flames burns out of control. And if Africa fails, Europe can not succeed, It's not rocket science, it's math.
For the first time in its 70 year history, the United Nations has opened up the usually secret process of choosing its next Secretary General. Candidates to replace Ban Ki-moon, appeared before ambassadors from member states who are being given the chance to question them, the hearing will resume on Wednesday.
A comedian in Germany Yan Bohermann has been placed under police protection after he read an obscene poem about the TurkishTayyip Erdogan president on television. Mr Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against the satirist. The German Chancellor Angel Merkel has said that the country's constitution guarantees free expression. But she said the broadcast poem was deliberately insulting. A prosecution could be conceivable under Germany's criminal code which stipulates a penalty of three years in prison.
Mexico's national Human Right Commission says most of the country's prisons remain overcrowded and dangerous with some jails housing up to 30 inmates in cells built for 4 people. The Commission inmates currently controlled about the half of the jails in the country. It said though that control had improved in Mexico's most secure prison, the Altipano facility following the recapture of the drug lord Joaquin Guzman.
The embattled head of the Brazilian football federation is back at work, despite facing charges of racketeering and money laundering in the FIFA football scandel. Marcopolo Donerow stepped aside three months ago after being indicted by the US Department of Justice. No reason has been given for his return. Brazilian footballers had been lobbying for his resignation.
Sir Arnold Wesker, once hailed as one of the Britain's great playwright died at the age of 83. He came into fame in the 1950s when Wesker trilogy at the Royal Court Theatre in London.Sir Arnold was born in London's east end, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant. In the late 1950s, his early plays such as Roots, Jew on his working class up bringing. He was part of the new generation of artists writing more critics sometimes called kitchen sink drama. His Wesker Trilogy commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre in London, won public acclaim and he established his reputation. His plays were performed around the world. Ben Levins, BBC news.