 Salams, 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 Labour 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. But 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 Israel 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 head 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 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power and put in place a brutal dictatorship that has curbed 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 Suif, the mother of jailed activist Ala Abdel Fattah, on the situation in Egypt. Here is an excerpt from the interview. But the presentation is really far, far more missed than anything we have ever seen. And this is also, it's like madness, a regime that imagines that it can stop every single dissident voice in a country of 100 million. I mean, I know in India it's much bigger than that so 100 million maybe doesn't sound very big to Indians, but still 100 million is 100 million, I'm a mathematician. And I know that in 100 million, there will always be 10, 20, 30,000 who, yeah, there will be far more dissidents than that, but there will be 10, 20, 30,000 who will not be silent at any price. So trying to silence absolutely every dissident voice is really beyond the page. In Egypt, it manifests itself in a very crude 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 other world is possible, it's not like that. And so it takes this very, very, very brutal expression to make people, for a regime to hope that it 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 a society, you cannot stabilize it. Egypt is not stabilizing, Egypt is going from one crisis to another, from one crisis to another. And the way that its team manages to strike is by depression, by ignoring the core causes and just handling the manifestations and so on. And our final story is from Brazil, which is gearing 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 Labour Reform. Approved by the Tamer administration, these rules weakened labour 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 de Fatou on the current situation of labour in Brazil. On January 11, former President Lula, together with the leaders of the Workers' Party and Trade Union, met with representatives of the Spanish government and legislature to gather experiences on the reversion of the labour reform. Sociologist Clemente Gans Lúcio from Percewa-Bremont Foundation were at the meeting. He shares comments on the changes led by the Spanish Socialist Party. The changes are mainly thought to improve the employment contracts and combat the existing short-term employment contracts. Brazil's labour reform changed 300 legislative topics, allowing the outsourcing of all activities. It weakens the workers' bargaining power and undermines the union's actions. According to data from the Ministry of Labour 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 labour 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 labour. One where communication technology opened the door to a universe of possibilities that weren't 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 app-delivery workers during the pandemic became law after almost two years underway. Federal Deputy Ivan Valente, the bill's author, complains about the delay in adopting the measures but celebrates having contributed to initiating a broader discussion on the precariousness of work. One democratic, progressive and popular government comes to power here in Brazil, it must reveal this legislation that was perverse and cruel to workers. It is cruel to the workers on a daily basis.