 Hello, you are watching the Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Activists condemn UK Rwanda asylum deal, over 40 killed in airstrikes on Afghanistan, Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa Mosque again, and environmental crimes rise in Brazil's Amazon. In our first story, activists have slammed the United Kingdom over an offshore asylum processing deal with Rwanda. People deemed to have arrived in the UK unlawfully since January 1st will be at risk of transfer. The $156 million agreement has been condemned as barbaric, new colonial, and cruel. Only about 1% of refugees globally have access to safe and direct resettlement through the United Nations. A majority of people are forced to take dangerous journeys under threat of violence and detention. In 2021, over 28,500 refugees and migrants crossed to the UK through the English Channel. This figure was over three times higher compared to 2020. While full details of the new agreement have not been declared, the UK will screen asylum seekers and send their information to Kigali. Rwanda will handle the asylum process. Based on whether their application is successful, asylum seekers will either be settled in Rwanda or be deported. Operational command of the English Channel has been handed to the Royal Navy. The United Nations has warned that the UK is looking to shift its responsibilities towards refugees instead of sharing them. It added that such deals often violate international law and that people should not be traded like commodities. The Johnson government has tried to justify its brutal policies as a crackdown on illegal smuggling. Let's groups have warned that this approach is ineffective and will put already vulnerable people under threat. They have also highlighted similar offshoring policies enforced by Australia which led to severe abuses in camps including rape and suicide. The proposed deal is part of the Nationality and Borders Bill currently in Parliament. At least 47 people have been killed in air strikes by the Pakistani military on parts of eastern Afghanistan. The attacks took place in the provinces of Kost and Kunar late on April 15. According to Pajok Afghan News Agency, the air strikes hit the Sparai and Shaltan districts where refugees from Waziristan were settled. Local residents have stated that none of those killed had any links to an armed group. They also reported intense fighting between Afghan and Pakistani forces in the Masthibil locality in Kost. Six fatalities were reported from Kunar. Friday's attack sparked protests in several areas including Kost on Saturday with hundreds taking to the streets. An official in the provinces told Pajok that the air strikes took place after increased attacks on Pakistani forces. These were attributed to the extremist Tehriki Taliban Pakistan or TTP group. Pakistan has claimed that militant groups like the TTP have been using Afghan soil to launch attacks. This included an alleged attack last week which killed seven Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan. The group's presence along the Durand line has repeatedly triggered clashes between the two countries. The border is also used by Afghans to cross into Pakistan for trade and access to medical care. On April 17, Pakistan's foreign ministry urged Taliban authorities to take action against militants. The military has not commented on the attacks as of now. We now go to Palestine where Israeli occupation forces violently stormed the Al Aqsa Mosque for a second time on April 17. At least a dozen Palestinian worshippers were arrested and several others were wounded. This followed just days after at least 150 Palestinians were injured in a similar attack on April 11. Over 300 were arrested. Israel has escalated such violence since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Wafa news agency reported that Israeli soldiers had stormed the mosque compound on Sunday. This was done to clear the area for a visit by Zionist extremist groups to mark the Jewish holiday of Passover. The visit had been widely condemned as a provocative act. Jewish settlers proceeded to perform religious rituals at the mosque site in complete violation of established laws. Several Israeli raids were also reported across Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. April 17 also marked the Palestinian Prisoners Day. Protests were held in different parts of the occupied territories and Gaza to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners. Israeli forces opened fire at the demonstrations in Hebron and Bethlehem enduring at least two people. According to Human Rights Group, a damir 4,450 Palestinians are being held in Israeli occupation jails. This includes 160 children and 530 administrative detainees who are held without charge or trial. Since the start of 2022 Israel has arrested over 2,100 Palestinians, most of them from Jerusalem and Geneva. And finally, we take a look at the rising threats against Brazil's Amazon. The rainforest has been under attack not only by the state but also a network of environmental crimes. Brazilian NGO Igarape Institute analyzed hundreds of police operations in the region between 2016 and 2021. 50% of these were linked to criminal organizations, among the crimes documented by the institute were slave labor, illegal mining, land grabbing, corruption, and money laundering. Here is a video by Brazil de Fatou on Igarape research and findings. The environmental devastation became big business linked to violent crimes, financial frauds, corruption, and even drug trafficking. Research by Igarape Institute mapped these ecosystems of criminality in the legal Amazon. 369 operations that had the participation of the federal police were analyzed. Looking at environmental crime, we realized that it needed a lot of resources to operate, including in the case of illegal gold mining. They have work in equipment and the logistics to get to where the environment crimes happen. So, there is a powerful structure financing these crimes. There is the crime activities group, the crime agents, and we have been seeing that because the state and the security agents pay little attention to it, this kind of crime becomes attractive to other criminal groups. And we also know, we can forget to mention, that a very vulnerable group of people are exploited because of these activities. According to Igarape Institute, almost a third of the operations in the Amazon were related to violent crimes against people, slave labor, drug trafficking, or the possession of guns, ammunition, and explosives. And the frequency of these crimes is increasing. People cog red-handed with firearms, ammunition, and explosives, for instance, more than doubled between 2016 and 2021. Often people look to environmental crimes and say, oh, come on, this is a less important crime. But what we actually have is that the seriousness of the harm and its range are going to bring consequences to the whole population. Therefore, it's a priority to place the fight against environment crimes at the top of the political agenda. And that's all for today's episode. For more such stories, visit our website, www.peoples-dispatch.org, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.