 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the major news developments from across the world, our headlines. The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump's decision to phase out the D.A.C.A. program. Brazil's Education Minister Abraham Weintraub resigns after a series of controversies. Turkish court deems prolonged arrest of HDP leader Unlawful. And Afghanistan has over 3 million refugees and there's been a record low of them returning in 2019. To begin with, the United States Supreme Court on Thursday overruled the Trump administration's plans to put an end to the deferred action for childhood arrivals or the DACA program. The five-four majority judgments struck down a 2017 decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to phase out the D.A.C.A. This program was brought in by the Obama administration and it protects from immediate deportation undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S.'s children. The program allows these immigrants a deferred action for two years and allows them to hold temporary work visas. It is estimated that the U.S. houses around 800,000 recipients of the D.A.C.A. program. The court rejected the Trump administration's argument that the decision to continue with D.A.C.A. rests with the executive. The court ruled that the decision to rescind the D.A.C.A. was not done as per the processes laid down in the Administrative Procedure Act, calling it arbitrary and capricious. The 2017 D.A.C.A. decision was part of Trump's campaign promise to deport undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The decision was challenged by several petitioners including the University of California administration that argued that it violated the right to procedural due process guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. In our next story, Brazil's Minister of Education Abraham Weintraub announces resignation on Thursday. He made the announcement through a video published on Twitter where he is seen standing next to President Jair Bolsonaro. There is no information so far about the time when Weintraub will be leaving office or his replacement. His resignation comes after he participated in a series of anti-democracy rallies principally against the Supreme Federal Court or the STF. According to sources in the government, his actions had put the Bolsonaro government in a difficult position. In order to avoid confrontations with the STF, Bolsonaro apparently sought an honorable exit for the minister. Weintraub's exit is a culmination of a series of political scandals. His biggest scandal came after a video from a cabinet meeting shared last month went viral after a decision by the Supreme Court. Weintraub reacting to a recent decision by the court that went against the government was seen calling for the imprisonment of judges. His tenure also saw major errors in the national high school exam or the E&EM in 2019 in several states. His last act as a minister or latest act as a minister was the revocation of Decreed 13. Decreed 13 was a Dilma Rousseff era program of allocating quotas for black indigenous and disabled candidates in postgraduate programs in federal universities and institutions. In our next story, a Turkish constitutional court ruled earlier today that the lengthy imprisonment of leftist leader Salahdin Demirtas is in violation of his constitutionally guaranteed rights to liberty and security. Demirtas is a former head of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party of the HDP and one of its current co-chairs. The court's decision ruled that his detention had exceeded a reasonable period. It asked the government to pay Demirtas 50,000 Turkish liras' compensation. Immediately after the judgment was listed in the official gazette, however, the authority slapped another case on Demirtas to prevent his release. Salahdin Demirtas is a vocal critic of the ruling Justice and Development Party and President Rajab Tayyip Erdogan was arrested in November 2016 for his alleged links with the banned military Kurdish Workers' Party. He faced a 146-year sentence if found guilty of these charges. Considered as left-wing and pro-Kurdish, HDP is the third largest party in the Turkish parliament with 59 out of 600 seats. Since August, the Turkish government has targeted several leaders of the HDP, including elected mayors and legislators on charges of affiliation with the PKK. HDP has called the cases against its leaders politically motivated. And finally, over 3 million people remain displaced in Afghanistan in 2019 and nearly 2.7 million of them are refugees, says the recent UNHCR report ahead of World Refugee Day. According to the Global Trends 2019 report, Afghanistan was the second worst country facing a refugee crisis in 2017. The number of refugees has definitely improved as it dropped by 11% from 3.1 million to 2.7 million. Most of the Afghan refugees have taken asylum in neighboring Pakistan and Iran. The total number at times has exceeded 6 million as per the UNHCR report. Over 360,000 people were internally displaced in the Afghan conflict in 2019. Children constitute over 60% of the internally displaced persons. The report also states that nearly one-fifth of Afghan refugees have returned home in the last two decades. It noted that with a population of 38 million, one in every five individuals today is a former refugee in Afghanistan who has returned over these last two decades. The report also pointed out a worrying trend in refugee returns as only 8,400 came back in 2019. That's one of the lowest in years. In our infocus section, we bring you part of an interview with Bashir Nakhal of the Lebanese Communist Party on the recent protests that are taking place in the country. Today we're going to be talking about the situation in Lebanon where over the past few weeks there have been fresh waves of protests. We have been covering the situation in Lebanon regularly for the past many months where there was a very huge popular uprising known as the Itifada, where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting not only against the government of that time, but also the entire political system. And this brought about a lot of political churning, a lot of initiatives which debated the very nature of politics or society of life in Lebanon itself. And there have been fresh waves of protests recently. So to talk more about this, we have with us Bashir Nakhal of the Lebanese Communist Party. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, thank you. Yes, so the first question is that the latest rounds of protests, at least two to three rounds, have happened after the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were eased. And they've also been taking place amid a very severe economic crisis. So could you first talk about what has been the nature of the protests, the kind of participation that has taken place, the characters we're playing in this? Just after the, like with a bit of easing with the quarantine and everything surrounding the COVID-19 epidemic, what's been happening is there was actually more action on the street, more protests happening throughout Lebanon. It wasn't actually centralized and the capital only. There were several things happening in Tripoli, for example, in the south and the Bik'ah and different regions. So what we saw is that with the COVID-19 epidemic and the economic crisis that was actually happening well before it, more and more pressure was put on the working classes and on the lower, like, or more disenfranchised population in Lebanon. So we saw more demands happening on the street. Several groups, some people, maybe individuals, some of them organized and parties or organizations, other simply, let's say, spontaneous actions happening and in some places they were somewhat happening at the same time. So it's, as with all popular uprisings, it's a plethora of demands, plethora of different-sided people and organizations. So we can't really say it's all homogeneous. There are different demands, different groups, some of them with certain agendas, others with other agendas, but all in all we can say that it's mostly based on the material conditions of people that people are being put through and the economic crisis that's been happening for so long. So that's basically been accumulating and leading to the situation that we're in right now. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. We'll be back on Monday with news developments from across the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.