 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines, Indian farmers prepare for massive tractor rally amid continuing protests, protesters across Brazil demand impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro, renewed calls for justice for Julio Regini, an amnesty report on prisons in Egypt, and finally in our video section we look at the targeting of Muslims under Uttar Pradesh's Love Jihad Ordinance. In our first story, farmers unions in India are gearing up for a tractor rally tomorrow in the capital of Delhi as the country celebrates its 72nd Republic Day. The rally is a symbol of the resilience as protests continue against the central government's three anti-farmers laws. Samyukta Kisan Morcha, the United Farmers Front, which is a coalition of farmers organizations leading the struggle in Delhi, has issued a countrywide call to intensify the struggle from January 23rd to 26th. Farmers and vehicles converse from across the country make their way to the capital. Rallies are being held in solidarity with the protest in Delhi. Thousands of farmers in the state of Maharashtra held a major rally at the Azad Maidan of Freedom Ground in the city of Mumbai on January 25th. United under the banner of the All India Kisan Sabha, they are in the midst of a three-day sit-in. Thousands of farmers are expected to lead the rallies across three routes in Delhi after defying all attempts of intimidation and suppression. The Delhi police has issued a no-objection certificate for the rally, provided the farmers a dear to a list of 37 conditions. The police in the neighbouring far-right-led state of Uttar Pradesh has also now receded a ban on diesel-sales for tractors. Tomorrow's rally follows 11 rounds of failed talks between the Indian government and the farmers. The government has refused to repeal the three controversial laws and has only offered piecemeal measures including a temporary suspension of the implementation. The farmers are remained unwavering in their demand for a total repeal of the laws and a legal guarantee of the minimum support price for their produce. They are reportedly also organising a march to parliament where the union budget will be presented on February 1st. In our next story, thousands gathered across Brazil over the weekend to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, left-wing groups in the country held protests on January 24th. Protests took place in a number of cities including Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo with people marching on foot as well as parades of cars. The president has been widely criticised for his mismanagement to the COVID-19 pandemic. He continued to downplay the severity of the pandemic, opposed lockdown measures and refused to take the vaccine. The administration's failure to respond to the crisis has resulted in Brazil being the second-in-world in terms of death toll with over 216,000 deaths. As the country struggles to cope with a brutal second wave, the medical infrastructure in cities such as Manaus is on the verge of collapse. Manaus is the capital of the Amazonas state, where the new COVID-19 variant is overwhelmed hospitals, deemed to an acute shortage of oxygen supplies and ICU beds. Brazil's prosecutor general Augusto Arras has also asked the Supreme Court to investigate the health minister over the situation in Manaus. Arras has cited a document stating that the government was aware of a possible oxygen shortage in the city on January 8th, but did not send supplies to January 12th. As cases continue to rise, the government is now authorised the use of the AstraZeneca and CoronaVac vaccines in the countrywide immunisation programme. We now go to Egypt, where human rights groups today renewed calls for justice for Cambridge student Giulio Regini. Regini was murdered, kidnapped and murdered in 2016, while conducting his recitation research on trade unions in Egypt. An Italian parliamentary committee accused four Egyptian national security agency officials of abducting, torturing and killing Regini. However, the Egyptian government rejected the parliamentary report and refused permission to initiate legal proceedings against the accused. Regini's parents and activists have announced their intention to sue the Italian government for selling arms to Egypt. This is in accordance with the European law which prohibits weapon sales to countries that violate human rights. Today also marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring Revolution in Egypt. As political dissenters and prisoners of conscience continue to be incarcerated, a new report by Amnesty International highlights the inhumane conditions in Egyptian prisons. The report is called, What Do I Care If You Die? It was published today and documents the experiences of 67 detained individuals across 16 prisons. Detainees are kept in overcrowded and inadequate housing and routinely face shortages of food and basic sanitation. Prison officials have also placed detainees in solitary confinement for prolonged periods and banned family visits. Prison hospitals are often unhygienic and lack proper medical facilities and personnel. Detainees also reported that officials would withhold medication and would refuse to transfer them to external specialist hospitals. The chronic lack of access to healthcare worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of systematic testing, screening and quarantining measures contributed to spread of infections. The impact is also disproportionately borne by detainees from socially and economically marginalized background. The United Nations estimates that 114,000 people are currently detained in Egyptian prisons. Human rights groups have also estimated that hundreds have died in custody in the past five years. For our final story, we go back to India again where the widely denounced love jihad ordinance passed by the state of Uttar Pradesh in India's cost controversy. Formerly known as the Uttar Pradesh prohibition of unlawful religious conversion ordinance of 2020, it supposedly seeks to prohibit forced religious conversions. In reality, those such as these are being used to target inter-religious couples. CPIM Politburo member Subash Niali talks about this issue. Certainly they are impacting on Muslim men. They are impacting on Muslim families. Muslim men are being targeted. They are being sent to jail. And so many people are looking at this as part of a communal agenda. But it actually is much more than this. Because after all, the woman who has entered into this relationship, she is a Hindu. She is also being tortured. She is also being harassed. She is being threatened with violence. There is violence being perpetrated against her. She is being returned forcibly to her family or being sent to a shelter home. And you know, she is completely unsafe and in a very, very terrible situation because of these laws. Also, the question of women's rights to choice are being threatened by these laws. This is a hard one, right? It's there ensured by a constitution. But now it's being taken away. And here I would like to say that there are certain peculiarities of Indian society which have created an atmosphere for these kind of attacks to be acceptable. And here I would like to remind all my listeners that is not only inter-community marriages that are being punished, but also inter-caste marriages. A woman who marries into a caste lower than her own is punished. Her husband is punished often with death. His family is also punished with violence. Now, why is this happening in our country? It is happening because in our society, not only is there the question of private property, but there is the question of the caste system, the birth-based caste system based on complete inequality, which is very staunchly adhered to by millions of Indians who cling to their caste identities and to the concept of caste purity. Now, obviously to ensure this caste purity, a woman's right to marry has to be curtailed. She must marry within her own caste, otherwise the caste system itself will crumble. And that is why these stringent methods have been employed against people, women and men entering into inter-caste marriages and also into inter-community marriages. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.