forces — 2,700 are reported wounded — has triggered widespread condemnation. the palestinian president called it a massacre. israel's prime minister said it was self—defence. the us has blocked a un security council call foran inquiry. the protests were partly triggered by the american decision to move its embassy tojerusalem. israel's prime minister called it a glorious day — a senior palestinian official called it a hostile act against international law. president trump was represented by his daughter and son—in—law. the head of britain's domestic intelligence service, mi5, has accused the russian government of trying to undermine western democracies through espionage, cyber attacks, and criminal thuggery. he was speaking at a security conference in berlin. russia has rejected the claims. now on bbc news, hardtalk. hello and welcome to hardtalk. i am

shaun ley. brazil was one of the success stories of the early 21st century. under her mentor, president lula da silva, rapid economic growth was combined with radical redistribution of money to the poor. dilma rousseff, who was tortured under the military dictatorship, succeeded him, but under her presidency the economy faltered. in 2016 she was forced from office after being accused of fiddling the figures to boost her chances of re—election. she's in london drumming up support for lula's bid to be re—elected president — only he's currently in a prison cell in brazil having been convicted of corruption. are they the saints or sinners of brazil's political class? dilma rousseff, thank you for

speaking to hardtalk. you are travelling the world, you are in london at the moment in support of your predecessor, the man all brazilians know as mallala. why are you so confident that he could be president again? let's deal with two things you have raised. the first is, you have talked about the reality. you the reality is he is in prison, serving a term for corruption. the court, at the highest level, says his appeals have been exhausted. he cannot if he isa have been exhausted. he cannot if he is a convicted prisoner whose appeals have been exhausted be a candidate. how can it be a coup if all the procedures of the law have been observed? you make two questions.

i must interrupt you. he wasn't tried by the media, he was tried by the courts. no! if there was really no case, the supreme court would not have supported this conviction, it would have overturned it. the supreme court incidentally of which the vast majority of members were appointed either when president lula were in office, or, under you, either when president lula were in office, or, underyou, by when pointed when you are in office. ——5 we re pointed when you are in office. ——5 were appointed. gillette... we should... —— lets. there are two things that have been

said about you. one is impeachment. i want to talk about that. but let me ask you first about petrobras where you whether german. it —— you we re where you whether german. it —— you were the chairman. there were big sums of money disappearing from petrobras. when did you realise that was happening? but this is when you are in charge of petrobras. i'm not asking about when you are president, and asking about when you are in charge of

petrobras. we mustn't confuse the dates. please. of course. but let's be clear about what we are talking about. so why did you know? forgive me... all right. well, good accountants can spot these things. you can read a balance sheet. you see nothing wrong as a

trained economist with the balance sheets of petrobras while you were the chairman? the rent accountants would disagree with that. —— forensic accountants. i should imagine that given the terrible experiences you'd suffered under brazil's military dictatorship asa under brazil's military dictatorship as a woman, tied upside down, given electric shocks, that democracy and the rule of law must be very precious to you. cani, to can i, to give leverage erupting, if i may. dilma rousseff, i need to make the audience clear what you are talking about. impeachment. you would still be president of brazil right now as we speak had you not being impeached. this is partly through your second term, congress in pictures you and effectively forces you from office. is there

anything you accept now that you did wrong? —— impeaches you. you use the word true that every rule was observed. these were publicly held boats. how can you call it a clue if the rules were followed ? well, then why does it allow you to do it to the constitution? you keep saying it was a coup that again, you are worried about how they use the rules. the fact is, they use the rules. the fact is, they were rules and they apply them. so you're saying there is a

conspiracy between judges and politicians to get you out? aren't you changing the meaning of the word? if the lawyers used, that is the law. if you don't like the law, change the law. in an election... is there not a danger that however offended about how you

feel you have been treated personally, you may be entirely justified to feel offended at what happened to you, but by co nsta ntly. .. happened to you, but by constantly... let me finish the question. let me finish the question. let me finish the question. he says the personal thing, but the danger is, if you discredit the institutions by co nsta ntly discredit the institutions by constantly accusing them of things, but actually you are undermining public confidence in the whole political system of brazil. and that is damaging to brazilians. we could talk, but we don't u nfortu nately have we could talk, but we don't unfortunately have time, about the extraordinary corruption enquiry that has been conducted, the so—called carwash enquiry that has now resulted in 300 people being charged and 180 people being convicted of all political parties, and of none, that is clearly a pressing problem for whoever becomes

president this year in the october elections to deal with. let me put to you this point. if the workers party, your party, instead of trying to run the past resident again as its candidate, a man who is in prison and has been convicted, wouldn't you be better serving your cause by fielding a new candidate, somebody of the teacher, not a man in his 70s who was of the past? let me ask you, finally then, if the presidential election goes ahead, ms rousseff, without lula as a candidate, cause they keep up the ballot paper, should brazilians accept the result? i think the answer, then... bt being the workers party, your

party. i think the answer... i think the answer to my question thenis i think the answer to my question then is that brazilians should not accept such a result. dilma rousseff. .. thank you. accept such a result. dilma rousseff... thank you. thank you for being with us on hardtalk. hello there, good morning. 21 celsius was our high on monday. tuesday could be a little bit warmer. it's settling down, really, this week, a lot of dry weather around, some sunshine just

as we saw yesterday. the week ahead sees very little rain at all. very weak weather fronts heading our way because high pressure is essentially in charge. it will be a bit cooler around the middle part of the week. the cooler air is going to come in behind that very weak weather front there. that's the first one to approach the uk but it's running into high pressure. not completely plain sailing, mind you, because there's areas of mist, fog and low cloud around some north sea coasts, burning back to the coast, lingering perhaps around the south—west approaches, then our weather front around scotland, northern ireland, with it a little rain or drizzle. late sunshine in the far north—west but it's ahead of the front where we have the warm sunshine and perhaps highs of 23 celsius. the weather front pushes down from scotland and northern ireland, into northern parts of england and wales. still a bit of rain in drizzle on that, more cloud coming in off the north sea towards east anglia and perhaps the south—east. clearer skies, scotland and northern ireland,

quite cold here. down to about 2 degrees or so. a chilly feel one way or another i think on wednesday. more of a breeze coming in off the north sea. more cloud for england and wales. maybe a little rain or drizzle heading down towards the south—west. nothing in the south—east, only 17 degrees here. further north, despite some sunshine, temperatures struggling to around 12 or 13. so a bit of a chilly feel on wednesday. the weather front does move away and high pressure begins to build in across the uk. the winds begin to drop down a little bit. it may not feel quite so chilly on thursday. a little bit of a dry day, i think. some spells of sunshine around too. bit of cloud, fair weather cloud bubbling up, filling up a little bit inland. but a fine day, a dry day 17 degrees in london but 17 in glasgow, certainly an improvement here. pleasantly warm in the sunshine as well. there is a high pressure, still around the end of the week. notice we've got some weather fronts here. again, very weak, approaching the far west corner of the uk. another fine day just about everywhere on friday.

some spells of sunshine, light winds too. more of an atlantic band of cloud coming to the west of northern ireland, the western isles of scotland may produce a few spots of rain but for many of us, it should feel a bit warmer on friday, those temperatures beginning to climb once again. the weather still fine across england and wales at least this weekend, should be perfect weather for the royal wedding in windsor. sunny spells, dry, a temperature of 21 degrees celsius. this is the briefing. i'm sally bundock. our top story — fresh protests are expected in gaza a day after 55 palestinians were killed by israeli soldiers. five days to go until britain's royal wedding and it's unclear whether meghan markle's father will be there and walk her down the aisle. once considered obscene, now a status symbol — modigliani's ‘reclining nude' sells for $157 million. crucial trade talks

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