ant mcpartlin did not take part in the final episodes of saturday night takeaway, following his drink—driving arrest and subsequent conviction. he and his co—star dec are nominated for best entertainment performance, however, and the itv show for best entertainment programme, where it will be up against the bbc‘s strictly come dancing. did you love him? good god! there are also four nominations for a very english scandal, the mini—series about the jeremy thorpe scandal, including a best actor nomination for hugh grant and best actress for ruth wilson, who played her own grandmother in the drama mrs wilson. this year, the highest accolade, the bafta fellowship, goes to the journalist and broadcaster joan ba kewell, recognising her huge contribution to tv. congratulations to her.

now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello, there. it was a dry and sunny day for most parts of the uk. we've lost the showers we've had over recent days and replaced it with dry weather and sunny skies. a little bit of fair weather cloud bubbling up in the skies over worcester earlier today. that scene, repeated up and down the country. you can see the extent of the sunshine. even this cloud working into northern ireland, which is thin and high, meant we had some sunshine coming through that. overnight, cloud thickening for a while in northern scotland, so not as chilly here as it has been over recent nights. maybe the odd spot of rain getting into the northern isles, but otherwise it's dry. underneath those clear skies, it's a chilly night. cold enough for some patches of frost to develop in the countryside first thing monday morning. monday, another glorious start to the day. a little bit cooler first thing in the morning. the afternoon, fine with light wind. in the sunshine it's going to feel warm across—the—board. across western and northern parts of the country will see the highest temperatures. 19 in edinburgh, and temperatures much higher across the north—east of scotland. that's your weather.

hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines... a cabinet minister describes the european elections as the ultimate protest vote and predicts they will be "difficult" for the conservatives. a light aircraft has crashed on a dual carriageway between raglan and abergavenny in south east wales. three people were helped from the plane before it burst into flames. as the usa flexes its military might and renews sanctions against iran, iran's president issues a stark warning about difficult times ahead for his country. the national crime agency says organised criminals are killing more british people a year than terrorism, war and natural disasters combined. it wants more money to tackle the problem. an update on the football score it is 4—1 man city —— for manchester

city. it is likely that manchester city. it is likely that manchester city will lift the premiership title this afternoon. now on bbc news, in one of his first and only interviews in prison since he was imprisoned last april, former brazilian president luiz inacio lula da silva speaks to kennedy alencar. in his day, he was one of the most popular politicians in the world. luiz inacio lula da silva, known as lula, was brazil's first left—wing president. in eight years of power, he transformed the lives of millions in his country, and became one of the most influential latin american leaders of modern times. by the time he left office in 2010, brazil had become the darling of the global economy. barack obama: the most popular politician on earth. but lula's fall was as spectacular as his rise. as brazil descended into the chaos of mass street protests

against his successor, lula himself was sensationally arrested, and then convicted of corruption. today brazil has taken a very different path, under the right wing president, jair bolsonaro. lula sits in prison, serving an eight—year sentence for his crimes. in his first television interview since his imprisonment, brazilian journalist kennedy alencar questions the former president about his life in politics, and his conviction for corruption. you were tried and found guilty of accepting bribes. do you accept any guilt in this case? and from behind his prison walls, lula is heavily critical of president bolsonaro.

from the very start of his presidency, lula made it clear that things were going to change in brazil. applause.

lula's strategy for the economy was helped by a global boom in commodities from which brazil reaped the benefit. exports of oil, iron ore and agricultural products fuelled brazil's rise.

perhaps, lula's greatest triumph was that he managed to bring about an unprecedented level of social mobility, mainly through welfare programmes, like bolsa familia. his critics complained this policy was wasteful and simply designed to buy voters.

brazil's supercharged economy ensured its place at the top table. rio de janeiro. cheering and applause. the award of the world cup and the olympics confirmed that brazil was now a new global power, even though hosting these tournaments would later prove controversial.

but as the tournaments approached, their huge costs created divisions. but brazil's fortunes were built on fragile foundations and the fate of the country changed dramatically with the global financial crisis, even though its effects were only felt after lula had left office. commodity prices, which had been so central to brazil's rise, began to fall. although lula successfully transferred power to dilma rousseff, in 2010, the seeds of brazil's economic decline were sown. moreover, dilma lacked lula's popular touch and she failed to take the people with her.

injune 2013, the uneasy political truce with the brazilian people ended. a massive demonstration in sao paolo demanded the reversal of a recent rise in public transport fares in the city. in the following days,

the numbers of protesters grew, and the police fought back, beating up demonstrators and journalists. lula has a controversial theory of why these street protests began. street protests, from both

the left and the right, were an essential element in the political instability that rocked brazil after lula left office. and the protesters soon had another major cause for complaint. in 2014, a police investigation known as 0peracion lava jato, or 0peration car wash, began to unravel brazil's age—old corrupt relationship between businessmen and politicians. up and down the country, hundreds of arrests were made. the man who was leading the operation was a charismatic young judge called sergio moro. lula agrees that, whilst corruption was rife, it was not the main obstacle to progress.

but when moro‘s investigation turned to a construction magnate, marcelo 0debrecht, brazilian politics was turned upside down. 0debrecht‘s company was found to have received lucrative contracts from the state oil company, petrobras, in return for bribing many senior politicians. amongst the names 0debrecht revealed, were many workers‘

party figures, including lula. the former president was later alleged to own a holiday apartment in the seaside city of guaruja. judge moro claimed that lula had received free improvements to the apartment as a bribe from the construction company, 0as. in march 2016, police raided lula's house. one of the most popular leaders in brazilian history was now viewed with the same suspicion as any other corrupt politician. you were tried and found guilty of accepting 3.7 million in bribes in reais, 1.2 million in us dollars, in the form of improvements

to the beach house apartment, it is alleged to be your property, and this was made by construction company 0as. in return 0as got profitable contracts with petrobras. do you accept any guilt in this case? 0ne judge, sergio moro, convicted you. three from a second instance. four for the third instance.

butjudge sergio moro denied this version of events and told us... a week after his house had been raided, dilma asked lula to join her cabinet as chief of staff. many saw this as an attempt to provide lula with immunity from prosecution by moro, but lula claims he was needed to help dilma from her impending impeachment.

but sergio moro had other ideas. controversially he arranged to have president dilma's phone wiretapped and when a call was made to lula, moro believed he had struck gold.

the call appeared to confirm moro‘s suspicions. dilma appeared to be suggesting lula take a position in cabinet to protect him from prosecution by moro. sergio moro denies this, and said his actions were in the public interest. "democracy in a free society," he wrote, "requires

that the governed know what their governors are doing even when they try to act in the dark." the reaction on the streets to the release of the wiretap was fury. 1.5 million marched in sao paulo, outraged at the emerging evidence of a cover—up at the very highest level. dilma's plan to appoint lula completely backfired. the courts blocked his appointment as chief of staff. 0n the street, the protests grew larger, louder and angrier, against lula, dilma and the workers‘ party. within months, dilma was successfully impeached by congress. lula, for his part, was duly convicted of corruption over the improvements to the seaside apartment. by 2018, having exhausted his avenues of appeal, he turned himself in to begin his prison sentence.

he was subsequently denied the chance to run for president. the path was now clear for a new player to take centre stage. jair bolsonaro had been a congressman for 27 years. before that he had been a captain in the paratroopers, and he maintains strong links with the military. his politics were controversial and deeply divisive. and then, at the beginning of september 2018, bolsonaro was viciously stabbed while campaigning, and rushed to intensive care.

the following month, a divided country voted to take a new path, and the recovering bolsonaro was elected president. lula claims that brazilian democracy is at risk under bolsonaro.

shortly after the election result, bolsonaro invited sergio moro to be his minister ofjustice. moro is now a super minister, with influence over the judiciary and full control over the federal police and public security issues. lula believes this new role is a reward for taking him out of the game. you said that moro wouldn't survive in politics. why?

although lula's sentence has recently been reduced and he could soon be granted a form of house arrest, there are other charges relating to corruption that are still hanging over him. however, lula maintains that the most important thing for him is to prove his innocence.

since he left office, brazilian politics has changed beyond all recognition. the economy, once the darling of the emerging markets, remains weak and fragile. his successor has been impeached, the workers‘ party removed from power, and a right—wing president elected. the military keeps the peace on the streets of rio, and nine members of the bolsonaro cabinet have come from their ranks. bolsonaro recently said of lula, "he has a plan to take power, in which ultimately our freedom would be stolen. i think it was a mistake that the courts gave him the right to give an interview."

lula, for his part, is highly critical of the new president and the way his family are behaving in power. lula has been imprisoned for nearly 400 days. while millions of brazilians are pleased that he is being punished,

outside the walls of the prison, his supporters maintain a constant vigil for the former president. lula and his legacy have divided a country. this particular chapter in brazil‘s history may not yet be over. hello again. i think the cool and wet weather we had last week will be fading from our memories very quickly over the next few days, a lot dry weather and sunshine is on the way. but a reminder, if you needed it, of just how wet last week was. we had nearly a month‘s worth of rain across parts of north east england. and welcome rainfall in east anglia,

where we have had an extended period of dry weather. the dry weather is here to stay for the next few days. you can see the extent of the sunshine that we‘ve seen today on the satellite picture. the cloud in northern ireland has been thin with sun coming to through as well. and our weather watchers have been snapping some glorious pictures underneath those blue skies in shropshire. and a little bit further south you can see some fair with the cloud building up in worcester, but not spoiling those long spells of sunshine. there is a similar picture really across much of the country. 0vernight, cloud will thicken for a time in northern scotland, threatening a little bit of rain across into the northern isles by the end of the night. but with that cloudier zone in the far north of scotland, not as cold compared with recent nights here, but otherwise it‘s another chilly night. cold enough for a few patches of frost to develop in the countryside. and looking at the weather picture over the next few days, well, it‘s going to be sunny and it‘s going to be feeling warmer. with temperatures on the rise. the reason, high—pressure has built

across the british isles. the high pressure reaching its maximum intensity on monday. and once its built in, it‘s going nowhere too fast. monday, a lot of dry weather to come. sunshine from dawn to dusk for many of us. and high pressure, circulate under high pressure in a clockwise sense. that will keep some of the cost a little bit fresher, but stay with the sunshine it‘s going to feel pleasantly warm. the high temperature is wafting up to the north and west of the country and quite a big jump in temperatures for eastern scotland. it will feel much warmer here on monday. for tuesday, little overall change in the weather picture. we‘ve got more of that is in joint come from dawn to dusk across most parts of the country. if anything the temperatures will be a little bit higher. 18 in london, 19 for cardiff. when i can see temperature is getting into the low 20s in parts of scotland, but it‘s on wednesday that we are likely to see they were mistaken of the week. they warmest day of the week. the high temperatures, again are likely to be in scotland

with the sunshine here, when i has getting up to 23, 2a celsius. at the same time, some of these because of east anglia, kent and essex college down a little bit with the wind, but still fine, sunny and feeling pleasant in the sun.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 5: manchester city beat brighton 4—1, to retain the premier league title. this is the scene live at the etihad stadium, where city fans are celebrating their win... the ultimate protest vote? a cabinet minister thinks so, and says the european elections will be "difficult" for the conservatives. three people have been rescued from a light aircraft after it crash landed on a dual carriageway in south wales. us—iran tensions: president rouhani warns his country of difficult times ahead because of renewed american sanctions. the national crime agency says more people are killed by organised crime gangs than by war, terrorism and natural disasters combined. i‘m live on the red carpet as some

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