welcome to bbc news. i'm gareth barlow. our top stories: lula's big comeback. the left—of—centre challenger, luiz inacio lula da silva, narrowly wins brazil's presidential election. translation: today we are telling the world that brazil is back, that brazil is too big to be relegated to the set role of pariah of the world. disappointment for followers of the incumbent president, jair bolsonaro. the question many are asking — will he concede defeat? national mourning in south korea after more than 150 people are crushed to death at a halloween event in seoul. at least 130 people have died after a pedestrian suspension bridge collapsed

in western india. and how the rock band coldplay is offering its support to protesters in iran. it's official — the left of centre politician, luis inacio lula da silva — commonly known as lula, has won brazil's presidential election — snatching victory by a tiny margin from the rightwing incumbant, jair bolsanaro, who had an early lead as the first votes came in. the final tally was just 50.8 percent to lula. these are live images from brazil. crowds of mr lula's supporters have been celebrating in the streets. this represents an amazing comeback for the former president, who three years ago, was serving a prison sentence for corruption — his conviction

was later overturned. but the contest reflected how deeply polarised brazil is. mr lula spoke after the win was announced. translation: i have faith in god that with the help l of the people we will find a way out so this country may live again democratically, harmoniously, and we can even re establish peace between families. today, we are telling the world that brazil is back, that brazil is too big to be relegated to the set role of pariah of the world. our south america correspondent katy watson is in sao paulo. it was always expected to be a close race but it was a nailbiter until the very end. lula's supporters are coming out in force, they are chanting, "lula has returned!". and whether you like him or loathe him, the fact that lula has come

back to come back to be president, 20 years after he first become leader, is a historic moment for people here in brazil. but he will have his work cut out for him because this is a very different brazil, it is a very divided brazil. bolsonaro may no longer be president but he'll have his legacy in congress, with conservative law makers making lula's job very difficult, achieving everything he want to do. so, it is a difficult time. it will be a huge job for lula, but certainly people here, pleased he's back and at least he can make a start in changing brazil. people here talk about the fact that they want to leave behind anger and they want to leave behind hate, but it is a very divided country and trying to unite this country will be lula's biggest challenge. this result will have a significant impact on policy affecting the amazon rainforest. deforestation in 2021 rose to the highest level since 2015 in brazil's cerrado region, prompting scientists to raise the alarm over the state of the world's most species—rich savanna.

lula da silva had vowed an environmental overhaul of government policy when campainging, and used his first hour as president to discuss the climate crisis. dr mercedes bustamante is an ecologist at the university of brasilia in brazil and told me about what he has said: thank you for having me, the first speech was quite important, he committed to get zero deforestation to curb illegal activities in the amazon region and also to protect the rights of indigenous people in traditional communities, these are quite huge challenges, especially because now we have a parliament, that is much more conservative than it was when lula was president before. again, we have hope that the executive branch now have more power, and it can get more enforcement of the environmental law into

the regions so it can get the control of deforestation back. he said that he would try to get deforestation down to zero but he has been president before but he doesn't manage it then, what does he need to do now, is it even possible to get to that figure? in his speech he mentioned to get more international collaboration to save the amazon region, to know more what to do in terms of controlling the deforestation and how to use the amazon biodiversity to build a new bio economy for brazil, so we can replace this predatory activities this is quite a welcome step, in the first term of lula the deforestation rates goes down to 80%, but this was mainly due to the law enforcement who could not replace the traditional economic activities in the region by new economic activities of biodiversity, this is now the step he must take to get the zero deforestation

commitment in place. how much international support is there to achieve that goal and what can the international community do, the amazon is so often referred to as the lungs of the world, it in all our interest for brazil to reach that goal and be supported in doing so? the amazon region is recognised as one of the tipping point elements of the climate system, the whole globe is dependent on the conservation of the amazon region, we can get a lot of international support trying to improve the situation of the people there, and restore the confidence that brazil is able to protect the amazon, for the world. the south korean president, yoon suk—yeol, has visited an altar in the capital, seoul, to pay his respects to the victims of saturday's halloween stampede. more than 150 people were killed, and dozens injured in a narrow alley, in the popular itaewon

district. south korean investigators say they don't yet understand the circumstances that led to the crush, but the government has promised a thorough investigation, into one of the country's worst—ever disasters. our correspondent, jean mackenzie, sent this report from seoul — you may find parts of it distressing. as the bodies are counted and the victims identified, devastating accounts of seoul's halloween night of horror are emerging. thousands packed onto the streets to party... ..until this narrow alleyway became so crowded, people were crushed to death. nuhyil ahammed was in the alley. he managed to climb onto a platform to safety, where he watched the horror play out. there's no way you can breathe. so, everyone lifting up, like...

he gasps for air. ..and that's what they're doing, like, taking their last breath and things, so kind of suffocating. others describe how people fell to the floor like dominoes. i didn't sleep till now. i couldn't sleep because i see people dying in front of me. one guy, he know that his friend has died, but he was still giving cpr for next 30 minutes. and his friend was trying to stop him, but he was still doing it. translation: i was pushed from behind. i got scared and tried to move to the side, but i couldn't. i was stuck there for two hours. i felt like i was going to die. this nearby community centre is saturated with grief. families and friends come to register the missing. some get the terrible news that their loved ones are among the dead. waves were coming in from both sides, and more people fell, and i lost my friend. and i turned around and i told the crowd, "you can't come this way.

"people are dying." for others, there's no information. this is almost as hard to hear. this woman's son went to work at a club in itaewon last night. i went home. i didn't see him. he didn't come home. he's the only son, the only one i have. visiting the scene, the president, too, said he was struggling to process his grief. "something that should never have happened, happened," he says, an acknowledgement that things went horribly wrong. this footage from last year shows police controlling the crowds at the same spot. this year, multiple witnesses say this didn't happen. the questions for authorities are,

how was this crowd allowed to get so out of control, and what could have been done to stop this terrible tragedy? but for now, this country is mourning the death of so many of its young. jean mckenzie, bbc news, seoul. jean mackenzie with that report. a footbridge in western india has collapsed, killing at least 80 people. hundreds were thought to have been on the bridge in morbi in gujarat when it went down, plunging them into a river. it was only reopened last week after extensive renovations. our south asia correspondent, yogita limaye, reports. moments after the collapse, survivors tried to clamber up what remains of the footbridge. at this popular spot in the western town of morbi, families were out together at the end of a week of holidays for diwali festivities. locals were the first to respond, helping pull people out. some even swimming out to rescue those stuck

in the middle of the river. at one of the banks, people tried to form a human chain to reach as many as they could. the bridge, built in the 19th century, was closed for renovation for six months, reopened less than a week ago. schools were off, and so lots of people were here along with their children. the bridge collapsed because of overcrowding, sukram, an eyewitness said. at the hospital, a steady stream of the injured were brought in. this is indian prime minister nahendra modi's home state and his party is in power here. he announced compensation for those who have been affected. once the struggle to save people is over, for officials here, there will be many tough questions to answer. yogita limaye, bbc news, india. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: plundered by the nazis, the exhibition devoted to works of art looted during

the second world war. the israeli prime minister, yitzhak rabin, the architect of the middle east peace process, has been assassinated. a 27—year—old jewish man has been arrested and an extremistjewish organisation has claimed responsibility for the killing. at polling booths throughout the country, they voted on a historic day for australia. as the results came in, it was clear, the monarchy would survive. of the american hostages, there was no sign. they are being held somewhere inside the compound, and student leaders have threatened that, should the americans attempt rescue, they will all die. this mission has surpassed all expectations. voyager one is now the most distant man—made object anywhere in the universe, and itjust seems to keep on going. tonight, we prove once more that the true strength of our nation comes not

from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals. this is bbc news — the latest headlines: brazil's left—wing former leader, luiz inacio lula da silva, is making a dramatic return to power after narrowly beating the far—right incumbent jair bolsonaro in the presidential election. there's national mourning in south korea, after more than 150 people were crushed to death at a halloween event in seoul. the president of iran and the head of the country's powerful revolutionary guards, have issued their strongest warnings yet that nation—wide protests must end. and while protesters carried on with their demonstrations in more than a dozen university campuses, they were met with a violent crackdown by security forces.

hundreds of people have been killed since the death of mahsa amini in police custody. our news reporter azadeh moshiri says it's a rachetting up of the crackdown. certainly, they've been more heavy—handed on university campuses where protests continued over weekend. there has been footage of gunshots heard in a lot of these videos, with students starting out with peaceful protests, and then suddenly hearing them screaming and running away as militias and riot police have turned up. but, while hundreds have been killed in the last few weeks — and i certainly don't want to underplay how brutal and violent this crackdown has been — this hasn't reached the full capacity of the islamic republic has for violence. certainly in 2019, there was a quick, sudden, violent surge of killings, and those were protests that didn't have quite the same momentum as the protests we see now, so this does portray a certain amount of hesitancy by the islamic republic in terms of how they can

respond to protesters, who are mainly women, students and schoolchildren, who aren'tjust asking for one or two reforms — they are challenging the entire system and regime as a whole. and there is also a question about how far the security forces on the ground are willing to go, if they will follow those orders. we have certainly seen videos of security forces following protesters rather than confronting them. we've also seen strong international support for these protests. part of it focusing around a protest song, an anthem that's become very popular. we have seen it performed by the british band, coldplay, in recent hours, what's going on there? yes, they did perform it by bringing on an iranian actress who sang along to the original song by shervin hajipour during that concert in argentina. that song has been sung by people within and outside of iran. it's about all of the things protesters are marching for,

and it pieces together, in the lyrics, tweets by the protesters, themselves, saying things that they want, like dancing on the streets. they are doing this because of the fear of kissing in public, they talk about women, life, freedom. it is worth listening to a clip of that performance. gentle guitar strumming singing now, shervin hajipour who wrote that song was actually detained and arrested a few days after it was released. and he was then allowed to leave, but he made a statement that many believe was coerced, but he said he did not want his song used politically.

either way, that does show the international support you're talking about, and the fact that people outside of iran are reacting to the fact that women and schoolchildren are marching for many of the freedoms that we don't even think about. philippine officials say the number of dead from a vast tropical storm that hit the country over the weekend has risen to 98. dozens more were injured. most of the casualties were on the southern island of mindanao which experienced severe flash flooding and landslides. storm nalgae affected a wide swathe of the country, making landfall five times. bridges, roads, and crops have been destroyed. a bbc investigation has revealed how conspiracy theorists are spreading falsehoods about uk terror attacks, and tracking down survivors to their homes and workplaces to see if they are lying about their injuries. one survivor of the manchester arena bombing is preparing legal action against a man who says he's spied on victims. the investigation

was for bbc panorama and a radio 4 podcast by disinformation and social media correspondent marianna spring. there was a large blast from the left hand side. lisa bridgett is a survivor of the 2017 manchester arena terror attack. it's taken her years to come to terms with her injuries. two years later, a conspiracy theorist turned up at the boatyard where she worked, posing as a customer, with the aim of secretly recording her to see if she was lying about her injuries. they've got no right to do what they've done, taking our stories individually and ripping them apart. today, i've started off on myjourney to go around all of these places. that conspiracy theorist is called richard d hall. he's described online how he tracked down lisa and other manchester arena survivors because he thinks the attack was staged. he makes money from promoting his theories in talks, online videos, and even a book. messages seen by the bbc show how online abuse citing these types

of conspiracies have been sent to those affected by uk terror attacks. a representative survey of 4,000 people carried out by king's college london suggest the pandemic has made this worse, with a third saying it's made them more suspicious of official explanations of terror attacks. a fifth think terror victims are not telling the truth about what happened to them. those people who are susceptible to conspiracy beliefs have been egged on, in some sense, because of covid. we were all stuck in our homes, online, desperate for information. for one survivor, enough is enough. martin hibbert, who was seriously injured in the manchester arena attack with his daughter, eve, is preparing to bring libel action against hall, who says he spied on eve from a vehicle outside her home. i'm all for freedom of speech and all that, but it crosses the line when you are saying i'm an actor or i've not got a spinal cord injury, or eve's not disabled. i visited the market stall where hall works. he insists i am wrong

about how he operates. you're profiting from the worst day of these people's lives. do you realise that? how does that make you feel? if you read my book, all the answers are in there. i have looked at your book and in there there are claims about the victims that are contrary to the evidence. richard hall has since posted a new video saying he didn't put a camera outside the home of eve hibbert but he admitted to leaving a camera rolling in his van, parked in a public place. he says his door—to—door inquiries are polite and he can't be held responsible for people sending abuse online. but, for the survivors, they remain fearful of the conspiracies that he and others promote. marianna spring, bbc news. marianna spring, bbc news. this entry point for thousands of migrants coming to the uk, many fleeing from war, came under attack today.

two people suffered injuries, it is believed the man then took his own life. this report. this entry point for thousands of migrants coming to the uk, many fleeing from war, came under attack today. at 11:20am, a man in a white car threw three incendiary devices at this building. two of them burst into flames. his motive remains unclear. and then it was at this petrol station on limekiln street, on the seafront in dover, where the man drove a white vehicle, which you can just about see behind my right shoulder, under a blue tarpaulin. the fire brigade have turned up. they're putting a tent over that and two forensic officers from kent police have turned up to gather evidence. kent police have said the suspect has been identified and his next of kin are being informed. this evening, police remained at the petrol station looking for answers as to what had led to today's events. the attack comes just hours after reports that almost 1000 migrants arrived in dover yesterday. there has been criticism of the conditions they are kept in.

the conservative mp for dover said that tensions had been rising in the area. i raised my concerns about the rising level of tensions, with the immigration minister earlier this week. it's absolutely vital that we get a grip of this issue and that the boats are stopped from leaving france, and that is what now needs to happen, and i think that is a conversation between the british prime minister and president macron. the investigation into what happened here is being led by kent police and not counterterrorism officers, and home office minister robertjenrick says he is being updated by the force. the home office said they were aware of the incident today, but are unable to comment further at this point. matt graveling, bbc news. thousands of supporters of the italian dictator benito mussolini have paraded in his birthplace on sunday, to mark the centenary of the historic march on rome that started the fascism regime. mussolini's tomb is

a pilgrimage site that regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, but sunday's gathering differed from previous ones, with fascist sympathisers expressing support for italy's new government led by giorgia meloni, the most right—wing to take office since world war ii. a new exhibition's opened in the french city of strasbourg showcasing dozens of artworks looted by the nazis during the second world war. an unknown number of paintings and sculptures were stolen by hitler's regime, and many remain unaccounted for. the bbc�*s tim allman has the story. works of art, works of plunder. portraits, still life, each and every one of them stolen from their rightful owners. this exhibition is a reminder of humanity's capacity, both for creativity and cruelty.

translation: you should know there were two privileged - recipients from the looting. first of all, there was hitler's project for a central museum in linz, very close to his hometown. then the second one, and you have to imagine it was pure theft, it was for goering's private collection. archive: in this aladdin's cave of stolen art treasures, - everything that glitters is gold. no—one really knows how many works of art were looted during the war. tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, some taken from occupied countries, many taken from jewish families. after the war, some of the looted art was returned to its original owners, assuming they could be tracked down or were still alive. but much of it remains in limbo, unaccounted for to this day. translation: the ideal goal would be that at the end - of this exhibition, the artworks would not return to the walls of their respected museums, but they would be

returned to the descendants of their legitimate owners. nearly 200 artworks since the 1950s have been returned to their rightful owners. the exhibition runs until may next year, and its organisers say they won't stop trying to find the original owners of this art. they say insist it's a mission and, above all else, a moral duty. tim allman, bbc news. before we go lets take you back to brazil, where supporters of luis ignacio lula da silva, commonly known as lula, are celebrating after he won brazil's presidential election, snatching victory by a tiny margin from the rightwing jair bolsanaro. an amazing comeback for the former president who does three years ago was in prison, serving a sentence for corruption. that conviction was overturned. the contest shows

how deeply polarised brazil is, back to winning with just 59% of the vote. all of the crowds out there in brazil. more details on the website. hello. it's still very mild out there and we've got another mild day on the way for monday. after that, it does look as though the temperatures will return at least closer to the seasonal norm. it's not going to be cold, though, that's for sure. we have rain in the forecast for the trick—or—treaters, as well. most of us will get the rain later on today, some of us will have the rain already in the morning, for example in northern ireland and you can see the weather front here approaching earlier on, on the satellite picture. here it is but ahead of it, you can see clearer weather across the bulk of the country, certainly in england, wales, and eastern parts of scotland. so, through the early hours, lots of clear weather out towards the east, some showers out towards the west, and here is the weather front crossing ireland. the morning temperatures will range from around 1a degrees along the channel coast, to 12 in liverpool,

and around 10 degrees in glasgow, edinburgh, and also aberdeen. onto the forecast for monday morning, that rain reaches eventually belfast, the western isles of scotland. there will be some showers ahead of it in north west england, but elsewhere a bright if not sunny start and a very decent afternoon, with some sunshine for birmingham, for hull, for newcastle — here around 15 or 16 degrees. but notice showers start to appear on the south coast, come the middle of the afternoon, and as the afternoon wears on, it does look as though those showers will spread further northwards, into wales, too. they will become more extensive, so, yes, as i say, for some of the trick—or—treaters, we are forecasting rain. here's tuesday's weather map. it looks rather complicated. an area of low pressure, with weather fronts sweeping across the country. there will be a noticeable breeze, that's for sure. it is going to be a changeable day, a real mixed bag, but particularly gusty, i think, come the evening along the english channel. temperatures between 12 degrees typically in scotland and northern ireland,

to around 15 or 16 in east anglia and the south—east on tuesday. let's have a look at wednesday's forecast. earlier on i think there will be some fine weather, and eventually this autumn low is going to sweep in, off the atlantic. you can see extensive rain there with that area of low pressure, and gusty winds, certainly gale force winds around the coasts, but i think eastern areas could hang onto the dry weather for most of the day. so, here is the outlook for the week ahead, from monday into friday. you can see that steady decline in the temperatures, from 18 degrees in london to around 13 or 1a, and about the low teens further north.

this is bbc news. the headlines: brazil's left—wing former leader luiz inacio lula da silva is making a dramatic return to power after narrowly beating the far—right incumbent jair bolsonaro in the presidential election. lula da silva described his win as a victory for democracy. he urged peace and unity. a period of national mourning has been declared in south korea, where 153 mostly young people celebrating halloween were crushed to death on saturday in seoul. the president, yoon suk—yeol, has vowed a full investigation into one of the country's worst ever disasters. the authorities in the indian state of gujarat have promised a full investigation into the collapse of a pedestrian suspension bridge. at least 130 people are known to have died and it's feared

that number will rise.