welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines.. thousands of supporters of brazil's former presidentjair bolsonaro storm the country's parliament — president lula condemns the protesters as fascist vandals. translation: we think - there was a lack of security. and i wanted to tell you that all of those people who did this will be found and punished. some protestors remain inside government buildings — we'll get the latest from our correspondent in brazil. also coming up on newsday.... prince harry says he never intended to hurt his father or brother by writing a memoir, and talks about his mother's funeral

the decision was made for both of us to walk behind our mother's coffin, and...there was absolutely no way that i would let him do that by himself. there was absolutely no way that he would let me do that by myself, if it was role reversal. president biden visits america's border with mexico for the first time since taking office — as the area struggles to cope with record numbers of illegal crossings. and emotional reunions at airports in china as its borders reopen for the first time since the start of the pandemic, nearly three years ago. it's eight in the morning in singapore, and nine in the evening in the brazilian capital brasilia —

where thousands of protestors have stormed government buildings — including the senate, the congress, supreme court, and the presidential palace. most seemed to be supporters of jair bolsonaro — the right—wing former president who lost power in last year's election. security forces fired tear gas as they moved in to re—take the buildings — making dozens of arrests. brazil's president lula — who was not in brasilia when the violence broke out — has promised to hunt down and punish the people responsible. we begin our coverage with this report from tom brada. a wave of unrest at the heart of brazilian politics. supporters of former president, jair bolsonaro, have stormed three key sites in the capital. they've broken into the national congress building, streamed into the country's supreme court, and have ransacked parts of the presidential palace. the president, who is currently in sao paulo, gave this warning. translate: i wanted to tell

you that all those people - who did this will be found and punished. they will realise that democracy guarantees the right to freedom and free speech, but it also demands that people respect the institutions created to strengthen democracy. the chaotic scenes come a week after president lula's inauguration. he defeated mr bolsonaro in the polls back in october. but many of mr bolsonaro's supporters, without evidence, claim the election was stolen.

they've staged protests, blocked highways and openly called for a military coup. some say authorities should have been better. should have been better prepared. just really didn't seem to be a police presence of capital that potentially expected something like this to happen. we had we saw hardly any law enforcement on the street. the police barricades were easily overthrown by these bolsonaro supporters. and, you know, it'sjust a bit of a mess just now in the capital. many are drawing comparisons with the us capitol riots in 2021, but president lula has already taken power and because brazil's congress and supreme court are in recess, their official buildings are largely empty. regardless, this unrest will raise uncomfortable questions. the president is ready to go. he is governing already. but this is a very serious issue. it's a very serious event since this is a brake on democratic groups. i would say. many hoped that the election of president lula

would usher in a calmer chapter in brazilian politics. these dramatic scenes suggest that those predictions were premature. tom brada, bbc news. our south america correspondent katy watson has been following developments from sao paulo — and sent this update. it's like congress, supreme court and the presidential palace have been cleared of protesters. there's still plenty of people milling around. there's mounted police on the ground in brasilia. but certainly the authorities were either taken by surprise or woefully unprepared for this. this was something that a lot of people feared might happen ever since lula won the elections back in october. but this january, the sixth style insurrection that many people feared could mirror what we saw in the us hadn't come to pass. last week was the inauguration of lula, and it went peacefully. there was no protesting.

so, there seemed to be perhaps the authorities were lulled into a false sense of security, certainly because what we saw was absolute chaos on the ground in the capital this evening. yeah. katy, i know you've been covering this for a long time. talked to protesters as well. just briefly, what's your sense of how this all ends? so, i think the fact that jair bolsonaro is known as tropical trump, this is out of the trump playbook. you can make a lot of parallels that the far right has been emboldened by what we've seen in the us, for example. but there are very brazilian roots to this. yes, the people who we saw storm congress were jair bolsonaro supporters. but this is more than that. it's the anger around lula coming back into power, a man they see as corrupt and not belonging in the presidential palace. i've been speaking with thiago amparo, a law professor based in sao paulo.

i began by asking him, whether brazilians could have anticipated today's events , given the recent political rhetoric. it was predictable that something of that sort could happen. over the past couple of days there was a lot of numbers of new protesters arriving to the capital. so, this event brings mixed feelings. on one hand, an events of that scale was not predicted. on the other hand, this event is a climax of a movement that was building up since both scenarios fake news that was building up since biolsonaro's fake news about the electoral process. the increase of the protests outside of armed installations, armed places all over the country, including in the capital.

so, on one hand, on that scale, it was not predicted. on the other hand, this movement was building up for months during the election time and after the election as well. professor, is it as simple as the protesters wanting lula out and jair bolsonaro in? not really, i think it is more complex than that. there are several factors that contributed to the result in the striking images that we sought to date. that we saw today. on the one hand, the protesters are clearly against the electoral system which are based on not real and appropriate information, based on fake news. on the other hand, also, the armed officials, especially the police officers, did not do enough. some of them are actually supporters of presidentjair bolsonaro, orformer presidentjair bolsonaro. there were views of police officers taking selfies and not being so strong in resisting these invasions. also, there were months, and actually years,

of fake news and spreading of information and pro military and against democracy rhetoric by the president himself and others. so this is not simply opposition against president lula who won the election, but actually, this was a movement seeking military intervention. seeking an attack on democracy. much more on this story on our website. you can read more on president lula's response to what he says is an attempt to overthrow him — just log on to bbc.com/news — or go via the bbc app. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines, and ukrainian officials have denied claims by russia that its forces have killed hundreds of soldiers ,

in an attack on the eastern city of kramatorsk. these are pictures of the two college dorms , that russia claims had been temporarily housing ukrainian personnel. the news agency reuters reports , neither building appears to have been directly hit or seriously damaged , and there were no signs of any casualties. russia and ukraine have carried out a prisoner exchange — with both sides returning 50 detainees to the other. these pictures, released by moscow's ministry of defence, show the russians soldiers — who will be taken for health checks. ukraine says the group of people returned included soldiers, border guards, and people who had been captured at mariupol and at the chornobyl nuclear power station. nato general secretary yens stoltenberg has met with swedish and finnish leaders to discuss both countriesjoining nato. both countries applied to join the military alliance after russian�*s invasion of ukraine.

invitations to both have been confirmed by 28 of the 30 members — with only turkey and hungary yet to do so. still to come a bit later in the programme — we'll look at how china is relaxing its covid travel restrictions. but first. . .. the uk's prince harry has insisted he never had any intention of hurting his father or brother — king charles and prince william — by releasing a highly personal memoir. in an interview with the british network itv — to promote his book — the duke of sussex said he hoped to reconcile with his family. but — he also said that there had to be �*some accountability�* for the issues which he felt had forced him away. we should warn you — this report from our royal correspondent nicholas witchell contains some flashing images. what an original name!

it is in large sections a cry from the heart. it never needed to be this way, harry says, but there are barbs for family members and sustained criticism of the british press. so much can be traced back to the death of his mother in the car crash in paris. harry was 12 at the time. he was at balmoral. in the audiobook of the book, harry describes his father breaking news. he was distressed, in shock, it seemed. "oh, hospital?" "yes, with an injury." i thought again, injured, but she's ok. "she has been taken to hospital." "they will fix her head and we'll go and see her." today. tonight, at the latest. they tried, darling boy. "they tried, darling boy." "i am afraid

she didn't make it." the family decided that harry and william should walk behind the coffin at her mother's funeral. there were a lot of conversations that happened at that time which i wasn't a part of and william wasn't a part of. he was probably more part of it and i was, part of it than i was, but the decision was made that we would both walk behind our mother's coffin and there was absolutely no way i would let him do that by himself. there were still a lot of things unexplained about the accident in paris, harry said, but he saw no point in another inquiry. and then to the adult harry, to family relationships and to the reasons he felt compelled to write a story. i love my father, love my brother, i love my family, i always do. nothing of what i have done in this book or otherwise has ever been to any intention to harm them or hurt them. you know, the truth is something that i need to rely on and after many, many years of lies being told about me and my family, there comes a point where, you know, again going back to the relationship between certain members of the family and the tabloid press, those

certain members have... decided to get into bed with the devil, right? to rehabilitate their image. that appears to be a reference to his stepmother, camilla, the queen consort. in 1999, she and the then prince charles first appeared together in public. in the audiobook harry describes how camilla then had meetings with william. stories began to appear everywhere in all the papers, about her private conversation with william, stories that contained pinpoint accurate details, none of which had come from william of course. they could only have been leaked by the one other person present. in 2016 meghan markle came into harry's life. he introduced her to william and katherine. they were super fans. who would have thought? i never knew that. but the impression is that almost from the get go, they don't get on. is that fair?

yes, fair. according to harry, members of his family were influenced against meghan by the british press. his hatred of them is a constant theme, but so too is his wish for reconciliation with his family. joe biden has visited america's border with mexico for the first time since becoming president. he inspected the bridge of the americas — one of the busiest crossing points, in the texan city of el paso. the area has been struggling to cope with record numbers of illegal crossings, and the republican governor of texas, greg abbott, says mr biden's relaxation of some of donald trump's rules on immigration have made the situation worse. mr biden says he wants to expand legal routes to would—be migrants. our correspondent sophie long sent this update from el paso. i'm told that this whole area over the past few days, since we heard about president biden's visit, has been cleared of migrants.

but there's still a few hundred who have been sleeping on the streets of el paso because they have nowhere else to go now. don't be deceived by the sunshine. it is warm and bright and sunny now, but it is bitterly, bitterly cold at night. and many of those migrants are dependent on hand—outs from church missions and local residents in order to survive. now, president biden's trip comes after announcing a raft of new measures that he hopes will ease the surge in numbers here. they've attracted a great amount of criticism from some migrant advocates who say that they are too enforcement heavy. that is to say they focus too much on the expulsion of migrants and not for easing their path. the biden administration, however, will say that there are avenues that have opened legal avenues to help migrants come to the united states and steer them away from people smugglers. now, they've been accused of being a wealth band or a bar

of wealth that they would have to achieve, because under these new plans, they would have to have a sponsor in the united states. they would have to apply for asylum in their home countries or one of the countries on the way to the border. and also these details are just being ironed out at the moment, but it's thought that they may have to fly to the united states, but anthony might. alejandro mayorkas, who is travelling with the president, has said that if you go to people smugglers, on average, they're paying around $6,000. so it's not a wealth ban at all. if you want to get in touch with me i'm on twitter — @bbckarishma you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. cleaning up after some of the worst flooding on record — we report from tropical cyclone ravaged western australia.

the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. good grief! after half a century of delighting fans around the world, charlie brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. the singer, paul simon, starts his tour of south africa tomorrow in spite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. they say international artists should continue to boycott south africa until majority rule is established. around the world, people have been paying tribute i to the iconic rock starl david bowie, who sold 140 million albums in a career that spanned half a century. l his family announced i overnight that he died of cancer at the age of 69. the world's tallest skyscraper opens later today. the burj dubai has easily overtaken its nearest rivals.

welcome back to newsday. some breaking news now from china — which says its military carried out combat drills around taiwan on sunday. it's the second time that has happened in less than a month. it's understood the drills took place in the sea and the air around taiwan — which has not yet responded. when we get more information we would bring it to you. for the first time in nearly three years, china has lifted quarantine rules for people arriving from abroad. it's the final step in the government's dismantling of its zero—covid policies. the abrupt change has driven a rapid rise in coronavirus cases and has prompted other countries to impose restrictions on chinese tourists. so let's take a look at some of those who want reassurance

before travellers from china arrive on their shores. the united states and the uk are introducing compulsory pre—flight covid—19 tests. india wants proof of a negative covid—19 test no more than 72 hours prior to departure for those arriving from china, south korea will impose testing before and after arriving in the country. japan and italy require testing upon arrival and quarantine for those who test positive. malaysia says it will begin screening all inbound travellers from china and elsewhere for fever. australia, canada, france, spain and several other countries are all imposing some kind of covid testing or vaccination requirements. martin yip spent sunday at the border between mainland china and hong kong, from where he reports. time to go home, finally. here at the hong kong checkpoint, travellers came streaming in again this sunday

morning heading for the western province. the crowd is much smaller in size than before, but still lively after almost three years of covid restrictions. even though the risk of catching covid is still high. translation: i'm pretty excited. - it's easier to head home now. i booked my shuttle bus ticket right away to go see my family there. the outbreak in mainland china has been going on for months, but i'm a bit worried because i have never got covid before. and the bridge checkpoint is just one of them. more people have taken the metro train heading to the north of the border. hong kong's leader is eager to check how things are going. at present, up to 50,000 can cross the border daily, but he promises to discuss fully reopening the border with his mainland china counterparts. for some, the reopening is way too quick. china says it is

still in control. translation: downgrading covid does not mean letting _ it out of control. rather, we have been more scientific, targeted and efficient in our response. we can do better in coordinating pandemic response and economic development. people are still wondering how rapid china is de—escalating all these measures, you could take a look at the other side of this bridge. macau, he only place in china we can look macau, the only place in china we can look at the gamble in a casino. it is treating covid is an endemic disease this morning, meaning if you get it you don't need to report yourself to the authorities any more. it is more like cold and flu. and in mainland china, no criminal charges will be pressed any more for those breaching lockdown measures. in hong kong, you still need to wear a facemask. for now, reuniting with loved ones might be the only thought

in these travellers' minds. health authorities have warned rural clinics to prepare for any possible outbreak and they will have to hold the fort for a0 days. martin yip, bbc news hong kong in other news at this hour — the uk's prime minister has said his government is willing to talk to health unions about their pay demands in england. speaking to bbc news, rishi sunak said the government was happy to discuss pay which was �*responsible' and affordable for the country. the leader of the royal college of nursing said the comments offered a chink of optimism. talks between unions and the government are due to take place on monday... when it comes to pay it we have always said we want to talk about things that are reasonable and affordable and responsible for the country. the uk government is to introduce a ban on single—use plastic items — like cups, cutlery and plates —

across england. only around 10% of the items are currently recycled — they can take two centuries to decompose. bans are already in place in wales and scotland — no date has yet been set for the new legislation to come parts of western australia have begun the huge task of cleaning up after the state's worst flooding on record. torrential rain from ex—tropical cyclone ellie has swamped the kimberley region — an area almost three times the size of the united kingdom. from sydney — phil mercer reports. in northern parts of western australia, there's water as far as you can see. this is a land well used to nature's extremes. but these are record—breaking floodwaters. as we know, people in the kimberley are experiencing a one in 100 yearflood event. the worst flooding western australia has had in its history. this situation continues to change, and is proving to be extremely challenging for residents in the region. a huge inland sea has been surging towards the coast

after the fitzroy river swamped the town of fitzroy crossing. dozens of residents have been rescued by helicopter and military aircraft have been delivering food and medicine. the scale of the inundation is vast. it's not something i've seen before. i've got to say, it is just an incredibly immense amount of water on the ground and any photo you see won't do the scale of itjustice. the severe weather has abated, water levels are receding, but the flooding is moving west, threatening other isolated communities. it could take months, if not longerfor roads, bridges, homes and livelihoods to be rebuilt. phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. that's all for now —

stay with bbc world news. hello. after a rather wet and windy first week of january 2023, we're heading into the second week on a similar note. unsettled weather on the cards through the week ahead, often fairly wet and windy, mainly rather mild for the time of year, although temperatures will fluctuate a bit through the next couple of days. but let's take a look at the expected rainfall that's going to be accumulating through this week. it's always going to be wettest in the west with our weather coming from the atlantic, particularly for parts of wales, for instance, there could be around 100 millimetres of rain falling here. i have northwest, england, west and scotland for instance too. so the potential perhaps for some flooding, particularly in the west through this week. at the moment we've got low pressure to the north of the uk, winds rotating around that from a north westerly direction. so not quite as mild as it has been of late. we've still got the much milder air sitting out in the wings and that's

on the way for tuesday. during monday, then a day of sunshine and showers, quite chilly start some eastern areas. showers drifting their way eastwards almost anywhere through the morning. but by the afternoon there'll be more concentrated for northern ireland, western scotland, perhaps into north west england and north wales. for the south and east, though, things are looking a little bit drier by the afternoon, six to ten degrees and noticeable breeze blowing, particularly across north western parts of the uk where it is going to be quite windy. but the winds ease and the showers fade away for a time monday evening and overnight. so cool and clearfor a time. but during the early hours of tuesday, the next area of low pressure drives this cloud rain and strengthening winds in from the west, just holding onto the clearer and colder conditions for the far east of scotland and england into tuesday morning. tuesday's weather, though, dominated by this frontal system pushing eastwards across the uk. lots of isobars on the chart there and we're going to be in between the warm front and the cold front. so in this warm sector of air, so temperatures are going to be pretty mild for the time of year, but it is going to be wet and it's going to be windy. rain almost anywhere to start the day, some snow for a time

over the higher ground of scotland, too, the main bulk of rain pushing northwards and eastwards, followed by heavy downpours from the west later on. and it really will feel windy, i think wherever you are, gusts inland, 30 to a0 miles per hour. but around the exposed coast, it could be 50, possibly 60 miles per hour, even higher than that potentially later across the north of scotland. so temperatures in the north, seven or eight degrees. but further south, we're looking at 13 or 1a celsius tuesday afternoon. things then remain pretty unsettled really for much of the week ahead. a hint that things turn a little bit cooler, though, through the course of the coming weekend. bye bye.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and the main news stories at the top of the hour on newsday straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. war and extreme poverty drive millions of people from their homes every year. some of those desperate people try to reach the rich western world where such inward migration routinely prompts fear and draconian countermeasures. do perceptions change when the story of migration is personalised? well, my guest today is waheed arian, who fled war

in afghanistan as a child, made it to the uk and is now