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welcome to bbc news. our top stories. thousands of supporters of brazil's former presidentjair bolsonaro storm the country's parliament. some protesters managed to smash their way into the senate chamber and supreme court — president lula is promising tough action. translation: we think there was a lack of security and i wanted to tell you that all those people who did this will be found and punished. the dramatic scenes have prompted international condemnation — we'll have the latest reaction. also in the programme: president biden visits america's border with mexico for the first time since taking office — as the area struggles
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to cope with record numbers of illegal crossings. prince harry reveals he's currently not on speaking terms with his brother, the prince of wales, in an interview with the us media. how was she dangerous? her image. because of the connections she was forging within the british press. brazilian police say they've regained control of the congress building in the capital, brasilia, after it was stormed by thousands of supporters of the former president, jair bolsonaro. the demonstrators are refusing to accept that he lost last year's election. they want the military to intervene. the country's new leader, luis inacio lula da silva, described the protesters as fascist vandals and promised to punish them. tom brada reports.
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total chaos in brasilia as thousands of hardline thousands of ha rdline protesters thousands of hardline protesters with trial of brazilian capital. this was a scenario many here feared might happen after a divisive election back in october. these images reminiscent of what happened in the capital of the us two years ago after all the president bolsonaro is nicknamed the trumpet of the tropics by some, but have they been emboldened by the us president this was more than a copycat insurrection it goes beyond translation:. what beyond translation: . what angers beyond translation:. what angers protesters is the fact that president lula. a man they see as belonging and prison not the presidential palace. there is been no evidence of fraud despite what these protesters
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claim, what they want is military in been, the only way in their view britain can be saved from what they see as a stolen election. i’m saved from what they see as a stolen election.— stolen election. i'm here in the specific _ stolen election. i'm here in the specific peaceful - stolen election. i'm here in i the specific peaceful election because i don't agree with the thievery of lula and the superior electrical want you elections, clean ballot boxes. we don't believe this election was democratic, there are several_ was democratic, there are several indications there was fraud, — several indications there was fraud, corruption.— fraud, corruption. ludo the elected president - fraud, corruption. ludo the elected president has - fraud, corruption. ludo the elected president has beeni fraud, corruption. ludo the i elected president has been on the job elected president has been on thejob forjust a elected president has been on the job forjust a week condemned what happened. calling the protesters fanatical fascists. calling the protesters fanaticalfascists. mil calling the protesters fanatical fascists. all those eo - le fanatical fascists. all those peeple who _ fanatical fascists. all those people who did _ fanatical fascists. all those people who did this - fanatical fascists. all those people who did this will. fanatical fascists. all those people who did this will be | people who did this will be found and punished. they will realise democracy guarantees the right to freedom and free speech but it also demands people respect the institutions created to strengthen democracy. bi; created to strengthen democracy. created to strengthen democra . j ., , democracy. by nightfall people had been cleared _ democracy. by nightfall people had been cleared from - democracy. by nightfall people had been cleared from the - had been cleared from the buildings, police clearing the remaining protesters from the
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streets, at best authorities caught unprepared, at worst, suspected of being involved, the supreme court has been asked to issue an arrest warrant for the man in charge of brasilia security, a former minister under bolsonaro, dismissed after sunday's events. the car may have been restored for now but the political division remains. as we've been hearing mr bolsonaro has been tweeting about the events in brasilia. in one of his tweets he said, "peaceful lawful demonstrations are part of democracy. however, pillaging and invasions of public buildings as occurred today, such as those practised by the left in 2013 and 2017, are outside the law." leo puglia is a history and sociology teacher whose phd thesis was about jair bolsonaro and his supporters and he joins me now from rio dejaneiro.
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we saw in that report a lot of this is about ideology as well as the individual characters involved, would you say that the case?— involved, would you say that the case? , ., , ., the case? yes, for sure most of these more _ the case? yes, for sure most of these more radical _ the case? yes, for sure most of these more radical bolsonaro i these more radical bolsonaro supporters believe that ludo is a communist and he will install a communist and he will install a communist and he will install a communist dictatorship, it happens because very similar to what happened in the united states, these people are more disconnected from reality, because they don't believe in corporate media, theyjust get information through whatsapp and social media, made by bolsonaro supporters, and congressmen, and they believe president lula should not take place and they are trying to set brazil free from communism, and that is what it is about. is this divisive? we see the
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extremes in the protests as we see today, how are people feeling where you are in rio de janeiro? feeling where you are in rio de janeiro? ., , ., , janeiro? people here, actually, everything _ janeiro? people here, actually, everything happened _ janeiro? people here, actually, everything happened too - janeiro? people here, actually, everything happened too fast, l everything happened too fast, and the first reaction, we are on one hand very sad for what happened, the destruction of our capital city, we are not surprised on the other hand be was bolsonaro supporters, they told they would do so, they are, he is a big fan of donald trump and his supporters as well and they promised to make an attack similar to what happened in the capital in the united states, and what surprised us, as the federal district, police did not do its job, that's the problem, we hope they would protect the city from this attack and it did not happen. we had one week
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ago the translation: inauguration in brasilia, and i was there and people were scared because one week before his inauguration we had an attempted terrorist attack in brasilia, a guy put a bomb that would explode at the brasilia airport, hopefully, it failed and we were really scared about this but the inauguration went fine and the bolsonaro supporters promised to take over brasilia today, to attack like what happened in the united states, but we expect the police to do itsjob united states, but we expect the police to do its job and they didn't, theyjust let the protest did what they did, they just destroyed the palace of brasilia. i5 just destroyed the palace of brasilia. , ., just destroyed the palace of brasilia. , . ., , . brasilia. is there a realistic fear brasilia. is there a realistic feer this — brasilia. is there a realistic fear this kind _ brasilia. is there a realistic fear this kind of _ brasilia. is there a realistic fear this kind of protest. brasilia. is there a realistic. fear this kind of protest could happen in other cities, brasilia is where the main political institutions are in rio and sao paulo as their fear this kind of actions could
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happen?— this kind of actions could hauen? , happen? this could happen, since president _ happen? this could happen, since president lula - happen? this could happen, since president lula won - happen? this could happen, j since president lula won the election the most radical bolsonaro positions they start to camp in front of military headquarters all over brazil, all over the country and they are everywhere, in front of military headquarters, begging for a military dictatorship, thatis for a military dictatorship, that is their hope and what bolsonaro promised, but he didn't deliver tears away to the us, afraid of being arrested in brazilfor his crimes. arrested in brazil for his crimes-_ arrested in brazil for his crimes. ., ~ , . ., crimes. thank you very much for “oininu crimes. thank you very much for joining us- _ you will find lots more reaction to events in brazil on our website — including a live page with all the latest developments. just head to bbc.com/news — or download the bbc news app. let's get some of the day's other news. russia's claim to have killed hundreds of ukrainian soldiers in a rocket attack has been dismissed by kyiv
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as propaganda. moscow said it struck a dormitary in the eastern city of kramatorsk, but hasn't provided evidence of the deaths. roads, bridges and homes have been damaged by unprecedented flooding in northern parts of western australia. military helicopters have been delivering food and medicine, and evacuated more than 200 people who had been cut off by the floods. international travellers are streaming into china after it fully opened its borders for the first time since the start of the covid pandemic. this latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions coincides with the country's busiest travel season marking the lunar new year. presidentjoe biden has visited the us border with mexico for the first time since taking office. he inspected a busy entry point in the texan city of el paso — which has been struggling to cope with record numbers of illegal crossings. our correspondent sophie long sent this report from texas. everyone here has stories of suffering and survival, even those too young to yet
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comprehend or communicate them. few now deny there is a humanitarian crisis along the us southern border but there is deep disagreement about what should be done to resolve it. president biden met those who patrol this border day and night. the agents, his opponents say, under his administration have become little more than welcoming committees. yarad came with her husband and three children. it took months to travel here from venezuela. they've already been deported once but, undeterred, they made the dangerous journey back across the border. they left because of the broken economy, she says. and tells me she wants president biden to give them the chance to work. but yarad and herfamily are exactly the people joe biden has told not to come. they have no relations here, no plan and they've entered
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illegally. just weeks ago, thousands poured across the border here. el paso's streets were strewn with people who had nowhere else to sleep. elio tells me a few nights ago, 400 migrants were cleared from this site. they were handcuffed and loaded onto buses. the few that remained had the right documentation. these papers, he says, are his protection. critics of this visit say joe biden has had a sanitised view, that it is political posturing is another presidential election looms. others believe it is simply too little, too late. president biden's presence will certainly shone a light
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on the plight of people here but his visit lasted less than a few hours. what's happening in el paso and other cities along the border is the result of a system that's been failing for decades and with washington divided, it's unlikely there will be a real and lasting solution anytime soon. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: prince harry says he never intended to hurt his father or brother by writing a memoir in another interview with the us media. 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.
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they say international artists should continue to boycott south africa _ until majority rule is established. . around the world, people have been paying tribute to the iconic rock star, david bowie, who sold 140 million albums in a career that spanned half a century. his family announced 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. this is bbc news. the latest headlines — thousands of supporters of brazil's former president jair bolsonaro storm the country's parliament. president lula condemns the protesters as "fascist vandals". 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.
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prince harry has accused members of his family of being "complicit" in the suffering endured by his wife. in an interview with tom bradby on itv1 — the first of several television appearances he's making to promote his new book — the duke of sussex also said some of his relatives had got "into bed with the devil". he insisted he loved his father and brother but said, "at the moment, i don't recognise them". our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has been watching the interview. a warning — his report contains some flashing images. "harry interview" — what an original name, huh? 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, harry describes how his father broke the news. harry: his voice was soft.
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he was in shock, it seemed. "oh, hospital?" "yes, with a head injury." i thought again, "injured, but she's ok. "she's been taken to hospital, they'll fix her head and we'll "go and see her. "today — tonight, at the latest." "they tried, darling boy. "i'm afraid she didn't make it." the family decided that harry and william should walk behind the coffin to their mother's funeral. there were a lot of conversations that happened around times like that, of which i wasn't part of and william wasn't part of. he was probably more part of it than i was but, you know, the decision was made for both of us to walk behind our mother's coffin and there's absolutely no way that i would let him do that by himself. there were still a lot of things unexplained about the accident in paris,
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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 his story. i love my father, love my brother, i love my family, i always do. nothing of what i've 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 — 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? mmm. 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
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with willy — stories that contained pinpoint accurate details — none of which had come from willy, 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 catherine. they're suits fans — who would've thought? who would've thought? i never knew that. but the impression is that theyjust — there's — almost from the get go, it'sjust they don't get on. fair? yeah, 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. nicholas witchell, bbc news. prince harry also sat down with us broadcaster anderson cooper for a 60 minutes interview and was asked whether he's heard
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from his family lately. do you speak to william now? do you text? do you speak to william now? do ou text? , ., �* you text? currently no. but i look forward _ you text? currently no. but i look forward to. .. _ you text? currently no. but i look forward to. .. i - you text? currently no. but i look forward to. .. i look - look forward to... i look forward _ look forward to... i look forward to us being able to find — forward to us being able to find peace. forward to us being able to find peace-— forward to us being able to find peace. how long has it been since _ find peace. how long has it been since you _ find peace. how long has it been since you spoke? - find peace. how long has it been since you spoke? a l find peace. how long has it - been since you spoke? a while. do ou been since you spoke? a while. do you speak — been since you spoke? a while. do you speak to _ been since you spoke? a while. do you speak to your _ been since you spoke? a while. do you speak to your dad? - been since you spoke? a while. do you speak to your dad? we l do you speak to your dad? we haven't spoken for quite a while _ haven't spoken for quite a while. no. not recently. the interviews are part of the promotion for his memoir released on tuesday, and he was asked about some of the things he'd written about camilla, queen consort, and wife to his father king charles. how was she dangerous? because of the need for her to rehabilitate her image. that made her dangerous? that made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the british press. and there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information, and with a family built on hierarchy and with her on the way to being queen consort, there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that.
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buckingham palace has not publicly commented on either of the interviews. it wasn't just his family that the prince condemned. most of prince harry's fire was saved for the british tabloid press and in particular the way they treated his wife meghan. the fact that she was american, an actress, divorced, black, biracial, with a black mother, those are just four of the typical stereotypes that becomes a feeding frenzy for the british press so if you have thatjudgement based on a stereotype right at the beginning, it's very, very hard to get over that and a large part of that for the family but also for the british press and numerous other people is like he's changed, she must be a witch. he is changed. broadcaster and commentator trisha goddard watched both interviews. i asked her how the tone differed between the two.
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it is very, very different, isn't it? well, for one thing, tom has known, you know, prince william from the age of 18 and it's a sort of almost like a chat between friends. 60 minutes has a far more sort of formal — you know, barbara walters was one of the trailblazers there, so it's far more formal. and the other difference is that i felt — and my husband commented on the same thing when we watched it — that prince harry felt more able to talk about his emotions and show his emotions to anderson cooper because americans are ok with that. whereas when he was talking to tom bradby, although it was — felt like two old friends chatting, there was loss of a show of emotion because the brits don't do it that way. so what it makes me think, he's really... i don't like to use the word �*playing' to different audiences, but you have to know your different audiences — and let me be quite honest, the way i'm talking to you is probably slightly different from when i'm commentating on cnn. there are two very different approaches to this. but i thought it was fascinating. i thought it was fascinating
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the anderson cooper interview started off very much with the death of diana, and that is something that's huge over here in the us — and the crown, as you know, the crown is sort of only recently covered that and i'm constantly... the crown being the netflix series, the drama. yeah, and i'm constantly reminding my friends it is not a documentary, that it is a drama. but that is something that really resonates here in the united states, and i thought it was very interesting that they spent so much of 60 minutes covering that and covering harry's trauma of that incident. and then, the next thing was that he was a veteran, and that's a massive thing in the united states — unfortunately less so in the uk — but if you're a veteran in the united states, i mean, people applaud you, you get discounts for mortgages and so on and so forth, so i think it — whoever their pr people are, they were playing very much to the audiences, the differences in the audiences. and on the audience, we've heard a lot from the sussexes in recent months —
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even in sort of the last — going back sort of the last couple of years, do you think there is appetite for more information, for more material from them? i think they've probably reached the end of the road, you know, and i'm interested to see what comes next. a lot of it, if you read a lot of the tabloids, you will read things like this person is fed up in the united states, the the americans are turning their backs on it. do not believe it. they are cherry picking here and there. remember the crown, the series, is one of britain's biggest exports. no, they're — it is seen as hollywood, it is seen as a celebrity thing. there isn't the understanding — the visceral understanding that brits have about the royal family. that isn't there. it's kind of more of a celebrity fascination. "we've got our own princess. "you can marry a prince," and what have you over here. but i don't see what the next chapter is, unless it's a reconciliation — and, as harry says numerous times, that will be in private. it'll be interesting to see how the trust is built because i do
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believe what harry says — there is a whipping up in some sections of the media to try and set royal against royal for their own ends — for clickbait, let's be honest. clickbait. three days of mourning have been declared for the 39 victims of a road accident in senegal�*s central kaffrine region. more than 100 others were injured when two buses crashed in a head—on collision on one of the country's main roads. the crash has caused one of the heaviest losses of life from a single incident in recent years. the bbc�*s daniel dadzie reports. a national tragedy, one of the deadliest road accidents in senegal�*s recent memory. the crash between two passenger buses happened on one of the main east—west arterial roads
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near the town of kaffrine, around 220 kilometres south—east of the capital dakar. preliminary investigations suggested that one of the buses suffered a burst tyre and collided head—on with an oncoming bus. president macky sall has declared three days of national mourning. he also assured that further measures will be taken to ensure road safety. translation: senegal has been hit by a tragedy following a traffic accident which left at least 39 people there. some bodies have yet to be identified and that is an ongoing process. the state will provide all the support and solidarity to the bereaved families and to the injured and theirfamilies to help families and to the injured and their families to help them deal with the loss. the world health organization - deal with the loss. the world health organization reports l health organization reports there are 27,000 rd traffic accident victims in senegal
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with 11,000 accident victims in senegal with11,000 in accident victims in senegal with 11,000 in the capital dakar alone. they report that these figures help explain why africa accounts for 20% of all road fatalities worldwide, despite having only 3% of the world's registered vehicles. the region has the highest road fatality rate at 26.6 hundred thousand people, representing 272,000 road related deaths annually. experts attribute these questions to driver error, for roads and broken down vehicles. in the crash are receiving treatment in suffering. the nationalfire brigade has declared the wreckage and normal traffic has resumed on the road —— kaffrine. but for millions of senegalese, this disaster will not easily be forgotten. daniel dadzie, bbc news. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @@bbcvishalasp
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that's all from us for now. thank you for watching. 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. and for north—west, england, western 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.
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during monday, then, a day of sunshine and showers. quite a chilly start for some eastern areas. showers drifting their way eastwards almost anywhere through the morning but by the afternoon, they'll be more concentrated for northern ireland, western scotland, perhaps into north west england and north wales. further south and east, though, things are looking a little bit drier by the afternoon. six to ten degrees, a 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 clear for 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
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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 coasts, 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.
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this is bbc news, the headlines: thousands of supporters of brazil's former president jair bolsonaro have stormed the country's parliament in the capital brasilia, refusing to accept that he lost last year's election. they want the military to intervene. the country's new leader, luis inacio lula da silva, has condemned the protesters as fascist vandals. president biden has visited america's border with mexico for the first time since taking office, inspecting a busy entry point in the texan city of el paso. the area is struggling to cope with record numbers of illegal crossings and republicans say he hasn't done enough to stop them. prince harry has given his fiercest criticism yet of his stepmother in an interview with the us media — describing the queen consort as �*dangerous' over her relationship with
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the british press. he's also told the uk media that he never intended

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