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this is bbc news. i'm vishala sri—pathma with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 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 i 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 to cope with record numbers of illegal crossings. prince harry reveals he's currently not on speaking terms
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with his brother, the prince of wales, in an interview with the us media. do you speak to william now? do you text? do you speak to william now? do ou text? , ., �* you text? currently, no. butl look forward _ you text? currently, no. butl look forward to _ you text? currently, no. butl look forward to us _ you text? currently, no. butl look forward to us being - you text? currently, no. butl look forward to us being able | look forward to us being able to find — look forward to us being able to find peace. hello and welcome to the programme. 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 bolsanaro. the demonstrators are refusing to accept that he lost last year's election. they want the military to intervene.
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the country's new leader, luis inacio lula da silva, described the protesters as fascist vandals and promised to punish them. our south america correspondent katy watson reports. total chaos in brasilia as thousands of hardline protesters invaded government buildings, authorities responded with tear gas to try and regain control of the brazilian capital. this was a scenario_ brazilian capital. this was a scenario many here feared might happen— scenario many here feared might happen after a divisive election battle in october. these _ election battle in october. these images are clearly reminiscent of what happened in the us— reminiscent of what happened in the us capitol two years ago. after— the us capitol two years ago. after all. _ the us capitol two years ago. after all, the former president bolsonaro was nicknamed trompe by supporters. this was more than — by supporters. this was more thaniust_ by supporters. this was more thaniust a _ by supporters. this was more thanjust a copycat than just a copycat insurrection. thanjust a copycat insurrection. it goes beyond bolsonaro two. what angers protesters the most is not so much — protesters the most is not so much that he lost but the fact that lula _ much that he lost but the fact that lula won. a man they see as belonging in prison, the presidential palace.
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translation: | presidential palace. translation: ., ., , translation: i am here for this totally peaceful _ translation: i am here for this totally peaceful demonstration . totally peaceful demonstration because i do not agree with the thievery of lula, the supreme court and the electoral court. we want you elections and clean mallet boxes. we do not believe that this election was democratic. there are several indications that there was fraud and corruption. there has been no evidence of fraud despite what these protesters claim. no matter, what these people want is military intervention. it is the only way, in their view, that brazil can be saved from what they see as a stolen election. lula, the elected president, has been in thejob for a elected president, has been in the job for a week and condemned what happened, pulling protesters fanatical fascist. �* ,, �* pulling protesters fanatical fascist._ alli pulling protesters fanatical - fascist._ all those fascist. translation: all those eo - le fascist. translation: all those peeple who _ fascist. translation: all those peeple who did _ fascist. translation: all those people who did this _ fascist. translation: all those people who did this will - fascist. translation: all those people who did this will be - 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 institutions created to strengthen democracy. by
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nightfall, people had been cleared from the buildings and police were clearing the remaining protesters from the streets. at best, authorities were caught out and unprepared. at worst they are expected of being involved. there did not seem to be a police president at capital that you would expect something like this to happen. the police barricades were easily overthrown by these supporters and it is just a bit of a mess. supporters and it is 'ust a bit of a mesh supporters and it is 'ust a bit of a mess. ,, , ., of a mess. the supreme court has been _ of a mess. the supreme court has been asked _ of a mess. the supreme court has been asked to _ of a mess. the supreme court has been asked to issue - of a mess. the supreme court has been asked to issue an . has been asked to issue an arrest warrant for the man in charge of brazil's security, the former minister was dismissed after the events of sunday. the car may be restored for now but the political division remains. that meant the calm may be restored for now. —— the calm. you will find lots more reaction to events in brazil on our website — including a live page with all
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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 as propaganda. moscow said it struck a dormitory 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. 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.
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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 of survival. even those too young yet to comprehend or communicate them. few now deny there's a humanitarian crisis along the us southern border but there is deep disagreement over what should be done to resolve it. president biden met those who patrol this border day and night, the agents who his opponents say under his administration have become little more than welcoming committees. yara came with her husband and three young children, it took them three months to travel here from venezuela. they have been deported
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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 a chance to work. but yara and herfamily are exactly the people joe biden has told not to come. they have no relations here, no plan and they have entered illegally. just weeks ago, thousands poured across the border here, el paso streets were strewn with people who had nowhere else to sleep. elial tells me three nights ago, around 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,
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are his protection. critics of this visit say joe biden has had a sanitised view, that it is political posturing as another presidential election looms. others believe it is simply too little, too late. president biden�*s presence will certainly have shone a light on the plight of people here but his visit less than a few hours. what is happening in el paso and other cities along the border is the result of a system that has been failing for decades and with washington divided. it is unlikely there will be a real and lasting solution, any time soon. sophie long, bbc news, el paso. returning now to our main story. thousands of supporters of the former president of brazil have stormed congress in brasilia and we're joined now by raphael, a whojoins us now
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from rio dejaneiro. thank you for being on the programme. firstly, there is a lot of talk about how these protests have been expected for some time now. , ., ., now. good evening. here in brazil we — now. good evening. here in brazil we expected - now. good evening. here in brazil we expected the - now. good evening. here in - brazil we expected the protest, not surprised. we think the protests were being planned by protesters right after the election but here in brazil we are shocked that for what we have seen here would actually rioters invading the congress and also the supreme court buildings. it is a massive situation. and for these protesters it is notjust necessarily about shia
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bolsonaro, it is about the ideology that president lula represents, this left—wing policy that they view is what they are not happy about. those are extremists for right people from brazil. they used to be led by bolsonaro and they are protesting against the election of lula but now they are abandoned by bolsonaro who is not in the us and we are seeing this type of riot here, this type of invasion in public buildings here in brazil and then we will see what be the consequences of these acts of these extremists here. hats? consequences of these acts of these extremists here. how are --eole in these extremists here. how are people in rio — these extremists here. how are people in rio feeling? - these extremists here. how are people in rio feeling? this - these extremists here. how are people in rio feeling? this is i people in rio feeling? this is
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happening in the capital where all the big political institutions are. how do people feel where you are?— institutions are. how do people feel where you are? feelwhere you are? here in rio life aoes feelwhere you are? here in rio life goes on- — feelwhere you are? here in rio life goes on. people _ feelwhere you are? here in rio life goes on. people were - feelwhere you are? here in rio life goes on. people were in - life goes on. people were in shockin life goes on. people were in shock in their homes but there is no rioting in the streets, no other people here in rio are gathering tojoin no other people here in rio are gathering to join these manifestations. so life here was normal right now. everyone who is not from the far right, everyone is in shock here. you mention that _ everyone is in shock here. you mention that these _ everyone is in shock here. you mention that these are far right extremists. are there any divisions being seen into everyday life and everyday society? everyday life and everyday socie ? �* ., , society? brazil is quite polarised _ society? brazil is quite polarised it _ society? brazil is quite polarised it seems. . society? brazil is quite - polarised it seems. between 2013 and 2014 until 2016, i
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would say and people are actually tired of this polarisation, the rioting of the left and the one who has the left and the one who has the might in place so the polarisation is ruining brazilian society, unfortunately. but what we see now, we hope it is the last movement of the far right. i don't believe that it will be their last movement, i think they are electing leadership now but it is good to see a lack of co—ordinated leadership but here we have a polarised society for many years. thank you forjoining us.— you for “oining us. three days of you forjoining us. three days of mourning _ you forjoining us. three days of mourning have _ you forjoining us. three days of mourning have been - you forjoining us. three days i of mourning have been declared for the 39 victims of a road
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crash in the central region of senegal. others were injured when two buses crushed —— collided. the cynical season average of 20,000 rd victims in average of 20,000 rd victims in a year and this is because one of the heaviest losses of life in a single incident in recent years. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, prince harry says he never intended to hurt his father or his 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
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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 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 world 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
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of illegal crossings. 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". 0ur 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.
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in the audiobook, harry describes how his father broke the news. harry: his voice was soft. he was in shock, it seemed. "0h, hospital?" "yes, with a head injury." i thought again, "injured, but she's 0k. "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, harry said, but he saw no point
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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, i 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.
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stories began to appear everywhere, in all the papers, about her private conversation 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.
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prince harry also sat down with us broadcaster anderson cooper for a 60 minutes interview and was asked whether he's heard from his family lately. do you speak to william now? do you text? currently no. but i look forward to... i look forward to us being able to find peace. how long has it been since you spoke? a while. do you speak to your dad? we 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 about the time before she married his father king charles. you wrote i even wanted camilla to be happy, maybe she would be less dangerous if she was happy. 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
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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. buckingham palace hasn't commented on any of the claims made in the interviews. it wasn't just his family that the prince condemned — he criticised 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's changed. broadcaster and commentator
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trisha goddard watched both interviews. i asked her how the tone differed between the two. 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
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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 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
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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 — 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.
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"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 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. the head of the uk's largest nursing union says the latest comments by the prime minister offer a "chink of optimism" for settling their pay dispute. rishi sunak told the bbc he was willing to discuss pay and was open to a deal that was "responsible" and "affordable". when it comes to pay, we've always said we want to talk about things that are reasonable, that are affordable
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and responsible for the country. uk prime minister rishi sunak there. and talks between unions and the uk government are due to take place later on monday. final preparations are taking place in britain for the first satellite launch from western europe soil. later on monday, a repurposed jumbo jet is due to take off from cornwall with a rocket under its wing. when it reaches 35,000 feet, it will release the spacecraft, which will blast into orbit before deploying nine satellites. the aircraft is operated by virgin 0rbit, a company founded by the billionaire, richard branson. the uk's internationally—renowned manufacturing sector has previously had to send its products abroad to get them into space. you can get more on our top story on brazil on our website. all of our latest from our
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correspondence are there. that's it from us for now. you can reach me on socials on instagram and twitter — i'm @bbcvishalasp. thanks 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. during monday, then,
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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
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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 40 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 14 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 the british press.
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he's also told the uk media that he never intended

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