down to call suffolk, ah, you pay won't pay taxation and politics starts october 21st on d w with ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. voting is underway in brazil where left as former president lula is still not, has a shot at a 1st round victory bud right wing and come and present. your bull scenario has already worn to fraud. and some of his supporters want to use force to keep him in

power. also coming up with ukranian troops push ahead with their counter offensive after dealing a major blow to russia. president to lensky says their forces now fully control the strategic eastern city of lima. and indonesia, president orders of prob, into saturday's deadly ride and stampede at a football stadium more than $170.00 people were killed after fans of the losing side and storm the pitch and police responded with tear gas ah ameria evans, dean, it's good to have you with us, we begin in brazil where poles have opened in the presidential election following a heated and polarized campaign opinion polls give

a clear advantage to the left as former president louis ignacio lula da silva, the right thing incumbent shot. your ball scenario has indicated that if he's defeated, he might not accept the results. in recent months, at least 3 lulu supporters have been killed by suspected molten r. a supporters who repeatedly called for a military coup, wilson aro calls lula fif as the former president has been convicted for corruption and spent time in prison. bud louis supporters hope he is on track for a spectacular political come back of corresponded johan ramirez, sent us this report on the election from rio de janeiro. fernando sabrina once. lula the field, but to be her president. she lost her job after getting covey, and says if i now show support she gets is not enough. just put her hopes in lulu promises free left wing government focusing on social issues with them. i have

a better. if lula wins the election, we will get everything back off. people who live on the streets will get jobs, housing, everything, they don't have no way of human lump available, but people are split will flow. you can also find people on the streets of real who want more of right, wink president joe, so narrow, aided by some fatal center, a went through a very difficult time. he's not, it is not fair that people don't want to give him the chance to do a good job again. fabica, but brazil like all countries in the world, is starting to grow. now, after the pandemic back when it's, it's starting to develop and our government needs to show its work right now you are starting again, was that i was told that i buy laquata here, call me as fat. brazilians have

a difficult decision to make on sunday. although there are 9 other candidates in this election, it is all about lulu on board, so narrow, according to recent pause, low lice i had by more than 15 points on balls on our has had. if he doesn't win in the 1st round, it would be because something was wrong with the process. some say this with, but brazil's democracy at risk, yet dilapidated raising, but i seem to get it. this is the 1st time in brazil, you know, we have a president who says we cannot trust the results. also he, i neutral meal. there is a lot of fear that bull scenario will not recognize the results that there was election and that he will mobilize the armed forces and the police to remain in office for that matter. the laquisha barricade arsenal with him on yet merisa santoro says campaign some borders are largely focused on more immediate concerns

that push up with 2. of course in this election, the economy is the most important issue. even more important than the pandemic issues such as unemployment, hunger hall and the social impact of all these problems for the poorest people in brazil are at the center of the campaign, lent him up albany, but i seen local some real scopic of anna beach. no. their future would be that their mind by the results of these electrons, most voters would be thinking of what it will mean for day to day issues. but experts will be watching closely to see if brazil's democracy might be in danger. or for more on brazil's election, i'm joined in the studio by my colleague christiana hm. i have from dw is portuguese fort brazil, service christiana, really good to see you. so we hear that opinion polls suggest lula has a very good chance of securing an outright victory. even just in this 1st round today. do you think that's likely to happen?

well, marianna, that's true. her latest falls from yesterday nights show. a lula has an at large advantage over bull sonata 14 per cent, and also 50 per cent of the intention of the voters. but actually, it depends on how many people will appear to vote to in everything i would say is undefined. so you mention, you know, depends how many people go to vote, so is low turn out expected. what is the atmosphere in the country ahead of this vote and also an election day to day. yes, actually devote is mandatory in brazil for 4 people over 18 and under 70. but the point is that quite pull arise at a tipping was fear there. so we say from the research is almost 10 people admit they may not appear to vote in disc. would be really important in this moment. that

so narrow tis a difference with 50 percent. he should win with over 50 percent to win to day. so it's quite exciting the results and his expectations for today. we're also adding to this nervous atmosphere, perhaps is these statements by ball sanara who suggesting that if he's defeated, he may not accept the result and that they're at the, you know, he's saying that there's going to be fraud in the election process. so, is there a danger that should he be defeated to day that he just won't go peacefully? well, tis is there. the big question in brazil now, bo sonata has been really repeating over and over that he's not going to accept a defeat. at the same time of his campaigning against the credibility of his electoral process all the time. but analysts say that they don't see a like of a huge support at the army, for example, or

a military coup. so at the same time, there is a big wave now pro lula from many different segments of the society and not just from the left wing. so artists are campaigning, people from the justice, although many, many, many different sides in brazil are sporting lula to, to try to really decide this vote today. yeah, time will tell indeed a very exciting election campaign. christiana hm. i love from dw portuguese, from brazil, service. thank you so very much for oliver in science. thank you for having me. ukrainian forces are pushing ahead with their counter offensive after recapturing a key eastern town from russia. the training military says it struck several russian command post and ammunition depos moscow's defense ministry is also claiming to have destroyed ukrainian missile. depos. president zalinski says li mon and the eastern dynette screeching has been, quote, fully cleared of russian troops who retreated from the town on saturday. a video

shared by ukrainian police appears to show their forces tearing down russian flags . meanwhile, u. s. defense minister lloyd austin said, ukraine's victory and the mon would be a strategic headache for russia as it seeks to hold off the counter offensive elsewhere. we're very encouraged by what we're saying right now. we want to sit astride the supply lines of the, of the russians, and they've, they've used those routes to, to, to push men and material down to the south into the west. and without those routes, it will be more difficult. so this presents a sort of a dilemma for, for the russians going forward on dw, correspond, and nick connelly in key if told me that the loss of leman is a major blow to russian president vladimir putin. not only is it a crucial strategic point in terms of the logistics of russia's invasion of

ukraine's. we heard from lloyd austin there. it's just about the optics and the timing. you know, this is just a day after a couple of days after this huge event in moscow in the kremlin, with vladimir putin saying that russia is here to stay, that russia is not gonna budge. and he, we, he, we've seen, you know, the opposite being proved. we've seen ukraine successfully rolling back for some control pulling down russian flags pulling down signs and symbols of the kind of russian takeover. and this is, this is a window yet, screeching. so this is the reason that russia now claims as its own and you, ukraine, is actually able to create facts on the grounds. this is a very big deal. and you know, it potentially with few more weeks to go before the winter, really sets in and fighting those more difficult as the real prospect of ukraine heading towards their cities. 70000. yes. the chance which were basically russia's only big wind of the summer. russia invested thousands of lives and a lot of technology is capturing those cities at, you know, very, very slow pace. now ukraine's within striking distance is really we launched

a wave of soul searching in russia. huge amounts. kristen for the russian military leadership, bladder puter, under a lot of pressure. even people who are in favor of this invasion of ukraine and a sense that even rushes mobilization of tens and hundreds of thousands of civilians is not actually having effect yet. and you can really on a roll. so nick, what do we know about russia's military strategy? what are they likely to do next? well the fair hearing here is that given these failures on the battlefield, given rushes inability to really change its tactics to deal with all the western equipment that ukraine is getting. they are going to increasingly focus their attention on civilian infrastructure and basically try and make life as difficult as possible for as many claims they can. the sooner thing is that in the middle of this war, you're hearing key. if you still have that functioning perfectly, you have electricity, you have gas, if all the kind of basics of modern civilization and the expectation is that russia will try and make life so uncomfortable, that the ukraine population puts pressure on its leaders to. and this war on russia's term, so that's really the thing that people are expecting him did is nicole lynette

connelly reporting from here. thank you so much. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. german defense minister christine alam christ says germany will deliver for state of the art air defense systems to ukraine. within days, the comments came during a surprise visit to the city of odessa on our 1st visit to ukraine since the war began. lambert, i said, germany will continue to coordinate with allies and any decision regarding his request for german battle tanks. women in afghanistan took to the streets or protest, a suicide bombing, the attack and targeted a gender segregated study hall in kabul in a district associated with a shiite muslim, has our community. 35 people were killed. most of them women, as they were taking tests for university admission to indonesia. now, where president, yoko widow has ordered

a probe into the deadly riot and stampede following the football match on saturday, at least 174 people were killed. most of them trampled in a rush for stadium exits after police fired tear gas at the crowns. are indonesia correspondent garrick matters filed this report about the tragic events in my lung on the island of java. silence on the sock approached the day after the ma lung stadium disaster. all of this has now become evidence in a desperate investigation of how things could get slow out of hand. outside the hospitals belong in the province of east java. hundreds of people are searching for their loved ones like this father. he can't find his 18 year old daughter. so far, i've been through 3 hospitals. i can't reach her. maybe the phone is on low battery. i also can't reach her boyfriend. the tragedy unfolded the night before

when frustrated supporters of the losing home team invaded the pitch throwing bottles and other items, police officers fire to tear gas triggering a stampede. the world suckers governing body fifa prohibits tear gas in or near stadiums. the local police chief decline to answer our questions about the event. what's clear is that the stadium was filled beyond capacity. 42000 tickets for a venue made to hold 38000 spectators. hospitals are now struggling to care for scores of injured i. initially we received 93 patients, now 12 our left, 5 with serious head injuries and 4 in critical condition. the rest on the way to recover yell, i know they have been outbreaks of violence at matches in indonesia before but not at the scale. the president has now suspended the league until further notice

demanding a detailed investigation in what is one of modern histories worse stadium disasters . in washington w news or reminder of our top story. buildings underway in brazil were left as former president linda silva has a shot and a 1st round victory. that right wing and come in presidential here. both an arrow has already warned a fraud. some of his supporters have been implicated in recent killings and want to use force to keep him in power. you're up to date and he got the news america and then steam or me and the nice teen thanks for watching interest. the global economy. our portfolio. d w business beyond.