she's in london drumming up support for lula's bid to be re—elected president — only he's currently inbrazil having been convicted of corruption. are they the saints or sinners of brazil's political class? dilma rousseff, thank you for speaking to hardtalk. you are travelling the world, you are in london at the moment in support of your predecessor, the man all brazilians know as mallala. why are you so confident that he could be president again? let's deal with two things you have raised. the first is, you have talked about the reality. you the reality is he is in prison, serving a term for corruption. the court, at the highest level, says his appeals have been exhausted. he cannot if he isa have been exhausted. he cannot if he is a convicted prisoner whose appeals have been exhausted be a candidate. how can it be a coup if all the procedures of the law have been observed? you make two questions. i must interrupt you. he wasn't tried by the media, he was tried by the courts. no! if there was really no case, the supreme court would not have supported this conviction, it would have over

david: what is the chance that he is more like lula than he is like chavez?compare him to shop us but a lot of people appear thought that lula would be leftist and he turned out to be very good for brazil. vicente: it depends on him. he is not shown the attributes that lula showed that is strong leadership looking for the better of the country. it's not for populism and demagoguery. shery: great to have you with us here in new york. thank you very much, the former president of mexico and author of the book, "let's move on." coming up, shares of annex. near a session high. the semi conductor share spiking today as the u.s. and china seek to end trade tensions. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power." i'm david westin. shery: i'm shery ahn. time now for our stock of the hour and that is an next piece nxp; actors. shares are on the best pace before qualcomm ever made its formal bid for the company. abigail doolittle joining us with details and something to do with using of -- easing of trade tensions. abigail: there's hope that

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presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorite some former president lula says. is in prison and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to the times that many here fear lie ahead that. now french football giants then a day in sudan has just announced he's stepping down as real madrid's manager the surprise decision follows a third successive champions league when. you know again i'm living the problem in the headlines on al-jazeera russia appears to be trying to position itself as a player and any developments with north korea and the expected summit with the united states foreign minister sergey lavrov is in pyongyang where he met leader kim jong un he told him that russia wants peace and progress on the korean peninsula while also inviting him to moscow at the request of president putin. it is absolutely obvious that starting any discussion of the nuclear problem and all other programs on the korean peninsula they cannot be complete without repealing all sanctions on north korea that will go ahead will be a question of the skill of the negoti

presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorites and former president lula da silva is imprisoned and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to look to mulch is times that many here fear lie ahead and try not to see it or. now the leader of italy's a populist five star movement has suggested a compromise to end the months long political deadlock luigi is trying to resurrect his coalition by selecting a new candidate for finance minister on sunday president sergio better rela rejected euro skeptic nominee for the post causing a coalition deal to collapse no italy has been without a working government for three months the team barbara has more from rome. well when state expectations swung from believing that karl quarterly would actually present a list of potential cabinet members to the president's surge of matter ala to rumors that those so-called populist parties five star and the league were now back in discussions and in fact the entourage of mystical to really himself saying that he was waiting to see whether that was going to be a run or a

presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorites and former president lula da silva is imprisoned and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to do to mull choose times that many here fear lie ahead and try not to see it. well then one point two billion children are being robbed of their childhoods according to a new report by save the children that's one half of all the children in the world report says that three key factors are blame for this conflict poverty or discrimination against girls almost one hundred fifty three million children are living in twenty countries affected by all three threats these include somalia yemen afghanistan and south sudan in a moment reports from juba and sas you don. fifteen year old mary kay dent has only one dream to go to school and get a degree so when her family told her she will be married off so they can get money she ran away to an orphanage. and. my brother said they wanted to sell me because they wanted money for food i told them i wanted to study but they said they didn't want me to go to school that

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presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorite some former president lula da silva is in prison and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to look to mulch is times that many here fear lie ahead and try not to see it or. thousands of revenge are women who say they were raped by soldiers and me and moron are due to give birth in overcrowded bangladeshi cambs they fled the military crackdown in rakhine state last year along with more than seven hundred thousand other ranger muslims but in a honda has this story fatima was just sixteen and newly married when she sees me and my soldiers killed her husband as they burned her village she fled into the forest but soldiers cautions here and she says one of them raped her after the trauma of trying to make it to bangladesh she discovered she was pregnant but she doesn't know who the father is her late husband or the soldier who write to her more and more more more he's my baby how can i throw him away i have to love him. more than seven hundred thousand muslim or henge or create a military crackdown on

presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorite some former president lula da silva is in prison and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to do to mulch is times that many here fear lie ahead and try not to see it or. afghan government officials say one police officer has been killed along with the seven isolate attackers who targeted the interior ministry headquarters in kabul police say a car bomb was detonated at the entrance before government stormed the compound that attack came as taliban fighters targeted another police headquarters in the east of afghanistan jennifer glass reports now from kabul. the explosions and gunfire went on for about two hours as fighters attacked the interior ministry on a suicide attacker detonated his explosive at the entrance of the interior ministry and wounded two people right after the blast i saw other attackers who had military uniforms getting out from an armored vehicle security personnel responded quickly the compound is heavily fortified and guarded it moved to this site last year so that it could b

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presidential elections are doing october is not running the one time favorites and former president lula da silva is in prison and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil through to mulch it was times that many here here lie ahead and try and that are just here. let's go back to our story with peter matthys of course a professor at cypress college she was rudely interrupted by the technology i love blaming technology peter when these things happen because can't possibly be our fault at all getting back to the subject of north korea and the us the difficulty seems to be not in sort of what they want but how they hope to achieve getting the things that they want and it's all about the sort of definition of denuclearization and each side seems to have a very different version of what that means. yes u.s. president from demand was to mediately north korea give up all of its nuclear weapons and missiles right away and north korea wants to do is tell you want to go phased in they can do that it's one step at a time and that's much more i think real realistic and i believe they have

for the better part of the last decade, about 13 years under the left-wing government of lula and presidentap, not all that time but much of that time, they set a cap on fuel prices. people got used to that, and only -- over the last year have they been fluctuating. that is a novelty. people do not have the purchasing power people do in europe or the united states, so it weighs heavily on people's pockets. scarlet: petrobras said on wednesday they would cut the price of diesel by 10% for two weeks. congress is also looking into eliminating some of the taxes on fuel. but ironically, did they actually get to vote on it? apparently some of the lawmakers had to rush to go back home, because they were concerned they cannot make their flight. raymond: that's absolutely right. they put the country before their own interests, quickly got on a plane and flew home before they could vote on anything important. but basically it has been a fumbled reaction. petrobras said it is going to cut diesel prices for 10%. it got punished immediately, got pummeled today by investors, share prices falling as much

presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorite some former president lula da silva is in prison and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to the to mulch it was time. that many here feel i hate and try not to see it or sell paolo. it is new prime minister designate has suggested he's close to a last minute deal that will end months of political turmoil carol quarterly has been tasked with calming tensions and potentially planning in your election earlier efforts by two n.t. establishment parties to form a coalition government collapsed and even barbara has the day she's from rome well on wednesday expectations swung from believing that carlo quarterly would actually present a list of potential cabinet members to the president's surge a matter or two rumors that those so-called populist parties five star and the league were now back in discussions and in fact the entourage of mystical to really himself saying that he was waiting to see whether that was going to be a run or a new government proposed by those parties now luigi dimaio soon after t

presidential elections a jew in october is not running the one time favorites and former president lula da silva is imprisoned and no other candidate to so far emerged to lead brazil to look to mulch was times that many here fear lie ahead and try not to see it or. least three people are being killed in the latest rounds of protests in the caracas couple managua demonstrations with triggers in a foot by controversial reforms put forward by president daniel ortega which united scrapped the protest is demanding his resignation for the very latest we're joined by our correspondent manuel propellor joins me from the capital at night on what seems to have happened at the moment so to get you caught up a little bit about what we observe today was actually mother's day. and there was a large demonstration some around a half a million people to the streets in solidarity with the mothers of several of the students and other demonstrators peaceful demonstrators that have been killed over the course of the last month or so. april nineteenth when the government response to peaceful protests was a v

politicians the previous president dilma rousseff was impeached the president before the president lula is now serving a twelve year prison term for corruption very difficult to see which way brazilian politics is going so president has a very difficult situation in trying to control this enjoys very little support among the brazilian population which can see continues to see those prices rise. normally in these kind of situations people would've been angry with the truckers for stopping the foodstuffs reaching market for the shortage of fuel people were queuing up for many hours outside the filling stations schools were closed some domestic flights were cancelled but in general with a few exceptions people were supporting them because they generally agree with the demands of the truckers it seems unlikely that temp real work that the accord they've reached with the government will hold for very long they've lowered the prices for up to sixty days but it's see it's a very fragile truce a temporary truce and it does seem as though there will be further protests in the weeks and months to

under president lula, rapid economic growth combined with radical redistribution of money to the poordilma rousseff, who was tortured under the military dictatorship, succeeded him, but under her presidency, the economy faltered. in 2016, she was forced from office, accused of fiddling the figures to boost her chances of re—election. well, now she's here in london drumming up support for lula's bid to be re—elected president — only he's currently in a prison cell in brazil having been convicted of corruption. so are they the saints or sinners of brazil's political class? dilma rousseff, thank you for speaking to hardtalk. you are travelling the world, you are in london at the moment in support of your predecessor, the man all brazilians know as lula. why are you so confident that he could be president again? let's deal with two things that you have raised there. the first is you have talked about the reality. the reality is he is in prison at the moment, he is serving a prison term for corruption, and the courts, at the highest level, have said that his appeals have been exhausted. he

in support of your predecessor, the man all brazilians know as lula. you so confident that he could be president again? well, let's. .. let's deal with two things that you have raised there. the first is you have talked about the reality. the reality is he is in prison at the moment, he is serving a prison term for corruption, and the courts, at the highest level, have said that his appeals have been exhausted. he cannot, if he is a convicted prisoner whose appeals have been exhausted injail, be a candidate. that's the reality under the brazilian law. how can it be a coup if all the procedures of the law have been observed 7 you make two questions. i must interrupt you. he was not tried by the media, he was tried by the courts. no! the supreme court, ultimately. if there was really no case, the supreme court would not have supported this conviction, it would have overturned it. a supreme court, incidentally, of which the vast majority of members were appointed either when president lula was in office, or, under you, five of them were appointed when you