. >> brazil's socialist party nominated environmentalist marina silva to replace eduardo campos.ardo campos died. we have this report from brazil - marina silva is now a big contender to the incumbent dilmar rousseff. >> reporter: as she fought through a scrum of journalists, marina silva is now the hottest political commodity in brazil. she accepted the socialist party's nomination, replacing eduardo campos, who died in a plane accident last week. >> translation: we want brazil to be prosper house and politically democratic and socially fair. >> she comes from a poor working class background in the amazon region, and was a maid until teaching ters to -- herself to read at 17. he went into politics, raising to environment minister, ran for president and garnered nearly 20 million votes. she's appealing to voters looking for a shaken. >> translation: marina silva defends brazil well, and will represent us in a better way. >> reporter: an irony of the campaign is despite the promise and popularity that camp had, his untimely -- eduardo campos had, his untimely passing thrust marina

lograron como candidata a marina silva que aparecÍa como aspirante la vicepresidencia en la boleta dexplica cÓmo funciona una nueva campaÑa en favor de los inmigrantes y documentados. >> vÍdeos como estos de familias inmigrantes que han sufrido la separaciÓn de sus seres queridos se han vuelto virales en las redes sociales. la organizaciÓn pro inmigrantes tomÓ la iniciativa de viajar por todo el paÍs para recopilar los testimonios de cientos de inmigrantes. >> la idea es, llegando a estrenar la campaÑa, que sepa que lo pertinente hacer el presidente tener que ser grande, amplio, estamos por todo el paÍs grabando las historias. >> y los recursos con los que cuentan son muy escasos cada vez que viaja hacia como en los hoteles mÁs baratos, y crean un mini estudio para grabar los testimonios. la lucha por una reforma migratoria para ellos nunca cesa, al final de el dÍa preparan las pancartas para el dÍa siguiente. la organizaciÓn cuenta con sedes en todo el paÍs y tiene mÁs de 600 miembros, entre ellos jÓvenes como juan carlos ramos que cruzÓ la frontera huyendo de las pandillas de el sal

former environment minister marina silva has been chosen to replace eduardo campos on the socialist party ticket. he was killed when his plane crashed in the city of santos. his body has been flown to his home city for his funeral on sunday. >> nicaragua is planning to build a canal said to rival that of panama. it's hoped the chinese-backed government will boost the economy. critics warn of danger. >> reporter: with eyes on the future, these young nicaraguans are learning mandarin chinese. the classes are free, a government initiative ahead of the scrugz of a chinese -- construction of a chinese-backed canal. for the university students and graduates, there are high expectations. >> translation: when we heard the news of the canal, the first thing the young people thought was i'm going to find a job. now we are preparing for work, for something that is to be big. >> at around 280km, it will be three times longer. it includes deep-water ports, trade zones and an international airport at the cost of $50 billion, the businessman behind the canal called it the biggest building project in the

. >>> marina silva opened up a double digit leave five weeks before election in venezuela. it's adding to antoine roussel's wows. the government's approval rating plunged to 35%. elections talk place on october 5th. >>> now, a volcano in papua new guinea erupted sending smoke and ash high over the pacific island. people living near the volcano have moved to safer grounds. >> iceland is on volcano watch. the aviation warning has been downgraded. an hour-long red alert was nut place after a small eruption in the bardarbunga system. a no-fly zone remains. >> india's prime minister narendra modi has begun a 5-day visit to japan. they'll discuss a nuclear energy deal, and they hope to lure african investment. it's an attempt by japan and india to balance the rising influence. of china. india has a large, postal network. they've been a life line for hundreds of people. the advent of the internet may be making stamps obsolete. >> this man is 94 years old, and fondly remembers the golden age of india's postal service. for more than 50 years he designed some of the country's importa

. >>> brazil's former environment minister marina silva has been chosen to replace eduardo campos, who was killed when his plane crashed into a res den sal area in santos. his body has been flown home for a funeral on sunday. >>> nicaragua is planning to build a canal set to rival the panama. it's said the chinese-backed project will boost economy, but critics warn of disaster to the environment. >> reporter: with eyes on the future, these young nicaragua are learning mandarin chinese. classes are free. a government initiative ahead of construction of a chinese-backed canal. >> for the university students, and recent graduates there are high expectations. >> when we heard the news of the canal, the first thing the young people thought was "i'm going to find a job. >> at around 280km, the nicaraguan canal is three times longer. the plan including deep water ports, free trade sewns and the international airport and a cost of 50,000, the enigmatic businessman called it the biggest building project in the history of humanity. the government says the canal will create hundreds of thousands,

. >> former environment minister marina silva has been chosen to replace eduardo campos, who was killed when his private plane crashed into a residential area in the city of santos. his body has been flown home. his funeral will be sunday. we have more from the area, where many have waited for eduardo campos's body to arrive. >> reporter: sombre's scenes in the governor's mention in this city. people gathered here, holding up signs, newspapers, waiting for the ex-governor of this state, eduardo campos's body to arrive for the wake. he was a presidential candidate, wildly popular in his home state. he was a governor for seven years and stepped down to run for president. when he did, approval ratings were nearly 80%. people of all stripes have deem feelings for eduardo campos, a man who was popular. >> translation: besides being a political man, he was a good man, a family man, a father. he was protect ght the state at the national level. drnchts he did many things for this city. i'm grateful to him. >> reporter: they are expecting 150,000 people to be here on sunday for the urinal of edu

yesterday after this other poll when marina silva has reemerged and we'll saw a boost in villareal.t know that much about silva's approach to economic policy. she's the place's primary alternative. we know she's signed up to inflation targeting, to cut fiscal policy, but not much more. the current government is signed up for inflation tarlthing. but inflation targeting occurs in a very different type of policy environment. if you're invested in oil and gas or infrastructure, silva is an environmentalist, so i think the permitting projects becomes more complicated. i think it really depends on the sector. >> so briefly, do you agree with the polling we've seen, that dilmer's chances of whipping are actually worsening or have worsened over the last week? >> yes, they've definitely worsened. and at the same time, dilmer still appears with 30% of the vote, quite a wide margin. the same deal shows her approval ratings have gone up. it's roughly 50/50 between her and marina silva, which we wouldn't have thought of, you know, a few weeks ago. so that has changed. but it is very well placed

there went be a new poll post eduardo campos's death, but marina silva, his running mate, will take his place, we'll see how that changes the election. this election is in turmoil after the unexpected death of a third-place candidate of eduardo campos. >>> thank you gabe, in brazil there. >>> 100 years after its poping the panama canal remains a spectacular engineering feet. it could have a rival route for ships crossing the pacific to the atlantic. 1500km north a canal project is under way, backed by chinese money. david mercer reports as parts of our 100 year anniversary coverage. panama canal. >> reporter: with eyes on the future, these young nicaraguans are learning mandarin chinese. classes are free. a government initiative ahead of a construction of a chinese backed canal. for the students and graduates, there are high expectations. >> when we heard the news of the canal, the first thing the young people thought was i'm going to find a job. now we are preparing for work, something predicted to be big. >> at around 280km, the nicaraguan canal would be three times longer than the pa

on that news, the companies are ok with losing him because of silva.try of dilma who is marina silva?e environment secretary. she has a story that makes her a nightmare for the pt. of lula.ts that severe survived through childhood hunger and illness. forecome a figurehead brazil's movement. >> she is seen as more business friendly. how is that possible? her position as a busiest -- a business friendly candidate when she joined forces .ith compos campos. was an extremely business friendly governor. some of that has rubbed off on the silva. -- on mrs. silva. >> the economy has flatlined and -- is this an election being held within a recession mentality? points. are two on the one hand, when you look at the gross gdp records, they're likely to show a contraction in the second quarter. facing an we are economic difficult situation. however, when you look at the vast majority of the electorate's, the poor part of the country, their wages have been rising. unemployment is still at an all-time low. about 5% or under. comes to the producers, hat we are-side, w seeing is extremely weak. if the

her name is marina silva. she's an arch environmentalist.'s actually more popular than the guy who was killed. and it's unclear what her politics are. marina silva was the environmental minister under lula, very popular socialist president. she left because she didn't think his policies were good enough when it came to the environment. so, here are the takeaways. due do edouardo campos death. rousseff is less likely to win the current president because this potential woman candidate is going to be a much stronger candidate. right? compared to what she's seen before. at the same time the pro-market candidate neves, far less likely to win now. so this woman has now turned into the wild card. >> so the third -- wait, who is the most likely to win in the -- >> it's still rousseff. but the election isn't until october 5th. right? and every single day that went by, her popularity eroded and we saw neves, the pro-market candidate, rising steadily but slowly, and it really looked like we could potentially see a runoff between her and him. that looks

little bit now, given the burst of support for silva -- he will clearly be more of her former than the other two candidates. we know the details about what marina'splans would be. for me as a strategist, the problem i have with resell -- brazil -- first of all, there are two main ones. first, to get more investor friendly support. that is the charge they have been betting on for the last few weeks. >> the chief frustration is that she takes you to ask too much. >> and not allowing petrobras to perform. not allowing global price movement to filter through the domestic fuel prices. doing that is relatively -- needs to get the company performing better. brazil's problem is that it does not grow enough because the public sector is too big. you need to cut pensions, cut wages, cut and women. thever wins the election, market is priced way too much in for a potential to reform. >> when is the election? october? >> first weekend of october. >> let's get to our photos. here is brendan greeley. you have your photos up there? i know this one. >> this is the ghostbusters. this is the 30th anniversary starring dan aykroyd, bill murray. >> is this hook and lad