richard mcgregor, thank you very much. and brazil's congress is voted against the return to pay for balance at next year's presidential election. it's a major blow for president charitable scenario in pushing to end electronic voting timing. it's open to fraud, although he hasn't provided any evidence. mechanic here has this update from re diginero. president wilson, i don't have been paging already the scenario for what will be next year's presidential election. polls show, he would be defeated by left wing, former president. lucy nasa lula, the silva. so he has been crying out that there will be fraud much ahead of the vote. both. so nato has always been a fan of former us president donald trump. he's pretty much following from play book by saying already making people doubt that the these elections will be fair. so he's creating a lot of confusion. and in this confusion, he then confronting, not only with congress, but also with judiciary power. he's been accusing the supreme electoral court of trying to interfere with,

let's talk now to richard mcgregor senior fellow at the louis institute. he's also the author of the party. the secret world of china's communist royalist, he joins us from sidney. richard, good, happy back here on the new south. what to the chinese authorities doing and why are they doing it? well, if what they're doing is keeping this australian citizen imprisoned for a lengthy period of time on charges, disclosing state secrets, but exactly why they're doing it. and those charges main isn't clear. now obviously, australia, china relations are very poor. it's the case. it has to be seen in that context, but it's not entirely clear that chung lays being held simply because she's in australian citizen. and this is some form of a tele ation. it's the has to be of the chinese system. it looks like that, but we don't know for sure. 100 percent. i mean logic would dictate if you're in a job such as being an anchor woman on an english language news channel broadcast around the world. that's a relatively high profile job around the world. anyway, but if you're wo

richard mcgregor is a senior fellow at the louis institutes. he's also the author of the party, the secret world of china's communist rulers. he says there are many unknowns of questions he has surrounding leis detention. what they're doing is keeping this australian citizen imprisoned for a length a period of time on charges, disclosing state secrets, but exactly why they're doing them on those charges. main isn't clear. now. obviously, australia, china relations are very poor. ah, it's the case. it has to be seen in that context, but it's not entirely clear. the chung lays being held simply because she's an australian citizen and this is some form of retaliation. it's the past city of the chinese system. it looks like that, but we don't know for sure. 100 percent. you know, so the 1st time that china has arrested journalist from the state broadcast to be cctv the chinese language service or in fact the english language language service . you know, often that has happened in past corruption cases when they've come down the line and, and picked