Bolsonaro convicted and sentenced to prison in Brazil's landmark ruling
The World
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 election loss. Also, Lithuania remains on edge as Russia and Belarus hold joint military drills. And, a look at how a five-day strike by tube operators, London’s subway system, caused rush hour chaos across the city. Plus, Albania rolls out the world's first AI-powered government minister.
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court in Brazil is sending the former president, |
| 0:08.0 | Jaire Bolsonaro, to prison and sending a message. |
| 0:12.0 | If someone attempts to break the rules, to break democracy in Brazil, |
| 0:17.0 | they cannot escape from that. |
| 0:19.0 | They will be punished for that. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. Russian drones entering Polish airspace are putting Eastern Europe on edge, |
| 0:26.6 | and why genetic testing for biological sex in sports is so controversial. |
| 0:31.6 | There's no clear boundary about what counts as unfair advantage. |
| 0:35.6 | This, I think, exposes how subjective and political |
| 0:39.7 | these kinds of regulations are. |
| 0:42.3 | Then a new government minister is actually an AI chatbot. |
| 0:46.4 | What could possibly go wrong? |
| 0:48.3 | In the case that this AI makes a mistake, |
| 0:52.1 | who is going to be accountable for it? That's ahead today on the world. |
| 0:58.1 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us on this Friday. We begin today in |
| 1:04.5 | Brazil. Crowds there have been celebrating in the streets of the country's capital. |
| 1:12.8 | Brazil's Supreme Court convicted former president, |
| 1:15.8 | Jeyer Bolsonaro, on Thursday, sentencing him to 27 years in prison. |
| 1:20.8 | He was found guilty of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election in Brazil. |
| 1:27.2 | Bolsonaro is one of the world's most prominent |
| 1:29.1 | far-right leaders. This is the first time a Brazilian president has been held accountable for |
| 1:34.0 | trying to subvert democracy. The world's to be size. A report on what this moment means for |
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