Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s capital
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former rightwing president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s capital, and America’s biggest banks are set to report another quarter of bumper profits. Plus, the FT’s Middle East editor Andrew England explains how Gulf nations’ sovereign wealth funds plan to invest the cash they’ve reaped from the recent boom in oil prices.
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Supporters of Bolsonaro invade Brazil’s Congress
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk. |
| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is Monday, January 9. |
| 0:13.3 | And this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.6 | Supporters of Brazil's former president stormed the country's capital yesterday |
| 0:23.1 | and top US banks report earnings this week the Rosy picture might be fading from view. |
| 0:28.7 | Plus, Gulf nations are sitting on piles of cash and their sovereign wealth funds |
| 0:32.9 | want to invest differently than the way that they did in past oil booms. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm Mark Filipina and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:51.4 | That's the sound of thousands of protesters swarming Brazil's capital, |
| 0:55.2 | Brazil yesterday. They were supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro who lost |
| 1:00.0 | reelection last October. It's an early crisis for Brazil's new president, Luis Inacio Lula |
| 1:05.8 | de Silva, who was just sworn in last week. I'm joined out by the FT's Brazil correspondent, |
| 1:10.8 | Michael Pouler. Hi, Michael. I'm Mark. So what exactly happened in Brazil yesterday, Michael? |
| 1:17.2 | So thousands of supporters of the former right wing president Jair Bolsonaro descended on |
| 1:22.0 | the capital, Brazilia, for a protest. Now, these hardline supporters of the populist |
| 1:27.7 | basically don't accept his defeat and the fact that Lula the left wing or one. |
| 1:33.2 | And so they were there to protest about that. And what happened was they ended up invading |
| 1:38.6 | the three institutions of power in Brazil, the Congress, the Supreme Court, |
| 1:42.8 | and the presidential palace, which ended up ransacked. |
| 1:46.3 | But Michael, did Bolsonaro have anything to do with these protests? |
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