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From Our Own Correspondent

Brazil at a crossroads

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

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4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Brazilians will vote in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday. The front-runner is former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – currently, polls suggest he has a healthy lead over the incumbent far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Political observers say these will be the most closely watched elections since Brazil returned to democracy in 1989 - and some of the most polarised, as Katy Watson explains Tensions flared up again earlier this month between the former Soviet states of Armenia and Azerbaijan leaving more than 200 people dead. The fighting is linked to decades-old hostilities over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. A fragile ceasefire is now in place. Grigor Atenesian spoke to one family who have twice been forced from their home. Singapore recently announced it will repeal its strict laws banning gay sex after years of fierce debate. But even during that period, Singapore’s gay bars, nightclubs and festivals continued to thrive and are being showcased in the city-state’s first LGBT walking tour. Tessa Wong went for a stroll. In North America, John Murphy watches a game of lacrosse in the region where it first originated, among Native Americans. Following the arrival of European colonisers, the original game was adopted and adapted with indigenous players being excluded. Now, there’s a move to reclaim the indigenous game. The Roman emperor Domitian was known for his tyrannical rule. After his death, by assassination, the Roman Senate condemned his memory to oblivion, but not everything was eradicated, as Hugh Levinson discovered on a visit to the walled city of Kotor in Montenegro.

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0:04.8

Today a family is forced from their home for a second time after an outbreak of fighting

0:10.4

in the long-standing conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

0:15.4

In Singapore we hear how the city-state has cultivated a vibrant LGBT nightlife, despite

0:22.5

strict colonial era legislation which is finally being repealed.

0:27.8

A game with no boundaries which can last for days at a time were in Minnesota watching

0:33.8

Indigenous lacrosse, and cancelled culture during the Roman Empire, we hear about the discovery

0:41.0

of a banned sculpture in a Montenegrin bakery. At first, Brazilians will vote in the first round

0:48.5

of presidential elections on Sunday. The frontrunner is former leftist president,

0:54.5

Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva. Currently, Poles suggest he's a healthy lead over the incumbent

1:01.1

far-right president, Jaya Bolsonaro, but nothing is guaranteed. Political observers say these

1:08.6

would be the most closely watched elections since Brazil returned to democracy in 1989,

1:14.8

and some of the most polarised as our South America correspondent Katie Watson explains.

1:21.2

Wherever Jaya Bolsonaro goes, he likes to stir up controversy, but I don't think anyone was

1:27.6

expecting he'd do it on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. As world leaders flew to the UK

1:34.2

to mark her passing, Bolsonaro saw an opportunity to do some campaigning. We're on the right path

1:40.9

he told his supporters triumphantly from the balcony of the Brazilian Embassy in London,

1:46.4

claiming that Brazil didn't want to discuss the legalisation of abortion or drugs,

1:51.7

or accept policies promoting gender and sexual equality,

1:55.8

queuing in the crowd, and he repeated his often cited slogan,

2:01.2

God, Homeland, Family, and Freedom. While he's been roundly criticised across the world,

2:07.8

Evangelical pastor Laura Almeda, who lives in her seafee, doesn't see him as the enemy.

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