Brazil's Bolsonaro begins jail term

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.2 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to begin his 27 year prison sentence for plotting a coup after the last election. The Supreme Court said he'd exhausted all appeals and will serve his time behind bars at the federal police headquarters in Brasilia.

Also: Italy makes femicide – the murder of a woman, motivated by gender – a crime to be punished with a life sentence. Refugees who've fled Mali tell the BBC about alleged atrocities committed by Russia's Wagner group. New Zealand's "suitcase murders" trial comes to an end. The Popemobile is converted into a medical clinic in Gaza. LGBT campaigners celebrate the top EU court's ruling on same-sex marriage in case brought by Polish couple, and how children's author Roald Dahl's secret life as a spy inspired his script for a Bond movie.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.5	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.3	I'm Janet Joliel, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 26th of November, these are our main stories.
0:17.4	Brazil's former president, Jaya Bolsonaro, begins a 27-year prison sentence for a coup attempt.
0:24.3	Italy's parliament has unanimously voted to make femicide a standalone crime punishable by life imprisonment.
0:34.3	Also in this podcast, a Pope-Mobile belonging to Pope Francis is transformed to help children in Gaza.
0:42.3	And...
0:42.8	He certainly was a spy. He didn't like the word, but he worked in British intelligence.
0:49.1	We hear how the children's author, Roald Dahl, led a double life.
0:58.4	Okay. how the children's author, Roald Dahl, led a double life. We start this podcast in Brazil, where just days after the former president, Jaya Bolsonaro,
1:03.5	was moved from house arrest to a police cell for an alleged attempt to remove his ankle
1:08.7	monitor, he has now been ordered to begin
1:10.8	serving a 27-year sentence by a Supreme Court judge. The 70-year-old far-right leader
1:16.9	was convicted in September of plotting a coup after he failed to win re-election three years ago.
1:23.3	Mr Boltonaro is serving his sentence at the same police headquarters in Brasilia
1:28.0	where he was taken into custody on Saturday after a judge deemed him a flight risk.
1:34.5	He won't have contact with other prisoners, instead living in a small room with a private bathroom,
1:39.9	a television, air conditioning and a mini fridge.
1:43.3	A group of Bolsonaro supporters gathered outside the police headquarters.
1:51.7	I'm absolutely outraged.
1:55.7	The best president of our lives.
1:58.0	What the judge and that whole gang of his are doing to Bolsonaro is an injustice.
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