Brazil's Bolsonaro under house arrest
The World
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest on charges of masterminding a coup to overturn the country's 2022 election. Also, the reinterpretation by AI of a popular movie in India sparks debate. And, a retired US military officer discusses his firsthand experience at the controversial food distribution sites run by the joint US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Plus, attempts to convince Thai society to embrace a traditionally reviled lizard.
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| 0:34.9 | The former president of Brazil, Jaira Bolsonaro, is under house arrest as he stands trial for allegedly plotting a coup after losing an election. |
| 0:43.7 | He's facing a possible 40-year prison sentence. |
| 0:46.6 | Things are pretty intense in Brazil in that sense, legally and politically, because of all these events. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:52.6 | And I'm Carolyn Bieler. |
| 0:53.8 | We'll also hear from an American |
| 0:55.3 | Army vet who worked as a security contractor in the Gaza Strip. He says what he saw there was |
| 1:00.9 | disturbing. Bullets are flickering all around the, you know, the feet into the berm over their heads. |
| 1:06.6 | And then this guy that's there just drops to the ground and he's not moving. Plus, a much-love movie in India gets re-released. |
| 1:13.6 | Audiences are angry. |
| 1:14.6 | It's not the same. |
| 1:15.9 | It's literally regressive to go back in time and bring a story without context to fit into a society that's not the same anymore. |
| 1:24.3 | I'll let in more today on the world. |
| 1:30.9 | This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:36.7 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for joining us today. Jayao Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, |
| 1:42.1 | is now under house arrest. The country Supreme Court issued the order yesterday. It's part of an ongoing legal saga, the coup plot allegedly engineered by Bolsonaro |
| 1:45.8 | after his defeat in the 2022 presidential election. The high-profile trial of the far-right |
| 1:51.7 | leader has gripped Brazil. It has also attracted the attention of President Donald Trump. He calls |
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