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News Wrap: Bolsonaro charged with attempting coup after losing Brazil’s election

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In our news wrap Wednesday, former Brazilian President Bolsonaro has been formally charged with attempting a coup to stay in office after losing the 2022 election, the Trump administration is ordering New York City to stop its congestion pricing system, two small planes collide midair at an Arizona airport and Apple launched a new low-cost iPhone as it tries to kickstart its smartphone business. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

In the day's other headlines, Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been formally charged

0:05.7

with attempting a coup to stay in office after losing the 2022 election.

0:10.6

Brazil's top prosecutor also alleges Bolsonaro planned to poison his successor and kill a Supreme

0:16.3

Court judge. The nearly 300-page indictment says Bolsonaro and his co-conspirators tried to, quote,

0:22.9

bring down the system of the powers and the democratic order. In a statement, the 69-year-old

0:28.8

pushed back calling the indictment the weaponization of the justice system. Hours after the

0:34.6

indictment, President Trump's media company took the unusual step of suing one of the judges in the case,

0:41.1

alleging he illegally issued orders that suspended certain conservative social media accounts in the U.S.

0:47.5

Trump and Bolsonaro are long-standing political allies.

0:51.2

The Trump administration is ordering New York City to stop its congestion pricing system.

0:56.6

The program launched last month and charges drivers $9 to enter areas south of Central Park.

1:03.0

Supporters argue that it reduces traffic and helps the environment. Critics say it hurts

1:07.6

the city's small businesses. President Trump today declared victory over the

1:11.7

program, which she has long criticized. In a truth social post that was then reposted on X by his

1:18.4

deputy chief of staff, Mr. Trump wrote that congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York

1:24.7

is saved. Long live the king. His subordinate added that image of him as a king.

1:30.9

Governor Kathy Hokel fired back saying that New Yorkers don't back down in a fight.

1:36.6

New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. And we are not.

1:46.5

We sure as hell are not going to start now.

1:51.4

New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal order.

1:52.9

The MTA manages the tolls from the program.

1:55.7

The Trump administration is formally designating eight Latin American gangs and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

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