Tear gas fired in Brazil as Bolsonaro supporters storm Congress
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the early hours of Monday the 9th of January, |
| 0:12.1 | these are our main stories. Thousands of supporters of Brazil's recently defeated President |
| 0:18.1 | Gia Bolsonaro have invaded the National Congress Supreme Court and Presidential Palace. |
| 0:25.1 | President Joe Biden is visiting the US border with Mexico for the first time since taking office. |
| 0:31.6 | Ukraine has dismissed as propaganda Russia's assertion that it's killed hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers |
| 0:38.8 | in a rocket attack. Also in this podcast, it doesn't look so much like a flying car as it looks |
| 0:47.4 | like a small aircraft. The cabin is kind of set up like a four-seater airplane. |
| 0:52.9 | So what exactly has been revealed at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas? |
| 1:02.5 | We start in Brazil where thousands of supporters of the former President Gia Bolsonaro |
| 1:08.3 | stormed the National Congress in Brazilia on Sunday. |
| 1:11.6 | The sound of tear gas being thrown at supporters by police who retaliated by throwing projectiles back. |
| 1:26.0 | In an echo of the January 6th insurrection in the US, some protesters reached the Senate chamber |
| 1:32.6 | where they jumped onto seats and desks, others invaded the Presidential Palace Supreme Court |
| 1:38.4 | and government buildings. Katie Watson is our South America correspondent. |
| 1:42.8 | Well, I think this is something that a lot of people feared ever since Lula 1 October's elections. |
| 1:47.3 | It was a very divided election, a very close race. What was we've seen are a reminiscent of the |
| 1:54.0 | January the 6th invasion of the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump. There was |
| 1:58.8 | amounted policemen pulled from his horse by the crowd. There were doors and windows broken to |
| 2:03.4 | access Congress, tear gas fired. This is just showing how strong the opposition is to Lula |
| 2:10.6 | and how these protesters are not giving up their fight for Lula to leave the Presidential Palace. |
| 2:17.5 | I think that's the biggest concern that we've just with what we're seeing playing out in |
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