and two romanian women are being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group. they all deny any wrongdoing. now on bbc news, global questions: lula s new brazil. hello, iam lyse hello, i am lyse doucet. welcome to global questions in rio dejaneiro. a city is famed for its soaring sugarloaf mountain and starting copacabana beach. at the big story in brazil now is it s highly charged political transition. last year s narrow election victory of leftist president lula da silva over his rival, jair bolsonaro, highlighted brazil s depolarisation. injanuary, depolarisation. in january, thousands depolarisation. injanuary, thousands of bolsonaro supporters supported just like attach the heart of the brazilian government. those tensions linger and there are questions as well about the loyalties of brazil s military in a country with a past history of military dictatorship. president miller provides many prizes at home, including rising
hello and welcome to bbc world news. pope francis has addressed the thousands of people who gathered at st peter s square in the vatican, a day after the death of benedict xvi. the pope described his predecessor as a faithful servant of the gospel and the church. our religion editor aleem maqbool is at the vatican. we heard from pope francis a couple of times today, first at a mass for peace that was held in st peter s basilica behind me. he talked about entrusting our beloved pope emeritus benedict xvi, to the holy mother, to accompany him from this world to god. and then later, pope francis appeared at a balcony here at the vatican for what is his regular sunday lunchtime homily, where he started this week by asking people to join together, as you rightly say, to pray for the man he called a faithful servant to the gospel and to the church. extraordinary scenes, though. we saw thousands of people pour into the square from every side. vatican police told us a short while ago
break tonight, members of congress receiving classified briefings today on chinese spy craft, which floated across the country last week and shot down on the coast of south carolina saturday. we learned the suspended ands far from the only country china surveilled in the exact same way. and we found out exactly where some of the parts on the balloon were manufactured and what the balloon was capable of doing. congressional correspondent iowa hawkeyeaisha has more from the e house. reporter: fox learned china spy balloon had western made parts with english words on them raising new concerns about who and from which western nation sold them to china. a senior state department official has only gone so far as to say the manufacturer has a direct relationship with china s military. adding the spy craft had multiple antennas to collect and geolocate communications and solar panels large enough to power intelligence collection sensors. the tool package and equipment package on th
thailand s prime minister attends the funerals of the children killed at a daycare centre last week. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. warnings of further attacks continue across ukraine this morning, a day after a wave of strikes by russia. yesterday, missiles hit cities across the country killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 100 more. air raid sirens have sounded across kyiv and other cities into this morning. the southern city of zaporizhzhia was shelled again overnight, with authorities saying one person was killed and public buildings including a school were damaged. work is under way across ukraine to restore electricity supplies damaged during monday s attacks. in his nightly address, volodymyr zelensky warned people to follow safety rules , saying the danger is still here, but we are fighting. later today the leaders of the g7 nations will meet virtually, and are expected to hear from the ukrainian president. mea
is at its lowest level for almost 50 years, according to figures released this morning. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng will meet the treasury select committee to bring you his economic plans. we will have updates about shortly. a hearing is under way at the supreme court on whether scotland can call an independence referendum without the consent of the uk government. there is at the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface and it s exactly a0 years since henry viii s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent after 437 years under the sea. we can now go straight to the nato secretary generaljens stoltenberg to his reaction on those russian strikes in ukraine yesterday and today. we strikes in ukraine yesterday and toda . ~ . today. we will further increase the -rotection today. we will further increase the protection of today. we will further increase the protection of our today. we will further increase the protection of our critical p