a warm welcome to bbc news. brazil s new president, the veteran left wing politician luiz inacio lula da silva, has vowed to make his country a great environmental power . he was speaking at his inauguration ceremony in the capital, brasilia. large crowds gathered on the streets to watch lula s cavalcade travel to the event which followed a narrow election victory in october over the far right leader, jair bolsonaro. mr bolsonaro, who refused to accept defeat, boycotted the inauguration and is in florida. let s have a look at some of the live images we ve been monitoring throughout the day as this official inauguration ceremony has been taking place. luiz inacio lula da silva taking a third term as brazil s president, and he has promised during his formal part of the ceremony, he promised to fight for the poor and for the environment and to rebuild the country after the previous term of jair bolsonaro and his very divisive administration. luis da silva narrowly won in a very
and nearly a year into russia s war with ukraine, we hear the story of a troupe of displaced ukrainian dancers unable to return home after fleeing the country. hello and welcome to bbc news. brazil s new president, the veteran left wing politician luiz inacio lula da silva, has vowed to make his country a great environmental power . at his swearing in ceremony in the capital brasilia, he told congress that he will rebuild the country from as he put it the terrible ruins he has inherited from jair bolsonaro. jair bolsonaro is his pre assessor, and usually what would happen is the pre assessor of the previous president would hand over a ceremonial sash to the incoming incoming president. that didn t happen this time. lula received it from a group of people representing brazil s diversity. jair bolsonaro himself and another break from tradition wasn t actually there or in the country. he s in florida in the us. but these are the scenes of a few hours ago. you can see l
hello and welcome. luiz inacio lula da silva, has been sworn in as brazil s new president, 20 years after first becoming the country s leader. almost five years ago he was sent to jail for corruption, on charges that have since been annulled. he ll now lead a deeply divided country. at his inauguration in the capital brasilia he told the crowds he d rebuild brazilfrom what he called the terrible ruins he had inherited from jair bolsonaro. our south america correspondent, katy watson now reports. a return to powerfor the man barack obama once called the most popular politician in the world. security was tight amid threats of violence by supporters of his far right predecessor, jair bolsonaro. mr bolsanoro didn t even hand over the presidential sash, instead abandoning his final official duty and flying to florida. lula is the same man but he inherits a very different country to the one he left before. in his speech, he promised unity and reconstruction, starting in the
Of the Geneva Convention of fortynine. In israel today, the military cabinet met urgently, the tsahal speaker stated that the country is ready to begin a ground operation ; it will continue until the Israeli Defense forces liquidate hamas structures and destroy the groups commanders and those responsible for the october 7 attack. According to an idf spokesman, in anticipation of the operation, the country completely blocked the gas sector from the israeli side. Besides, in the israeli army does not rule out the liberation of the people. This is 210 people by military means. According to israeli authorities, citizens of 42 states are being held captive by hamas, including 21 russians. The day before, the group made concessions and released two us citizens. As the media reported, for the sake of hostage negotiations, the United States tried to convince israel to postpone the ground operation. Well, against this backdrop, protests are sweeping more and more cities. Demonstrations in suppo
Hospitals where there is no light, where there is no water, where the epidemiological situation is very difficult, for example, there are many children is now in in a very difficult situation, they need medical care, babies need medical care, ventilators must work, all this is not working yet, thats what the doctors say, lets listen to the largest. In the medical complex of the gas sector we have great difficulties in excretion intensive care for newborns, we have 40 nurseries, while 65 are currently needed. Even before the start of the israeli aggression, we experienced difficulties with medicines and medical equipment, but now their need has increased sharply, we are turning to the whole world asking for help, we have an acute shortage of connectors for artificial ventilation adapters, light antibiotics, medicines left for a maximum of 2 days, the medical staff is working overtime. A very important point, even though the movement at the rafah checkpoint began towards the gas sector,