tirelessly to improve facilities. in other news: lula da silva makes a stunning political comeback beating president bolsanaro in brazil s elections. but will mr bolsonaro concede defeat? and with just over a week to go until the us midterm elections we re assessing the political temperature in president biden s home state pennsylvania. a warm welcome to the program. before we come onto the political situation in the united kingdom there is some breaking news from you from the united states for that we re getting reports that the attacker of nancy pelosi husband has been charged with attempted kidnapping is all for that this is according to the usjustice
in brazil is really at an unprecedented degree. so 50 50 is really the situation we re in. it s quite a political comeback for lula, who was president of brazil from 2002 to 2010. and left with high approval ratings. but in 2018 he was convicted on corruption charges and sent to jail. ajudge had found him guilty of receiving a bribe from a brazilian construction firm, in return for contracts with brazil s state oil company petrobras. lula s conviction was later annulled and he was released in late 2019. he adressed this in his voictory speech. translation: i consider myself to be a citizen that has a process of reconstruction in brazilian politics. because they tried to bury me alive. and i am here. cheers world leaders and sent congratulatory messages while