have been told there is a russian sniper operating from that direction. for the troops here, this is a grind, diane knight. a hard battle to hold this position. day and night. and the skin tight fit of the spray on dress that s the talk of the catwalk at this year s paris fashion shows. hello. thanks very much for being with us. they go again: the two main candidates in brazil s presidential election will have a second round run off after neither man achieved the 50% threshold needed to win outright. the left wing challenger, former president luiz inacio lula da silva, has won the most support, pushing 48%, while the right wing incumbent, jair bolsonaro, looks to be about four to five percentage points behind him. i put it to laura treveleyn, our correspondent in rio, that there won t be any partying through the night for either side. given that result. no, that s right. the candidates are already preparing for another gruelling 28 days of campaigning before the second rou
incumbent, jair bolsonaro, looks to be about four to five percentage points behind him. i put it to laura treveleyn, our correspondent in rio, that there won t be any partying through the night for either side. given that result. no, that s right. the candidates are already preparing for another gruelling 28 days of campaigning before the second round of brazil s presidential election on october 30. the former president, lula da silva, is attempting what would be a stunning political comeback for someone who was jailed four years ago on corruption charges only to have them annulled. he is now five points ahead of the incumbent president, jair bolsonaro. lula da silva got 48% of the vote in this first round, jair bolsonaro got 43%, and we have been hearing from both men tonight about their performance, and lula da silva did acknowledge that things
about what has happened this week and i do stand by the package we announced and i stand by the fact that we announced it quickly, because we had to act, but i do accept we should have laid the ground better. i have learnt from that and i will make sure that in future, we do a betterjob of laying the ground. one element of the budget plans that angers many conservative mps is the tax cuts for the very highest earners and so, there is an obvious question. are you absolutely committed to abolishing the 45p tax rate for the wealthiest people in the country? yes, and it s part, laura, it is part of an overall package of making our tax system simpler and lower. but i think it s worth noting in the package we announced, the vast majority of that package is the energy package. an energy package costing billions but overshadowed by the tax cuts. did you discuss scrapping the top rate with your whole
and that perhaps lula da silva might want to pick up some of her votes, but really, it is very unclear, and the really interesting thing is whether the second round of the election has more potential for more and greater destabilisation, because this was a good night for president bolsonaro s allies in congress and in races across brazil, but in the second round of the election, it willjust be him against lula da silva, a knockdown, drag out fight, and there is more incentive for president bolsonaro to dispute the result, to make unfounded claims of electoral fraud. so the stakes will be higher, it will be even more polarised as two men with very different visions of brazil, one on the left, one on the right, fight it out, david. laura in rio dejaneiro. october 30 for that second round run off. memorials have been held
to say when he was asked about his allegations of fraud. translation: i wasjust i was just about to meet with the armed forces. we will talk about the armed forces. we will talk about electoral transparency. we will about electoral transparency. we will deal with that. jair bolsonaro there. laura, this is pretty clear how polarised this is. we have the left, we have got the right and then we have got these votes available for both of them. but is there any way of telling which way the majority of those votes might go at this stage? well, that is the big question. yeah, so nine candidates get eliminated from this race, about 8% of the vote then has to be redistributed in the second round, and where will it go? the third placed candidate was considered perhaps slightly more critical of president bolsonaro