for artisanal bakeries. more now on the dramatic win for brazil s former president luiz inacio da silva. as you ve been hearing lula has been re elected after very narrowly defeating the incumbent jair bolsonaro in the second round of voting. celebrating his victory, he said the winners were the brazilian people and he wanted to improve their lives. lula s win marks a return to left wing governance in latin america s largest nation and the challenges facing him are great following a bitter campaign. he will take office onjanuary land faces a huge challenge to unite a deeply divided nation and boost an economy grappling with rising inflation. joining me now isjimena blanco, head of americas research at risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. jimena, goodesy. let s start by mentioning the fact that jair bolsonaro is yet to concede. correct, yes. and he has refused to see some of his closest advisers. you know, earlier in the weekend he did concede to a in brazil that he wo
in connection with the collapse of a bridge in gujarat, in which at least a hundred and forty people died. i m laura trevelyan in president biden s hometown of scranton, in the battleground state of pennsylvania, where i ve been talking to voters one week before the crucial us midterm election. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s news day. it s news day. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in ukraine where the government there says power and water supplies across the country have been badly hit after russia launched a wave of missile attacks across the country. in the capital kyiv, the mayor says 4 out of 5 people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the frontline battlefields of the donbas to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s bes
is sweet for novak djokovic, who wins his seventh wimbledon men s singles title. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 3.30am in colombo, sri lanka where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country s leadership. president rajapaksa whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades has announced he will step down on wednesday after demonstrators stormed his official residence and set fire to the prime minister s house. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from inside the presidential palace, which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily
fragile democracy takes us to wisconsin, or a conservative majority supreme court just made it harder for its own citizens to vote, in a move that just happens to align quite nicely with the agenda of a certain twice impeached former president. and the velshi banned book club is in session, with a historical fiction title for younger adults, that has gotten parent so out of that it was the subject of a viral video, of an angry mom calling for its removal. velshi starts now. good morning, i am ali velshi. it is sunday, july 11th, 18 months and five days since a group of anti-american insurrectionists attacked the united states capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government and destroy american democracy in the name of a former president. mind you, that attempt is still ongoing in other ways. more on that later in the show. but luckily for america, the january 6th select committee continues its vital work in investigating that insurrection. and this morning, we are g
we hear from the secretary of health on how the islands are coping. also in the programme: a battle for the future of the us republican party is under way in the cowboy state, wyoming, as a prominent critic of donald trump tries to fight off a primary challenge. i ve never agreed with one thing liz cheney has ever said but i respected how she fought for democracy. she is standing for principal and she is saying, i don t care if i lose myjob, i m going to do the right thing. # give me a sign # hit me baby one more time and tributes to the former uk pop idol contestant and theatre star, darius danesh, who has died at the age of 41. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the the programme. we start in the united states where president biden has signed into law the biggest ever investment to fight climate change in the us. the bill, known as the inflation reduction act, includes more than $400 billion of new spending. it s being s