to lose re election. our south america correspondent katy watson reports. cheering. celebration on the streets of sao paulo, and a sense of relief. they predicted a tight race and it was a nailbiter to the very end. feeling free, relieved not only for the brazilian people, but for the whole planet, for the amazon, for the democracy, for human rights. so we are very happy. it is a very divided country, though. there will be a lot of people unhappy. yes, because it was very little difference, a small difference. so we have to be very patient and we have to leave the anger and the hatred away. what a comeback for brazil s president elect, a man who left powerjust12 years ago with a sky high approval rating but who
we have to press the russians into those directions, so morale is quite high but we are entering the winter period and i would say on good ground, the russians could lose this campaign and our defences are trying to stop ukrainian fences and the morale is high and we are preparing for winter which means we can ensure to the fullest extent the preservation of the ukrainian troops morale. tt’s preservation of the ukrainian troops morale. , , preservation of the ukrainian troops morale. , , ., ., ,, ., morale. it s been so good to talk to ou and i morale. it s been so good to talk to you and i appreciate morale. it s been so good to talk to you and i appreciate you morale. it s been so good to talk to you and i appreciate you taking - morale. it s been so good to talk to you and i appreciate you taking the | you and i appreciate you taking the time to speak to us today. thank you for the invitation. in one of the most stunning political comebacks, luiz inacio lula da silva has be
sanitation infrastructure has been devastated by 11 years of conflict. president zelensky has condemned claims by russia s defence minister that kyiv was preparing to use a so called dirty bomb in a false flag operation, and then try to blame it on moscow. the uk defence secretary ben wallace has rejected claims by his russian counterpart that ukraine was planning to escalate the conflict. in a rare call between the two men on sunday, ben wallace cautioned against using the allegations as a pretext for greater escalation. russia is yet to publish any evidence to support the bomb claim. one of brazil s most prominent indigenous leaders has warned of further damage to the amazon rainforest, if jair bolsonaro is re elected in this week s presidential election run off. under president bolsonaro, deforestation has increased dramatically. his rival, the former president, lula da silva, says he will end illegal mining and deforestation, but that is likely to be a tough challenge. our south
he will end illegal mining and deforestation but that is likely to be a tough challenge. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from the world s largest indigenous reserve in the yanomami territory, where the very future of the rainforest is at stake. the yanomami live deep in this pristine forest. hunter gatherers, they re among the most isolated tribes in south america. but their land is becoming coveted, and their lives disrupted. this indigenous health centre has become a field hospital on the front line of illegal mining. malnutrition is growing as miners destroy the land around them. old and young, nobody escapes this scourge. outside, a makeshift ward is full of patients with malaria yet another illness brought in by outsiders and making the yanomami sick. they come so close to our community, the diseases don t stop, malarina tells me. the machines work constantly, the smoke from them causing diarrhoea and illness.
luiz inacio lula da silva. with almost all the votes counted, lula has won 48% against bolsonaro, who did better than opinion polls suggested, and got 43%. as our south america correspondent katy watson reports, voters now have four weeks to decide which of the two men should lead the country. cheering. there were cheers for lula as well as tears. but this wasn t the outright victory that his supporters had hoped for. polls had predicted a 14 percentage point gap between him and bolsonaro. but they vastly underestimated the support for the right wing leader. after the results, lula said there would be no let up in campaigning. translation: i ve never won an election in the first round. | it s like destiny wants me to work a bit more. we are going to win the election again. it s just a question of time. meanwhile, bolsonaro had this to say.