One great nation. reporter: lula supporters flooded the streets of sao paulo relishing a fresh start. uniting this country now will be difficult and quite a challenge for lula as they consider a very determined opposition. bolsonaro did not formerly concede on election night, the last time brazilians saw their president was when he voted. but even a bolsonaro ally allowed lula supporters their victory saying congress accepted the outcome. this lula supporter said the culture war that bolsonaro leaned into is not over. translator: look at the amount of votes this man had. even after everything he s done, almost half of the votes, the difference was really small. reporter: this is lula s
Who still hasn t conceded defeat. under mr bolsonaro s rule, brazil suffered one of the world s deadliest outbreaks of covid, and widespread deforestation of the amazon rainforest. 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. ifeel 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
From grace over corruption scandals. here he is again, lula 2.0. translation: it was the hardest campaign of my life. it wasn t men against men, party against party it was a group of people who love freedom and democracy, against authoritarianism. the noise on the streets filled the silence from bolsonaro s camp. the speculation was that he went to bed. while voting was largely peaceful, there was a lot of expectation and nerves on sunday as people cast their ballot. in this unequal country the divide was clear rich and poor, left and right. people had a stark choice to make. i voted for bolsonaro, of course. what s the best thing about bolsonaro? why do you like bolsonaro? i don t agree with him, like, 100%. i think he has a lot of flaws. but he s a man of god, he has the right principles. it s very sad in my opinion to see brazil in this state where we have to decide between two candidates that make brazil such a polarised country, inciting violence, extremes. i think especiall
They beat new zealand in the final in warrington winning 42 10. the home side ran in eight tries including two each for captain scott gobin and sam zeller. the victory completes an unbeaten tournament for england who won all four of their matches. that s all the sport for now. in a stunning political comeback, luiz inacio lula da silva has been elected brazil s next president. it was a tight race the former left wing leader won nearly 51% of the vote, his far right rival, the incumbent, jair bolsonaro, won 49%. mr lula couldn t run in the last presidential election in 2018 because he was injail. mr bolsonaro now becomes the first sitting president in brazil 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
Caused a domino effect and those at the bottom would have been caught under the weight and the sheer number of bodies and lost their life that way. i have to stress that is not the official explanation. we do not the official explanation. we do not yet have an official explanation. but that is what a lot of eyewitness reports have been saying and there is a lot of corroborating evidence to suggest that. the police say they only had 200 officers on duty, the same number deployed this time last year for halloween on the saturday night before halloween, and farfewer people were out on the streets that night because of covid restrictions. the authorities say themselves that they were surprised that 100,000 people were on the streets. another question notjust about people were on the streets. another question not just about whether there were enough police officers on there were enough police officers on the streets, but were these officers putting enough emphasis on crowd control? what wou