a6 thousand migrants tried to reach the uk across the english channel last year a new record and a 60% rise and a 100 year old war hero, who s now a reading teacher, is the oldest person to get an award in the uk s new year s day honours. hello and welcome. luiz inacio lula da silva, has been sworn in as brazil s new president, 20 years after first becoming the country s leader. almost five years ago he was sent to jail for corruption, on charges that have since been annulled. he ll now lead a deeply divided country. at his inauguration in the capital brasilia he told the crowds he d rebuild brazil from what he called the terrible ruins he had inherited from jair bolsonaro. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson now reports. a return to powerfor the man barack 0bama once called the most popular politician in the world. security was tight amid threats of violence by supporters of his far right predecessor, jair bolsonaro. mr bolsanoro didn t even hand over th
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from 50.9% of the vote. so it was a very tight win in october 30th. and since brazil, since the democratisation in 1988, it s a tradition that the former president hands over the presidential sash to the next one. but as you were saying, it wasn t the case this time. so what happened, and this was still a really open question. we didn t know what was going to happen until we saw the images. the panel of people gathered outside the presidential palace just walking the ramp up with lula and the first lady. so he was welcomed by eight people representing the brazilian people. the diversity of the brazilian people, one of them being a chief. he s a very known indigenous leader. he was nominated for the nobel peace prize in 2020, and the sash itself was handed over to lula by a black woman, a waste picker.
so she represents all the struggle of the brazilian people. she s a waste picker since she s 14. her mother and grandmother were as well. so, this was also a very emotional and symbolic time. it s at the whole ceremony on this inauguration day. interesting couple of details that you picked out there from that ceremony that s really useful to know. just before i let you go, new presidents coming in to countries around the world. it s always significant, obviously, but particularly brazil, because of what it contains, the amazon and the decisions of a government in brazil. climate scientists will tell us, is significant for all of us around the globe. right. so the amazon is very important notjust for brazil, but for the whole world because it s a carbon storage, it s a place, it s a tropical rainforest that takes carbon dioxide out from the atmosphere and gets it into the forest. so it s very important