more people fell, i lost erend. | more people fell, i lost friend. i turn more people fell, i lost erend. i turn around more people fell, i lost friend. i turn around and | the you can t come told the crowd, you can t come this way. people are dying. and how the rock band coldplay is offering its support to the protesters in iran. it s official the left of centre luis ignacio lula da silva commonly known as lula, has won brazil s presidential election snatching victory by a tiny margin from the rightwing jair bolsanaro, who had an early lead as the first votes came in. the final tally was 50.8% to lula with 49.2% to mr bolsa naro. crowds of his supporters started celebrating in the streets. this represents an amazing comeback for the former president who three years ago was serving a prison sentence for corruption, which was lately overturned. but the contest reflected how deeply polarised brazil is. i have faith in god that with the help of the people we will find a wa
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
i stand by the package we announced on the fact we announced on the fact we announced it quickly because we had to act but i do except we should have laid the ground better. and the skin tight fit of the spray on dress that s the talk of the catwalk, at this year s paris fashion shows. 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 % needed to win. the left wing challenger former president luis inacio lula de silva won the most support, while the right wing incumbent, jair bolsonaro we can go now to laura trevelyan in rio dejaneiro. david, trevelyan in rio dejaneiro. lula the former president david, lula the former president of brazil who is leading with over 45% of the vote, with 98% of votes counted that he hasn t quite cleared 50%, he is about to speak in sao paulo, president macro has 43%, he is in second place so it will be a run off between these two titans of different ide
we re also showing huge crowds of supporters forjair bolsonaro, but as you said it was such a tight race, is it possible presidentjair bolsonaro could question the legitimacy of this result, something that we saw in the united states, for example? it is highly possible, it has been done before, eight years, that was rejected, it was a much less fractured, polarised political landscape at the time, certainly there would have to be good reason to go to the supreme electoral tribunal, the supreme electoral tribunal, the electoral body that decides on these things, he would have to have serry serious proof of mouthpiece with the election machine is not working properly. we saw time and time again whenjair bolsonaro challenged legitimacy in the run off to the vote, the electoral body said no, it had
could be overturned? what is he legally allowed to do? could be overturned? what is he legally allowed to do? he is legally allowed to go legally allowed to do? he is legally allowed to go to legally allowed to do? he is legally allowed to go to the legally allowed to do? he is legally allowed to go to the supreme - allowed to go to the supreme tribunal here in brazil. with the case possibly on the basis, as it may cost before, the electronic voting machines were open to fraud. now, if thejudges voting machines were open to fraud. now, if the judges on court decide he has a case been able to take that and decide whether or not there is grounds for overturning. i think from what thejudges grounds for overturning. i think from what the judges have said over six months, particularly whenjair bolsonaro stepped up his criticism of the voting machines over consistently send no, we trust them. they have been audited on a number of different occasions, they re be used on the boundary, i