and emmy nominated journalist caroline modarressy tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among more moderate republicans that mccarthy has agreed to a budget deal that could result in a cut to defence spending. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defence, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you ve got a growing threat of china in the pacific i m going to visit taiwan in a couple of weeks, how will i look our allies in the eyes and say, i nee
supporters demanding a coup. and like trump, he s question the integrity of the ballot and the electronic machines that counted the vote. this the inevitable result. let s talk now to oliver stuenkel he teaches international relations at the vargas foundation, in sao paulo. thanks for being on the programme. tell us what s been on the what s been happening today and what s been the response from the government. i think brazil is digesting what s happened yesterday. for precisely two years since the events of the attacks against the capitol in washington onjanuary attacks against the capitol in washington on january the 6th, attacks against the capitol in washington onjanuary the 6th, 2021, analysts have warned something like this could happen in brazil. so it s not really a surprise this has been predicted, but still when lula became president on the ist of january, a week ago, most people believed that this wouldn t actually happen now it s happened and the damage is much great
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