Trial of Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro enters final phase

巴西前总统博尔索纳罗的审判进入最后阶段

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2025-09-03

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He is accused of masterminding an attempt to stay in power after losing his bid for re-election in 2022, which culminated in his supporters breaking into and vandalising government buildings in the capital, Brasília. Bolsonaro has always denied any wrongdoing and said the charges were politically motivated. His cause has been adopted by US President Donald Trump, who has called the trial a "witch-hunt" using it as justification for imposing 50% tariffs on some Brazilian goods and sanctioning the Supreme Court judge leading the proceedings. Also on the programme: will a new boss at one of fashion's biggest magazines bring the glory days back? And we hear about the mysterious disappearance of the Lebanese cleric, Musa al-Sadr in Libya, back in 1978. (Picture: An inflatable figure depicting Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stands near protesters outside party headquarters.Credit:REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli)
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  • Coming live from London, this is Owen Bennett-Jones.

  • And coming up a little later in the programme, we'll hear from Afghanistan,

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  • which the Taliban authorities say killed more than 1,400 people.

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  • 30 houses, they were all destroyed.

  • We saw people out on the street.

  • They had spent the night in open air.

  • They did not have anything to live on.

  • But first, the former military officer Jair Bolsonaro was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.

  • Many have made comparisons with Donald Trump, a vocal supporter of Bolsonaro,

  • not least because Bolsonaro refused to accept his election defeat in the election of 2020.

  • According to prosecutors in his trial,

  • which has just reached the point at which the judges are considering their verdict,

  • the prosecutors say he wanted to hand the military special powers to disband courts and even poison his rival,

  • the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

  • Here's Alexandra de Moraes, Brazil's Supreme Court Justice.

  • It is regrettable that another coup has been attempted in Brazil's republican history,