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around the world. max foster is on world assignment today. just ahead on cnn newsroom what happened on sunday shows that brazil is clearly a deeply divided and polarized country. this was a crowd whipped into a frenzy by a leader that refused to accept an election result. the president spechbding the day with border patrol agents and elected officials. this is the reality on the ground right now. we re anticipating some very intense weather coming in. trees down, degree in the roadways, flooding, and we ve seen people lose their lives. it is monday, january 9th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 6:00 a.m. in the brazilian capital where hundreds of supporters of the president have been arrested after storming key government buildings including congress. the protest drawing comparisons to the january 6th riots at the u.s. capitol. hours ago the president surveyed the damage from sunday s unrest which also took place from the supreme court and the presidential ....
Brazil. let s get some perspective. thanks so much for joining us today. my pleasure to be here. so we ve been hearing about the echoes between the current unrest in brazil and the capitol hill insurrection in washington, dc. bolsonaro is referred to as the trump of the tropics. what are the chief grievances? are they very similar? do they not accept the election result, for example? it is absolutely very similar, but actually what happened in brasilia yesterday was, in fact, worse than what happened in washington two years ago because yesterday, the buildings of the three main powers in brazil, the presidential palace, the supreme court, and the congress, they managed to invade those buildings almost unopposed. the police force were not ....
The president have been arrested after storming key government buildings including congress. the protest drawing comparisons to the january 6th riots at the u.s. capitol. hours ago the president surveyed the damage from sunday s unrest which also took place from the supreme court and the presidential palace. he s promising those responsible will be held accountable. translator: there is no precedent in the history of our country. there s no precedent for what these people have done and these people will be punished, and we will find out who financed these vandals who went to brasilia. we ll find out the financiers, and they will pay with the force of the law for this irresponsible gesture, and vandals. this was the scene in ....
Showing washington, dc, two years ago at the u.s. capitol. one u.s. lawmaker had this reaction to ton he unrest. i stand with the democratic leadership of brazil. he basically used the trump playbook to try to take over the government. you re right. it looks a lot like the united states. he should be extradited to brazil. in fact, it was reported he was under investigation for corruption and fled brazil to the united states. so we were talking about asylum seekers and immigration earlier. republicans try to scare people about bad people coming to the united states. we know where one of those people are. bolsonaro is hanging out in florida with trump. he s a dangerous man. he should be sent back to ....
Front of the barracks. so it was a relation between the military and the government. that does not mean the military could take any kind of undemocratic action. actually they have been very silent about this. there was another point i wanted to make. bolsonaro, former president bolsonaro has been very silent. they called him yesterday. he did not ask his supporters to leave in front of the barracks. so his silence also plays a huge role in what happened yesterday in brasilia because if he had asked it, people just go home, maybe what happened yesterday would not have taken place. indeed. all seems rather familiar, but as you say, on an even greater scale. american martins, thank you so much for joining us. in the coming hours, the u.s. president will meet with ....