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Newshour: 20/10/2021 20:06 GMT: Brazil Covid report: Bolsonaro should be charged over pandemic

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Brazil Covid report: Bolsonaro should be charged over pandemic

20/10/2021 20:06 GMT

20/10/2021 20:06 GMT: Brazil Covid report: Bolsonaro should be charged over pandemic

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Panel says he should face a number of criminal charges, including crimes against humanity

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A Senate inquiry in Brazil says President Jair Bolsonaro should be charged for crimes against humanity over his handling of the covid pandemic. It accused the president of deliberately acting too slowly and exposing Brazilians to the virus. Mr Bolsanaro says he is guilty of nothing.

Also, the European parliament has awarded the Sakharov human rights prize to the jailed Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny. We hear from the Russian author, Boris Akunin. 

Plus, the Afghan evacuees in the UK who say their lives are on hold, and the Myanmar political prisoner let out of jail and remaining defiant.

(Photo: With over 600,000 fatalities, Brazil has the second-highest Covid-related death toll in the world behind only the US. Credit: Reuters)

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