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‘The vanguard of disenchantment’: Brazil’s election takes a turn

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Brazil’s presidential elections are headed to a runoff vote, after Flávio Bolsonaro and his extended family picked up surprise wins. Will the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro, clinch the win over incumbent Luis Ignacio da Silva? Plus, fighting in Yemen worsens as a Saudi-backed counter-offensive aims to push back recent gains by Houthi rebels. Ben Lewis joins us from Estonia for all the latest on the bizarre British bomber threat that was - or wasn’t. Bulgaria gets pulled into Russia’s war on Ukraine and can AI now read our minds?

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