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'No relationship' with Trump says Brazil's President

He said relations particularly icy since Mr Trump imposed fifty percent tariffs.

Brazil's President Lula da Silva says he has "no relationship" with Donald Trump, in an interview with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. Relations between the US and Brazil have been particularly icy since Donald Trump imposed fifty percent tariffs on Brazil in response to the coup trial of Brazil's former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro who was handed a 27-year prison sentence last week.

Yulia Navalnya, the widow of the Russian human rights campaigner, Alexei Navalny, says new scientific evidence proves that her husband was poisoned. Mr Navalny died suddenly in February last year while serving a nineteen year sentence in an Arctic penal colony. We speak an aid to Mrs Navalnya.

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Presenters: James Copnall and Pria Rai

(Photo: Brazil's President Lula da Silva. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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