Lula's landslide victory in Brazil's presidential election, will he be able to unite the nation?
After the election victory, Workers' Party activists flooded Sao Paulo's main thoroughfare to catch a glimpse of their newly elected president. The crowd was chanting: 'Lula is back, sending clouds of red smoke into the air. Addressing the crowd, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said, “It was a very difficult campaign. It was not Lula versus Bolsonaro, but a war of democracy versus tyranny. The victory of the leftist candidate and former president, Luiz Anácio da Silva, over the far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, is a turning point for Brazil.
The contest between the two candidates was a bone of contention and Lula won with 50.9 per cent of the votes. Lula was once Brazil's most popular leader, and his return to the country's most important post is a historic moment. Twenty years ago, he came to power with a promise of sweeping change but was later convicted of corruption charges and disqualified from the 2018 elections. He had to go to jail, but the charges were later dropped.
Even if the current president transfers power without a hitch, there will still be heirs within Congress and regional politics. And Lula will face reactionary lawmakers. Lula is 77 years old and was the country's president from 2003 to 2010. He belongs to left-wing politics. He worked in the metal industry. While Bolsonaro is 67 years old. He belongs to the extreme right-wing. and has held the rank of Captain in the Brazilian Army.
Russian missile attacks on Ukraine, electricity and water supply badly affected
Ukraine says electricity and water supplies across the country have been severely affected after Russia fired more than 50 missiles at key civilian facilities. 80 per cent of citizens in the capital are without running water and about 350,000 apartments are without electricity, KYOC Mayor Rotali Klitschko said. Energy installations in the northeastern city of Kharkiv were affected. Russia says its long-range missiles have targeted Ukraine's military command and energy systems.
The country's defence ministry added that "all designated targets were hit." The strikes come as Russia accuses Ukraine of carrying out drone strikes on its Black Sea fleet in the annexed region of Crimea. Mr Klitschko reported water shortages in Kew after a Russian attack damaged an energy installation near the city. He said that the supply will be partially restored in three to four hours. He also said that engineers have been immediately deployed to restore the power supply. City officials said that "no missile hit its target" due to the "effective response of the air defence forces" in Keio itself.
Missile attacks were also reported early Monday morning in the central Vinnytsia region, as well as in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporizhia in the southeast and Lviv in western Ukraine. According to reports, an installation of a Nepro hydroelectric power plant in the Zaporizhia region was also targeted. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said that a total of 18 facilities in 10 regions of Ukraine were targeted, most of which were power generation facilities. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
Residents of the affected areas have been urged to stay in shelters, fearing more attacks. They were also warned that an 'emergency power cut' was being initiated across the country. Officials in neighbouring Moldova reported that a missile fired by Ukraine landed in the "northern tip of the town of Naslavsia" near the Ukrainian border. No casualties were reported, but the windows of several houses were broken. Ukraine's air force spokesman Yuriy Akhinat told Ukrainian TV that Russia had used its strategic bombers to carry out its "massive" strikes.
Ukraine's military later said 44 of more than 50 X-101 and X-555 cruise missiles fired from Russia's Rostov region and the Caspian Sea had been shot down. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kaliba said that "Russia fights civilians instead of fighting on the battlefield." Russia has carried out a series of deadly missile and drone strikes in recent weeks, reportedly destroying about a third of Ukraine's power plants and other energy-generating facilities ahead of a cold winter. Ukraine and its Western allies have repeatedly said targeting civilian infrastructure amounts to war crimes.
Halloween deaths in South Korea: 'People were suffocating and screaming
Survivors of a Halloween crush and suffocation death in Seoul, the South Korean capital, have described the horrific scenes as they saw their friends and others suffocating in the streets. saw
At least 153 people have been killed in a stampede in the Itaewon district of the South Korean capital.
"People started pushing each other from behind, it was like a wave, you couldn't do anything," Sohail Ahmed told the BBC.
I couldn't sleep last night. I can still see people dying in front of me.'
The 32-year-old, who spoke to the BBC on Sunday afternoon, said he was trapped in the crowd and there was nothing anyone could do to save others or himself.
Disturbing videos of this incident have spread on social media. Ahmed himself shared his painful experience on Instagram.
The footage shows people, mostly teenagers or in their 20s, trapped in a narrow, sloping street unable to move. Then they started getting pushed from all sides, some fell on the floor, and others could not breathe.
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