Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father

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Revelation seen as serious blow to candidacy of Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful

Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, has been caught on tape asking a banker accused of corruption for $26.8m (£20m) to fund a film about his father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The leaked voice memos and text messages were published on Wednesday by the Intercept Brasil, and later acknowledged by Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who is tied in polls with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s election.

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Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father – The Guardian

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  1. Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father  The Guardian
  2. A bombshell leak threatens Flávio Bolsonaro’s election bid  The Economist
  3. Brazil markets rattled by report linking Flavio Bolsonaro to disgraced banker  Reuters
  4. Brazil presidential hopeful Flávio Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing after asking banker for millions  The Washington Post
  5. Bolsonaro Ties to Banco Master CEO Rock Brazil Presidential Race  Bloomberg.com
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UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims

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Council of Europe members plan to change interpretation of ECHR to make it easier to deport refused asylum seekers

Keir Starmer’s government has been accused of trying to water down legal protections for torture victims as ministers from 46 countries including the UK prepare to make it easier to deport refused asylum seekers and foreign criminals.

Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, is expected to agree a “political declaration” on Friday with other members of the Council of Europe, which oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR).

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Chants of ‘death to Arabs’ at Jerusalem Day march as Ben Gvir flies Israeli flag on Temple Mount – The Times of Israel

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  1. Chants of ‘death to Arabs’ at Jerusalem Day march as Ben Gvir flies Israeli flag on Temple Mount  The Times of Israel
  2. Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ in violent Jerusalem Day march  The Guardian
  3. Ultranationalist Jews recite racist slogans during march into Jerusalem's Old City  PBS
  4. Violence at Jerusalem's Flag March Declined, but the Message Was Still Sharp  Haaretz
  5. Why does Jerusalem belongs to the Jews? Because history says so - opinion  The Jerusalem Post
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Five Italians die during cave scuba dive in Maldives – BBC

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  1. Five Italians die during cave scuba dive in Maldives  BBC
  2. Oxygen toxicity, panic may have led to deaths of 5 tourists on scuba dive in Maldives: experts  New York Post
  3. Five Italians die in Maldives cave-diving accident  CNN
  4. Five Italians die while exploring underwater caves in the Maldives  Sky News
  5. 5 Tourists, Including a Professor and Her Daughter, Die During Vacation Scuba Dive to Remote Ocean Cave  People.com
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Australia news live: Delta Goodrem hits the stage in Eurovision semi; Angus Taylor accused of ‘dog whistle’ budget reply

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Australian pop star performs song Eclipse in second semi-final before Sunday’s final. Follow today’s news live

Advocates for migrants last night accused Angus Taylor of using his budget reply speech to “chase votes with dog whistles, fear and division”.

Taylor claimed that migrants were coming to Australia and claiming benefits before they were becoming citizens, a situation which he said Australians did not accept.

The Coalition’s dangerous decision to return to its harmful, failed refugee policies of the past shows what a mess they are in. They have no new policy ideas. Temporary protection visas have harmed countless people and kept many families apart for over a decade. So many are still trying to recover.

Taylor’s comments tonight are inflammatory and desperate. The fact that he feels the need to dog-whistle about mass deportations of so-called ‘overstayers’, many of whom are actually trapped in a massively blown-out court and tribunal system created through years of Coalition underfunding, shows they are far more interested in stoking fear than delivering serious policy solutions.

The language in tonight’s address misleads the nation by claiming that migrants are arriving and immediately accessing welfare payments, which is a blatant lie. In reality most of the restrictions he’s talking about already exist and there are lengthy wait periods for welfare payments.

The Coalition knows all this and is deliberately misleading Australians about how the welfare system already operates in order to whip up fear and division.

If I may answer - it will be below 200,000. There’s no doubt about that.

And then the right mix will depend on the circumstances of the time. What is clear, what is clear, is that the number of students in this country has been at record levels.

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