The country of Brazil is comprised of states and districts. At the national level, Brazil’s government is separated into three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial. The president, who leads the executive branch, is both head of...

The government has cut the number of beneficiaries of the anti-poverty programme.

Investors are losing faith in the Brazilian government's ability to contain a deepening fiscal crisis. Traders are piling into hedges against a sovereign default, with the selloff extending across the country's currency, stocks and...

Brazil's central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by larger-than-expected 50 basis points. Only 11 of 41 analysts in a Bloomberg survey predicted the move. The decision was split. Travis Waldron reports on Bloomberg Television.

China's Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are set to hold talks on trade and the war in Ukraine. Lucille Liu reports on Bloomberg Television.

1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on podium, unidentified man shakes hand of Chavez and hugs Lula

2. Pan across podium, zoom in to men shaking
hands
3. Chavez and...

A small prison in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil encourages cellmates to shorten their sentence by pedalling on exercise bikes that generate energy to illuminate the town's roads.

Inmate...

1. Plane taxiing, with guard of honour in foreground

2. Brazilian flag f
lying
3. President of Brazil, Inacio Lula Da Silva at plane door, walks down steps with officials, h
andshakes
4. Close
up, two...

Brasilia, Monday, March, 29th, 2004

1. Wide of Irish President Mary McAleese walking during parade in front of the Planalto Pa
lace
2. Mid-shot of Irish President duri
ng parade
3. Close-up of Brazilian...

1. Wide exterior of airport

2. Wide of soldiers and Air India plane taxiing on tarmac in backgr
ound
3. Soldiers marching to greet the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmo
han Singh
4. Man waiti
ng with...

1. Wide shot, Swissair planes on tarmac

2. Shuttle bus pul
ls up
3. Mid shot, Kofi Annan and officials st
ep off bus
4. Various of Annan greeting welcoming
party on tarmac
5. Annan walkin
g...

English/Nat

The president of Brazil began a state visit to Britain on Tue
sday.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh laid on a full ceremonial welcome for President Fernando Henrique...

1. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arriving at a military ceremony at the Hotel des Invalides, where Napoleon Bonaparte is buried

2. Wide of cour
tyard
3. Rousseff...

scenes of police activity and kidnapped American Ambassdor Elbrick's damaged car: Foreign Minister Jose - Magahaes Pinto tells press conference that a plane had left for mexico, carrying prisoners to be used in...

1. Various of spectators lining up at the entrance of the Maracana stadium

2. Spectators entering st
adium
3. Police vehicles dr
iving past
4. Close-up of Brazil National Security Force soldier
at...

1. Various of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walking into theatre to receive honorary doctorates

2. Mid of journa
lists
3. Mid of President Dilma Rousseff and Lula sitting down, Lula removing...

1. Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's plane arriving in Havana

2. Officials walking on airport t
armac
3. Da Silva getting
off plane
4. Mid of da Silva gre
eting official
5. Da Silva wa
lking with...

1. Wide pan of plane landing, Japanese and Brazilian flags in the foreground

2. Various of plane ta
xiing
3. Zoom out from Japanese and Brazilian flags to wide of flags
and plane
4. Brazilian President Luiz...

1. Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's plane taxing at Beijing airport

2. Plane t
axing
3. Wide
shot plane

4. Cutaway
5. Brazilian and Chinese officials walki
ng towar
ds the plane
6....

Natural Sound

The President of Brazil began a state visit to Britain on Tue
sday.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh laid on a full ceremonial welcome for President Fernando Henrique...

Natural Sound

Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has arrived at the White House on Monday for talks with President Clinton as part of a two day trip to Washington
D-C.
He said his government is...

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A two-day summit got underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday attended by four dozen European, Caribbean and South American lea
ders.
The heads of state are there to discuss a new...

1. Wide shot of Iguazu Falls

2. Wide shot tourists viewing water
falls
3. Police cars and motorcade driving
down road
4. Car being checked by
police with dog
5. Security in f
ront of summit...

The lying in state of the President of Brazil Artur Costa e Silva. The next president Emilio Garrastazu Medici is present at the ceremony.

1. GV of the coffin surrounded by mourners with people walking
past
2. Ms of...