emergency surgery<\/strong><\/a> in the early hours of last Tuesday, Brazilian president Lula da Silva was discharged from hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The politician's medical team emphasised his speedy recovery, as he was not expected to be discharged until the beginning of next week.<\/p>\n<p>\"Due to the recovery of our patient, which was extremely above expectations, then, to the happiness of myself and our entire team, the president has been discharged from hospital,\" said doctor Ana Helena Germoglio at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The President of Brazil himself spoke at the event marking his release from hospital. \"I'm in one piece (...) I'm going home,\" said Lula, guaranteeing that \"he's alive, in one piece and more willing to work\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1868316422272930007\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lula da Silva had emergency surgery to drain a haematoma on his head, which appeared following a fall he suffered at his official resident of the Alvorada Palace last October.<\/p>\n<p>\"I was feeling lighter on my feet, my eyes were red and I was very sleepy. When I went to the doctor at six o'clock in the evening, they saw the CT scan and got scared. They asked me to come urgently to S\u00e3o Paulo,\" explained the Brazilian president, \"I was frightened by the volume of fluid in my head,\" said Lula.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning, the Brazilian president underwent an embolisation - carried out in order to prevent future intracranial haemorrhages.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the early discharge, Lula is expected to remain in S\u00e3o Paulo until Thursday, when a new CT scan will be carried out to assess the 79-year-old politician's clinical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Lula will then be able to return to Brasilia, with a prescription for rest of around 15 days, after which he will be able to resume his work routine. <\/p>\n<p>Cardiologist Roberto Kalil emphasised, however, that the president will have to be careful over the next month. \"He will have some restrictions over the next 30 days, such as physical activity and international travel,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his period of hospitalisation, the Brazilian president has kept Brazil and the world updated on his state of health, making several posts on social media, particularly from the hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1867623166266253748\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Brazilian leader fell at home at the end of October, suffering a small cerebral haemorrhage and head trauma that required stitches.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734277227,"updatedAt":1734293059,"publishedAt":1734293056,"firstPublishedAt":1734293056,"lastPublishedAt":1734293056,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/28\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1a254442-abc1-5a15-9d70-f53d617e56b6-8912858.jpg","altText":"Lula da Silva discharged from hospital ","caption":"Lula da Silva discharged from hospital ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Santiago Mazzarovich\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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The scan detected an intracranial haemorrhage, and the president was transferred to S\u00e3o Paulo for surgery at the city's Sirio Libanes hospital.\n\nIn October, Lula cancelled a trip to Russia for a BRICS group summit after a fall at his house. \n\nAt the time, his doctor \u2014 Roberto Kalil \u2014 told GloboNews TV that the president's fall caused \"great\" trauma to the back of his head and would need stitches. \n\nHe was advised to avoid long-haul travel and instead participated in the meeting via videoconference. \n\nThe 79-year-old leader has faced other health issues in the past. In September 2023, he underwent a hip operation to end pain he described as \"unbearable\".\n\nHe was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2011, which he recovered from after undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy. \n\nLula led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, winning another term in October 2022 when he defeated Jair Bolsonaro in a competitive race. He told CNN in an interview last month that he was \"willing to run again\" but hoped it wouldn't be \"necessary\".\n\n\"I hope that we'll have other candidates and so that we can have great political renovation in the country and in the world,\" Lula said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is currently in stable condition in intensive care in Sao Paulo after undergoing surgery to drain a bleed on his brain.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is linked to an accident the president had in October, when he fell at home, suffering a small brain haemorrhage and trauma to the back of his head. <\/p>\n<p>A note published by the government on Tuesday said Lula was \"well\" and is being monitored in the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n<p>Lula underwent an MRI scan late on Monday in the Brazilian capital of Bras\u00edlia after suffering a headache. The scan detected an intracranial haemorrhage, and the president was transferred to S\u00e3o Paulo for surgery at the city's Sirio Libanes hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Lula cancelled a trip to Russia for a BRICS group summit after a fall at his house. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, his doctor \u2014 Roberto Kalil \u2014 told GloboNews TV that the president's fall caused \"great\" trauma to the back of his head and would need stitches. <\/p>\n<p>He was advised to avoid long-haul travel and instead participated in the meeting via videoconference. <\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old leader has faced other health issues in the past. In September 2023, he underwent a hip operation to end pain he described as \"unbearable\".<\/p>\n<p>He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2011, which he recovered from after undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy. <\/p>\n<p>Lula led Brazil from 2003 to 2010, winning another term in October 2022 when he defeated Jair Bolsonaro in a competitive race. He told CNN in an interview last month that he was \"willing to run again\" but hoped it wouldn't be \"necessary\".<\/p>\n<p>\"I hope that we'll have other candidates and so that we can have great political renovation in the country and in the world,\" Lula said. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733828323,"updatedAt":1733833950,"publishedAt":1733830113,"firstPublishedAt":1733830113,"lastPublishedAt":1733833950,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/18\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f24886d2-fbe1-5b13-a6ab-7224308ba6c1-8901848.jpg","altText":"Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stands outside Uruguayan former Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's home during a visit, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. ","caption":"Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stands outside Uruguayan former Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica's home during a visit, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. 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Only two per cent of the city's sewage gets treated, placing a heavy toll on its 14 river basins.\n\nSince it was designated host two years ago, this bustling metropolitan area near the Amazon River has been racing to prepare. \n\nIn several parts of the city, construction hoardings bearing 'COP30' signs surround buildings. \n\nThree major hotels are under development, but that won't provide enough rooms, so organisers plan to get cruise ships that can house up to 5,000 people. \n\nBrazil's government estimates that 50,000 people will attend COP30, including up to 150 heads of state.\n\nCOP30 will also serve as a test for Lula\u2019s commitment to preserving the Amazon. \n\nWhen he was elected for a third term in 2022, the leftist leader was celebrated for promises to curb the explosion of deforestation that occurred during the far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro.\n\nWhile Lula's administration has sharply reduced the rate of forest destruction, the Brazilian leader has made statements in favour of two of the most controversial projects in the region: opening the mouth of the Amazon River for large oil exploration and paving a highway that cuts through the most preserved section of the rainforest.\n\nMining giant builds park in Belem as COP30 venue\n\nThe government of Para, the state which is home to Belem, is trying to get ready through more than 30 infrastructure projects that range from tourism to urban development.\n\nOne of the largest is Parque da Cidade, or City Park, spanning 500,000 square metres atop a former airfield. It will be home to a museum, restaurants and walking and cycling trails. After serving as a venue for COP, it will become a green space for locals to use.\n\nThe project is being carried out by mining giant Vale, responsible for two of Brazil\u2019s most devastating environmental disasters, in 2015 and 2019, when waste dams collapsed in Minas Gerais state, killing 291 people and contaminating hundreds of miles of waterways.\n\nIn a statement, the Para government said local legislation allows mining companies to pay a portion of mining fees in the form of public projects. \n\nIt also said Vale, which operates one of the world\u2019s largest iron ore mines in this Amazon state, is in compliance with environmental laws.\n\nBelem has often been ranked as one of the most violent cities in Brazil and even the world. \n\nOrganised crime and police-linked militia control parts of the city, and it's common for residents to recount robbery stories. \n\nSecurity will be increased during the conference, with early plans to have the military, Brazil's intelligence agency and local law enforcement agencies involved.\n\nBelem attempts to clean up sewage-filled river\n\nThe Tucunduba River, which runs through two of Belem\u2019s poorest neighbourhoods, is the receptacle of much untreated sewage and garbage.\n\nDuring a boat trip in October, Associated Press journalists experienced foul-smelling water and saw refrigerators floating amid islands of trash that herons would land on. \n\nIn the stretch next to the Terra Firme neighbourhood, its banks have been taken over by stilted houses built informally.\n\n\u201cI used to bathe here until I was 14. There were trees around, and the water was dark and cold,\u201d said boatman Fabio Passos. But what used to be a river is now \u201ca big ditch\", he said.\n\nThe river pollution is connected to Belem's chaotic growth in the past decades when Brazil experienced a massive migration from rural to urban areas. \n\nUntil the 1970s, most of the Amazon population lived in the rainforest. Today, 75 per cent of its 28 million inhabitants are in urban areas, where poverty is widespread and drug-related violence rampant.\n\nIn preparation for COP30, under the name of \u201cmacro drainage,\u201d the state government has been installing hundreds of concrete slabs along the banks of the river and its tributaries.\n\nThe project includes expanding the sewage and water supply systems and paving roads. In a statement, the state government said the effort \u201cwill help reduce flooding problems.\"\n\nThis approach has been criticised by Mandi, a women-led nonprofit environmental group focused on Belem\u2019s rivers and climate change. \n\nIt argues that to prevent flooding it would be better to restore the river\u2019s banks by planting vegetation and removing concrete, thus allowing its waters to run freely.\n\n\u201cThe memory of the Amazonian person taking a bath in the river is fading away,\" said biologist Natasha Reis, a spokeswoman at Mandi. \n\n\"We cannot preserve what we do not love and experience. How will future generations have the desire to preserve a river that has always been a ditch for them?\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As the COP29 UN climate talks draw to a close in Azerbaijan, next year's hosts are busy preparing for their turn.<\/p>\n<p>For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first UN climate conference to be held in the Amazon. <\/p>\n<p>The largest tropical forest in the world stores huge amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gases, making it crucial in the world's fight against climate change.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the symbolism of hosting in the Amazon, COP30, as the climate talks will be called, will be a pivotal gathering because nations must come with updated plans to reduce emissions.<\/p>\n<p>But when tens of thousands of participants arrive in the host city of Belem next year, they won\u2019t find idyllic rainforest, lush vegetation or clean rivers. <\/p>\n<h2>Belem struggles to prepare to host COP30<\/h2><p>In Belem, impoverished, crime-ridden and filled with inequalities, most of the 2.5 million residents live in slums. Only two per cent of the city's sewage gets treated, placing a heavy toll on its 14 river basins.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was designated host two years ago, this bustling metropolitan area near the Amazon River has been racing to prepare. <\/p>\n<p>In several parts of the city, construction hoardings bearing '<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//08//on-the-road-to-cop30-all-eyes-are-on-brazil-in-search-of-a-climate-breakthrough/">COP30' signs surround buildings. <\/p>\n<p>Three major hotels are under development, but that won't provide enough rooms, so organisers plan to get cruise ships that can house up to 5,000 people. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7309612\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//01//16//brazil-makes-official-bid-for-amazonian-city-to-host-un-climate-conference-in-2025/">Brazil makes official bid for Amazonian city to host UN climate conference in 2025<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Brazil's government estimates that 50,000 people will attend COP30, including up to 150 heads of state.<\/p>\n<p>COP30 will also serve as a test for Lula\u2019s commitment to preserving the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//21//its-the-amazons-turn-to-lead-on-just-transition-decriminalisation-and-global-climate-actio/">Amazon. <\/p>\n<p>When he was elected for a third term in 2022, the leftist leader was celebrated for promises to curb the explosion of deforestation that occurred during the far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p>While Lula's administration has sharply reduced the rate of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//14//amazon-tipping-point-up-to-47-forest-threatened-by-climate-change-and-deforestation-study-/">forest destruction<\/strong><\/a>, the Brazilian leader has made statements in favour of two of the most controversial projects in the region: opening the mouth of the Amazon River for large oil exploration and paving a highway that cuts through the most preserved section of the rainforest.<\/p>\n<h2>Mining giant builds park in Belem as COP30 venue<\/h2><p>The government of Para, the state which is home to Belem, is trying to get ready through more than 30 infrastructure projects that range from tourism to urban development.<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest is Parque da Cidade, or City Park, spanning 500,000 square metres atop a former airfield. It will be home to a museum, restaurants and walking and cycling trails. After serving as a venue for COP, it will become a green space for locals to use.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being carried out by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//18//critical-materials-mining-approved-despite-green-fears/">mining giant Vale, responsible for two of Brazil\u2019s most devastating environmental disasters, in 2015 and 2019, when waste dams collapsed in Minas Gerais state, killing 291 people and contaminating hundreds of miles of waterways.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Para government said local legislation allows mining companies to pay a portion of mining fees in the form of public projects. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//42//32//808x539_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg/" alt=\"Construction workers walk around Parque da Cidade, or City Park, in Belem, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2024, a project being built for the COP30 UN Climate Summit. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/384x256_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/640x427_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/750x500_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/828x552_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/1080x720_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/1200x800_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/1920x1281_cmsv2_dc3d8467-efab-553d-99b7-5a334730d59d-8864232.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Construction workers walk around Parque da Cidade, or City Park, in Belem, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2024, a project being built for the COP30 UN Climate Summit. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Paulo Santos\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It also said Vale, which operates one of the world\u2019s largest iron ore mines in this Amazon state, is in compliance with environmental laws.<\/p>\n<p>Belem has often been ranked as one of the most violent cities in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//11//13//how-are-green-corridors-saving-one-of-brazils-most-endangered-species-from-deforestation/">Brazil and even the world. <\/p>\n<p>Organised crime and police-linked militia control parts of the city, and it's common for residents to recount robbery stories. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8617222,8359250\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//08//on-the-road-to-cop30-all-eyes-are-on-brazil-in-search-of-a-climate-breakthrough/">On the road to COP30, all eyes are on Brazil in search of a climate breakthrough<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//07//30//g20-countries-agree-on-brazils-tax-on-super-rich-and-it-could-help-fight-climate-change/">G20 countries agree on Brazil\u2019s tax on super-rich - and it could help fight climate change<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Security will be increased during the conference, with early plans to have the military, Brazil's intelligence agency and local law enforcement agencies involved.<\/p>\n<h2>Belem attempts to clean up sewage-filled river<\/h2><p>The Tucunduba River, which runs through two of Belem\u2019s poorest neighbourhoods, is the receptacle of much untreated <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//06//21//our-rivers-are-full-of-human-excrement-britains-sewage-crisis-is-seeping-into-the-election/">sewage and garbage.<\/p>\n<p>During a boat trip in October, Associated Press journalists experienced foul-smelling water and saw refrigerators floating amid islands of trash that herons would land on. <\/p>\n<p>In the stretch next to the Terra Firme neighbourhood, its banks have been taken over by stilted houses built informally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to bathe here until I was 14. There were trees around, and the water was dark and cold,\u201d said boatman Fabio Passos. But what used to be a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//10//07//driest-year-for-rivers-globally-since-1990-world-meteorological-organization-calls-for-wat/">river is now \u201ca big ditch\", he said.<\/p>\n<p>The river pollution is connected to Belem's chaotic growth in the past decades when Brazil experienced a massive migration from rural to urban areas. <\/p>\n<p>Until the 1970s, most of the Amazon population lived in the rainforest. Today, 75 per cent of its 28 million inhabitants are in urban areas, where poverty is widespread and drug-related violence rampant.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for COP30, under the name of \u201cmacro drainage,\u201d the state government has been installing hundreds of concrete slabs along the banks of the river and its tributaries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8725914,8637850\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//09//12//punitive-instrument-brazils-say-eu-deforestation-laws-will-affect-one-third-of-exports/">/u2018Punitive instrument\u2019: Brazil says EU deforestation laws will affect one third of exports<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//08//08//deforestation-in-brazils-amazon-is-down-by-almost-half-since-2023-but-savannah-is-sacrific/">Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon is down by almost half since 2023 - but savannah is \u2018sacrificed\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The project includes expanding the sewage and water supply systems and paving roads. In a statement, the state government said the effort \u201cwill help reduce <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//20//a-giant-tunnel-and-vast-sponge-parks-how-denmark-is-trying-to-avoid-devastating-floods/">flooding problems.\"<\/p>\n<p>This approach has been criticised by Mandi, a women-led nonprofit environmental group focused on Belem\u2019s rivers and climate change. <\/p>\n<p>It argues that to prevent flooding it would be better to restore the river\u2019s banks by planting vegetation and removing concrete, thus allowing its waters to run freely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe memory of the Amazonian person taking a bath in the river is fading away,\" said biologist Natasha Reis, a spokeswoman at Mandi. <\/p>\n<p>\"We cannot preserve what we do not love and experience. How will future generations have the desire to preserve a river that has always been a ditch for them?\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732114987,"updatedAt":1732254749,"publishedAt":1732253392,"firstPublishedAt":1732253392,"lastPublishedAt":1732253434,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/42\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_35371e96-5b0c-58a5-b967-29c8dc19fd6c-8864232.jpg","altText":"In Belem, impoverished, crime-ridden and filled with inequalities, most of the 2.5 million residents live in slums.","caption":"In Belem, impoverished, crime-ridden and filled with inequalities, most of the 2.5 million residents live in slums.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Paulo Santos\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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order from heightened global tensions to changes on the international political stage.\n\nThe agenda focused on working to reinforce multilateral cooperation before US President-elect Donald Trump assumes office in January.\n\nEU leaders also took the opportunity to hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit.\n\nIn a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping,\u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed France\u2019s commitment to strengthening relations with China and insisted that the two countries shared the same views on promoting peace in Ukraine.\n\n\"The world in which we live, as you just reminded us, is made up of instabilities, tensions and growing wars. And I believe that we truly share a common vision in upholding the United Nations Charter and promoting a peace agenda,\" Macron told Jinping.\n\n\"We meet again on the 1000 day of the War of Aggression launched by Russia against Ukraine, and I know that you share, as we do, the desire for a lasting peace, respectful of the United Nations Charter, and that you share, as we do, the same concern after Russia's bellicose and escalating declarations of nuclear doctrine,\" he added.\n\nA joint statement signed by representatives of the G20 nations on Monday night called for urgent humanitarian assistance and better protection of civilians caught up in conflicts in the Middle East, plus affirmed the Palestinian right to self-determination.\n\nIt also included Brazil's proposal to tax billionaires' income by 2%, focused on ways to eradicate world hunger and pledged to work for 'transformative reform' of the UN Security Council.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brazil's president opened the second day of the G20 Summit by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva focused Tuesday's session on environmental challenges, saying developed nations should consider moving their 2050 emission goals forward to 2040 or 2045.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe G20 is responsible for 80% of greenhouse effect emissions,\u201d Lula said. \u201cEven if we are not walking the same speed, we can all take one more step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the summit, which was held at Rio de Janeiro's Modern Art Museum, G20 leaders gathered to discuss changes in the world order from heightened global tensions to changes on the international political stage.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda focused on working to reinforce multilateral cooperation before US President-elect Donald Trump assumes office in January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//23//22//808x539_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg/" alt=\"World leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/384x256_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/640x427_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/750x500_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/828x552_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/1080x720_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/1200x800_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/1920x1280_cmsv2_813eb3c1-527e-5ae2-a6a0-b1987f09d52f-8862322.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">World leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Silvia Izquierdo\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>EU leaders also took the opportunity to hold bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping,\u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed France\u2019s commitment to strengthening relations with China and insisted that the two countries shared the same views on promoting peace in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\"The world in which we live, as you just reminded us, is made up of instabilities, tensions and growing wars. And I believe that we truly share a common vision in upholding the United Nations Charter and promoting a peace agenda,\" Macron told Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>\"We meet again on the 1000 day of the War of Aggression launched by Russia against Ukraine, and I know that you share, as we do, the desire for a lasting peace, respectful of the United Nations Charter, and that you share, as we do, the same concern after Russia's bellicose and escalating declarations of nuclear doctrine,\" he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//23//22//808x454_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg/" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/384x216_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/640x360_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/750x422_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/828x466_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/1080x608_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/1200x675_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/23\/22\/1920x1080_cmsv2_310cb187-5afc-53de-93a3-4f5fe2bcadaa-8862322.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">EBU<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A joint statement signed by representatives of the G20 nations on Monday night called for urgent humanitarian assistance and better protection of civilians caught up in conflicts in the Middle East, plus affirmed the Palestinian right to self-determination.<\/p>\n<p>It also included Brazil's proposal to tax billionaires' income by 2%, focused on ways to eradicate world 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billionaires is facing some last-minute opposition at a two-day meeting of G20 leaders in Rio de Janeiro. \u00a0\n\nIn remarks made to reporters ahead of the meeting, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said there were \"some objections on issues related to the climate agenda, the financial agenda and especially the tax on the super-rich,\" as she attempts to pull together a common declaration.\n\nAt a July meeting also held in Rio, all 20 finance ministers recognised that wealth and income inequalities undermine economic growth and social cohesion.\n\nThey agreed for the first time to \u201cengage cooperatively to ensure that ultra-high-net-worth individuals are effectively taxed\u201d \u2013 but that commitment still needs to be firmed up and translated into action. \n\nSilva did not name which countries are now raising qualms, but there are reports that Argentina's President Javier Milei is taking an increasingly hardline stance on the issue.\n\nFaced with such a scenario, Brazil could adjust the wording of the 20-country joint communiqu\u00e9, or sign it on behalf of 19 countries with a paragraph explaining the dissenting country's position, sources close to negotiations told Euronews.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\n\nArgentina has already refused to sign a ministerial declaration on women's empowerment at the G20, and withdrew on the third day of the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.\n\nCountries such as Spain, which alongside France and South Africa have been the main public supporters of Brazil's proposal, are putting pressure on other leaders to show courage on the issue.\n\n\"There is this moment where you have to be brave and where you just have to do things that you are convinced are right,\" Spain's finance minister Carlos Cuerpo urged his counterparts during a visit to London on Monday.\n\n\u201cThere is an element here of redistribution of wealth that, if we listen carefully to the results of many of the elections that have taken place over the last years, has been demanded by our citizens. So we have to somehow respond,\" he added.\n\nCuerpo has previously stressed that the first step would be to create a database of the income and assets of individuals considered internationally to be ultra-rich. \u00a0\n\nThe plans to tax the world's 3,000 richest billionaires are based on a proposal made last year by French economist Gabriel Zucman, who argues that closing the loophole via a 2% wealth levy could raise as much as $250 billion (\u20ac230 billion).\u00a0 \u00a0\n\nOxfam estimates that the top 1% in the G20 countries now account for 31% of total wealth, up from around a quarter (26%) two decades ago.\u00a0\n\n\u201cLeaders at the Rio Summit can end the decades-long assault on taxation that\u2019s been waged by the ultra-rich. Only then can we begin to heal the rifts of inequality tearing apart our societies,\u201d Oxfam Brazil Executive Director Viviana Santiago said ahead of the meeting.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brazil's plan for a new tax on the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//07//25//will-finance-ministers-finally-agree-a-new-230bn-global-billionaire-tax/">world's wealthiest billionaires<\/strong><\/a> is facing some last-minute opposition at a two-day meeting of G20 leaders in Rio de Janeiro. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In remarks made to reporters ahead of the meeting, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said there were \"some objections on issues related to the climate agenda, the financial agenda and especially the tax on the super-rich,\" as she attempts to pull together a common declaration.<\/p>\n<p>At a July meeting also held in Rio, all 20 finance ministers recognised that wealth and income inequalities undermine economic growth and social cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>They agreed for the first time to \u201cengage cooperatively to ensure that ultra-high-net-worth individuals are effectively taxed\u201d \u2013 but that commitment still needs to be firmed up and translated into action. <\/p>\n<p>Silva did not name which countries are now raising qualms, but there are reports that Argentina's President Javier Milei is taking an increasingly hardline stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with such a scenario, Brazil could adjust the wording of the 20-country joint communiqu\u00e9, or sign it on behalf of 19 countries with a paragraph explaining the dissenting country's position, sources close to negotiations told Euronews.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Argentina has already refused to sign a ministerial declaration on women's empowerment at the G20, and withdrew on the third day of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//18//half-way-through-the-cop29-climate-summit-and-the-frustration-is-showing/">COP29 climate summit<\/strong><\/a> in Baku, Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Countries such as Spain, which alongside France and South Africa have been the main public supporters of Brazil's proposal, are putting pressure on other leaders to show courage on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is this moment where you have to be brave and where you just have to do things that you are convinced are right,\" Spain's finance minister Carlos Cuerpo urged his counterparts during a visit to London on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an element here of redistribution of wealth that, if we listen carefully to the results of many of the elections that have taken place over the last years, has been demanded by our citizens. So we have to somehow respond,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cuerpo has previously stressed that the first step would be to create a database of the income and assets of individuals considered internationally to be ultra-rich. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plans to tax the world's 3,000 richest billionaires are based on a proposal made last year by French economist Gabriel Zucman, who argues that closing the loophole via a 2% wealth levy could raise as much as $250 billion (\u20ac230 billion).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam estimates that the top 1% in the G20 countries now account for 31% of total wealth, up from around a quarter (26%) two decades ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaders at the Rio Summit can end the decades-long assault on taxation that\u2019s been waged by the ultra-rich. Only then can we begin to heal the rifts of inequality tearing apart our societies,\u201d Oxfam Brazil Executive Director Viviana Santiago said ahead of the meeting.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731939312,"updatedAt":1731946409,"publishedAt":1731941982,"firstPublishedAt":1731942042,"lastPublishedAt":1731946389,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/89\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_89b5f689-747f-53f8-a02a-865d5a140d6c-8858992.jpg","altText":"Activists from a Brazilian Indigenous movement during a protest aimed at drawing the attention on the global climate crisis to leaders attending the G-20 summit.","caption":"Activists from a Brazilian Indigenous movement during a protest aimed at drawing the attention on the global climate crisis to leaders attending the G-20 summit.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Bruna Prado\/Copyright 2024 The 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of the\u00a0G20 Summit, where they will discuss economic cooperation and policies.\n\nThey were welcomed by Brazil\u2019s President Lula da Silva, who is set to hold bilateral meetings with leaders of some of the world\u2019s largest economies.\n\nAhead of the summit in Rio, United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres called for 'leadership by example' from G20 countries, and added that nations must work together to tackle common challenges in what he called 'tumultuous times'.\n\n\"G20 leaders must lead.\u00a0G20 countries, by definition, have tremendous economic clout. They wield massive diplomatic leverage. They must use it to tackle key global problems,\u201d Guterres said during a press conference.\n\nThe G20 summit coincides with the UN Climate Summit COP29, where frustration is growing over the slow progress as delegations enter their second week of climate talks in Azerbaijan's capital Baku.\n\nThe UN Secretary-General said that \"failure is not an option\" in the fight against climate crisis and criticised the fact that vulnerable countries are the most heavily impacted. \n\nCalling for reform to better reflect today\u2019s global economy and the needs of these nations, he added, \"They are not getting the level of support that they need from an international financial architecture that is outdated, ineffective, and unfair.\"\n\nWars and US elections overshadow summit\n\nBrazil\u2019s President Da Silva's election victory in 2022 over far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, who showed little interest in international summits and whose foreign policy was mostly guided by ideology, sparked hope among the international community at the prospect of the leftist leader. \n\nThe Brazilian presidency laid out three priorities that need to be discussed, namely tackling hunger, transitioning to renewable energy, and reforming international institutions.\n\nHowever, this year's forum is expected to be overshadowed by two major wars \u2014 between Ukraine and Russia, and in the Middle East \u2014 as well as Donald Trump's recent US election victory.\n\nGuterres urged nations to step up for peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan. \n\n\"Peace in Gaza, with an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, and the beginning of an irreversible process towards a two-state solution,\" Guterres said.\n\n\"Peace in Lebanon, with a ceasefire and meaningful steps towards implementing Security Council resolutions in full. Peace in Ukraine, by following the UN Charter, UN resolutions and international law. Peace in Sudan, by leaders leaning on the warring parties to end the horrific violence and desperate humanitarian crisis being unleashed on civilians,\u201d he continued.\n\nThe G20, which includes G7 members and emerging economies, will be joined by an additional 56 delegations according to Brazil's government, with member states expected to adopt a joint declaration at the end of the summit.\n\nDuring a protest ahead of the discussions, activists from the Amaz\u00f4nia de P\u00e9 movement drew attention to the Amazon rainforest, holding a banner that read, \"World Leaders: The Amazon is watching.\"\n\nThe Amazon, roughly the size of Australia, plays a crucial role in storing large amounts of the world\u2019s carbon dioxide. However, \"the planet\u2019s lungs\" are approaching a dangerous tipping point due to rising temperatures and deforestation.\n\nUS President Joe Biden toured the Amazon and met with Indigenous leaders before the G20 summit, making him the first sitting American president to visit the rainforest. It comes as president-elect Donald Trump seems determined to scale back the country's commitment to combating climate change.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>World leaders have touched down in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday ahead of the\u00a0G20 Summit, where they will discuss economic cooperation and policies.<\/p>\n<p>They were welcomed by Brazil\u2019s President Lula da Silva, who is set to hold bilateral meetings with leaders of some of the world\u2019s largest economies.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the summit in Rio, United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres called for 'leadership by example' from G20 countries, and added that nations must work together to tackle common challenges in what he called 'tumultuous times'.<\/p>\n<p>\"G20 leaders must lead.\u00a0G20 countries, by definition, have tremendous economic clout. They wield massive diplomatic leverage. They must use it to tackle key global problems,\u201d Guterres said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The G20 summit coincides with the UN Climate Summit COP29, where <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//18//half-way-through-the-cop29-climate-summit-and-the-frustration-is-showing/">frustration <\/a>is growing over the slow progress as delegations enter their second week of climate talks in Azerbaijan's capital Baku.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Secretary-General said that \"failure is not an option\" in the fight against climate crisis and criticised the fact that vulnerable countries are the most heavily impacted. <\/p>\n<p>Calling for reform to better reflect today\u2019s global economy and the needs of these nations, he added, \"They are not getting the level of support that they need from an international financial architecture that is outdated, ineffective, and unfair.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Wars and US elections overshadow summit<\/h2><p>Brazil\u2019s President Da Silva's election victory in 2022 over far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, who showed little interest in international summits and whose foreign policy was mostly guided by ideology, sparked hope among the international community at the prospect of the leftist leader. <\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian presidency laid out three priorities that need to be discussed, namely tackling hunger, transitioning to renewable energy, and reforming international institutions.<\/p>\n<p>However, this year's forum is expected to be overshadowed by two major wars \u2014 between Ukraine and Russia, and in the Middle East \u2014 as well as Donald Trump's recent US election victory.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres urged nations to step up for peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan. <\/p>\n<p>\"Peace in Gaza, with an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, and the beginning of an irreversible process towards a two-state solution,\" Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Peace in Lebanon, with a ceasefire and meaningful steps towards implementing Security Council resolutions in full. Peace in Ukraine, by following the UN Charter, UN resolutions and international law. Peace in Sudan, by leaders leaning on the warring parties to end the horrific violence and desperate humanitarian crisis being unleashed on civilians,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//85//73//72//808x539_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg/" alt=\"Txai Surui, a Paiter-Surui indigenous woman, and activists from the Amaz\u00f4nia de P\u00e9 movement hold a banner that reads: "World Leaders: The Amazon is watching."\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/384x256_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/640x427_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/750x500_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/828x552_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/1080x720_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/1200x800_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Txai Surui, a Paiter-Surui indigenous woman, and activists from the Amaz\u00f4nia de P\u00e9 movement hold a banner that reads: "World Leaders: The Amazon is watching."<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Bruna Prado\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The G20, which includes G7 members and emerging economies, will be joined by an additional 56 delegations according to Brazil's government, with member states expected to adopt a joint declaration at the end of the summit.<\/p>\n<p>During a protest ahead of the discussions, activists from the Amaz\u00f4nia de P\u00e9 movement drew attention to the Amazon rainforest, holding a banner that read, \"World Leaders: The Amazon is watching.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon, roughly the size of Australia, plays a crucial role in storing large amounts of the world\u2019s carbon dioxide. However, \"the planet\u2019s lungs\" are approaching a dangerous tipping point due to rising temperatures and deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden toured the Amazon and met with Indigenous leaders before the G20 summit, making him the first sitting American president to visit the rainforest. It comes as president-elect Donald Trump seems determined to scale back the country's commitment to combating climate change.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731910564,"updatedAt":1731933660,"publishedAt":1731931004,"firstPublishedAt":1731931004,"lastPublishedAt":1731931004,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4d6a9b5c-04cf-5ad1-989c-465f866b39e9-8857372.jpg","altText":"UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres attends a press conference a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024.","caption":"UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres attends a press conference a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Bruna Prado","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":3376,"height":1899},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/73\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c766a033-000d-56ea-bd9b-ec431c277427-8857372.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3110,"urlSafeValue":"dom","title":"Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":4390,"slug":"g20","urlSafeValue":"g20","title":"G20","titleRaw":"G20"},{"id":35,"slug":"brazil","urlSafeValue":"brazil","title":"Brazil","titleRaw":"Brazil"},{"id":3863,"slug":"rio-de-janeiro","urlSafeValue":"rio-de-janeiro","title":"Rio de Janeiro","titleRaw":"Rio de Janeiro"},{"id":12944,"slug":"climate","urlSafeValue":"climate","title":"Climate","titleRaw":"Climate"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2593506},{"id":2681704},{"id":2691470}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"E__ozlscW3s","dailymotionId":"x99cqk0"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/24\/11\/18\/en\/241118_NWSU_57045922_57047386_75000_095558_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":75000,"filesizeBytes":10035557,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/24\/11\/18\/en\/241118_NWSU_57045922_57047386_75000_095558_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":75000,"filesizeBytes":15110501,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":35,"urlSafeValue":"brazil","title":"Brazil","url":"\/news\/america\/brazil"},"town":{"id":3863,"urlSafeValue":"rio-de-janeiro","title":"Rio de Janeiro"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","84031001","84032009","84081001","84082015","84111001","84112005","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","business","business_green_solutions","health_and_fitness","health_and_fitness_cold_and_flu","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/11\/18\/un-chief-says-failure-is-not-an-option-in-fight-against-climate-change","lastModified":1731931004},{"id":2675894,"cid":8845242,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241111_TCSU_56989510","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"WTM BRAZIL","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"From the Amazon Rainforest to the Pantanal Wetlands: Is Brazil South America\u2019s eco paradise?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"First time in Brazil? The must-see cities, beaches and nature ","titleListing2":"From the Amazon Rainforest to the Pantanal Wetlands: Is Brazil South America\u2019s eco paradise?","leadin":"Brazil is gearing up to showcase the best of its unique biomes and ecotourism experiences.","summary":"Brazil is gearing up to showcase the best of its unique biomes and ecotourism experiences.","keySentence":"","url":"from-the-amazon-rainforest-to-the-pantanal-wetlands-is-brazil-south-americas-eco-paradise","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/11\/16\/from-the-amazon-rainforest-to-the-pantanal-wetlands-is-brazil-south-americas-eco-paradise","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"With world-class beaches, swathes of Amazon rainforest, history-packed cities and off-track wilderness plains, Brazil's colossal landmass packs a staggering diversity of nature, culture and adventure across its 8,000 kilometres of coastline and six distinct biomes.\n\nAccording to Bruno Reis, International Marketing Director at Embratur, tourism in the most biodiverse country in the world is unique: \"There are types of experiences you can only have in Brazil.\u201d\n\nFrom January to September 2024, over 741,000 tourists from Europe visited Brazil. While the remarkable beauty of this South American country is no secret, it is no surprise that Brazil wants to protect it through authentic and sustainable travel experiences.\n\nIt\u2019s especially appealing for those wanting to get beyond the coastal hotspots and into Brazil\u2019s central, untouched rural spread.\n\nMust-see Brazil: Where to go if you\u2019re a first-time visitor\n\nThe sheer size of Brazil's land mass is overwhelming \u2013 where do you even begin mapping out where to go in its 8.5 million square kilometres?\u00a0\n\nIf you are visiting for the first time, Reis highlights several must-see destinations to give you a taste of the country's staggering coast to peak natural beauty, cultural richness and the iconic attractions.\u00a0\n\nStart in the pulsating coastal city of Rio de Janeiro and hit the golden sand beaches backed by jagged peaks. Head to the famed Ipanema for a dazzling stretch of picture-perfect coastline or Copacabana after sundown. Head to the Christ the Redeemer statue on a trail through the Tijuca Forest National Park and feel like you've left the city behind.\u00a0\n\nDouble up on the world icons and head inland to Iguazu Falls, the mega waterfall located on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Its cascades draw the crowds for a reason: it's one of the Seven New Natural Wonders of the Modern World.\u00a0\n\nNorth of Rio, city hop to the colourful UNESCO Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia and wander its sloped cobblestoned streets lined with colourful colonial-era houses. Given its slave trading history, it is also an important centre of Afro-Brazilian identity and culture.\u00a0\n\nBrazil is synonymous with the Amazon Rainforest, so get to the gateway of Manaus for local living, treks and boat trips through the incredible biodiversity of the world's largest tropical rainforest - half of which is in Brazil!\n\nSustainable and regenerative travel: Brazil's core focus\n\nIn national parks and bio reserves, wetlands and coastal set heritage towns and cities, \"we are talking about regenerative travel to Brazil and how tourists can support and protect our biomes,\" says Reis.\n\nIt can be as simple as venturing beyond the iconic sites on more adventurous trips.\u00a0\n\nNorth of the capital, Bras\u00edlia, you can leave the metropolis and choose from dozens of walking trails in Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, passing the mighty caverns and stunning waterfall baths that make up this rugged forested rock landscape and protected UNESCO Natural World Heritage area.\u00a0\n\n\"Brazil has a lot of UNESCO heritage sites, so maybe a second trip to see one would be a great idea,\" adds Reis.\n\nVisit the Pantanal: The world's largest tropical wetland\n\nBrazil's focal area for regenerative tourism in 2025 is the Pantanal. It's a star state for those wanting to see a pristine patch of the country. It encompasses the entire state of Mato Grosso do Sul, close to the Bolivia and Paraguay borders.\u00a0\n\nThe world's largest tropical wetland, it's a haven for birdwatching and spotting rare flora and fauna.\u00a0\n\n\"You should go to Pantanal to live Brazilian Safari\u2026it offers unparalleled wildlife viewing, including jaguars, capybaras, and countless bird species. The region also offers a unique opportunity to experience one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems in a sustainable way,\" says Reis.\u00a0\n\nThe Pantanal's town of Bonito is a great starting point, surrounded by glass blue rivers you can float down, the otherworldly Abismo Anhuma cave that you have to abseil 72 metres into, waterfalls you can descend on rappelling circuits and backcountry you can traverse on horseback.\n\nIt's no wonder \"Bonito won several prizes of ecotourism in Brazil,\" Reis adds.\n\nBrazil: A destination for all travellers\n\nBeyond the deep dive into nature and adventure, Brazil is pushing travel experiences to diverse groups, from cultural deep dives with Afro tourism to LGBTQ+ tourism and indulgent luxury retreats.\n\nAcross its 26 states, 74 national parks, six biomes and 8,000 kilometres of coastline, Reis explains that Brazil is trying to attract \u201call the kinds of tourists who want to protect nature and be in contact with local communities in Brazil. I'm sure everyone will have a lifetime experience down there.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>With world-class beaches, swathes of Amazon rainforest, history-packed cities and off-track wilderness plains, Brazil's colossal landmass packs a staggering diversity of nature, culture and adventure across its 8,000 kilometres of coastline and six distinct biomes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bruno Reis, International Marketing Director at Embratur, tourism in the most biodiverse country in the world is unique: \"There are types of experiences you can only have in Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From January to September 2024, over 741,000 tourists from Europe visited Brazil. While the remarkable beauty of this South American country is no secret, it is no surprise that Brazil wants to protect it through authentic and sustainable travel experiences.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s especially appealing for those wanting to get beyond the coastal hotspots and into Brazil\u2019s central, untouched rural spread.<\/p>\n<h2>Must-see Brazil: Where to go if you\u2019re a first-time visitor<\/h2><p>The sheer size of Brazil's land mass is overwhelming \u2013 where do you even begin mapping out where to go in its 8.5 million square kilometres?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are visiting for the first time, Reis highlights several must-see destinations to give you a taste of the country's staggering coast to peak natural beauty, cultural richness and the iconic attractions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Start in the pulsating coastal city of Rio de Janeiro and hit the golden sand beaches backed by jagged peaks. Head to the famed Ipanema for a dazzling stretch of picture-perfect coastline or Copacabana after sundown. Head to the Christ the Redeemer statue on a trail through the Tijuca Forest National Park and feel like you've left the city behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Double up on the world icons and head inland to Iguazu Falls, the mega waterfall located on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Its cascades draw the crowds for a reason: it's one of the Seven New Natural Wonders of the Modern World.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North of Rio, city hop to the colourful UNESCO Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia and wander its sloped cobblestoned streets lined with colourful colonial-era houses. Given its slave trading history, it is also an important centre of Afro-Brazilian identity and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//17//brazil-is-more-than-just-sun-and-sand-where-to-go-for-wildlife-hiking-and-diving/">Brazil is synonymous with the Amazon Rainforest, so get to the gateway of Manaus for local living, treks and boat trips through the incredible biodiversity of the world's largest tropical rainforest - half of which is in Brazil!<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7490234375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//52//42//808x603_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg/" alt=\"Rio de Janeiro\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/384x288_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/640x479_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/750x562_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/828x620_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/1080x809_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/1200x899_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/1920x1438_cmsv2_193c3aa8-53ee-5d71-b193-b639be5cf974-8845242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rio de Janeiro<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Embratur<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7926082,6661868\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//04//27//watch-rio-carnival-s-colourful-parade-as-brazil-looks-forward-to-a-full-return-in-2023/">Watch: Rio Carnival's colourful parade makes a welcome return to Brazil<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//09//28//swimmers-return-to-rio-de-janeiros-beaches-thanks-to-successful-clean-up-operation/">Swimmers return to Rio de Janeiro's beaches thanks to successful clean up operation<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Sustainable and regenerative travel: Brazil's core focus<\/h2><p>In <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//05//31//four-of-europe-s-best-green-spaces/">national parks<\/strong><\/a> and bio reserves, wetlands and coastal set heritage towns and cities, \"we are talking about regenerative travel to Brazil and how tourists can support and protect our biomes,\" says Reis.<\/p>\n<p>It can be as simple as venturing beyond the iconic sites on more adventurous trips.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North of the capital, Bras\u00edlia, you can leave the metropolis and choose from dozens of walking trails in Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, passing the mighty caverns and stunning waterfall baths that make up this rugged forested rock landscape and protected UNESCO Natural World Heritage area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Brazil has a lot of UNESCO heritage sites, so maybe a second trip to see one would be a great idea,\" adds Reis.<\/p>\n<h2>Visit the Pantanal: The world's largest tropical wetland<\/h2><p>Brazil's focal area for regenerative tourism in 2025 is the Pantanal. It's a star state for those wanting to see a pristine patch of the country. It encompasses the entire state of Mato Grosso do Sul, close to the Bolivia and Paraguay borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The world's largest tropical wetland, it's a haven for birdwatching and spotting rare flora and fauna.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"You should go to Pantanal to live Brazilian <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//06//sustainable-safaris-and-off-grid-coastal-cafes-meet-the-women-trailblazing-greener-ways-to/">Safari/u2026it offers unparalleled wildlife viewing, including jaguars, capybaras, and countless bird species. The region also offers a unique opportunity to experience one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems in a sustainable way,\" says Reis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pantanal's town of Bonito is a great starting point, surrounded by glass blue rivers you can float down, the otherworldly Abismo Anhuma cave that you have to abseil 72 metres into, waterfalls you can descend on rappelling circuits and backcountry you can traverse on horseback.<\/p>\n<p>It's no wonder \"Bonito won several prizes of ecotourism in Brazil,\" Reis adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.56201171875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//52//42//808x454_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg/" alt=\"Adventure in Bonito\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/384x216_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/640x360_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/750x422_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/828x465_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/1080x607_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/1200x674_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/52\/42\/1920x1079_cmsv2_0ce3af1d-337e-5dfa-977a-55054da4ef62-8845242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Adventure in Bonito<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Embratur<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8035788,8300702\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//11//13//white-dunes-blue-lagoons-and-rare-wildlife-a-guide-to-the-best-of-brazils-natural-wonders/">White dunes, blue lagoons and rare wildlife: A guide to the best of Brazil\u2019s natural wonders<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//17//brazil-is-more-than-just-sun-and-sand-where-to-go-for-wildlife-hiking-and-diving/">Brazil is more than just sun, sea and sand: Where to go for wildlife, hiking and diving<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Brazil: A destination for all travellers<\/h2><p>Beyond the deep dive into nature and adventure, Brazil is pushing travel experiences to diverse groups, from cultural deep dives with Afro tourism to LGBTQ+ tourism and indulgent luxury retreats.<\/p>\n<p>Across its 26 states, 74 national parks, six biomes and 8,000 kilometres of coastline, Reis explains that Brazil is trying to attract \u201call the kinds of tourists who want to protect nature and be in contact with local communities in Brazil. 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X BAN BRAZIL LIFTS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Elon Musk's X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with court","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Elon Musk's X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with court","titleListing2":"Elon Musk's X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with court","leadin":"X was blocked in Brazil, where it had more than 22 million users, at the end of August.","summary":"X was blocked in Brazil, where it had more than 22 million users, at the end of August.","keySentence":"","url":"elon-musks-x-to-be-reinstated-in-brazil-after-complying-with-court","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/10\/09\/elon-musks-x-to-be-reinstated-in-brazil-after-complying-with-court","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Brazilians are set to regain access to the social media platform X after the country\u2019s Supreme Court lifted a six-week ban, according to a court document made public on Tuesday. \n\nIt comes after a months-long feud between X owner Elon Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who implemented the ban after X refused to block several profiles the government said were spreading misinformation about the 2022 Brazilian Presidential election.\n\nX was blocked on August 30 in the country of more than 200 million people and one of X\u2019s biggest markets, with estimates of its user base ranging from 20 to 40 million.\n\nMusk had disparaged de Moraes, calling him an authoritarian and a censor, even though his rulings, including X\u2019s suspension, were repeatedly upheld by his peers.\n\nDespite Musk's public bravado, X ultimately complied with all of de Moraes' demands. They included blocking certain accounts from the platform, paying outstanding fines and naming a legal representative in the country. Failure to do the latter had triggered the suspension.\n\n'X proud to return' \n\n\u201cThe resumption of (X)\u2019s activities on national territory was conditioned, solely, on full compliance with Brazilian laws and absolute observance of the Judiciary's decisions, out of respect for national sovereignty,\u201d de Moraes said in the court document.\n\n\u201cX is proud to return to Brazil,\u201d the company said in a statement posted on its Global Government Affairs account.\n\n\"Giving tens of millions of Brazilians access to our indispensable platform was paramount throughout this entire process. We will continue to defend freedom of speech, within the boundaries of the law, everywhere we operate\".\n\nJust two days before the ban, on August 28, X said it was removing all its remaining staff in Brazil \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d saying de Moraes had threatened to arrest its legal representative in the country, Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, if X did not comply with orders to block accounts.\n\nBrazilian law requires foreign companies to have a local legal representative to receive notifications of court decisions and swiftly take any requisite action, particularly, in X\u2019s case, the takedown of accounts.\n\nConcei\u00e7\u00e3o was first named X\u2019s legal representative in April and resigned four months later. The company named her to the same job on September 20, according to the public filing with the Sao Paulo commercial registry.\n\nIn an apparent effort to shield Concei\u00e7\u00e3o from potential violations by X \u2014 and risking arrest \u2014 a clause has been written into Concei\u00e7\u00e3o\u2019s new representation agreement that she must follow Brazilian law and court decisions, and that any legal responsibility she assumes on X\u2019s behalf requires prior instruction from the company in writing, according to the company\u2019s filing.\n\nConcei\u00e7\u00e3o works for BR4Business, a business services firm. Its two-page website provides no insight into its operations or staff. \u201cSomething great is on its way,\u201d the top of the site\u2019s main page reads in English. Its other page has an extensive privacy policy.\n\nThe bare minimum \n\nAt three of its listed Sao Paulo offices, receptionists told the AP that the company\u2019s offices are empty and employees work remotely. Neither Concei\u00e7\u00e3o nor BR4Business returned multiple phone calls and emails from the AP.\n\nThere is nothing illegal or suspect about using a company like BR4Business for legal representation, but it shows that X is doing the bare minimum to operate in the country, said Fabio de Sa e Silva, a lawyer and associate professor of International and Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma.\n\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t demonstrate an intention to truly engage with the country. Take Meta, for example, and Google. They have an office, a government relations department, precisely to interact with public authorities and discuss Brazil\u2019s regulatory policies concerning their businesses,\u201d Silva added.\n\nIndeed, it is rare for an established, influential company such as X to have only a legal representative, said Carlos Affonso Souza, a lawyer and director of the Institute for Technology and Society, a Rio-based think tank. And that could be problematic going forward.\n\n\u201cThe concern now is what comes next and how X, once back in operation, will manage to meet the demands of the market and local authorities without creating new tensions,\u201d he said.\n\nSome of Brazilian X users have migrated to other platforms, such as Meta\u2019s Threads and, primarily, Bluesky. It\u2019s unclear how many of them will return to X.\n\nIn a statement to the AP, Bluesky reported that it now has 10.6 million users and continues to see strong growth in Brazil. Bluesky has appointed a legal representative in the South American country.\n\nBrazil was not the first country to ban X \u2014 far from it \u2014 but such a drastic step has generally been limited to authoritarian regimes. The platform and its former incarnation, Twitter, have been banned in Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan. Other countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended X before, usually to quell dissent and unrest.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brazilians are set to regain access to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//14//brazil-judge-withdraws-3-million-from-elon-musks-x-and-starlink-accounts-to-pay-for-fines/">social media platform X<\/strong><\/a> after the country\u2019s Supreme Court lifted a six-week ban, according to a court document made public on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>It comes after a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//02//brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky/">months-long feud between X owner Elon Musk and Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes<\/strong><\/a>, who implemented the ban after X refused to block several profiles the government said were spreading misinformation about the 2022 Brazilian Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>X was blocked on August 30 in the country of more than 200 million people and one of X\u2019s biggest markets, with estimates of its user base ranging from 20 to 40 million.<\/p>\n<p>Musk had disparaged de Moraes, calling him an authoritarian and a censor, even though his rulings, including X\u2019s suspension, were repeatedly upheld by his peers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8777388\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//08//why-openais-voice-mode-metas-llama-and-apples-ai-wont-be-coming-to-europe-yet/">Why OpenAI\u2019s Voice Mode, Meta\u2019s Llama and Apple\u2019s AI won\u2019t be coming to Europe yet<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Despite Musk's public bravado, X ultimately complied with all of de Moraes' demands. They included blocking certain accounts from the platform, paying outstanding fines and naming a legal representative in the country. Failure to do the latter had triggered the suspension.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>'X proud to return'<\/strong><\/h2><p>\u201cThe resumption of (X)\u2019s activities on national territory was conditioned, solely, on full compliance with Brazilian laws and absolute observance of the Judiciary's decisions, out of respect for national sovereignty,\u201d de Moraes said in the court document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cX is proud to return to Brazil,\u201d the company said in a statement posted on its Global Government Affairs account.<\/p>\n<p>\"Giving tens of millions of Brazilians access to our indispensable platform was paramount throughout this entire process. We will continue to defend freedom of speech, within the boundaries of the law, everywhere we operate\".<\/p>\n<p>Just two days before the ban, on August 28, X said it was removing all its remaining staff in Brazil \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d saying de Moraes had threatened to arrest its legal representative in the country, Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, if X did not comply with orders to block accounts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8743370\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//09//19//musks-x-skirts-brazil-ban-and-returns-to-some-users-with-change-to-server-access/">Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Brazilian law requires foreign companies to have a local legal representative to receive notifications of court decisions and swiftly take any requisite action, particularly, in X\u2019s case, the takedown of accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Concei\u00e7\u00e3o was first named X\u2019s legal representative in April and resigned four months later. The company named her to the same job on September 20, according to the public filing with the Sao Paulo commercial registry.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent effort to shield Concei\u00e7\u00e3o from potential violations by X \u2014 and risking arrest \u2014 a clause has been written into Concei\u00e7\u00e3o\u2019s new representation agreement that she must follow Brazilian law and court decisions, and that any legal responsibility she assumes on X\u2019s behalf requires prior instruction from the company in writing, according to the company\u2019s filing.<\/p>\n<p>Concei\u00e7\u00e3o works for BR4Business, a business services firm. Its two-page website provides no insight into its operations or staff. \u201cSomething great is on its way,\u201d the top of the site\u2019s main page reads in English. Its other page has an extensive privacy policy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The bare minimum<\/strong><\/h2><p>At three of its listed Sao Paulo offices, receptionists told the AP that the company\u2019s offices are empty and employees work remotely. Neither Concei\u00e7\u00e3o nor BR4Business returned multiple phone calls and emails from the AP.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing illegal or suspect about using a company like BR4Business for legal representation, but it shows that X is doing the bare minimum to operate in the country, said Fabio de Sa e Silva, a lawyer and associate professor of International and Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8223328\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//02//07//bluesky-new-social-platform-championed-by-jack-dorsey-open-for-anyone-to-sign-up/">Bluesky: New social media platform championed by Jack Dorsey now open for anyone to join<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t demonstrate an intention to truly engage with the country. Take Meta, for example, and Google. They have an office, a government relations department, precisely to interact with public authorities and discuss Brazil\u2019s regulatory policies concerning their businesses,\u201d Silva added.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it is rare for an established, influential company such as X to have only a legal representative, said Carlos Affonso Souza, a lawyer and director of the Institute for Technology and Society, a Rio-based think tank. And that could be problematic going forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concern now is what comes next and how X, once back in operation, will manage to meet the demands of the market and local authorities without creating new tensions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//01//x-has-lost-75-of-its-value-since-elon-musk-took-over/">Some of Brazilian X<\/strong><\/a> users have migrated to other platforms, such as Meta\u2019s Threads and, primarily, Bluesky. It\u2019s unclear how many of them will return to X.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the AP, Bluesky reported that it now has 10.6 million users and continues to see strong growth in Brazil. Bluesky has appointed a legal representative in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil was not the first country to ban X \u2014 far from it \u2014 but such a drastic step has generally been limited to authoritarian regimes. The platform and its former incarnation, Twitter, have been banned in Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan. Other countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended X before, usually to quell dissent and unrest.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1728476157,"updatedAt":1728479494,"publishedAt":1728477819,"firstPublishedAt":1728477819,"lastPublishedAt":1728477819,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/78\/03\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_63233285-1047-57cf-a684-9b356322af9a-8780308.jpg","altText":"An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.","caption":"An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Eraldo Peres\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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It is the lowest since measurements started 122 years ago. The previous record low level was recorded last year, but toward the end of October.\n\nThe water level might drop even more in coming weeks based on forecasts for low rainfall in upstream regions, according to the geological service's predictions. Andre Martinelli, the agency's hydrology manager in Manaus, was quoted as saying the river was expected to continue receding until the end of the month. \n\nWater levels in Brazil\u2019s Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and dry seasons, but the dry portion of this year has been much worse than usual. All of the major rivers in the Amazon basin are at critical levels, including the Madeira River, the Amazon River\u2019s longest tributary. \n\nThe Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world\u2019s sixth-largest by water volume. Manaus, the biggest city in the rainforest, is where the Negro joins the Amazon River.\n\nFor locals, the drought has made basic daily activities impossible. Gracita Barbosa, 28, works as a cashier on a floating shop on the Negro River. She\u2019s out of work because boats that once stopped there can no longer navigate the river due to the low water levels. Barbosa can no longer bathe in the river and now has to travel longer distances to collect drinking water.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Negro river's low level reflects has been caused by a severe drought that has devastated the Amazon rainforest and other parts of Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>The level of the river at the port of Manaus was at 12.66 metres on Friday, as compared with a normal level of about 21 metres. It is the lowest since measurements started 122 years ago. The previous record low level was recorded last year, but toward the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>The water level might drop even more in coming weeks based on forecasts for low rainfall in upstream regions, according to the geological service's predictions. Andre Martinelli, the agency's hydrology manager in Manaus, was quoted as saying the river was expected to continue receding until the end of the month. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7177734375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//77//26//68//808x581_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg/" alt=\"A boat is grounded in the Negro River at the port in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, amid severe drought. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/384x276_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/640x459_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/750x538_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/828x594_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/1080x775_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/1200x861_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/1920x1378_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A boat is grounded in the Negro River at the port in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, amid severe drought. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Edmar Barros\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Water levels in Brazil\u2019s Amazon always rise and fall with its rainy and dry seasons, but the dry portion of this year has been much worse than usual. All of the major rivers in the Amazon basin are at critical levels, including the Madeira River, the Amazon River\u2019s longest tributary. <\/p>\n<p>The Negro River drains about 10% of the Amazon basin and is the world\u2019s sixth-largest by water volume. Manaus, the biggest city in the rainforest, is where the Negro joins the Amazon River.<\/p>\n<p>For locals, the drought has made basic daily activities impossible. Gracita Barbosa, 28, works as a cashier on a floating shop on the Negro River. She\u2019s out of work because boats that once stopped there can no longer navigate the river due to the low water levels. Barbosa can no longer bathe in the river and now has to travel longer distances to collect drinking water.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1728114854,"updatedAt":1728119531,"publishedAt":1728115579,"firstPublishedAt":1728115579,"lastPublishedAt":1728115579,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a4d346ff-0a3a-5a9d-bb6e-738fde427d90-8772668.jpg","altText":"The earth is exposed along the Negro River at the port in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, amid severe drought. ","caption":"The earth is exposed along the Negro River at the port in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, amid severe drought. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Edmar Barros\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":740},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/26\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1499ca5b-8af1-50b3-85cd-20a561c85fc5-8772668.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":735}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1074,"urlSafeValue":"bellamy","title":"Daniel Bellamy","twitter":"danbel"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":17454,"slug":"river","urlSafeValue":"river","title":"river","titleRaw":"river"},{"id":35,"slug":"brazil","urlSafeValue":"brazil","title":"Brazil","titleRaw":"Brazil"},{"id":11117,"slug":"amazon","urlSafeValue":"amazon","title":"Amazon","titleRaw":"Amazon"},{"id":9403,"slug":"drought","urlSafeValue":"drought","title":"Drought","titleRaw":"Drought"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":1}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":35,"urlSafeValue":"brazil","title":"Brazil","url":"\/news\/america\/brazil"},"town":{"id":3836,"urlSafeValue":"manaus","title":"Manaus"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","80122010","80222010","84191001","84192007","84251001","84252024"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","natural_disasters_high_and_medium_risk","natural_disasters_high_medium_and_low_risk","science","science_geology","travel","travel_south_america"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/10\/05\/main-amazon-tributary-in-brazil-at-lowest-level-in-a-century-as-drought-hits","lastModified":1728115579},{"id":2634626,"cid":8743370,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"240919_BZSU_56550833","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"NEXT BRAZIL X LATEST","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"X returns to some users in Brazil with server change","titleListing2":"Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access","leadin":"Some X users are back online despite a nation-wide ban against the app in Brazil.","summary":"Some X users are back online despite a nation-wide ban against the app in Brazil.","keySentence":"","url":"musks-x-skirts-brazil-ban-and-returns-to-some-users-with-change-to-server-access","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2024\/09\/19\/musks-x-skirts-brazil-ban-and-returns-to-some-users-with-change-to-server-access","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Some Brazilian users regained access to the social media platform X on Wednesday despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country's Supreme Court. \n\nExperts examining X's IP addresses - numeric designations that identifies sites' location on the internet - said there are indications the company has begun routing users through the servers of Cloudflare, a content delivery network, en route to its own.\n\nThe software acts as a proxy between users and X's servers, filtering traffic and preventing the original IP address from being recognized, according to Pedro Diogenes, Latin America\u2019s technical director for cybersecurity distributor CLM.\n\n\"The service that Elon Musk\u2019s social network has started using works like a \u2018digital shield\u2019 that protects the company\u2019s servers,\" Diogenes said. \n\nBrazil's Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X blocked nationwide last month because X owner Elon Musk refused to meet the country's requirements on free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation. De Moraes also set fines for anyone using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to access the platform.\n\nThat rendered X effectively inaccessible in the country until Wednesday, when the number of X posts in Brazil rose from 939,000 to more than 2 million by late afternoon Wednesday, according to data analysis company Bites. \n\nA possible short-lived return\n\nX said on its platform that it swapped network providers because the shutdown in Brazil was affecting Latin America as a whole. \n\n\"This change resulted in an inadvertent and temporary service restoration to Brazilian users,\" the Wednesday evening statement said. \"We expect the platform to be inaccessible again shortly\".\n\nSome Brazilian X users trumpeted the platform's return \u2014 with several addressing de Moraes directly, vowing that they weren't using a VPN. \n\nAmong those happy for the app's return was former President Jair Bolsonaro, who sided with Musk in the feud with De Moraes, calling it censorship. \n\n\"When justice acts selectively, we are all at risk. When prior censorship is normalised, we lose our freedom. When freedom of expression and the press are threatened, democracy cries out for help,\" Bolsonaro wrote.\n\nHard to block Cloudflare, expert says\n\nAnatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulator, said there have been no changes to De Moraes' ruling and so will be preparing a report for the Supreme Court on the situation.\n\nThe Supreme Court declined to comment on possible actions it could take. \n\nThere have been no reports of fines being levied against people using VPNs.\n\nCloudflare has a reputation for cooperating with governments and may comply with an order from the Supreme Court to cease serving as X's proxy, David Nemer, who specialises in the anthropology of technology at the University of Virginia, told the AP.\n\nOrdering internet service providers to block Cloudflare would be impossible, since thousands of Brazilian companies depend on it, according to Nemer.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Some Brazilian users regained access to the social media platform X on Wednesday despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country's Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>Experts examining X's IP addresses - numeric designations that identifies sites' location on the internet - said there are indications the company has begun routing users through the servers of Cloudflare, a content delivery network, en route to its own.<\/p>\n<p>The software acts as a proxy between users and X's servers, filtering traffic and preventing the original IP address from being recognized, according to Pedro Diogenes, Latin America\u2019s technical director for cybersecurity distributor CLM.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8696186\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//02//brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky/">Brazil's Supreme Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban as users switch to Threads and Bluesky<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The service that Elon Musk\u2019s social network has started using works like a \u2018digital shield\u2019 that protects the company\u2019s servers,\" Diogenes said. <\/p>\n<p>Brazil's Justice Alexandre de Moraes <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//02//brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky/">ordered X blocked nationwide<\/strong><\/a> last month because X owner Elon Musk refused to meet the country's requirements on free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation. De Moraes also set fines for anyone using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to access the platform.<\/p>\n<p>That rendered <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//14//brazil-judge-withdraws-3-million-from-elon-musks-x-and-starlink-accounts-to-pay-for-fines/">X effectively inaccessible in the country<\/strong><\/a> until Wednesday, when the number of X posts in Brazil rose from 939,000 to more than 2 million by late afternoon Wednesday, according to data analysis company Bites. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8730694\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//14//brazil-judge-withdraws-3-million-from-elon-musks-x-and-starlink-accounts-to-pay-for-fines/">Brazil judge withdraws \u20ac3 million from Elon Musk's X and Starlink accounts to pay for fines<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>A possible short-lived return<\/h2><p>X said on its platform that it swapped network providers because the shutdown in Brazil was affecting Latin America as a whole. <\/p>\n<p>\"This change resulted in an inadvertent and temporary service restoration to Brazilian users,\" the Wednesday evening statement said. \"We expect the platform to be inaccessible again shortly\".<\/p>\n<p>Some Brazilian X users trumpeted the platform's return \u2014 with several addressing de Moraes directly, vowing that they weren't using a VPN. <\/p>\n<p>Among those happy for the app's return was former President Jair Bolsonaro, who sided with Musk in the feud with De Moraes, calling it censorship. <\/p>\n<p>\"When justice acts selectively, we are all at risk. When prior censorship is normalised, we lose our freedom. When freedom of expression and the press are threatened, democracy cries out for help,\" Bolsonaro wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8702282\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//04//musks-starlink-u-turns-and-says-it-will-comply-with-judges-order-to-block-x-in-brazil/">Musk's Starlink U-turns and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Hard to block Cloudflare, expert says<\/h2><p>Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulator, said there have been no changes to De Moraes' ruling and so will be preparing a report for the Supreme Court on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court declined to comment on possible actions it could take. <\/p>\n<p>There have been no reports of fines being levied against people using VPNs.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare has a reputation for cooperating with governments and may comply with an order from the Supreme Court to cease serving as X's proxy, David Nemer, who specialises in the anthropology of technology at the University of Virginia, told the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Ordering internet service providers to block Cloudflare would be impossible, since thousands of Brazilian companies depend on it, according to Nemer.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1726733575,"updatedAt":1726915102,"publishedAt":1726736998,"firstPublishedAt":1726736998,"lastPublishedAt":1726915102,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/74\/33\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5dec4cba-020e-5348-b67f-323cf3244e40-8743370.jpg","altText":"A view of a laptop shows the Twitter sign-in page with their logo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 24, 2023","caption":"A view of a laptop shows the Twitter sign-in page with their logo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 24, 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Darko Vojinovic\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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His ruling on the case is yet to be made public.\n\nControversy over Starlink fines\n\nBrazil\u2019s Supreme Court also said that the banks that hold accounts of the two companies were informed on Thursday they had complied with the decision.\n\n\"After the payment of the full amount that was owed, the justice (de Moraes) considered there was no need to keep the bank accounts frozen and ordered the immediate unfreezing of bank accounts\/financial assets,\" the Brazilian Supreme Court said.\n\nX did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.\n\nThe social media platform has been under fire in Brazil since it refused to remove content flagged as illegal by the Supreme Court justice.\n\nDe Moraes is the same justice who suspended X in Brazil due to Musk's decision to not have a legal representative for the company in the South American nation, which is against the law.\n\nThe company has claimed that de Moraes wants an in-country representative so that local authorities can exert leverage by having someone to arrest.\n\nMany legal analysts, including some who have supported de Moraes' rulings related to X, disagree with charging Starlink for X's fines.\n\n\"Starlink is a different company. Belonging to the same economic group doesn't mean it is also responsible for a debt it did not take part of. It didn't even have a chance to defend itself,\" L\u00eanio Streck, a renowned Brazilian jurist, said in his social media channels. \n\n\"What could Starlink have done to avoid what other company did?\"\n\n'The ruling is legitimate'\n\nLu\u00eds Henrique Machado, a law professor at the IDP University in the capital, Brasilia, said de Moraes' decision is consistent.\n\n\"The social media company was sanctioned for not removing content after an order of the Supreme Court amid ongoing investigations. It is totally understandable that the judge requests that the fines be paid,\" Machado said. \n\n\"The ruling is legitimate in imposing the transfer of the amounts in compulsorily fashion\".\n\nSince last year, X has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to block some users, mostly far-right activists accused of undermining Brazilian democracy. Musk has called the Brazilian justice a dictator and an autocrat due to his rulings affecting his companies in Brazil.\n\nOn August 31, Musk\u2019s social media platform was banned nationwide and de Moraes set a $9,000 (\u20ac8,000) daily fine for anyone using a virtual private network (VPN) to skirt the suspension. Brazil\u2019s X users mostly started washing up on Threads and Bluesky.\n\nOn Saturday, tens of thousands of supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro flooded Sao Paulo\u2019s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally, buoyed by de Moraes' decisions on X, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution.\n\nX had 22 million users in Brazil, according to estimates in the Digital 2024: Brazil report, just one-sixth the number on Instagram, and about one-fifth of Facebook or TikTok.\n\nSince January 2022, when Starlink began operations in Brazil, it has captured a 0.5 per cent share of the Internet market, according to Brazil's telecommunications agency Anatel.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday seized around $3.3 million (\u20ac2.9 million) from bank accounts belonging to tech billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Justice Alexandre de Moraes was aimed at collecting funds that are equivalent to the amount that X owes to the country in fines. <\/p>\n<p>The bank accounts of the two companies have since been unfrozen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8702282\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//04//musks-starlink-u-turns-and-says-it-will-comply-with-judges-order-to-block-x-in-brazil/">Musk's Starlink U-turns and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Legal analysts have questioned de Moraes\u2019 prior decision to freeze Starlink\u2019s bank account to pay for cases related to X. <\/p>\n<p>While Musk owns both X and SpaceX, which operates Starlink, the two companies are separate entities.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil's Supreme Court said Friday in a statement that de Moraes ruled to transfer more than 7.2 million Brazilian reais (\u20ac1.17 million) from an X bank account and almost 11 million Brazilian reais (\u20ac1.8 million) from a Starlink account.<\/p>\n<p>De Moraes made the decision on Wednesday, Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court said. His ruling on the case is yet to be made public.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8692078\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//30//judge-in-brazil-suspends-x-after-elon-musk-fails-to-name-a-legal-rep/">Judge in Brazil suspends X after chief Elon Musk fails to name legal representative<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Controversy over Starlink fines<\/h2><p>Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court also said that the banks that hold accounts of the two companies were informed on Thursday they had complied with the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\"After the payment of the full amount that was owed, the justice (de Moraes) considered there was no need to keep the bank accounts frozen and ordered the immediate unfreezing of bank accounts\/financial assets,\" the Brazilian Supreme Court said.<\/p>\n<p>X did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform has been under fire in Brazil since it refused to remove content flagged as illegal by the Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<p>De Moraes is the same justice who suspended X in Brazil due to Musk's decision to not have a legal representative for the company in the South American nation, which is against the law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8708714\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//06//trump-says-he-would-have-elon-musk-run-government-efficiency-commission/">Trump says he would have Elon Musk run 'government efficiency commission'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The company has claimed that de Moraes wants an in-country representative so that local authorities can exert leverage by having someone to arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Many legal analysts, including some who have supported de Moraes' rulings related to X, disagree with charging Starlink for X's fines.<\/p>\n<p>\"Starlink is a different company. Belonging to the same economic group doesn't mean it is also responsible for a debt it did not take part of. It didn't even have a chance to defend itself,\" L\u00eanio Streck, a renowned Brazilian jurist, said in his social media channels. <\/p>\n<p>\"What could Starlink have done to avoid what other company did?\"<\/p>\n<h2>'The ruling is legitimate'<\/h2><p>Lu\u00eds Henrique Machado, a law professor at the IDP University in the capital, Brasilia, said de Moraes' decision is consistent.<\/p>\n<p>\"The social media company was sanctioned for not removing content after an order of the Supreme Court amid ongoing investigations. It is totally understandable that the judge requests that the fines be paid,\" Machado said. <\/p>\n<p>\"The ruling is legitimate in imposing the transfer of the amounts in compulsorily fashion\".<\/p>\n<p>Since last year, X has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to block some users, mostly far-right activists accused of undermining Brazilian democracy. Musk has called the Brazilian justice a dictator and an autocrat due to his rulings affecting his companies in Brazil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8691032\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//08//30//starlink-accounts-frozen-in-brazil-ahead-of-possible-x-ban/">Starlink finances frozen in Brazil ahead of possible X suspension <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On August 31, Musk\u2019s social media platform was banned nationwide and de Moraes set a $9,000 (\u20ac8,000) daily fine for anyone using a virtual private network (VPN) to skirt the suspension. Brazil\u2019s X users mostly started washing up on Threads and Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, tens of thousands of supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro flooded Sao Paulo\u2019s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally, buoyed by de Moraes' decisions on X, a ban they say is proof of their political persecution.<\/p>\n<p>X had 22 million users in Brazil, according to estimates in the Digital 2024: Brazil report, just one-sixth the number on Instagram, and about one-fifth of Facebook or TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2022, when Starlink began operations in Brazil, it has captured a 0.5 per cent share of the Internet market, according to Brazil's telecommunications agency 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Musk noted on X that the two companies have different shareholder structures.\n\nX has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to block users - mostly far-right activists accused of undermining Brazilian democracy and allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro - and has alleged that de Moraes wants an in-country legal representative so that Brazilian authorities can exert leverage over the company by having someone to arrest. And Musk has been relentlessly posting in recent days, lambasting de Moraes as a criminal.\n\n\"This evil tyrant is a disgrace to judges' robes,\" Musk wrote on X along with a photo of de Moraes some 17 hours before Starlink announced its decision to comply with the order.\n\nStarlink's presence in Brazil\n\nThe reversal comes as a relief to those in Brazil who have come to depend on Starlink. \n\nThe company has said it has more than 250,000 customers in the country, many of whom are in remote areas that wouldn\u2019t have fast internet access otherwise.\n\nBefore Starlink, internet access in many of these areas came from slow, unstable fixed antennae. Its easy-to-install kits and high-quality connections have transformed communication in some communities, surpassing even major Amazonian cities in speed.\n\nThe Forest People Connection project, founded in 2022 with Musk-donated Starlink terminals, has so far brought them to 1,014 remote communities, including riverine and Indigenous peoples. 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As of March 2023, SpaceX and the communications ministry hadn\u2019t signed any contract, and only three terminals had been installed in Amazon schools for a 12-month trial period. \n\nThe ministry\u2019s press office didn't immediately answer an AP request for updated information about these contracts on Tuesday. \n\nBrazil\u2019s education ministry told the AP that states are responsible for signing contracts with internet service providers.\n\nSince January 2022, when Starlink began operations in Brazil, it has captured a 0.5 per cent share of the internet market, trailing significantly behind leading providers, according to Anatel.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s satellite-based Internet service provider<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//30//starlink-accounts-frozen-in-brazil-ahead-of-possible-x-ban/"> <strong>Starlink<\/strong><\/a> backtracked and said on Tuesday that it would comply with a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//02//brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky/">Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order<\/strong><\/a> to block the billionaire\u2019s social media platform, X.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Brazil\u2019s supreme court ordered a nationwide ban<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cnbc.com//2024//08//30//brazil-orders-suspension-of-elon-musks-x.html/"> <\/a>on the platform after it failed to appoint a legal representative, following an order by top judge Alexandre de Moraes. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling was upheld on Monday by a panel of federal Supreme Court judges.<\/p>\n<p>De Moraes also ordered the freezing of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//30//starlink-accounts-frozen-in-brazil-ahead-of-possible-x-ban/">Starlink's assets<\/strong><\/a> last week for possible use to pay fines owed by X that already exceeded $3 million (\u20ac2.7 million), reasoning that the two companies are part of the same economic group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8696186\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//02//brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky/">Brazil's Supreme Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban as users switch to Threads and Bluesky<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starlink filed an appeal, its law firm Veirano told the Associated Press on August 30 but has declined to comment further in the days since.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, it informally told the telecommunications regulator that it would not comply until de Moraes reversed course.<\/p>\n<p>\"Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil,\" the company statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\"We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre's recent order violates the Brazilian constitution\".<\/p>\n<p>Had Starlink continued to disobey de Moraes by providing access, telecommunications regulator Anatel could eventually have seized equipment from Starlink\u2019s 23 ground stations that ensure the quality of its internet service, Arthur Coimbra, an Anatel board member, said on a video call from his office in Brasilia.<\/p>\n<p>Already some legal experts questioned de Moraes\u2019 basis for freezing Starlink\u2019s accounts, given that its parent company SpaceX has no integration with X<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//brazil-elon-musk-x-block-judge-free-speech-10dfeef83f442f6e76540ffbdf7d4c77/">. Musk noted on X that the two companies have different shareholder structures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8708714\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//09//06//trump-says-he-would-have-elon-musk-run-government-efficiency-commission/">Trump says he would have Elon Musk run 'government efficiency commission'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>X has clashed with de Moraes over its reluctance to block users - mostly far-right activists accused of undermining Brazilian democracy and allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro - and has alleged that de Moraes wants an in-country legal representative so that Brazilian authorities can exert leverage over the company by having someone to arrest. And Musk has been relentlessly posting in recent days, lambasting de Moraes as a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>\"This evil tyrant is a disgrace to judges' robes,\" Musk wrote on X along with a photo of de Moraes some 17 hours before Starlink announced its decision to comply with the order.<\/p>\n<h2>Starlink's presence in Brazil<\/h2><p>The reversal comes as a relief to those in Brazil who have come to depend on Starlink. <\/p>\n<p>The company has said it has more than 250,000 customers in the country, many of whom are in remote areas that wouldn\u2019t have fast internet access otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Before <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//07//12//spacex-rocket-accident-leaves-starlink-satellites-in-wrong-orbit/">Starlink, internet access in many of these areas came from slow, unstable fixed antennae. Its easy-to-install kits and high-quality connections have transformed communication in some communities, surpassing even major Amazonian cities in speed.<\/p>\n<p>The Forest People Connection project, founded in 2022 with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2021//11//17//spacex-brazil/">Musk-donated Starlink terminals<\/strong><\/a>, has so far brought them to 1,014 remote communities, including riverine and Indigenous peoples. The Yanomami are among them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8691032\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//08//30//starlink-accounts-frozen-in-brazil-ahead-of-possible-x-ban/">Starlink finances frozen in Brazil ahead of possible X suspension <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Living in a far-flung corner of Brazil's rainforest, they had faced a severe health crisis, but now have access to Starlink-powered telemedicine consults and reliable communication for emergency transport of patients.<\/p>\n<p>Improved connectivity has also facilitated illegal activities, such as gold mining.<\/p>\n<p>While Brazil's massive territory with vast rural and forested areas makes it a key growth market for Starlink, its presence isn\u2019t yet as large as Musk has led some to believe.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, he shared someone else\u2019s post that showed him meeting Bolsonaro in 2022 and noted that the duo claimed to have struck a partnership to bring Starlink to 19,000 schools. Musk touted the deal on X at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It never happened. As of March 2023, SpaceX and the communications ministry hadn\u2019t signed any contract, and only three terminals had been installed in Amazon schools for a 12-month trial period. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8498234\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//06//13//europes-answer-to-starlink-how-european-space-agency-wants-to-revolutionise-space-based-in/">Europe's answer to Starlink: How European Space Agency wants to revolutionise space-based Internet<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The ministry\u2019s press office didn't immediately answer an AP request for updated information about these contracts on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s education ministry told the AP that states are responsible for signing contracts with internet service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2022, when Starlink began operations in Brazil, it has captured a 0.5 per cent share of the internet market, trailing significantly behind leading providers, according to Anatel.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725439385,"updatedAt":1725666213,"publishedAt":1725444728,"firstPublishedAt":1725444728,"lastPublishedAt":1725666213,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/13\/86\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_778e23cc-eb10-5c79-bf25-ab598cabf5e0-7138666.jpg","altText":"FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. 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BRAZIL X UPDATE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Brazil's Supreme Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban as users switch to Threads and Bluesky","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Brazil court unanimously upholds X ban as users switch platforms","titleListing2":"Court in Brazil votes unanimously to uphold X ban as users switch to Threads and Bluesky","leadin":"Tech mogul Elon Musk accused one of Brazil's Supreme Court justices of carrying out \"censorship orders\" by blocking his social media platform.","summary":"Tech mogul Elon Musk accused one of Brazil's Supreme Court justices of carrying out \"censorship orders\" by blocking his social media platform.","keySentence":"","url":"brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/09\/02\/brazilian-court-to-vote-on-upholding-x-ban-as-users-switch-to-threads-and-bluesky","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Brazil's Supreme Court voted unanimously on Monday to uphold the decision by one of its justices to ban Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform, X.\n\nPreviously called Twitter, the ban on X began on Saturday after Musk refused to name a legal representative in Brazil in August, saying that the order by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes was trying to enforce censorship.\n\nBut Chief Justice Luis Roberto Barroso said in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo over the weekend that \"a company that refuses to name a legal representative in Brazil cannot operate in Brazilian territory\".\n\nThe collective support of the other Supreme Court justices is seen as undermining the efforts of Musk and his supporters to portray de Moraes as a renegade.\n\nTens of millions of people in Brazil use X but since the ban, many social media users have switched to Meta\u2019s Threads or BlueSky, which was co-founded by Jack Dorsey, who also started Twitter.\u00a0\n\n\"At peak traffic over these past few days, we\u2019ve had 20x the usual load on our infrastructure!\" Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said in a post on the platform.\u00a0\n\n\"The team has done a great job of keeping all systems online, but bear with us if you see some slow loading times,\" she added.\u00a0\n\nBrazilian users are also setting records for activities such as follows and likes, Bluesky said on Friday.\u00a0\n\nX alternatives on the rise\n\nUsers of other platforms welcomed Brazilians to their ranks over the weekend.\n\n\"Hello literally everyone in Brazil,\" a user wrote on Threads. \"We're a lot nicer than Twitter here,\" said another.\n\nX is not as popular in Brazil as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or 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However, it remains an important platform on which Brazilians engage in political debates and is highly influential among politicians, journalists, and other opinion-makers.\n\nDe Moraes said X will stay suspended until it complies with his orders, and he also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais (\u20ac8,000) for people or companies using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to access it.\n\nSome legal experts questioned the grounds for that decision and how it would be enforced. Others suggested the move was authoritarian.\n\nThe Brazilian Bar Association said on Friday in a statement that it would request the Supreme Court review the fines imposed on all citizens using VPNs or other means to access X without due process.\n\nBrazil's bar association argued that sanctions should never be imposed summarily before ensuring an adversarial process and the right to a full defence.\n\n\"I\u2019ve used VPNs a lot in authoritarian countries like China to continue accessing news sites and social networks,\" Maur\u00edcio Santoro, a political science professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said on the platform before its shutdown.\u00a0\n\n\"It never occurred to me that this type of tool would be banned in Brazil. It\u2019s dystopian\".\n\nA search on Friday on X showed hundreds of Brazilian users inquiring about VPNs that could potentially enable them to continue using the platform by making it appear they are logging on from outside the country.\n\n\"Tyrants want to turn Brazil into another commie dictatorship but we won\u2019t back down. I repeat: do not vote on those who don\u2019t respect free speech. Orwell was right,\" right-wing congressman Nikolas Ferreira, one of former President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s closest allies, published before X went off.\u00a0\n\nMusk replied with an emoji suggesting agreement: \"100\".\n\nFerreira is a 28-year-old YouTuber who received the most votes of the 513 elected federal lawmakers in the 2022 election. \n\nDe Moraes ordered the block of his social media accounts after a mob of Bolsonaro supporters attacked Brazil\u2019s Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in January 2023 seeking to overturn the election.\n\n'Blow to freedom and legal security'\n\nLawmaker Bia Kicis said \"the consequences of Alexandre de Moraes' attacks to Elon Musk, X, and Starlink will be regrettable for Brazilians\".\n\nShe also urged Rodrigo Pacheco, the president of the country\u2019s Senate, to act.\n\nKicis has repeatedly urged Pacheco to open impeachment proceedings against the Supreme Court justice.\n\n\"We need to leave this state of apathy and stop the worst from happening,\" the pro-Bolsonaro lawmaker, whose profiles were temporarily blocked by de Moraes in 2022, also said.\n\nThe former president said on Saturday on Instagram that X's departure from Brazil was \"another blow to our freedom and legal security\".\n\n\"It not only affects our freedom of expression but also undermines the confidence of international companies in operating on Brazilian soil, with impacts ranging from national security to the quality of the information that reaches our citizens,\" Bolsonaro added.\n\nOn Friday, President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva backed de Moraes\u2019 decision and took aim at Musk for positioning himself as though he was above the law during an interview with Radio MaisPB.\n\n\"Any citizen, from anywhere in the world, who has investments in Brazil, is subject to the Brazilian Constitution and Brazilian laws. Therefore, if the Supreme Court has made a decision for citizens to comply with certain things, they either have to comply or take another course of action,\" Lula said.\n\n\"It\u2019s not because the guy has a lot of money that he can disrespect it\".\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brazil's Supreme Court voted unanimously on Monday to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//30//judge-in-brazil-suspends-x-after-elon-musk-fails-to-name-a-legal-rep/">uphold the decision by one of its justices<\/strong><\/a> to ban Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform, X.<\/p>\n<p>Previously called Twitter, the ban on X began on Saturday after Musk refused to name a legal representative in Brazil in August, saying that the order by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes was trying to enforce censorship.<\/p>\n<p>But Chief Justice Luis Roberto Barroso said in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo over the weekend that \"a company that refuses to name a legal representative in Brazil cannot operate in Brazilian territory\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8692078\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//30//judge-in-brazil-suspends-x-after-elon-musk-fails-to-name-a-legal-rep/">Judge in Brazil suspends X after chief Elon Musk fails to name legal representative<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The collective support of the other Supreme Court justices is seen as undermining the efforts of Musk and his supporters to portray de Moraes as a renegade.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of millions of people in Brazil use X but since the ban, many social media users have switched to Meta\u2019s Threads or <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//05//06//jack-dorsey-leaves-bluesky-board-calls-musks-x-a-freedom-platform/">BlueSky, which was co-founded by Jack Dorsey<\/strong><\/a>, who also started Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"At peak traffic over these past few days, we\u2019ve had 20x the usual load on our infrastructure!\" Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said in a post on the platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"The team has done a great job of keeping all systems online, but bear with us if you see some slow loading times,\" she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian users are also setting records for activities such as follows and likes, Bluesky said on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8691032\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//08//30//starlink-accounts-frozen-in-brazil-ahead-of-possible-x-ban/">Starlink finances frozen in Brazil ahead of possible X suspension <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>X alternatives on the rise<\/strong><\/h2><p>Users of other platforms welcomed Brazilians to their ranks over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\"Hello literally everyone in Brazil,\" a user wrote on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//12//14//twitter-rival-threads-launches-in-europe-as-the-blocs-big-tech-rules-come-into-play/">Threads. \"We're a lot nicer than Twitter here,\" said another.<\/p>\n<p>X is not as popular in Brazil as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or TikTok. However, it remains an important platform on which Brazilians engage in political debates and is highly influential among politicians, journalists, and other opinion-makers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-medium\n widget--align-right\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Tyrants want to turn Brazil into another commie dictatorship but we won\u2019t back down. I repeat: do not vote on those who don\u2019t respect free speech. Orwell was right.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Nikolas Ferreira\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Right-wing Brazilian congressman \n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>De Moraes said X will stay suspended until it complies with his orders, and he also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais (\u20ac8,000) for people or companies using virtual private networks, or VPNs, to access it.<\/p>\n<p>Some legal experts questioned the grounds for that decision and how it would be enforced. Others suggested the move was authoritarian.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian Bar Association said on Friday in a statement that it would request the Supreme Court review the fines imposed on all citizens using VPNs or other means to access X without due process.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil's bar association argued that sanctions should never be imposed summarily before ensuring an adversarial process and the right to a full defence.<\/p>\n<p>\"I\u2019ve used <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//03//09//russians-turn-to-vpns-to-stay-connected-as-online-censorship-tightens-over-ukraine-war/">VPNs a lot in authoritarian countries<\/strong><\/a> like China to continue accessing news sites and social networks,\" Maur\u00edcio Santoro, a political science professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said on the platform before its shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8110170\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//12//14//twitter-rival-threads-launches-in-europe-as-the-blocs-big-tech-rules-come-into-play/">Meta's X rival Threads launches in the EU as the bloc's Big Tech rules come into play<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"It never occurred to me that this type of tool would be banned in Brazil. It\u2019s dystopian\".<\/p>\n<p>A search on Friday on X showed hundreds of Brazilian users inquiring about VPNs that could potentially enable them to continue using the platform by making it appear they are logging on from outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>\"Tyrants want to turn Brazil into another commie dictatorship but we won\u2019t back down. I repeat: do not vote on those who don\u2019t respect free speech. Orwell was right,\" right-wing congressman Nikolas Ferreira, one of former President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s closest allies, published before X went off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk replied with an emoji suggesting agreement: \"100\".<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira is a 28-year-old YouTuber who received the most votes of the 513 elected federal lawmakers in the 2022 election. <\/p>\n<p>De Moraes ordered the block of his social media accounts after a mob of Bolsonaro supporters attacked Brazil\u2019s Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court in January 2023 seeking to overturn the election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8662276\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//19//x-sees-decline-in-eu-users/">Elon Musk's X sees decline in users in the EU<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>'Blow to freedom and legal security'<\/strong><\/h2><p>Lawmaker Bia Kicis said \"the consequences of Alexandre de Moraes' attacks to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//elon-musk/">Elon Musk<\/strong><\/a>, X, and Starlink will be regrettable for Brazilians\".<\/p>\n<p>She also urged Rodrigo Pacheco, the president of the country\u2019s Senate, to act.<\/p>\n<p>Kicis has repeatedly urged Pacheco to open impeachment proceedings against the Supreme Court justice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-medium\n widget--align-right\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Any citizen, from anywhere in the world, who has investments in Brazil, is subject to the Brazilian Constitution and Brazilian laws.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Luiz Lula da Silva\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n President of Brazil\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We need to leave this state of apathy and stop the worst from happening,\" the pro-Bolsonaro lawmaker, whose profiles were temporarily blocked by de Moraes in 2022, also said.<\/p>\n<p>The former president said on Saturday on Instagram that X's departure from Brazil was \"another blow to our freedom and legal security\".<\/p>\n<p>\"It not only affects our freedom of expression but also undermines the confidence of international companies in operating on Brazilian soil, with impacts ranging from national security to the quality of the information that reaches our citizens,\" Bolsonaro added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva backed de Moraes\u2019 decision and took aim at Musk for positioning himself as though he was above the law during an interview with Radio MaisPB.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8647014\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//08//12//elon-musk-hit-with-nine-complaints-of-breaching-eu-privacy-rules-to-train-ai-model/">Elon Musk hit with nine complaints of breaching EU privacy rules to train AI model<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Any citizen, from anywhere in the world, who has investments in Brazil, is subject to the Brazilian Constitution and Brazilian laws. Therefore, if the Supreme Court has made a decision for citizens to comply with certain things, they either have to comply or take another course of action,\" Lula said.<\/p>\n<p>\"It\u2019s not because the guy has a lot of money that he can disrespect it\".<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725272905,"updatedAt":1725296412,"publishedAt":1725273796,"firstPublishedAt":1725273796,"lastPublishedAt":1725296412,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/23\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_27b14d49-7938-53c1-ac7b-63aeea99c490-8692348.jpg","altText":"Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk listens to a question as he speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. ","caption":"Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk listens to a question as he speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Susan Walsh\/Copyright 2020 The AP. 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SUSPENDS X PLATFORM","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Judge in Brazil suspends X after chief Elon Musk fails to name legal representative","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Judge in Brazil suspends X after Elon Musk fails to name a legal rep","titleListing2":"Judge in Brazil suspends X after the platform fails to field a legal rep","leadin":"The move further escalates the monthslong feud between Musk and Justice Alexandre de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.","summary":"The move further escalates the monthslong feud between Musk and Justice Alexandre de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.","keySentence":"","url":"judge-in-brazil-suspends-x-after-elon-musk-fails-to-name-a-legal-rep","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/08\/30\/judge-in-brazil-suspends-x-after-elon-musk-fails-to-name-a-legal-rep","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Supreme Court justice in Brazil has ordered the suspension of social media platform X after its chief Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country.\n\nThe move further escalates the monthslong\u00a0feud between Musk and Justice Alexandre de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.\n\nDe Moraes had warned Musk on Wednesday night that X could be blocked in Brazil if he failed to comply with his order to name a representative and established a 24-hour deadline.\n\nThe company hasn\u2019t had a representative in Brazil since earlier this month.\n\n\"Elon Musk showed his total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty and, in particular, for the judiciary, setting himself up as a true supranational entity and immune to the laws of each country,\" de Moraes wrote in his decision.\n\nThe justice said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders and also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais (\u20ac8,045) for people or companies using VPNs to access it.\n\nIn a later ruling, he backtracked on his initial decision to establish a five-day deadline for internet service providers and not just the telecommunications regulator to block access to X, as well as his directive for app stores to remove virtual private networks, or VPNs.\n\nBrazil's telecommunications regulator Anatel has 24 hours to comply.\n\nThe regulator's chairman Carlos Baigorri told the GloboNews channel that the country's biggest service providers will respond quickly, but added smaller ones might need more time to suspend X from their services.\n\nThe full bench of Brazil's Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case, but no date for deliberations has been set.\n\nIn a post on X, Musk slammed de Moraes as an \"evil dictator cosplaying as a judge.\"\n\nIn a radio interview on Friday night, Brazil's president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said everyone with investments in Brazil must abide by the law.\n\n\"He must respect the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court. If he wants to, good. If not, be patient. Otherwise, this country will never be sovereign,\" he said.\n\n\"This is not a country that has a society with a mongrel complex, that because he's American and shouts at us, we get scared. This guy has to accept the rules of this country. And if this country has made a decision through the Supreme Court, he has to abide by it. If it applies to me, it applies to him.\"\n\nBrazil is an important market for X, which has struggled with a loss of advertisers since Musk purchased the former Twitter in 2022.\n\nMarket research group Emarketer says some 40 million Brazilians, roughly one-fifth of the population, access X at least once per month.\n\nX and its former incarnation, Twitter, have been banned in several countries, mostly authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan.\n\nOther countries, such as\u00a0Pakistan and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended it before, usually to quell dissent and unrest.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Supreme Court justice in Brazil has ordered the suspension of social media platform X after its chief Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The move further escalates the monthslong\u00a0feud between Musk and Justice Alexandre de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>De Moraes had warned Musk on Wednesday night that X could be blocked in Brazil if he failed to comply with his order to name a representative and established a 24-hour deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The company hasn\u2019t had a representative in Brazil since earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\"Elon Musk showed his total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty and, in particular, for the judiciary, setting himself up as a true supranational entity and immune to the laws of each country,\" de Moraes wrote in his decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//69//20//78//808x539_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg/" alt=\"Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes arrives for a court hearing in Brasilia, June 22, 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/20\/78\/1920x1280_cmsv2_021c89ff-d424-5560-a6a9-e16b0dfe6cc9-8692078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes arrives for a court hearing in Brasilia, June 22, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Eraldo Peres\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The justice said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders and also set a daily fine of 50,000 reais (\u20ac8,045) for people or companies using VPNs to access it.<\/p>\n<p>In a later ruling, he backtracked on his initial decision to establish a five-day deadline for internet service providers and not just the telecommunications regulator to block access to X, as well as his directive for app stores to remove virtual private networks, or VPNs.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil's telecommunications regulator Anatel has 24 hours to comply.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator's chairman Carlos Baigorri told the GloboNews channel that the country's biggest service providers will respond quickly, but added smaller ones might need more time to suspend X from their services.<\/p>\n<p>The full bench of Brazil's Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case, but no date for deliberations has been set.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Musk slammed de Moraes as an \"evil dictator cosplaying as a judge.\"<\/p>\n<p>In a radio interview on Friday night, Brazil's president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said everyone with investments in Brazil must abide by the law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1829308905177956551\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"He must respect the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court. If he wants to, good. If not, be patient. Otherwise, this country will never be sovereign,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is not a country that has a society with a mongrel complex, that because he's American and shouts at us, we get scared. This guy has to accept the rules of this country. And if this country has made a decision through the Supreme Court, he has to abide by it. If it applies to me, it applies to him.\"<\/p>\n<p>Brazil is an important market for X, which has struggled with a loss of advertisers since Musk purchased the former Twitter in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Market research group Emarketer says some 40 million Brazilians, roughly one-fifth of the population, access X at least once per month.<\/p>\n<p>X and its former incarnation, Twitter, have been banned in several countries, mostly authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries, such as\u00a0Pakistan and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended it before, usually to quell dissent and unrest.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725049945,"updatedAt":1725145205,"publishedAt":1725051074,"firstPublishedAt":1725051074,"lastPublishedAt":1725144832,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/38\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f9b4fad6-8cd4-57f7-a2fc-a411bf8e2f84-8653828.jpg","altText":"The X logo is shown on a computer screen in Belgrade, July 24, 2023.","caption":"The X logo is shown on a computer screen in Belgrade, July 24, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Darko Vojinovic\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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We intend to address the matter legally\".\n\nIn replies to people sharing reports of the freeze, Musk called de Moraes \"an outright criminal of the worst kind, masquerading as a judge\".\n\nEarlier this week, de Moraes threatened to suspend the social media platform X nationwide if Musk doesn't comply with his orders. \n\nBrazil is a key market for both X and Starlink. Around 40 million Brazilians, or one-fifth of the population, use access X at least once a month, according to market research group Emarketer and Starlink has a customer base of roughly 250,000 in the country. \n\nWhat is the basis for de Moraes' threat?\n\nEarlier this month, X removed its legal representative from Brazil on the grounds that de Moraes had threatened her with arrest. \n\nIn Brazil, foreign companies need legal representation to operate in the country, according to the Supreme Court's press office. So, de Moraes gave X 24 hours to appoint a new representative or face a shutdown. \n\nX said on Thursday in a statement that it expects its service to soon be shut down in Brazil.\n\n\u201cUnlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders,\u201d it said. \u201cTo our users in Brazil and around the world, X remains committed to protecting your freedom of speech.\u201d\n\nLuca Belli, coordinator of the Technology and Society Center at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio, said X\u2019s refusal to appoint a legal representative would be particularly problematic ahead of Brazil\u2019s October municipal elections, when a lot of misinformation is expected to spread. \n\nIf de Moraes goes through with his threats, this wouldn't be the first time a Brazilian justice shut down a social media company. \n\nWhatsApp was shut down several times in the country between 2015 and 2016 because it refused to comply with police requests for data. \n\nIn 2022, de Moraes threatened Telegram with a nationwide shutdown, arguing it had repeatedly ignored Brazilian authorities' requests to block profiles and provide information. \n\nTelegram was also asked to appoint a local representative, which they ultimately did and stayed online. \n\nHow would a shutdown happen? \n\nDe Moraes would first notify the nation\u2019s telecommunications regulator, Anatel, who would then instruct operators, including Musk's own Starlink internet service provider, to suspend users\u2019 access to X. \n\nThat includes preventing the resolution of X\u2019s website and blocking access to the IP address of X\u2019s servers from inside Brazilian territory, according to Belli.\n\nX could be offline as early as 12 hours after receiving instructions, Belli continued, because the process is not complicated. \n\nMajor app stores would likely be asked to stop offering X on mobile phones, according to Carlos Affonso Souza, Director of the Institute for Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro. \n\nX also accused de Moraes' colleagues on the Supreme Court in its Thursday statement of being \u201ceither unwilling or unable to stand up to him.\u201d\n\nDe Moraes\u2019 defenders have said his actions have been lawful, supported by most of the court\u2019s full bench and have served to protect democracy at a time in which it is imperilled.\n\nAffonso Souza added that an individual judge's ruling to shut down a platform with so many users would likely be assessed at a later date by the Supreme Court's full bench.\n\nIf the ban goes through, Brazil will join a short list of countries that have blocked X such as Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Starlink says their accounts are frozen in Brazil amid a deepening feud between Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice and tech billionaire Elon Musk over his social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis order is based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied\u2014unconstitutionally\u2014against X,\u201d SpaceX-owned Starlink wrote in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//Starlink//status//1829253626839380424/">a statement<\/strong><\/a> on X. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was issued in secret and without affording Starlink any of the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution of Brazil. We intend to address the matter legally\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1829253524842303678\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In replies to people sharing reports of the freeze, Musk called de Moraes \"an outright criminal of the worst kind, masquerading as a judge\".<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, de Moraes threatened to suspend the social media platform X nationwide if Musk doesn't comply with his orders. <\/p>\n<p>Brazil is a key market for both X and Starlink. Around 40 million Brazilians, or one-fifth of the population, use access X at least once a month, according to market research group Emarketer and Starlink has a customer base of roughly 250,000 in the country. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the basis for de Moraes' threat?<\/strong><\/h2><p>Earlier this month, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//x-brazil-de-moraes-musk-censorship-social-media-a5237159da8dcba5786765b59e24ec6f/">X removed its legal representative<\/strong><\/a> from Brazil on the grounds that de Moraes had threatened her with arrest. <\/p>\n<p>In Brazil, foreign companies need legal representation to operate in the country, according to the Supreme Court's press office. So, de Moraes gave X 24 hours to appoint a new representative or face a shutdown. <\/p>\n<p>X said on Thursday in a statement that it expects its service to soon be shut down in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders,\u201d it said. \u201cTo our users in Brazil and around the world, X remains committed to protecting your freedom of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1829296715989414281\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Luca Belli, coordinator of the Technology and Society Center at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio, said X\u2019s refusal to appoint a legal representative would be 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<\/p>\n<p>That includes preventing the resolution of X\u2019s website and blocking access to the IP address of X\u2019s servers from inside Brazilian territory, according to Belli.<\/p>\n<p>X could be offline as early as 12 hours after receiving instructions, Belli continued, because the process is not complicated. <\/p>\n<p>Major app stores would likely be asked to stop offering X on mobile phones, according to Carlos Affonso Souza, Director of the Institute for Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8358766\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" 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Employed by the municipal waste management company, these certified climbers are also responsible for managing waste on Rio\u2019s hillsides.\n\nTheir work extends beyond clearing plastic bottles to include removing all potentially flammable materials to mitigate the risk of forest fires.\n\n\u201cThese alpinists perform a very hard job\" noted Paulo Maur\u00edcio, an engineer supervising the cleanup, highlighting their role in preserving the area around this world-renowned landmark.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Climbers, equipped with harnesses and ropes tied to the lookout platform, removed litter from the slopes underneath the monument. 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From the skate parks of S\u00e3o Paulo to the bike trails of Bahia, this South American giant caters to every kind of thrill-seeker and adventurer.\u00a0\n\nThe rugged landscape of Brazil lends itself to sporting culture, where adventure sports such as hang gliding, mountain climbing and biking are elevated further by iconic natural landscapes.\u00a0\n\nIn Rio, one of the largest urban mountain climbing centres in the world, Sugarloaf Mountain, Bico do Papagaio and G\u00e1vea Stone all await ascension, while in S\u00e3o Paulo, plentiful parks are primed for walking and skating. Upon the country\u2019s endless beaches, meanwhile, sports such as football and volleyball make hay of the fine weather, shaking up excitement with friendly competition.\n\nBelow we delve into four key sports that encapsulate the unique energy of Brazil's sporting landscape; skateboarding, women\u2019s football, mountain biking and beach volleyball.\u00a0\n\n1. Skateboarding in S\u00e3o Paulo\n\nSizzling with cosmopolitan flair and cultural influences as far flung as Italy, Portugal, Africa and Japan, S\u00e3o Paulo is a global hub that never stays still. The city\u2019s cultural calendar comes packed with cool events such as fashion extravaganzas and a world-famous Carnival, ensuring year-round entertainment. At all other times, skateboarding keeps the fun rolling.\n\nStreet culture makes S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s skateboarding scene unique, throughout vibrant neighbourhoods like Liberdade (Japantown) or Bixiga (Italy) that burst with their own flavours, eclectic fashion and music tastes. The city\u2019s artistic spirit extends well beyond world-class museums like MASP, with all the more artistic treasures found boldly spray-painted across the city walls.\n\nThe entire city doubles up as a skatepark, with public spaces such as Vale do Anhangaba\u00fa primed for skaters of all levels. For those seeking a dedicated space to hone their skills, Parque do Ibirapuera offers an expansive skate park built by Nike, while the Parque da Juventude in the north zone is an urban oasis with a well-equipped skate park, picnic spots, and even a library.\n\n2. Women's Football in Rio de Janeiro\n\n\u201cBrazil eats, sleeps and drinks football!\u201d once said Local footballing legend Pel\u00e9. It seems Rio de Janeiro, a city steeped in footballing heritage, would agree.\n\nRio is as passionate about football as it ever was, currently witnessing the meteoric rise of women\u2019s football citywide. The iconic Maracan\u00e3 Stadium which hosted the 2014 FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup will soon host the upcoming 2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup. It\u2019s here you can learn about Brazil\u2019s football history at the small on-site museum.\n\nA thriving female football community grows in and around Rio, offering the chance for visitors to get involved in community matches and experience authentic sporting camaraderie at any point in the year. Major women\u2019s teams in Rio include Flamengo, Fluminense, Vasco and Botafogo which regularly play to uproarious crowds.\u00a0\n\nAttend a \u2018classico\u2019 match to experience the electrifying atmosphere between well-known rival teams, or otherwise opt for a smaller community match on the beach. These informal football games, known as peladas, are a regular fixture on Rio\u2019s beaches. The Pelada de Siqueira Campos on Copacabana Beach comes most Sunday mornings and is taken very seriously.\n\nAlternatively, consider watching a game at a local bar to absorb the passion and excitement of football fans and immerse yourself in Rio\u2019s vibrant nightlife. After a caipirinha or two, the city becomes known for a different kind of footwork. The birthplace of samba, Rio is the place to let loose on the dancefloor, with lessons and club nights offered all over the city.\n\n3. Mountain biking in Arraial D\u2019Ajuda, Bahia\n\nFor the intrepid sportsperson, Arraial D\u2019Ajuda in the state of Bahia beckons. Here, rugged hills backed by lush landscapes and Atlantic horizons make for captivating mountain biking adventures as well as dreamy beach-oriented vacations.\n\nThanks to its ruggedly handsome setting, Arraial D\u2019Ajuda enjoys a growing reputation as a mountain biking hotspot, with a network of well-maintained trails that cater to all skill levels. Whether you\u2019re a seasoned cyclist or a curious beginner, bike rental facilities and guided tours ensure a safe and unforgettable experience for all.\n\nEach year, the annual Brasil Ride \u2013 one of the largest international mountain bike marathons in Brazil \u2013 transforms the region into a global centre for athletes and cycling enthusiasts. Across seven stages, hundreds of kilometres and multiple days, world MTB stars traverse through the mountains to be crowned champion in their category, cheered on by passionate observers.\n\nBeyond the thrill of competition, Arraial D\u2019Ajuda offers crystal-clear waters, charming colonial architecture and a vibrant nightlife scene for post-ride revelry. Take a dip into the culture of Arraial D\u2019Ajuda on the shopping street of Rua do Mucug\u00ea, passing the colourful houses and independent eateries on Broduei Street before landing at the town\u2019s main heritage attraction, the 16th century Church Of Nossa Senhora D'Ajuda.\n\nWinding down, sway your hammock to Caribbean tunes at Arraial D\u2019Ajuda\u2019s top beaches, such as Praia Mucug\u00ea or Praia de Ta\u00edpe, or, for more sporting options \u2013 including windsurfing, kayaking and snorkelling \u2013 try Praia do Apaga Fogo (Apaga-Fogo Beach).\n\n4. Beach Volleyball at Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro\n\nAmidst the world-famous cityscape of Sugarloaf Mountain, Christ the Redeemer and Tijuca National Park, Rio gives us an energetic beach culture like nowhere else on Earth.\n\nAs well as being a popular beach pastime, Brazilian volleyball is a dominant force on the world stage. The women\u2019s national team is ranked second in the world, and, beachside, the sport is taken no less seriously.\n\nAt sunrise and sundown on Ipanema Beach, passionate volleyball teams spring to life for fast-paced matches that characterise the beach volleyball scene. Join in competitive cheering on both Copacabana and Ipanema shores, making sure to seek out a local variation of the sport known as futev\u00f3lei (or altinha), a version of volleyball played soccer style, with no hand or arm contact.\n\nStay on the beach for non-stop sports, dance and festa accessible to all. Options include surfing, paddleboarding, learning frescobol, and watching capoeira demonstrations (Brazil\u2019s own acrobatic martial art), all backed by the incredible Dois Irm\u00e3os mountains.\n\nAfter fun and games, quieter spots are always available, such as the sands at S\u00e3o Conrado. Even here, the adventure sports continue, with the opportunity to hang glide from Crow's Nest hill over Tijuca National Park. At the day\u2019s end, the fun in Rio continues, starting with hearty traditional meals of picadinho (beef stew) and bolinhos de bacalhau (salt fish croquettes) before joining colourful street parties that spill out from the bars and clubs of Lapa district.\n\nKick off your Brazil adventure\u00a0\n\nWhether you\u2019re into sports or not, Brazil is a dream destination, where great infrastructure comes combined with an unquenchable thirst for fun. The nation\u2019s diverse landscape, coupled with multicultural influence and creative energy, makes for a dynamic sports scene, enticing sports and adventure enthusiasts the world over.\n\nFor more information on how to plan your sporting adventure in Brazil, head to VisitBrasil.com.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brazil\u2019s vibrant sporting culture extends far beyond its world-famous football pitches. From the skate parks of S\u00e3o Paulo to the bike trails of Bahia, this South American giant caters to every kind of thrill-seeker and adventurer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rugged landscape of Brazil lends itself to sporting culture, where adventure sports such as hang gliding, mountain climbing and biking are elevated further by iconic natural landscapes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Rio, one of the largest urban mountain climbing centres in the world, Sugarloaf Mountain, Bico do Papagaio and G\u00e1vea Stone all await ascension, while in S\u00e3o Paulo, plentiful parks are primed for walking and skating. Upon the country\u2019s endless beaches, meanwhile, sports such as football and volleyball make hay of the fine weather, shaking up excitement with friendly competition.<\/p>\n<p>Below we delve into four key sports that encapsulate the unique energy of Brazil's sporting landscape; skateboarding, women\u2019s football, mountain biking and beach volleyball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>1. Skateboarding in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/h2><p>Sizzling with cosmopolitan flair and cultural influences as far flung as Italy, Portugal, Africa and Japan, S\u00e3o Paulo is a global hub that never stays still. The city\u2019s cultural calendar comes packed with cool events such as fashion extravaganzas and a world-famous Carnival, ensuring year-round entertainment. At all other times, skateboarding keeps the fun rolling.<\/p>\n<p>Street culture makes S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s skateboarding scene unique, throughout vibrant neighbourhoods like Liberdade (Japantown) or Bixiga (Italy) that burst with their own flavours, eclectic fashion and music tastes. The city\u2019s artistic spirit extends well beyond world-class museums like MASP, with all the more artistic treasures found boldly spray-painted across the city walls.<\/p>\n<p>The entire city doubles up as a skatepark, with public spaces such as Vale do Anhangaba\u00fa primed for skaters of all levels. For those seeking a dedicated space to hone their skills, Parque do Ibirapuera offers an expansive skate park built by Nike, while the Parque da Juventude in the north zone is an urban oasis with a well-equipped skate park, picnic spots, and even a library.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Women's Football in Rio de Janeiro<\/h2><p>\u201cBrazil eats, sleeps and drinks football!\u201d once said Local footballing legend Pel\u00e9. It seems Rio de Janeiro, a city steeped in footballing heritage, would agree.<\/p>\n<p>Rio is as passionate about football as it ever was, currently witnessing the meteoric rise of women\u2019s football citywide. The iconic Maracan\u00e3 Stadium which hosted the 2014 FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup will soon host the upcoming 2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup. It\u2019s here you can learn about Brazil\u2019s football history at the small on-site museum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//58//86//28//808x539_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg/" alt=\"Maracan\u00e3 Stadium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/1920x1280_cmsv2_b1b9c97d-c235-52d9-98f5-6422ebd10ec1-8588628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Maracan\u00e3 Stadium<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Visit Brasil<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A thriving female football community grows in and around Rio, offering the chance for visitors to get involved in community matches and experience authentic sporting camaraderie at any point in the year. Major women\u2019s teams in Rio include Flamengo, Fluminense, Vasco and Botafogo which regularly play to uproarious crowds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attend a \u2018classico\u2019 match to experience the electrifying atmosphere between well-known rival teams, or otherwise opt for a smaller community match on the beach. These informal football games, known as peladas, are a regular fixture on Rio\u2019s beaches. The Pelada de Siqueira Campos on Copacabana Beach comes most Sunday mornings and is taken very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, consider watching a game at a local bar to absorb the passion and excitement of football fans and immerse yourself in Rio\u2019s vibrant nightlife. After a caipirinha or two, the city becomes known for a different kind of footwork. The birthplace of samba, Rio is <em>the<\/em> place to let loose on the dancefloor, with lessons and club nights offered all over the city.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Mountain biking in Arraial D\u2019Ajuda, Bahia<\/h2><p>For the intrepid sportsperson, Arraial D\u2019Ajuda in the state of Bahia beckons. Here, rugged hills backed by lush landscapes and Atlantic horizons make for captivating mountain biking adventures as well as dreamy beach-oriented vacations.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its ruggedly handsome setting, Arraial D\u2019Ajuda enjoys a growing reputation as a mountain biking hotspot, with a network of well-maintained trails that cater to all skill levels. Whether you\u2019re a seasoned cyclist or a curious beginner, bike rental facilities and guided tours ensure a safe and unforgettable experience for all.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the annual Brasil Ride \u2013 one of the largest international mountain bike marathons in Brazil \u2013 transforms the region into a global centre for athletes and cycling enthusiasts. Across seven stages, hundreds of kilometres and multiple days, world MTB stars traverse through the mountains to be crowned champion in their category, cheered on by passionate observers.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the thrill of competition, Arraial D\u2019Ajuda offers crystal-clear waters, charming colonial architecture and a vibrant nightlife scene for post-ride revelry. Take a dip into the culture of Arraial D\u2019Ajuda on the shopping street of Rua do Mucug\u00ea, passing the colourful houses and independent eateries on Broduei Street before landing at the town\u2019s main heritage attraction, the 16th century Church Of Nossa Senhora D'Ajuda.<\/p>\n<p>Winding down, sway your hammock to Caribbean tunes at Arraial D\u2019Ajuda\u2019s top beaches, such as Praia Mucug\u00ea or Praia de Ta\u00edpe, or, for more sporting options \u2013 including windsurfing, kayaking and snorkelling \u2013 try Praia do Apaga Fogo (Apaga-Fogo Beach).<\/p>\n<h2>4. Beach Volleyball at Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro<\/h2><p>Amidst the world-famous cityscape of Sugarloaf Mountain, Christ the Redeemer and Tijuca National Park, Rio gives us an energetic beach culture like nowhere else on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being a popular beach pastime, Brazilian volleyball is a dominant force on the world stage. The women\u2019s national team is ranked second in the world, and, beachside, the sport is taken no less seriously.<\/p>\n<p>At sunrise and sundown on Ipanema Beach, passionate volleyball teams spring to life for fast-paced matches that characterise the beach volleyball scene. Join in competitive cheering on both Copacabana and Ipanema shores, making sure to seek out a local variation of the sport known as futev\u00f3lei (or altinha), a version of volleyball played soccer style, with no hand or arm contact.<\/p>\n<p>Stay on the beach for non-stop sports, dance and festa accessible to all. Options include surfing, paddleboarding, learning frescobol, and watching capoeira demonstrations (Brazil\u2019s own acrobatic martial art), all backed by the incredible Dois Irm\u00e3os mountains.<\/p>\n<p>After fun and games, quieter spots are always available, such as the sands at S\u00e3o Conrado. Even here, the adventure sports continue, with the opportunity to hang glide from Crow's Nest hill over Tijuca National Park. At the day\u2019s end, the fun in Rio continues, starting with hearty traditional meals of <em>picadinho<\/em> (beef stew) and <em>bolinhos de bacalhau<\/em> (salt fish croquettes) before joining colourful street parties that spill out from the bars and clubs of Lapa district.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Kick off your Brazil adventure<\/strong><\/h3><div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//58//86//28//808x608_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg/" alt=\"Kite surfing in Pipa\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/384x288_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/640x480_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/750x563_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/828x621_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/1080x810_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/1200x900_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/58\/86\/28\/1920x1440_cmsv2_fdeaeef7-a25a-564a-9928-0f274e2f7c53-8588628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Kite surfing in Pipa<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Visit Brasil<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Whether you\u2019re into sports or not, Brazil is a dream destination, where great infrastructure comes combined with an unquenchable thirst for fun. The nation\u2019s diverse landscape, coupled with multicultural influence and creative energy, makes for a dynamic sports scene, enticing sports and adventure enthusiasts the world over.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to plan your sporting adventure in Brazil, head to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////visitbrasil.com/">VisitBrasil.com./n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1721391158,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1723449626,"firstPublishedAt":1723449626,"lastPublishedAt":1723449634,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//58//86//28//{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_57b79045-cf12-582a-921a-32ac3fb0aa10-8588628.jpg","altText":"Two people on top of a mountain in Brazil","caption":"Two people on top of a mountain in Brazil","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Visit Brasil","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":3000,"height":2000}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":4221,"slug":"tourism","urlSafeValue":"tourism","title":"Tourism","titleRaw":"Tourism"},{"id":12639,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel","titleRaw":"Travel"},{"id":7829,"slug":"sport","urlSafeValue":"sport","title":"Sport","titleRaw":"Sport"},{"id":35,"slug":"brazil","urlSafeValue":"brazil","title":"Brazil","titleRaw":"Brazil"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":2}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"sponsor.embratur2024"},{"path":"sponsor"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Visit Brasil","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"destinations","urlSafeValue":"destinations","title":"Destinations","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/destinations\/destinations"},"vertical":"travel","verticals":[{"id":7,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":7,"slug":"travel","urlSafeValue":"travel","title":"Travel"},"themes":[{"id":"destinations","urlSafeValue":"destinations","title":"Destinations","url":"\/travel\/destinations"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":28,"urlSafeValue":"destinations","title":"Destinations"},"advertising":1,"advertisingData":{"startDate":1719826412,"endDate":2114332415,"type":"advertisement_feature","slug":"embratur-2024-ad","title":"Embratur 2024 Ad","disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":"Visit Brasil","sponsorName":"embratur-2024-ad","sponsorUrl":"https:\/\/visitbrasil.com\/en\/","sponsorLogo":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/campaigns\/818\/180x101_cmsv2_219ad930-a3a9-58a2-aa3a-2d9b85999b4f-818.jpg","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":35,"urlSafeValue":"brazil","title":"Brazil","url":"\/news\/america\/brazil"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gv_safe','gb_safe','gb_safe_from_high','gb_safe_from_high_med','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_sport','gs_attractions','gt_positive','gs_attractions_outdoor','gs_science','gs_sport_extreme','gs_sport_soccer','gs_science_geography','gs_sport_olympics','gt_positive_happiness','progressivemedia','client_easports_sporting_gaming','neg_bucherer','gt_positive_love'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/travel\/2024\/08\/12\/from-concrete-jungles-to-sandy-shores-the-dynamic-sporting-landscape-of-brazil","lastModified":1723449634}]"
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