World Tour: Soccer deaths in Indonesia

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: WORLD Tour with Onize Ohikere, our reporter in Africa.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Brazil election— We take off today in Brazil, where no clear winner emerged from an election on Sunday.

AUDIO: [Supporters cheering]

Brazil’s incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro defied pollists’ expectations… garnering enough votes to prevent his opponent from gaining a majority. To become president, a candidate must have 50 percent of the vote or greater.

Former leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva clinched 48.4 percent, five points ahead of Bolsonaro’s 43.2 percent.

Both candidates will face off again in a second vote on Oct. 30.

President Bolsonaro said he will form an alliance to win the run-off.

AUDIO: [Supporters cheering]

Meanwhile, Da Silva assured supporters he will win again, adding he never won any election in the first round.

Burkina Faso coup— We head next to Burkina Faso, where junior military officials have orchestrated the country’s second coup this year.

AUDIO: [Takeover announcement]

Captain Ibrahim Traore confirmed the takeover in a televised address on Friday. That’s after troops were deployed across the capital and gunshots rang out earlier in the day.

Ousted junta leader Paul-Henri Damiba came into power after staging a similar coup in January. Damiba announced his resignation on Sunday.

The new rebel leaders said they took over because Damiba failed to quell jihadist attacks…a claim he also used to assume office. More than 40 percent of the country remains outside of government control.

Indonesia soccer deaths— Over in Indonesia, tributes poured in Monday after a riot at a soccer stadium killed at least 125 people.

AUDIO: [Mourners singing]

Indonesia’s Arema FC players wore black as they gathered outside a makeshift memorial, singing and laying flower petals.

Thousands of angry home fans invaded the pitch when Arema FC lost Saturday night. Police responded with tear gas, triggering a stampede. Authorities said the dead included 17 children. More than 300 other people sustained injuries.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo sent his condolences to the affected families.

WIDODO: [Speaking in Indonesian]

He asked the sports ministry and national police to review the country’s safety procedures at soccer matches. The national police removed the city’s police chief…and is investigating other officers involved in the incident.

Kashmir cinema— We wrap up today in the Indian-administered Kashmir region.

AUDIO: [Movie playing]

Silver screens lit up for the first time in nearly two decades with a Bollywood remake of Forrest Gump.

The cinema hall with 520 seats opened to the public this weekend in the region’s city of Srinagar.

Rebel groups shut down the city’s eight privately-owned movie theaters in 1989, saying they were anti-Islamic. By the early 1990s, government troops converted them into makeshift security camps and detention centers.

Other attempts to revive the cinemas failed in the following years, due to violence and heavy security presence.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

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