Rousseff’s trial: fights start

– Accusations and occasional angry yells flew on Thursday in an impeachment trial against Brazil’s suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, expected to end 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest economy.

Chief justice Ricardo Lewandowski declared the trial open and later briefly suspended it as senators yelled at each other while debating procedural matters.

Media say a majority of senators will find Rousseff, 68, guilty of cooking the budget books to mask the depth of economic problems during her 2014 re-election campaign. – AFP