Presidential runoff under way in Brazil

Well, let's cross to Rio de Janeiro. Our correspondent, Janosko, is standing by for us. Jan, set the scene for us. What's the mood like there at the moment? Well, pretty much everybody here in Brazil is on tenterhooks for the outcome of what is being described as the closest presidential race since Brazil returned to democracy around 40 years ago. Not only is it the closest race, it's also been one of the most acrimonious. After his first round defeat, Lula's campaigners launched a WhatsApp channel called Lula's Army that's got more than 10 million followers but that was suspended briefly twice after legal challenges from Flavio Bolsonaro's campaign alleging it was spreading fake news and also saying that it wasn't officially linked to Lula's campaign. Now for their part, Lula's campaign also launched a legal challenge against the U.S. tech giant Meta, alleging that its algorithms were favoring Flavio Bolsonaro's campaign. Now, as to which of these two candidates will win, it's very difficult to say. Most pollsters are saying that Flavio Bolsonaro has the slight edge, although Lula has certainly gained ground on him over these last three weeks. Having said that, they got the predictions for the first round completely wrong. So nobody is really putting too much trust into what they're saying. So Jan, we saw Bolsonaro coming on top in the first round. Has anything changed since then to turn that around? Certainly been plenty of action, plenty of campaigning in these last three weeks. We've also had two live debates on television between the two presidential candidates. The last one was on Friday night. And according to Globo, which broadcasts that particular debate. The ratings were similar to those for Brazil's World Cup matches. In fact, one survey said that around 54% of the population tuned in for that debate. Interesting to contrast that statistic with the fact that 21% of Brazil's electorate didn't even bother voting in the first round, which is a huge percentage when you think that voting here in Brazil is actually compulsory. Now, whether this debate has made a difference and they're actually going to come out and vote we will find out later on today another development has been the passing of a law through the Senate which now limits Brazil's working week to just 40 hours that's seen as a victory for Lula. It's certainly good news for ordinary workers but perhaps it's not such good news if you're a small business owner and it will possibly lead to your overheads also going up and another development is that Flavio Bolsonaro has come under investigation yet again for alleged money laundering in relation to a friend of his and a businessman called Willa Tomais. Now, that just hit the headlines about a week ago, so it'll be interesting to see what difference that might make to his vote. Brazilians have just under seven hours left to come to the polling stations like this one behind me and to cast their vote, and then after that, the counting will begin. All right, Jan, we will, of course, be keeping a close eye on that throughout the day and we'll check in with you later in the day, but for now, thank you.