For more news & videos visit ?english.ntdtv.com Tourists arrive in Rio de Janeiro as the city wraps up preparations for the New Year. The big attraction is the New Year’s party on scenic Copacabana beach, with an impressive fireworks display planned. Thousands of tourists have already arrived in Rio de Janeiro, to celebrate 2011 in the city’s famous New Year’s party at Copacabana beach. Two million partygoers, dressed in traditional white, are expected to come here to watch the 20-minute fireworks show. It’s going to be a globally televised fireworks display. Some 25 tons of explosives, distributed among 11 rafts along the shore of the two-and-a-half mile beach, will mark the height of the night. Brazil’s Hotel Association says 90 percent of Rio’s 29-thousand hotel rooms were already occupied by Christmas Eve. This is an increase from last year. [Antonio Pedro Mello, Rio de Janeiro's Tourism Secretary] “We managed to anticipate this holiday season, during which Rio de Janeiro already has a large number of tourists here for the New Year.” Hundreds of workers are hurrying to finish setting up health centers and four stages that will host concerts on that special night. [Carla Santiago, Tourist]: “I am very excited, but also worried about the violence that we saw on the news and on the media. But, I am confident.” Last month, drug gangs launched a wave of violence in the city. 46 people were found dead when police and Army officials seized a notorious slum in the northern …
Big Guy Zee here to report the news that the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro succesfully won the bid to host the 2016 Olympic games after beating Madrid in the final round. For Rio it was celebrations all round, whilst the people of Madrid were not so pleased. Your opinions on this story are most welcome, so feel free to subscribe, rate and comment! Much Love!
A small war took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between Brazilian forces and hundreds of drug traffickers holed up in the shantytown complex dubbed Complexo do Alemão. After recent efforts by officials to pacify Rio’s drug and gang-related violence ahead of the upcoming the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics Games, drug gangs struck out last week – attacking police stations and staging mass robberies. After days of preparation, Brazilian security forces launched a raid in the Complexo do Alemão, where between 500 and 600 drug traffickers were holed up. At least 42 people were killed in the violence last week, with security forces taking control of many neighborhoods. A relatively low number of arrests were made, and authorities warn of further conflict as they continue to try and flush out more suspects in Rio’s maze of favelas. The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. www.copyright.gov Music by – City of God/Metamorfose Ambulante
The city of Chicago spent tens of millions of dollars over two years in an effort to bring the 2016 Summer Olympic Games to the Midwest United States. Those efforts ended on October 2nd when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted in favor of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, the loss is a stunning defeat for the adopted hometown of President Barack Obama.
RIO BRAZIL 2016 OLYMPICS PARTY CELEBRATION Announcement of the Winning City for the 2016 Olympic Games – New Videos include IOC Preseident Jacques Rogge announcing the winning city for the 2016 Olympic Games as well as Pop group Aqua performing on stage in front of Olympic supporters from the candidate countries.
RIO BRAZIL 2016 OLYMPICS PARTY CELEBRATION Announcement of the Winning City for the 2016 Olympic Games – New Videos include IOC Preseident Jacques Rogge announcing the winning city for the 2016 Olympic Games as well as Pop group Aqua performing on stage in front of Olympic supporters from the candidate countries.
on October 2, Rio de Janeiro won the bod to host the 2016 Summer Games. Council of the Americas’ Eric Farnsworth discusses how the choice demonstrates Brazil’s rising importance on the global change. For more about Council programs and publications, visit www.as-coa.org
Rio de Janeiro has won the contest to host the 2016 Olympics and take the games to South America for the first time after the shock elimination of Chicago in the first round of voting today. There were celebrations on the streets of the city this evening after the announcement by the IOC president Jacques Rogge. Chicago’s early exit was seen as a snub for Barack Obama, who flew to Copenhagen to represent his former home town. Obama, the first serving US president to appear before the IOC, told delegates he hoped that the games would show “America at its best is open to the world”. Michelle Obama arrived two days earlier, alongside other dignitaries including the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and King Juan Carlos of Spain. Today’s 45 minute presentations were the end of a three-year journey for the bidding cities. Tokyo was knocked out in the second round of voting before the IOC voted again to decide between Rio and Madrid. Madrid’s surprising success in reaching the final round came after the former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch made an unusual appeal for the Spanish capital, reminding the IOC members as he asked for their vote that at age 89 “I am very near the end of my time.” The Brazilian president told delegates that Rio’s bid was made on behalf of the whole of South America. “I honestly think it is Brazil’s turn,” he said. “It is South America’s bid. This is a continent that has never held the games. It is time to address this imbalance. It …
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