Morning Briefing Monday 26th October

0:04This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Monday 26th October. I'm Daryl Jackson. Brazilian President Lula da Silva has been re-elected for an historic fourth term. The incumbent defeated right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. President Lula is a vocal critic of Donald Trump and the results likely to be met with dismay in Washington. With Bolsonaro the US president's candidate of choice, John Bonfiglio is a reporter in Brazil and has the latest. Given that Lula da Silva pretty convincingly by two percentage points lost the first round of the election and nobody who's polled in second place has gone on to win the Brazilian election since the presidential election, since Brazil's return to democracy.

0:47This is a stunning turnaround. A lot of commentators were speaking about a knife-edge vote. This has turned into being anything but. I wouldn't quite say it's a procession, but the turnaround is staggering. The Times can reveal that the Chancellor is to announce a package to protect pensioners in Wednesday's budget. The full state pension is rising to just over£13 ,000 a year in line with the triple lock. But there's also expected to be a new tax threshold for some pensioners, so they don't pay tax. Times political editor Stephen Swinford says a government is giving with one hand and taking later.

1:21Let's remember the government is also ending the triple lock, which increases the state pension. That is going from 2030. And let's also remember stealth taxes are continuing, doing and we are expecting the Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, to say that stealth taxes are on calls to help push the overall tax burden, that's the level of taxation as a proportion of Britain's national income, to a post-war record. Meanwhile Andy Burnham's promised everyone sleeping rough in England will be offered a way off the street by Christmas. The Chancellor John Healey will confirm a further£432 million to address rough sleeping in his budget statement.

1:58The Prime Minister will host a rough sleeping summits at Downing Street later today, bringing together private firms, charities and local leaders to consider ways of tackling the issue. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a significant challenge in the country's first election since the October 7th attacks this week. Polling suggests a tight race between Netanyahu's governing bloc and a possible coalition led by challenger Ghadi Izenkot. Neither are polling on enough seats to form a government. Two men have died in separate incidents as two storms moved across the UK over the weekend.

2:33A 60-year-old man was hit by a falling tree near Castle Douglas in Dumfries yesterday morning. Another man died in north London after a tree fell on his car in the afternoon. The Met Office says winds of 84 miles per hour were recorded in some areas. Abby Brunnan is a student in Edinburgh whose journey back home from London was delayed severely on Saturday. She told Times Radio how all the power went off on her train. At first it just stopped, then the lights dimmed, then the lights went off and we had no power. It was a little concerning because it went a long time without any sort of announcement and they came running through with flashlights checking all of the circuits.

3:11And you can hear more on all of those stories throughout the day on Times Radio.