Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Earlier today, during the launch of the TV Brasil Internacional<\/i> channel, the Brazilian president Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva stated that its objective will be to show the world the true image of Brazil, and what is best in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are fulfilling another dream, from which we have not awoken. This TV will portray this country\u2019s ways in culture, football, politics. It will be a great channel, it will lay this wonderful country bare to a world that does not know it,\u201d said Lula in his address.<\/p>\n
According to the president, right now, the image of Brazil abroad is like a broadcast of the country\u2019s worst moments, and TV Brasil Internacional<\/i> should change that around. \u201cThis public TV channel aims to be the face of Brazil abroad. When we do things to be broadcast abroad, it is as though we were doing a worst of. We do not want foreigners to get an image of Brazil\u2019s worst moments, we want them to get an image of what we are,\u201d he asserted. <\/p>\n
Today (24th), TV Brasil Internacional<\/i> will start broadcasting to 49 countries in the African continent. The channel will broadcast in Portuguese language, similar to other international public channels (BBC\/England, RTVE\/Spain, RAI\/Italy, Canal Cinq\/France, NHK\/Japan), which broadcast in their native languages.<\/p>\n
The programming will consist of content created by TV Brasil<\/i> itself, with an emphasis on informative and cultural aspects of Brazil, and will be adjusted to the local time of Angola, which is four hours later than in the Brazilian capital Bras\u00edlia.<\/p>\n
The chairwoman of the Brazilian state-owned communications company Empresa Brasil de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o, Tereza Cruvinel, stated that the idea for the international channel to start broadcasting to Africa originated from the continent\u2019s demand for audiovisual programming, and also because of the debt that Brazil has to African people. \u201cIn our understanding, president Lula believes that we have a huge debt to Africa that cannot be paid with money, but rather with solidarity,\u201d said Cruvinel.<\/p>\n
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