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Brazil leader promises major reforms

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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to invest 50 billion reais ($25bn, £16bn) in public transport, following nationwide street protests.

She also proposed a referendum on political reform.

More than a million Brazilians have taken to the streets to demonstrate against rising transport prices and the expense of staging the 2014 World Cup.

Ms Rousseff is now holding discussions with state governors and mayors to try to find ways to end the unrest.

Meanwhile further demonstrations are planned on Monday, with hundreds of people blocking the main road to Brazil's busiest port, Santos.

More rallies are also due to take place in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Two female protesters were killed in the state of Goias when a car hit a protest barricade.

The deaths bring the total number of lives lost because of the protests to four.



Source: BBC News - Business http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23041396#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa