Indigenous leader urges EU to impose sanctions on Brazil

Europe told if it does not act it will be 'turning blind eye to genocide' under Bolsonaro

Brazil's foremost indigenous leader has called on the EU to impose trade sanctions to prevent ecological disaster and a "social extermination" by her country's far-right president-elect, who takes office on 1 January.

Jair Bolsonaro has terrified indigenous communities by promising to take every centimetre of their land, designate rights activists as "terrorists" and carve a motorway through the Amazon, which could deforest an area larger than Germany.