Brazilian congressional committee recommends impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has suffered a blow to her hopes of blocking impeachment proceedings, after a committee voted they should go ahead. 

The 65-member congressional committee voted 38 to 27 to recommend impeachment over claims she manipulated government accounts to hide a growing deficit. 

All eyes will now be on a full vote in the lower house on either the 17th or 18th of this month. 

The issue has divided Brazil, with Police preparing for mass protests in the capital, Brasilia.


SOURCE: BBC news