Brazil's Dilma Rousseff defiant over impeachment bid

Brazil's president has said she will appeal to South American trade blocs if she is removed from office, condemning the push to impeach her as a coup and a naked attempt by the country's elite to snatch power back from her Workers' Party.

Speaking to reporters in New York, Dilma Rousseff said both the Mercosur and Unasur trade blocs had democracy clauses that she would invoke if there should be "a rupture in democracy" in her country.