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‘Dom was a wonderful, generous spirit and a brilliant journalist’

Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to shooting British journalist Dom Phillips

It has been a traumatic wait for news for the family and friends of the missing journalist Dom Phillips and the indigenous expert Bruno Perira. The search for them in the Amazon has ended after Brazilian police said a suspect had confessed to shooting them and led them to a site where human remains were found.

Dom Phillips was from the UK but had been living in Brazil for more than a decade and was a long-time contributor to the Guardian newspaper. He was working on a book about the Amazon. Mr Pereira, a Brazilian who was on leave from his post with the government's indigenous affairs agency, was an expert on isolated tribes.

Today’s Mishal Husain spoke to the 91Èȱ¬â€™s correspondent in South America Katy Watson and Jonathan Watts - the Guardian's global environment editor who knew Dom Phillips.

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