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BHP stuck in mud over Brazil lawsuit?

Brazil has filed a lawsuit against two of the world's largest mining companies for 20 billion Brazilian reais ($5.2 billion) to clean up what it says was its worst environmental disaster. As Ivor Bennett reports, the government is looking for a settlement similar to the $20 billion agreement between BP and U.S. authorities over the Deepwater Horizon spill.