'Complete failure': BHP Brazil dam disaster court case to begin

RN Breakfast - Separate stories podcast

The case between BHP Brasil and those impacted by the Mariana dam disaster will begin in London's High Court this month, almost 10 years after the tragedy happened.

Nineteen people were killed and local villages and waterways were destroyed after millions of tonnes of waste from a tailings mine spilled into the river in 2015.

Brazilian Indigenous groups are lobbying MPs in Australia ahead of the long awaited case.