Rousseff brands VP a traitor, denounces 'coup'

Brazilian president took off the gloves on Tuesday, branding her vice-president a traitor and coup-plotter ahead of an impeachment vote in Congress.

In a blistering speech, Dilma Rousseff, 68, charged: "If there were any doubts about my reporting that a coup is under way, there can't be now."

Referring to Monday's leak of an audio recording in which Vice-President Michel Temer practices the speech he would make if Rousseff is impeached, the president said: "The conspirators' mask has slipped.