Brazil's Senate votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff

Brazil's Senate voted this morning to begin an impeachment trial for the country's first woman president.

The vote comes amid the country's worst economic crisis since the 1930s and with just three months before the world flocks to Brazil for the Olympics.

After an all-night marathon of speeches, Brazil's Senate voted 55-22 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for allegedly breaking budget laws.

The move will suspend Rousseff from office and appoint Vice President Michel Temer in her place during her impeachment trial, which could last for up to six months.

Rousseff has denied any wrongdoing and has made a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court to stop the proceedings, but the move was rejected.