that they would and many people would be say brazil's a right wing president is dismissing criticism of his environmental policies so your ball scenario is being widely blamed for a record number of wildfires in the amazon rain forest this year around $75000.00 have been detected and $2900.00 gabriel elizondo reports fires engulfing large swaths of the amazon rain forest the smoke is traveling far and wide it darkened the skies over sao paulo which is more than 2000 kilometers south of the burn area the scope of the fires is massive these satellite images from nasa show how the smoke has covered most of the northern half of brazil which is larger than the whole of europe. the amazon produces 20 percent of the world's oxygen and is home to more than 3000000 species of plants and animals fires in the amazon are a natural occurrence often started by lightning strikes but that doesn't explain

the sudden increase in fires this year which environmentalist say has been exacerbated by cattle ranchers and sorie farmers clearing forest at an increased pace enforcement of amazon burning has been scaled back under president bush the not of a long time skeptic of environmental concerns. slashed government funding to environmental agencies and on tuesday suggested the fires were being staged by n.g.o.s to embarrass his government. under the impression that it could have been set by the n.g.o.s because they had asked for money what was their intention to bring about problems for brazil when fires burn in the amazon the area is so large there's nothing firefighters can do to put them out when these fires finally do go away environmentalists say that damage will have been done here it is really permanently

wasted and in a sense. ages to recruit forest and can never be recruiting the original wave the amazon rain forest often called the lungs of planet earth now filled with smoke and fire and choking one of the world's most diverse ecosystems gabriel isn't though how does either. still ahead on al-jazeera the presidential campaign in afghanistan kicks off but it's been overshadowed by violence it might take 2 to tango but all eyes are on only one dancer and he's 99 years old. had oh there we have got the usual showers and thunderstorms across areas of the united states generally popping up in the afternoon and working the way across much

of the northeast however it is pretty warm across the south the southwest not close the southwest we have got excessive heat warnings in place and this is this particular region here really the desert regions and that's because the time which is often a lot higher than the actual values 29 degrees in l.a. is pretty well as well for thursday and then across the south across the central plains it's really a mixture of the humidity with the temperatures so dallas for example 37 degrees with thunderstorms it will feel a loss also than that and of course the overnight hours not cooling off either it's a very unsettled picture friday across much of the southern plains pushing across into the model but not a bad day generally up into new york concert in d.c. we have a thunderstorms in your 4 calls for the next couple of days rather west across the bahamas as well for the next couple of days but a dry day across much of cubical those showers work their way across the tools to make it pushing out to western regions of haiti and then not as unsettles that is wet i should say really across central america but actually by friday there's a back into southern areas of mexico so

a wet day in mexico city 22 degrees celsius but a very nice friday across the yucatan peninsula and maybe just a shot across into have. building a new knife on an idiotic beach living off the sea and then. a dream shared by so many but so few make it a reality. of family business led by a mockable woman with a flair for cooking and desist. my chinese yeah i didn't catch it on al-jazeera.

following on the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's new leaders have been sworn in after months of political uncertainty and violence journal op then fight to what hollande will head the solver in council for the 1st 21 months and the new prime minister abdullah hum doc says he is ready to tackle the economy. the un has warned that $22.00 life saving aid programs in yemen will be forced to shut in 2 months unless the world does more to help fund them in february countries pledged more than $2000000000.00 but less than half of that was actually received. brazil's president is dismissing criticism of his environmental policies after being blamed for a record number of wildfires in the amazon rain forest this year about $75000.00 have been detected so far but then you have also dollars as n.g.o.s are to blame.

afghanistan is heading to the polls to elect its new president next month 16 candidates are vying for the job including the current leader. but there are concerns that violence may derail the vote charlotte dallas reports from kabul. president boyd by his status as the front runner just a month up from afghanistan's presidential elections this campaign really is targeting the private sector not. our here is play their role in the battleground but the fight for financial freedom and independence is through the private sector the private sector is fighting this fight back to. its gani 6 throughout all but one have been inside this highly secured building known as the loya jirga taint there are 16 candidates fewer campaigning openly because of security threats. the campaign season started on july 28th within

hours the taliban launch an attack on the office of gandhi's running mate. within 20 people die if they shot the taliban has warned people they may also target campaign rallies calling the vote a sham talks between the us and tell about a pitch to stop such attacks. a threatening elections if a deal is agreed many candidates are skeptical elections will go ahead so they're not spending much on the campaigns this is one of the few streets in kabul with campaign posters being put out. a tool in the be a liz opposing danny and as a form a national intelligence chief he worries an election will further divide afghan politicians when they should have a united front of potential talks with the taliban we only got a very good margin let's go. have a very divided nation that's why you see if you don't mileage the. election property. in maine.

many afghans are also skeptical in a recent observer survey nearly 60 percent of afghans sick they would boycott the bush election commission is charging fuld. to my house because i didn't hold the elections must take place it is a red line for us we are fully prepared afghans really need peace so we are going forward civil tenuously but unfortunately the peace process is overshadowing the election and may affect voter enthusiasm. voter who see as a as not a problem for president gunning being hit in the polls he could very well be closing in on another 5 years undeterred by taliban peace negotiations or their attacks. couple thousands of protesters have rallied at a hong kong train station to mark one month since alleged gang members attacked

demonstrators and commuters testers accuse the police of colluding with the attackers mass rallies began 11 weeks ago over an extradition but they since grown into a wider movement against chinese influence. and the campaign to free a british consulate official detained in mainland china continues friends and supporters of simon chang are calling on the international community to exert pressure on china for the reports from hong kong. he disappeared aug 8th as he was returning to hong kong from mainland china simon chen is an investment officer at discount this development international section of the british consulate and was on a one day business trip in changing his hold of a british national overseas passport which china doesn't recognise now his family and friends are calling the british government to take action boris johnson i like you and i believe in you. simon.

i urge you to in order. in order. save simon saving simon is your number one priority now the chinese foreign office has confirmed that simon chen is being held in what it's calling administers of detention. for an initial period of 15 days but didn't explain why simon's family says it hasn't received any notice of the tension the last time simon chen was heard of his when he wrote a message to his girlfriend saying that the train was approaching the west calhoun station it is in hong kong but it's manned by chinese immigration officials. border checks are conducted here not on the mainland and chinese laws apply his family says it's from here that he was taken back to the mainland the announcement of his

disappearance comes as protesters to just sit in to mark one month since an attack by suspected gang members on that it happened at the wayne long station near the border with the mainland yet taxes are said to be staunchly prohibition. salman's portrait is now on to wall among the victims of that day michael moore says he's not surprised his friend simon has been detained simon has. involved in some academic related activities some of the forum centers exploder of. course some of those forms would have a particular stance. on busy the constitutional reform all the way. forward in terms of political development. if. it makes. you know sensitive. salman's lawyer says he hasn't been able to locate him but his

case is likely to feed into the anger and suspicion among protesters who fear beijing's growing influence in hong kong with. the french president says europe will not be held hostage the u.k.'s democratic crisis the commons a day before his due to meet britain's prime minister boris johnson earlier johnson was welcomed by german chancellor angela merkel in berlin merkel told johnson he had 30 days to come up with an alternative to the irish backs off but that a new breck's a deal was possible. opposition groups have held a strike across much of bolivia they're angry with president's ever morales for seeking a 4th consecutive term in office they say is acting unconstitutionally by ignoring a national referendum which showed voters were against him standing again danielle swam the reports. the opposition group stopped work and blocked roads in several

cities across believe they accuse president able to mine the country's hard won democracy and say he's outstayed his welcoming never again never but we want to ask you mr my knowledge to respect democracy to respect the vote and our human rights look establish a standards place here today we're doing this to show that we're facing a dictator but we believe that we must continue fighting to win back the democracy that we had and not the kind that we've got now which is controlled and persecuted . president morales called the protests the home age the previous dictatorships he says his plan to build a modern country is still not complete. but live is emerging as a new country but bolivia has its own model and i'm sure that with the steps we are taking that's in 15 or 20 years live you will be an economic powerhouse in the region. where all is organized the referendum in 2016 to allow him to

stand for a 4th consecutive term in office and last he said the vote was floored by a dirty tricks campaign and the following year it was overturned by the constitutional court the opposition says morales should respect the results of his own referendum and let up to one of the president however leads in the opinion polls are october's elections ahead of his main challenger the former president calls missa the. evil as he's commonly know is credited with lifting tens of thousands out of poverty but giving a voice to women in the country's large indigenous community and the poor and of getting a. price in international markets for bolivia's commodities especially natural gas and he's the only president we've had who's built all over the country we've received house you know we never thought we'd ever get hospital. his supporters want him to continue as president for another 5 years which will take him to 2025

a total of 19 years in power. however the biggest immediate challenge facing bolivia and the fires raging in the east of the country that have destroyed 460000 hectares of forest the opposition that council is protest and the president suspended campaigning to oversee the rescue operation but the reelection issue like gave himself is one of the ones go away. al-jazeera. for the war a robot that resembles a human body is making waves in russia moscow is flying it to the international space station and for 2 weeks it will be working alongside russian crewmembers there so fasten plans to claim the space race. he has the looks and most of the science fiction movie star if you're a can do push ups drive a car and pick up small objects but the human like robot has a serious task ahead of him for the next 16 days he will be working in space as

a cost monarch crew member 1st on the human guidance but his creators hope eventually independently. aiming for him to be able to prepare the customer notes work in space so the customer not only needs to spend one and a half hour outside instead of tell robert will clean up afterwards to this is how he helps the customer not in decreased time and there's not an oxygen environment which is potentially dangerous the project was nearly lost in 2017 after a futile was put trait shooting to guns foreign partners stop sending components as a result and russian scientists were forced to complete the robot on their own. gainey do the office at the birth of fewer and says there is nothing to fear. we wanted to demonstrate how quickly this robot can combine the operation of his vision and the movements of his hands it was a technological task but people looking at this as

a non-experts didn't see the technological side which was of course a bit of miscalculation on our part futa has become quite a celebrity in russia on his own twitter account we can follow his preparations for his 1st space mission 38 years after he became the 1st human to space the author has big shoes to fill. been struggling to keep its space program up to speed the human eye to robot as the basis and raising the way for humans. to settle on the moon or on mars and put russia in the space race but before future manages to do all of that you 1st needs to prove himself as an assistant on board the international space station step fasten al-jazeera moscow at 99 years of age most people wouldn't dream of taking to the dance floor let alone travel 10000 kilometers for a tango competition but james mcmanus from ireland is no ordinary dancer he may not

have won the world tango championships and won a sirees but he did pick up a special award as its oldest ever competitor the army veteran only took up dancing 17 years ago at the tender age of 82 and this once in a lifetime trip was paid for by his friends as a special gift for his upcoming 100th birthday. the speaker in new zealand's parliament has taken on a new role babysitter so on wednesday trevor mallard was left holding the baby while the boys' father m.p. thomas a coffee attended the parliamentary debate and despite the odd cry the speaker still managed to keep the house in order. to get the headlines on al-jazeera. the leaders have been sworn in after months of

political uncertainty and violence general of the fatah who will head the sovereign council for the 1st 21 months of the. prime minister. the un has warned that 20 to life saving aid programs in yemen will be forced to shut in 2 months unless the world does more to help fund them in february countries pledged more than $2000000000.00 but less than half of that was actually received. brazil's president is dismissing criticism of his environmental policies after being blamed for a record number of wildfires about $75000.00 in the amazon rain forest this year so your boss an ira says and geos are to blame the glue still going on the chemo got almost all of the time under the impression that it could have been sit and euros because they had asked for money what was their intention to bring about problems for brazil the us president has defended new rules that allow indefinite detention of migrant children along with their parents the new policy overturns an existing

legal ruling that bars children from being held in custody for more than 20 days very much. bob very great people make this horrible. thing that will happen when they realize the border was the only thing built the building numbers are. right now. it all comes together like a beautiful. one of the things that's happening but they can't get a day when they get it. they will be brought back to their matter if they get in or not doing that they won't and many people will say and thousands of protesters have rallied at hong kong train station to mark a month since alleged gang members attacked demonstrators on commuters protesters accuse the police of colluding with the attackers those are the headlines might cinesias is coming up next day with us. in one lifetime we cannot see everything

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