we had to find out how traffickers managed to purchase weapons intakes and guns if somebody comes in. to buy a weapon from you what are you required to do by law when your liver failed you know you can only sell to people in your state they have to show some kind of proof of id they want to ok this is called the 40 or 73 and they're going to ask you if you are using the actual tool that don they're going to ask you are you under indictment have you ever been convicted all these kind of questions can they lie yes they can they can lie in the form. because suppliers must show identification mexican cartels often commission locals to buy weapons on their behalf it's cool to strew purchase since 2011 gun dealers must notify the authorities of multiple sales to gun it's a regulation introduced by the obama administration to make it easier to spot straw

purchases if you buy rifles there or magazine fit and $22.00 in caliber you have to do a multiple sale for those 2. but since president trumps election gun owners think tighter regulation is a thing of the post it's been very very slow i love donald trump. i love donald trump but now that trump one everybody's happy that guns are not going to go away and one is buying anything so. we want to hear the traffic is sullied and the law enforcement has put us in touch with the mexican police informant this man used to work for the gulf cartel can you describe to me how the cartels operating the weapons trafficking from the u.s. into mexico it was almost. you know.

what about the mexican security forces do they make a big effort to stop all of it. and u.s. security simply has a different concern as american border forces are more focused on drugs coming in then weapons going out traffickers have adapted their business model. or. official data about trafficking is hard to come by but some u.s. gun sellers have come to attention such as this store chain called academies. it keeps coming up as a purchasing point of weapons that have been trafficked to mexico u.s.

agencies are limited by law as to what data they can publish but in 2011 a spreadsheet was leaked with thousands of gun traces and academy sports features very prominently academy school it comes up a nearly $100.00 traces some link to weapons recovered from the cartel now because the data is a bit old also conservation court documents and academy sports has come up again as a place where u.s. agencies have mounted an undercover investigation into the illegal sale of firearms . academy didn't respond to our interview requests but has denied any wrongdoing in previous statements adding that they have removed tactical weapons from open display. but the federal agency who investigated academy sports has agreed to. hello hi it's called the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms a.t.f.

thanks jim very nice of you agents franco to go and we call strong work on cases that involve firearms trafficking this was one. that was seized in a recent investigation of this gun was bought by 2 u.s. citizens on behalf of the mexican cartel the investigation revealed a whole straw purchasing network but their charge was based on lying on the paperwork 7 of them have been prosecuted. in federal court for providing false statements on foreign transaction so what you're prosecuting them for is the fact that they filled in the form wrongly correct there is currently no firearms trafficking statute that we can prosecute someone for in the absence of a targeted federal law traffickers get off with minimal or no punishment. nicole and friend take us along the route where weapons are trafficked south there

are 52 border crossings between the us and mexico used by thousands of people every day this one connects brown's will with the city of. what we're looking at in terms of your work this is your frontline in spite of the massive drive to increase border security the a.t.f. has seen a series of budget cuts and the number of agents has been substantially reduced president trump wants to build a wall to keep refugees and migrants out of the united states do you think such a wall could ever stop the flood of american weapons going into mexico that's not the trend that we're currently seeing they don't focus in the cross-fire arms by crossing the river they cross them in vehicles. through the international bridges what does it take to stop the weapons crossing the border we could really use as a firearms trafficking statute because that would allow us to go after not only the

straw purchaser but the entire network of people that are getting these guns to arm a cartel. but some legal gun sales take place virtually outside the law. here in texas so-called private sale is concealed weapons without any background checks. many private specialist websites and i have made contact. a former texas law enforcement has agreed to help us since he still does private undercover work we hiding his face went on to list there is actually somebody. is selling a rumanian a k 658 it's called the package it looks new the investigator takes over contact with the seller he will show us how easy it is to buy a weapon completely anonymous lee so you're texting with tom now told. me it was

to. be a case that the vendor has at least 4 other rifles for sale but to me it's in the bag because the more it was perfect conditions on the package call you were moved to set up with but. this fellow wants to meet at this service station a busy and public place he's waiting with the a k 47 in the call we record the audiotape it's all arranged for you know about it so it's not the right yes look no no just chief extra bag. you have to tell it. very good. within minutes the deal is done later in a private place we need to look at the purchase it's an a k 47 the cartels favorite weapon of and that pretty extraordinary i mean this is a weapon that was designed for war and it took you about 5 minutes to buy it or to

get to me it was to listen to did you at any point of time show identification did he ask anything about your 2nd name no book who you where it was just so but knows me it's very long it could be a quarter. to make sure the weapon doesn't end up in the wrong hands we decided to destroy it. so this kalashnikov actually broke the machine but as really hard actually really hard but nobody is going to shoot. this gun again that's for sure so what can american authorities do to keep track of firearms. our next stop is a 1000 miles north in west virginia. it is here that the bureau of tobacco and firearms traces weapons found at crime scenes including those in mexico we do treat

us for firearms for anywhere from 752100 foreign countries in 2016 alone the a.t.f. traced nearly 10000 weapons found in mexico back to dealers and owners in the u.s. but american laws stop neil from sharing details instead he takes us on a tour. what you'll see are or hallways and rows and rows of boxes u.s. laws only allow the agency to keep records from gun dealers who are no longer in business each month the a.t.f. receives around $2000000.00 paper documents were simply prohibited from creating any kind of a searchable database why. is it that it's just the way the legislation is written. even record submitted by dealers in electronic format must be reversion . goes here or the immediate conversion group pretty soon the documents in

electronic form and what we do is take the. making the image sort of that from searchable and. that means you're taking something that was easily searchable electronically searchable and you make in a search harder yes that's what happens if investigators want to trace a gun from a crime scene in mexico or the u.s. a.t.f. employees must navigate amount of paperwork. you life is made so much more difficult by all these laws that restrict how you can actually do your work who's responsible for those laws us congress is responsible for for any of the. laws particularly the federal gun laws and it would be literally an act of congress if that were to be changed. washington the place to find out who really shapes us gun laws a group of congressmen is bringing a bill which could further limit the a.t.f. the ability to investigate trafficking. our interview requests to them have gone

unanswered so we try to find them in person congressman evan jenkins is the sponsor of the proposed new law. hi. i'm not from al-jazeera i'm actually looking for congressman jenkins his staff say they haven't received our e-mails and we ascend to way. we go in search of the co-sponsors of the bill sorry are you working with congressman massie. so you can question to you know this congressman hyde says around today ready right now. we have records of our e-mails but it's the same everywhere i didn't get it because we are mistreated as directed by ok we've put in a few requests we don't always get you know sometimes they don't do it might you know us they go to us and ride somehow as the press do we get in touch with you call out ok. but cool we did without results.

finally we are in luck hi good morning congressman and you are very well thank you we know that you're supporting this bill which cancels the multiple reporting requirement for assault rifles now the a.t.f. is saying that's one of the few tools that they have to stop trafficking in school purchasing can you just tell us why you support this 2nd amendment is very clear limitation on the government's ability to regulate firearms and i think the 2nd amendment speaks for itself i took an oath when i ran for congress to preserve protect and defend the constitution and this was one of the ways of doing it but it helps to prevent a crime and helps to stop trafficking and straw purchasing congressman and you're interested in stopping crime. this into amendment of the us constitution guarantees americans the right to carry weapons. we know the congressman is due you had

a meeting so we waited again. congressman anything else be on the 2nd amendment it's not the way. you cry if there is a bill yet that's an anti trafficking bill would you vote in favor of lack of it i don't know what. would you like to have can i should we haven't even i'm going to. get into this afternoon ok thank you very much we will do that we cooled congressman faran holds office several times they're all he never did provide a response. but evan jenkins despond solve the proposed law which would limit the a.t.f. investigative powers sent a written statement he says he wants to stop government intrusion into the lives of responsible gun owners. with president trump and i were in power lose that target trafficking has become much less likely to get passed. here he is addressing the

$27000.00 convention of the national rifle association who contributed over $30000000.00 u.s. dollars to his campaign rather true friend and champion in the white house no longer will federal agencies be coming after law abiding gun owners. rallies across the country trumpeters has urged him to construct a womb between mexico and the us. a promise president trump has vowed to deliver. that wall is going to help us very importantly with the deadly and heartbreaking cards or quarters of illegal immigration the last was the drugs the gags the cartels the crisis of smuggling and trafficking. but do try and his supporters could make their freedom to buy guns with the destruction suffered by mexico's people. if america intends to keep drugs and

migrants out it should get tougher on weapons going in. ready ready for now the families of the disappeared and waiting for the violence to end. they want to search for their loved ones to finally begin. legally prescribe for the pain relief of the sick but taken in life threatening doses by millions in search of a fix. huge illegal shipments of the tramadol are flooding the west africa. people in power goes to nigeria to investigate the devastating addiction epidemic that is even fueling the boko haram insurgency. west africa's opioid

crisis on and. this is a really fabulous news from one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in that something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. south korea scraps an intelligence sharing pact with japan as a political and trade dispute undermine security cooperation over north korea.

from a headquarters and. also ahead. president says farmers could be illegally allowing the amazon to burn but warns foreign powers against meddling. risking a new arms race moscow and washington trade accusations at the u.n. after a new american missile tests. u.n. investigators say the scale of sexual violence against the world. is military shows genocidal intent. hello south korea is ending an intelligence sharing pact with japan and yet another escalation of tensions between the neighbors japan has called souls' decision regrettable and says it will damage trust the deal was aimed at sharing information about threats posed by north korea and its missile and nuclear program foreign

ministers from both countries have been meeting in beijing to try and find a solution where the 2 countries are locked in a better route over trade and japan's wartime atrocities in the last century last month tokyo restricted export hours from supplying south korean companies the chemicals necessary to make smartphones out on display screens south korea's the world's largest supplier of computer chips and smartphone displays and tokyo has also decided to strip seoul off a preferential trade status citing national security grounds south korea says the measures are in retaliation to court rulings that ordered japanese companies to compensate victims of forced labor during japan's occupation off korea macbride has more from seoul. people were expecting right up until the last minute despite this deepening round south korea regret jingly would renew this pact at the very least simply freeze it but very few people were predicting this kind of terminations we

had south korea saying that all the blame falls on japan for what it calls a very grave change in security cooperation japanese predictably perhaps have said this is very regrettable she has just said from tokyo that this is very bad for the trust between the 2 countries and japan has also attacked south korea saying it's unacceptable for south korea in this way to be linking security with trade but people here in south korea says well it's a hang out it's japan that 1st link trade with this controversial court decision that found in favor of victims of forced labor from the 2nd world war so it it is opened up all of these decades old animosities between the 2 former adversaries and of course that makes the united states very nervous the 2 of its most important regional allies it has called for

a car to prevail for them to resume dialogue and it comes at a time of course when we see increased cooperation militarily between china and russia in this part of the world and also increased activity from north korea and interestingly a young hoe the north korean foreign minister has chosen this moment to further stir the pot by saying that american sanctions are a miscalculation and saying that north korea is prepared for both dialogue and confrontation or robert kelly is a professor of international relations at pusan national university and we asked him who wins who loses with this latest development. for the japanese it means less direct information from the south koreans immediately about what the north koreans are doing right i mean what exactly is exchanges sort of under wraps i don't really entirely know we have sort of vague sense of it but i mean the really the important issue and you ask who's the the winner is the big winner is north korea but beyond that really it's china right i mean it's you know north korea is always sort of

like very far behind economically right it's nuclear weapons change that a little bit but you know north korea's fundamentally a pariah state and isolated it's really china that's on the rise out here right and you see this discourse in the united states with a trade war and if we're going to actually sort of counter chinese have gemini or domination or whatever in the next 20 or 30 years we're going to need coordination among allies out here and that means front and center korea and japan so in the short term the winner is north korea but in the medium term it's china the amazon rain forest in brazil is on fire and burning at a record rates pressure is growing in the country's presidential year bowl so now it's a tackle it is on tribes have joined the international chorus to save what they consider to be sacred lands from the devastating fires they say they will fight until their last drop of blood to protect their home meanwhile both scenario is accusing those that donate money for preserving the amazon off interfering with the country's sovereignty. reports. dramatic video captures the fury of the flames eating away at the world's largest rain forest this is just one of

several 1000 fires currently consuming swaths of the brazilian amazon and the world is watching we're very concerned about these fires both for the immediate damage that they're causing and also because sustained force is crucial in our fight against climate change the amazon produces 20 percent of the world's oxygen that's why it's called the planet's lungs but environmentalist warn if the burning continues at this rate the rain forest will transform to a landscape resembling the african savannah and rather than produce oxygen the antidote to global warming the former rain forest will humid carbon instead in brazil sister e. was soon difficult situations but for the 1st time we have this kind of situation that was created almost with official encouragement from the government environmental groups a rancher's and log or started the fires to clear the land. they blame

brazil's president. as a candidate he promised to give businesses access to natural resources to restore the country's economy as president he's gutted funding for brazil's environmental and foresman agency and he now says without offering evidence that environmental groups set the fires themselves. now the amazon is bigger than europe how can you fight criminal fires in such an area it is clearly criminal how can you do it you need to catch them in the act otherwise there's nothing you can do now nongovernmental organizations are losing money money that came from germany and norway they are unemployed now so they are trying to overthrow. the hash tag pray for amazonas has been trending on twitter. and other world leaders have reacted as well our house is burning literally twitted french president emanuel it

is an international crisis he's called on members of the g. 7 summit to discuss the amazon fire at their upcoming meeting this weekend. castro al-jazeera washington well across the border and the government has asked for a supertanker plane to contain wildfires raging in the east more than 650000 hectares have been destroyed the environmental organizations say 500 species of wildlife are wrists soldiers have been deployed and president has created a new environmental agency an emergency cabinet to deal with the crisis. in the u.s. have accused each other risking a new arms race at the u.n. security council the meeting was requested by russia and china to discuss washington's testing of nuclear capable missile tests comes after washington pulled out of a cold war era missile treaty she had written see reports from the un. it took just

over 2 weeks for the u.s. to test a land based intermediate range tomahawk missile following its withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty in early august the agreement signed at the height of the cold war between washington and moscow in 1907 led to the destruction of thousands of missiles for the long been a source of fear for europeans it was clear their countries would be the battleground in any nuclear war the u.s. maintains it had no choice but to withdraw for 2 reasons the russians had long flout of the agreement something moscow denies and china which was not a signatory has been building up its arsenal of intermediate missiles these developments by the russian federation and china coupled with their aggressive and course of behaviors are key drivers behind a deteriorating security environment the united states will not and cannot ignore this reality but russia says the launch proves what both the obama and the trumpet ministrations of long denied it's the u.s. that has been flouting the treaty with its deployment of what washington calls

a missile defense system in eastern europe the missile launcher used in sunday's test is the same model that the u.s. has deployed in rumania and poland but with modifications to allow it to launch over fences intermediate nuclear missiles and moscow chided the u.s. allies for sitting quietly as washington unilaterally nullified another treaty designed to preserve international security. usually when you can you might just as well in particular do you really not understand that what you've done with the americans step by step you were returning to historical situation when missiles were targeting european cities from different sides. the us allies however did stick to washington's line obit while expressing concern about a new arms race china also stuck to its long held line its nuclear arsenal is defensive and dwarfed by those of russia and the us so it's not relevant to this discussion so we. it is not acceptable to use china as an excuse for leaving the treaty china rejects the baseless accusations by the united states in fact recently

the trump ministration has been making it pretty clear it left the i.m.f. primarily because of china the us defense secretary even expressing the hope that soon perhaps in a matter of months they will be and into me and yet range conventional missile capability in the asia pacific region where it's unclear which asian countries would want to host such missiles and become a tall get just as europe was during the cold war. the al-jazeera united nations. says american officials are working on securing the release of 2 canadians held in china at the comments after a meeting canadian prime minister justin trudeau so canadian men were detained in china 8 months ago over spying charges their arrests were seen as retaliation against canada's decision to detain mung one joe an executive from chinese telecom giants weiwei on a u.s. warrant. will not be used as a bargaining chip in the trade war between the u.s.

and china yes it was a bar it was a bargaining chip it is a legal process by the united states department of justice designed to bring someone who we believe we have sufficient information to bring back to their states under the agreement between the united states can very straightforward. scrap the plan to freeze more than $4000000000.00 in foreign aid the decision follows a strong outcry from both republican and democratic members of congress administration officials were considering using a specific budget to revoke the aid funding already approved by both the senate the house. to keep. the.