the problems and says what has to be seed is defending brazil these are people who came to tame the forest to cut a bird to carve a future from what they consider to be a wilderness this particular blaze may not be huge but is one of tens of thousands burning across brazil some control some not some illegal some legal what's clear is that few will be investigated but the consequences will eventually be felt around the world. the fires are being put out but what's left is this black and devastation which will take many years to recover. 70 percent of the state of rwanda or year has already been developed the forested for lucrative timber then burned to create land for cattle rearing and sawyer production the rest is up for grabs and no one it seems is stopping them at the moment if you burn the forest you are backed up by a president and then you do exactly as you want to do because you know nothing will

happen and that's a problem and we have seen statistically when this law enforcement fires in deforestation goes down when we don't have it it goes up. the fires are still burning but will bolster naro bend on the heat of international pressure or bow to the ambition of some his strongest supporters that there are ground on your state northwestern brazil. also had an al-jazeera hostage demands on the rise nigeria struggles with a kidnapping crisis that's getting worse. president dan from downplays north korea's latest missile launch the 7th test in a month. hello again or welcome back well we have seen tropical storm by lou make landfall in the

southern part of taiwan but that's not the end of it this storm is still going to bring some very heavy rain not only for taiwan but also into the philippines as well as on sunday we're going to be seen a 2nd landfall with the storm here on the southeastern coast of china it's going to be a weaker storm but it is still going to bring a lot of rain across much of this area now from sunday into monday the storm moves inland and we're going to be seeing the remnants of the storm still produce a lot of rain across much of southern china so this is going to be a big problem in terms of localized flooding mudslides possibly as well so we watching this very very carefully toward shanghai though it is going to be a sunny day with the time to there about $25.00 degrees where here across india we are watching very heavy rain make its way across the east into the central areas much of pradesh we do expect over the next few days to get some very very heavy rain anywhere between $300.00 to possibly $400.00 millimeters of rain could be an issue by the time we get towards monday new delhi the rain is going to be ending probably by the time we get to monday with the tempter there of about 33 degrees

tonight though we do expect to see some scattered and light rain few with 31 degrees in the forecast but for should long mostly cloudy conditions across much of the island with a temperature of 29 degrees. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the wilds we control the seaside and who controls the other people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about 5 minutes to buy at least america's grounds of arming mexico's cartel on al jazeera congressman are you interested in stopping crime.

welcome back you're watching out is there a time to recap our headlines sideline meetings are taking place in the g. 7 summit in france host emanuel met with u.s. president donald trump and germany's angela merkel counters justin trudeau also met with the united kingdom's prime minister boris johnson gendering clude the amazon fires and the iran nuclear deal with a trade war between the u.s. and china is dominating talks that's after president trump announce further tariff increases on chinese imports i'm told american companies to pull out of china. brazil's president giant ball so narrow as all of the military to help put out the fires that are raging across the amazon region thousands of demonstrators in brazil and across latin america are demanding more attention be given the deteriorating

conditions of the rainforest but it's not just brazil that's struggling to cope with wildfires more than 7000 square kilometers have been destroyed by flames in neighboring bolivia the government is using a boeing 747 to help carry 150000 liters of water and flame retardant the fires have been burning in the eastern province of santa cruz for the past month. syrian army is seize the last pocket of rebel control in helmand province reclaiming towns lost early in the war most recent government offensive in the northwest intensified in late april hundreds of people have been killed now parts of the province are all that remain of rebel held territory after more than 8 years of war turkey's defense minister says a joint control center with the united states has begun operations in northern syria it's part of a plan to create a so-called safe zone 2 sides were locked in months of talks over the depth of the

zone and who would control it one of the. of this is a joint operations center has been established here they continue the work the 1st drone flew on august 14th and now as of 4 30 pm we have a joint helicopter the helicopter including both americans and members of our armed forces is now in the year the 1st flight has started hurts goes a bonus with his life for us in antakya on the turkey syria border so 1st of all clarify for us this say so what exactly have the turkey and the united states agreed to. well i mean they've agreed of they clearly started operating this joint operations center it has been established to monitor and administer the safe zone but what is missing from what. his defense

minister said was what exactly the safe zone is what does it what is comprised of how big is it who patrols it and these are the most important aspects of it because while the safe zone exists in paper as an agreed idea on the ground in northern the northwestern part of syria there is no physical safe zone the disagreements or the areas open for discussion perhaps you could prefer to say or how deep the safe zone should be turkey wants it as much as 30 kilometers into syrian territory the americans only want it about 5 kilometers into syrian territory and joint patrols in u.s. and america turkish troops the americans not so keen on that although that has been not joint helicopter flight today which to turkish defense minister was very keen to highlight something now the same time we've got the dynamic of the asad regime making territorial gains what sort of challenge or pressure might that pose to

these plans for a safe zone. well this is why turkey is very keen to get this safe zone the parameters of it agreed as quickly as possible because as the outside regime pushes north and is now on the edge of the last rebel held area of province on the city and as that happens more and more refugees syrian does internally displaced people are escaping the violence and heading north towards to these border as many as half a 1000000 heading that way according to the u.n. turkey is not going to let them into turkey it doesn't want them gathering along the border so that's why it wants a safe zone established before there's another reason to he wants us safe zone and that is also to push back syrian kurdish forces that have that have been fighting along with the u.s. military against eisel the u.s. military because of the importance of the 6 syrian kurdish forces is not as keen to

see the syrian kurds pushed back and that is why there is this apparent failure so far to agree on how big the safe zone should be but it's certainly the turks who want to see it as a safe zone in place sooner rather than later sunny all right thanks so much bernard smith. protesters in hong kong have been throwing bricks at police and the latest round of violent demonstrations to rock the city hundreds of black clad protesters 4th with riot police following a march against so-called smart lampposts which of sparks surveillance fears the chaotic scenes unfolded outside a police station a nearby shopping mall with protesters setting up makeshift street barricades wayne hay has more from hong kong. after a week when the police in hong kong appeared to adopt a different tactic seemingly standing back allowing the protest to happen without intervention on saturday it seemed that they were in no mood to muck around the

riot police very quickly moving into this area of cow loon to clear the protesters away using tear gas the day it started peacefully there was a march through this part of cow loom the protesters had asked police for permission for their march to take place the permission was granted by the police but as we have seen before a large group of the protesters then broke away approached a police station near the roots of the march erecting barricades that the that we have seen them do so many times before and it seems that when the police lost patience and formed up and that's when the confrontation again which lasted perhaps one to 2 hours this came on a day when kerry lamb the chief executive of hong kong someone whom the protesters want to resign held who 1st round of dialogue with representatives from different sections of society in hong kong around 28 representatives of different sections of

hong kong society met with her to start the process of dialogue the ultimate aim to end this crisis but crisis but significantly there were no protests leaders who were involved in those talks in the protests or they show no sign of dying down. japan says north korea has fired what appears to be 2 short range missiles into the sea off its east coast according to south korea's military they were fired from sundog in south having young province japan says they caused no damage it's the 7th such test in a month u.s. president dan trump says he's not concerned by the missile tests no i don't think so i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens that could always change but we'll see what happens kim jong un has been. pretty straight with me i think. we're going to see what's going on with the what's happening he likes testing missiles

but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happens many nations that. we tested a very big one the other day you probably don't. sudan's former president tom arnold bashir has appeared in court for a 2nd time to face criminal charges supporters chanted slogans as he entered the courtroom bashir faces charges of corruption and money laundering during his 3 decades in power investigators say they found a $130000000.00 in his house after the military deposed him in april his court appearance comes a day after members of the new government's transitional council was sworn in. kidnappings have become common in parts of nigeria thousands of people have fallen victim to a rise in abductions and they're having to pay ransoms totaling millions of dollars i'm not a reports from co do not in an area known as the kidnapping hotspots. taking the fight to the kidnappers these offices of nigeria special into robbery squad are

responding to a tip off that the kidnappers have decided at this point on their budget can do no highway. the thick forest nearby serves as a cover for the guns this highway has been a popular spot for the kidnappers to attack potential victims the police say they're making gains against the kidnappers were over 200 reporters. were showing to do a whole lot in last 2 weeks we parted i was summoned and then kidnapped suspects. traffic on the highway tells a different story. this was once one of the busiest highways in the country the border could not highway links the muslim states of the country to the other parts of nigeria now few more troops are brave enough to travel and. many are choosing not to drive when instead use the train yet even on the trains

a squat is a must as the kidnapping guns get bolder and more sophisticated few places appear say. abdul-malik mccumber the senior government official was abducted from his home in the city of could do. then they begin to say ok i should give them money as i don't have money they keep on asking are you have it because the resort cars in your house country sell those cos we need money you have to give over if you don't you are going to kill you after 7 days in captivity of the malik was released after paying a ransom but not before being told to deliver a message to the world for 2 years then as if they give you well that i should be able to tell the government that most of them only poit they are graduate they need employment if they are not employed or people kidnapping people. but it's not just frustrated you threw a ton into kidnapping it's now a free for all with both pity and 100 criminals joining in. reverend who was kidnapped and held in a forest by

a group armed with machetes he says they tortured him until his family paid or not some of $200.00 they were drinking he said well i want to give it a thought for her life or soon those were all through a guitar saved church so i simply can i was. given at the back of my rock i had a quick last one to give mr laugh and it was as well up. until now kidnappers in the g.d. had to get the public officials there a litigant for him work is often in the oil industry what is worrying most nigerians about the current wave of kidnappings in their country is that no one and nowhere feel safe anymore how the world is either on the bridge or could do no highly. coffee farmers in indonesia are expecting a bumper crop this year but with prices that are low some grow as a warning they'll go bankrupt if things don't improve florence louis has the story

from jakarta. over. the harvest time at this coffee plantation in sumatra and it's plenty for farmers who would normally celebrate but not this year they are the world's 3rd largest growers of the robots to a variety of coffee beans but the market price they're fetching is at an 8 year low but. if the price of coffee stays like this we can't continue we might not attend our plantations anymore because we can't afford fertiliser we don't have enough money to pay our work is in my case i still have to pay for my son's high school. robusto is used mainly in instant coffee and demand has been increasing but prices have dropped this year because of the success of the 2 largest producers brazil and vietnam. while indonesian pharma struggle to make money there's a growing demand domestically as more indonesians get a taste for what they produce growing affluence and ebonite they sure are driving

the rise of the so-called coffee lifestyle and many more coffee shops are opening up some are part of a chain others like this one in jakarta independence i mean i come here 2 or 3 times a week the price of coffee for what i get is well worth it not cheap but not too expensive. indonesia is one of the top 5 fastest growing coffee retail markets and has the lowest coffee consumption type person in southeast asia so there's plenty of room for growth to serve much confidence in the industry but one coffee chain received $28000000.00 from venture capital firms in the past year for its expansion plans the music industry the local market can absorb a large amount of domestic only grown coffee only. 30 percent of coffee grown here was exported but if the price of coffee keeps dropping farmers will stop planting coffee and i'll be a huge loss for everyone the. demand from indonesia coffee has so far

helped cushion the blow from falling export prices back at his plantation you know it's helpful the price of coffee beans above the cover in the meantime he's planted other crops just in case florence italy al-jazeera jakarta. you can get much more all those stories if you have over 20 website al-jazeera dot com. and let's take you through some of those stories now the u.s. president donald trump and other world leaders are in france for the annual g. 7 summit among the key topics expected to be discussed trump's trade war with china the iran nuclear deal and the amazon rain forest fires european council

president denounce global trade war saying they must stop before they lead to a recession so scott also said the european council will fight any from proposal to add new tariffs on french wines i will not diet french wine was a. genuine determination for many reasons. the end of the day you stand by france if the u.s. impose a star if on france the e.u. will respond in kind. protesters in hong kong have been trying to disrupt the city's transport system as rallies against the government and to their 12 week police have fired tear gas in crowds blocking roads with barricades in some protesters destroyed surveillance equipment

a sit in at the city's airport the view of this month led to hundreds of flight cancellations. brazil's president jalal scenario is ordered the merger to help put out the fires which are raging across the amazon hundreds thousands rather of demonstrators in brazil and across latin america are demanding more attention be given to be deteriorating conditions of the rain forest a russian spacecraft carrying a robot the size of an adult human has failed to dock at the international space station the russian space agency says problems with the automatic docking system caused the failure live feeds broadcasting the attempt in russia stopped when the capsule struggled to connect russia's flight control center will attempt to dock again on monday the robots will blast off to help astronauts working at the space station and also test its skills. the headlines the news continues of the people in

power. the u.s.a.'s constitutionally in trying to love affair with firearms has given it the highest levels of private gun ownership in the world and a truly staggering rate of gun related homicides but it isn't just the u.s. that's felt the effects south of the border in mexico american sourced weapons. that comes from his drug use giuliana rufus has been to invest.

this is a shooting range in the southern united states. here in texas shooting is a popular and competitive sport ok you're right it's my 1st time shooting a gun magazine goes in a church shoulder correctly. it's an assault rifle designed for wolf. they're sure to shot night at 5 o'clock so i would have taken this person out you know she would be dead definitely. today an estimated $270000000.00 guns are privately owned in the united states shooting ranges and gun shops everywhere

and the arms industry is a multi-billion dollar business but only a few miles south across the border in mexico u.s. sourced firearms are having a deadly effect. we have come to investigate how mexican drug cartels exploit weak u.s. gun laws to arm themselves with american weapons. our journey begins in a hotel in the northern mexican state of tamaulipas where we have a range to meet a group of people whose family members have gone missing it's not known whether they're living or dead the presence of drug cartels on the streets makes it too dangerous to meet them in an outside location along with me is that in the that are on the unit but he committed this that that is a 30 day you're not. minimal in the illinois and not in the in.

the boise monikers arms does that. mean yes it is. but the odds of finding a family member a life alone. since 2004 well over 150000 people have been killed in mexico's so-called war on drugs. here in town my only purpose the gulf cartel and the law setters cartel are in a violent battle over the control of lucrative drug routes. civilians are often forced to take sides or end up in the crossfire most. of them with us. some as if it was on a less busy doing everything he carries time most of us with those muscles of the regime. many bodies haven't yet been found because it's too dangerous for investigators to search the bodies they do get found and up here.

at the state attorney general's office in the forensic autopsy center. so when did this body of arrive at the work where we're not sure. if. the bullet traveled at such high speed it continued to move once inside the body it was fired from an assault rifle like the a k 47 or a or 15 the cartels favorite weapons. faced with such deadly firepower the mexican police have taken on a paramilitary appearance kept in edgar valley who has agreed to show me what his officers have to deal with when battling heavily armed drug cartels. we've arrived here at a peak in the violence since april 27th teen close to 100 people have been killed

in town. including several police so they are on high alert this is how you normally travel in a convoy we never know when. this streets look deceptively quiet but it's in transit. most attacks occur. you can see the normal people walking and you never know who is walking yeah everybody can be a cop tell you exactly the impact of the cartels gun battles is clearly visible in residential areas. because of the bullets over the walls were. the car those were inside the. start of. the time there were like 9 people killed. the violence has to civilians from their homes. empty houses empty places were there they have decided to leave because of the because of a bias rather go to

a state that's kind of over or to the united states nor to keep better life. next that god takes us to the cities jail he wants to show us that the cartels weapons are everywhere barely 2 months before our visit to jail was home to a massive triage. it's alleged that the weapons were smuggled in with the help of corrupt prison guards. they had more than i would say like a 6000 bullets inside what weapons did to help long guns just so similar to the interviewer and certainly we could get some guns but we know that there are many guns inside that we don't know where the hey here and you know during the raid 7 people were killed 4 inmates but also 3 police officers from. let me go close so. no problem you're saying they still have guns

inside. they will be able to seal the so so obviously side. and who controls the other side we also control right now we also control the other side very. these are the charge over control in a. very prescriptive gun laws and weapons such as these are only legal in the hands of security forces yet the cartels seem to phrase no shortage of firepower. that's what i think is there. do you sometimes feel that the cartels the other side is better equipped than you are. going to suddenly. go.

you know that would be a. very good little got to go he says. and i mean so when i got. joyous that. these weapons have been collected by mexican security forces from crime scenes the cartels obtain firearms from a number of sources including neighboring countries in china but out of the serial numbers submitted to american authorities for tracing 70 percent track to purchases from us gun shops. to take them out of circulation the time i would replace government organizers regular destructions. the illegal flow of weapons across the border is a sensitive issue mexico and the u.s. are heavily invested in trade but it will be a victim i will say in the governor's chief of staff is in regular talks with his us clearly you know that i'm one of them but the young fellow from you of the

simple you could have been thrown out there my. way in prime time and why you specifically in what ways do you think the americans could tighten their gun legislation to. stop the flood of weapons coming across the border i meant in a. busy area was can also and i'm not. going to see them and most but i'm sure both the wall or fence are in. there one. because because i'm we will be fools and when the. we leave to follow the gun smuggling route back north the authorities insist that we travel with an escort as the closer you get to the us the more dangerous it becomes we've just reached the border. and we've been told categorically that we can still hear the cartels are fighting each other and they had fool with the security forces.

and then we reach the call of the border queues. on the others so it's in the world in the city of macallan it's much more peaceful but certainly guns stools a common sight they numb the nearly 5000 the highest for any american state this is the real deal right here this is a fully automatic a k 47 it looks ugly it sounds ugly. in scares people of course this is the gun that most of the bad people of mexico like . males are darrow is a federally licensed firearms and if. we had to find out how traffickers manage to purchase weapons in texas in gun store if somebody comes in once to buy a weapon from you what are you required to do by law when you're never filled you

know you can only sell to people in your state they have to show some kind of proof of id they want to be ok this is called the 40 or 73 and they're going to ask you if you are using the actual body or 2. it goes on 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 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. 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 trump selection 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 traffickers side 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. you know.