yet again and they're heading north towards the turkey syria border as many as half a 1000000 people heading that way according to the un turkey is not going to let those refugees in and it doesn't want them amassing along the border that is why turkey wants to get this saves own up and running as quickly as possible the challenge of the turks is how big is our safe save zone going to be they want it 30 kilometers into syria the americans want a much narrower save zone and not the turks wanted a lot deeper because they also want to push back syrian kurdish fighters they consider them allied to terrorist. turkish kurdish groups in turkey the americans though working with the syrian kurds and they don't want them pushed as far back. the fighting has restarted in yemen between u.s. backed sudden separatists and government forces both sides have sent reinforcements to a shop where solvent central gammon violence is also broken out in the city of the

top tens of thousands of people have been killed in the civil war and millions are starving the u.n. is called it the world's worst humanitarian crisis. still ahead of al-jazeera sending in the troops brazil promises to deal with record fires in the amazon global concerns grow. taking the fight to the kidnappers nigeria's crime crisis where even traveling on trains isn't safe. hello again it's good to have you back where across all of our we have seen a lot of a clear skies to the south but we have seen some storms up here towards turkey making their way towards the east so around the black sea particular across the

eastern part of the black sea we will continue to see more heavy rain showers over the next few days we'll be watching this very carefully temperatures are up though here across parts of syria we're going to be seeing aleppo about $39.00 degrees on sunday maybe dropping down to about 30 degrees by the time we get towards monday well here across the gulf it has been very very steamy in the morning the relative humidity has been quite high temperatures only getting into the high thirty's but that's all you really want because the heat index feels more like 43 to 44 degrees so expect to see an average about the high thirty's but maybe making to 39 degrees by the time we get towards monday and then very quickly across the southern part of africa we are seeing some cooler air across much of cape town of the next few days but it is going to be quite hot as we go towards durban $31.00 degrees is expected high here but that's all we could be lasting one day. the temperatures are going to be dropping by the time we get to monday so $31.00 as we go towards sunday by the time we get towards monday $24.00 degrees here by the time we get to tuesday well we're going to be more like average for this time of year and possibly some passing

showers as well with a low of about 16. in the next episode of techno the team travels to the part of the amazon. where we are now should be a rain forest to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic finding the gold for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging a forest in a very high fidelity stream. techno on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching our dessert time to recap our headlines sideline meetings are taking place at the g. 7 summit in france host emmanuel micrometer with u.s. president donald trump and germany's angela merkel while calibers justin trudeau met the u.k. prime minister boris johnson the agenda includes the amazon fires and the in brown nuclear deal the trade war between the u.s. and china is dominating talks that's after president trump announced further tariff increases on chinese imports he also told american companies to pull out of china. turkey's defense minister says a joint control center with the united states is operational in northern syria it's part of a plan to create a so-called safe zone of control. as we've been saying the fires that are burning in the amazon rain forest are likely to be one of the big topics at the g. 7 summit earlier french president emanuel macron called for swift action.

not the arizona is our common good we are all consumed so in the end result we will launch a mobilization between all g 7 countries together with amazon e.u. countries 1st we need to help brazil and other countries put out these fires and then we need to invest in reforestation and allow locals to develop a cavity so it will preserve this forest present diet of all scenario as ordered the military to help put out the fires he's been criticized for his handling of what some leaders call an international crisis on our own blames unusually warm temperatures for the president. blaze. reports from the states of around the new year one of the worst affected regions. forest fires happen every year in brazil but it was the sheer scale this year that shocked the world the so-called world's lungs were on fire strong criticism firstly from within

brazil and the rest of the world forced president. to respond. forest fires happen all over the world so this is no reason to impose international sanctions brazil will continue to be as it is now a country that is friendly with everyone and is responsible in protecting its amazon forest. but he's been accused by many of creating the very conditions he's now trying to control but there's a defiance from the president and resentment from his supporters and other countries telling brazil what to do. or don't agree that other countries should come here to presume we don't go to other countries to upset them you don't see brazilians they're causing problems on the working to see money home to invest here this is pioneering country distant from brazil's made population centers or so naro had a message that resonated here. i'm 63 years old and i'm never seen

a president as honest as this one who confronts 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 it's 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 have been put out but what's left is this blackened devastation which will take many years to recover. 70 percent of the state of the road 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 your 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 because of the fires are still burning but will bolster naro bend on the heat of international pressure or bow to the ambitions of some his strongest supporters that there are ground on your state northwestern brazil. the us state department is calling for more action by me in mass government to address the issue of the rangar it's been 2 years since violence in iraq and state led to more than 740000 fleeing the country in a statement that the apartment said the lack of accountability and civilian oversight of the military means abuses continue today in iraq and state as well as cochin and shan states and elsewhere me and mark goes on to say we encourage me in march to create the conditions that would allow for the voluntary safe dignified

and sustainable return to of refugees to their places of origin or other places of their choosing rosalyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . 2 years after the miramar military started attacking or hangar residents in iraq hind state sending at least a 1000000 of them into neighboring bangladesh the trumpet ministration is calling on the international community to do more to protect the rights of the ethnic rohingya and to try to get them to return to their home country with full citizenship rights as they desire this is a precarious situation for the trumpet ministration even though it has taken actions to show its and tense and increasing displeasure with the way that the military leadership has been treating the we're hangup the us has imposed sanctions on the top 4 military leaders of the country meaning that they can't come to the us neither can members of their immediate families and they also aren't allowed to

have access to any funds that they might have deposited in u.s. financial institutions the u.s. however is in a difficult position because it can't put too much pressure according to officials on the civilian leader aung san suu kyi who herself has been criticized for not doing enough to stand up for the rights of the ethnic and to watch trying to push for them to get full citizenship in their country this is because of some groups a. buddhist and other types of discrimination against the rohingya but the trumpet ministration also wants to maintain relations with the government and young goan so that it can try to put more pressure on officials to change their policies regarding the rohingya and to try to make it possible to improve their status both

politically and economically. protesters in hong kong have been throwing bricks at police in the latest round of violent demonstrations to rock the city hundreds of black clad protesters ford with riot police following a march against so-called smart posts they have sparked surveillance fears the scenes unfolded outside a police station and nearby shopping mall protesters set up makeshift barricades 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 at 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 confrontations began 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 where they show no sign of dying down . an employee of the british consulate in hong kong has been released by mainland

china after being. detained for more than 2 weeks simon chang disappeared on the 8th of august during a business trip to the city of shenzhen near the border with hong kong chinese police said chang was punished for violating public safety laws his detention came as relations between beijing and london soured over the ongoing protests in the former british territory 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 were fired from sandakan south i'm gong province japan says they caused no damage it's the 7th such test in a month u.s. president donald trump says he's not concerned by the latest test. now i don't know i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens i could always change but we'll see what happens young man has been. pretty straight with me i think. we're going to

see what's going on with you what's happening to you like standing missile but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happened many nations that. we tested a very big one the other day as you probably know. mason ritchie is a professor of international relations at hancock university of foreign studies in south korea he says the missile tests serve a number of purposes. we should always remember that when north korea carries out this will test their always overdetermined they have more than one cause so we'll hear certainly that there is messaging involved with a possible a coming restart negotiations with the us nuclear ization i would also argue that there are simply testing the deployment in the fielding of now operational capabilities we're not sure what it is yet could be the case in $23.00 could be $88.00 c.m.'s systems could be something else we don't know yet we'll find out

later but there's also of course internal messaging as well this is a way for kim jong un to send a message to his military that even though diplomacy may be ongoing you know now also store values his military and their capabilities nigeria is in the grip of a kidnapping crisis tens of thousands of nigerians have fallen victim to a rise in crime and having to pay millions of dollars in ransom. falls from could do now in an area known as a kidnapping hotspots. taking the fight to the kidnappers these offices of nigeria's special into without responding to a 2 people could not possibly cite that at this point. the sick forest nearby serves as a cover for the gum these highways has been a popular sport for the kidnappers talk potential victims the police say they're making gains against the key. will be called over $100.00 ripples.

this. we're showing to do a whole lot in last 2 weeks we parted up our summer intern and kidnap suspects. in traffic and the highway tells a different story. this was once one of the busiest highways in the country the highway links the muslim states of the country to the other parts of nigeria now feel motorists 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 mohammed the siniora government official was abducted from his home in the city of could do. then they begin to say ok i should give the money as i don't have money they keep on asking are you have it because we saw cars in your ass country sell those cars 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 they give you all that i should be able to tell the government that most of them only poit they are good with 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 i want to give her life for single food for all through a good hearted church. so will everything we can i was. given to go back with my from iraq i don't have a quote last one to give me slap on iraq and it was all is well up. until now

kidnappers emerge and you have to get the public officials the relatives and foreign workers often in the oil industry what is worrying most nigerians about the current we were kidnapped in their country is that no one and nowhere feel safe anymore how without the world just syria on the bridge or could do know howie. ukraine is celebrating the 28th anniversary of its independence from the soviet union. the festivities won't be as grand as on previous occasions that's because the president wants to spend some of the $1000000.00 earmarked for the big day to pay for bonuses. and this take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now sideline meetings are taking place at the g. 7 summit in france host emmanuel micron met with the u.s.

president donald trump and germany's angela merkel calibers justin trudeau met the u.k. prime minister boris johnson gender includes the amazon fires and the around nuclear deal the trade war between the u.s. and china is dominating talks that's after the us president announced further tariff increases on chinese imports he also told american companies to pull out of china but think a stop to trade war. trade deals and the reform of the beauty oh better than trade wars trade wars will lead to recession while trade deals will boost the economy not to mention the fact. that trade was among g 7 members will lead to eroding the already weakened trust among. brazil's president jalal so narrow has ordered the military to help

put out the fires that are raging across the amazon thousands of demonstrators across the world are demanding action 77000 fires have been reported in brazil since january that's nearly twice the number in last year turkey's defense minister says a joint control center with the united states is operational in northern syria he says the 1st helicopter flight is under its command and taken off it's part of a plan to create so-called safe zone fighting has restarted in yemen between u.a.e. backed southern separatists and government forces both sides have sent reinforcements to szabo and central southern central gammon violence has also broken else in the city of our top. protesters in hong kong have been throwing bricks at police and the latest round of violent demonstrations to rock a city hundreds of black clad protesters fought with riot police following

a march against so-called smart lamppost which sparked surveillance fears. and news continues after inside stories stay with us. under fire brazil's president deploys the army to contain devastating blazes india that's come as criticism from the i'm signed is growing almost demands to say the so-called long use of the world but what's triggered this natural disaster and why has it turned political this is still inside story.

hello there a very warm welcome to the program i'm julie mcdonald the green longs of our planet are burning fires across brazil's amazon a wiping out huge areas of rain forest they're burning out of control in many parts at a record rate and official figures szell there's been more than $75000.00 forest fires in brazil and that's just this year alone if they can't be stopped then we may be in very real trouble and that's because the amazon forest absorbs millions of tonnes of carbon emissions every single year and they're crucial in regulating global warming well this act like map shows all the fires that have been burning in the amazon and the crisis has created a panic amongst environmentalist and even some governments around the globe many are blaming brazil's president jabal son aro for not doing enough to stop the

blazes daniel schwimmer reports from the state of wrong that's one of the worst affected regions. forest fires happen every year it was ill but it was the shoes scaled. the world the so-called world's lungs are on fire strong criticism firstly from within brazil and the rest of the world forced president. to respond. forest fires happen all over the world so this is no reason to impose international sanctions brazil will continue to be as it is now a country that is friendly with everyone and is responsible in protecting its amazon forest. he's been accused by many of creating the very conditions he's now trying to control but there's a defiance from the president and resentment from his supporters and other countries telling was ill what to do. or don't agree that other countries should come here to presume we don't go to other countries to upset them you don't see

brazilians they're causing problems only working to see money home to invest here this is pioneering country distant from brazil's main population centers also nardo had a message that resonated here. i'm 63 years old and i'm never seen a president as honest as this one who confronts the problems and says what has to be seed is defending brazil these are people who came to tame the forest to cut and burn 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 fire's a big put out but what's left is this black and devastation which will take many years to recover. 70 percent of the state of rudolph has already been developed

the forested for lucrative timber them 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 have 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 there is law enforcement fires in deforestation is done when we don't have it because of the fires are still burning but will bolster narrowband on the be heat of international pressure or bow to the ambitions of some his strongest supporters. and there are others here a ground on your state northwest of brazil. so let's bring in our guests from washington d.c. andrew miller is advocacy director at amazon watch in sao paolo via skype simoni

rosita all is a businesswoman philanthropist and political commentator and in bristol funen elwood is a community ecologist and professor of conservation science at the university of the west of england in bristol a very warm welcome to you all this is a massive subject isn't it is interconnected the local local and global in so many ways so many i want to start with you what's it been like to be inside brazil having conversations with your friends in the wider community and seeing this story develop into something much bigger. well julie it all started on monday afternoon. ok we are at winter time but it's very unusual to have you know dark skies at 3 pm and i lay down that day turned out that the reason why we had that the news. was because of the fires in the amazon and that's what was the subject and it's really

has taken over the whole country over the past few days are people in the north of brazil saying that it's always been like that for them the start of a year and that's what changed now you had the whole country talking. but you really start the conversation to start and i can see you nodding vigorously there the amazon rain forest right now is being described as being under assault this is the kind of phraseology that we're hearing under assault specifically by bolsa naro brazil's leader is that fair. hamazon is absolutely under assault in terms of the policies that both n.r.o. is carrying out and of course the rhetoric that we're seeing and obviously to clarify it didn't start with both scenario there are tendencies in the previous administration even before then but those the assault has been really accelerated under both even going back to before he was elected to the discourse that he had

not one more centimeter of lands to be titled to indigenous peoples you know really supporting many of the economic interests the loggers the miners and of course the very powerful rural. and then now as president implementing or trying to implement many different policies in terms of lack of enforcement of the existing norms and laws in brazil many of which are very strong and as i think was you know mentioned earlier before the program now when those laws are in force that has a huge impact and can really put down the deforestation but those laws are not being enforced there's a direct effort to weaken those laws before the brazilian congress and of course many of the ministers that have been installed bible scenario are climate deniers or the minister of environment who is essentially an environmental criminal so in many ways the policies have been quite horrific and of course the discourse indigenous discourse you know talking about the deforestation numbers that have

been coming out the spike in deforestation those numbers as being fake news of course firing the head of the brazilian space agency and then most recently blaming n.g.o.s for having started the fires so i think we can definitely describe this as an assault on the amazon fineman listening to this being described in more political terms from your perspective as a conservationists who of course is in full in we populating diversity in lots of areas of former rain forests across the globe how serious is this from your perspective something that you have long been involved in. well unfortunately the truth is that this is this is legitimately an ecological catastrophe the fact is that the world's rain forests and when people describe the most the lungs of the planet they are not the lungs of brazil they are not the lungs of south america the rainforest of southeast asia are not the lungs of

southeast asia they are the lungs of the planet every single person on this planet is going to suffer if they cut down the rain forests which are purifying the air and the water in those countries so basically it makes me very unhappy because we work in southeast asia but the tropical rainforests the main locations are southeast asia and africa and the amazon and they each have different problems but the immediate problem in the amazon are these fires which are burning out of control and this is something which is it's coming to our news cameras is why we're talking about it now which is a very good thing but the amazon rain forest has been dying slowly for a very long time but almost out of sight out of mind these fires that are happening now and the blackout in sao paulo and the smaug and these apocalyptic images that we're now seeing it's almost some kind of biblical apocalypse this is now bringing it much more into real time this is happening now today and it will happen tomorrow

and the next day and these rain forests cannot be replaced they once they are gone they are gone fine and raises an interesting point simoni who does the amazon belong to you know we hear from bowls saying you know it's not your house on fire it's our house on fire we heard it in daniel trying los piece he was talking to one of the farmers who said you know we don't go around interfering in other people's business why are other people in severe in here so who does the amazon belong to and is there a feeling in brazil that actually there are other countries poking in their noses. generally let my boss american want. to talk you know he wasn't. going to talk about what measures were going to be taken you know to draw the fires but at the end he didn't announce anything you just said that the armed forces were going to be sent there but there was a raid norm and he kept talking about the threat of economic sanctions and that was

the 1st report of its interest as the amazon fire cannot be an excuse for economic sanctions against iraq when he was starting them so there were people banging pots and pans just like that used to do during that zuma recept government which was about to be breached just you know as a way of sowing the edges of against the president and the fact is i think brazilians are 1st of all yes the amazon belongs to brazil but it is global issue you know even for brazil cannot control the fires it is important for their wallets it's also i have got to think that's being talked about here is how are their squiers are and the believer in amazonas. borne in mind as well so what yes if you look at the amazon is our worst but global issue is so better it has to be brought up you know by all the interested parties basically andrew

there's a lot of talk right now about holding trade deal simonian mention that there are potential sanctions are you finding ways with the stick rather than the carrot to you know bring brazil into line but i wanted to you know do we need a different sort of policy we do need something more enlightened you know figuring out how to best take care of the amazon and finding a way to encourage whichever brazilian government it is or whichever government anywhere that is a caretaker of one of these spaces. to do it in a way i don't know if we if we have to find a way to pay that country to be that caretaker but is there some sort of middle ground that isn't about this kind of old world of sanctions and hitting people with a great big stick. well that's a great question in response to that last question about who does the bird the amazon belong to. in part of mammals humble longs to they original people that live there the brazilian and the indigenous peoples. in many ways it's their ancestral

territories they've lived there since long before the brazilian state existed and they're the ones who are the best defenders of the amazon and in terms of this salt that we're talking about earlier the people who are most feeling that assault are indigenous peoples and they're working very hard to defend their territories to protect the amazon to defend the global climate but are receiving death threats there are people trying to invade their lands lawyers miners and indigenous peoples are confronting them so it's very important in all of these conversations we're not just talking about the brazilian state versus what the french are saying and what other governments are saying indigenous peoples need to be central and their voices and their demands really need to lead the responses in terms of the free trade agreements and sanctions and all these other conversations i mean that's very important in part because the amazon is being cut down in order to create. agriculture land in order to create pastures for cattle much of which is being

exported to markets in europe and in other places and so it's very important to understand the global economics of all this not just not just the climate implications but actually what our complicity is out when i say hour as here in the united states of course is a market for many of these products many of the corporations that are the commodity traders that are involved in distribute these products are horse humongous companies like cargill archer daniels midland some of the largest private banks in the world are heavily invested in these industries bank of america citi bank among others and enormous investment funds like black rock and so it's really important to understand also who are some of the economic actors that are benefiting ultimately from the deforestation that's going on the assault on the amazon. and yes i think the free trade agreements i don't know if not signing a free trade agreement can be considered a sanction but you know we need to be very careful about that in you know and i think it is important in the car the conversations around europe also here in the

united states after both came and visited with donald trump in march and there's been some conversations as as of late in recent weeks about the idea of a u.s. brazil free trade agreement and personally i think that's incredibly problematic especially in this context and especially given the vision that both of our has for the amazon i don't think the united states should be involved in that vision farnan you were nodding vigorously at the mention of course of the people that you come into contact with and work with a lot of the indigenous peoples who protect their lands you understand the patterns of the ecology and the nature and how important it is and then you will someone like me who had you know soya milk in their coffee this morning and i have every morning and i have hardwood furniture and to some degree i am a consumer like many of us are responsible partly for what's happening in the amazon but i wonder how do we focus people on this idea that we're all complicit when it feels like a personal level it's very hard to do anything when these big corporations and

banks and hedge funds are involved so much further up the chain so far and what can we do to to focus people. well i think this this is the kind of heart of the matter if we're talking about the rain forest which is a natural phenomenon now the natural world is created by 2 forces there ecological forces which are the day to day forces when plants and animals wake up they decide what to eat with whom to mate how to pass on their genes there is that they're also evolutionary forces the balance of nature as as animals and plants interact through millenia through millions of years they produce the rain forest now the humans the indigenous peoples that live within the rain forest that evolved within the rain forest and spend their every day of their lives in the rain forest are of course in the best position to be able to protect it but but as we have seen the market forces the global economies have now completely stripped them of any power the

power lies as your other guest was just saying in the hands of these the hedge fund managers the global markets and but what is beginning to happen i hope i hope that these images i hope that what's happening with the politicians at the g. 7 summit this this very weekend it's coming to the public attention of people like you and me who put soya milk in our coffee or maybe buy hardwood furniture or eat beef burgers it is because it's beginning to sort of dawn on people and here in the united kingdom this summer we've had a lot of protests a lot of climate change protest of course rain forests are linked to climate change because they remove c o 2 from the atmosphere it will take each and every single one of us to rise up it cannot be left in the hands of the rain forest alliance of greenpeace and i've seen social media i've seen instagram tweets of people saying that their prayers are with the amazon the amazon needs more than prayers people

must stop using hardwood furniture they must stop consuming as much beef. the free trade agreements concerning beef are in the hands of us because we elect the politicians and the reason why politicians are becoming emanuel boris johnson the new british prime minister i can tell you that the reason why it is now on his agenda is because he wants to be voted in again and it's in the hands of the people if we can apply pressure on our politicians they will begin to respond and if it takes you know the removal of a free trade deal if the brazilians and other countries is the same with oil palm in southeast asia if countries are cutting down rain forest to make products to export to the west and that is destroying rain forest and increasing climate change if those of us in the west who vote in our politicians stop the consumption the

free trade agreements will have to stop it is supply and demand if we remove the demand they must stop the supply simoni on that no do the people of brazil including the indigenous peoples many of which are going to be joining marches over the coming days do they feel ringback powerful right now do they feel listened to. yes finally i am you know boasting that i was elected lest you have received much because of a b. well larry is a sending the crown 3 people who are fed up with the worst fire to corruption over the past 16 years but also maddow who were so horribly at congress man that we. didn't resent any project after a round of burns he counted on he spies was hurt by people tired of corruption and that's why he got elected and finally we follow this issue of the

fire is the number of pieces finally you got it because you begin to see people from different belief to go exterior you know xining together it's so in a way that i think i think that's really good and i think up there the locals are feeling quite powerful ways that regards and sat in on that in order to know i have to say that i don't really agree with that soup previous guests and now what they said you know it's. not centers but you know if you if you do a google draw that demand side of things that you guys all worldwide. are you know already up at the outlets or. and i'm wondering andrew where is the biggest leverage i mean there are other voices in the region the colombian president has been talking about moving away from short termism and into reforestation which i know will be music to your ears and fine and so at all which

are the actors you know within central and south america that that can influence this dialogue and what about the rest of the globe and what tone does that conversation need to take. well i mean obviously a tone of urgency is super important but also i mean really looking at concrete solutions i think you'd mentioned earlier kind of what role should other governments and other actors play you know unfortunately there have been some attempts to to to provide support from other actors you have an amazon fund which receives significant funding from the norwegians and from the german government as sort of a model for potential model for cooperation for support for projects in the amazon but recently those countries sensually withdrew in part because of of tensions with the bulls and administration the new administration wanted to change the structure of the project in the decision making essentially wants to centralize the decision

making with themselves so there have been expressions of will to support the brazilian government in different kinds of projects. but from the exterior but that the government itself really needs to be willing to support those projects there are a lot of great existing ministries or or entities within brazil you know which is the environmental police who are really the people who should be going out and working to end any sort of illegal operations around the country so you know i guess international governments can support should support the existing structures in brazil the people in brazil within the brazilian government who are really trying to do the right thing but in recent years their power and their budgets have been significantly cut but yes i do believe the role of other governments in the region is important in part because they are as on of course exists in 9 countries 2 thirds of that is in brazil but the rest are in 9 their countries significant

portions in bolivia and peru in colombia places where there are also fires as was mentioned so a high level of cooperation among. amazonian countries is very important you know we haven't talked at all about china and other companies that. also markets for some of the products so you know those countries need to play a role too we can't just talk about europe and talk about the united states when you talk about other emerging markets that are having a huge effect on what's happening in the amazon what's going on in brazil and elsewhere you know so i think it's really a question about political will in many places and hopefully these images going around the world hopefully the protests that we're seeing across brazil across the world really this you know this weekend in this coming month there are going to be many protests including potentially more action around the amazon and of course the climate strikes that are happening later on you know the september 20th is the use climate strike right around that time the u.n.

is coming together in new york city that would be a good opportunity for global leaders to talk about these issues i mean both so narrow apparently is going to go to try and make an address at the united nations which is going to probably be very controversial in the current context so there definitely are for it to do this the question is does the political will exists to really have these conversations the grassroots uprising that we're seeing is very encouraging the fact that we have a lot of authoritarian governments like like our own government here trump and others is very discouraging because those folks are not likely to want to listen to those kinds of grassroots voices so it sounds to me everybody like it's up to all of us a huge thank you to all of our guests today i know it's an enormous subject which we could talk about for a long time more thank you so much for joining us and. fun on elwood's and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our

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from europe g 7 leaders are meeting in front of a shattered by the trade war between the u.s. and china as president smacks of beijing with $600000000000.00 worth of tariffs. also on the news out. as well also be high on the agenda of the g. 7 brazil ordering in troops to bottle them. to use as a joint control center to set up a safe zone in north syria fully operational. and i'm we're hard in with all of your sports in our chief c.n.n. unlikely 359 for victory in the 3rd ashes test against australia i'll have that and more for you later coming up in the program. global trade looks set to dominate the g. 7 summit which is now underway in the french seaside town of be

a ritz france had made fighting gender and social inequality a key theme of this year's event but the trade war between the u.s. and china has suddenly become a more urgent matter off to both sides and else more tariffs on each other's goods it's already being blamed for a global economic slowdown the french and german leaders are also demanding urgent talks on the fires in golfing the amazon rain forest and emanuel macron is hoping to deescalate tensions between the u.s. and iran after president trump pulled the u.s. out of the nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions but. after last year's tense meeting in canada expectations are low that much will be achieved diplomatic editor james braze joins me live from just me a beer it's in james obviously a great deal on the agenda for world leaders to discuss but they're not expected to reach much agreement. well know there's not going to be a final communique for once at this summit and that's because they know there are

so many disagreements many of the disagreements of involving the man who is just arriving for dinner now the president of the united states donald trump all each of the world leaders has arrived here for the dinner that's taking place in the brits like house president trump the last to arrive for the dinner which of course will be a korea location but very deep disagreement surrounding these 7 leaders if you look at it a year ago the g. 7 in canada ended in acrimony over climate failure to sign up to the communique this year there is a range of different disagreements again climate particularly the discussions about the fires in the amazon global trade already the impact on the global economy the dip in stocks just as they closed on wall street on friday i think shows you the potential size of the problem with some talking about fears of a global recession that dispute over trade not just u.s.

china's trade but also talk of disputes for example between france and the u.s. where france has introduced a new digital services tax on u.s. tech giants president trump has threatened to retaliate for that potentially putting very heavy tax on french wine other issues important issues for example how to deal with iran the u.s. and europe have completely different approaches and we have seen in the past president looking somewhat uncomfortable at these sorts of summits he appears to be the odd man out who distances himself from european leaders what might we see this year. well yes that's very much how he is seen we think he doesn't like these gatherings that certainly the reporting that he didn't really want to come here again and have to be persuaded by his advisors potentially though he's got 2 other world leaders who are not feeling particularly

comfortable with themselves are a problem is the content of of italy is already resigned from his job so he does not much of a future he is clearly not going to be the leader that most of the others want to spend time with and then of course you have the brand new prime minister of the u.k. boris johnson who has a very difficult task at his 1st international gathering there are key other european leaders here he has to speak to them about what can be done to reopen negotiations or whether there will be no deal breaks it and of course other important countries like the u.s. like japan which are potential trading partners for the u.k. after a break sit so president trump not the only one i think you know in with a sticky wicket at this particular g. so no but it does feel as though despite the fact there are no shortage of challenges for these leaders to tackle the main aim is damage limitation and there

might not be as you say there's not going to be a final communique the aim is not to reach much consensus just as long as there isn't any dramatic disagreement or argument over anything. so. yeah absolutely but the damage limitation and the main aim of the g. 7 yes you have all these world leaders here and talk about world issues but the g. 7 was actually set up to try and keep the world's economy stable and clearly with all the threat of a global recession that is going to be one of the things we're going to be looking at if you look at the stock markets of course the one thing they want to see to try and stabilize things would be unity of all these key world leaders and we already know. that they're not to come up with a communique so lots of discussion and no real decisions lightly here ok thank you james bays our diplomatic editor in berets and as james is mentioning there they were as president is stepping up his country's trade war with china announcing 2 new tech tariff increases each of 5 percent now that's in retaliation to beijing's

decision to impose tariffs on $75000000000.00 worth of american goods donald trump also ordered american companies to leave china to end their operations that castro reports from washington he doesn't actually have the power to do that. the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies just boiled over in the span of 280 characters on friday just after u.s. stock markets closed u.s. president donald trump announced via twitter starting on october 1st the $250000000000.00 of goods and products from china currently being taxed at 25 percent will be taxed at 30 percent additionally the remaining $300000000000.00 of goods and products from china that was being taxed from september 1st at 10 percent will now be taxed at 15 percent this was trump's retaliation after beijing

announced a few hours earlier that china will tax an additional $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods also starting next month that came at the end of an already tumultuous day earlier friday the u.s. president tweeted in order to american businesses move supply chains out of china immediately trump does not in fact have the power to command u.s. businesses to leave china but he does have leverage he can encourage them he cannot give them government contracts for example that if they're buying things from the government or striving to sell things through the government but no he can't he can't stop that the tweet still spooked investors the dow jones closed more. 2 percent down the tech heavy nasdaq index was off by 3 percent both signs of the importance of the chinese market to u.s. companies all of this comes at a particularly vulnerable time in terms of presidency a growing number of economists forecast a u.s.

recession on the horizon driven partly by the white house trade policies trump has responded by blaming everyone but himself i think the word recession is a word that's inappropriate because it's just a word that the. the people are going to become certain people in the media are trying to build up because they'd love to see a recession trump also took unprecedented aim at the chairman of the u.s. federal reserve the central bank lowered interest rates last month but not as much as trump hoped that earned its chairman this comparison from trump who is our bigger enemy jay powell or chairman c. the chinese leader president trump will spend the weekend in france at the g. 7 meeting with fellow leaders of major industrialized nations the white house has asked concerns of a global recession to be front and center and no doubt the u.s. china trade escalation will dominate those discussions castro al-jazeera

washington. well let's just take a look at the background surrounding these latest developments last year total trade between the 2 countries amounted to just over $737000000000.00 despite trump's stated aim to rebalance trade the gap has actually widened with chinese imports from the u.s. dropping more than 30 percent in june investment bank j.p. morgan estimates the new terrorists will end up costing the average u.s. household an extra $1000.00 a year the trade wars also putting pressure on the global economy the international monetary fund cited trade tensions when it cut projections for global growth to the lowest since 2009 of war in this i'm joined by clay. moratti director of the jail why a group of political risk consultancy and when this trade war between the us and china initially erupted a year ago it didn't seem as though the economic consequences would be diet but now there are growing fears of

a recession of an economic downturn that could go way beyond the u.s. and china right i think if there are fears but there are all sorts of opportunities for countries the benefit of this you assert china trade what you call it the e.u. particular has a lot to gain from this because what we see is if they don't trade with each other then trade the flexeril go towards countries like countries in the e.u. and also countries like brazil even mexico brazil is actually poised to be one of the main suppliers of soybeans to china for example because of the straight line but it's very uncertain as to what happens next and how long this will last for so this is where all the uncertainties in this is where market jitters come to play and we've heard from british prime minister bars johnson calling for an end to the trade war he wants going to deescalation all of these tensions and the borders to be open and the set of rules that we've seen and that everything to sort of loosen up a bit more how likely it what's the reception is he likely to get at the summit i mean if he's called sure i think it's strange that he's looking for more open trade and

burned open borders been he's trying to parse brigs that which is the complete and for the sister what he's trying to say at the g. 7 so he's got a lot to lose at the g. 7 because he needs to betray a character that the u.s. the u.k. is open for business but given the facts on the ground that he is pushing for something which is completely against what he is opposing what he's supposed to standing for is a real hard to sell that to the g 7 especially as you have the e.u. and germany and france being there now but at the same time. protectionism is not particularly in bars johnson's interests because currently the u.k. does 40 percent of its trade with the e.u. exist. the country's largest trading partner and will now be looking to forge relationships and trade deals elsewhere so they need the barriers to come up to some extent who may do the same time you need to see the global picture we need to understand because well if you get into the nitty gritty of it reduce the broader.