they are fighting for the dream for united. and they say to european idea. most but i'm going to stand up to you right here than most that can contribute to something important to notice or come up see in. the future as you're a star september 2nd on d w. it's the lungs of our planet the amazon rain forest and right now it is burning forest fires are raging in brazil and the consequences for the fight against climate change could be devastating who is responsible and what can be done i'm sumi so misconduct in berlin this is the day.

in my opinion the fires in the amazon might have been started by n.g.o.s because they lost money. puts their attention to make trouble for brazil where the story goes out to the externally absurd the fires are burning because of a policy of environmental devastation. that i think that our global forest has been buying us time davis and the fisheries service that the amazon rain forest has been giving us you know full well for the way the global climate change will go a lot faster so the fact that we're seeing this complex work girl result isn't just the brazil. it's a problem for the world. also coming up on the day boris johnson's brags the tour moves on this time paris the british prime minister

insists with a little creativity and energy there is a way out of the brags that deadlock both france and germany say there is no time for a new agreement but if london can come up with something clever they might be willing to talk i want to be keep a secret if you go to the bridge people and that of course i want to do and i think we can get a deal and they could do. a warm welcome to all our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and across the world tonight and environmental disaster with global implications the amazon is burning in brazil at a record rate forest fires are raging in the rain forest there have been nearly $73000.00 fires this year already a more than 80 percent increase compared to last year environmental group. they're blaming the rightwing president jar balls the narrow they say he has loosened

environmental regulations and encouraged loggers and farmers to clear the land accelerating deforestation. both n.r.o. has struck back claiming that n.g.o.s might be starting the fires themselves to make him look bad he was pressed once again today and again he cited no evidence. do you want me to blame we indigenous martians know there are strong suspicions it's because the n.g.o.s lost their funding and you will get good ability of a good. strong suspicions based on what is known for all but there's no proof nobody writes all set fire to that if you don't catch someone red handed setting the fire then look for those who ordered it it's a crime. it could be the farmers board the pool here is everyone is a suspect but the biggest suspects are the n.g.o.s. now the raging fires cover in sao paulo which is home to more than $12000000.00 people under

a blanket of smoke so thick it blocked out the sun we see video here of how brazil's biggest city was plunged into darkness in the middle of the day and there were also reports of black rain in sao paolo a twitter user posted a photo here of what she says is a glass of rain water and you can see it looks more like something from a dirty puddle. let's get some analysis on the story now we have mollica vera sammy with us she's a researcher at prelims humboldt university she's an expert on sustainability and conservation and she's currently researching how to prevent the 4 station high molokai thank you for joining us and put this into context for us how significant is the situation that we're seeing on the ground in the amazon right now as you just pointed out you know this is an 80 percent increase from normal levels and i think the forest fires i manifest stations of the governance level. issues in brazil right now that's encouraging organized crime and killing of indigenous

people. in 2818 we saw every week 3 indigenous people that's every week being killed for protecting their and suster land so. so what that means is that. these 5 years have huge implications for biodiversity and the people living in the us i do want to ask you more about the governance but tell us what those implications are 1st of all for biodiversity why is this such an important land as you know the amazon basin is very rich in bad diversity and has important for us. to impacts on the forests climate implications and then and then of course biodiversity implications because of it's a rich hot spot for biodiversity in a wide fight forest fires are rare in the amazon but in the during the dry season people exploit the dry conditions to set 5 years for for

a screening for farm lands and cattle pastures so once you get getting is that the current government governance situations and very warm conditions in brazil is encouraging more people to organize crimes especially for forest clearing so what do you mean by organized crime who do you say is behind this so there is a huge market in brazil for clearing len and legalizing these lend these lend forth for farming and cattle right ranching so they're not talking about farmers and of course some of the fires are caused by farmers themselves but most. of it is what you call gary lewis the people who are looking for len to convert into cattle ranching and famine and this is a business that's happening in brazil and the current government situation is encouraging that kind of business model you keep saying the current government situation are you pointing the finger directly at the president are also narrow

environmentalists say he has leased loosen the regulation environmental regulation can there really be a direct link made between his policies and what we're seeing i think i think there can be a direct link i think is encourage. jing he's dismantling and vironment the laws and he's. in particularly he's undermining indigenous rights. because he knows that indigenous people have been protecting those forests so this double actions is really dangerous for the amazon right now what can countries like germany for example do here to help the situation i think. i think recently we saw the suspension of german aid to for the environment and we clearly see that this has no if it didn't work and didn't work i think what we see is that the only actions that can really work is to work with the trade deal trade

agreement other trade agreement between bridge between the e.u. and the marcos a country clearly says that both parties need to respect the united nations convention framework for climate change clearly everything that's happening in brazil even before the trade agreement. happening the trade agreement was still sign and now that we see the money for the acceleration of the actions on the ground. the dismantling and of and vironment the laws and. especially an indigenous people we see that the trade deal is even more dangerous so what we are asking is for angela merkel to work with e.u. governments to block these these trade deals unless until governments like bows and arrows government able to show commitments to the paris agreement in particularly to run to the rights of indigenous people if you talk about economic pressure here

and just very very briefly do are both in our 0 says his government doesn't have the resources to fight these fires do you believe that no because i think i think we saw in the past that the space agency have done amazing work in fact we have seen that nowhere in the world where they are doing live monitoring of their frustration and immediate enforcement so this has happened in the past i don't know what has changed right now economically for bows and arrows to say that they don't have the resources to do it all right mallika vera saw me from berlin tumbled university thank you so much for sharing your insights with us today thank you so me. coming back to europe now a hearty handshake for boris johnson in paris today and a show friendship with the french president but beneath the warm gestures of the brags that deadlock hasn't budged both men stood their ground today a man on mccall saying that ireland's integrity is still the biggest priority for the european union and boris johnson repeated that the backstop the insurance

policy to avoid a hard border in ireland is not acceptable still they agreed that it is possible to find a solution and it's up to london to come up with one. no one will wait until october 31st to find a good solution if we can't find one we can't balance back of a night so we have to make this a useful month. yet there are realities linked to the r.v. situation and your relationship with island we have to respect what's already been negotiated on this point. niggas you feel support don't want to repeat one crucial thing under no circumstances will the u.k. be putting checks at the front and we don't think it's necessary from the point of view of the if you to do that to protect the integrity of the single market we think there are other ways of doing that we've got i think adequate time to do it let's get on and do it good have you correspondent max hoffman was in paris following today's events he sent us this assessment the fundamentals didn't change

here in paris they're still the same boris johnson the u.k. prime minister wants to get rid of the backstop and everyone else in the european union including in my remarks on the french president want to preserve it to preserve the integrity of the single market but one thing seems to be different boris johnson has started saying that no matter what happens on the 31st of october the u.k. will not enforce border checks border controls on this border between northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland which is part of the european union that potentially puts the pressure on the european union what will they do in case of a no deal brags that if the u.k. does not enforce this border will they do it and risk having more violence like in the past decades if they don't then they cannot preserve the integrity of the single market so this once again has become

a high stakes poker game and the question is who if anyone will blink 1st. all right let's get more analysis on the story now nico czarist is a senior lecturer and european union law the university of east anglia in england thank you for joining us and i want to get your take 1st of all these are 2 days of talks reports johnson in berlin and paris and we saw some friendly and positive tones on both days but at the end of the day nothing really has changed so what did you take away from what we've seen i would agree with what your correspondent said i mean that go war so it is true that. there were some flit from he gestures the atmosphere was about to go friendly especially when it comes to that meeting with some similar american but actually both. both. men. don't have reinstated their positions so they haven't moved from one

fundamentally that is hungry man don't you want to harm mr jones from saying that he doesn't want to you wants to deets the box still but on the other hand he's friends and german counterparts have said that. you cannot just keep the boxes boxed up on the less you bring some kind of funny at least people out there on to something that is actually included in that we should all agreement that it was getting dark in november and yet we saw johnson seeming to indicate that they could find a solution with some creativity and energy he said i like this can do attitude that he heard particular amberleigh and so why are we all of a sudden seeing this movement behind the idea of an alternative solution does he know something that we don't yet. i don't know whether he knows something that i don't know but the point is that for the last 25 years when going to stations have started we are all looking for a solution to the our sport or the brown. van noten counters on that wall that they

don't set a customs union and they are not little. that they don't have that they have a fictionalise border that they u.k. wants to be out of the customs union wants to be out of the single market so there will be some kind of sex when it comes to goods even if they get bored like mr johnson has been walking many times that he pulled out was commissioned by post but persuaded the u.k. needs that when it comes to issues like. that it's a little like. the northern ireland has to be one a union actually pointing to a situation whereby ireland will actually divert from the rest of the us with but the point is there that actually. how would the northern ireland we've seen a unique event somehow regulatory. there is no solution to the border problem boris johnson said multiple times over the past 2 days that the u.k. under no circumstances would put checks or controls on the e.u.

border and you've just been touching upon this so if there is a no deal brags that what does happen at the border. look i mean perhaps in the short term both sides will be like them to boot immediate on the board but in the long term and especially if the u.k. decides to divergence from the e.u. standards so we've the u.k. as it warms makes a free trade agreement with big us and boards goods that do not correspond to pay you stand that they you buy by definition in order to prove they can give us a good market and so on consumers we have to put some things now whether they will be on the board or they will be. done so for ireland or somewhere else it's something to be discussed but it's possible to have a no board of notes 6 even the u.k.

and they you out of not. to a certain extent right that is the legal situation of course nikos i want to ask you a lot was made particularly in the british media of anglo-american suppose that a 30 day timetable that forced johnson then said he welcomed this blistering schedule she commented on that today she walked that back a little i want to play you what she said. was the most it would be better to say can be done by october 31st so it's not about 30 days it just means it can be achieved in a short period of time after all the u.k. says it wants to leave the e.u. on october 31st also. because the reality is whatever happens whether it's 30 days or not it has to happen fast so how quickly do they have to come to an agreement to avoid a no jail break that on october 31st. the 1st one that one has to make is that there has been an argument between. the u.k.

and the other 27 governments this agreement has not been ratified by the by the parliament show. if they want to reinvent the wheel and to read i then let it drop the whole agreement i don't think that is enough buying they just time for some consummate saying this but there is no old sufi same time to actually say the whole argument and there is no up but i to my understanding of actually seeing the box too so i think what the europeans buddies missed medical of the commission mr my own i actually pointing is to saying the political the collaboration finding ways to make sure that the backstop we'd be that legally but it would be very very difficult to get it unless the u.k. sam how oxides that les bleus jumps from fines that doesn't. forcible legal situation it's very difficult to see in the got in political terms stylish and agreement to be achieved all right nicholas qataris a senior lecturer in european union law at the university of east anglia thank you

very much for joining us. and well the british prime minister struck an informal tone in his talks with chancellor merkel and president mccall calling them both by their 1st names and indulging in a few jokes and not even the pomp and extravagance of elysee palace in paris could install a sense of decorum the press laptop but this moment when the lean back and casually put his foot on one of the tables johnson was heard to say sorry but the french president in seem to mind too much it certainly produced the most memorable snapshot of the day. in iran president hassan rouhani has been talking tough about the world's oil supplies he says that if the u.s. keeps up its pressure to stop iran from exporting its oil then international waters will no longer be secure in the past tehran has threatened to close the strategically important strait of hormuz much of the world's oil supply passes

through this waterway last month the run seized a british flag tanker in the strait to get me a so there's a taco went to the island of hormuz in the strait and sent us this report. it's early morning in the sun beating down on the island of relentless there's no natural water source and few other resources for that matter despite that the island has been highly valued for centuries as a strategic location portugal for instance constructed this fortress spec in 1507 to control my routine traffic in the persian gulf today the strait of hormuz is once again witness to conflict as the standoff over british lek tankers seized by iranian authorities continues a fisherman takes us out into the straight past the island of la rock the iranian military uses the island to monitor the area which includes the narrow passage all ships must pass through to reach the largest oil imports in the region. on oil

tankers like this one a quarter of the global oil consumption passes through the strait of hormuz making it a very strategic location for international trade and an important leveraging point for iran a republic has repeatedly threatened to close the strait of hormuz for international ships as long as it's not allowed to export its own oil but so far it hasn't done so but the detainment of the one british tanker is already enough to slow down traffic and trade in this area. currently very few international tankers use iranian waters to navigate the strait many fear being swept up in the conflict between washington and tehran and the iranian military is not alone as it petrols these waters the u.s. has also deployed ships into the persian gulf the u.s. wants to strengthen its presence here to guarantee the passage of international cargo ships which has angered the iranian government as well as the iranian people . i don't think they would welcome any sort of you know military presence

from the region itself that's a part of iran's political culture not to you know. actors in the region iran try to reach out to again to you know many countries in the region kuwait. and they are open of course to the u.a.e. and i think saudi arabia as well to discuss these kind of issues. there's been no movement on the issue so far iran's neighbors seem unwilling to offer support. few people on the island of moves seem interested in politics they're just hoping there will be a swift end to the regional standoff. if the tensions are resolved the entire economy improve and we're part of that. everyone is out of work here in hormuz i don't know what to do with my wife and kids we can't all live on fishing

alone. things would improve for tourism more tourists would pay a visit to this island and that way it could develop. without stability turning homo's into a popular tourist destination remains a distant prospect. anyone who's a fan of the sound of music will remember julie andrews yodeling her heart out in the song the lonely goat heard long before the advent of smartphones cow and goat herds used the outs as a way to call from one mountain to another but what began as a melodic language in switzerland and austria has involved into a sophisticated musical form in itself one that has staying power. ok it could be but be totally meaningless and lally will.

probably be the we don't know when the 1st alpine dairy farmer let rip with the 1st . perhaps the most plausible explanation courting the scattered herd of cows in for milking but with so much artistic creativity be invested into such a monday toss. you can go oh you're on her 2. rather hard to imagine now but there was a time when yodeling was considered revolutionary. you could

even say there was a kind of republican yodel for example in switzerland one of the 1st democratic countries or roll of the wars to free it from the podium at the beginning of the 19th century. these countries were associated with freedom in the eyes of the rest of europe. so the euro songs that came down from the out to europe were transformed into songs of freedom. an interesting theory where the battles are just great p.r. measures for pine folk music well christoph doctors research does suggest that there was a yodel at that time one which gripped the heart of europe and soon produced its 1st superstar. family from silla tal. in addition to the rhinos hundreds of alpine singers and even opera divas took yodeling to the lives. overseas pastas 0 balance yards at the new york metropolitan opera their views were not great but

that didn't stop the other mania gripping the us to consider the whole world's met in the usa in the 19th century this woman a mix of languages was spoken my idea is that yodelling was the lowest common denominator. to get. no no no no no no no no. in the usa yodel mania lost its luster in the 1950 s. . structured decades ago yodeling was liberated from being solely the preserve of german folk music t.v. shows indie folk music bands and everyone's gone vocalists have breathed new life. and why not what could be more beautiful than transforming those cries of distress into a positive heartfelt yeah that echoes around the world you. live

. alright that's it for the day but as always the conversation continues online they'll find us on twitter either after that you can sort out some ugly ass don't forget to use our hash tag the day i'm sumi someone's gotta thank you for watching and for making us a part of your day. sleeping

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so few minutes off the double clues. in the hour starts rising people fight for some money out of luck when there's a flood the water comes up to our waist to close faster every morning but. the lack of water is equally dangerous. no sack you can see people moving south so they can plant crops and find. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could look right any going to night if you want and probably most of. the climate exodus starts september 5th on d w. conversely. carefully.

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retracts and then repeats his accusation that environmental activists are behind the record number of fires consuming pissed countries amazon rain.