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place. to. place. blame. the band. this is d.w. news live from bali as the amazon fires in brazil rage out of control an international dispute but no action brazil's president accuses france's a menu item back home of being taken to saying that the blazes should be treated as an international crisis look at what's behind the wreck or number of fires in the other side also coming up securities rubs off
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a nice southern french city affair it said head off the g. 7 summit of world leaders meeting that say they will focus only on take against inequality but also growing for a common response to the obvious and wildfires. plus a show of hands in home called the demonstrators for a human chain across the territory to press home dad among the more democracy. and taking steps to stall a sign into extinction as africa's drawls population dwindles by almost coffee in 30 years an international convention agrees always to better protect the gentle giant. i'm head of the home free glad you could join me. international concern is mounting over the record number of wildfires in the amazon in brazil french president's
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money why michael has called it quote an international crisis tweeting our house is burning literally the amazon rain forest the lungs which produce 20 percent of all planets all such an ease on fire but brazil's president jefferson otto has slammed the remarks as quote sensationalist saying mccall is trying to make personal political gains in what he calls an internal matter for brazil well it's not it was he says that he's countries that his country lacks the resources to fight the fires and more controversially he has accused environmental groups of starting a fire in a bid to embarrass the government the effect of the blazes is being felt far beyond the areas on fire. the amazon a blaze thousands of hectares disappearing every day this map shows the extent nearly 40000 individual fires burning right now. there are competing explanations
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for why this is happening. brazil's president is defiant he blames foreign backed environmental groups for setting the blazes to discredit him or his bit of villages n.g.o.s have lost money without money from norway and germany there without jobs so what do they do they try to bring me down. what about them. there are strict laws in place but critics say president balsa narrow has failed to enforce them and encourage bloggers and ranchers to claim the amazon basin as their own problem if you will then the problem is that the government abandoned policies abandoned know how and has an attitude of disgust towards environmental scientists and activists that means. the impact is felt most immediately by indigenous people who have made the rainforest their home for centuries. this is
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with each passing day we see the destruction and violence deforestation and logging . that was sent because the forest done is a bit at every moment we feel the climate changing like in the us this was the world needs the forests we need it and our children need it. but both the narrow made developing the amazon into a campaign promise one he's not likely to give up easily. and for more on this i'm joined now by him nora here from the university of oxford in england who leads the organizing team of e.u. brazil trade dot org now that is a global petition of scientists and indigenous groups who are calling for strict you trade with brazil i welcome to you laura now we understand that france and ireland are threatening thing to essentially block the use trade deal with south american nations because of balsa nauru's politics is that the sort of action that's needed. absolutely this is great progress that's exactly what i was hoping
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that they would do and what we've been calling for them to do but we need more leaders to echo this call so we really need to put economic pressure on both in our own because that seems to be the only thing he cares about i know a lot of people are waiting for the miracles response on this and these fires are natural you know there's been driven by greaves colonialism our crime against humanity. i mean talking about that pressure you were going to. try to do it represents hundreds of indigenous peoples and scientists people who you know the rain forest inside out me just remind us why all the amazon basin and its forests so important and what has changed since it was elected. here i mean the amazon is crucial to close to a 1000000 indigenous people so it's crucial to the stability of our global climate and also of course wildlife conservation it's
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a biodiversity hotspot it's one of the last great rainforest in the world. something that often also isn't mentioned provides the rainfall on which brazilian uyghur culture depends so brazil is shooting itself in the fall here by deep are staying and we're reaching a critical time where it quite actually took over into a dry system if deeper isolation continues which would destroy the rainforest purity but also ruin culture in the region that depends on rainfall since paulson has been elected before a station has accelerated violent attacks on indigenous people this isn't unexpected this is what paulson r.-o. has openly said that he wants to develop the amazon. so it's no surprise to us this is why i started this call because this was very predictable unfortunately. now that cool has been taken out for example if we take a look at some of the activities with even seen today in terms of widespread
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protests here in europe against paulson ari's activities in the amazon but beyond that i suppose what can people do to protect the on this isn't you know i mean there's 3 main things that people can do right now so the 1st thing the most important thing i would say is got iraq to join groups like extinction are about me and they're the ones that are fighting for a healthy planet fighting to combat climate change and really pushing the agenda pushing politicians to take stronger action and they're really good fun to very creative people the 2nd will be. so is the number one driver of the 1st nation in latin america both cattle ranching and the soybeans that we import in europe and feed to our chickens pigs and cattle and so giving out me is very direct impacts and the 3rd thing would be to support indigenous people so they're the ones that are the best protectors of the amazon they're the ones that we need to learn from. survival international for example it's
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a great charity that you can donate to right you know iraqi have from the organizing team all over you brazil trade good to have you thank you so much thanks very much for having me. now some of the other stories making news around the world this hour relief for 356 migrants who've been stuck on a rescue ship in the mediterranean for 2 weeks malta has agreed to let them disembark to 6 european union countries said they would take them the ngo ship ocean viking rescue the migrants from boats off the coast of libya. one person has died and at least 2 others have been injured in an explosion near an israeli settlement in the west bank the israeli army described the incident as a terror attack but for the details on not yet known. in argentina a labor union leaders and their supporters marched through the streets of one is
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ida's to protest against austerity measures voted by president maurice your mccree argentina is suffering from an economic crisis that has worsened since machree took office in 2015. the us billionaire industrialist david koch has died at the age of $79.00 was a controversial financier of conservative political causes and candidates he and his brother charles koch transformed an oil producing and refining company and so one of america's wealthiest multinationals. will 80 years ago today the foreign ministers have nazi germany under soviet union put their signatures to a treaty that would change the course of wild history one week later nazi germany invaded poland heralding the beginning of world war 2 or hear more about the treaty significance in a minute but 1st let's look at how to erstwhile enemies came to strike that deal.
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on august 23rd 1939 germany's foreign minister and the soviet union agreed on an unusual contract in moscow they signed a non-aggression pact the 2 sides pledged to refrain from any act of violence any aggressive act and any attack against each other. the world was shocked up until that point hitler's nazi germany and stalin's communist soviet union had been ideological opponents but what no one knew was that the contract contained a secret additional protocol. in it the 2 countries divided up eastern and north eastern europe among themselves the soviet union planed finland estonia latvia the eastern part of poland and later also lithuania nazi germany claimed the western part of poland. just one week after signing the pact when september
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1st $939.00 germany invaded neighboring poland that was the start of the 2nd world war which would eventually claim millions of lives. and joining me now in the studio is veronica priest mike touch a political scientist at european academy in but thank you so much for joining us today veronica i suppose to put it quite simply would wild to have happened without this treaty. well probably but maybe later maybe a little bit more compact and of course not in the us and in this in this big amount of something like this but definitely the hitler stalin pact was necessary actually for hitler to have at least a few years safe. east and also in all good. somehow a supporter and somebody who could deliver him
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a lot of good tomato goods for the war in the western part of europe and then of course when the soviet ally was not a necessary anymore he decided to of course to the east as well i mean it is a pact of huge historical significance but what makes it so interesting to us today because i think this is he just had impacts not only influenced the 2nd world war but it's still influencing actually the european politics onto nowadays it's dominated actually the way of how we think about europe between east and west for the 50 years during the communist times and it's still an order you can see and putin's and kremlin's politics it's still somehow influencing the russian way of thinking about the central and eastern europe romania baltic states and of course poland and it's still again waking up a lot of fears among people because people not only in poland many other many central you so you can countries always have this fear about special between the germans. and the russians and they are always you know afraid of having something
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like that again i mean i think that is one aspect that just is so fascinating about this packed into that and i mean i sort of wonder what both 6 states and poland for example how do they feel about then how their relationship has been defined for example including with russia and massively because they were just only you know a small plane sticks in the big game in the big test game between the told that to tell you time in states and also later on so it is influencing the politics it is influencing the economy let's remember the north stream not only milstein 2 but also the 1st one it has been called by polish politician a 2nd hitler stalin pact so you see how how this way of thinking is really that and politics in the country but also in the social to socially the discourse very strongly in poland where i come from but not only but of course also in the baltic states and to a certain regard also in the other the shagrat states of the yeah i mean we should say you know 11 years ago on august 23rd the european parliament instituted
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a day called the day of remembrance for the victims of stalin ism and nationalism but i feel like we don't talk about it that much in germany why does it receive so little attention because maybe that's how kept interest big way of thinking about of the 1st of september and other big date it is indeed a problem today actually did the foreign ministers of poland the baltic states of romania decided to proclaim a declaration on remembering about this day but also talking about to tell the tyrion this what about the influence of disinformation and the and and and and the danger of to tell a tarion is stronger not only among the 5 states but also in the european level and i think really in germany not only in germany but also in the western europe should really stronger and more intense think about this day and also what influence it has on what actually the cars off the politics and history in the last 8 years and
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it was to have us well veronica priest mike a top program director at the european academy in berlin thank you so much for shedding some light on these issues these questions and this day thank you very much. now sending children to walk is illegal in most countries but in bolivia it is legal to employ a child from the age of 10 as a result more than 850000 young people on a living outside of school we met some of them who say they work to help support their families. and that no matter how adding these 4 children are singing to honor the dead. but not because the deceased is a loved one and they're doing it for money. at the end they chant our father. for god. and kevin this cemetery is their place of employment they're hired to sing for the
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relatives of the dearly departed. they receive 20 bolivian knows each time worth about 2 and a half years that's a lot of money for children who are growing up without a father. with his. 10 year old kevin longs to buy a football but he has to spend his earnings on medical treatments for his mother who's ill. it's strange working in a cemetery that grounding katzenbach around everywhere. these children who come every day after school are known as the graveyard kids every 4th child in bolivia has some kind of job that's about 100000 working children. starting at 10 every night the 15 year old energy buys cigarettes at a kiosk and resells them for any profit he can manage.
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right. but this series will be interesting to see. if i have to work so i can bring money home that's why i try to sell a lot so. this. entity works in a pub district. 5 days a week he makes his way through rundown bars and clubs selling cigarettes for $0.25 each. business is always sluggish at 1st. then more profitable as the night progresses. please believe me when clients are seated it's easier for anybody to make a sale. but he has to keep a watchful eye. on most of the. districts there are lots of criminal gangs and they are the biggest threat for me. to. not far from envy is christiane all of 10 years old he's collecting garbage because he wants
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a better life. dump them listen i want to buy new shoes. and go to school. like other working children here christiane belongs to a bolivian child laborers union 5 years ago it pushed through a demand to allow miners to work legally starting at age 10. youngsters like and marry and christiane say they have more rights now and they're hoping for bigger opportunities. i want my own business a house and the car i'd like to be an important person. responsible and close to. the singing graveyard children say the only way to support their desperately poor families is by working. and. they pay us 10 to 20 bolivia every press sometimes 100 because i'm so young. i'm going to talk
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that's nearly 12 year olds a lot of money for working bolivian children. that was. 30 years ago today an estimated 2000000 a sturdy and lucky and if you're 80 and. formed a human it chain across their 3 countries to protest against soviet rule the demonstration became known as the both take way now pro-democracy demonstrators in hong kong have joined inspiration from that historical moment with a peaceful protest all their own supporters in the chinese rule the territory formed a 30 kilometer long line snaking through the city and it is the latest in almost 3 months of anti-government demonstrations they were triggered by a bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland china that bill has been suspended but protesters are not satisfied and demanding further reforms. and correspondent phil was following the protest for us and sent us this is
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sassaman from hong kong the street behind me with absolutely packed with protesters many of them on the non chanting pro-democracy chants some had eyepatch is over their eyes and a sign of solidarity with one young woman whose i was severely damaged in one of these protests it was a really quite peaceful and uplifting protest that we saw today this is the latest iteration of what we've seen is a constantly evolving process in the past we've seen violent street clashes now protesters seem to be moving on to prove that they are capable of being peaceful and that they can still get growth support here on the streets in fact the promotions for this human chain event urge the people taking part to be peaceful and to cause as little disruption to the peace to the to the streets as possible and that's what we saw here this evening. shot of chelsea reporting for us from
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hong kong you're watching the w. news still to come we'll go to the gulf season's final tournament to walk the fine line between affection and frustration part to all this part is coming up no spoilers for you because this one is a cliffhanger. now giraffes have been given more protection in a bid to halt their dramatic population decline the convention on international trade and endangered species all sightings has agreed to regulate the buying and selling of giraffes and that body parts the number of these gentle creatures from africa has shrunk from over 160002 just under 100000 in just 3 decades. to raf's they're both majestic and lovable perhaps even more so with the one key in fact such idiosyncrasies make it easier for researches to recognize their old
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buddies. to be in a really wild close and to have such a close connection with individual wild animals but you might be looking at them from one side and you already know when they turn around what you'll see on the other side just like knowing a friend. and indeed a friend for life. john daugherty 1st came to national reserve 21 years ago as a carpenter a pretext for getting up close to his favorite animals. now research he knows africa's giraffe population as a whole has shrunk by 40 percent over the last 30 years. during the lifetime of the oldest giraffes here in somebody's national reserve 7 out of 10 of the species has disappeared poaching is one of the main culprits giraffes are often killed to eat when other food sources are running low but the somebody who tried
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who live near the park stopped such poaching long ago thanks partly to education work by john's colleagues tribal elders have noticed the change in stocks to. nice to be many giraffes here now there are far fewer of them. without your rafts there would be fewer tourists and less income for the somebody who sells souvenirs . but tourism comes in different forms it also includes trophy hunting which is legal in southern african countries like south africa namibia and zambia. this american woman for example shot a rare giraffe in south africa she defended her action by saying her hunting fee would help maintain giraffe stocks that's a view shared by many southern african governments john daugherty says that's unacceptable and he's not alone the southern african development community now wants trophy hunters to prove that their hunting went in danger animal stocks.
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personally. he pleased opinion was divided but i'm delighted that side he says come to what i think is a very sensible decision that will help african countries faced with declining interrupt populations to save them for all of us for the future. the hope is that such measures will prevent giraffes from experiencing the fate of so many species that face possible extinction. some golf and he's now in the top championship tape teed off on thursday in atlanta georgia where the winner will receive a fed ex cup which comes along with the sports largest payout $15000000.00 well the season ending tournament has a new format this year the more points collected over the season the better your school few of the top players gathered in atlanta need the payday but goals contrives season finale offers enormous prize money in place of any real prestige
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justin thomas was leading the fed ex cup and therefore start the tournament 10 on the path but could only shoot level par on thursday that meant world number one brooks kept who was able to catch him reigning p.g.a. champion kept going out shares the lead with thomas and zander so fully in the chase for the astronomical pants. rory mcilroy is a shot further back from the top and set to add to a season best 13 top 10 finishes. as for japan's number one heck you might say yama more patience was required to work his way up the leaderboard. this part for birdie at the 7th tested said patience but after what seemed like an eternal wait he was rewarded eventually. and remains firmly in the hunt for the mother of all payday as.
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