politics of president xi your bolsonaro played a role. -- president gyre bolsonaro -- jair bolsonar played role. a scientist says 80,000 fires were started deliberately. bolsonaro didn't like the finding, so he fired the physicist. >> bolsonaro considers our data ally, that is significant because this is scientific data. correspondent: jair bolsonaro won the presidential election in 2018 with h slogans targeting te political left, women, gays and indigenous communities and environmentalists. >> today is the day when people and begin to free themselves from socialism, false values, state dominance and politic correctness. correspondent: i in keeping with his reactionary worldview, bolsonaro recruited seven military men to his government, and no people of color. of the two women he brought on board, one of them, and agro lobbyist, was named minister of agriculture. the bolsonaro government is shifting legal foundations in a bid to curb violence from drug trafficking. he has encouraged people to buy firearms for self-defense. private courses in target practice are booming. >> we have many hum

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former grizzly president desilva and paved the way for the election of the right wing president jair bolsonaro. the move to file a criminal complaint against greenwald has part international -- has sparked international outrage.. we will go to brazil for the latest later in the broadcast. experts at the world health organization our meeting today to decide whether to declare global health emergency as the centers for disease control and prevention has confirmed the first u.s. case of coronavirus-- a new virus that emerged in wuhan, china, last month. the virus has already spread from china to at least four countries, including the united states, and has killed at leastt nine people in china. in more heath news, the fda -- that's the food and drug administration -- has issued a warning about sunscreen, saying seven chemicals can be absorbed into the bloodstream after only a single application. the levels of the chemicals absorbed exceed safetyty standas and have not been fully y teste. the fda is callingng on ththe sunscreen industry to conduct further testing, but it is not telling people to s

brazil's president jair bolsonaro lled the comments unfortunate. the french fason designer jean-paul gauthier says his nexi show in pari be his last. he presentis first individual colleion 40 years ago and has been known for pushing boundaries learn the' line between 's and women's clothing. he says his work will go on. suspected jihadists has come to its conclusion with 19 defendan beingentenced in absentia to at least 25 years in prison. our paris correspondent hugh schofield has been follong the case. >> the important thing to know about this trial is it'a very peculiaros trial becauseof those in the dark were not there, b,ad presumed to be is a trial of the ghosts here in france because of this unusual fact. many of the 19 who went out to the middle east in 2014, 2015 are known toave died because islamic state has passed information back to their atfamilies to say hey have been killed. nonetheless, as far as the french state was concerned, these people had no death certificate, and they would not even be recognized fm the islamitate, so the sta

brazil's indigenous populations united to fight president jair bolsonaro.ry year, parts of their lands in the amazon rain forest are lost due to illegal logging and mining, and now brazil's billdent is pushing a new which would reportedly make mining and farming their legal. white man named bolsonaro, enjoy your time in office, because my fight is for an entire lifetime. shirli: deforestation in the amazon has worsened since president bolsonaro came to power. in 2019, it rose 85% compared to the previous year. this has led to fires anand clashes. meanwhile, activisists defending reservationsns have been k kill. brazil is one of the most dangerous countries for environmental activists. dozens of activists are killed each year. >> i am here to discuss our right to land, health care, to --indians -- rights with her rights which are being threatened. shirli: brazilian law still protects reservations, but according to a newspaper, the new legislation would weaken their position. it could scrap the right to veto dams and oilluding and gas exploration. they could

brazil's president jair bolsonaro said the speech had been "u nfortu nate".aled she is completely bald because of the hair loss condition alopecia. the massachusetts democrat told the root website that she started noticing her hair was falling out last autumn. she eventually went totally bald in december. apple may be forced to abandon its lightning connector cable as eu legislators push for tech companies to operate one universal charging system. apple argues the proposed regulation would stifle innovation and be disruptive to consumers. european regulators will vote on the cable on a yet to be determined date. the colombian government says it's to restart aerial spraying of coca leaves with herbicide in an effort to reduce the record levels of cocaine currently produced in the country. spraying was suspended in 2015, after a study found the chemical used could cause cancer. since then, the area under coca cultivation has tripled, with much of the cocaine produced ending up in the us. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan travelled to colombia to

include the current president of the united states, donald trump, the current president of brazil, jair bolsonarontry's currently experiencing — the current prime minister of australia, scott morrison. but there is something bitterly sad that these three leaders i mentioned have all seen the raging wildfires in their countries over the last year — in california, the amazon, and now on the eastern coast of australia. so the question we all face is how we address the challenge of climate change ? how we keep the paris agreement on track, and how we stop our world reaching the point of no return on global warming — where events such as those we are currently seeing in australia become the new normal? another labour mp raised december‘s climate change conference, cop 25. i was actually really quite shocked that the minister, in her statement, didn't mention climate change once. surely this is the context in which this is all happening. and when my honourable friend did raise the issue very eloquently, she had to start rummaging in herfolder to think of something to say. the fact is, australia is the