we're accompanied by anto, an environmental activist.e knows the local workers and manages to get us through. for the past three years, he's been documenting the devastation. >> everything burnt down here in march. there was smoke everywhere. the trees had been felled just before it happened. >> the method is always the same, he explains. once they've been felled, the trees are stacked up, dried and then set alight. anto shows us evidence left behind by the arsonists a few cans of fuel and a makeshift hut. >> they remove all their machinery before they start the fires. i don't know exactly who it was but they did what they set out to do and left their tent. >> slash and burn forestry is an environmental disaster. the peat swamp forests contain huge amounts of stored carbon, so when they burn they release vast quantities of carbon dioxide. their soil isn't even suitable for palm oil plantations, so canals have been laid to drain the ground. a practice that accelerates the greenhouse effect. more than three quarters of tripa's 60,000 hecta

their shops along with their plans for any short term prosperity of the country is being plagued by anto your sentiment stephen clemence from the atlantic magazine believes the whole situation is just a snapshot of the future of nation ship between both countries so. what we have both sides doing is probing weaknesses of the other china feels that it's do more respect and it's using issues like the island issue or using. some stream issues over japan just having consented to place another ballistic missile defense system is essentially to power squaring off and while this looks like china japan and there certainly deep historical grievances this is really about china testing the united states and its alliance with japan and to some degree i expect these kind of skirmishes to continue for a long time be it's games of brinksmanship it will continue to look tense intense and dense and then you'll have moments of relaxation so what we're seeing today is a snapshot of what we're going to see for the next decade or more. on monday the u.s. defense secretary leon panetta sealed an anti missile