make sure you visit brazil. it is a different country from the countries that have been portrayed in many newspapers and television channels. religious persecution is a scourge. we should all tirelessly fight. in the past few years, we have witnessed in different regions of the world cowardly attacks that have victimized followers of faithful gathering in churches, synagogues and mosques. brazil strongly condemns all of these acts and remains ready to collaborate together with other countries to protect those who are oppressed because of their faith. the brazilian people are particularly concerned about increasing persecution, discrimination, and violence against missionaries and religious minorities, as have been seen in different geographies of the world. we, therefore, support establishing the international day in memory of victims of acts of violence as a result of creed, religion and related values. on that date, we will yearly celebrate those who suffer the harmful consequences of religious persecution. it

from brazil. i thank the countries that did not decide to go ahead with this absurd proposal. ankparticular, i th furthert donald trump respect and freedom and sovereignty of nations. currently 14% of the territory is demarcated as indigenous land ourone must understand neighbors are human beings just as anyone of us here. they want and deserve to enjoy the same rights as all of us. andnt to make it plain engagebrazil will not 20% already indicated as indigenous land as some heads of state would like to see. 225razil, there are different indigenous people in addition to about 70 tribes living in isolated locations nationwide. tribendigenous people or have their own culture, own customs. above all, they have their own way of seeing the world. the view of one indigenous leader does not represent the views of all brazilian indigenous peoples. often times, some of these used ashave been maneuvering tools, manipulated by governments, foreign governments in their information war, to advance their intere

. >> with the general assembly i need to work with a president of brazil and of the general assembly. >>translator: first of all i thank god for being alive and those presiding over brazil and for the opportunity to reestablish truth which is of course a good thing. mister president of the general assembly, mister secretary-general of the united nations organization for global terrorist have exposed states of government and delegations ladies and gentlemen. icon here before you today to introduce you to a new brazil with a country that is now reemerging coming from the brink of socialism. a country that is rebuilt on the yearnings and the ideals under my administration to regain world trust with lower unemployment and businesses to reduce those bureaucracies to deregulation and by leading through example we are very opposed to socialist but that led to a situation of corruption and serious economic recession and high crime rates and continued ceaseless attacks against religious values that are part and parcel of our traditions. in 2013 and agreement with the cuban dictatorship brought

brazil here by reaffirms her. compromising unmistakable commitment to the highest standards of human rights to advocate in democracy and freedom to include freedom of expression religious freedom and freedom. the press a commitment that goes hand in hand with our efforts to fight corruption and crime . which our society urgently cold war we will continue to contribute both within and outside of the united nations framework to build a world where there is no impunity there is no hideout or shelter to criminals and corrupt people under my administration. it 10 and here is your chance that he but these 3 fled brazil was later arrested him believe and then extradited to italy. 3 other terrorists from paraguayan the one from chile who used to live in brazil up until recently as political refugees have also be returned to their countries of origin. terrorists operating under the guise of politically persecuted individuals and will no longer find refuge in brazil. not too long ago socialist presidents who preceded me in

the cost a priceless resource under threat the amazon rain forest is a blaze on its links to brazil's drive for the big sort of production look at babson was empty at edwards global ambitions which have left investors seeing some big losses. counting the calls on al-jazeera. again and reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the former zimbabwean president robert mugabe has died in hospital in singapore at the age of 95 his successor emerson has called mugabe a national hero and champion of zimbabwe and africa rights others though have criticized his human rights record and accused him of destroying the economy. police officers in hong kong a fire tear gas and rubber bullets the pro-democracy demonstrators who surrounded a police station. the british parliament house has approved a bill that blocks the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. with. the bill will now become law on monday it is yet another setback for prime minister boris johnson who's struggling to gain support for his bid to call an early election and he would reports from the houses of parliament. he's been struggling to

evidence of brazil's devotion to the peace cause is phoned in the solid history of brazil's contributions to united nations missions for 70 years now brazil has given actual effective contributions to the united nations peacekeeping operations and we support all ongoing efforts to ensure that these missions become more effective and ultimately bring about real concrete benefits to the countries receiving them. under extremely diverse situations in countries such as haiti the lebanon in the democratic republic of congo brazilian troops have been recognized for the high quality of their work and for their respect towards the population respect for human rights and the guiding principles in peacekeeping operations may i again reaffirm our well willingness to uphold our concrete contributions to the united nations missions including in areas such as skills development in professional training of troops in areas in which brazil is widely recognised for her experience . in the course of this year to 19 we have established a broad ranging international agenda with a view to restoring brazil's ro

because brazil is much less well-known than it ought to be, you probably have not heard of brazil's answer to the new yorker but better. it has been going for a dozen was the so, and daniela .tar reporter and writer editor-in-chief of a magazine in brazil. and another institution the best sense of the word, having run of latin america program idea, which is not actually an .dea it is the international -- >> institute for democracy and electoral assistance. >> which has done a lot of work in latin america on electoral assistance, on helping to make sure that elections are properly thein latin america, and on whole, they still tend to be, and that is something we should value. the brains behind the province of cordoba in argentina -- he is also the brains behind the province of cordoba in argentina. we have a great panel. we have two microphones where in due course, you can ask headsets. and we have to her stickers will speak in spanish, two in english. speakers will talk in spanish. ask daniel to start us off by giving us a very concise summary of what we should take away from these electio

praised one of the biggest in brazil. with his thoughts about .onservatives >> thank you very much. it's a lot to come back to. on the face of things, he is quite moderate. he has said he will maintain discipline, for example. many people in mexico are worried about the way he is changing the state and turning of state into an instrument his own power. are we right to worry about that? afters your balance sheet nine months? >> first, thank you for having just a position on fact checking because longer wor decided to sell its investment in mexico and i left when that happened. journalistecovering in that sense. to be on theble sideline of the coverage of the presidency. worrisome foris the fact that we are looking reallylitician that wants to do a solo act. being anown for [indiscernible] prone country. organization, not a political party, an organization called morena. i am speaking in english because that is the way we would divide the panel. is -- ena >> [speaking spanish] mexico, i have jewish friends, myself, everybod

forest is on fire and a priceless resource is under threat but behind the headlines is a push by brazil's president to use the opposition for more farming in agriculture so is it time to offset the damage and stop buying brazilian beef. also this week as he had global ambitions of left investors the losses we look at the deal that wouldn't have got off the ground without some help from goldman sachs and who ever said a trade war is bad for business well we will meet one garlic farmer in california is laughing all the way to the bank. one forest fire however large might be considered a natural disaster something that unfortunately happened but $80000.00 in a year in the one place something else is surely going on of course talking about the amazon rain forest where right now every minute an area the size of a football pitch is being wiped out. the problem it seems stems from the top brazil's diable scenario campaigned on a promise to open up the embers and to farming and logging and mining to strip native amazonian tribes of their land and now he's president he's defunding the bodies respo

the cost of priceless results on the threats of the amazon rainforest is a blaze in its links to brazil's drive for the beach and soy production and look at that plus as he had always global ambitions which of left investors missing some big losses. counting the cost on al jazeera. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories this hour at least 29 people been killed in 2 attacks and became a state of emergency is in place for the west african country more than 500 people have been killed by armed groups there in the last 4 years. britain's queen elizabeth has approved a law blocking a no deal exit from the european union at the end of october and during a visit to ireland prime minister barak johnson made a rare admission that had no deal breakers it would be a failure of focus a. plan in a surprise announcement to the controversial house of commons speaker john boehner code says he will stand down at the next election or on october 31st which. comes 1st speaking empowerment worker said his 10 year tenure has been a great honor and to preach. the taliban says the u.s. has the most to

he won because of the collapse of the center in brazil. after 15 years of rule by the pt, 14 years of rule by the pt, there was a very widespread sense of rejection towards the pt. so my question was in many ways became the kind of scapegoat for all of the failings of brazil corruption do you see the possibility of rebuilding that center? or is brazil condemned to a politics of polarization between the project and a return of the pt? >> yeah. i think this is a clear response from the population about this weird or crazy behavior in statements. it's not something that we can attribute to economy or political decisions. it's something personal. so -- and this is something that i think we need, because yeah, we all here are talking about how we are navigating in turbulent times and how we need to, you know, learn or come up with new ideas and behaviors. but something that i think -- i was thinking about when talking, first of all we need to keep our sanity. because we've been here for a long time. doing that for almost 30 years. and this peop

the cost of a priceless resource under threat the amazon rainforest. is a blaze emmott's links to brazil stronger former would be i'm sort of production look at bats of bus as yet airways global ambitions which are of left him best it's now sing some big looks countering big holes on al-jazeera to they're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now present all traum says he's called off secret meetings involving the taliban and out can government that war to be held and the us on sunday he says it's because of a taliban suicide bombing and kabul parkin dorian as flood to humanitarian crisis and its wake but thousands of people fling their destroyed homes in the bahamas aid is coming end bet it's hard to distribute you because a ruined growed triton ways and pork's and ukraine or russia have carried out a prisoner exchange the it's being hailed as a step towards ending the war in eastern ukraine $35.00 are released by eat side set arabia's king saul man has replace the energy minister with one of his sons prints until lizzie's and salma it puts him and wanted the cane as mos

in brazil we have a very clear situation like a that.ou have the government and then you have a smoke screen that is media that tries to hide what they're doing but people are watching and we want to watch for the people. >> the president has branded most of our national media as faith news, and the american people and the brazilian people neither are fools. and they see what is happening. and why they're leaders would like to direct chair economies indeed their countries, and it's an exciting prospect for both. there are some details that one is national security for brazil and for the united states. and for the role of the two countries in this had hemisphere as we were looking at cuba. we're looking at venezuela, and both the disappointment of their economic and ideological models but also their some of their aggression that is -- they try to extend throughout the hemisphere. >> yeah that's a big concern for us. we want to stand for freedom across the hemisphere. for real not just in words, and we want to get rid of the dictatorship i

and in brazil, brazil has a very developed ethanol production base, which is self sustainable and renewablee a nonfossil fuel, sustainable and renewable. so we can use a nonfossilfuel, electrify sustainable and renewable. so we can use a nonfossil fuel, electrify its usage to improve the performance and the efficiency of the system. the biofuel industry is keen to avoid being sidelined in the rush to electric vehicles. it insists they are not necessarily the future of transport. when i see an electrical vehicle with a battery, i have to ask from where comes the electricity? if the electricity comes from coal, for example, you have a worse problem than vehicles with fossil fuels. drivers want their cars to be environmentally friendly, but here in brazil, there is plenty of debate about the best road to take. and before we go, here area road to take. and before we go, here are a few data points that we are watching for this week. tomorrow, jack ma officially steps down as chairman of china's alibaba as it marks its 55th birthday. mid week, south korea will be announcing its latest unemploymen

at the last world cup brazil had only 3 players on its team who earned their money back home in brazil was brazil eliminated in the quarter finals against belgium because of that. despite this the high number of brazilians going abroad certainly reflects the unique role brazil has in supplying footballers worldwide then again the country has 200000000 inhabitants. if you look however at the correlation between number of inhabitants and number of footballers going abroad the number one footballers exporting nation of the world is. iceland more than 50 iceland has play abroad while the country only has 350000 inhabitants now that is here 0.014 percent of the population of iceland in brazil that share is 0.0006 percent. i said in the lead montenegro 2nd your why 3rd if you look at it this way let's take it back to the number of players and forget about correlations for the moment so who follows brazil on that list as the main exporting nation france is number 2 argentina and number 3 both have close to 900 professional players in action now broad so to top export nations are brazil friend

lou: it's an exciting moment for brazil in the united states.rd to talking to you a great deal more in the future. thank you so much. coming appear next, we will take up breaking news story, the white house letting it be known that the president has decided to delay to postpone two tariff rounds against china. we will take up the story and much, much more as we continue. stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. ♪ ♪ award winning design. ♪ ♪ award winning engine. ♪ ♪ the volvo xc90. our most awarded luxury suv. ♪ ♪ my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocri

leaving brazil at a crossroads.have enjoyed huge benefits in the past two ethanol the preferred choice. also with the help of subsidies, over 90% of the fleet here is flex fuel. if consumers were to suddenly change all of that in favour of electric cars, then this entire industry would be at risk. toyota has just launched what it says is the world ‘s cleanest hybrid car. it can run on electricity, ethanol and gasoline stop we need to look at the opportunities that the world gives us. and match our best technology with the best of the local resources . with the best of the local resources. in brazil, still has a very developed ethanol reduction base which is self sustainable and renewable so we can use non— fossil fuels, electrify its usage to improve the performance and the efficiency of the system. the biofuel industry is keen to avoid being sidelined in the rush to electric vehicles. it consists they are not necessarily the future of transport. when i see an electric vehicle, with batteries, i have to ask from whe

brazil has a very clear situation like that. have a small stream in a media thought tries to hide it. but the people are watching. >> the president has branded most of our national leftist media at the state news. the american people and brazilian people, neither are fools and they see what is happening in part of their leaders would like to redirect their economies and their countries. it's an exciting prospect for both. there are some details in that one is national security for brazil and the u.s. and for the role of the two countries in this hemisphere as we are looking at cuba and venezuela and the disappointment of their economic and ideological roles and also some of their aggression that tries to extend throughout the hemisphere. >> yes, that's a big concern for us. we want freedom throughout the hemisphere. we want to get rid of the patriotism there. they look like across the hemisphere but they are always finding a way of trying to come back so we want both democratic countries across the region to help with them as we

more than ever right now, and the focus is on another major disaster unfolding in brazil. >> brazil'szon rain forest the world's largest is burning at a record rate. 74,000 fires this year up 84% from last year. >> for weeks now the amazon rain forest one of earth's most valuable resources has been ravaged by fires. >> the collection of tens of thousands of blazes engulfing an area two-thirds the size of the continental united states. the fire is burning from the equivalent of detroit to los angeles. brazil deployed 44,000 troops but most fires go unfought here. >> on the front lines of one fire, twice the size of new jersey, only 30 men are fighting the flames with no hoses, sometimes just kicking the fire. >> trevor: just kicking the fire? they're dealing with a forest fire the same way i deal with an ice cube that fell on the floor? aaahhh! go away! go under the fridge! aaahhh! ( laughter ) it sort of makes sense because brazil is the soccer capital of the world, they probably solve everything through kicking. instead of cpr, they kick the person in the chest till he breathes again

and german companies set their sights on the huge agribusiness market in brazil critics say it's not about sustainable production but just about making money. it's time for business on the w m how you know to get us welcome to the program it's early in the week but this could already be a decisive one for the u.s. and its trading partners american and chinese negotiators are set to restart talks this week meanwhile the white house has said a deal with japan is also within reach but 1st some context into the trade imbalances that have irritated the white house here's a look at the biggest trade deficit between the u.s. and the countries that does business with we take a look at the china leads the pack with $379000000000.00 that's a big gap followed by mexico and germany japan comes in 4th with a $58000000000.00 deficit that's mostly down to the amount of japanese cars americans by some sizable differences to bridge there but back to the developments this week or so who is that who is now joining us from wall street with some key analysis was the greece let's see if we have you there

counting the cost a priceless results on the threats the amazon rainforest is a blaze in its links to brazil strive for peace and soya production to look at bats plus as he had always global ambitions which of left investors missing some big losses. counting the calls on al-jazeera. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera iran says it has begun using new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium as it continues to reduce its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal iran's atomic energy agency says european countries don't have much time left to save the deal police in hong kong are restricting access to the airport where 3rd anti-government protest is planned trains are not stopping on the way to the airport to thwart potential protesters getting there is shut down one of the world's busiest airports for 2 days last month and hurricane dorian is now known to have killed at least $43.00 people in the bahamas a total death toll that is expected to rise because hundreds of islanders remain unaccounted for. the new government ministers in sudan are due to be sworn in prime minister abdull

through brazil's rain forest can indigenous villages stop them and protect their lands. and we'll show you a clever new solution full cleaning up oil spills and pollution at sea. this is business asia how to office in berlin welcome to the u.s. china trade war escalated over the weekend with both sides slapping fresh tariffs on the other's exports and there is no deal in sight in case you've lost track here's a quick update this weekend the united states imposed levies on an additional $112000000000.00 of chinese exports while beijing is countering with troves on $75000000000.00 u.s. dollars in goods smart speakers headphones and shoes are among the chinese products to be more made more expensive by the new u.s. tariffs mean while we'll hit u.s. crude oil with a 5 percent tariff it's the 1st time all has been targeted in this dispute and this isn't the end the u.s. plans to raise existing tariffs on $250000000000.00 in chinese exports from currently 25 to 30 percent and in december a further 15 percent on tariffs on chinese cell phones laptops and clothes that will mean

there's no manager in brazil. there's no one -- there's no what's app representative in brazil. the one thing we have now is a person who's directly responsible for messages facebook messenger or what's app. this person is not an employee of what's app. in india you have you have a country manager for whatsapp. so this is further complicates the way you could make someone accountable and one less thing, i agree with you and it's very difficult. how are you going to regulate this. you don't want to make anyone a censer, not facebook and not whatsapp and not the government. who will filter what's true and what's not? so -- thank you. >> hugo? [ speaking foreign language ] >> i lived in washington for several years so it's very nice to come home, and thank you very much for the invitation. it is a pleasure to be here. so i just would like to nuance a couple of things and we talked about ecosystems and we talked about the relative impact of all of this and i'd like to focus on that for a second and what we've been seeing in argentina now that a presidential campaign is under way. ou

it has triggered a barrage of international criticism of brazil.es can be wiped out. and the brazilian government is now saying to the outside world: "pay us to keep the forest." in the meantime, the onslaught on the trees continues. and it can be dangerous asking awkward questions. as i hearfrom thisjournalist and charity worker, gabriel 0shida, as we travel through land that was forest. the landscape we're driving through looks very charming, with small fields, very rattly road, but a few cows, a few trees — but what is actually going on here behind the scenes, what is it really like? even though it looks quiet and peaceful, this area is quite dangerous. this is like a wild west movie. so people are around carrying weapons, and people are doing whatever they want, they can invade new territories, i myself have already been threatened here. actually i have received death threats in this region, made by illegal loggers. what effect has there been from the election of president bolsonaro? after bolsonaro got elected, we can clearly see that these gu

also coming up brazil is a huge market for the chemicals industry and german companies are there to shake the country's agribusiness but critics say it's not about sustainable production but just about money. welcome to do business on when it could johnsonville in good to have you with us investors around the world that keeping their eyes peeled on developments in saudi arabia after last weekend's attack on an oil refinery slashed the country's output inhofe the attack claimed by hooty rebels in yemen cost of the prize of oil to surge 20 percent to the biggest one day rise since the 1991 gulf war the prize house and stropped again but is still higher than usual the incident also sent down on tuesday with traders setting off stocks in airlines and to other fuel dependent industries. well for more analysis now let's bring in came a chief economist at command spahn good morning and joseph gas a lie ahead of oil and gas analysts analysis and to finish the mission in london good morning to you 2 i like to start with you joseph got a lot of those attacks on the oil plants in saudi arabia knocke

so what happens here matters far beyond brazil.en though i don't wear a white coat. so i work in the amazon, in this beautiful forest, and i am from brazil. erica is a researcher based at the university of oxford. she has studied the trees of the amazon for the past ten years and she has always loved them. for me it is really important because the amazon cannot speak up, the trees can't speak up, they cannot say they are worth it, they have a value, they are really important. so i have made this my life, i have made to study them, understand them, understand the forest and speak up about its importance. erica has got to know the forest very well. she guides me through a stretch of it that is constantly under assault from loggers and invaders. so you have become used to seeing a thriving forest, what is it like when you see the opposite, the forest cleared? it is very sad. very, very sad. because emotionally, i know everything i am losing, the connection is not there anymore, the life, but also i know how much biodiversity we are lo

so what happens here matters far beyond brazil.ca eranga, i am a scientist even though i don't wear a white coat. so i work in the amazon, this beautiful forest, and white coat. so i work in the amazon, this beautifulforest, and i am from brazil. that could have our weather. —— could affect. erica is a researcher based at the university of oxford. she has studied the trees of the amazon for the past ten years and she has a lwa ys the past ten years and she has always loved them. for me it is really important because the amazon cannot speak up, the trees can't speak up, they cannot say" they are worth it, they have a value, they are worth it, they have a value, they a re really worth it, they have a value, they are really important. " worth it, they have a value, they are really important." so i have made it as my life, i have made to study them, understand them, understand the forest and speak about its importance. erica has got to know the forest very well. she guides me through a stretch of it thatis guides me through a stretch o

campaign called brazil by brazil and it it says the following the brazil is a modern productive environmentally conscious country sustainable and open to the world and full of opportunities what president also not a says is that the world our planet needs brazil to feed it both grains and to be produced massively here in the amazon region and that the country has the right to continue to cut down parts at least of forests like the one you see behind me the campaign says that brazil will do this in a sustainable way but no really kong crete examples have been given about how that's going to be done the idea clearly is to try to reverse brazil's tarnished image after these sustained weeks months actually of forest fires but that is going to be a very hard sell 3 u.s. congressional committees have threatened to push ahead and try to obtain documents relating to president trump's dealings with ukraine he's accused of pressuring his ukrainian counterpart to investigate the family of political rival joe biden mike hanna has more from washington. the chairman of 3 congressional committees have signed

campaign if you like called brazil by brazil which is meant to sort of give us a kind of version of what they're doing here and is the capital resample of not the but also state which is the graying capital of brazil this is where they have been cutting and cutting down the rain forest for years to make way for soya for corn for sugarcane and of course for grazing lands for brazil's very very large cattle industry so the idea with this campaign now is to try to convince the world that it needs brazilian grain that it needs brazilian beef and that there is some sort of a way that development and the increasing of these grazing lands and these grain fields for the economy can coexist with the need to preserve the planet that is going to be a very very hard sell indeed marty all right lucy a new member in thank you very much indeed. the iranian president hassan rouhani is on his way to the u.n. he's going to reveal what he says the full details of a gulf security proposal. tensions are simmering in the gulf after a series of attacks most recently a drone and missile strike on saudi oil faci

be allison is a commodity and engine of economic growth that's according to brazil's president jaya ball scenario is words have encouraged loggers and prospectors to push further into the region at the expense of indigenous people or and more of them are now organizing to protect their lands and way of life. small groups of the villagers camped out at night on the lookout for signs of trespassing in the last rain forest they call home this is what environmental monitoring looks like in some parts of the amazon. this is one of 7 bases installed across the men pregnant terri indigenous territory in the state of para in northern brazil locals here say a lack of inspection by government agencies is forcing them to conduct their own operations to stop loggers and perspectives from encroaching on their land in the past brazil's president shire both narrow has described rain forest protection as an obstacle to the country's economic development many here fear that such comments are emboldened and businesses to disregard environmental protection. you feel you can this team discovered this bridge

y. >> absolut >> reporter: the driving force behind the decline of the amazon in brazil?th the rise of the country'sbo booming agribusiness sector.un unlike st of brazil's economy, agriculture has actually been growing. it's been growing steadily overh the last few years. fueled mostly by soy, cotton,an and corn crops like these.bu but critics say that growth hast come at expense of theaz amazon.in in fact, an estimated 80% of the deforestation in the brazilian amazon is due to agriculture-- e reult of decades of permissivela land use policies at transformed huge swaths of thise region into cheap farm acreage.> >> the agricultural sector hasal always been a major player br brazilian politics, going back g to even before the proclamation of the republic.>> >> rerter: monica de bolle isa a latin american expert at thep peterson institute ofon internati economics, a non-sh she says since the 196brazil has grown into an agricultural giant, now the world's leadingex exporter of beef, chicken, and soybeans. t>> >> re's a lot of politicalin influence there, there's also ao lotf

they tweeted photographs of rain forest fires attributed to brazil.l of this, of course, is political.ch it's in a coordinated attack on the brazilian president newly elected. is he a populist whose government is frequently compared to that of donald trump and he is about as popular with rich people around the world. ernesto the foreign minister of brazil he says the fires are no different from fires that have been going on in the rain forest for decades. only now being used as an excuse to attack brazil and undermine the new government. he joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on tonight. so, as a factual matter, put these fires in context for us. in the united states, we're being told that this is a new phenomenon and it's a result of the government's unwillingness to acknowledge climate change. >> it's great to be here, first of all. it's not at all true.e, this is normal phenomenon every year in the time of the dry season there are fires. partially natural occurrences and partly farmers clearing land already been cleared before. and in

yufrtu de janeiro in brazil.shaping the future of asia and latin america relations, india, latin america's next big thing? and a report on the impact of transport costs for latin america trade. and he received his phd in economics from the university college in london. and last but certainly not least, ambassador martha barcina, who in january became the first woman to serve as mexico's ambassador to the united states. previously she served as mexico's ambassador to denmark, turkey, georgia, azerbaijan. she has held a number of positions including technical secretary for the eu latin america caribbean summit, as advisor under secretary for africa, asia pacific, europe and the united nations and head of the department of migrant workers and others. she has also combined her government service with teaching about international trade. she's a founding member of an ngo that promotes education for peace and disarmament. and she holds a bachelor's degree in communications, science and philosophy and master's degrees in

what is clear, this is what happened in brazil. the information channels are going to close systems which are much harder to control. the measures on these four topics that are to protect the electoral processes can be transferred to those other media, those different platforms that have specific particular character because they are closed. >> thank you for the question. all of these platforms, facebook, is to is to graham, what's up, are parts of facebook i go and talk about graham. we need to have a person labeled as the whatsapp person. [laughter] we do have a big team in latin america that works on what's at. tries to work on addressing these issues and talks to policymakers, candidates, academics, journalists, about these issues all the time. we are obviously very concerned about it. all of these platforms are designed to work differently. whatsapp, it was intended for you to have a few communications facebook, by definition, you are talking to a bunch of people. whether a whether a friend group or on a page. a different set

also on the show bloggers of prospectors are combing through brazil's rain forests in indigenous villagers stop them and protect their land. and we'll show you a clever solution for cleaning up oil spills and pollution at sea. this is your business report i'm stephen beers in berlin good to have you with us the u.s. china trade war escalated over the weekend with both sides lobbing fresh tariffs on the other's exports and no trade deal in sight the united states is now imposing levies on a dish on an additional $112000000000.00 of chinese exports while beijing is countering with retaliate toward tariffs on $75000000000.00 in u.s. goods. smart speakers headphones and shoes are among the chinese exports likely to be made more expensive through the u.s. tariffs beijing meanwhile will hit u.s. crude oil with a 5 percent here now that's the 1st time the quantity has been targeted in this dispute and of course this isn't the end of the levies the u.s. plans to raise tariffs on $250000000000.00 in chinese exports to 30 percent from the current $25.00 and in december a further 15 percent tariff on

and we're staying in the amazon where brazil's president hire balls and arrow has been defending his environmental record before world leaders at the u.n. general assembly choosing his critics of lying about the wildfires currently raging in the amazon and he rejected outside interference saying the fate of that rain forest is a matter for brazil alone famines and rain forest is burning at its highest rates in almost a decade images like this worry environmentalists say see the rain forest is the world's along with an antidote to climate change and they accuse brazil's president of allowing the forestation to go on checks but at the un jaya both in our i met fire with even more fire telling his audience the amazons a matter for brazil 8. it is a fallacy to say that the amazon is the heritage of humankind. using and resorting to fallacies certain countries instead of helping light in the media and behaved in a disrespectful manner and with a colonialist spirit. the man nicknamed captain chainsaw has promised to open up the amazon for farming and mining but the clearing of trees has en