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the devastating fires in the amazon to be a an international crisis at of the g7 summit, we will looook at how the policiesf brazil's far r right president jair bolsonaro are destroying the amazon. >> bolsonaro needs to face stop the b burning, that we will not tolerate deforestatation. we will fight the crimes that deststroyed thee forest. he attacks inspectors and scientists in the indigenous. he criticizes them all, all those who protect the amazon. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the united nations is calling for the protection of the amazon amid fears that thousands of fires raging across brazil are rapidly destroying the world's largest rainforest and paving t the wayay for a c clime cacatastroe.e. on thursday, u.n. secretary-general antonio gutteres tweeted -- "in the midst of the global climate crisis, we cannot afford more damage to a major source of oxygen and biodiversity. the amazon must be protected." the fires have spread a vast plume of smoke across south america and the atlantic oc