supporters a day after being released from jail the criticized current conservative president also naro inside leftist parties could take back the leadership in the 2022 election. at least 3 people have been killed in the massive bushfires raging across australia's eastern state of new south wales a blazes are also tearing through queensland further north thousands of people have been moved to safety of a total fire ban has been declared. a germany has been marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the. than war events took place across the capital with the main celebration at the brandenburg gate german chancellor angela merkel and other european leaders to talk in a special ceremony to remember those who died on the east germany's shoot to kill orders against anyone who tried to flee the way to the west. most germany celebrated that out of verse 3 on saturday a rather heavy letter addressed to u.s. president donald trump arrived in washington it was painted nearly 3 original segments of the warning was sent in and you know part of the message reads for 28 years this war separated ea

of the world's population meet in brazil today for a summit hosted by brazilian president have also naro among subjects like increased security cooperation the future of the amazon rain forest the shadow of washington interference will argue be hang over the meeting after western backed coup attempts across latin america from bolivia to venezuela joining me now via skype from paris for more on this and the significance of the bric summit is brazil's former finance minister reza luis carlos press apparat thanks so much professor for governing on the show before we get to the brics summit is it your understanding there. washington was behind the coup in bolivia in the past few days i don't know formation that was close behind what's very clear is that there was a good at that even when i was also asked. now why not only because he was a nationalist and this is not present to the united states but also because he made a big mistake in the last election. there was a problem when they suspended for some time to counting and that there are clearly some intervention to the barrington to him. ju

trump, bolsa naro — climate deniers are in power.a sort of awareness and realisation in the wider public that we can't rely on the state and administrations to do what they have to do. they should, of course, be part of setting targets and passing laws and showing the way, but every one of us can actually have a massive impact on tackling climate change. and it is very easy to be cynical when you see greta thunburg and when you the school strikes and i must say, i must admit, iam one of thosee cynics sometimes, thinking "they should be in school! we should be doing this, not children." and actually, that is a good thing. extinction rebellion is a bit dodgy sometimes and leaves a lot of garbage in the streets of paris, but we are forced in our daily lives to actually be confronted with those issues. that is a good thing happening. and it is down to individual responsibility. i think politicians used to lead the way, but now, they are following the public. it is not the other way around. and the fact, as you say, the labour manifesto,

indeed, president bolsa naro today thanks minister.president. without lula in jail, his role making him president. without lula injail, bolsanaro would never have been president. what are his next move is going to be? legally speaking, we will appeal. the team is led by cristiano in sao paulo and geoffrey robertson qc, the human rights lawyer, here in london. we will be pursuing every single legal avenue, both in brazil and at the united nations. john watts , and at the united nations. john watts, thank you so much for speaking to us this evening and joining us. huge bushfires are raging in australia, with new south wales in the grip of an "unprecedented emergency". firefighters are struggling to reach people trapped in several locations. officials have classified around 20 blazes as being dangerous. hundreds of fires are spread along a thousand—kilometre stretch of seaboard in eastern australia. smoke from the fires can be seen from satellites orbiting the earth. these images were taken by nasa. strong winds are making the situation w

on the phone the system not only a land conflict but a conflict a narrative brazil the age of balsa naro whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. on lost support of hong kong's pro-democracy movement china threatens a firm response. michelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up rockey protesters set fire to the iranian consulate in the city and shop plain in tehran for propping up the government they want to move. on the unions hold their 2nd general strike and the government to abandon conservative economic plans. in mexico that america's plan.

the city's mayor, luigi brug—naro, said the floods were a challenge for the whole country.aunching a twitter attack on a former ambassador to the ukraine. as she testified at the impeachment hearing, described as how core attempts to fight corruption were undermined before she was fired by the present earlier this year. president trump tweeted that wherever she went things turned bad andi that wherever she went things turned bad and i was read out during the hearing and yovanovitch found it intimidating. those are your headlines on bbc. the weekend is nearly upon us and will remain pretty unsettled with the low—pressure nearby, we are likely to see for the outbreaks of raina time likely to see for the outbreaks of rain a time and it will stay quite chilly with temperatures below the seasonal average. there will be some sunshine around in scotland and northern ireland. but this huge area of low pressure which is been affecting central and western europe and all sorts of problems over spain, heavy snow to the outcome of more flooding, parts of italy with storm surges and in v

gathering is not happening at all at least for the time being although with brazil's new president also naro being very keen as it seems to strengthen his country's ties with the u.s. and allies there had been worries that brazil might lose interest in some of the brakes projects which could in turn undermine the group however i just heard from the russian leader vladimir putin who could be considered one of the founding fathers of the group that brazil's brics commitments are there to stay now apart from the huge investment and trade ambitions in between all the members the brics nations are looking forward to create a common haven system now this is. being done to somehow do business in the country's own currencies and i can tell you that dethroning the dollar is something that the brics leaders have been talking about of for a while although something completely groundbreaking an idea that we heard here and brazilian was the creation of a common crypto currency the journalist heard about it from one of russia's bo senior economic officials which is a real surprise given some of the attitu

that on the song says not only a land conflict but a conflict a narrative brazil the age of balsa naro whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. hello again to top stories on the al-jazeera news hour iraq's army says it's sending commandos to provinces to restore order violence escalates across cities at least 14 people have been killed in iraq after security forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration. iran is calling for decisive action against protesters who attacked its consulate in the iraqi city of demonstrators blamed for propping up a government they've been rallying. in yemen people are gathering at some airport in the hope of seeing the 1st passengers in the saudi erotic coalition says it will release some of the prisoners and allow limited flights in the rebel held capital. top story of the anger in iraq against iran and its fallout so anti-government protests in iraq's predominantly south have exposed resentment iranian influence and the grievances go back iran became a power broker off to the us invasion of iraq in 2003 it backed the political factions militias which have

august 28th maine and july this year and vajra middle of sublime in brazil's president jaya balsa naro who favors developing the rainforest for economic gain there is a senior research associate at the ecosystems lab at the university of oxford and a visiting research associate at lancaster university she joins us by skype from santorum in brazil nice to have you with us just remarkable numbers when you look at the at the level of deforestation i want to get to the causes in just a moment but what is the impact of this we've already seen fires at record levels more broadly what's the impact of this deforestation. this impacts that we're losing the most rich eco system on the arts they are losing their system to have the largest amount of biodiversity and that the store is a large amount of carbon and once we've barn and forest if there is all this current event back to that much here footing has been climate change so this is that. and when it comes to the reasons here are some of course this is all because of the expansionist economic policies of job also narrow others though there ar

the amazon the system not only a land conflict but a conflict a narrative brazil the age of balsa naro whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. and now the largest in sport his role found thank you very much the arabian gulf can't begin then under an hour with hard up against iraq there's extra attention on the tournament this year because 3 of the nation's blockading qatar saudi arabia the u.a.e. and bahrain all competing well the opening ceremonies carry take various right now at the heart kohli fist. where are the richardson joins me now and the fact that the u.a.e. saudi bahrain all these countries taking part in the gulf cup is it the start of relations easing between the blockading nations. it was interesting when those 3 countries decided to might not footballing you'd certainly got a statement from beats one of the organizers saying that it was a reminder that when it comes to the gold cup this region is house warming compare that to the situation out of the last gold cup in late 2017 just a few months after the blockade began that sort of a study by kuwait's one of the countrie