>> i don't think amazon's too big. >> amazon has got to pay! >> i think they have monopoly power. >> amazon has become an invasive species. >> so you think amazon should be broken up? >> oh, 100%. >> a journey. >> it's a business miracle. >> and a leader unlike any other. >> this is blue moon. >> i ask people at amazon to wake up every morning afraid. wake up terrified. be afraid of our customers. those are the people we have to pay attention to. >> tonight, a cnn special report. >> i can guarantee you one thing, it will be fun. >> "the age of amazon." >> how has the retail industry changed during this rise of amazon? >> well, you have this sort of great white shark that's always, you know, kind of looming offshore. >> great white shark? >> well, this thing does and can eat everything. >> despite holding only a small fraction of global retail sales, today amazon takes claim for nearly 50 krencents of every do spent in e-commerce in the united states, an astounding market dominance. you've called what jeff bezos has built a miracle. >> absolute

amazon amazon is also manufacturing more and more products and selling them under the amazon name and amazon will then take over the market stalls themselves will no longer be any diversity as an industry to some kind of nightmare market with jeff bezos behind every stand. it's a planned economy with someone in the middle who knows everything and can do everything on this cup. it's not gone unnoticed. here for example more him. more money is being spent in online trading and amazon share is growing and so is crossing the skepticism my name is them a great estate and i'm the commissioner for competition in the european commission . it's not the fact that they grow because in europe you're more than welcome to be successful the question is of course what means are they using is this competition by they book the book or are they cutting corners we made it for study of e-commerce and europe bits and pieces you know had 2 hours electronics all kinds of things that we buy online and in that we found a number of things but one of the things we also found was a concern about amazon and that h

amazon is a highly powerful. feature it's naive to say my data belongs to me that sounds good but most people aren't clear about the meaning of that. supposed to mean. andreas was a chief scientist at amazon for only 60 months and that was a decade and a half ago today he travels the world as a doctor expert and a walking doctor machine anyone can find out when where and what he's doing at any time. and greetings from lispund world financial center here in new york one of the situations of not just a few of the small al. qaeda. fundraisers is in great demand as a speaker he advises companies around the world on data masses. pacis reputation as amazon's former chief scientist always follows him and gets him a long way even as far as the german chancellor. i'm convinced our government can only keep up with developments if we continue to seek external advice and that's exactly what we're doing by asking experts from the various fields to health and advise us in the digital council. to fight against andreas is one of

she sells on amazon. sales soar which is great for her and great for amazon because the more people to become amazon prime customers to buy this great product. instead of seeing the fruits of their success the next thing is this hard-working -- amazon is rolled out a direct image of her product. anderson gives itself top promoting and demotes her to page three. how would anyone in light of that sequence of events come how would any entrepreneur invests in this kind of environment where that can happen with is no assurance it will not? >> rfs is to the seller succeed because we rely on the if we did that we know they would go elsewhere. the many options. we apply the same criteria and do not use their individual data when we're making decision to launch private brand. >> i will now turn to the google search for a moment. similar results, everyday people think they're getting the best most accurate results for searches for the products and services they're looking for but instead what is happening is divorc

offered by amazon offered by amazon in all the markets. and this is why of course we take an interest in. the digital council is meeting for the 1st time today and on train is getting ready to meet the chancellor. yeah let's see what the day brings. angela merkel has called on just 10 experts to ensure that germany does not miss the digital connection as another familiar face there too. and if you let it be out before the meeting with mrs merkel victim what should be said here. and by yes how are you today didn't i get it i'm great. the meeting in the digital council is strictly confidential of course. but also on his agenda today posting a selfie with the chancellor and his book and even shooting a video with the late chancellor konrad adenauer. i know i'm addressed by you and then this is the end of the meeting off the 1st day off it did get tired out digitizer board of germany because i'm going to work at a cabinet morning with some interesting ideas. the value of being in us and now we have you riffing and figure out what shall we do t

>> amazon is a big company, but it is a cong fora amazon and the retailer, the marketplace business, amazon web services, logistic businesses, devices businesses. today it is a conglomerate business. i think like any business, size brings complexity and size brings the need for oversight and so i do think that scrutiny on all of these large companies is needed. >> should we think of amazon as an operating system? >> well, i think certain parts of it, that's a really interesting question, certain parts of it i think doveome of the essences of an operating system. i think some of their supply chain capabilities where they're providing tools to other sellers, to help manage their psystem.hain start becoming like echo the alexa certainly is -- has the potential of being a voice operating system. so i think there are some parts of amazon that has some of ths oversight or what not is when it is the full stack. it is the i say something to echo, it goes, delivered, a third party is part of amazon's, you know, infrastructure, its environment really, they're in control of all of that. >> in c

community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. play in our planet it's not only like like you said the species it is if it homes but also it's our economic it's controls our temperature and it slows climate change it also is home to most of the . freshwater we can drink but it's just shells what present with the brazilian government says that if you did have. towards these criticism coming from a from international bodies is that the amazon is brazil's and not the world's presence. in the control of the amazon rain is the cover and position you mention i need a community just how low you are in that community go ahead because not just get a lot of the bill for business you open for predatory b.c.b.s. your muslim funds short of a very nice example of that is it possible to develop adama's when you know us you still go away does not last too much money and it can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give away or for the people who lives the numbers were not sustaina

community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. play in our planet it's not only like like you said a species it is if it homes but also it's our economic it's controls our temperature and it slows climate change it also is home to most of the. freshwater we can drink but it's just shells what present with the brazilian government says that that if you did have. towards this criticism coming from a from international bodies is that the amazon is brazil's and not the world's research. and the control of the amazon rain is the cover and position you mention i need a community of just how low you are in that community go ahead figures not just gesture not open for business open for predatory b.c.'s you're not a muslim no funds short of a very nice example of that is it possible to develop adama's when you know us you still your way does not ask too much well it only can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give you a window for the people who lives in numbers on a sus

in the next episode of techno the team travels to the part of the amazon. where we are now should be forced to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic finding gold for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging the worst in very high fidelity. techno on all just 0. 0 at the top stories right now tens of thousands of brazilian troops have begun heading into the amazon to join the fight against fires burning through the rain forest president claims things are returning to normal u.s. president says it's possible we'll invite russia to rejoin the chief 7 summit when he hosts the event next year and made the comments to us as he went into a bilateral meeting with britain's prime minister boris johnson at this year's g. 7 summit underway and the french are it's an israeli drone has exploded over the lebanese capital beirut has fallen says one of them caused damage when it crashed into a building housing the group's media office another one a

iran's nuclear program and we'll examine what has been achieved also coming up trying to contain the amazon forest fires that are causing global alarm to 7 leaders hatching plans to help of brazil's president tells us they are treating the country like a colony we'll cross live to brazil. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program french president emanuel mccrone and u.s. president donald trump have held a joint press conference to conclude the g. 7 summit in france world leaders had been holding 3 days of talks in the town of beer it's now president trump said that he is open to meeting soon with iran's president under the right conditions to try and resolve tension over the 2015 iran nuclear deal president mccraw also adding that the u.s. and france have made progress on a dispute over french plans to tax tech giants opposes the tax and have threatened to tell it to retaliate tory tariffs appear part of what president mccracken said about his talks with trump on. issues relating to iran but. there are 2 very clear things that matter to us iran should never have and you could a weapon and neve

community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. play in our planet it's not only like like you said a species it is if it homes but also it's our economic it's controls our temperature and it slows climate change it also is home to most of the. freshwater we can drink but it's just shells what present with the brazilian government says that if you did have. towards these criticism coming from a from international bodies is that the amazon is brazil's and not the world's reserves. and the control of the amazon rain is my cover and position you mention i need a community just how low you are in that community go ahead because not just get a lot of the bill for business you open for predatory b.c.b.s. you know they are muslim funds short of a very nice example of that is it but should walk to develop adama's when you know us you still go away there's not too much money and it can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give you a window for the people who lives the numbe

the amazon rainforest is huge. not only in sheer geographical size but also in its importance sustaining life on earth. it covers about 2.1 million square miles — that's about half the size of europe. it is home to three million species of plants and animals and has billions of trees which absorb c02 and slow global warming. but it's under severe threat — on average, an area the size of a football pitch is cleared every minute. brazil's president bolsonaro is blamed for actively encouraging the rainforest‘s destruction — why? president bolsonaro won last year's election partly by promising radical change in the amazon. 0pening it up forfarming, diluting environmental laws and reducing fines for those who break them. it was a green light and notjust for the poor — established farmers say it is right to clear the forest. but president bolsonaro's approach has been condemned by emmanuel macron of france. he is preparing to welcome leaders of other wealthy countries in the g7 to biarritz. he says the fires mu

to tax tax giants will examine what was achieved at the summit this week also coming up battling the amazon forest fires that are causing global alarm she 7 leaders hatch a plan to help but brazil's president says they are treating his country like a colony we go live to brazil. welcome to the program french president emanuel makana and u.s. president donald trump have held a joint press conference to conclude the g. 7 summit in france world leaders had convened for 3 days of talks in the town of beer now president trump said that he's open to meeting soon with iran's president under the right conditions to try and resolve tensions over the 2015 a wrong nuclear deal president micron also said that the u.s. and france made progress on a dispute over french plans to tax tech giants trump opposes the tax and have threatened to a tally of tory tariffs. let's hear now part of what president mccracken said about his talks with trump on issues relating to iran the grail can. there are 2 very clear things that matter to us iran should never have a nuclear weapon and never threaten the situation in

in the next episode of techno the team travels to the part of the amazon. where we are now should be a rain forest to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic finding the gold for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging a forest in a very high fidelity stream. techno on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching our dessert time to recap our headlines sideline meetings are taking place at the g. 7 summit in france host emmanuel micrometer with u.s. president donald trump and germany's angela merkel while calibers justin trudeau met the u.k. prime minister boris johnson the agenda includes the amazon fires and the in brown nuclear deal the trade war between the u.s. and china is dominating talks that's after president trump announced further tariff increases on chinese imports he also told american companies to pull out of china. turkey's defense minister says a joint control center with the united states is operational in northern syria

the amazon rain forest is on fire on an unprecedented scale and it's everybody's business to see this fire markets group about $200.00 yards in the 1st 5 minutes alone for the thousands of miles of scorched forests hundreds of burnt trees and they broke all records this year they were twice as many as they were in 2080 the war to save the amazon rain forest this is one of the last battlefields and celebrities are speaking up saying that the lungs of the earth are at stake belongs of the earth and inflames the am is the needs more than prove yours so what can you do the amazon rain forest produces more than 20 percent of the world's oxygen and it's been burning for the past 3 weeks it's our responsibility to help to save our planet so who's to blame some say that it is those who eat meat others say that it is all of humanity or is it present balsa naro after all he's not known as captain chainsaw for nothing is drive to promote deforestation and roll back environmental laws has angered environmentalist's and he's opened the door for american businesses to swoop in a member of both of o

talking about amazon now. a new program out to retrain workers, train workers from childhood to career. amazon dedicating over $700 million to provide people across its corporate offices, tech hubs, and fulfillment centers with training programs that will allow them to move into more highly skilled jobs within or outside amazon. one of them is about -- is called amazon future engineer, a program to educate and train kids and young adults from underserved and low income communities. earlier, we spoke to the amazon vice president of workforce development about the program. >> amazon future engineer is a conference of program and really an opportunity to meet kids where they are and help them build the skills they need in order to continue in computer science at hopefully to engage in a career that integrates technology into whatever they choose to pursue. emily: you are offering a scholarship and the winners get an internship at amazon. how many of those people the think will become full-time employees, or what

says look if these figures were all true the amazon would have been devastated 3 times over during the past 20 years we have to combat zone but if you put us psychologically on the figures came from inside from one of our organizations that is the big where you we have i even think that studying it more closely we should see that maybe people released this information in bad faith to damage the current government and harm brazil's image political him philippe what did you make of that firing. well that's pure censorship but he's not only censoring science he's also sending a message to the ones who are on the ground in amazon you are allowed to the forest you are allowed to invade unusual conditions out you are not allowed to kill you setters and violent explosion that's a message of good bosso not to be sending to the kids support this. never mind the law now isn't it time for. piracy it's the reality that you can see in the amazon today it's not for the station fire there is the movement i think women indigenous women today in brazilian marching for defending their territories it's a

in the next episode of techno the team travels to the part of the amazon. where we are now should be reinforced to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic finding the gold for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging the worst in very high fidelity street. techno own knowledge is here with. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now they were on nuclear deal is under scrutiny at this year's g. 7 summit with france's president saying they were great on joint action to salvage the 2015 agreement but yes president donald trump says he was not part of those discussions a peaceful march and hong kong has once again turned sour police have fired tear gas at demonstrators who in turn threw petrol bombs and tens of thousands of brazilian troops have begun heading into the amazon to join the fight against fires burning through the rain forest that their president claims things are returning to normal. or endure a few days in ban

asa saying how much he loved the amazon. as a military man and former army captain, he spent time there and he would defend the forest. that is a change of tone because, as we heard during the campaign he was talking about developing, opening up the indigenous reserves for logging and mining and there has been a change of tone there in his speech about the environment. how worried has he been about the statements we have heard from the eu, for example, saying it may not sign this huge trade deal and the g7 wants to talk about the fires. i think everyone was taken by surprise in brazil including people who have been trying to protect the arm is on especially the president on thursday and again on friday. the french president was very strong in his state m e nts president was very strong in his statements and the threat of sanctions against brazil, of banning, for example, beef imports, much of which is produced in the amazon on, that created a lot of problems for president bolsonaro in his constituency, the people who produce

reporter: fire in the amazon rainforest. this is happening in the world'n largesmost important ecosystem that is home to 3 million species of plants and animals and one million indigenouseople. it generates more than 20% ofen all the oxn our atmosphere. this is what it is like at ground-level. brazil has had more than 73,000 fire outbreaks this year, and more than half has been in the amazon. sao paulo, brazil's largest city, is over 1600 miles from fires. this week in the middle of the day it was plunged into darkness due to smoke from the fires. in recent months, the country's president has ripped up environmental protections for the amazon. who does he blame for the fires? pres. bolsonaro: guarding the amazonires, i'm under the impression they could have been started by the ngos. what was their intention? to bring about problems in brazil. reporter: protesters have blamed bolsonaro's government for encouraging greater exploitation of the amazoand weakening its environmental safeguards. this is how they greeted brazil's en

is how amazon handles all these 3rd party sellers that they massive network that has exploded on the scene over the years and really become too big for the company to moderate what's being sold so according to the newspaper's report amazon uses a combination of people and machines to flag products but they just can't keep up sometimes the only way to know who is selling a product is to look for the text that it's sold by amazon dot com but even then it appears customers daniels are on their own when it comes to deter. if that product is actually say so really interesting report from the wall street journal yeah it's a shocking knowing that is the biggest e-commerce retailer and then you sort of assume well if there's a don't want your retailer surely the road to the appropriate authorities at the federal trade commission would be making sure that the products listed there are legal and safe but you said that not only are there also listing products that have been banned by amazon onto their own private label galleries as amazon choice yes yes you know that's exactly right you've got

now hundreds of new fires are raging in brazil's amazon. in far as 10 president says military aircraft and 44000 troops will be made available to find the planes meanwhile france and ireland have threatened to target brazil's economy if the government doesn't do more to protect the amazon has more from cutting pruner that's an indigenous territory and state of rondo and here i am a 4 hour river trip to the sea but an hour river which is in the far north west of brazil in the amazon there's smoke in the air there's ashes in the air this is a community that 1st made contact with the outside world made 1st made contact with in 1978 so a very rustic way of life but there are people from this community who have traveled to europe or to united nations in geneva they've spoken to the european union they've spoken to merkel sore in south america about their conditions here they say that there's a regular incursions into their territory that developers set fires which cannot be controlled quite often and so they are calling for the international com

camilla veras mota, bbc news, in the amazon. thousands of people have joined protests outside brazilian embassies across europe — demanding that president bolsonaro takes immediate action to deal with the fires. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james robbins, considers the impact the brazilian leader's policies have had on the amazon. the amazon rainforest is huge, not only in sheer geographic size but also in its importance for sustaining life on earth. it covers around 2.1 million square miles, about half the size of europe. it is home to 3 million species of plants and animals and has billions of trees that absorb c02 and slow global warming. but it is under severe threat. on average, an area the size of a football pitch is cleared every minute. president bolsonaro is blamed for actively encouraging the destruction of the rainforest. why? president bolsonaro won last year's election partly by promising radical change in the amazon. 0pening it up forfarming, diluting environmental laws and reducing fines for those who break the

even our business leaders are ata amazon. even our business leaders are at a meeting that the environmental policy from bolsonaro can bring environmental damages, we regret that we have come to this situation, as who is going to suffer the most is the brazilian population. like we are facing an economic crisis, very big, here in brazil. we have huge hate of deployment happening. so we are really sorry. nevertheless, in a statement that says there is international pressure that can be a colonialist imprint all this is the one that it is blaming that it is causing damage to brazil's image, those who are denouncing the environmental problems caused by his administration. just briefly, those fires are still burning in the amazon. what needs to happen immediately to put those fires out? immediately he needs to present a plan and put it in action. he didn't do it so far. it is just saying that he loves the amazon. this is not enough. luiza lima there, from greenpeace, in brazil. a british consulate worker in hong kong who was detai

brazil but other parts of the amazon. but every action he's taking very much is on behalf of those interests. >> for folks watching at home, they know the amazon rainforest but they might say it's far enough away. does this have consequences for the global climate, the health of the planet? >> the existential threat that the amazon is facing as global forces. it generates 20% of the world's oxygen and 20% of the fresh

news live from berlin as the amazon fires in brazil raging out of control and international dispute but no action brazil's president has accused francis a manual or call of being a colonial for say the blazes should be treated as an international crisis look at what's behind the record number of fires raging in the amazon also coming up. tight security in the southern french city of direct says that city prepares to host the g. 7 summit this year global leaders will focus on the fight against economic inequality also tell you about some of the changes at this annual meeting. and they have hit the ground running in sudan the nation's female footballers waste no time in a new political climate and start their own league with 18 clubs. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show international concern is mounting over the record number of wildfires raging right now in the amazon french president manuel mccall has called it an interim national crisis tweeting our house is burning literally the amazon rain forest belongs which he wrote produced 20 percent of our planet's oxygen is on fir

he is encouraging further mining in the amazon, further farming in the amazon, he has sacked the head of the space research energy who produced pictures showing that the fires were particularly bad. he gives the impression of someone bad. he gives the impression of someone who is not overly concerned with deforestation. well, don't rely on impressions. what i am seeing is he has already sent more than 16,000 soldiers, brazilian soldiers to fight the fires. so i think that he is concerned about the health of the amazonian. but at the same time, he is protecting brazilian sovereignty. but how do you protect brazilian sovereignty at the same time as dealing with the problem that clearly affects the whole world? would you like to see a different approach in south america that takes approach in south america that takes a regional approach to this problem, rather than a national approach? well, we are taking a regional approach. right now, many countries in latin america are helping brazil and other countries to fight these fires. for instance, chile has sent many world planes to help comba

the amazon isa about the amazon fires. the amazon is a huge area. 7 million square kilometres. every year they have fires. this year, it is worse than last year, but it is within the average of the last 20 or 30 years. i don't think that president bolsonaro is responsible for this. i think he is trying his best to combat the fires. why do you say that? he is encouraging further mining in the amazon, further farming in the amazon, he sacked the head of the space research agency that produced pictures showing that the fires are particularly bad. he gives the impression of somebody thatis gives the impression of somebody that is not overly concerned about deforestation. do not rely on impressions. what i am saying is that he has sent more than 115,000 brazilian soldiers to fight the fires. i think he is concerned about the health of the amazon, but at the same time he is protecting brazilian sovereignty. how do you protect brazilian sovereignty at the same time as dealing with a problem that affects the whole world? would you like to see a different approach in south america that

sophie long, bbc news, in the amazon. laura: joining me is eric farnsworth, vice president of the council of the americas. when president bolsonaro says he will not accept any aid until he gets anpology from president macron, is that playing well for him domestically? eric: he has his support, and the amazon is a sensitive topic in brazil, both for the far right and the far left. the world for years that -- for years there have been conspiracy theors that he will is coming to take over the amazon. by saying thawe are standing , there are people in brazil who support that, but there are e wrongo think that is path brazil is a very polarized society at the moment. rsura: is there a disconnect between the g7 leaho see bolsonaro's policies as playing hea part in forest fires, and brazil? eric: absolutely. "disconnect" is the right word. what mr. bolsonaro said on the campaign trail last or is that was going to open up th amazon for greater development. brazil's economy is sluggish and he is looking for way.to goose that and h

reporter: wildfires are burning beyond brazil's amazon. in neighboring bolivia, forests and entire villages in the region have also been destroyed. as the fires grow, the country is now welcoming internationally -- international aid. the president was reluctant at first saying that country had the resources to handle the emergency, but he has since changed his mind. >> i welcome the support of the president's of paraguay -- presidents of paraguay, chile, and spain. the development and government america says it will donate about half $1 million. in this region, families and mothers carrying their children evacuate their village hoping the flames will spare their homes. aipac few backs -- they pack the you bags bags, knowingew everything may burned to the ground. the wildfires have led to protest. critics say bolivia's government was slow to respond and have contributed to the problem. illegal deforestation is on the set and fires are commonly by farmers to clear land for cattle and crops. >> what has been done has been done too late. so mu

at amazon headquarters in seattle. 11:00 a.m. here on wall street "squawk alley" is live ♪ ♪ >>> good friday morning. welcome to "squawk alley." i'm jon fortt with leslie picker and wilfred frost here at post 9 of the new york stock exchange carl and morgan have the morning off. and we're going to begin with tech bracing for tariffs now just days away from going into effect on september 1st trade tensions between the u.s. and china not slowing down, as "the wall street journal" reports that u.s. prosecutors investigate new allegations of technology theft against huawei. acme capital's heene nada and kevin dilanian, of course, both join us here at post 9 happy pre-labor day weekend. >> good morning. >> heenne, you were a pro-tough stance gen china when it comes to ips and other things. when it comes to these tariffs, september 1st, december 15th, are you pro this approach? does it depend if it gets near-term results? >> i think the tariffs are going to do some harm in the near-term. i think you'll see pricing increases in the

from previous dry seasons so yes in the amazon but in the dry season people used to. pastures and farmlands right now in brazil with the current government situation and unprecedented it is promoting organized crime for forests carrying using fire yes and and also killing of indigenous people who are trying to protect that and the land ok so you're saying there's a there's an element of criminality involved criminality an organized organized crime for that you know terry the amazon produces 20 percent more oxygen are these farmers threatening our oxygen supply for sure for sure but a muslin is really important for 3 reasons one it's a hot spot of biodiversity. it's the last vestiges where indigenous people in the in the natural ecosystem and as you've just mentioned it plays a really important climate function now scientific models show that if you get 25 percent of the amazon you have the oxygen you have an effect on the oxygen level which affects the climate and which reduces for example agricultural productivity up to 2550 percent in the region. to 40 percent bread

the amazon rain forest has disappeared and. we know that we need to have good relations with the world of the whites out there but indeed we have to make contact with them especially with our neighbors the farmers. and my father and i have already visited several farms to talk with their owners. ask them to work with us and not allow robbers onto our land and no fishermen. don't leave them in the indigenous people are always told don't quarrel with the farmers but treat them like allies but it works the other way too. they should help us to protect our trespassers out of our reserve. relations with the world. all of the whites should be peaceful and based on mutual respect. this year the river has dried out. water levels have gone down tremendously. it's worrisome to see so many sandbanks where there used to be water but i have never seen so little water in the river. because of the day. before the dam was there there was always enough water. but after the dam was built the water level dropped and there were no more fish in the

this is not something which has just amazon. this is not something which hasjust come amazon. this is not something which has just come up. this amazon. this is not something which hasjust come up. this is part of an integral part of the president's policy, environmental policy, farming policy, he does regard the arms are not something to be protected but something to be economically exploited. so i am very sceptical, unfortunately, at stewa rt‘s sceptical, unfortunately, at stewart's the extent the international community to moderate the stance of the brazilian president. the stance of the brazilian president. (tx astons) queen elizabeth's second son, prince andrew, has released a statement about his friendship with the disgraced financierjeffrey epstein. it's the first time he has spoken directly about his links since epstein took his own life in a new york prison cell earlier this month. prince andrew said "at no stage" did he "see or suspect" any criminal behaviour. epstein had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he killed himself. here's our royal corres

and this was filmed there showing how far the amazon wildfires have reached in the video it has been viewed more than 15000000 times and people online have mostly criticized the lack of international media coverage asking why now when the wildfires have been burning for almost 3 weeks so far some including the world wide fund charity to comparisons on twitter to the global attention that's been given to the not saddam inferno in france of course that happened earlier this year on asking why there isn't the same level of outrage for what's happening in the amazon and the criticism hasn't stopped there because twitter users have mostly accused brazilian president diables nar of dismissing the severity of. the situation including allowing looking deforestation is forcing out some of the millions of indigenous people living in the amazon and i j plus team here al jazeera has put together this video on why brazil's indigenous women are taking a strong stand has that been a matter. i thought it actually looks a little bit.

sophie long, bbc news, altamira in the amazon. anna prusa, an associate of the brazil institute, at the wilson center said that the satellite data is correct, contrary to what president bolsonaro has stated. our perception is that the satellite data is valid. brazil has been using this data for years and the brazilian government itself and international communities as well have relied on it. so i think the satellite data is not the question. the question really is what is brazil going to do. for arguing over maybe five or 10% discrepancies, there is still a real problem with deforestation and with the fires that are currently ongoing in the amazon region. who do you say is at fault for this? we've talked about loggers, big business interests, and we tend to talk about farmers as a whole. but there is a real difference, though, between small farmers and big farmers? yes, there certainly is a difference and i think it is important to stress that brazil is undergoing a period, a prolonged period, of economic trouble. so you do have a

fire in the amazon's rainforest. this is happening in the world's largest and most important ecosystem, that's home to three million species of plants and animals and one million indigenous people. it generates more than 20% of all the oxygen in our atmosphere. this is what it's like at ground level. brazil's had more than 73,000 fire outbreaks this year and more than half have been in the amazon. sao paulo, brazil's largest city, is over 1,600 miles from fires. but this week, in the middle of the day, it was plunged into darkness due to smoke from the fires. in recent months, the country's president has ripped up environmental protections for the amazon. who does he blame for the fires? translation: guarding the amazon fires, i'm under the impression they could have been started by the ngos because they'd asked for funding. what was their intention? to bring about problems for brazil. chanting. protesters have blamed bolsonaro's government for encouraging greater exploitation of the amazon, and weakening its environ

most of the amazon is in brazil. but i also think what's interesting has been the difference in response. we saw the president of bolivia quickly responding to the emergency there, accepting international aid to help put out the fires. his tweet has been on fire as he sends out pictures of planes dumping water, aid supplies coming in. he's admitted it could be the farmers and ranchers showed sympathy for him. but at the same time, he has really tackled this head on, george. >> shasta darlington following this story. thank you, shasta. for more on what's happening there with the amazon, let's bring in our meteorologist derek van dam following the satellite imagery and details. derek. >> i am fearful it will get worse before it gets better. these are the months of the year where we receive the least amount of rain across the amazon basin. that includes the majority of brazil. we're talking lake august into september when the peak of the fire season reaches its maximum. unfortunately there's no significant amounts of pr

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the amazon looks like a burning inferno. we do recognize, i think, that the policies of thede presi in brazil right now is basically he had an open season on the aman for ranchers, for farmers, for miners, for logging. what has happened is hsohas opened uuch land that in the dry season it is going to start burning. we see now the kind of smoke that isli tra 1800 miles away and darkening skies. this is terrifying, and it f ould be an incredible wake-up call to the reste world that we cannot let the amazon deteriorate like this and expect that we can control climatege ch we need the amazon. weti have to take . katty: mr. bolsonaro says that brazil simply doesn't have the sources to deal with these fires. he said he would take too many remen. is this somewhere where this is a global interest and the rest of the world should step in? gina: w il,hink the rest of the world is willing to step in, but this president needs to send aat signal e is going to change his rulings and behaviors that basically said it was perfectly fine to d

community says the same that presume that amazon has an invaluable. play in our planet it's not only like like you said the species it is if it homes but also it's our economic it's controls our temperature and it slows climate change it also is home to most of the . freshwater we can drink but it's just shells what present with the brazilian government says that if you did have. towards these criticism coming from a from international bodies is that the amazon is brazil's and not the world's research. and the control of the amazon rain is not cover and position you mention your community just how low you are in that community go ahead because not just get a lot of the bill for the business you open for predatory b.c.'s you know they are muslim funds short of a very nice example of that is it possible to develop adama's when you know us you still does not ask too much well it only can be implemented quickly so basically it is not the issue to isolate a young muslim person but actually to give a window for the people who lives in numbers who are not su

so if we have just in the amazon maybe one big gate off all. of a greenhouse gases in there will and gallants very close to it sticking points so if we need forest more 5 percent of the amazon so it's going you know wait but it's going to be more a dry eye and it's going to turn itself in the us of a not enough for us anymore and venus is going to be very bad for you and for the world all right an important message there from now is valid director of public policies at w w f results the world wide fund for nature thanks so much for joining us you're welcome. and a reminder now of our top story on d.w. british prime minister boris johnson cousin says it once more that the e.u. scrap its plan to avoid a hard border in ireland after a break that he was here in berlin for talks with german chancellor rhonda markel she expressed optimism that the u.k. and the e.u. can still avoid the no deal. coming up next new business which stay tuned for that. my 1st boss a total sewing machine. icon for all women their bones by this notion for women something as

fire in the amazon's rainforest. this is happening in the world's largest and most important ecosystem, that's home to three million species of plants and animals and one million indigenous people. it generates more than 20% of all the oxygen in our atmosphere. this is what it's like at ground level. brazil's had more than 73,000 fire outbreaks this year and more than half have been in the amazon. sao paulo, brazil's largest city, is over 1,600 miles from fires. but this week, in the middle of the day, it was plunged into darkness due to smoke from the fires. in recent months, the country's president has ripped up environmental protections for the amazon. who does he blame for the fires? translation: guarding the amazon fires, i'm under the impression they could have been started by the ngos because they'd asked for funding. what was their intention? to bring about problems for brazil. crowd chanting. protesters have blamed bolsonaro‘s government for encouraging greater exploitation of the amazon, and weakening its

what makes amazon system run. water most people don't realize it but a pretty big thing to be amazonas classified as wetlands and that's this war to remake the whole system that maintains the bio diversity but those who just want to maintain the biodiversity the margin growth of the also maintains the water when the water comes off the ocean unfold from the eastern side of the amazon in one drying in the soil and be taken away. but the the about preparing for a sion prices want to back up into the the trees pump it back out into the. and it gets taken further across the amazon and that. repeats itself until it or me is right and gets brought across to the edge of the entity that is then the break that down to the south of brazil to the most important agricultural areas in brazil other places in the world but that live and she does it so the agricultural areas of brazil the pin or no rain which is generated by the trade could be animal when you're in juice the farmers to a certain point the system will collapse. wi

hectare facing this region of the amazon. hecta re after facing this region of the amazon. hectare after hectare of pristine forest just hectare after hectare of pristine forestjust going up in smoke. it must be thousands of hectares already and it is a huge task for the troops who are supposedly reaching this region and going to try and tackle the problem. sent by presidentjair bolsonaro. try and tackle the problem. sent by president jair bolsonaro. this try and tackle the problem. sent by presidentjair bolsonaro. this is the reason for the protests taking place in the large cities in brazil in sao paulo in brasilia, in rio. it has caused the international outcry. this is a global crisis because these are considered the lungs of these are considered the lungs of the world. and just on a human level and an emotional level almost, it is extremely upsetting, extremely disturbing to see this kind of devastation unfolding in front of you. now, the forest has already been cut back for timber and is much weakened so when the fires are starting, they take very easily, particularly