Trade wars are also leading to fresh rifts the u. S. And chinas difficulties could further destabilize the Global Economy and here in france the new Digital Services tax which targets big u. S. Tech Companies Like amazon and google has angered President Trump whos even threatened to retaliate with higher tax on french wine. Ever since Trump Took Office the issue of climate has been one thats cause divisions that Global Summits it may well again be 6 versus one with president macro and the canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau leading calls for the thousands of fires burning in the amazon to be treated as an International Crisis james bays aljazeera the ritz. Now brazils president is shortly expected to speak about the wildfires raging through the both largest rain forest. Has been feeling the heat his governments been criticized for doing little to save the animals in the french president has threatened to block a trade deal between the European Union and south america of brazil doesnt have tackled the fires its estimated that are the 2 and a half 1000 fires burning so far this year. Satellites have detected over 76000. 00 fires thats an 82 percent increase from the same time last year that mccrone and german chancellor Angela Merkel say the crisis must be discussed at this weekends g. 7 summit brazils president also now is accusing the pair of meddling for political gain but he says he is sending in the army to fight the flames and veyron mentalists blame the brazilian government for encouraging logging as well as farmers for setting the forest alight to clear land for pasture but scientists at nasa say that is unlikely well these are live pictures from Rio De Janeiro from protests there calling for action to contain the wildfires the protesters are denouncing the president also nars Environmental Policies the far right leader had previously said that rain forest protections are blocking economic development. Lets go now to our correspondent toure hes a bushie has a lot of for us in Rio De Janeiro as the talk us through whats happening there theresa. Well until a few hours ago theres been several people out on the streets here protesting against the president was when i dont blame him for whats going to be happening in the amazones wayne hall of fame but he in a way also rising cleared farmers and lovers to hear the land and. What are we talking with the buyers that he faked that the biggest fires are being in the areas that have been made your deforestation and that i mean we have heard the anbar demand been there youre saying that the weather the dryness whos to blame about Environment Program i think those are saying that thats not the case and thats why where youre not the government has authorized the armed forces to join in the fight against the fires theres been a big change from the president in the past few days weve seen him basically blaming environmentalists guy from betting those fires well now hes announcing that the military is ready to join in the fight ready to go into and get you know if area a National Park among other things but later on today hes also expected to announce further measures like economic assistance to both areas and also requesting help from countries like the United States and israel just now donald trump as we did that he has had a conversation with president also not only that hes ready to help in any way you can and it will be very interesting to resist to hear what the president has to say we are expecting to hear from him especially given. You know the sorts of things that he has said over the last few days like you mentioned blaming environmentalists blaming solomons. Most definitely going to be interesting to see what so which measures. Its going to be weeks if we measure it that most of the people we have spoken to say theyre. Necessary because of the figuration on the ground i mean not just the 70000 fires that are currently affecting the amazon rain forest but also what. Farmers are doing for example in indigenous communities weve been talking about indigenous communities in november or saying there are at risk from illegal mining a big lead the area where theyre carrying deviating from business something that has been ongoing in the month of the government has failed to address the fact that for example 8 former environmental a minute that youre from brazil are accusing the government of the parent. Being that you basically get the man playing all the programs that have been in place in the country firing very important people with environment minister saying that theyre trying to get ready a commission in congress you know there to try to fight any law that would further damage in the am i going to raise it thank you very much for that for now that is that to raise the bar live in Rio De Janeiros thank you plenty more head on the news all including the Syrian Government around saw its offensive retaking towns lost to rebels early in the war. Protesters in hong kong say they were not back down this fight with beijing. And australia a top against and london the 3rd ashes test media will have the details in sport. Now north korea has fired 2 projectiles into the sea off the east coast south Korean MilitaryOfficials Say the launches happened on saturday morning near song dock in south. Problems the Japanese Coast Guard is warning ships to steer clear of any debris in the area. Irans foreign minister has hailed what he calls positive talks with french president emanuel met card on salvaging the 2050 nuclear deal jobs of reefs as both countries have made suggestions on how to move forward after the u. S. Pulled out of the agreement last year previously said he would try to soften the impact of u. S. Sanctions or come up with a way to compensate the iranian people that the embargo has more from paris. But the Iranian Foreign minister has described his talks with the french president here in paris is constructive but at the same time hes reiterated that it wont be possible to renegotiate whats known as the j c p o a the nuclear deal signed between iran and 5 powers back in 2015 in which of course the u. S. Withdrew from unilaterally last year since then theyve reimposed sanctions on iran and countries that do business with it now the french have been making it clear that they want to offer iran something possibly. Ways to soften the impact of those sanctions credit lines to the government possibly temporarily allowing certain countries to buy Irans Crude Oil a way of getting it talking again at least in the short term theyve been criticized for doing so by washington the u. S. Has called and said that france is sending mixed messages to tehran which iran has said that they want to see all the other signatories bakkies and everybody meet their obligations they say that theyre willing to reverse measures taken recently which include breaching the levels of enriched uranium that theyre allowed to produce but that means everybody doing their part to meet their obligations we believe they are moving in the right direction will do we are not definitely there year we had a good discussion today we discussed possibilities this more of this morning or early this afternoon in my discussions with president micron and he now is going to. Discuss with his European Partners other partners to see but we can go from here the french would like to take these talks and go into the g. 7 summit in b. Of its over the weekend able to sell the idea to the americans that something should be offered to. Tehran is it a sweet know now the british in the form of an unnamed diplomatic source on friday have backed them up saying that the deal is the best way to prevent iran acquiring a Nuclear Weapon and has to be supported but its very unclear whether President Trump and his National Security advisor john bolton will actually bite and will actually go for this diplomatic approach to resolving the crisis. The syrian army has seized a pocket of rebel territory in the northwest reclaiming towns last early in the war the most recent offensive intensified in late april hundreds of people have been killed the northwest corner is all that remains in rebel control after more than 18 years of war then a smith reports from montauk here near the syria turkey border. No sooner heard family thought theyd found somewhere to stay the landowner moved them all this is how its been for hundreds of thousands of syrians throughout the 7 years civil war traveling further and further north to escape the fighting while this displacement is never ending i never expected to be in this situation no one knows what will happen next the fighters dont seem to know if they should advance or that idiom will advance on them the traffic is mostly one way as people head away from the advancing Government Forces towards the last rebel stronghold of italy a province the Syrian Regime now controls all of the countryside in Hama Province south of it live after taking over with the russian help the last villages and towns that had been in rebel hands its all happened under the noses of turkish soldiers theyre behind this wall in one of a dozen observation posts a stop wish to monitor what is supposed to be deescalation zone. Museum or that you dont know the other mismarked of the our observation posts are not besieged at the end nobody can besiege our troops or observation posts i want to clarify it yes. There are attacks in the region of adlib the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran turkey is also worried that regime advances to push more than a half a 1000000 syrians to its border. Taking everything that they are giving us are kicking up yesterdays 6 helicopters over our heads forced us to leave almihdhar bus bomb being checking on that our legs turkeys president has told his russian counterpart that Syrian Military attacks in northwestern syria are causing a humanitarian crisis regine type one told bloody mir putin that whats happening there threatens turkish National Security its one of the reasons turkey is so keen to get a safe zone up and running on the syrian side of the border but so far theres still no indication that turkey has agreed with the u. S. Military on who will patrol this zone and how deep into syria it will go bernard to aljazeera and taqiyya. Israel says a teenage girl has been killed in an attack near an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank she died of wounds from an explosion and near ramallah theres really army says it suspects the palestinian was behind the blast and has sent more troops to the area. Hong kong is bracing for another day of mass rallies as protesters saying to block roads and trains in and out of the airport this comes a day after a Court Granted and definite and junction to prevent protesters from demonstrating at the terminal again on friday more than 130000 people formed a human chain across the city when hail reports. With hong kongs iconic skyline shining brightly the citys defiant protesters Students Solidarity they formed a human chain that stretched for kilometers around the city the chosen day was symbolic it came on the 30th anniversary of the baltic way when around 2000000 people in a stone year lithuania and latvia held hands to call for independence from the soviet union this protest was not about independence but was an attempt to show that the people of hong kong are united and will continue their fight against chinas increasing influence even work harder to reach austerity maybe some of us but we are still going on we are not giving up right now all this was a peaceful protest with no police in size the days ahead may be different though as protesters again target hong kong airport they say they wont try to go into the terminal as they did 2 weeks ago but will try to disrupt transport routes to and from the airport there is no sign that these protests are slowing down but at the same time there is drawing concern about the impact on the economy tourist arrivals are down Hotel Room Rates are being reduced and the airlines are being affected in particular hong kongs main carrier Cathay Pacific which is coming under increasing pressure from beijing. The chief executive resigned and at least 3 employees of Cathay Pacific and its subsidiary cathay dragon have been fired after they showed support for the protest Movement Among them a former Union Representative who says china is creating a culture of fear in the company i know or the colleagues feel so difference and sad because of what happened t. But its not just about terminations. Of the job but its also the whole issue is a step dont terrify all my colleagues on terror. Its that fear of chinas evolving influence and control over the city that continues to motivate the protesters to come out week after week when hey aljazeera on call. Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered has military to respond after the United States tested a new missile on sunday the modified Cruise Missile would have been banned under the cold War Era Nuclear Forces Treaty that both russia and the u. S. Have now withdrawn from the u. S. Cited russian violations but moscow denied those claims put into the latest launch shows that washington wants to deploy previously banned missiles around the world. But i would maybe if the fact that we develop the newest systems of modern weapons which are paralleled in the world was caused and we can say provoked by a unilateral exit by the us from the antiballistic missile treaty in 2003 we were forced to we had to guarantee the security of our people and of our country we are doing it now and we will be doing it in the future when. It was as you know we have never wanted to do not want and will not be drawn into a costly economically destructive arms rice that judging by the defense spending russia is on a modest 7th place after United States chinese peoples republic saudi arabia United Kingdom france and japan. Now russia has launched the worlds 1st Floating Nuclear power plant the academic loss of the gadgets are tech journey on friday and mental activists fear the plot could become a chernobyl on ice step process reports from moscow. A Nuclear Power plant sailing the seas russia says its one of the safest and cleanest ways to provide energy to remote areas the academic lama knows of combines both the technology of a Nuclear Powered icebreaker and that of a land based Nuclear Plant it took 10 years to design and build the power plant will be towed by 3 boats 4 more months to the region of 2 caught 5000 kilometers away on a journey that could take up to 6 weeks depending on the ice the 2 reactor unit is one of the key projects of president put in socalled northern sea route a fastest sea connection between europe and asia which has become accessible due to a melting arctic despite safety concerns russias Nuclear Agency sas theres very little chance of a Nuclear Accident the nuclear stations very solid and is not vulnerable in case a tsunami or another disaster happens tests have shown the chances of a gigantic asteroid destroying the earth in the future is twice as high as internal damage to this reactor but greenpeace is not convinced in april 2017 the Environmental Group tested against a project calling a child noble on ice referring to the Nuclear Disaster in the soviet union in 1986. If the Fukushima Nuclear station was damaged by a tsunami we can only guess what could happen in this case the place can be flown upside down it can be thrown onto the shore or get damaged in a recent Nuclear Accident in the north of russia which caused a spike in radiation has also raised concerns whatsoever on u. K. Accidents happening in the past few months and the government that is by play about what exactly has happened people are growing increasingly suspicious that like in the time of chernobyl your fortys are trying to cover up incidents of leaks radiation even though the academic dont know folks who travel only to sparsely Populated Areas its journey will be closely watched russias plans to sell Floating Nuclear plants to other countries have also rung alarm bells according to greenpeace offshore reactors will be harder to monitor and they can fall into the wrong hands academic or not off will stay in effect and you got got for at least 10 years before going back to more months for maintenance and to dispose of its Nuclear Waste step fasten aljazeera mosco. Still ahead on the news hour round of an education almost 2000000 children a missing school in central and west africa because of violence of insecurity. Preparing history we meet the man whose job it is to protect the stonework of National Monuments in the u. S. What we are taking you live to brazil now where president. Addressing the nation about the wildfires in the amazon lets listen with more rain forest it is her duty to serve and protect the. Were doing all we can to fight against illyria the frustration and any illegal activities that. Is important to remind you that more than 20000000 live in that region. In the years of economic. Dinham is the b. K. One of the there has to more control it is important to even with. All that population server they can develop this together with the rest of the country in this area so we have to work on all the other entities that are government but all brazilian thing is given like to it is and this one we did her and her the risk we offer. To all the being honest days of the arm of the nation to those. Who. Said. Provide guarantees law and order for the protection of the environment also her stance either equipment and personnel or the armed forces. So that we can fight against the illegal activities about also took them to jane the fires in the region say its really hot. Theres a lot of when the dries is i saw this fire stay placed in the amazon be. Ours. Sometime less intense but now into fascinating they are taking place more often but. Even thought this is no they mean compared to that i think 50 years we are not satisfied with the things we are witnessing who are going to act fairly you know there to control and contain the fires in there as well it is important on the other hand. To withstand any day. Not to spread unfounded messages embarrassed and abroad and they do not help solve the problem. Theyre wrong they only landons host for political. Propaganda person is an example of the inability. Of more than 60 percent of east native they had stationed as the forestry call would we should be a war the whole where we have a gleam of Renewable Energy and we are using it and contributing a very dear to the planet. Are developed countries on the other hand home been able to have learned. And comply with the terms in the agreement in paris we continue open to dialogue with absolute respect to the true. Power of ourselves and through other countries on the other hand. Offered a means to her birthday or. Some have insisted in taking these issues to the g. 7 meeting. This kind of we pretext for possible International Sanctions really will continue. As a house until today your friends are very wary and it is possible for the protection and safeguards of the rain forest would have been. So we have been listening to the brazilian president he was addressing the nation about the wildfires that have been raging in the amazon forest he said more than 20000000 people brazilians live in that region and that the country must fight against what he called illegal activities in the amazon that they must contain the fires he also said that it was the dry season that these fires do take plays acknowledging though that there are more this year lets go now to peter keen he has been listening in to the president s address he is the president emeritus and senior fellow of the into american dialogue and hes joining us live from washington d. C. Mr king very good to have you with us on aljazeera so one juror in march what did you make of what president had to say to the nation he is a man that has the worlds attention right now because of whats happening in the amazon. Row he. Came here you. Mr balsam are or is. Mr olson our has softened his. Rhetoric considerably from the 1st days where he was attacking everybody talking about accusations werent true about the fires and then they were caused by people who wanted to attack him now hes accepting the fact that they are the responsibility of brazil and brazil has to deal with them seriously at the same time he focused almost exclusively on the fires on putting out the fires getting the military involved involving the states but the problem is a much broader one its not just the fires that are affecting the amazon theres a whole set of rules and regulations that are currently being violated or not enforced. And so what we see is sort of a half measure and at the same time hes talking about controlling forest fires he is insistent on development of the amazon. Without much sense of how he does it so in the immediate term as you say and as he said you know hes talking about containing these wildfires some 76000 this year more than an 80 percent increase from the same time last year but when we look at the Environmental Policies that many say have led to much greater deforestation since this president took office. Anything late to this government looking at its environmentalists policies you know things like what the french president emanuel has said about sinking this trade deal between the e. U. And the south american block if brazil doesnt address whats happening in the amazon. Well external pressure is about the only force that will bring this about i mean external pressure not only on him bowl sonora but external pressure on the brazilian economy threats etc seem to be the only thing he is going to respond to. He and his foreign minister believe that Climate Change is a myth a myth perpetuated by communism and socialism and hes not too interested in that but the fact is that when france and the European Union threaten Free Trade Agreement with brazil and others south american countries that he steps up and listens when. President trump actually offered his assistance to help put out the fires. President trump isnt a great fan of Environmental Protection either. But i think whats made clear internationally that bolton are as position least with regard to the fires was totally irresponsible in. Sort of not sort of very conducive to other items on his agenda which are trade neck anomic development very importantly the 2nd we thank you very much for your time and your insights on this we do appreciate it that is the to hacking live in washington d. C. Thank you but were going to go back to brazil now and talk on the trees a boy who has been at protests in Rio De Janeiro against the president and those governments and vonn mental policies and i wanted to raise if anything that the president did have to Say Something of a softening something of his stance of the last few days if theres anything in there that will appease the thousands of protesters whove been out on the streets there. Well. But many of the people we have spoken to worry me angry of what theyre saying basically because they see that brazil for several years had a plan in place for the on the left there were abuses yes there was a solve. Their issues but there were some type of control by agencies especially trying to get a control of the situation and theyre rethinking the government or the situation right now is basically it is a precedent teach since he was elected basically saying that the amazon rain forest is open for business for the ration of mining and agribusiness among other things so the speech was interesting in a way not only because youre now the use of the armed forces in order to fight the fires but also to buy. Activities in that area including mining decoy stations among other things but again in that speech he repeated that whats happening right now is something that happens every year that its not something that happened this year when the saudis with billions of show especially from. The Space Research institute shows that they have the same amount of the do the same period last. 20092900 theres been over 80 percent increase in fires in that area so the president insists thats whats happening right now is something normal in brazil that happens but in spite of that and because of International Pressure because of the condemnation by the European Union by france among others saying oh definitely sending this message lets not forget what the threats have been until a few well weeks ago was very proud to announce that countries like argentina that they were signing an agreement with america would trade with. We trade agreements with countries that was in our did you know im going to reckoning the point about because of whats happening right now so what were seeing is that it was when i dont own television saying that hes going to take action to raise a thank you for that for now that is to raise the bar knives from Rio De Janeiro. But lets move on now to nigeria were fighting has been going on for decades in the center of the country fueled by ethnic and religious differences as well as the battle over land and resources thousands have been killed those who have escaped hoped to find security in camps but as muhammad the reports theyre facing another terrifying threat. Again accompany the city or is one of dozens dotting the expensive been with state in central nigeria its inhabitants are just a fraction 171000 displaced across the state by the end going violence between tribes in this bottle. While the comp was supposed to be a refuge for the people most dont feel safe here anymore a sharp increase in reported women and young girls is deeply wounding this community. And. I fear for my daughters there those who send their kids to go work in the city but not me the Current Situation is too dangerous people here complain that become so widespread that women can no longer live the compound accompanied our misty international in a recent report detailed how girls as young as 9 and 10 years were being taped at times by the very security personnel charged with protecting. News that a 10 year or displaced rape victim was delivered in a few days ago has sent shock waves across nigeria we met the girl and her baby girl at one of mccords hospitals. Look to educate michael help with the delivery of the 3 days of labor literally says a recession before is the reason we live off enough for them so we dont risk much too good some units of blood on the internet or turned into even to feel this social worker was one of those who brought the girl to hospital and told us that she grew up an orphan and was raised by her grandmother but was forced to flee how home when her grandmother and called tried to force her to marry a blind man that is when she fell prey to the man who raped her. Despite what shes been through the young mother already has dreams for her baby. I dont want my daughter to go through the same suffering as i did when she starts walking both of us will go to School Police say there were arrested the man suspected in her rape last december but they have this plea for families of rape victims punishments for offend us can serve as deterrents to orders intending to do the same but when family members tend to make wish it to kind of receive more nice from from suspects all to try to prevent prosecution we family members can come up to help us let the prosecution process be concluded. The plight of the little girl prematurely propelled to motherhood is fast becoming a rallying cry for those seeking action on rape in nigeria