Million followers. And Regional Elections take place in germany. The far right afd party are expected to perform well at the polls. Hello and welcome to bbc news. As fires continue to burn in the amazon rainforest, brazils military chief says his government is in talks with four countries offering help chile, israel, ecuador and the United States. The Development Comes just days after brazils government rejected a previous offer of money from the g7 countries. More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the vast rainforest so far this year. Sophie long reports from para state, deep in the amazon. This was once lush rainforest, but now sparse land, a result of deforestation in the years gone by. But this year there has been a massive surge in the number of fires set to clear the trees and the landscape along the bau road that takes us deep into the jungle bears the scars of the blazes that are now threatening a whole way of life. In the bau indigenous village they are preparing for a nami
President bolsonaros approach to fighting the fires in the amazon is not his only policy under scrutiny. He has made little secret of his uncompromising stance on crime saying this month that criminals will die in the streets like cockroaches. Statistics suggest that drug seizures are up and homicides down. But Campaign Groups say a consequence has been people dying at the hands of the police. Notjust in the crossfire, but they say in direct attacks. Hugo bachega reports from rio. Shouting. Another desperate mother in rio, another body lying on the ground. The blame again falls on the police. Jean rodrigo was a popular jujitsu coach. He was arriving at the project where he gave free classes to youngsters when he was killed by a shot to the head. Translation you think a lot of things. Was it because he was black, was at the entrance to a favela . He was a law abiding citizen. So why did they shoot him . This is alemao, where jean rodrigo died in may. Its one of rios largest favelas. Pla
President bolsonaros approach to fighting the fires in the amazon is not his only policy under scrutiny. He has made little secret of his uncompromising stance on crime saying this month that criminals will die in the streets like cockroaches. Statistics suggest that drug seizures are up and homicides down. But Campaign Groups say a consequence has been people dying at the hands of the police. Notjust in the crossfire, but they say in direct attacks. Hugo bachega reports from rio. Shouting. Another desperate mother in rio, another body lying on the ground. The blame again falls on thepolice. Jean rodrigo was a popular jujitsu coach. He was arriving at the project where he gave free classes to youngsters when he was killed by a shot to the head. Translation you think a lot of things. Was it because he was black, was at the entrance to a favela . He was a law abiding citizen. So why did they shoot him . This is alemao, where jean rodrigo died in may. Its one of rios largest favelas. Plac
A logo of the fifa world cup beaming it out in several countries for all the world to see. Welcome to the program britains Prime Minister has suffered a Major Political setback an attempt i am pays to prevent and no deal brags it has passed its 1st hurdle on the ruling conservatives are in turmoil Boris Johnsons kicked out 21 members of his own party after they voted against him to seize control of the parliamentary agenda when a 2nd vote will take place on wednesday and johnson says if he loses that one hell call for a snap election so heres how the numbers start up earlier on tuesday in the house of commons the opposition rebel tories came together to get 328. 00 votes whereas the government could only muster 301 m. P. s to support it so the government lost by 27. Well. Britains democracy is a war with itself. As protesters marched on westminster politicians returned from the summer recess poised to push new legislation 3 parliament to a blog post johnson. A number of m. P. s includi
Normally according to the constitution this succession would go to the next in line which is actually the secretary of state but there is no secretary of state right now because that person resigned over 2 weeks ago caught up in the same scandal that led the previous governor to step down so puerto rico in the next 2 hours or so we will have had 3 governors in the span of a sensually 5 days. Its since significant because puerto rico is a island territory of the United States and it does not need Political Uncertainty right now because its still in the middle of a deep financial crisis as well as a credit crisis and still trying to recover from Hurricane Maria 2 years ago there is still a lot of federal funding that needs to come in here from washington to puerto rico to help the economy help them continue to rebuild their infrastructure and already washington has said they could hold up hundreds of millions of dollars in funding meant for puerto rico in the intil this political crisis