the current political mood. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country including the capital kyiv where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the front line battlefields of the donbas, to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thousands. this is bakhmut, under heavy shelling. at the moment, the centre of the artillery wa
again try to end the protests that have now raged for seven weeks. we start with a special report from ukraine as russia has again targeted ukraine s energy infrastructure in a wave of missile strikes across the country, including the capital, kyiv, where the mayor says four out of five people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles, but it was able to shoot down most of them. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine from the frontline battlefields of the donbas, to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated to try to stop the ukrainian offensive. his report contains some deeply distressing details. for ukrainians, this is a fight for national survival. the hardest test any nation can face. it upends every life. it has ended the lives of thousands. this is bakhmut, under heavy shelling. at the moment, the centre of the artillery war in donbas. more than 70
environment minister who came back into lula s coalition for this presidential race, marina silva, who some people believe may take the environment ministry again and really work hard to curb deforestation. anything he wants to do on that front he has to deal with congress and if he doesn t have a majority that makes it harder? i think he will weave together a majority depending on particular legislative bills, with regard to the environment, the monitoring of laws and regulations, the environmental licensing that is within the executive authority in the environmental ministry, so what they are going to do now from day one, january 1, 2023 is enforce the law
administration? i think at this point he is giving every signal plans to build his administration out wide along the contours of his electoral coalition, and that would include the estranged former environment minister who came back into his coalition for this presidential race marina silva who some people believe may take the environment ministry again and really work hard to curb deforestation. anything he wants to do on that front he has to deal with this congress and if he doesn t have a majority that makes it harder? i a majority that makes it harder? ~ a majority that makes it harder? a majority that makes it harder? ~ , harder? i think he will be together harder? i think he will be together a harder? i think he will be together a majority - harder? i think he will be - together a majority depending on particular legislative bills, with regard to the environment the monitoring of laws and regulations, the environmental licensing that is within the executive authority in the
we always wanted to curb deforestation, but how to do it, how to do it? it s not to give money to international ngos that you don t know, don t have any accountability. it s to create green or. some serious ngos, ok, but that s not the only thing to do, and that s not the main thing to do. the main thing to do is to create conditions for the people to have decent livelihoods in the amazon. one of the things would be legal mining. legal mining under all the sustainable conditions could be good for the amazon. the demonisation of mining only creates the stimulus for illegal mining, which is something that, yes, that can create a problem. i don t think you re arguing with me that the bolsonaro administration has utterly failed to stop the illegal mining or indeed the illegal logging, but before we finish and we don t have much time, let s just get on to your analysis of where brazil sits in the international community today.