government of brazil. reuters is now reporting that the brazilian president says brazil lacks resources now to fight these amazon fires. joining me from sao paulo, brazil a correspondence from the washington post, marina lopez, covering the environment and brazil for years and she joins by skib. i appreciate this. explain the situation for folks in this country who don t follow fire season in brazil in general how common and uncommon is it, and why is it so alarming this year? we have seen a record number of fires this year, and it is dry season here. that could be partially to blame. researchers say a lot of fires were started by cattle ranchers using them to clear pasture. it is important because we ve seen a spike in deforestation since the election earlier this year and he ran on this platform of opening up the amazon for
mood of the human tenses everyone awake the next the next he steps of this this case right now as you alluded to former president dilma rousseff of has been impeached now liz headed to prison is this just a sign of a robust judicial system doing its work. well the family a lot of people here can view the two cases as an indication that there s a wider plot to discredit lula s workers party but i do think it s important to note that you live the impeachment was a political profit and lula is a criminal trial in addition to this he s facing the other corruption charges so while the judicial is a mad and i didn t leave been emboldened in the last few years when it comes to corruption whether it is part of a wider to really depends on the speech you know all right marina lopez brazil correspondent for the washington post thank you so much. we. are going to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world.