leading for form efarmers to ses to clear land. nick paton walsh has this story from inside brazil. reporter: the view down this tributary of the amazon should be clear. but the smoke from the fires has masked much of it all day. you can smell it in the air here. this town knows fully well the disaster unfolding. further down the highway that drives into the heart of the amazon, we drove in there ourselves. the police said to us that the fires surge at night because they are started by those who seek to get rid of the forest canopy and use the deforested land for agriculture. many of the fires are started deliberately. the president has provided a climate where that s permissi e permissible. he said the amazon is a resource that should be used by the people to enrich them and echoed that in a speech on friday,