Hi there, thank you for being with us. We begin with some Breaking News from the brazilian city of belem, where leaders of eight South American countries which share the amazon have been meeting for a landmark summit. The leaders have issued a joint declaration, saying they have established a new alliance, aimed at preventing the amazon from reaching a point of no return. But leaders appear to have stopped short of pledging an end to deforestation by 2030, as brazils president lula, who is hosting the event, had hoped. Our South America Correspondent Katy Watson reports from para, which is the state with the highest Deforestation Rate in the country. Virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. From up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. This part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. Underjair bolsonaro, Illegal Logging soared. President Lula Da Silva has promised to fix
For each of our current employees across the police service. I understand that that will be of considerable concern to many of my colleagues, and their families at the moment. We operate in an environment at the moment where this is a Severe Threat to our colleagues in Northern Ireland related to terrorism and this is the last thing that anybody in the organisation wants to be hearing this evening. So i owe it to my colleagues to investigate thoroughly and weve initiated that, well keep the police board informed and all the Staff Associations informed of that investigation. And weve been engaging with them throughout the afternoon. The information was taken down very quickly, but nevertheless i do appreciate the concern that it will cause. Well seek to find the extent to which that has been viewed, but what i would say is that of the error was our own, once that information was out there if anybody did have access to it i would ask them to delete it straightaway. We will have more reac
I feel very happy for the players that they could perform at this level without getting adequate games to play so i am very pleased with them and they gave it everything tonight. They should be proud of themselves and i am very proud of them. Laurenjames will miss that game against colombia and has apologised for her red card for standing on nigerian defender michelle alozie. On social media she said to alozie, im sorry for what happened. Also, for our england fans and my team mates, playing with and for you is my greatest honour and i promise to learn from my experience. France are also through to the Quarter Finals, they comfortably beat morocco 4 0 in adelaide. They were never really troubled by the opposition, kadi diani opening the scoring after just fifteen minutes and further goals from kenza dali and two from Eugenie Le Sommer sealed the victory and a Quarter Final against hosts australia in brisbane on saturday. This game was a bit special for us, we just this game was a bit s
The ruling means hell be dismissed as an mp and forbidden to stand for Public Office before 2028 he denies any wrongdoing and is challenging the decision in the Islamabad High Court on wednesday. On sunday mr khan began serving his three year sentence in a jail in the city of attock. Live now to islamabad and the bbc s caroline davies. Its been quite a dramatic few months for them on con when he was first arrested and then release. We saw all his imran khan. Arrested at the weekend. This latest announcement doesnt really come as announcement doesnt really come as a huge surprise. M0 announcement doesnt really come as a huge surprise a huge surprise. No in fact when he was sentenced a huge surprise. No in fact when he was sentenced on a huge surprise. No in fact when he was sentenced on saturday a huge surprise. No in fact when he was sentenced on saturday we a huge surprise. No in fact when he l was sentenced on saturday we knew immediately he would probably be disqualified. I think wh
Of the Global Economy given so many countries do so much trade with china. Chinese Government Data shows that the value of exports fell 14. 5 compared to the same month a year ago. That suggests the rest of the world is buying less stuff. The value of imports also fell by more than expected, down 12. 4 onjuly a year ago. But that partly reflects a fall in the price of commodities such as crude oil. The figures will concern chinas government, who are grappling with economic growth. The quarterly Growth Figure was just 0. 8 in the april tojune period, as the country continued its post covid recovery. And last month, chinas struggles were cited as a key concern for the Global Economy when the International Monetary fund updated its Global Growth forecast for this year to 3 . David woo is a former imf economist and wall street strategist and has been telling me what he makes of the numbers. You know, like some people are going to say, well, this is just basically a reflection of the curren