Its likely after the fires agriculture here will expand including more fields for products like soybeans and meat bound for the European Market thats why environmentalists are calling for e. U. Laws that would protect brazil against further deforestation every day the flames reach further the area is in dire need of rain but none is expected for at least several weeks. Lets cross to brazil where journalist material is in brazils state and self single maty has fires in the pats in l. As well as the amazon rain forest have been burning for weeks why are neither firefighters nor Army Personnel able to stop the. The soil here is extremely dry in most of the brazilian rain forest regions them because we are in the end of the dry season them and yeah in the last 3 months there are several regions for example the punter now have no snow or have seen no rain at all so theyre extremely dry more than in the years before and the firefighters just try to avoid the fires to to to reach houses and v
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Tech stocks taking a pause this morning. No love for the electric vehicles this week, either then there is the tech eco systems. A new Software Brand storming the castle of apples app store. Huge announcements ahead as besos and Company Refresh their Consumer Device lineup what to expect from alexa and amazons ai. Well have that here on squawk alley. Were going to begin this morning with that story on the Apple App Store challenge as Companies Like spotify, epic games, and match group join together to create a coalition for app fairness casey newton of the verge for now, at least, joins us this morning fresh off of announcing he will start his own newsletter called platformer. Give us a little preview, and congratulations, its almost like a labor union that these companies are forming to take on apple. Do you think it will work . I think it has a better chance of working than anything else we have seen in this regard to date. I think their analogy is a good one, right apple really is m
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