Of offensive remarks to jack dorseys four million followers. And Regional Elections take place in germany. The far right afd party are expected to perform well at the polls. Hello and welcome to bbc news. As fires continue to burn in the amazon rainforest, brazils military chief says his government is in talks with four countries offering help chile, israel, ecuador and the United States. The Development Comes just days after brazils government rejected a previous offer of money from the g7 countries. More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the vast rainforest so far this year. Sophie long reports from para state, deep in the amazon. This was once lush rainforest. The landscape along the road that takes us deep into the amazon bears the scars of the blazes that sparked International Outrage and are now threatening a whole way of life. This is the bau indigenous village. In the central meeting hut, the men are preparing for a naming ceremony to welcome a newborn, the latest addition t
In the u. S. There is a pileon as well. Stocks are close to records. The president is to have a rally and brag about the records. There is still the tweet fallout that the white house has to dial. We have blake burman. Reporter this will resume this evening in greenville, North Carolina, where President Trump hits the road to later tonight for a Campaign Rally there. The president saying earlier today, he will talk about the economy. He will talk about the stock market. But he also tweeted the following saying i will also talk about the people who love and hate our country, mostly love. Of course the president ing to these four Democratic Congresswoman who have been embroiled in this back and forth feud with the tweets and comments he subsequently made. Democrats call the president s tweets an comment racist. Republicans are trying to turn the attention to the policies and controversial comments that some of these congresswoman have made in the past, coming to the defense of the presid
Steve mnuchin says he may had to beijing of trade talks arent productive. This as europes braces for u. S. Tariffs on 7 billion of goods and legal aircraft subsidies. Trading revenue will be the talking point for Goldman Sachs and jp morgan as they report quarter results. We will hear from the cfo, john shrewsbury. And buyers reprieve. The german companys legal payout over its second round up by 55 million by u. S. Judge. There are some harsh words in that case. He called their behavior reprehensible. Ant to talk about bitcoin everyone has harsh things to say about bitcoin, from President Trump to his treasury Steve Mnuchin, saying it is only backed by thin air. On can see it hit 12,000 friday and just dropped over the weekend, trading now a 10,700 between four dollars. One of the problems for bitcoin is that a lot of people have bad things to say about Facebooks Libra as well, even Maxine Waters is out against libra. But im not sure they should necessarily be making the connection bet
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