Plus why the internet just cant get enough of this image of Melania Trump greeting the canadian Prime Minister. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and david eades is in london. If you want a sense ofjust how critical the brexit crisis has become, Opposition Party leaders invoked the spirit of World War Two today. For good measure, they gathered at church house a westminster building that mps used during the war itself. There, leaders of the five opposition parties agreed Common Ground to defeat a no deal brexit. In a joint statement sent out by labour, lib dems, the greens, plaid cymru and the snp they agreed they would act together to find practical ways to stop a no deal. And to get there, it was clear they had to trade compromises and, for now at least, to set aside personal and party preferences. The priority is to prevent a no deal exit from the eu because of all the damage it would do to peoplesjobs, economy, and our relationships with the rest of the world. So weve had a discussion this morning with all the other opposition parties, and agreed that i will put forward a proposal which will make sure that parliament is able to debate a legislative way of preventing the government crashing us out with no deal. So lets have a closer look at those options as there are two broad routes being mapped out by Opposition Mps. One would involve simply legislating against a no deal while the other would require passing a vote of no confidence in the government. Today they agreed that theyll be directing their efforts at the first. But it wont be easy its hard, under the uk constitution, for anyone other than the government to pass legislation. They would still need to come to a shared view on what the law would actually say whether it would simply extend the brexit date or revoke it completely, and on whether it would be a one off law or a permanent one. The other option is a vote of no confidence this was previously labours preferred option. It could be used to trigger a general election or install a caretaker Prime Minister. LaboursJeremy Corbyn has made no secret that it should be him. Non labour mps have made no secret that it shouldnt be him. Which explains why it is not deemed the best first course of action. Were joined now in our newsroom by labour mp rupa huq, and liberal democrat mp Christine Jardine whos in the shetlands. Thanks forjoining us. If you can give us at this moment of unity between these five parties, a very simple explanation as to what this legislative process does, and it is fairto point legislative process does, and it is fair to point out you dont even know you have a majority in parliament to do it. Yes, i was at the meeting in church hours today that you describe, and we are in uncharted territory, this is a path which has not been trodden church house. We have an unwritten constitution and that requires relationships of trust and confidence between the legislature and the mps, and the government, the executive, but what we are worried about is that borisjohnson who has about is that borisjohnson who has a majority of precisely one mp and thatis a majority of precisely one mp and that is only with adding the conservatives to the dup, is trying to completely disregard democracy and parliamentarians and steam roller through a no deal brexit. And parliamentarians and steam roller through a nodeal brexit. As you know, his view is that that is perfectly within his right and he can avoid Parliament Taking any other course at the moment. Let me come onto the second point, about the question of a no confidence motion, because again unity only goes so far, doesnt it . The bottom line is you dont have unity as to where you would go in the next step. We can go to Christine Jardine. If it came to a choice that it was hard to get this legislation through, impossible to get it through, and the liberal democrats had to choose between having Jeremy Corbyn as the Prime Minister, caretaker Prime Minister, and having revoking a no deal brexit, which would you choose . Eating at the moment is to avoid a no deal brexit and what you saw today was cross Party Agreement and consensus that we have to do what we can to stop that the thing at the moment. Jeremy corbyn is acknowledging that he cannot on his own command the support it would needin his own command the support it would need in the commons for him to be the caretaker Prime Minister, so our preferred option has always been the legislative route and it seems now thatjeremy legislative route and it seems now that Jeremy Corbyn has accepted that that Jeremy Corbyn has accepted that that will be the preferred route and that will be the preferred route and that will be what we will try to do, because the priority at the moment is stopping no deal brexit. There we re is stopping no deal brexit. There were people in the room today for whom that is a priority but they do not share our commitment to preventing brexit completely and what we have to do is move on from this to working to stop brexit, but the first thing has to be to stop something which even the governments own reports, even conservative mps say would be disastrous for this country. Can you see a way in which you would move closer, the labour party, to the lib dems position, stop brexit being the single top priority . The labour party has moved a lot from where originally mps were whipped into voting to trigger article 50 although personally i rebelled on that, to our current position. It was a sequential thing, a set of stages and a phased process, and we tried to go for a Single Market deal with a Customs Union and we tried for the cross party talks and i even had half an hour with theresa may in april but we always said all options should be on the table and there are no sensible options left. Our current policy is to have a peoples vote in event of any deal and nobody voted for this, they are economic reasons as christine pointed out, that a no deal brexit is a act of self harm but they also reasons democratic reasons and for anyone who is interested in democracy, this despotic dictate it like dictator like Prime Minister with a majority of one who is behaving like a medieval monarch must be stopped at all medieval monarch must be stopped at a ll costs. Medieval monarch must be stopped at all costs. There are constitutional problems and we laid them out earlier, very difficult for any group outside of the government to bring legislation but there is also the tactical problem which is that you dont even know how many labour mps you might lose on a vote on this legislation. And therefore you dont know how many conservative mps you need to come across the aisle to you. 170 people joined the church house decoration today from all different parties and we know consistently that parliament has voted against a no deal brexit so thatis voted against a no deal brexit so that is the priority at the moment. The constitutional mechanisms, we area the constitutional mechanisms, we are a new ground here, and it seems the fixed Term Parliament act was not worth the paper it was written on if it gets tossed aside by Prime Ministers. We have to be very careful not to get wrapped up in process. We are facing a crisis and the only reason to talk about the process is as the means of getting out of the crisis, to prevent no deal brexit. We are in a situation where promise johnson potentially is going to deny the british people the right to have a say on whether or not they want no deal Boris Johnson. Say on whether or not they want no deal borisjohnson. He is threatening to Prorogue Parliament and that would deny parliament be right to have a say and what we must not do is get caught up in a constitutional process. We have to keep our focus on the fact that the clock is running down and on the sist clock is running down and on the 315t of october, if we dont find a way of stopping it, we were crashed out of the eu, and with it all the economic that it will the Food Shortages that we have been told we could face, the medicine shortages we have been told we could face, the fuel shortages, it is a situation which we have to take seriously and we have to avoid and that is why the liberal democrats have been working so hard to bring everybody together to work together, and Jeremy Corbyn has now realised that this has to be about everyone working together rather than one specific party. About everyone working together rather than one specific partym looks like today was a day when that view was shared at least by five opposition parties, so to both of you, thanks forjoining us. It is fairto you, thanks forjoining us. It is fair to say it is a rare show of unity and there were a few very positive tweets from some of those in there about people who they have spoken poorly of until now, so there is clearly determination to pull together a united front but they can say it is not about process and it remains about process. It remains about process every time you start looking at the numbers, calculating how you get from 160 up to 320, to get carried. That will depend on what the legislation says and what the brexit Voting Labour Party members think, and the process in this respect, as well as other things, the process will threaten that unity. When we actually get into the details of it. The amazon is burning but brazils president wont accept International Help to put out the flames unless emanuel macron apologises to him. A personal spat between two leaders seems to be more important than a measure to help an ailing global ecosystem. Heres how it started. Last week president macron called the amazon fires a Global Crisis that should be addressed at the g7 summit. Bolsonaro said that showed a colonialist mindset and warned him to stay out of brazils internal affairs. Macron said bolsonaro had lied about his commitment to Climate Change and threatened to cancel a trade deal. Then it got personal bolsonaro mocked brigitte macrons appearance. Macron said that was very rude and brazilians were probably ashamed of their president. It was at this point that mr bolsonaro demanded an apology before hed accept 20 million in International Help to put out the fires. And as the forest burns today, thats where weve got to. Heres sophie long from brazil. The heart of the amazon, the worlds lungs on fire. A chorus of condemnation echoed around the world and this ecological disaster became a Global Political issue. Brazils president did not strike the match that lit these flames but many say he might as well have. Today, when state governors asked him for help, he told them to unite, so brazil can maintain its sovereignty. And yet the Worlds Largest rainforest continues to smoulder. We are just passing over an area of rainforest that is still burning. My guide tells me its farmland but its very close to indigenous land, home to a huge amount of wildlife, and also a tribe of people that has almost no contact with the outside world. It means they also have almost no means by which to put out the fires that are raging towards them. What is the greatest threat to the land where your community lives . In the forest on the banks of the xingu river, this man tells me its brazils leaders. Translation one of the biggest threats my people face today is our government. They are trying to destroy the amazon, to exterminate our people. They are the people trying to destroy our and the amazon. Some fingers have been pointed at farmers who want to raze the forest for their crops and cattle. But adelrado corner and his daughter who have worked the farmland here for more than three decades tell me farmers are not to blame, translation its people acting illegally who want to claim the forest. Farmers who own registered land dont burn and they dont deforest. We have to leave promptly. The community here are angry about the way their country and their president are being portrayed. A group of Indigenous Leaders say the fires are just one of many threats to the amazon. One spoke anonymously because he fears for his life. He says his community have been threatened and if they dont leave their land by wednesday they will be killed. Translation if the government dont send protection and get the illegal loggers to leave, there will be a massacre. White people will kill Indigenous People and Indigenous People will kill white people. While miners and loggers continue to encroach on the scorched earth of the amazon, president bolsonaro says he will re evaluate the laws surrounding Indigenous Lands to increase productivity. As flames are put out, hundreds of new fires are sparked. Sophie long, bbc news, altamira in the amazon. Clearly a complex picture in brazil. Meanwhile, this morning President Trump has been full of praise for mr bolsonaros handling of the crisis. Bolsonaro he tweeted is working very hard on the amazon fires and in all respects doing a greatjob for the people of brazil not easy. He and his country have the full and complete support of the usa mr trump himself chose not to attend the g7 discussion on climate and the amazon fires his empty chair, a symbol of american absence on a Critical International issue. Ive been speaking to Richard Haass president of the council on foreign relations, and author of a world in disarray. The president is praising bolsonaro for his efforts in brazil, combating the fires, but he did not turn up to this g7 meeting addressing the crisis, is this an area where donald trump could be useful if you chose to be . He could be but he has clearly chose not to be, and his only Public Comments were about pollution rather than Climate Change and from the get go he and his administration essentially are opting out of combating one of if not the greatest challenge of the century. I also say though, that beyond what the president said and did not do, the reaction of the rest of the g7 was pretty modest. 20 odd Million Dollars to help the brazilians seems to be symbolic more than significant and then the brazilian rejection calling it colonialist, well, that seems to be an outdated notion. This 20 million that the g7 came up with to combat the fires, is an indication of what the fires, is an indication of what the world looks like when america is not there, the other countries may wa nt to not there, the other countries may want to step in and take the leadership role that america has pulled back from but theyjust cant and they dont have the clout that the us has. They dont have the clout and the resources and they dont have the habits. The bottom line is the alternative to a us led world, which we have grown familiar with over the last 75 years, is a nobody led world, at a nobody led world is a world in which we see more and more regional conflicts and less Global Cooperation to meet global challenges. Let me ask you about a couple of areas where donald trump pulled back from previous positions that may have caused concern going into the g7. Particularly about iran, where he had been more belligerent and more hawkish going and then he came out of, first indications that he could be open to a meeting fairly soon, is that progress . It is progress in the sense that the president continued to show a certain interest in negotiation or at least diplomacy and this is almost reminiscent of his north korea approach, he clearly likes the drama of high level meetings. His problem here is that it is not clear that the iranians will share his interest in that and they may set certain preconditions but i think it all takes place against a backdrop when you have a us iranians drift towards war and getting into another middle eastern war is very much not on Donald Trumps agenda. I still think there is some potential chance for a positive movement on the diplomatic front between the us and iran but it wont be easy. Given the politics of both sides and given the history. And a pull back of a difference on china, it is a bit confusing to know exactly where donald trump is on this after a weekend of back and forth but maybe he has pulled back from a trade war with china . Perhaps, we are always one tweet away from a new situation but the bottom line is Donald Trumps trade policy is in conflict with his larger political aim of presenting himself to the American People as the person who brought a stronger and more robust economy. He is going to have to choose in some ways between the Economic Growth he wants to ta ke between the Economic Growth he wants to take credit for and the trade policy he would like to take credit for and policy he would like to take credit forandi policy he would like to take credit for and i think what the china episode shows is he cant have his ca ke episode shows is he cant have his cake and eat it. What we saw the other day was a slight dialling back of the confrontational trade policy and we will see if this lasts and we will see if the United States and china can come t