Now on bbc news its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The number of forest fires burning in the amazon rainforest may have dropped since the global alarm was raised in august, but brazils government is still feeling intense political heat. My guest today is brazilian environment minister Ricardo Salles who is in europe trying to convince sceptics that president bolsonaros government is not prioritising economic exploitation at the expense of environmental protection. How credible are the brazilian governments soothing words . Ricardo salles, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thanks for asking me. Would you accept that the global concern raised by the sweeping forest fires that we saw in august, burning swathes of amazon rainforest, would you accept that that has put a new level of scrutiny on the actions of the brazilian government . Definitely. Its true. Were already concerned about this problem of the burns, it begins in the middle ofjuly,
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The number of forest fires burning in the amazon rainforest may have dropped since the global alarm was raised in august, but brazils government is still feeling intense political heat. My guest today is brazilian environment minister Ricardo Salles who is in europe trying to convince sceptics that president bolsonaros government is not prioritising economic exploitation at the expense of environmental protection. How credible are the brazilian governments soothing words . Ricardo salles, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thanks for asking me. Would you accept that the global concern raised by the sweeping forest fires that we saw in august, burning swathes of amazon rainforest, would you accept that that has put a new level of scrutiny on the actions of the brazilian government . Definitely. Its true. Were already concerned about this problem of the burns, it begins in the middle ofjuly,
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Now on bbc news its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The number of forest fires burning in the amazon rainforest may have dropped since the global alarm was raised in august, but brazils government is still feeling intense political heat. My guest today is brazilian environment minister Ricardo Salles who is in europe trying to convince sceptics that president bolsonaros government is not prioritising economic exploitation at the expense of environmental protection. How credible are the brazilian governments soothing words . Ricardo salles, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thanks for asking me. Would you accept that the global concern raised by the sweeping forest fires that we saw in august, burning swathes of amazon rainforest, would you accept that that has put a new level of scrutiny on the actions of the brazilian government . Definitely. Its true. Were already concerned about this problem of the burns, it begins in the middle ofjuly,
Excited for our guests. Speaker tonight. Ned blackhawk is a leading scholar of American History. The howard hour lamar of history and american studies. Yale university. Dr. Black hawk is an enrolled member of the team at tribe of the western shoshone indians, nevada. Like me, he shares that background in in the us west with degrees from mcgill university, ucla and the university of washington. Dr. Blackhawk has published widely in field and won numerous accolades for his work. His first book, 26 violence over the land, indians and empire in the early american west, was, as it was study of the american great basin, and it received more than half a dozen professional awards, including the book of the decade from the native american and Indigenous Studies Association for. One of the most important ten most influential books in native american and indigenous studies in the first decade of the 21st century. Thats huge for a first book. Everybody wishes their dissertation turned into a book.