Summit on the environment talking to the General Assembly yes on tuesday but not being part of this particular summit would i be right. Youre absolutely right and thats certainly no coincidence he is due to leave brazil in just a little while he will be arriving after this is supposed to be all over in new york and he will only be staying until after he speaks on tuesday not very long at all but in the meantime and this is very significant rather than approach the United Nations and the world to try to show ways that brazil can contribute to reducing Greenhouse Gases what he has done is launch a new counter offensive a p. R. Campaign if you like called brazil by brazil which is meant to sort of give us a kind of version of what theyre doing here and is the capital resample of not the but also state which is the graying capital of brazil this is where they have been cutting and cutting down the rain forest for years to make way for soya for corn for sugarcane and of course for grazing l
The context of this visit is that theres been an increase of u. S. Sanctions against iran as an increase of tensions in the region and theres a military buildup but also side uribe has accused iran of being behind the attack on the Oil Facilities for president rouhani said this morning that the United States has cheerier motives. Are massively. Regarding the issues in the region they are exaggerating what has happened to iran cause what is the reason for that the reason is that americans want to keep control of the whole region now they say they want to bring Patriot Defense systems into the region its clear they want to keep control of saudi arabias oil that comes from the eastern part this conflict is not about us it is about the american competition with chinese and others they are taking advantage of this opportunity president rouhani is also expected to present an alternative peace plan thats in the face of the u. S. Naval coalition that theyve put together what the u. S. Says is
Fighting in northwest of the country and indeed theres a great deal of disagreement as to the status of the northeast of the country. Yes well i think what theyre trying to do is deal with one narrow post of this which is the future constitutional arrangements for syria and that takes you away from the issues on the ground but clearly the issues on the ground are so serious when you have the province of idlib which very much now is the last battleground of this long war when you have 3000000 people there when you have persistent claims that the Syrian Government and its russian allies are bombing those people but in particular bombing medical centers and hospitals there and no one really knows how this is going to conclude and everyone fears that they could be a very big death toll there is nowhere really for these people to flee not possible in most cases for them to cross the border into. Turkey and they obviously many of them fearful to cross the line from where they are indeed live
A wedding celebration by mistake well our correspondent rob mcbride has more now from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military operation saying a number of foreign taliban fighters as it describes them were killed in this attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do kno
A theme like lives matter is here all sorts of groups from different parts of the community are protesting the drivers obviously around d. C. Are pretty angry but as the presses point out there is a Climate Emergency under way so you might have to have a bit of a slow commutes at least today lets turn to other news now and at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan in whats believed to have been an air strike that happens in the muscle collar region of Helmand Province people have gone that arent sign to locals facility wounded are being treated authorities are investigating reports that the airstrike hit a wedding celebration a mistake correspondent robin wright has more from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military o