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hi there. thank you for being with us. we begin with some breaking news from the brazilian city of belem, where leaders of eight south american countries which share the amazon have been meeting fora landmark summit. at the end of the talks they issued a joint declaration saying they have now established a new alliance aimed at preventing the amazon from reaching a point of no return. but leaders appear to have stopped short of pledging an end to deforestation by 2030, as brazil s president lula, who is hosting the event, had hoped. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from para, which is the state with the highest deforestation rate in the country. virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. from up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. this part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. underjair bolsonaro, illegal logging soared. president lul ....
virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. from up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. this part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. underjair bolsonaro, illegal logging soared. president lula da silva has promised to fix the problem. translation: the challenges. of our era and the opportunities that arise demand joint action. we need to reconcile environmental protection and social inclusion, encourage science, technology and innovation, encourage the local economy, fight international crime, and value the indigenous people and traditional communities and their ancestral knowledge. for those living under the rainforest s canopy, it s been a difficult few years. translation: you have no idea how much pressure - there was in our community under the bolsonaro government. landowners, circling planes, soya farmers wanting to buy the land to deforest it. cockerel ....
doctors will leave the nhs to work abroad, in countries including australia and new zealand. our health reporterjim reed has been looking into this. we ve been trying to answer that question, whether we ve been seeing a large exodus, as is being feared, of nhs doctors going overseas. let s begin by looking at the bigger picture. this graph is showing as the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and the proportion of uk nhs doctors that are joining and leaving the proportion of uk nhs doctors that arejoining and leaving each year. the numberjoining here in read has actually been rising as we ve been recruiting more foreign doctors from overseas into the health service. the number in blue is the number leaving, and actually, it has remained pretty constant over time at about 15%. this is the number of doctors leaving for any reason, so that could be retiring, moving into private practice, it could be going abroad, and there has been some quite aggressive recruiting ....
how to make repression work? nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me again, stephen. well, it s a pleasure to have you back in the studio. we talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. you ve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. but your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. what difference has that made? well, it s definitely a step up of the intimidation tactics that the chinese and hong kong government has been using. for me, i ve been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someone s head is completely new. like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the government s list, it s actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were, like, tr ....
the lengthy roadmap outlined in the city of belem promotes sustainable development, an end to deforestation, and fighting the organised crime that fuels it. let s take a look at the rainforest that s at stake: the amazon stretches nearly seven million square kilometres, with two thirds of it in brazil. another seven countries and one territory share the remaining third. under brazil s former president, jair bolsonaro, years of deforestation in the amazon worsened. the orange on this map shows the areas of deforestation between 2019 and 2022 in the state of para where the summit is. but new data shows a positive shift deforestation in the amazon fell by 66% last month compared to the year before. it s now at its lowest rate in six years. our correspondent katy watson is in the amazon at the summit. we have had day one of the summit, and already, the country participating have issued a statement saying they are forming an alliance to work together to protect the amazon. ....