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We do expect improving conditions in the forecast as well. some of the images coming out of sydney points back towards the west where the significant fires currently in place in much of eastern new south wales and breaking down the number of how much land was burned in 2019 across our planet. you recall we spent quite a bit of time talking about the amazon fires. about a million hectares of land consumed. the california fires going back to last year consumed almost 2 million hectares of land. yo...

Rosali. he knows the brazilian amazon as good as anyone, having spent several years there. he joins me now by skype. whats going on, paul, in this tit for tat 15 the academy award winner and the new president? >> i think were seeing leo dicaprio trying as hard as he can to use his star power and influence and funding to protect the amazon, which is the most important story were seeing playing out right now. in bolsonaro for some unbelievable reason is bringing this back up and giving people some...

Knock yourself out.y spoon the left party to that, thank you. i was here for that. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thank you.re spoon the press, top liberal t politicians and major celebrities all have a few thing in common, they love flying around the world privately. the love posturing about the environment, they love attacking you. in the past few weeks, the panic has been about the fires in the amazon rain forest and if got all your news from snapchat, as most people under 30 do, or ...

Everyone from french president emmanuel macron to leonardo dicaprio who pledged some money, cristiano ronaldo, have been posting photos on ther ongoing amazon fires. one problem. most of the photos are fake and many are years old from regions that arent even the amazon according to nasa, the amazon is really burning right now. what is the truth? i recognize him from other television shows and i see him in person. author of the book "the climate chronicles: inconvenient revelations you wont hear ...

For the presidency in a virtual so i think john is right, three-way way to senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren at abdication is the world i have 20% and former vice president used. america is now the principal disrupter. the problem for the europeans joe biden at 19%, but bidens and the japanese and others is they simply lack the capacity to campaign pushed back on the poll and they cited the real clear substitute for us. they do what little they can on $20 million for amazon fires whic...

But then his policies are doing exactly the opposite. the maximum pressure campaign has irans. $21 million to help put out the amazon fires. but president trump himself avoided, he skipped the session this morning on climate, claiming that he was having bilaterals with germanys chancellor merkel and prime minister modi who were both at that session. so what is progress and what is illusion. yeah, they are all smiles. the president is saying that theres been great were unity. were all unified, he...

The united states is totally on the sidelines. as you said, the president didnt even go to the environment part of the meeting. he believes climate change is a hoax. and so it was just words. i mean, it was just noise coming from the president, at least from the perspective of all the other governments there, who frankly the other leaders seem to have said okay, you know, were never going to get anywhere with trump on climate change. we will do what we do, and if he doesnt want to come to the me...

Subsequently led to his arrest and conviction. he acknowledged meeting with epstein in 2010 after the disgraced financier was released from a jail sentence, that halted a federal sex abuse ae . allegation. he called the meeting a mistake and error, and has tremendous sympathy for alleged victims. bit follows global outrage over his lackluster response to the disaster. the associated press reports that they began dumping water on the fires in the alzheimermazon few hundred troops deployed into ...

Other countries affected by the amazon fires. according to tnational institut for space research, 87 fires, the highest since 2013. here we are at the start of the workweek with milder, cooler temperatures at this hour. heres meteorologist janessa webb. >> breathable air and totally unexpected. >> exactly, and its going to be short lived. well talk about the forecast coming up. the activity in the atlantic is starting to rev up, near the peak of the hurricane season, and we have a tropical sto...

Amazon rain forest. just think about that for a second. one in every five breaths you draw because the amazon absorbs carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and filters it. it is a sink for carbon dioxide. andism pell expels cleanable breathable air. there is carbon dioxide stored in the amazon. it is why the amazon is referred to as the earths lungs. and the earths lungs are collapsing. if we lose between 20% and 25% of the amazon, the ecosystem will fall apart and the earths lungs will essentially s...