A traditional way of life forever being altered by miners and loggers. Rival lula has promised to end illegal deforestation and mining. But is he really the man to save the amazon . Perhaps this is one of the most critical president ial elections we have ever had in brazil. As brazilians go to the polls, will who wins decide the future of the rainforest . We travelled to brazils Yanomami Territory, right up on the border with venezuela. Its the Worlds Largest indigenous reserve home to nearly 30,000 people who live as hunter gatherers, as well as tens of thousands of illegal miners, a number that keeps growing. The remoteness of the yanomami is what makes them so special, but also increasingly vulnerable. This woman is malnourished and dehydrated. The Health Centres become a Field Hospital on the front line of illegal mining. There are new cases every day old and young. Nobody escapes this scourge. Outside, a Makeshift Ward is full of patients with malaria the yanomami sick. Marilena i
marilena s two month old grandson has pneumonia. he doesn t have a name yet. yanomami people don t name their children for several years in case they die. it s a very real fear. five minutes walk from the health centre, a polluted creek doesn t stop the children playing. the mercury used to extract gold in the mine upstream has poisoned these once crystal clear waters. fishing and drinking here is now impossible. jenny played in this water as a kid, though much has changed not least the temptation for young indigenous to get involved in illegal mining. and this is the mine that s causing their pain. production in full swing, it s scarring the landscape and its people. there are as many as 20,000 illegal miners working in the region. we just passed one of the worst affected areas in the yanomami territory. we couldn t land. the polot said many of the miners are armed, and he was worried they d shoot at the plane. in the past few years, monitoring of illegal activity in the
as well as budgets in the environmental and indigenous affairs departments, have all been slashed. workers talk of a crisis. 0ne health worker we spoke to didn t want to be identified for fear they d get in trouble if they criticised how the federal government works. this way of life for the yanomami hangs in the balance. as the campaigning draws to a close, brazilians have a stark choice to make jair bolsonaro, a man who wants to exploit
for fear they d get in trouble if they criticised how the federal government works. this way of life for the yanomami hangs in the balance. as the campaigning draws to a close, brazilians have a stark choice to make jair bolsonaro, a man who wants to exploit the amazon for economic gain. 0rformer president lula da silva, once brazil s
bloc is likely to take around thirty six percent of sunday s vote. well as the campaigning draws to a close our correspondents have been out and about covering the final rallies. became the coo for monitoring events in munich for instance for chancellor merkel has been speaking i asked her about the choice of venue and the mood in the bearing capital. i think this is it to decide between the c.d.u. c.s.u. of the conservatives as you see it now you see the german sponsors even though i mean what is very much on us when we get me to say to you is this going to. find us that there are several thousand people turning out to support the germans also the same time we see people talking to the most when with we see that we re seeing that happening that is the fog of this campaign that it won t do the campaign of the german sausage you recent weeks these are very few people i m also saying the