The amazon from reaching, quote, a point of no return. The lengthy roadmap outlined in the city of belem promotes sustainable development, an end to deforestation, and fighting the organised crime that fuels it. Lets take a look at whats at stake the amazon stretches nearly Seven Million square kilometres, or nearly Three Million square miles. About two thirds of that is in brazil. Another seven countries and one terrority share the remaining third. Under brazils 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 being held. But new data shows a positive shift. Deforestation in the amazon fell by 66 last month compared to the year before. Its now at its lowest rate in six years. Our correspondent katy watson is at the summit in the amazon, and has more. We have had day one of the summit and already the countries participating have issued a
the us plans to provide for ukraine. now, as the us remains at the forefront of aid donors for ukraine with more than $60 billion given to the country since russia s fullscale invasion. a recent media poll found that 45% of americans should authorize addditionalfunding for ukraine and 55% disagree, saying the us should not authorize additional funding for ukraine. earlier, my colleague caitriona perry spoke to ambassador linda thomas greenfield for the current standings in both ukraine and niger. we ve seen russia striking civilians there while holding up a blockade of food exports in the black sea, much needed food relief for countries like afghanistan, yemen and others. in fact, the situation the former us ambassador to nato called a warzone is relevant to nato as western ukraine. is there any hope for relief
as the country is hit by another earthquake. and two of the uk s biggest supermarkets, start rationing some fruit and vegetables, as the shelves run short. we begin in poland where us presidentjoe biden has stressed the us and other allies support for ukraine will not waver, in a defiant speech delivered in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s fullscale invasion. he told a cheering crowd in warsaw that, as he put it, president putin s lust for power and land would fail, painting the struggle as a generational one for freedom. it comes hours after russia s vladimir putin announced moscow was suspending participation in a key arms control treaty with the us during an address to russia s parliament. we ll have more on that shortly, but let s hear now from mr biden.