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Diverse places on earth, and if you want to buy a chunk of it, now all you have to do is go online. we have discovered facebook has become a go to marketplace for brazils illegal land grabbers, ready to turn pristine rainforest into profit for buyers around the world at the click of a button, no matter what or who they harm. iamjoao i am joao fellet and i amjoao fellet and i am going to take you undercover to meet the sellers behind the online ads. to find out who they are and how they are getti...

Produce and create clothes, and to see if we can create a more sustainable way. fabricant�*s founder, amber slooten, became concerned about the environmental impact of fast fashion when she was a student at the amsterdam fashion institute. so she decided to put down her needle and thread, pick up a computer and mouse and start creating virtual garments for some of the worlds biggest fashion brands. this one was sold for almost $10,000 — a custom frock which has not and never will exist in th...

Destruction of the amazon is driven by the demand for land. we have discovered that land deals these days are moving online. we started this investigation by typing some words on facebook like forest. and there were hundreds of ads. people were selling chunks of the amazon rainforest. we started going through the ads one by one. we quickly discovered that a lot of sellers openly admit they do not have any documentation which proves they own the land they are advertising. this plot in amazon esta...

But loggers like this are only part of the story. the destruction of the amazon is driven by the demand for land. and weve discovered that land deals these days are moving online. we started this investigation by typing some words on facebook, like forest. and there were hundreds of ads. people were selling chunks of the amazon rainforest. we started going through the ads one by one. we quickly discovered that a lot of sellers openly admit they dont have any documentation which proves they own t...

The big picture, the high pressure is still there, so again its a very quiet, settled weather story but well see some sunny spells this weekend but potentially less of that on monday with some low cloud, mist and fog which will stick around into the afternoon in central parts of england and wales. further north, it should be drier and brighter. towards the middle of the week, the high pressure is hanging on in there. we still have some weather fronts nearby, it is keeping those away. looking at ...

Off online — on social media. joao fellet reports. the amazon rainforest is one of the most beautiful and biodiverse places on earth... ..and if you want to buy a chunk of it, now all you have to do is go online. weve discovered facebook has become a go—to marketplace for brazils illegal land grabbers. .. ..ready to turn pristine rainforest into cattle pasture for buyers around the world at the click of a button... indistinct voices ..no matter what or who they harm. im joao fellet and im go...

The sellers behind the online ads... ..to find out who they are and how they are getting away with it. deforestation in the brazilian amazon is at a ten—year high. is facebook fuelling that destruction? deforestation is happening in every corner of the amazon. its not hard to find communities of illegal loggers working away. we were invited by a logger

This plot in amazonas state, its just been deforested. the seller says she has no documents and she would take a motorbike as part of her payment. chunks of rainforest as large as 1,000 football pitches were being offered, and it got worse. using satellite imagery, we were able to confirm a lot of the plots on sale were, in fact, inside protected areas. some of the most biodiverse places on earth were being advertised on facebook as perfect for timber harvesting and cattle farming. but how do we...

It is so easy to play the system here. a very important detail about this ad is, when he posted it, there was a satellite picture showing an area that was fully covered by forest. but fabricio tells us that is no longer the case, and he invites lucas to come and see for himself. lucas follows fabricio in his car two hours outside of the state capital, porto velho. we track his movements remotely. they arrive at an area that should

♪ ♪ >> shannon: now to a story about technology and how the celebrity culture is altogether feeling a lot of people and causing a fuss over one of the worlds top movie stars. it involves something called a deepfake. after tom cruise, a kind of deception that could turn out to be, in some cases, actually dangerous. here is correspondent gillian turner with the story. >> deepfake videos of hollywood megastar tom cruise doing magic tricks, cracking jokes, tripping, golfing, going viral and soci...