On the heroics of ben stokes after that historic innings at headingley yesterday. And coming up at half nine, weather world rounds up the planets recent and most significant meteorological events. A new plan to tackle huge wildfires in the amazon rainforest is expected to be agreed at the g7 summit of World Leaders today. Brazilian warplanes have already been dumping water on the burning woodland. This morning, borisjohnson has pledged £10 million in funding to help replace lost trees. Heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. The fires raging across the amazon in recent weeks have been devastating notjust for those who live there, but also potentially for the global environment. For president macron of france, they are a crisis the g7 was designed to fix a Common Threat that requires collective action by the worlds major economies. So today, he and other leaders will discuss and potentially agree a new plan to help countries first with the fires, and then subsequent reforestation. Translation there are contacts that are being made with all the countries of the amazon by our teams so that we can finalise very concrete commitments of technical and financial means. The german chancellor Angela Merkel said the earths lung was being affected, so there had to be a common solution. Borisjohnson promised an immediate £10 million to help brazil with reforestation. But its still not clear what else may be agreed. President bolsonaro of brazil has accused foreign governments of interfering in the sovereignty of his country, and the g7 is divided over whether to block an eu trade deal with some south american countries if they do not take more action to tackle fires lit deliberately by loggers and farmers. James landale, bbc news, in biarritz. Brazilian troops have begun a major operation to put out a Record Number of fires in the amazon rainforest. The countrys defence minister said two planes loaded with thousands of litres of water and special Chemical Products had been sent to the Northern State of rondonia. Joining me now in the studio isjuman kubba, a forest campaigner with greenpeace. How concerned we need to be about these fires . I think we cant overstate how serious this is. The lungs of the world are on fire. Compared to last year, i think it puts the number of fires at 45 higher, that is how significant it is. Yet if we go back a few years, the fires were worse, and then they got better, and now they are getting worse again. So its not the all time worst, is it . Just the worst in the last three or four model years . We have worst in the last three or four modelyears . We have reached worst in the last three or four model years . We have reached a worst in the last three or four modelyears . We have reached a peak, the scale of the fires is unprecedented. It is linked to what we are seeing in the country, a general move to basically ignore Environmental Protections and just open up more land to agriculture. That is something that we need to be doing something about. And yet, as we just doing something about. And yet, as wejust mentioned, the brazilian government is now dropping water on these flames. It is attempting to send troops to the area. These flames. It is attempting to send troops to the areal these flames. It is attempting to send troops to the area. I think the fundamental question is how do we stop these kinds of fires in the long term . This means we cant keep destroying the forest in order to grow more agriculture. There is too things we need to do. The un, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says we cant keep growing so change, says we cant keep growing so much animal feed change, says we cant keep growing so much animalfeed etc change, says we cant keep growing so much animal feed etc for global food systems. We have to change the way that we eat. We need to stop doing trade deals that allow for more destruction. We need to put Environmental Protection at the heart of trade. Trade is something that the g7 is talking about in ba rrettes, we have that the g7 is talking about in barrettes, we have the us and a lot of european governments there, are you hopeful that the language they are talking, about the rainforest, ta kes are talking, about the rainforest, takes that point of our trade on board . I think it is important that we are recognising how serious this is. This is a worldwide problem. We are seeing the destruction of forests across the world. Its important that is recognised and language being used shows how big it is. But it is notjust about money. We need to stop fanning the flames, which means putting human rights protections at the heart of every trade agreement. There has been talk, but not enough action. Are you hopeful . If so, where would it come from, apart from organisations like greenpeace, do you see actual government is stepping up to take the action and put the hand in the the action and put the hand in the the money to finance such action . 0bviously the money to finance such action . Obviously if we look at it from the brazilian point of view, they have a lot of poor people on the edges of ra i nfo rests lot of poor people on the edges of rainforests and they have different Politics Around them . Rainforests and they have different Politics Around them . If you look at the brazilian side, there is a lot of protests, Indigenous People have been affected by this deforestation. Its important that World Leaders recognise there is a problem. In the uk last week we had a trade delegation talking trade, while the forests were burning. Weve got to say thats not ok. We need to stop having talks until the forest fires are sorted out and make sure any trade deal in the future has Environmental Protection at its heart. Obviously coming back to the g7, they are discussing it this morning, coming back to the question i raised a moment ago, is it actually happening, this determination to actually do something about it . What we are seeing is talk about lets put more money in, lets reforest destroyed areas. Thats fine, but its not enough. We need to protect the forest we have left. That means a more fundamental change than what has been announced so far, we need more action. Staying with the situation in the amazon, bolivias president is facing criticism for his slow response to the fires in his country more than a million hectares of forest close to brazil have already been destroyed. Environmental campaigners say its a result of a decree allowing cattle farmers to clear the forest. Gareth barlow reports. Bolivias forests are burning. As helicopters hover overhead, volunteers and firefighters battle the flames on the ground. Its from the air that the true extent of the fires is apparent. More than 10,000 Square Kilometres have already been burnt. Now, the bolivian president , evo morales, who has been criticised for his slow response, has opened the door to international help. Translation i welcome telephone calls from the president s of paraguay, chile and spain. We welcome any cooperation. Since wednesday, we have been managing the operation. The Development Bank of latin america is donating about 500,000. Its not only the environment that suffering. These families are just some of the many forced from their homes. Translation the plants are destroyed, all the plants, and now the water for us as well. The pipe has been burned and we dont have the water running from the pipe. Its all burnt. Translation there is intense smoke coming with the fire. It was like a whirlwind. It was coming to the houses. It advances very fast. The fire came from the side of the mountains and into the village. As in neighbouring brazil, which is tackling a Record Number of fires, activists say tree clearing in bolivia, often for agriculture, is mostly to blame. While World Leaders discuss the fires of the g7 summit in france, on the ground in bolivia, bottled water on baskets of water are being used to tackle the blaze. Gareth barlow, bbc news. Lets go back to biarritz and speak to ros atkins. What are they going to ros atkins. What are they going to say and do about this . Well, we are waiting to see. Day three is definitely the sharp end of things at the g7 summit. It has been a three day event. As you know, at international summits, you tend not to get the actions, decisions, until quite close to the end. There has been lots of signalling that we are expecting a firm announcement on the fires in the amazon. It hasnt emerged yet. I interviewed the president of chile a few minutes ago and he said we are definitely going to say something, we are definitely putting together a package of assistance for brazil to take on these fires. But he was less keen to get into the detail of how you persuade the brazilian president that Climate Change is a real thing that Climate Change is a real thing that requires action, perhaps encouraging mining and farming within the amazon is not a great idea. Everyone here, ithink, is tiptoeing around president bolsonaro, concerned that if he feels like brazils sovereignty is being breached and anyway, he is not necessarily going to work with them as they would like him too. We will see what they come up with on the fires in the amazon. The other main div element of the morning is donald trump talking about iran. He says he doesnt want regime change in iran, he says he wants to make iran richer. Which is the direct opposite of what american sanctions are doing at the moment. Mr trump would argue thatis at the moment. Mr trump would argue that is the fault of the iranian government. 0n that is the fault of the iranian government. On that curious div element yesterday when the Iranian Foreign minister landed at biarritz airport unexpectedly, mr trump is 110w airport unexpectedly, mr trump is now saying he was told by president macron in advance and we are not expecting the americans and the iranians to meet. You say it is the sharp end of the summit, they have to come up with or not come up with a communique. Do you get a sense that this is an organisation in search of a purpose, with all the difficulties over gender, membership, communication and so on, that they are really stumbling around and looking for a reason for being . They most certainly are. President macron acknowledge this explicitly in the run up to the summit. He said previous summits, the format they pursued, no longer worked for the world in which we are living. He is trying to reimagine the g7. Hes done a few things towards that end. He has invited eight other World Leaders. A few minutes ago, just walking up the zigzagging path behind me, president macron welcomed the australian Prime Minister scott morrison. He is one of eight World Leaders to be invited, as well as the g7 themselves. He is trying to broaden it out and say, this isnt a small club, we understand there is a bigger world out there. The other pressure on the g7 is that there is a time when we talked about the west asa a time when we talked about the west as a single entity, an entity that was pushing towards shared goals. What has been laid out in front of us what has been laid out in front of us for everyone to see at the g7 is that we cant do that anymore. The gulf between europe and america is vast on all of the most pressing issues in the world, from trade, Climate Change, russia and iran, and no one here is trying to pretend otherwise. The question for the g7 is, if that is the case, what form should we take in the future . You should we take in the future . You should be here . Bear in mind that donald trump would like Vladimir Putin to be at the next g7, just about everybody else here thinks that was a bad idea. What we are seeing with the pressures being exerted on the g7 is a much Bigger Picture around the world, where we see russia and china, and india, in very different ways asserting themselves. We see the west dividing into two and we see south America Emerging as its own political entity. But all of that together, the g7 trying to work out how it fits into that. One last thought on all of that, you said there was two top issues, trade and Climate Change, a moment ago we had greenpeace onset here, talking about how you cant really solve the amazon Climate Change problem, everything related to all of that, without addressing trade. In search of relevance, the g7 do need to come up of relevance, the g7 do need to come up with a more fundamental review of trading arrangements which also deals with those underlying problems. My final question to you, then, are they going to achieve that degree of relevance . They are not going to achieve that degree of releva nce going to achieve that degree of relevance today, because the fundamental players within the g7 dont agree either on what the problem is or what the solution is. So, if you talk about tax, for instance, france has introduced a digital tax to bring in further income from tech giants like google and facebook, donald trump has criticised it. The uk has said, yes, we need Something Like that. Emanuel macron came out and said, actually, if we can agree on International Tax system, a new tax structure for digital countries, france will ditch the digital tax. All of which means there is confusion about what might come in, and while that is going on, nothing comes in. In terms of Climate Change, there is a widespread acceptance this is an international issue, Boris Johnson said so, emanuel macron said so, donald tusk said so. But we then had president bolsonaro, the man who rules the country which has the majority of the amazon within it, saying everyone has a colonial mindset. He said that towards the french. The challenge for the g7 and is very powerful leaders here is how do we create something new that deals with issues that are fundamentally international, Climate Change being the most obvious one, without upsetting a generation of leaders, president bolsonaro being one, President Trump being another, for whom nationalism is attractive and for whom nationalism has delivered power . And that tension between Global Concerns and nationalist sympathy is at the heart of the challenge for the g7. I dont mean to disappoint you, but they are not going to solve this one today l thoughtful analysis as ever. 0ne one of the issues exercising minds in biarritz is the trade war with china. Donald trump has sought to calm growing fears over the United States trade war with china, saying beijing had requested a resumption of talks. Stock markets in asia opened the week sharply down, amid fears that the worsening trade dispute could push the World Economy into recession. On friday, the United States and china both announced further tariff increases on each others goods. They mean business. They want to be able to make a deal. Its very important that. I think its very important that. I think its very important for them. Theyve lost 3 million jobs, important for them. Theyve lost 3 millionjobs, a lot of important for them. Theyve lost 3 million jobs, a lot of things important for them. Theyve lost 3 millionjobs, a lot of things have happened. Its why the president is a great leader. He understands. Its going to be great for china, great for the us and great for the world. He understands that and he is able to do things that other people arent able to do. So we will call, and we will start very shortly to negotiate and see what happens. I think were going to a deal. Ever the optimist, donald trump on the trade relationship with china. The bbc should cough up and pay for free tv licences for all over 75s. Thats the message from the Prime Minister whos suggested the corporation has gone back on a deal to fund the licences, but the bbc said there was no such guarantee. Injune it was announced that only low income households, where one person received pension credit, would be eligible for a free tv licence. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent tom barton whos been following this for us. The Prime Minister has waded in . Absolutely. This dates back to 2015, when the bbc last agreed a licence fee settlement with the government. Pa rt fee settlement with the government. Part of the terms of that was the responsibility for funding these free tv licences for over 75 is, which was introduced by gordon brown a few years previously, passed from the government to the bbc. At the start ofjune, the bbc announced that it would start, from next year, only funding three licenses, as you say, for those pensioners who receive pension credit. That would mean about 3. 7 million extra pensioners would now have to pay for their tv licences. Unsurprisingly, that has been controversial. There has also been a political row viewing nick brewing. This intervention, saying that the bbc should cop up, is blunt from Boris Johnson. He says the deal that the bbc reached was conditional on the corporation continuing to fund those three licences. Thats really interesting, it is something where the bbc has come back and said it wasnt true, so now we have a disagreement and not just about how it should be handled, but about the basic facts of what the agreement was. Absolutely come on the one hand you have borisjohnson in downing street saying that the bbc should honour the agreement. The bbc say, actually, the government decided to stop funding those three licences backin stop funding those thr