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Brazil: Amazon on Fire

With President Jair Bolsonaro claiming the fires in the Amazon are a lie, what hope is there of saving the world's biggest forest? Katy Watson reports.

It's fire season in the Amazon and the forest is once again in flames. In 2019 there was an outcry over the burning in the rainforest, but this year, despite a ban on fires during dry season, it has continued unabated. With President Jair Bolsonaro claiming the fires are a lie, what hope is there of saving the world's biggest forest? Katy Watson reports.

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