US and Brazil agree to Amazon development

The US and Brazil have agreed to promote private-sector development in the Amazon. Brazil's foreign minister said opening the rainforest to economic development was the only way to protect it.

Also in the programme: World leaders gather in Zimbabwe for the state funeral of Robert Mugabe.

Joining Paul Henley to discuss these and other issues are Victoria Rubadiri, a television reporter and presenter for the Citizen TV station in Kenya, and Henry Chu, American journalist and international editor for Variety magazine.

(Picture: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo speak to the press following a meeting at the State Department in Washington, DC on September 13, 2019. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)