Amazon fires: 'Our house is burning'

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Global leaders have expressed alarm about the record number of wildfires in Brazil's Amazon region. President Macron of France said the crisis would be given top priority at the G7 summit he's hosting this weekend. Boris Johnson has met Emmanuel Macron in Paris for Brexit talks, with the French president saying the UK's vote to quit the EU must be respected. But he added that the Ireland-Northern Ireland backstop plan was "indispensable" to preserving political stability and the single market. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has been in the hot seat in parliament, facing questions about his African National Congress presidential campaign’s funding.