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World Service,26 Aug 2019,23 mins

Brazil's Armed Forces ordered to fight Amazon fires

Newsday

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Brazil's Jair Bolsanaro is under pressure from world leaders to fight the forest fires in the Amazon. We have a report from one of the areas affected. We speak to a leading Hong Kong activist about the weekend's events in the Chinese territory and claims that police pointed guns at some of the demonstrators. A new government is announced in the Democratic Republic of Congo - 8 months after elections took place.

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