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Brazil's Armed Forces ordered to fight Amazon fires

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The G7 summit leaders focus on how to deal with the Amazon forest fires

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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