This is the New World Report. I'm John Batchett, and Ernest Arouge, a former foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil is in Buenos Aires following the preliminary vote, the first round vote in Argentina, but we go now to the Amazon which concerns

not only Argentina and Brazil and many other countries of the Americas but the

whole world. This is the lungs of planet Earth and there is alarming news that Ernesto can

help us understand, having been responsible for the Amazon

in his time in the foreign ministry, and all Brazilians feel an intimate relationship

with the Amazon, and this headline then is more than

alarming. Experts fear drought and and wildfires will push Amazon to a

reversible tipping point. A withering drought, this is the bullet of the atomic

scientist, a withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a

climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in

121 years. Man now is the city of 1 million people surrounded by a forest of trees

normally bas under blue skies.

Tourists take pleasure boats, where dolphins can often be seen enjoying what are usually the most abundant

freshwater resources in the world.

However, Ernesto, I have seen video of dolphins dying in that river

and they're not able to rescue them.

But more to the point, the drought is now at the 121st year love. The earlier in this century and the one present right now has one international

acclaim in protecting the Amazon. This doesn't look like it can do anything to

stop this drought. This is an El Nino related event, but at the same time the wildfires are attached to the abuse of the land that has been present for decades. To your understanding Brazil, is there anything

that needs to be done or that can be done? Or are we riding a train that's going to crash?

Thank you.

Well, John, I would say that on the long-term trend, of course this is a very serious situation but so you mentioned that it's the lowest point of the rivers in 120 years so we actually don't know what happened before so maybe 150 years ago it was even worse when there was no

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