Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

A breakthrough as Amazon countries assemble to protect the lungs of the world

but falls short on specifics to fight deforestation.

I ask President Biden's former top climate advisor Gina McCarthy how to turn talk into action.

Also ahead, longtime Labour Party MP Chris Bryant discusses his new book, Code of Conduct.

He also reveals shocking allegations of his sexual assault inside Westminster.

Plus, it is really using all means possible to gain a greater situational awareness of its

opponents and of its adversaries. China's post-pandemic economic recovery is

faltering, but Hari discusses Beijing's growing sphere of political influence

and what its Taiwan endgame looks like,

with Toshi Yoshihara at Georgetown University. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina. I'm poor in London and we begin with the

precarious state of the Earth's vital cooling system. Rainforests help prevent our

planet from overheating and deliver the oxygen we need to breathe

by absorbing huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

They're also home to half the Earth's animal and plant life.

But they're under attack at an alarming rate.

Despite splashy global pledges to end deforestation by 2030,

an area of tropical forests the size of Switzerland was completely lost last year

and to put that into context that's the equivalent of losing 11 soccer fields of

forest every 60 seconds. This week eight South American

presidents have been meeting in Brazil where they all agreed to stop the rainforest destruction before the point of no return.

But deciding on a destination is one thing.

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