France: Johnson pledges support to Brazil to battle Amazon fires ahead of G7 meeting

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SOT, Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister: "We're going to do everything that we possibly can to support the Brazilians to get the fire under control."
Journalist: "But trade deals at this juncture?"
Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister: "Well as I say I don't think we ought to be doing anything. There are all sorts of people who will take any sort of excuse at all to interfere with free trade and to *inaudible* trade deals."
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SOT, Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister: "It's female education, it's the number one solution to so many of the global problems. Get every girl in the world the same education as everyone, get every girl in the world 12 years of quality education; that's what we ought to be aiming for."
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson commented the situation in Brazil amid raging Amazon fires, as he arrived in the French city of Biarritz on Saturday to take part in the G7 summit.
"We're going to do everything that we possibly can to support the Brazilians to get the fire under control," stressed Johnson.
A record number of fires have been raging through the Amazon rainforest, the majority of which is located in Brazil.
The G7 summit will start in Biarritz on Saturday and run from August 24 to August 26 and will see world leaders discuss topics including tackling global inequality, the US-China trade dispute, the Hong Kong protests and the climate crisis.