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G7 Leaders Vow to Help Brazil Fight Fires, Repair Damage

Associated Press

   RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said
   Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across
   the Amazon region and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of
   soldiers got ready to join the fight against blazes that have caused
   global alarm.

   French President Emmanuel Macron said the summit leaders were nearing
   an agreement on how to support Brazil and said the agreement would
   involve both technical and financial mechanisms "so that we can help
   them in the most effective way possible."

   German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country and others will talk
   with Brazil about reforestation in the Amazon once fires there have
   been extinguished.

   "Of course (this is) Brazilian territory, but we have a question here
   of the rainforests that is really a global question," she said. "The
   lung of our whole Earth is affected, and so we must find common
   solutions."

   Pope Francis also added his voice to the chorus of concern over the
   fires in Brazil, which borders his homeland of Argentina, and urged
   people to pray so that "they are controlled as quickly as possible." He
   told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that "we're all worried" about the
   Amazon fires. He warned that that green "lung of forest is vital for
   our planet."
   

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