Brazil’s Bolsonaro at UN: Defiant about fires burning in Amazon

Despite global outrage, President Jair Bolsonaro says international media has exaggerated problem of Amazon fires.

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to rebut his critics who say he is causing a global environmental catastrophe.

He instead said the Amazon was Brazil’s sovereign property and called the backlash against the fire a new form of colonialism.

Back home, opinion was divided over the president’s speech.

Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Cuaiba, the capital of the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso.