This is our third week on the air in the 2019 fall season, and we're happy you're part of it. 3

My name is Carla Zeus. 4

I'm at the CNN Center. 5

The first story in today's international coverage takes us to France. 6

That's where the G seven or Group of Seven summit is taking place. 7

The leaders of these countries represent the seven largest economies in the world, and the reason they're meeting early this week is to discuss issues that affect those economies and the world in general. 8

For instance, ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China, or a new trade agreement between the U. 9

S and Japan that was announced over the weekend by U. 10

S President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 11

They said they'd reached a deal in principle on trade, including agriculture and Internet business, and they expect to finalize it next month. 12

The Group of Seven began as a group of six back in 1975. 13

It included France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. 14

Canada was added the next year, and Russia was a part of the group starting in 1998 but the country was suspended in 2014 after it took over Crimea, a peninsula bordering the Black Sea. 15

Other members of the group saw Russia's move as illegal. 16

A topic that's been discussed this year is whether Russia should be let back in. 17

U. 18

S President Donald Trump says he thinks would be a positive thing if Russia once again made the G seven a G eight. 19

But some European leaders have disagreed with that. 20

No formal plans been made on the issue. 21

The Amazon rainforest has also come up is an international concern because of the wildfires burning. 22

Their most though not all, of the Amazon wildfires are in Brazil, and G seven leaders are discussing ways to both pressure Brazil to do more to stop the fires and offer help to the country in battling them. 23

Brazil's government has sent tens of thousands of troops to fight the flames, and it's also hired hundreds of temporary firefighters to help. 24

Burning in the Amazon is at its highest level since 2013 and Brazilian President giant Belson Otto says that though burns occur every year during the Amazon's dry season, this year's worse because of warmer than usual weather. 25

But critics say his government's policies play a role this morning. 26

Porter Velho has woken up to a startling change in its environment from just the day before. 27

The cameraman just pan around here. 28

You can see the sun red, but literally 24 hours ago, you could see a bit more of this river. 29

Frankly, in our visibility, I would say, is down to about maximum half a mile. 30

So we just keep panning in this direction. 31

This is, you know, about an hour after the sun first crept up on the forest canopy pretty much invisible. 32

Once you get away from the river banks, we're gonna turn now over to the other side of the bridge so we can show you exactly what it's like. 33

From the other perspective. 34

You could see this river before, and now it's basically just the barges on nothing else. 35

This is a key city in the worst affected state by the forest fires, and I talk to you. 36

My voice is beginning to crack up because of the content of smoke in the air. 37

You can smell it very vividly on. 38

It's a sign of the challenge ahead for President Bolson Arrows 43,000 troops who are on their way here. 39

We saw some military planes landing the day before behind me over there. 40

But the challenge is extraordinary and its weather patterns it seems really that a causing smoke to move around. 41

Is there wind? 42

Is there rain? 43

How does this cause this city to be affected like this in just one night now? 44

We heard from police yesterday that some of these father started deliberately at night. 45

Indeed, that's when they see the search in the flame that adds toe. 46

Many who say the reason this year is so bad is because the Brazilian government has been saying to people, It's okay to DeForest. 47

You can use the Amazon a source of riches on that maybe the reason why people are out there setting fires at night to create more farming land they can use to grow cattle. 48

We saw that over there to feed the cattle, creating some sense of richness in this broad early pour a part of Brazil. 49

The question, though, is with a ll the global pressure on the ball scenario government. 50

Can the army do the job? 51

Well, it's extraordinary that they've been putting pictures of a couple of C 1 30 aircraft throwing water on to the fires. 52

The sheer volume of flames out there is quite extraordinary. 53

The pope was called for urgent action here, saying these the vital lungs off the planet in his noon prayers in the Vatican this day. 54

But whether or not that is heard in this deeply religious country, whether that changes the dial of public opinion here, which seems split between those who realize this is really what we all need to breathe one in five of our breaths as oxygen that comes from the Amazon rainforest. 55

But every minute one and 1/2 football fields equivalent is being deforested. 56

These air startling numbers that barely bring home the fact that this year there's 85% more fires than the work. 57

A year before this emergency here, you can smell all around you. 58

And the question I think for people now is whether the Brazilian government has this by itself with its armies capabilities, doesn't need outside help and doesn't really at its core have the political will to deal with these not unprecedented but extremely bad fires. 59

Nick Payton Walsh, CNN Porto Velho, Brazil 12th trivia. 60

2020 summer Olympic Games were said to be held in what city? 61

Beijing. 62

China. 63

Paris, France. 64

Los Angeles, California or Tokyo. 65

Japan. 66

The next stop for the Olympics is the capital of Japan. 67

It will be the fourth time that Japan has hosted the Olympics. 68

If you include the Winter Games, too, and next year's events will be the second time the Games came to Tokyo. 69

It also staged the summer events in 1964 and those were the first modern Olympics to be held in Asia. 70

An interesting thing about next year's games is that Japan is planning to use some of the same venues it built for the 1964 Olympics for the 2020 games as the city prepares for its future. 71

Were hopping aboard a boat to sail into part of its past hundreds of years ago. 72

Tokyo is called Eddo and the city florist around its waterways, contracted as water city, and this area is surrounded, surrounded by network off water system. 73

While the city eventually transitioned to using more modern infrastructure such as railroads and highways, Many of these historic canals and waterways still exist in the Tokyo we know now. 74

This is my first time being a belt. 75

Never even took out as I was living in Italy. 76

I've seen many times in the Venice Ferris's onto the water. 77

But today we're here in Tokyo, but it's still we don't feel like hell goes on through the water. 78

Since the Edo period, much of the Tokyo Bay Area has been built from reclaimed land into man made islands. 79

There they took the earth and sand reclaimed the land. 80

And as a result, these channels now exist Way Think about my main landed we think about. 81

Okay, maybe by but actually Tokyo is much want. 82

Theo man may land. 83

It's It's kind of crazy in the city is changing. 84

As you can see, venues like the Athletesvillage are now being built for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics along the river. 85

The guide of us Really great. 86

He he knew a lot of things and, uh, the ones we start, you know, crazy. 87

I saw so many new places killing Machi anymore. 88

I think, uh, when you come to Tokyo, when you see it took out, you have to have experienced both sides. 89

You know, living inside the girl in the way of looking at it from outside, which is from a river you see, took a different way. 90

Theme for the elite athletes competing in the 2020 Summer Games, we present the medals, or at least a glimpse of what they'll look like. 91

Around 5000 of them will be made for the Tokyo Olympics. 92

They'll feature Nike, the Greek goddess of victory on the front and the Tokyo 2020 logo on the back. 93

What's unique about these is that they will be made from the gold, silver and bronze that stripped from old electronics, including used cell phones. 94

Now we don't know who made that call, who voiced interest in what some would call a tonally golden idea.