“President Bolsonaro tells Emmanuel Macron that HE has to ‘withdraw insults’ before Brazil will accept G7 Amazon aid - after sparking fury when he appeared to insult Brigitte Macron”
FTA: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has said he will only accept an offer of international aid for fighting fires in the Amazon if French leader Emmanuel Macron ‘withdraws insults’ made against him.
Mr Bolsonaro said his French counterpart had called him a liar, and accused him of questioning Brazil’s sovereignty amid tensions over devastating fires sweeping the Amazon region.
It is the latest deterioration in a running feud between Bolsonaro and Macron, with recent jibes over the Notre Dame inferno and Macron’s wife, Brigitte.
The G7 nations have pledged 20million dollars (£16.3million) to help fight the flames in the Amazon and protect the rainforest, in addition to a separate 12million dollars (£9.8million) from Britain and 11 million dollars (£9million) from Canada.