Lula vows to take on Amazon crime if returned to power in Brazil elections

Ex-president says he will clamp down on illegal miners and loggers after murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

The leading candidate to become Brazil's next president has vowed to launch a major crackdown on the illegal miners and loggers laying waste to the Amazon in the wake of the barbaric" murders of the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips.

Speaking to foreign journalists in Sao Paulo, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva paid tribute to the two men, who were gunned down in June while documenting the historic assault on Indigenous lands that has unfolded under Brazil's current leader, Jair Bolsonaro.