Dramatic footage fuels fears Amazon fires could be worse than last year

As dry season starts campaigners sound alarm over shocking' scale of fires, as Bolsonaro doubles down on denials

Dramatic new images have shown fires raging over wide areas of the Brazilian Amazon nearly a year after blazes across the region sparked an international crisis for the far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro.

The video images and photographs were filmed during a flight by Greenpeace over a wide area of forest in Mato Grosso state in the south of the Amazon on 9 July. Filmed just as the Amazon dry season was beginning, they raise fears that this year's fires could be as devastating and perhaps worse than 2019's.