The Amazon rainforest is home to billions of trees, animals and people. It’s spread across nine countries in South America - Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela - but the majority of it, almost 60%, is in Brazil. As well as being rich in biodiversity, the Amazon is also very important in the world's fight against climate change; as it absorbs carbon dioxide and produces oxygen.

But the Amazon has been declining. In fact, in 2022 Brazil set a new deforestation record for the amount of trees cut down in the rainforest in one month. This impact is being felt directly by the indigenous groups who have been living there for thousands of years, but also the world as a whole. In this episode we’re joined by Graihagh Jackson, from the BBC’s The Climate Question podcast, and Dr Erika Berenguer, who’s a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford and Lancaster. We chat about why the Amazon is so important, and what’s being done to protect it. This year’s climate summit Cop30 is being held in Belem, in the Amazon, for the first time. So we also discuss what impact this could have on the world’s largest rainforest.

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Sora and Vibes are making it easier than ever to make AI-generated videos. You may already be familiar with low-budget ‘AI slop’ which is creeping into TikTok and Instagram. Things like Will Smith eating spaghetti, dogs riding motorbikes, or the late Queen Elizabeth rapping. Or, maybe you enjoy POV videos - and imagining you’re an angel waking up in heaven, or the Pope in the Vatican. Now Sora, from the owners of ChatGPT, and Vibes, from Meta, are promising to take AI-generated video content to the next level. They both launched in September.

So, is the internet about to change forever? How can we tell what’s real and what’s not? Is this a new age of misinformation? And should we be worried that President Donald Trump is sharing lots of these videos? The BBC’s Jacqui Wakefield joins us to share all. Plus, we hear from two students about why they love or hate AI-generated content.

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Nauru is the third smallest country in the world. It’s located in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean and is home to around 12-thousand people. The tiny island has recently received its first transfer of foreign detainees from Australia - following a controversial deal between the two nations. The deal was struck after Australia's top court ruled that it could not indefinitely detain about 358 people, the bulk of whom have been convicted of crimes, forcing their release into the community. The BBC’s Katy Watson is based in Sydney. She breaks down what we need to know about this deal, and what it says about Australia’s migration policy.

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