Youth for Climate demonstrators attend a protest outside the Brazil's embassy in Paris due the wildfires at Amazon rainforest, France, August 23, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Several hundred environmental activists demonstrated on Friday outside the Brazilian embassy in Paris as a clash between the two countries' leaders over the issue of climate change intensified, while similar protests took place in London.
On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and U.N. Secretary General António Guterres expressed concerns about wildfires that are raging in the Amazon, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro responded angrily to what he regarded as meddling.
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