Firefighters work to put out fires in the Vila Nova Samuel region, along the road to the National Forest of Jacunda, near to the city of Porto Velho, Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon, Sunday, August 25, 2019. Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they were preparing to help Brazil fight the fires burning across the Amazon rainforest and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of soldiers were being deployed to fight the blazes that have caused global alarm. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)





A tract of the Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by loggers and farmers in Porto Velho, Brazil on August 24, 2019. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





Brazilian farmer Helio Lombardo Do Santos and a dog walk through a burnt area of the Amazon rainforest, near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on August 26, 2019. Hundreds of new fires have flared up in the Amazon in Brazil, data showed Monday, even as military aircraft dumped water over hard-hit areas and G7 nations pledged to help combat the blazes. Smoke choked Port Velho city and forced the closure of the airport for nearly two hours as fires raged in the northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting efforts are concentrated, amid a growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil. (Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP Photo)





Protester dance as they gather in front of the Brazilan Embassy during a demonstration organised by Extinction Rebellion activists in Brussels, August 26, 2019, calling on Brazil to act to protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation and fire. The Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of wildfires this year, which have triggered a global outcry. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Photo)





A woman holds up a sign that reads “SOS Amazons. Everybody for the Amazon” featuring a stuffed sloth animal during a protest in defense of the Amazon while wildfires burn in that region, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, August 25, 2019. Experts from the country's satellite monitoring agency say most of the fires are set by farmers or ranchers clearing existing farmland, but the same monitoring agency has reported a sharp increase in deforestation this year as well. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





Protesters crouch behind a barricade during a protest in Hong Kong, Sunday, August 25, 2019. Police in Hong Kong used tear gas Sunday to clear pro-democracy demonstrators who had taken over a street and brought out water cannon trucks for the first time in the summer long protests. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policewoman over the Israeli demolition of a building housing an apartment and a restaurant as the building owners said they were informed by the forces that they did not obtain a construction permit, in Beit Jala in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on August 26, 2019. (Photo by Mussa Qawasma/Reuters)





In this photo taken on Friday, July 26, 2019, and distributed by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the Fedor robot is seen before being loaded into a Soyuz capsule to be launched by a new Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the launch pad at Russia’s space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The new Russian rocket, that is expected to replace the current model sending manned missions into space, blasted off Thursday, carrying a Soyuz capsule with a humanoid robot that will be tested in spaceflight conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS). (Photo by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service Photo via AP Photo)





Director of Moesgaard Museum, Mads Kahler Holst, replaces the first of the many pedestrian signals with Vikings lights, on 26 August 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark. The red and green Vikings stands for Aarhus's long history connected to the Vikings. (Photo by Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP Photo)





Circus artist Dmitry Sorokin prepares to perform during the Sand Tale show produced by Yevgeny Shevtsov at the Great Moscow State Circus in Moscow, Russia on August 25, 2019. The Sand Tale show is a joint project by Gia Eradze's producer center and the team of the Great Moscow State Circus. (Photo by Artyom Geodakyan/TASS)





The Ensemble of Korean People's Army of North Korea performs on the Russia's Army Theatre's stage during the “Spasskaya Tower” international military music festival in Moscow on August 26, 2019. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Participants slide down along a chute to cross a pool of water and foam during the Letniy Gornoluzhnik (Summer mountain puddle rider) international festival at the Bobrovy Log Fun Park near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia on August 25, 2019. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





A performer in costume takes part in the carnival on the main Parade day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London on August 26, 2019. Nearly one million people were expected by the organisers Sunday and Monday in the streets of west London's Notting Hill to celebrate Caribbean culture at a carnival considered the largest street demonstration in Europe. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP Photo)