Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a “lie”.

Nearly 8,000 residents of Riverside County in Southern California are forced to evacuate their homes as a wildfire spread uncontained across more than 4,000 acres.

Exclusive footage captured from inside an Iranian gasoline-laden tanker shows a Venezuelan army aircraft providing protection to the vessel as it sails towards a port in the South American state.