The Brazilian government has accepted £10m in aid from the United Kingdom to battle the devastating wave of forest fires in the Amazon region.

In a meeting between Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Brazilian counterpart Ernesto Araújo on Tuesday evening, Brazil agreed to receive the financial aid from the UK, days after rejecting a similar offer from G7 countries.

Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed $22m in G7 assistance amid the bullish head of state’s war of words with French president Emmanuel Macron.

Mr Bolsonaro on Wednesday doubled down on his statement that he would only accept the G7 funds if he received a personal apology from Mr Macron.

"The French government called me a liar," he said, according to Reuters news agency. "Only after it has recanted what it said about me... and the Brazilian people, who do not accept this diminution of the Amazon's sovereignty ... then we can talk again."

The French president called Mr Bolsonaro a "liar" last week, after Brazil's leader promised to respect the country's climate commitments when the two met at June's G20 summit.