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Dom Phillips: Sister of journalist missing in Amazon makes tearful plea

The sister of a veteran British journalist has made a tearful plea for urgency from Brazilian authorities, after he and an indigenous affairs official went missing in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon.

Dom Phillips was travelling the area with Bruno Pereira while researching a book. The two had received threats days before, indigenous groups have said .

In a video posted by her partner on Twitter, Sian Phillips said her brother "cares deeply about the Amazon and the people there".

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