At least 12 people have been killed in Rio De Janeiro in clashes involving suspected drug traffickers and police.
A police helicopter crashed after being shot at, killing two officers.
It was part of an operation in one of the Brazilian city’s slums. Gabriel Eliznodo reports.
"Cracolandia" – that is the name given to the dark streets ruled by crack-cocaine addicts in the centre of the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.
They congergate by the hundreds and are tolerated by police because they keep out of sigth.
But recent plans for the re-deveolpment of the area have forced the users and drug-pushers out of the shadows and into neighbouring streets.
It is a problem the authorities have so far refused to deal with. Gabriel Elizondo reports.
After a wave of killings targeting his country’s top police officers, Mexico’s President is vowing to take back the streets.
Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports from Mexco City.
Police have declraed war on drug traffickers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The policy by Rio’s new governor to send heavily armed special forces into he city’s notoriously dangerosu favelas — or slums — is being applauded by law and order advocates. But as Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman discovered, for those living inside the slums, it looks and feels like a war zone.
One of the Iran’s biggest problems is drugs. According to the Unietd Nations more than 60 per cent of the opium that’s produced in Afghanistan passes through Iran. The country gets millions of dollars of international assistance every year, but says that’s only a fraction of what it needs to fight the drugs trade. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri reports.