UNREPORTED WORLD: BRAZIL (SLUM WARFARE) 1 OF 2
UNREPORTED WORLD: BRAZIL (SLUM WARFARE) PART 1 OF 2
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK. It's reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
After negotiating with some of Rio's leading drug lords to gain permission to film on their turf, reporter Khaled Kazziha and director Tom Porter live in the world of the traffickers for three weeks. They uncover the reality of a war that is claiming the lives of innocent civilians as well as policemen and the traffickers.
Rio de Janeiro has always had a violent side to its tourist image of a paradise city, but the violence has grown to such an extent that for many of the people who now live there, conditions are warlike.
In the past twenty years half a million people have been killed in Brazil by firearms alone. There are more gun-related killings in Brazil than in many war zones - four times as many people have been killed there as the number recorded in the past 50 years of Arab-Israeli conflict.
Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK. It's reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
After negotiating with some of Rio's leading drug lords to gain permission to film on their turf, reporter Khaled Kazziha and director Tom Porter live in the world of the traffickers for three weeks. They uncover the reality of a war that is claiming the lives of innocent civilians as well as policemen and the traffickers.
Rio de Janeiro has always had a violent side to its tourist image of a paradise city, but the violence has grown to such an extent that for many of the people who now live there, conditions are warlike.
In the past twenty years half a million people have been killed in Brazil by firearms alone. There are more gun-related killings in Brazil than in many war zones - four times as many people have been killed there as the number recorded in the past 50 years of Arab-Israeli conflict.
13-06-2007
