BBC News with Jerry Smit.
Eight police officers have been arrested in Brazil after a television channel broadcast images of two teenagers being shot dead in a poor neighbourhood of the country's largest city of Sao Paulo. Investigators are trying to
trace
a third teenager who managed to
flee
the killers. Leonardo Rocha has more.
The
security
camera footage is truly shocking. Two men parked their motorbikes next to three teenagers in a dark street of Sao Paulo notorious for drug dealing. They were ordered to line up against the wall and put their hands up, after following orders they are shot at close
range
at least 18 times. The CCTV film shows a police car driving passed the scene second after the incident, but prosecutors in Brazil say there is no evidence that the
vehicle
try to stop the
violence
or to
pursue
the killers.
South Africa's governing party, the ANC has accused a newspaper of defiling the memory of 13 South African soldiers killed for fighting rebels in the Central African Republic last month. The Mail and Guardian newspaper suggested the troops may have been deployed to protect ANC linked business interests in the CAR. Andrew Harding reports from Johannesburg.
The South African government says that 13 of its soldiers who died in the Central African Republic last month are heroes who are fighting for peace and security. But opposition politicians and journalists are raising