Inside the Americas

This week, we take a look at leftist Alberto Fernandez's victory in the Argentinian presidential race. In a country facing the worst economic crisis in two decades, voters delivered a stunning rebuke to incumbent conservative Mauricio Macri's austerity measures.

This week, four major drug companies reached a settlement of $260 million with two Ohio counties over responsibility for the opioid epidemic. In the United States, it kills around 130 people every single day. The crisis has devastated entire communities, torn families apart and left many people without a future. But in some places, there are glimmers of hope. We take a closer look.

In this special edition we focus on Canada ahead of the election there. Canadians will head to the polls on October 21 and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting to keep the country's top job. According to opinion polls, his popularity is at near-record lows. We look back at Trudeau's legacy, which has been far from scandal-free. We also speak to Frédéric Mérand, an associate professor of political science at the University of Montréal, for more insight.

Police violence has been a big topic in the US recently, but one state is trying to keep it in check with more transparency. The 1421 law passed in California in January lets victims' relatives consult the files of police officers in certain cases. We take a closer look.

Peru is in political turmoil after President Martin Vizcarra dissolved Congress in what members of the opposition are calling a coup. The police and army have affirmed allegiance to him, but opposition MPs want to impeach him and swore in Vice-President Mercedes Araoz as interim leader. Araoz later quit, calling for new elections. We take a closer look.

This week, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejected criticism over his handling of the forest fires that have ravaged the Amazon, accusing international critics of having a "colonial spirit”. This comes after a Human Rights Watch report accused Bolsonaro of giving a green light to illegal loggers in the Amazon. Our correspondents Fanny Lothaire and Catherine Osborn have been following activists tracking those fires in the north of the country.

Before being elected as the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel spoke of his plans to use snipers to fight drug traffickers in the city's favelas. Few believed he'd actually implement the policy - but he did. Now tensions between Rio authorities and residents are on the rise once again. Our correspondents Valeria Saccone and Louise Raulais have the story.

The US is marking 18 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The military and political consequences of that day are well documented. But for those directly exposed to the dust and debris released when the Word Trade Center twin towers collapsed, the long-term medical ramifications are also impossible to ignore, with rates of cancer and other serious illnesses on the rise. We take a closer look.

In the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian has left more than half of the main island under water. Dorian was the worst hurricane the Bahamas has ever seen, and officials there are just beginning to measure the scale of the damage. We take a closer look at the situation.

In the United States, dozens of alleged victims of the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein have this week been telling their stories at a hearing in New York. They say they were sexually abused as part of a sex-trafficking ring orchestrated by Epstein, who killed himself in prison in early August. Although Epstein will never stand trial, the judge called for the hearing to go ahead in order to allow the victims to tell their stories.