right house, and a specific door to get at him. so, we sent our teams down there to do that. they spent 24 hours in that city, alone, trying to pinpoint that door. drew and the rest of the team waited at a nearby military base for the call to come in, that the location of el chapo had been pinpointed. in the meantime, culiacán was a buzz. fear hung in the air. rumors, text messages were flying amongst the people who lived there. the city is lighting up. it is on fire. the look outs, all throughout the city where alerting everybody that something is not right. that, there are people in the neighborhood who do not belong. they were right. the mexican marines were about to pounce. coming up. inside el chapo s layer. you slept in one of his beds?
mexican of the u.s. team had gathered the hornets nest of culiacán. it s nest of narco kingpin, el chapo guzman. they ve been on the ground, exposed for 24 hours, and still hadn t located the exact safehouse where el chapo hold up in. i got a call from the ground team and they said look, this isn t working. everyone s tired, hungry, we re exhausted. time was running out. we ve got one option left. el chapo most trusted courier. go find him. they did. and sure enough, he flipped on his boss and agreed to lead them to el chapo s five safe houses. a squad of more than 50 mexican marines and u.s. agents swarmed the area. drew and brady flew in from the base with another contingent of mexican marines. drew much of the operation on his phone. i said, perfect. it s done. he is done. what followed was a tense cat and mouse game.
lifts under the bathtub. here s video of drew and brady inside one of those tunnels. el chapo was long gone. no sign of him. it was time to regroup while agents in the u.s. work to locate el chapo, drew and the team we did in culiacán. it exhausted and on edge, they spent four days continuing to dismantle dismantle el chapo s criminal from within his stronghold. you slept in one of his beds? i did. several of them. we hit the safehouses. we needed something to say and the marines turned them into their bases. we slept in his beds. we went to the kitchen and ate the food out of his refrigerator. i popped open a pacifico, a beer out of his fridge. it must have been surreal sitting there in his living room, drinking his beer, sleeping on his bed. yeah, it was almost like, you know, i had become him in a way. but el chapo was counting and elusive.
capone completely owned chicago. for somebody to come into just try and throw handcuffs on a couple. it was a police were king pins who died in mexico s drug wars were policed in the large ornate tunes. they seemed to stand as reminders of the violence and the danger that engulfed the city. i think it s very dangerous. those areas are completely controlled by the drug cartels. but drew was relentless. for instance, just before he arrived in mexico, he came upon a treasure trove of evidence. el chapo had left his safety even for this mansion in kabul st. lucas. it was raided by mexican law enforcement. el chapo got away. there were key scraps of paper, notebook and phones left behind. with phone numbers and drew can target. you can t just target the man himself. you have to target his entire infrastructure. that means is pilots, his
are doing in many places, and may thatis are doing in many places, and may that is why we are seeing president putin getting his hands dirty personally. notjust there, notjust around the river, but also up in the fortress city of kharkiv, we have seen ukrainian troops on the counter offence and they seem to have pushed russian troops really quite a long way back, outside the artillery range of the city to give some respite to the people there after more than 70 days of bombardment. and yesterday, one final thing worth noting, an interesting video was released by the troops in kharkiv, where they showed themselves and what they said was the international border between ukraine and russia, carrying a big fence post page and in the colours of ukrainian flag. they planted it in the ground and sent a message of the president saying, we have arrived. thank you, joe. the headlines on bbc news.