Brazil protests

Protests spread across Brazil

Brazil has seen its biggest protests in almost two decades.

Demonstrations began earlier this month over an increase in bus fares and high ticket prices for next year's World Cup.

There have been violent clashes with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao Paulo.

Brazil Bedlam: Largest-in-decades protests sweep country

Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities. 

Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an increase in public transportation costs, which brought out students and young workers and led to more than 250 arrests.