at this time on al jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides the world's largest humanitarian crisis millions caught up in civil war all jazeera world examines the roots of the conflict in yemen and the complex history that drew a country into perpetual time of. separation like. the north and the so these dualisms are a part of history. yemen the north south divide this time. hello adrian from going to here in doha with the top stories and i'll just hear israeli forces a fired tear gas and palestinian protesters in bethlehem so angry at donald trump's

decision to return to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital palestinian leaders are meeting in ramallah and the arab league is due to convene shortly to discuss the u.s. president's move and they've been confrontations between israeli forces and palestinian protesters in occupied east jerusalem is take you that live now al-jazeera alan fischer can tell us what's going on right now i understand more or less in the middle of something that's happening there. there's certainly been a standoff between the police and protesters it started off as a very peaceful protest the police then decided that they didn't have apparently weren't going to go much farther and started to push people back from that the afternoon has unfolded with the police sending in their horses into crowds of people standing by the side of the road there's been a few stones through and i know we've seen people come out with palestinian flags

which has then made the police and you can see you know the police are going to come over and try and grab these palestinian flags and they do it a pulling them out of the hand in fact i saw one police officer who pulled a poster he didn't like a woman who was holding she didn't want to give up and he punched her in the face that then led to people coming to her aid and that led to an escalation and again you're going to see this police officer taking away the palestinian flag which will then rip up and that has been perhaps the least violent incident of that we've seen in the last hour or so but this has been on gotten the tension here quite palpable i can tell you with that when those horses come flying into the crowd it really is quite terrifying for the people who are standing in their path the police are trying to move people back there's been a few stones thrown from the protester side a lot of so grenades have been thrown by the police but these credits have no intention of going away and they said to me. one woman said to me i hope donald trump is watching this he says that in israel is the only democracy in the middle

east here people are being punished today for simply doing their democratic right of coming out and protesting it it's urgent that they do not like they do not worth out as there is alan fischer live in occupied east jerusalem alan many things. donald trump's declared some of the worst wildfires in california history to be a federal emergency the us president's order allows additional government resources to help rebuild homes which have been raised six wildfires continue to sweep across the southern part of the state two hundred thousand people have been forced to leave homes the former president of georgia has been rearrested in ukraine four days after his supporters freed him from police custody mikhail saakashvili is suspected of helping a criminal organization he's begun a hunger strike and says the accusations against him are politically motivated an attack by rebel fighters in the democratic republic of congo has killed fourteen

united nations peacekeepers from tanzania five congolese soldiers also died dozens were wounded in the eastern province of north kivu the un is blaming a ugandan group the allied democratic forces or a.t.f. they want to express my out and out that hard to break at last night's attack on the united nations peacekeepers into the sea i offer my deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and to the government and people of thousands anea and they we should speed the recovery to all those injured. i condemn this attack any critically. in these deliberate attacks against men peacekeepers that end acceptable and constitute a war crime the u.s. has warned saudi arabia that there will be consequences unless more aid is allowed into yemen the us secretary of state rex tillerson is calling for an end to the blockade of ports the saudi led coalition sealed all yemeni air and seaports last

month after hoofy rebels fired a missile towards riyadh but hundreds of thousands of people are lining the streets of paris to bid adhere to the french rock star johnny hallyday he died on wednesday at the age of seventy four. those the top stories will have more news for you on al-jazeera after once upon a time in punchbowl next. crime to us right in front of an order to get away from the war that was happening at the top. and they came here to restart their life. as a margaret when i first arrived at this rally i like it i i struggled. it was very difficult. i wanted to give us the data but it. was

a play of the beginning so much like there isn't for us the law. for us. for decades lebanese families come to a stranger to build a better life and escape the destruction of. that many demonized in a new land and. to. get rid of that multiculturalism the first that is kind of odd for this. then after fifteen years of immigration from lebanon anglo and arab australia is divided by the first gulf war they're being confronted with a choice between doing either our own restraint because up to now the multicultural story is both. our first. order to answer this question are going to start as he does or not all the stars trailer and i should be asked about this. on modesty

to see if there's a study. about the case about this so well. in one thousand nine hundred a tiny criminal minority become drug dealing gangsters defying the will lose games we believe was. in two thousand and one. terrorism raises fears that arab australians are an enemy within on the part of a terrorist or the rival in all of my five years later and our intention explodes into one of the most infamous rice riots in a strain in history don't go to the middle east to buy into the weaker the now that we have been in the eye for shock effect for so teams of people converged on chronology h l a. l i ask what happened on that sunday in court all of it is a black or for a country. i'm

a live in asia wants to own what i am what i don't know i am a strong man i am lebanese i am muslim up by a majority i'm a child i'm all that he wants this is a story of what it's like to be live in a nice and cold australia we have a striving and this is our homeland and says where we belong and this is what we have. when i was on little kid ottoman but like you know my knees that were shaking up in down just because like you know i don't know when i'm going to draw it. all

lost not only my brother my friend. almost my name but. tonight people and. too many people i love. he is silent and her husband col mate. during the lebanese civil war between one hundred seventy five and ninety ninety an estimated one hundred fifty thousand people were killed in the fighting involving muslim and christian militias backed by complex political alliances. a million people are forced to flee their homes. news media at that time was quite scarce our member my father had been to wipe it up at about three o'clock in the morning to chew need to b.b.c. news because the lebanese civil war was not widely covered and he needed to look more information about which field each was heats and what was happening.

joe watkins family is part of the small but influential christian lebanese community living in astray since the late nineteenth century. the astray in christian lebanese have powerful connections in politics industry and the law. but they are still a tiny minority and the war is a distant problem far from most astray and lives. people were anxious and they're on the phone talk ridiculously low towers trying to get day the reassurances. that's the point where lee starts saying to the australian government you have to risk you these people are going to be annihilated. in the mid seventy's the fraser government changes immigration conditions to cope with an

international refugee crisis and a fifteen year exodus begins. around thirty thousand lebanese people settle in astray or. son poorly educated from small remote villages. others members of an educated middle class. the decision to come to australia is not easy decision is a hard decision and simple reason because i love lou and i love the country were i born. journalist to immigrate to australia after ten years of war. and like many of his generation the pain he experiences leaving his shattered homeland is aged by the promise of a better life. i wasn't going to spain.

from above that is really fall see between the darling harbor an opera house. and since i've seen this beach or. this is my country. this is the country we all want to spin marist off life. four years later he returned to live and on to visit his family and makes his future wife now earlier. we got engaged. and then he came back to australia and i meant to come back to australia but. a port was shut down and i tried to travel arm on the boat from barrett to cyprus. i remember we had about two hundred travellers and all the sudden arm bar

started if we where. and fortunately one bomb had hit the bridge we were on so we had on brocks of flying everywhere like you know everyone was screaming and yelling you couldn't see any seeing it was pitch dark. and i nearly lost my life for these yeah. after two days hiding in a bomb shelter. finally makes it back to her village and her family i wipe it from the taxi saying hello to them. like now i'm laughing. i guess i should be saying like. thank god i'm still alive.

my parents are originally from aaa and the world is that i knew it was falling apart around them. not only was there life in potential danger but who knows what the future would hold. punchbowl boys high principle jehad deed is still a baby when his parents joined the mass migration that will radically change their lives. where i'm really proud of them is they left everything for the psyche of myself. to start a new life and understanding that they really were going into the online. shopping cart. and see. if your

arriving in australia from living on and the most popular song on the radio is to maori any song jump in my car it's going to be a fairly bizarre society that you're in training and try to make sense for many muslims arriving at the notion of public drunkenness was something that was not part of the culture it's a good mystic culture of self enjoyment and celebration of pleasure. so the whole social world that they are in tree is very different to what they had to experience more so in fact than any other if the community that arrived at the during the previous twenty five years or so. and this is when many lebanese families who call home the white working class and immigrant suburbs of southwest sydney canterbury locanda bankstown riverwood

and punchbowl. nobody seems able to say how many lebanese arrived in the last two months but it's going to be between it's a story of struggle repeated in family after family outside is fighting to survive father's battling to feed their family there were no jobs and they were turned away from one hundred houses before getting this run by saying that they had only two children. but now airing two hundred dollars in rent a family have been served with an addiction notice. in the. not in cities and 1980's a strenuous model of immigrant settlement is a bit shonky what you've got is a national ideology of multiculturalism you don't yet have a will and developed network of things like migrant resource centers and all those sorts of things that become very much part of the story later on in the history of settlement. or reality or.

that middle of a. shadow. i know which is a look. at that can them that where you and i wouldn't. level a shout out that if. it were your way that they show you. if a move. chemical that allowed. the all care family immigrants who arrived before the start of the civil war. i can imagine myself don't. get another hundred another language and only one there and just starting up a new life new family. turbine. but like many immigrants in the one nine hundred seventy s. their plan is to earn enough to build a new life and then return home to the country of their birth. we stayed here until

there was a knot in seventy nine so my dad thought he'd saved up enough money. missed the family back home so sold the house sold everything packed this all up and took us over the lebanon. but the country is being torn apart by the vicious civil war. it would be normal and then all the southern fighting would break here and there was a very surreal experience having lived early part of my life in the struggle there when you see the tanks and the army and the shooting and it was right around the house. when i really had to live in an. political agenda alone in. the place where we lived actually got hit by. the bedroom we used to share my brother's noise big goodnight hope that went through it not long after we left. back in a straight year b.l.k.

is settled in punchbowl. we all grew up in in one house a three bedroom house in scott straight punch bowl and that's where my aunties and uncles all love and they used to divide the rooms. putting. ropes up in the room and some blankets over the ropes just to give everyone there a little bit of privacy. so there's about ten kids running around that wasn't fun different families of numbers i am or. a lot of them ended up after that had their first place with relatives in what we used to call house and commission flats so they were socially very difficult environments to live into in terms of the exposure they had to a lot of people who had come from is a broken families or low socio economic backgrounds. the housing department of us a flat in can take food. we owned in the

street. not much better then the street in blue doing the wall. when a solid family move in the local community suffers from the effects of drug addiction and petty crime. it was very unsafe to raise a family it was difficult for us wrists limited english bags and. it was extremely difficult ime to allow your children to guy downstairs and play in the park if you're not supervising them and at times like you know you would be walking around and looking at needles. in the early eighty's astray or falls into deep recession unemployment hits ten percent. the new

arrivals suffer the highest rate of unemployment of any ethnic group. one third don't find jobs and those who do rely on menial labor. or prisoners there ought is a need a mother of other with an occasional. and they need to see that one. is a star in the morning before the morning. and both on the home of the sons dale. having a like you've gone for six days a week you never sleep there with a pillow so dull as they came out of the factory for a cigarette or whatever though it's very hard. george bashes parents natura and body land in astray or just before the first wave of refugees. or the wise as a mum of a fairly five dollars a week my ways but if i work overtime forty five bucks they work hard to make my future because they know they have a key they have

a direct feature for them. but for thousands of the new lebanese astray and there's a barrier to their future in the new world. the assumption that people will learn english really quickly is absolutely false and it files over and over again on the critical place files is for women. because most women if they're working outside the home they're not working in environments where people speak anything other than arabic. and there are very poor structures for teaching english to women at heart. as your wm a job or a living is a lead that well it isn't the level and is a sort of the young man at the leading muslim arabs i'm out. must win and. that's a lot of. the lamb of the man. muslim not loudly and the physio on him that i'd love to sure less than it is that that been

a little bit. put my name on a new governments to learn and use and no one can. i watch skippy i watch. that i start to morrow lloyd's i watch a lot of movie how and why i watch the few movies and it'll fit but the only time i watch those two more life because every day i should put it's movie only forty years i watched a fortunate. struggling to communicate sixteen to fifteen many lebanese become targets of abuse it's. got to show i have. ministered to bastard what do you think are some of the doors you are downloading what do you do.

and be in that world looking whole world. of nobility in the enugu no easy will be looking. at it. and the abuse continues to this day a son and he came to me. and she says to me walk and i tell him i listen to him to me walk i'm was i was you before you. hold that you for twenty years twenty five years i've been here forty forty forty three forty four years i've been a stroller before you for your mom. example to me that. because i'm always a. punch ball and the suburbs of southwest sydney are a safe haven for refugees escaping the horrors of war. but in the one nine hundred eighty s. many experience racism particularly during

a time of high unemployment. some are also so traumatized or injured or otherwise disprove that they got involved in heavy alcohol abuse drugs or whatever. within a generation a small number of a strain born lebanese criminals will turn to the drug racket and draw media attention over the use of extreme violence many come from families traumatized by decades of violence in lebanon. one cannot overstate the impact of the psychological and emotional trauma of kind fresh from. many of them including the children who are traumatized by horrific scenes they had witnessed first hand all the ugliness of war they had seen death they had seen

decapitation they had seen bombing they had seen their homes and everything to do with their background uprooted so that was psychologically and emotionally extremely traumatic. us thought three men they had. their faction make thing if they are caught them then they can live on. and they know. and for those same children in the new generation of a strain borne lebanese a different kind of trauma no less insidious continues at. school bicycle but if you know where the client handle somebody and last chance to come in to me in a friend and take the take over the courts if. the sandwich's eliminates take it away and fro it or laugh at me. i called wal million tours back in eighty days and

. george basher was born in australia but to other peoples he's nothing more than an arab outcast. i became very angry because i'm thinking up on john wow odyssey to accept it as a strategy that kind of thing about the black kid about the skin so i was born. in you don't need to go. but you do. pick a foot with with any angle shot a look at me also a look at the mini me off the new of precious. when i'm back at it i think our spirits were all races and then i recognize that the tamad is there was just part of growing up. as a teenager you had deep experiences extreme racism playing rugby league.

those a player in the other side and i tackle damon and his response was to call me an f. and wog and if a morgue. and more response was just a bunch of. and all not a person who does those things that i don't lose my temper but it's probably in the walk and it was a greasy bit and. no one of a sudden he's actually brought the rices the moment and then actually hurt it's actually hurt you just think so you still no matter what we always say me as an if i'm wog greasy and i just i wouldn't a can say not for a consent or sign. so him i got sent off from a time lost the government was a very popular but for a lot better. i live i think beyond a did i was in like the day so much mentally stuffed from public school in the early years of us that i didn't like and those drugs i just thought they're the enemy and i'm cuppa so much of this goes into.

the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has been awarded the nobel peace prize in an exclusive interview with the winning delegation from the award ceremony in oslo al jazeera asks whether banning these devastating weapons could finally lead to complete disarmament on al-jazeera. thanks love to make loans to sufferance because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those tax payers never go away there's a new one born every single day a nineteen it is an urgent national necessity that we officially request rationing of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine at this time. if

you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and going to run the world while the chinese are not that stupid things guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time on a just see it. hello again adrian filling in here in doha the top stories on al jazeera israeli forces have fired tear gas at palestinian protesters bethlehem angry at the donald trump's

decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital palestinian leaders a meeting in ramallah on the arab league is due to convene shortly to discuss the u.s. president's move eleven confrontations between israeli forces and palestinian protesters in occupied east jerusalem al-jazeera is alan fischer is that. it started off as a very peaceful protest the police then decided that they didn't have apparently weren't going to go much farther and started to push people back from that the afternoon has unfolded with the police sending in their horses into crowds of people standing by the side of the road there's been a few stones through and i know we've seen people come out with palestinian flags which has then made the police and you can see you know the police are going to come over and try and grab these palestinian flags and they do it by pulling the hand of fact i saw one police officer who pulled a poster he didn't like a woman who was holding she didn't want to give up and he punched her in the face

that then led to people coming to her aid and that led to an escalation donald trump has declared some of the worst wildfires in california has history to be a federal emergency the u.s. president's order allows additional government resources to help rebuild homes which have been raised six wildfires continue to sweep across the southern part of the state the former president of georgia has been rearrested in ukraine four days after his supporters freed him from police custody mikheil saakashvili is suspected of helping a criminal organization he's become a hunger strike and says the accusations against him politically motivated. the u.s. has warned saudi arabia that there will be consequences unless more aid is allotted to yemen the us secretary of state rex tillerson has called for an end to the blockade of ports led coalition scale or yemeni air and sea port sealed rather yemeni and seaports last month after hooty rebels fired

a missile towards riyadh but hundreds of thousands of people are lining the streets of paris to bid farewell to the french rock star johnny hallyday who died on wednesday at the age of seventy four that is the french elvis holiday sold more than one hundred ten million records and starred in several films as the headlines let's get you back to once upon a time in punchbowl. school in the seventy's and eighty's were totally different from what is a school are these days there was no other choice for them. there were a minority within. a system they fold being victimized marginalized picked on and unfortunately that mentality that existed at the school developed some sense of. non belonging. and for many

a strain in lebanese families the battles in the schoolyard turn into battles at a time. the parents speak little english and many astray in born children speak no arabic they can't communicate with their parents anymore because their parents are still living so back in ninety seven he's in the middle east and the kid is living in a nineteen eighty's early ninety's in a strata and it's very different and that communication between the families got lost in getting called walled and camera and all sorts stuff a school when you come home. speaking to an arabic call it on and you think maybe this goes right maybe i am a wall maybe. so you fording the australian whatever i don't know. and for parents struggling with english the education of their children becomes a severe test. nine hundred bashes seven children are expected to do well at school

but she never has an education. one day was very smart. malia office was the lead that he if you ever came second in the class you'll soon israel in croydon is a b. and i student. now my mother on the other hand never ever went to school she doesn't matter with her or her beak or even english the knowledge is never ever experienced in a class where it can be taught but a joke which often flow goes along as a very very strong lady in a very very slowly. i have big family and time tickets. she had her way and she came to me. what states what. i mean until i'm i carried the right. at them have to be smart you have to read it you have to do deeds have to do that but then so my heart some let more life into look me in my heart. that's all

a time i told them i had i wanted to be doctor i wanted to be solicitor i wanted to be computers man i wanted to something good for your future is. south care and his younger brother sam both go to punchbowl boys high there was probably about seventy people out of more year that actually got into a university of some sort but i was still young back then but you could choose which part you really wanted to take. but at school they're already on different paths. sal heading towards a university degree with sam looking forward to the lessons of the street. they're. there to. go blind or will. generally in government as you land in honolulu. a. good friend of

straw and to bed enough to realize principles down your standards is when the for so on so on. on trans on that i knew of i'm doing well at school and principal just want to. compliment mae and compliment you on raising me the way you have and. as morgan working out of the office our thoughts were of get away over here. though there are big picture walked into the office and he was in your mother and from the from of the days of the shop and his lawyer now your son got suspended for one two three four and looked at me like what. you're a good student i get in the car. there was another story that got another building over on. with my beloved dog. but i'll shove it after that you've given it a belligerent i mean harley. and develop to deal with

the. odd relation. with a good deal of garbage they should be kept. and after school on the streets of south west sydney many australian lebanese teenagers drift away from their parents' dreams of a university education. and drift towards the excitement of easy money from petty crime was the breaking the places for the sake of bloody getting shirts and drinks and lollies and stuff like that ought to get a hundred dollars you know it was just it was it sounds. it was a general and for us. i was hey we have a couple of blocks that i should behave or get into firstly every day. when you don't have many prospects with your education we have many prospects would

you work with have any prospects for the future we have many prospects in a community that you live in. it's really appealing to do the wrong thing get quick money it's really pretty because for that one moment you could be a little bit of a superstar. if you know a few you belong to someone or something or a bill. your ability to find someone who's a slime i want you in it's going to be your friends. to a dog and about a minority of those kids who felt trapped in that gang like mentality that it build against their teachers against the principle that a build against a police. they looked criminal. activities as a way out of poverty brothers in education. crime is often the first thing to flourish and it does so because of validates people's identity it gives them power in a world in which they're otherwise powerless it's very attractive for

a lot of people to go that way. almost a decade after the exodus from lebanon begins the new lebanese astray linz and building a cohesive community in self may signal. the complex political conflict involving christian and islamic militias is left behind eleven on. instead south west sydney reflects a different reality. in lebanon i was raised in and they're very open are respectful i'm community remembers a muslim families would go it is a christian neighbors to celebrate the christmas and then the a christian would come to visit muslim neighbors to celebrate ramadan we have formalized exchanged on

swedes we supported each other we've always been open respectful i distinctly remember al parish priest opening his doors to fellows live in a zoo or a muslim phase whenever they had confusion a complication with the law they could have been sure in the they'd festivals when they would actually have. to prepare the live animals to become that food its and so forth. so there will all sorts of complications that they might have encountered and the christian leaders priests clergy or more than happy to help accommodate. the lebanese a strange community is a mix of christians and muslims. but here in the kamba parts of the old european immigrant and anglo community still struggle with the unfamiliar face of islam. the locanda mosque

opens in the late seventy's and for the critics of multiculturalism it is a symbol of a dangerous cultural divide. the building of the mosque creates a lot of local tension and hostility there is opposition from non muslims to its presence in fact it's one of the first of the many mosques that a challenge by local communities all over sydney. but cover time that really changes partly because people who don't like it move out and people who do like it move in and so the neighborhood becomes increasingly islamic. there are prayer halls bookshops. butcheries very good lebanese takeaways restaurant it looks a bit like a small town in lebanon some years ago.

but just as the lebanese a strain community embrace peaceful coexistence in south west sydney they find themselves under attack on a national scale influential forces question if a stray he can cope with immigrants and their farm. nulty culturalism is now by the federal government invites national disunity. geoffrey blainey a member historian makes a major speech and then writes a book condemning what he sees as the emerging tribalism in australia caused by the arrival of almost new immigrants. the views of the three parties in canberra a very different to the views of those people who live amongst the new migrants and have to work with them. might put up one. with racist tensions rising the liberal opposition leader john howard sends

a stark message to the supporters of a multicultural astray the only thing that can unite this country and create this country united. by sink or australian fair use to which all of us can subscribe and that is his vision of what makes a straighter unique and strong and anyone who deviates from that is seen to be honest right now and so. you know you might i mean you may do that. in australia's history and even in western history. different ethnic groups have warned the black hat throughout history you know a moderate been italian mafia the japanese kemah kasi you know the russian communists they all had their decade but the arabs the lebanese in particular have worn that black hat since about the eighty's ninety's.

ration desert storm is right on schedule. important first trial or that the world understand the big can't greece can not invite small. didn't get away with it . the first gulf war shift the media focus to arab strains. the simmering suspicions of anglo astray begin to boil the backlash from their call for we have not been pretty for something like that especially the female side of our community who actually born zubrin of the first wave against everyone that is islamic everyone that is arabic and everyone that was a job or had a funny sounding name just showed zip ugly face off racism in such

a way that we could not cope with it at that time. i was in year twelve at the time of the gulf war and it did have an impact. and all never forget mom who was the. having her. is sort of someone attempted to take the heat off but i could never understand why and then there was another time when somebody spat at her and i thought what a low act she's got nothing to do what's going on we're actually proud to strive into for a generation lebanese astray have been struggling to find their place in a so-called multicultural country. now for the first time in our post-war history refugees are being asked to declare their allegiance arab or a strain. on. what happened at that time is that their

community leaders and advocates with the best of intentions were continually cornered to replenish their loyalty each time that the mark of firm was held to their face it reminded me of a gun held to someone's head. i already answered this question i mean i started my nokia store sturla and i shouldn't be asked about this. it was as if your citizenships to figure it meant nothing it was merely a piece of paper this is the first time they are straining identity has ever been challenged in this sort of way it's the first time they're being confronted with a choice between being either arab. because up to now the multicultural story is your boss and now suddenly they may not be.

sick old ford was the start of twenty years of pressure on this community we have lived. in an atmosphere like we have been and i pressure cooker. in. the arabic day countable and gone with them proceeded peacefully until like the soft and the shadow of the gulf war and a perceived divide between anglo and arab astray or looms over an arab astray in family festival in south west sydney the fight between two young women escalates and the conflict intensifies further as more police respond it's just highlighted how distance as a community was from xenu cells was police and how ignored it. police officers at that time way they could have defused the situation fairly easily but. having this attitude in your face and. things escalated.

local dr jamal rifi is at the festival with his family. i. was i believe if not it. would be a different story none of this would have been. released dr used to own the bomb would be a rich tempting that. many in the arab community believe the violence ignites because the police have no respect for them. i mean is because where four people would be sitting in a car and for no apparent reason other than we looked lebanese or middle east then the pulled over and stretched out of the full cost of the law on the road. and

it happened quite a quite a fair bit. after leaving punchbowl boys high sal al qaeda is at university on the threshold of a management career. but he still believes he's a police target. but still remember once we were on the north shore driving around the noise it was a day off you know something we all pulled out someplace and socially. got the might the law on the ground and there was to the effect of you know this is not your area we don't want your client is so don't come back. that the reality is that the police a facing a crime wife that's engulfing southwest sydney and its young lebanese astray and who are often to blame i'm not saying it was a model model citizen i did straight. to the disappointment of his parents sanal care is not interested in the family fruit and vegetable business. for sam and his

friends. easier and far more lucrative ways to make money. a lot of young men that were grown up around who were doing something illegal and the post just had no way of contacting them. the most profitable illegal activity of all is the rackets known as rebirthing. a stolen vehicle is fitted with the serial numbers from the wrecked car to give it a new identity. so i would steal a very high profile their expensive motor vehicle get a rake and rebirth. and what would pop out was a car that you could hardly til almost couldn't always remember this if i got a team together like a rebirth within a day there was big money. isn't driving around the fleshy cars

and michael losing money so there was just sort of. say someone else i want you so much to do and so i'm doing the same thing and i was just raising money enough to work in your shop when you want. in just one year between nine hundred ninety five and nine hundred ninety six more than forty seven thousand cars a stolen in new south wales. as the racket paix the police hit back. the car wreck it is the biggest so far uncovered in australia and it has taken two years of police investigations to unravel police recovered one hundred twenty stolen cars in the value of two and a half million dollars. we would be doing right in the backyards of houses and have three and four shells there where all these like our rebirth and we've been taking . those ideas don't go with the enemy because the stop you from making your easy

money. sam elk hair is convicted of a number of offenses but escapes a jail sentence. car industry is that it. often border town or in the yes'. as the nady a increasingly demonizes southwest signal as a hotbed of crime john howard sweeps to power after thirteen years in opposition. and one nation's pauline hanson is elected in queensland. get rid of this multiculturalism because that is an antibody in us also as we are multi-racial . straddling and i mean. with the end of john howard as prime minister many council islam has been abandoned as a national audiology and so people are feeling much more comfortable in the period

of pulling hanson about talking about race simple easing racist remarks calling people reisa snipes and the lebanese kids in places like punchbowl are getting caught up in the back to adults. as hostility increases the police focus on a new source of conflict. lebanese a strain gangstas a ramping up the drug wreckage. there was a lot of illegal activities taken place from members of our community and was no shame whatsoever. a lot of drug. smuggling cocaine heroin and people who were at that time dealing and distributing. it was

a sense of pride because it was a wife for them to make quick money so these are smaller numbers but there were existing they did happen. to be a street punchbowl goes from decent law abiding suburban street to a drug drive through supplying much of south west sydney over to young people with drug users who were drug addicts and their family would not. do anything about it because there was sweep it under the carpet because because i didn't want anyone else to know that their son or daughter is a drug addict. a community is in denial as drugs and cash create a powerful criminal underworld. it was a new phenomena this was the development of a lebanese organ ostrov and that model of crawling was false it was volatile was predicated on a volunteer and fear if people went to the police station to give them any kind of

a formation those criminal element would know about it and they'll come to retaliate we could not trust the police at that time we wanted to but there was that sense of feel. things are a fever pitch people are short fused with drugs everywhere there are guns everywhere it's the wild west. next time on once upon a time in punch. bag they're on a short fuse they think money is easy and the place will never touch them and the seeds a sound for one of the most infamous race riots in a. and history. has a strained and lebanese a told us to go back to where they came from all our embassy is a study of flags being carried away which on that i think ever be carried. enough

to not see why i am knowledge about pop culture and you hate us that much what have we done to you. besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by ariss and integration now r r r r r out jazeera traces the history of first generation lebanese australians exploring the conflicts. and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punchbowl and this time on al-jazeera. from

greece listen. to the i'm trying to this of southeast asia. hello there that's a rather lively show as i reports of south america at the moment on the satellite picture you can see this whole rash of showers here that stretch across many parts of brazil by giving some heavy downpours for many of us including force in southward all through the south is also some very heavy showers in the north of argentina but these generally pop up later on during the day so first thing today should be fine then maybe we'll see the showers later on the further north those shells will still be rumbling away and you can see how they wrap around that little area of low pressure shows just how active some of those showers are likely to be had there into sunday then it should be a rather warm day one is always thirty degrees pretty hot for us and thirty eight

in a function but they could just be the order shower here for the towards the north and here it's generally been quite quiet recently but now things are becoming a little bit more active we're seeing the showers over panama that stretch their way towards the north but also watch this gray area of cloud here because that is the leading edge of the cold air is working its way down from north america so for many of us spend already in the coldest sixteen degrees is a maximum there in mexico have done a lot of heavy rain twenty five degrees the maximum during the day on saturday by sunday were in the cooler air and all maximum will only be twenty one. the weather sponsored by cattle and he's. just looking pretty good i'll talk about shooting people are not going to try to shoot themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into an outright open war that the city's general security sure the

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