class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards the world's largest humanitarian crisis millions caught up in civil war all just the real world examines the roots of the conflict in yemen and the complex history that drew a country into perpetual term. separation of. the north and the so these dualisms are a part of history. yemen the north south divide this time. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth of that i would love for this job. i'm richelle carey and these are the top stories on al-jazeera thousands of palestinians had been injured and arrested during

a fourth day or protests against the u.s. decision to declare a truce on the capital of israel many of them in occupied east jerusalem where forces fired stun grenades and tear gas as they charge through a crowd of peaceful demonstrators alan fischer was there. was it is it was it started as a small protest handful of people but as they walked towards all jerusalem dome one of the city's busy shopping streets there was blogged by police and soldiers told they had no permit to march that they were blocking the road they were forcibly pushed back to it was in a city where anger has been close to the surface since donald trump's controversial decision it sparked a series of running confrontations was the police sent in horses to break up the crowds creating widespread anger and panic this has been

a pattern throughout the afternoon as crowds gather by the side of the street the horses have been sent ten at some pace to try and break those crowds up the writers have even been using their weapons it really is quite frightening for the people who are standing here watching these horses racing towards them. i don't want to see that we're getting here because i want to bend the damn depended and yet i know i will never give up this is our country would save it was the book about that and ellison at the end doesn't it was. using. was. the security forces using grenades and there were reports of injuries from rubber coated steel bullets if anyone produced a palestinian flag it was taken from them forcibly sometimes violently the flags destroyed in front of their face the other the worse.

than the woman we spoke to earlier who was arrested the police couldn't tell is why . this is what's happening and generously in journalism it will be still and that if you base in journalism into a beast through the capital of palestine. throughout the afternoon the security forces backed off the crowds gathered the police moved up and the whole cycle began again. the security forces tried to grab people they thought were throwing stones at them identified by police photographers who'd been in the crowd by nightfall the situation had stabilized but the under come to tension and the anger was still there but she was no sign of going away alan fischer al jazeera in occupied east jerusalem. meanwhile the arab league secretary general cause the u.s. decision a very dangerous bill gates says the u.s. could no longer be and dependent mediator and the middle east peace process and

protests continue worldwide against trump's decision hundreds of demonstrators gathered in paris on saturday to denounce a planned visit by israel's prime minister french president set to host benjamin netanyahu on sunday netanyahu responded by accusing european officials of criticizing shop. i described great importance to europe while i respect europe i am not prepared to accept a double standard from it i hear voices from their condemning president trumps historic statement but i've not heard condemnations of the rockets fired israel or the terrible incitement against it i'm not prepared to accept this apoc recy and as usual at this important forum i will present israel's truth without fear and with head held high. iraq's prime minister has declared its war against eisel is over. troops are in control of the area around the iraqi syrian border after driving eisel fighters out i saw advanced on iraq three years ago and quickly captured

a third of the country. a legal challenge has been filed to and know the results of last month's wonderous presidential election an opposition party led by candidate salvador nasrallah is claiming voter fraud those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after once upon a time in punchbowl keep it or. various characters try to get on 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 part of the beginning so much like there isn't for us the law. for us. for decades lebanese families come to a strange year to build a better life and escape the destruction of. that many of demonized in a new land. to. get rid of this multiculturalism the first that is going to talk to us all the time 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 struggle through this and what annoyed me or stars trailer and i shouldn't be asked about this. on my odyssey to accept 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 law lose games we believe was. in two thousand and one. terrorism raises fears that arab australians are an enemy within the fun of terrorism for the rival in all of my five years later and our intention explodes into one of the most infamous race riots in a stranger in history don't go to the middle east to buy into the week or the now that you have been in the eye for a shock effect for say teams of people from good storm print all of a chance to know what the hell i am what happened on that sunday in court all of it is a black or for a country. i'm

i live in a.z. one stone is what i am or that none i am a straw man i am lebanese i am muslim i'm up 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 colas trying. 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 kids on remember like on my knees that were shaking up and 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. our last minute. to minute people and. to many people i love. he is silent and her husband calm makes. during the lebanese civil war between one hundred seventy five and ninety ninety an estimated one hundred fifty thousand people 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 two 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 anxious and they're on the phone talk ridiculously late hours 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. son poorly educated from small remote villages. others members of an educated middle class. the decision to come to australia is not is a decision is a hard decision and simple reason because i love lou and i love the country were i born. journalist immigrated 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 to this beautiful sea 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 mates 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 on 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 anything it was pitch dark. and i nearly lost my life forces yeah. after two days hiding in a bomb shelter. finally makes it back to her village and her family i wife 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 were originally from tripoli 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 join the mass migration that will radically change their lives. to where i'm really proud of them is they left everything for this i give 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 communities that arrived the during the previous twenty five years or so. and this is where many lebanese families will 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 fathers battling to feed their family there were no jobs and they were turned away from one hundred houses before getting this one by saying that they had only two children. but now airing two hundred dollars in rent a family have been served with innovation night. 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 mark and 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.

it made a lot of. shit as. i know which is a lot of but out of that can them that know you and i wouldn't. level a shout out that ever. that. if moved. a welcome and let. 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 else 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 of a sudden fighting with great care now was a very surreal experience having lived early part of my life from the start of there when you see the tanks and the army and the shooting and it was right around the house. when i. really. believe they were college and they were alone in. the place where we lived actually got hit by. the bedroom we used to share my brothers that a noise big goodnight hole that went through it not long after we were. back in

a strange here b.l.k. is settled in punchbowl. we all grew up in one house a three bedroom house and scott strait and punch bowl and that's where my aunties and uncles all to arrive and they used to divide the rooms. putting. ropes up in the room and some blankets over the ropes just to give iran there a little bit of privacy. so there's about ten kids running around that wasn't fun different families of you know the same or. a lot of them ended up after that had their first base with relatives in what we used to call housing 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't 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 back then. it was extremely difficult time 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 pursers arrived in sydney the mother of other with an occasional. and they need to see that what. this is done the morning before in the morning. and both on the home of the sun still. have no work at gone for six days a week you never see their 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 a stray or just before the first wave of refugees. order wiser's a moment it's 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 i have a keech i have

a direct future 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 force 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 they are very poor structures for teaching english to women and. mothers are brilliant merope or a living is that while it isn't the level in this. sort of the young mother to leave. them out. must win and. that's a lot of. the element the. manila muslim. that is

your name that and i'm sure mr neat is that that. put my name on a new governments to learn and use and you know one k. . i would skip here which. is to more or lloyd's i watch a lot of movie how and why i watch a few movie and it enough but all the time i watch those two more life because every day she puts movie nearly forty years i watched a porch that. struggling to contain a case just fifteen many lebanese become targets of abuse it's. been used. what do you think are some of ignores you. what do you do about. russia . and be in that world looking

who will. not let go of the ballot in the into good always easy will be looked into . and the abuse continues to this day and some lady came to me. and she says to me walk on i ten i listen to them you walk i'm was a mosey before you hold that you for twenty years twenty five years i've been here forty forty six forty three forty four years i've been a stand up before you for you mom. if some to intimidate. because i'm always a. punch bag 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 astray in born lebanese criminal minds 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 a war zone. many of them including the children were traumatized by horrific scenes they had witnessed firsthand. 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. i thought three men they had machine gun and their faction at me and me they are called them then they currently are. and they know them. and for those same children and the new generation of a strain born lebanese a different kind of trauma no less insidious continues at school or school but if you know where the client handle somebody. to come in. a main a friend and take the take over the courts if. the sandwich says live in a take it away and fro it or laugh at me. i called wall million dollars back in

those days. george basher was born in a strange year but to other peoples he's nothing more than an arab outcast. i became very angry because i'm thinking up john wow odyssey to accept it as a struggle a kind of thing about the book is about the skin so i was born. in india. but you do. pick a ford with with any angle shot a look at me also when i look at the mini me off. when i'm back at it i think our spirits were all races and then i recognize that the torment is there was just part of growing up. as a teenager jehad dba experiences extreme racism. playing rugby.

there's a player on 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 wall and it was agreed. no one of a sudden he's actually brought the rice is a 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 and wog greasy and i just i wouldn't a can say not for a consent to a sign. so i hit him i got sent off in the time lost the guy when i was a very popular but a lot better. i didn't think beyond a day i was in like the day so much mentally stuffed from public school in the early years of our skill that i didn't like and those drugs i just thought they are the enemy and cuppa so much these go in and.

if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when myth was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and go around the world well 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. the nature of news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup was in two thousand to fifteen years on and hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage try to imagine that only seven years ago people were living right here farming shlaim now this team has taken over their land from around the world donald trump is promising

a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to khorat a missed opportunity a rod. the world's largest humanitarian crisis millions caught up in civil war all just the real world examines the roots of the conflict in yemen and the complex history that threw a country into perpetual terms. of unity old separation of. the north and the so these dualisms are off part of history. yemen the north south divide this time. i'm richelle carey these are the top stories on al-jazeera there's been a fourth day of violent protests across occupied palestinian territories from

demonstrators angry over the u.s. decision to declare a truce on the capital of israel israeli forces fired tear gas and stun grenades on peaceful protesters meanwhile arab league foreign ministers meeting in cairo called on the u.s. to abandon the decision saying the move but increased violence throughout the region leaders also say the u.s. declaration is a dangerous violation of international law and the. this decision was rejected and the arab league rejects all its consequences secondly we have agreed to form a committee for peacemaking which will deal with the international community this is an order to achieve progress in respect of the palestinian issue jordan will be head of the committee which will be formed next month. protests continue worldwide against trump's decision hundreds of demonstrators gathered in paris on saturday to denounce a planned visit by israel's prime minister french president krone set to host

benjamin netanyahu on sunday responded by accusing european officials of apocrypha for criticizing. i ascribe great importance to europe while i respect europe i am not prepared to accept a double standard from it i hear voices from their condemning president trump's historic statement but i have not heard condemnations of the rockets fired israel or the terrible incitement against it i'm not prepared to accept this apoc recy and as usual at this important forum i will present israel's truth without fear and with head held high. and the leader of egypt's coptic church has declined to meet us vice president mike pence when he visits the region later this month palestinian president mahmoud abbas is also refusing to meet heads. iraq's prime minister has declared its war against i so over how to l a body says troops are in control of the area around the iraqi syrian border after driving out i saw fighters i saw

advance to iraq three years ago and quickly captured a third of the country including important cities like mosul and felicia iraq's announcement comes two days after russia said it had defeated eisel in syria those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after once upon a time and punchbowl keep it or. the school in the seventy's and eighty's was totally different from what this is school these days there was no other choice for them. there were a minority within. the system they fold being victimized marginalized picked on and unfortunately that mentality that existed at the school developed some sense of. belonging. and for many

a strange lebanese families the battles in the schoolyard turn into battle this time. the parents speak little english and many a strain 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 the north team eighty's early ninety's in the strata and it's very different and that communication between the families got lost getting called walled and all that all sorts stuff a school when you come home. speaking to an arabic all the time on and you think maybe this goes right maybe i am a wall maybe. so you're falling 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 croix is a b. and i student. now my mother on the other hand never ever went to school she doesn't matter whether or arabic or even english the matter is never ever experienced in the past or it can be taught but a joke which often flow goes on all as a very very strong lady in a very very slowly. i have big family. time tickets. she had her own way and she came to me. what states what. i mean until i'm i carried the right. on a film have to be smart you have to read it you have to do deeds have to do that but then so my heart some like noise interrupt me in my house. that's all the

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 do 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 at a 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 want 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. minimally in government as you land. a. good friend of

school and to bed enough to realize principles down your standards is when the for so on so on. trans on for that only of i'm doing well at school and principal just want to. compliment may and compliment you on raising the way you have and. as we walk in working out of the office our thoughts were of get away over here. there are big picture walks 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 this wonderful one two three four and looked at me like what. you're good student i get in the car. there was another story that got another building over on. the way you do. with them a bit of dope. but i'll stop it after that you've given it a belligerent i mean really. develop to deal with

the. underage question. without a good deal of dollars i should look at it. 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 in our ideals just it was it sounds. still stuck there was a general one 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 the community that you live in. it's really appealing to do the wrong thing get quick money it's really put out 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 it build against the police . they looked at 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 and building a cohesive community in self-made sydney. the complex political conflict involving christian and islamic militias is left behind eleven on. instead southwest sydney reflects a different reality. in lebanon i was raised in and they're very open are respectful i'm community i remember as a muslim families would go it is a christian neighbors to celebrate the christmas and then. a christian would come to visit muslim neighbors to celebrate ramadan we have always exchanged on swedes

we supported each other we've always been open respectful i distinctly remember al parish priest opening his doors to fellow lebanese who are muslim phrase whenever they had confusion a complication with the law they could have been sure in the they'd festivals when there would actually have. to prepare the live animals to become that food its and so forth. so there will also lots 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 locanda parts of the old european immigrant and anglo community still struggle with the unfamiliar face of islam. in the 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 over 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 book shops how long butcheries very good lebanese takeaway is 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 and norman 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 keep 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 same 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 worn the black hat throughout history you know immoderate been it's has been mafia the japanese kemah kasi you know the russian communists it 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 cannot invite small. i wouldn't get away with it. the first gulf war shift the media focus to arab strains. the simmering suspicions of old anglo astray begin to boil the backlash from their call for we have not been ready for something like that especially the female side of our community who actually born as a brand 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 the ugly face off racism in such

a way that we could not cope was 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. sort of someone attempted to take the job off 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 of strident 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 asking about this. it was as if you're 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 or a strike because up to now the multicultural story is your boss and now suddenly that may not be a. sequel for 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. they are a big day countable and go 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 a fight between two young women escalates and the conflict intensifies further as police respond it's just highlighted how distance as a community was from xenu's cells was police and how ignored it. police officers at that time way they could have defused the situation fairly easily but there with having this attitude in your face and. things escalated.

local dr jamal rifi is at the festival with his family. was i believe it or 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. for people would be sitting in the car and for no apparent reason other than we looked lebanese or middle east than the pulled over and stretched out of the full cost of the law on the road. and that 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 die off you know something we all pulled out someplace and socially. got from my thoughts on the ground and there was to the effect of you know this is not your area we don't want your client is don't come back. but the reality is that the police a facing a crime wave that's engulfing southwest sydney and its young lebanese astray who are often to blame i'm not saying it was a model for model citizen i did straight. to the disappointment of his parents santa is not interested in the family fruit and vegetable business. for sam and his

friends the. easier and far more lucrative ways to make money. a lot of young men that were growing up around here would be 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 car 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. so someone else i want you so much to do and so i was doing the same thing and. was just raising money enough to work us up 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 obviously a car rebirthing to be taken. it was a hydra don't go with the enemy because the stop you from making your reasoning.

sam l. care is convicted of a number of offenses but escapes a jail sentence. current history is that it. often border tarring years. as the nadya's increasingly demonizes south west sydney 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 isn't a body and soul so as we are multi-racial. strolling in and around a bit. with the end of john howard as prime minister monti council is and has been abandoned as a national audiology and so people are feeling much more comfortable in the period

of pulling hansen about talking about race simple easing racist remarks calling people reisa snipes and the lebanese kids in places like punchbowl or getting caught up in the bunch of dogs. 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 why for them to make quick money these are smaller numbers but what existing they did happen. to be a straight punch bowl goes from decent law abiding suburban streets to a drug drive through supplying much of south west sydney a young people with drug users there were drug addicts and their family would not. do anything about it because there was people and there's a car but it does 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

information 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 want west. next time on once upon a time in punch. her dark side they're all 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 strong lebanese a told us to go back to where they came from and all our embassy is astronomy and flags being carried away which on that i think that our jazeera

traces the history of first generation lebanese australians exploring the conflicts . and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al-jazeera. how i we've had some rather heavy snow across the deep south of the united states that actually stretching is way down in the parts of mexico there are clouds sleet and snow that is slowly pulling away clear skies coming in behind crisp sunshine

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the simple reason people don't want to shoot people or not try to shoot themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into a problem right open a war that the city security people who paid the price did the right top being prejudiced setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. al jazeera is award winning programs to take you on a journey around the globe and. expert analysis. it's all about who's in charge who controls the resources and documentaries that will in your eyes it's a technology story it's a business story it's

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