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but instead of finding safety many continue to face danger. the law the law up. with the authorities but i know the paid. your law. well there will be an al-jazeera crew was filming in a makeshift camp in adelaide when an attack happened they tell us a missile hit very close to civilians who escaped earlier bombing attacks and the nearby hummer countryside al-jazeera correspondent maillard fogl can be seen among men women and children desperately trying to find cover. in all the developments a spokesman for turkey's president says an american operation to help syrian kodesh

fight to set up a new border force is unacceptable under the u.s. plan thirteen thousand troops will man the borders of territory carved out of northern syria by the syrian democratic forces which are mainly composed of kurdish why p.g. feiss turkey has condemned the move as it fights kurdish separatists within its own borders of obesity threaten to capture areas on the kurdish control and a warning of an imminent attack on the syrian city of a frame. god willing in the coming days as we will continue the operation to purge our southern border from terror for which the first step was taken with the euphrates shelled operation and now with the frame. is genuine in that we expect america to support turkey and its legitimate efforts we expect our friends to display not achieved a perfect system and this issue of survival that is so sensitive and so critical for our country during the effort in operation i hope these powers will not give rise to error by appearing on the same side as the terror organization so new has

more from antakya on the tacky syria border. the united states is planning to station the those security troops to turkey iraq and syria iraq borders these areas are mainly dominated by the syrian kurds and the white p.g. and p y d n a united states aims. to provide security and stop the infiltration of the radical groups to this area by this move but from the turkish perspective the story still to the different because turkey believes that the white peachey is an offshoot of the p.k. k. the could be some workers' party which is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but also by the you not to the states and the e.u. so turkish officials say that this is a threat to turkish national security and territorial integrity and turkey has been fighting against the people here for thirty seven years by this move turkey

believes that pick a king is going to be alleged to my stand turkey say they have all rights reserved to have a counter attack whether it's inside or outside turkey if there is a threat it's for its national security we're moving to our other top stories police in the tunisian capital of fired tear gas at protesters who threw stones at offices and set fires to thais hundreds of demonstrators have been marking the seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring many of the issues which brought people to the streets back then is still causing the same problems today anger has been rising over new austerity measures after a year of increasing prices government has promised more systems to poor families but many say it's still not enough. palestine's president mahmoud abbas has told the p.l.o. central council that he'll never accept washington's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital but other palestinian factions including hamas and islamic jihad have declined an invitation to the event citing disagreements over

the response to trump's policy. we're up to date with our top stories next we follow a los angeles couples fight to protect their cities communities from gang violence stay with us the daisy and max. max sits in a room where visits are tightly controlled the no cameras are allowed. he

can't be seen or heard all he can do is write. and this is what he says. gang life this was our foundation and what we all know. i tried to do something different and when i met daisy it was the best day of my life . i wish that they could have gone on forever. my past caught up with me. and made us all pay the price. like max daisy grew up in south los angeles the place that used to be called south central. infamous for drive by shootings gangs and the rodney king riots. but for hundreds of thousands of families that make south l.a.

their home that's just part of the story. come up with a week a thing every day. daisy grew up here the middle of three sisters in a cluster of small houses her dad bought about twenty five years ago. they didn't get it. we grew up in south central about a mile away from where the l.a. riots started stay with. me my sister's fresh air ation americans and my family come straight from mexico. my dad brought all his brothers and sisters with the dreams and hopes of them having a better future red velvet cake.

but it's the polish less poverty that have there been never lock us up. with. her. in two thousand and two when daisy was fifteen the security her parents had worked for was shattered. her older sister on him was shot and killed in the driveway of the family property. and had finished college and was just about to start a great job she was also raising two boys. the shooter was a gang member and this fact as mark daisy's life in more ways than one. welcome to. be here there are what you're going to do there.

either any questions for me. to start teaching my little bit about you. i have a bachelor's in psychology a master's in francis psychology and i in the counseling psychology program now. i have dedicated my. career to working with you that are involved in generational gang involvement and if we can help more people like that then maybe we can prevent more victims. so he can. while she's studying for her doctorate daisy has been working as a counselor for that risk families and their kids. but it's a job that sometimes puts her in danger. see

that's not good but that it will. be. spending this. hour. and i'm going to call live. i couldn't i couldn't get where they were from.

by there will be here like causing like chaos at the park. they were throwing up their gang signs. see i would be. if my ex was fair he would know what to do. if daisy could call him max would know what to do. you have been a gang member for most of his life before he became an interventionist. but part of the intervention workers really really help. and there's a right they don't like. her and try to separate

her top. ten. is just. not everybody wants or becomes a gang member in florence crown or in southwest. the lowest estimate is three percent the highest estimate is fifteen percent of the kids in those neighborhoods become gang members. violent crime and gang membership in los angeles has dropped in recent years as it has in other parts of the country. but people in south l.a. are still about three times more likely to be murdered than in other parts of the city. and summer is the most dangerous time. in the hot months when the tempers flare even a small class can turn deadly. the city hires interventionists

like max to work in the parks and head off any violence. gang intervention workers still have credibility with the gas they cannot go through. they have the respect of law enforcement. and not snitches. so these guys live on their word they walk a very thin line did no one else can really fully appreciate. what these men and women do they keep one body bag from becoming fifteen body bags. max started trying to reduce the violence about twelve years ago when he was thirty one. by that point he writes all i knew was gang life in prison

and all reality i did never see me getting out. but then one day i couldn't explain to a friend's little girl why i couldn't come home for christmas. that broke my heart . and i decided i had to change. oh max and i would be walking around. because i would just join him in his walk. so we would just make our presence known you know with the kid with the people playing basketball inside or you know. teenagers to like to hang out in the back that wouldn't be going on if he was here let me tell you that. you know and that's what i meant they think because the max he had me talk to her on the phone regarding a client that was that i was service team but he got shot in their area the maximum

i could be on the phone the whole face of life. and i started doing this job i was sent out to a lot of crime scenes i saw a lot of stuff that was very difficult to deal with. it's not easy to see a kid that you've been working with you see him at school and then the you get a call and you seen with the sheet over him over a couple of years daisy and max bonded through their passion for community work. he says i told my coworkers i'm an ameri here. and they said yeah i believe you doug i believe. they said no. no no go. so far i then went out of their.

c.a.r.e. spending your life. in. my pregnancy was the happiest time of my life i never felt so full of life literally you know. there was this look in his eyes just seen him experience something new and it just brought me to. make up to see that little kid in. really.

oh yes. oh i. said but if i thought. your kid what they say. then the though not for me to more love is very then. you'll get out the map. but they will begin to say i meant there. let's start over on the fact board up. there yes i got on there. he fathered.

it's been six months since baby sarah was born. max is working on the streets daisy is studying for her doctorate and sarah has two parents who adore. me behind the gates of the family property life seems to be going pretty well. until in the middle of the night in late spring daisy wakes up to loud voices and the sound of her door being smashed in. i couldn't move i couldn't move. i just stood over my baby because i don't want them to mess with her. it's an f.b.i. raid and it's part of a citywide sweep the feds call operation breaking bad. it

was very fusing and they were just like where is it where is where he put i'm like what are you talking about. max is hauled outside where he is cuffed arrested and taken away. daisy is left by herself with her baby and several armed f.b.i. agents have some of these agents sad are trying to talk to you like they're your friends. like you you know my wife just had a baby she says. i'm like ok so you understand how scared i am. i really don't know. i just. you know why you nicely. but they don't leave and what starts as

a bad dream turns into a nightmare. the social worker is coming and then i look i already know when you want to call the social worker she's not leaving empty handed i reckon. she came and said i'm going to have to take the baby. and i'm thinking. you'd have to kill me to take my child and they were just like if you cooperate he'd everything would be easier. so she was like either make her. tick. i don't even remember handing over. like it just. went from having her to not having her i don't even remember being.

there that i was on. today and it's been four days since the f.b.i. was here it's just hard at the. nothing makes sense everything is kind of odd so i feel as though this has been a big mistake. max is held in the federal detention center in downtown l.a. . the charges against him are for

a minor drug deal three years ago before he and daisy became a couple. the f.b.i. agents told social workers they found drugs in the house based on that baby sara has been taken away to a foster home i have to find a place for her outside of this property and do some made a drug test and pending that and maybe be given back to me. they're arresting people that are charged with these you know what in the government's mind of these horrific crimes and there's kids are so the easiest thing to do is scoop the kids up put them into what the government considers a safe environment and then let the family court determine what to do with them

and there's one charge against max for a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine with him on a codefendant thirty six hundred dollars was involved in the transaction and the customer turned out to be a confidential informant for the f.b.i. . the rest happens three years later because they don't want to burn the confidential informant there's all this is real typical. max is denied bail daisy will not be allowed to see him in person for three months she will only be able to communicate with him by phone and e-mail both monitored. the raid does not produce any new charges against max but the existing charges from three years ago could put him

away for life. if the case elect a bad dream nicky a nightmare. like some of the kids started calling would happen. there was hardly last the matter that my big brother had had a problem. this is happening to her i handle this. just feel like there's big boy. somehow when i got an intervention worker gets arrested there's soto in it i told you soul mentality from the public. but i know what these men and women do.

they're amazing human beings. but they do not walk on water. max is not allowed to discuss his case but daisy strongly denies there were drugs in the house on the night of the raid. the f.b.i. insists there was meth in the house but is not releasing any documentation to prove . i took a drug test hours after they took sarah the social worker cost me and says your urine was too clean why did you drink so much water and i said you know why you came into my home you took my child.

it may be. a family in the one even know me daisy who has no criminal history takes another drug test and passes it she moved her things to her aunt and uncle's house and asked the social workers to inspect it as a new home for sarah outside her old neighborhood. but as the weeks turn into a month the baby is still not released to her or to family members like her mother and father who have applied for custody as she's not getting any answers from the county.

when max decided to change his life a decade ago he could have walked away entirely from gangs but instead he chose to stay in that world to become a gang intervention worker and try to undo some of the damage he had done in his past. having one foot in one foot out it's just getting them in trouble. trying to make peace agreements between gangs you have to speak to criminals as speaking to these people will make you guilty of a crime. him i had had many conversations about this work while we were colleagues and he said that he would give his life on the street. if it could save any of these kids. max writes if you grew up in

a community where there's no violence you don't see the struggle that kids go to when they see gangs as positive. in iraq could have been makes his position then everything taken away. in all i'd feel like he has been told. it's like. being in religion you have to live in both worlds you don't have a choice if you want to be effective you have to in where there were bad we've done in the past. we're trying to atone for it. and it's not recognized and it's always the bad whatever's bad first our past always hans.

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display not achieved a perfect system and this issue of survival that is so sensitive and so critical for our country during the effort in operation i hope these powers will not give rise to error by appearing on the same side as the terror organization and all the headlines police in the tunisian capital of fired tear gas at protesters who threw stones at offices and burned time as hundreds of demonstrators have been mocking seven years since the revolution that spot the arab spring i know has been rising of the new austerity measures after a year of increasing prices. president mahmoud abbas has told the p.l.o. central council that he'll never accept washington's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital but other palestinian factions including hamas and islamic jihad have declined an invitation to the event citing disagreements over this response to president donald trump's policy and a french dairy company accused of covering up contaminated baby milk says it will pay damages to families affected about twelve million ten's of the powdered milk

a being recalled across eighty three countries here's the risk of salmonella poisoning as the headlines do stay with us daisy and max now continues. on monday after an f.b.i. raid toward daisy's family apart baby sarah remains in a foster home and max remains in a prison cell. based on his prior record the prosecutors are going to seek a life sentence for the small drug deal from three years ago. the judge doesn't have to agree to the possibility of life but he may.

they're destroying gangs workers that's the purpose of this is basically the federal equivalent of three strokes. particular judge where we're concerned is that we were going away and force it and at that point backs doesn't have a real bright future. desean liz start gathering letters of support for max from families he's helped over the years since he became an intervention we're here in just a stronger thank you think. from the police department juvenile impact program and this is from elementary school thanking him this from the county. max's lawyer submit snyman be

three pages of support letters to the court and everyone waits to hear what the judge will decide. in the meantime daisy has to keep working through the family court system to get her baby sarah back. daisy has made every condition the social workers have given her. but without success. so maximus speak to me he would be like oh baby you know they said that you know you should have the baby backs on but it is now no is going on out here. and over a monitored phone line if there's so many so much you can save. at this point daisy think she might get sarah out of foster care if her younger sister claudia can get temporary custody. many many months.

we had an appointment at eight at the seven fifty but cloudera will need to apply for custody from a new house away from the family property. so daisy and cloudier are going to pool their resources to rent a house east of the city. since sarah was taken daisy is only allowed to see her twice a week her. mom really loves. me miss. you are my son. please don't mine with. their lives goodnight mum. mom i love. oh ok you sent me

a picture. ok ok thank you ok bye bye. sorry they feel you. serious they will. kill us they are. reading. this book three. and thinking in this happens i'm going to give her back real fast look how pretty you look and looks like from

them will leave her alone. my sister living in a nice neighborhood and home they have no more excuses they can't give me any more excuses. it's been about six weeks now. daisy still can't understand why she's not been allowed to bring sarah home. and it's looking possible that max may never get out. we had filed everything about max in our social services are worthless in the community a. judge was not real receptive. that judge is not known for his compassion i wish the best not everybody but we're talking about

a lot of time and i have. families don't survive as families. sara. daddy writes you this letter with tears in my eyes i'm sorry i'm not with you. to see your first steps. you say. daisy there are no words of the kind of express what i am feeling. knowing our daughter was taken from us. i never meant to put you and sarah in the situation that i did. i don't want you to feel incarcerated with me.

no matter what happens to max daisy has to keep going forward to bring sarah home so she her sister cloudy and cloudy as husband jerry get ready to leave the family property. or the big house. or you want to stay here if at any point i feel that i'm not fighting for my family i i don't know what that would do to me so yeah every day is looking to today what came to. be here out. there that's all we're doing during those times or i feel like losing it i remember when mom. and then i realized that there is

no way that i could ever be magic she most of felt. what they must have felt to user twenty year old daughter this they like well ok. yeah. they might not be. a hawk almost. if that levy so would have a few on the call if you saw.

my sister had to endure the method by then and kept it a secret. her husband there's a gang member. after a few years she decided to make a life first off. went back to school. had full time job. and he couldn't accept that. he said you're not you're not going to see another another birthing of our son. i was fifteen i was with her when this happened. he waited. for us to come home. and i said we'll win but our

doors i just heard what i thought were firecrackers. and i looked over at my sister was covered in blood asking for air. this is why i am who i am is not who i am but is why i am that way not. the good life. oh. if. she. says. everybody bring injury to one

of. the reasons that happened here. me read. this if you will. just like. i feel my lady. is absolutely not the way that i wanted my daughter to get to know the world. i wanted her to believe in fairy tale in seeing unicorn set up leave ever after. we're going to have two of the hops. it's been almost two months since the raid. daisy knows the f.b.i.

claimed max had drugs in the house on the night he was arrested. but now daisy's public defender in family court blindsides her with a new accusation. the day i think i'm getting settled back my public defender tells me that they're going to take me to trial. just like. the public defender tells daisy the social workers think she must have been hiding something because she took too long to answer the door for the f.b.i. . and i say why was this question asked of me before i was a you don't know me you have no idea. what i've been through. i don't know how i'm going to do it but. i need another lawyer.

closer like daisy sister claudia borrow several thousand dollars from her boss and daisy uses the money to hire a firm of attorneys who specialize in family law i went to go meet with my lawyer and he was like they have a place here with family i'm like no why. did to court. and he was like i've been clean else like i don't use drugs so that he was even more. and then he asked me is your husband in state or federal custody a sit federal and he said all. he said ok i see it's going. they're using your child as leverage they're trying to pressure your husband into

cooperate. i felt as though someone with knowledge was. on my side now. they cannot be making it so. that. they have nothing against me they can even say i have a child walking ticket. daisy's new attorney talks to the judge who also questions why sarah was not placed with family and. the judge says she sees no reason for duty to be separated from sarah any longer. but the county social workers still have the final say. here you go along with the moral right thirty five they are not. going to have you guys try to win over but i never

turquoise recall there were any business there just. after her fifth visit to family court daisy finally gets a meeting at the county social workers offices. for daisy to get sarah back the social workers tell her max has to give up his parental rights. since daisy is still not allowed to visit max in person she has to tell him over the phone calling from. zero. he said you do and you say whatever you have to do to get babe. yonder stands that. is not something that can be stopped with any paper.

it's been nine weeks since the raid max is still in detention waiting for his trial and facing a possible life sentence he has agreed to give up his parental rights and the moment has come for the county to make a decision about sarah. it's like i don't know what the process is very very junior just. why do they have. exactly and so one of them called me back. hello.

ok great so where do i oh ok thank you so much and all this means to me ok thank you ok bye bye. so i'm peculiar about one. i guess she needed the extra time to get her stuff ready . all right and. we can put the. phone. call. now. and we're in

a better place. we're in a better place for her. with for months ago. almost all would be with us as we took ten. billion spot. or offering me nothing. you.

know you. think. this is a step. step. that been a journey of

a thousand miles. i'm thinking be thankful for what you have. just after sarah comes home daisy is allowed to start visiting max in person for the first time since the raid was very. telling and we're going to go see daddy. but that good news is short lived. out of the blue max gets hit with a new set of charges. this time it's in a federal racketeering case with thirty other people alleging that he is still active in a gang. is the indictment on it's face going to have a potential for a life in prison but this is the type of thing where once again they can add that career criminal enhancement of this toast. the

federal government has used record tearing laws against organized crime for years. recently the f.b.i. has been using the same laws to sweep alleged gang members off the streets. or somewhere like oh my god so rejoice that was my first thought then i realized what this presented to me as an opportunity to be in front of a different judge the new judge gives max a chance if he pleads guilty to two of the new charges he can escape a life sentence. so like ninety seven percent of people facing federal drug charges max enters into a plea bargain. he is thankful to have a release date he is just optimistic that things will work out for us and he'll be

out some. for some reason i i believe him. right after sarah's first birthday max was sent to a federal prison a few hours outside l.a. to start serving a fifteen year sentence. daisy texeira to visit him every saturday. as he finishes writing maximus i took these deals so i can go back to be with my family and prove i am a good person. i don't want to kid to see that mistakes condemn a person forever. the reason for change if you want it. in your. you know i guess something something wrong have to want your life for something that comes. next. and it helped me get it.

i graduated and i'm i'm working thanks to them. other brother. max that they see had told me even if you've got a sure way you're going to have something a rock in the way that you. got to get up and keep on long. enough here today to talk about a communication oh boy here has been has ever been put down. what i do comes from the heart is. in the midst of your storm you meet other people that just survived their own earthquake. you admire this person. so him and me helping them they help me.

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