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president accuse washington of trying to create a terror on me and pledge to drown it before it comes into being in the syrian government has vowed to drive the u.s. presence from its territory the u.s. says the force will secure areas along syria's border to the north with turkey and to the east with a rug it'll be mostly made up of fighters from the syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. a large part of that group is made up of kurdish fighters whom turkey considers terrorists yes yes he's a u.s. backed alliance of kurdish and arab fighters which currently controls almost twenty five percent of syrian territory in the north and east russia says it's a u.s. plot to partition syria rory chalons reports. slowly but russia's foreign minister had a stark rebuke for the us on monday speaking as a media conference in moscow a lover of said the creation of his own controlled by u.s.

backed rebels risks syria's territorial integrity turkey's president also opposes the plan he's attacking reports of the u.s. backed kurdish border force russia type says turkey will launch its own military operation against the kurds in the northern syrian city of a free shot at getting this is secure well and good now the united states has confessed that they are forming a terror army along our border what we have to do is to strangle this terror army on our borders before it is born turkey has for its kurdish factions inside its borders for decades and doesn't want to see them gaining more power in neighboring syria box in northern syria the americans have long been supporting some kurdish forces this is a predictable turkish escalation against us steps to concretize our military part of the syrian democratic forces into an enduring stabilisation force that can

secure this terrain long term turkey has been crystal clear actually that it regards the syrian democratic forces as a threat to its interests although u.s. president donald trump promised he would stop supporting kurdish fighters the pentagon never made that's official the reported thirty thousand strong u.s. backed border force would primarily come from kurdish led syrian democratic forces and would deploy along the syrian borders with turkey and iraq and along the euphrates river valley the dividing line with syrian government forces. one of the syrian wars detectable trends last year was the emerging axis of cooperation between russia and turkey often joining together to criticize steps taken by the united states if today's developments around nothing to go by that's a trend that looks set to continue into two thousand and eight teams will reach alan's al-jazeera moscow pope francis is arrived in chile his first stop in

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capital and sprayed police with red paint they responded with pepper spray despite the protests your sanity reforms passed those are the latest headlines let's go now to lax. max sits in a room where visits are tightly controlled in 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 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 day could have gone on forever. my past caught up with me. and made us all pay the price. for. the 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 bottom alla way from where the l.a. riots started stay with. me my sisters are fresh air ation americans and my family comes 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 and.

lol but if the bible is less poverty that have. been never lock us up but i love. what is thought of her. in two thousand and two when daisy was fifteen the security her parents had worked for was shattered. her older sister on hilly 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 having me here there are that's 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 france and 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 counsellor 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. and i'm going to call lists. i couldn't i couldn't get where they were from.

there will be here like causing like chaos at the park. they were throwing up their gang signs. you know i. say i would be glad. if max was fair he would know what to do. if daisy could call him max would know what to do. it 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

. it's 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 clash can turn deadly. in the city hires interventionists like max to work in the parks and head off any by loss. gang intervention workers still have credibility with the gang they cannot both. 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 arm. 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 and he was here let me tell you that. yeah that's what i meant they think because the max he had me talk to him on the phone regarding the crying that was that i was service team but he got shot in

their area the max max would be on the phone his whole face alight. and i started doing this job i was sent 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. and then what are they.

ca yah especially just like for. a moment i want to move. 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 joy. i got to see that little kid in. oh.

oh. oh yes. oh i. said but if i thought. your kid what they say. then the though not for me to more love is then that's. what 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 could and 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 city wide sweep the feds cause 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 hold on. i'm like ok so you understand how scared i am right now. 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 bad or i could take. her neighbor remember handing over. like it just. went from having her to not having her i don't even remember.

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 my people 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 bring a 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 the bad dream nicaea 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 hard i handle this. just feel like there's big boy. somehow when i got an intervention worker gets arrested this sort of when i told you soul mentality from the public. but i know what these men and women do.

there are 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 be. a family in this 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 turned 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 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 have 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 see if 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 like. any risk and being max's position they have everything taken away. in oh i feel like he just being treated it's like. being in a religion you have to live in both worlds you don't have a choice if you want to be effective you have to look inward ever bad we've done in our past. we're trying like atone for it. and it's not recognised and it's always the bad whatever's bad can it's first or past always hunts are just.

you are making very pointed remarks where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on say no evil person just wakes up other than the morning and says i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be was leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. that's. where every.

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criticized by turkey and by the syrian government the u.s. says the thirty thousand strong force would help stabilize syria pope francis is arrived in chile on the first stop and his visit to south america the pontiff has landed in the capital but there have been scenes of tension ahead of his visit with five churches vandalize in recent days the protests are expected against the alleged cover up of sexual abuse in the catholic church security has been ramped up as a result. a number of people have been killed during a shootout between venezuelan special forces and members linked to a former police pilot accused of leading last year's rebellion against the government the pilot has been on the run for more than six months or perez has posted video of himself on social media showing his injuries from the fighting in june last year perez used a solon helicopter to throw grenades and shoot at government buildings in the

capital caracas. greek protests as a full up with police outside parliament as politicians voted to approve more measures twenty thousand people marched an anti-government rallies in the capital and sprayed police with red paint they responded with pepper spray despite the protests and all sarah t. reforms were passed they include cuts to family benefits and tougher conditions for union strike. palestinian leaders have recommended that the palace in palestine liberation organization suspend its recognition of israel they've been taking part in a meeting of the central council focusing on the american recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the council also declared that the us had lost its ability to mediate between israel and palestine events are taking place across the united states to mark the birthday of the civil rights leader martin luther king jr in

washington a wreath was laid a monument dedicated to him known as the stone of hope king fought for racial equality in the u.s. until he was assassinated in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight those are the latest headlines let's go back now to daisy max. after an f.b.i. raid or daisies 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 dealer from three years ago. the judge doesn't

have to agree to the possibility. but he may. they're destroying gangs workers that's the purpose of this is basically the federal equivalent of three strikes. the particular judge were front of the concern is that he would willingly and force it and at that point backs doesn't have a real bright future. desean lives start gathering letters of support from max from families he's helped over the years since he became an intervention work here in just a stronger thank you think. from the police department juvenile impact program 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 met 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 heat is nano was 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. maybe maybe. we had an appointment at eight at the seven fifty but cloudier 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 my third son them live 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. 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 worry fits in the community. the 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. sarah. 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 bye bye. 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. all you want is there 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 for 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 imagine what she must of felt. what they must have felt to user twenty year old daughter this they like well ok. yeah. the. law would be monopolies are a pass hawk on a sore throats. is that lovely sue would have a few on the call if you saw.

my sister had to endure it by then and kept it a secret. her husband is a gang member. after a few years she decided to make a life or. went back to school. have full time job. and he couldn't accept that. he said you're not you're not going to see another another birthday. i was fifteen i was with her when this happened. he waited. for us to compose. and as it is we opened our

doors and has heard what i thought were fire. 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 asked when i got the clip. on the the. chair. evite bring injury to you when.

there is a hand and hear. me. is that. you have both. hands. just like that. coin and. i feel my leave it. is absolutely not the way that i wanted my daughter to get to know the world. i want her to believe in fairy tale insignia corn certain believe ever after. we can do all the top books.

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 and family court blindsides her with a new accusation. the day i think i'm getting sarah 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 in place here with family i'm like no why. do you stick 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 situation. where they sit 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 stuff up. that. they have nothing against me they can even say i have it jaywalking ticket. daisy's new attorney talks to the judge who also questions why sarah was not placed with family. 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. ok you got it all right because your right saturday sunday i'm not. going to have you guys try to influence over me i never

turquoise recall there were any business cards. or about 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. oh he said you do and you say whatever you have to do to get the baby. 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. like i don't know what the process is very very to leave you just. what 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 taking are about one. i guess she needed the extra time to get her stuff ready. all right. we can put this behind. color. and we're in a better place. we're in a better place for her. with for months to come.

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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. tell her 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. is 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. 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 access i took this do you 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 result but unity 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 they help me get it. i graduated and i'm i'm working thanks to them.

other brother. max that they had told me even if you've got a sure way you're going to have something a rock in the way that you have. got to get up and keep on long. enough here today to talk about a communication oh boy here has been it 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. where there is life we can survive it all.

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