good audiences across the globe. on the fringes of some of this mega city. make a slum splurge stop still trying. but the cities are beginning to develop even areas where. architects goodly i.b.m. is sponsoring the most sustainable solution unities harvesting the type. of the luck that you continue working. this time on i just. know i'm down jordan doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its nuclear program he's joined a summit in canada discussing how to tighten sanctions on pyongyang wells in jordan

reports. a show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending north korea's nuclear weapons program but the meeting co-hosted by canada and the united states yielded just one new tactic for the fight an agreement to prevent so-called ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to pyongyang i think we all agreed together with our partners here that the timing has turned out to be really for to it because we are seeing we we want to be clear headed we don't want to be in any way pollyannas about this but i think we collectively believe that the peaceful pressure is beginning to have an impact north koreans know our channels are open and they know where to find us. but a sustained cessation of north korea's threatening behavior is necessary is a necessary indicator of whether the regime is truly ready to pursue a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the security threat that it has created our

nations must remain united on sustaining pressure until north korea takes concrete steps toward and ultimately reaches did nuclearize asia thank russia and china were excluded from the meeting only countries that supported seoul during the korean war were invited to the gathering in moscow and beijing said this one sided event could aggravate tensions however two of north korea's neighbors said now was a good time as any to tell people yong to abandon its nuclear ambitions we should not be naive about their intent nor should we be blinded by north korea's charm offensive in short it is not the time to ease pressure or to reword no it's career we stand ready to provide a brighter future for north korea if it makes the right choice analysts said the bank hoover meeting won't be

a major venue for resolving the north korea question but it isn't a waste of time either if the clouds can part just a wee bit with a little bit of sunshine coming in then those countries are going to be necessary whether it's to talk about verification or whether it's to talk about new forms of economic assistance to north korea that could be part of the opening process the u.s. and canada have promised to brief china and russia on the discussions held here on tuesday it's not clear whether this gathering will have turned out to be instrumental or simply a side bar to diplomatic efforts at the u.n. rosalyn jordan al-jazeera vancouver. hong kong's high court a sentence the pro-democracy activist joshua wong for a second time for his role in the protests in twenty fourteen he's been given a three month jail term his lawyers have asked the court not to arrest him until their request for an appeal is considered. a military court in thailand has decided

not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy. was charged after he commented on a battle that took place more than four hundred years ago. the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees says reduced u.s. assistance will threaten regional security trump administration has announced it will withhold half of its financial aid to the u.n. agency. this is not aimed at punishing anyone the united states government and the trump administration believes that there should be more at so-called burden sharing to go around to u.s. navy officers are facing possible homicide charges of a deadly ship collisions which killed seventeen sailors both officers commanded navy destroyers in the pacific ocean one collided with a philippine container ship in june and the other struck a merchant ship near singapore noblest both officers are facing courts martial the french president is calling on the u.k. through more about refugees and migrants trying to make it to britain via kalai manual macro was met some of them in the port city says he will discuss the issue

with the british prime minister to resign may on thursday those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after daisy and max stationed themselves about an hour. max sits in a room where visits are tightly controlled the no cameras are allowed. he can't be seeing or heard all he can do is write. and this is what he says.

gang life this was our foundation it 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. 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 all away from where the l.a. riots started stay with. me my sisters freshener 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 if the ball is left by me that have. 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 your heart that's what you're going to do there.

either really questions for me. to start teaching myself a 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 called. max 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. part of the intervention workers really really help. and. they come like.

he'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 to become gang members. for. 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. to 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 could 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 our. 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 i'm. here and that's what i meant basically 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 max wouldn't be on the phone his whole phraselator. 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 build 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 go we're. going to marry her. and they said yeah i believe you doug i believe. they said no. no no golly bastow ok what i am what i do they. see and ya it's better than your life and.

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 eye. just seen him experience something new and it just brought me joy. like i've seen a little kid in. wow . oh oh.

oh. oh yes. oh. but if and thought. you'll get what they say. in the though we're not far media more love is there that's. so you'll get out the map. but they will that's going to say i meant there. let's start over on the fact that 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's sixteen months old. 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 workers coming in 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 tick. i don't even remember. thinking. 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 my people be given back to me. they're arresting people that are charged with these you know what in the government's minor 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 the bad dream if you nightmare. like some of the kids started calling would happen. there was hardly last the matter that my big brother 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 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 and mice false hope .

it may be that my 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 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 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 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 like. any of us can be max's position and have everything taken away. in oh i feel like he has been tainted it's like. being in the 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 the past. we're trying like atone for it. and it's not recognised and it's always the bad whatever's bad comes first or past always hurts us.

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rain the snow the wonderful migration and generations of her death in large minds altering the landscape mood is the stuff of mine. a stunning portrayal of mounting life and one woman's determination to save the community. russians one hundred ten at this time now to sierra. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha the quick reminder of the top stories here on the al-jazeera the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees says reduced u.s. assistance will threaten regional security follows an announcement by the trumpet ministration. but it will withhold hoff of the financial i hated to the u.n.

agency. this is not aimed at punishing anyone the united states government and the trumpet ministration believe that there should be more so-called burden sharing to go around u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its nuclear program he's co-hosted a summit in kemah discussing how to talk and sanctions on people yes we agree that the need for u.n. member states especially china and russia to fully implemented agreed upon sanctions is essential to their success we discuss the importance of working together to counter sanctions evasion and smuggling. and we also issued a call to action to strengthen global maritime interdiction operations do for oil the illicit ship to ship transfers hong kong has high court has sentenced the pro-democracy activist joshua walking for a second time for his role in the protests and twenty fourteen he's been given

a three month jail term his lawyers have asked the court not to arrest him until their request for an appeal is consider. a military court in thailand has decided not to prosecute a historian for insulting the monarchy so lots of iraq was charged after he commented on a battle that took place four hundred years ago the eighty five year old has been in and out of court since twenty fourteenth. two u.s. navy officers are facing possible homicide charges of a deadly ship collisions which killed seventeen sailors both officers commanded maybe destroyers in the pacific one collided with a philippine container ship in june and the other struck a merchant ship near singapore in august both officers are facing courts martial and could be charged with negligent homicide. and the french president is calling on the u.k. to do more about refugees and migrants trying to make it to britain via kalai on tuesday emmanuel macro met some of them in the northern french port he says he'll discuss the issue with british prime minister to resign may on thursday thousands

of people were victims from a camp known as the jungle before it was demolished in twenty sixteen but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after daisy i'm backstage and i'm sort of life in l. . 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. but he may.

they're destroying gangs work that's that's the purpose of those it's basically the federal equivalent of three strikes. the particular judge were front of concern is that you were going away in force and at that point rex doesn't have a real bright future. daisy and liz start gathering letters of support for max from families he's helped over the years since he became an intervention weren't you just a stunner thank you. from the police department juvenile impact program this is from elementary school thanking him this from the county. max's lawyer submit snidely

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 not a no is going on out here. and over a monitored phone line if there's something 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 say my third. live good night mum. mom i love. oh ok you sent me a picture ok ok thank you ok

bye bye. i they freak you. seriously they will. kill us and they are. this book's very. unthinking and this happens i'm going to give her back. facts look how pretty you look it 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. judge was not real receptive. that judge is not known for his compassion i wish the best on everybody but we're talking about a lot of time and i have. family

stone survivors 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 in the can 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 it's ok to do today what came to today. 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 imagine what she must of felt.

barb might that what they must have felt to user twenty year old daughter this they like well ok. yeah. loyalty monopolies are a pos hawk on a sore throats. is the lovely suit of a few on the call if you so. my sister had to endure the message by then. kept it

a secret. her husband was a gang member. for a few years she decided to you know make a life first. went back to school. full time job. and he couldn't accept that. he said you're not you're not going to see another another birthing son. and i was fifteen i was with her when this happened. you waited. for us to come home. and i said we opened our doors and just heard what i thought were firecrackers. and i

looked over and my sister was covered in blood asking for air. this is why i am doing. is not who i am but is why i am that way. oh. she. says. they're violent bring injury to one another and. there is a hand and hear. me read. this if you

have both. hands. it's like. a curse. i feel my live it. is absolutely not the way that i want my daughter to get to know the world. i want her to believe in fairy tale insignia corn so. ever after. we can do all the problems. 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 not 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.

was 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. are you still 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 says 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 a walking 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 daisy to be separated from sarah any longer. but the county social workers still have the final say. ok you got it all right because normal friday saturday sunday and. i mean have you guys tried out before number three i never turquoise would call everybody business or 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. prison oh he said you do and you say whatever you have to do to get the baby. your understanding. 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 to leave you just. why do they have . exactly and this whole 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. so i'm picking her up at one. i guess she needed the extra time to get her stuff ready. all right. we can put this behind. coerced. and we're in a better place. we're in

a better place for her. with her months ago. that almost all would be with us as we took ten. shillings squad. are offering me nothing. and it's good. to.

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 its 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 these 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 maximize. his due 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 will help 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 have. 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. in the midst of your storm you meet other people that just survived their own earthquake. you admire this person. so in me helping them they help me. were there is life we can survive it all.

hello there we've got yet more rain on its way towards turkey it's not with us just yet we're seeing a little bit of cloud just drift its way across us but we're going to see some heavier downpours as we head through wednesday night to and into thursday so wednesday really the calm before the storm and then all of that cloud of rain and snow piles in thursday say will be quite a wet blustery day we'll also see some of that rain stretch a bit further south as well so force in lebanon also looks for all the way here as well elsewhere generally fine and dry eight degrees is the maximum there him back from ati will be getting to freezing a bit further towards the south and here in doha the winds have picked up now and they're bringing in some slightly cooler air so you will notice it gets a little bit fresh night now so twenty two or twenty three will be the maximum temperature during the day but at night with your feet all the way down to around

thirteen degrees so certainly feeling cool for us before the towards the south we've got this swirling mass of cloud here this is a storm that's gradually working its way towards militias and lever union does look very very wet there over the next few days a very stormy as well but i think the major problem from that storm will be the amount of rain rather than the strength of the winds we're also seeing some very heavy rain over parts of mozambique recently as well more still to come for wednesday and for thursday as well. 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 saying no evil person just wakes up to over the morning and says i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion the line was about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus

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