the broken windows theory is new haven connecticut the city might be known as the home of yale university but it's also ranked as the second most dangerous mid-size city in the country in an effort to combine a growing drug trafficking problem city and state officials created so-called drug free zones which are geographic sanctuaries around schools the premise behind the law was that selling drugs near schools posed a danger to kids anyone caught with drugs inside one of these drug free school zones would get mandatory additional jail time added to their sentence an additional year for using drug paraphernalia two years for possession and three for drug sales drug free school zones became so popular that their radius increased from a thousand to fifteen hundred feet then daycare center and finally all public housing . because of the geography of new haven it means basically virtually all of new haven with the exception of the golf course at yale university

is a drug free zone and this results in mass incarceration of people because with a mandatory minimum sentence added on to the basic sentence it means that most people even if they feel they're innocent will not risk going to to prison for an extended period of time so they plead out and this disproportionately affects minority populations and impoverished people critics call it the geography of punishment. if you look at this map here this is a simple. and. you can quickly most of the city is covered when you add in housing projects and daycare centers but you know almost no place. where if you don't get the enhanced penalty state senator gary holder winfield represents the city of new haven louise harvey a former inmate runs the nonprofit better way foundation together there. trying to

do something that is counterintuitive to most suburban rural citizens in the state who believe that these laws protect children they actually want to shrink the size of the drug free zones in connecticut from fifteen hundred to two hundred feet you have a city that's all it has penalty. punishment and so if i'm a. keep me away from dealing drugs to children what incentive do i have to stay away from. a law that was put into place to keep drug dealers away from children effectively in a city like new haven or hartford does nothing in other words if ninety five percent of your city is a drug free zone then anyone arrested for a drug violation whether it's for a misdemeanor or a felony is getting extra time added to their sentence but what really upsets those who advocate for the reduction of drug free school zones is the fact that if a person is arrested for drugs in a city like new haven they will get more time in prison than

a person busted for the exact same crime in a suburb where as you can see on the map most of the land is not designated a drug free zone. i just want people to understand as a people out there think that drug free zones are getting reduced why would you want to reduce them to greater area for drug dealing without that penalty there is no deterrent there was a report. and ninety nine percent of those arrested and drug free school zones where not near a school at all or on school property there was one case in the last ten years and it was a woman who dropped her kid off at elementary school and she wanted it kids back from to shoot up that's not a deal or death on intel so they are trying to change the system holder's latest bill has just been introduced to the connecticut legislature and he and harvey need to get a read on who is on board. doing a bill like this you sometimes feel like you're pushing a rock up the hill and just. to get it out there for whatever reason it comes

tumbling back down if you look at what happened in two thousand is really a perfect example of that they can choose not to deal drugs that's the choice we should be urging individuals in our communities to me we walked we had the numbers we thought we were going to. back down i have not had a parents come up to me and say please make it safer for these unscrupulous characters to get closer to my children. and for that reason i can't possibly support it and i know many of the residents of connecticut would wish we don't support it as well. but holder winfield and harvey are still determined to get it past. anyone who says getting rid of drug free schools makes it more difficult to.

an educated about this. fifteen hundred. and that. could be the solution to the problem. by drug hungry gangs. carrying illegal. thank you very much. intuitively you would think that a drug free zone around schools is a helpful thing but when you hear the other side and you hear how it's applied in a populous area like new haven you understand that it actually can hurt the people that the law is trying to serve. a man should think of to some bar i want to learn about how this fifteen hundred foot school zone is affecting the neighborhood i'm i'm trolling absolutely shafique do so before grew up in new haven and is currently

a new haven police department corrections officer he's also president of the national association of black law enforcement officers as a patrol officer for thirteen years he worked on the streets and has used the drug free zone enhancement penalty against dozens of suspects it's commonly don't that they're sold the school when you take a drug arrest you could literally take your life to authorities like so which would take one for just one but this one just because they're all with us here all of them if you're fifty and it's over kill all of the urban attribute in individuals who live in those communities or likely to at often times possess trust whatever reason if you got two bags of marijuana on you for your personal use two more bags of marijuana constitutes self. constants and they sell they say that sell it to sell it even though it could be for personal use and even those persons bring back stuff we're selling is no doubt about. that look at what it costs to potentially

arrest them body for selling three bags of marijuana for the whole school because police tired to lock them off your car shrink them in a local jail that is still roughly around forty thousand dollars a year for a person to sit in jail for fifty dollars or for drugs it's not cost effective because the trail the truck buyers because. this is the oldest hit this is sheldon. this is keep. and this is kyra barbara fair has lived worked and raised eleven children inside of a drug free zone and paid the price for it so how many of your children gotten caught in this trap and sean has a couple of times. i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges. the only chars they've ever been arrested for drug charges and once you

have that fifteen hundred feet within a school which are pretty much know that you're going to be found guilty because there's a mandatory minimum of three years with their barbers the first to admit that when our sons were guilty of a drug offense they deserved to serve time every time he got a receipt he was actually guilty in many instances her sons were charged with possession after they were picked up by a police force that was aggressively clearing street corners but the fact that nearly every street corner in new haven was a drug free zone meant that her sons were automatically facing additional time in prison it was guilt by geography and you realize that a lot more people are being caught up in the other people in possession of drugs they wouldn't get that enhanced sentence so in the more countrified parts of connecticut words more white that would apply and in the more urban concentrated areas able to apply almost everywhere you go and then you lose faith in the justice system i know i have definitely and my experience i have definitely lost any faith

in the justice system being fair. that an hour and a half south in the bronx the case against michael moore is another reminder of how proactive policing policies designed to lower crime rates for everyone can result in unconstitutional searches jam up the court system fill up the prisons and destroy the fabric of neighborhoods this is really quite a simple case as it says here in this motion. to dismiss prosecution claims that mr torres possessed marijuana in public view on september twenty sixth two thousand and eleven mr torres has consistently denied the allegation it adamantly contested the constitutionality of his arrest yet at every turn he has been denied any meaningful due process through the courts this guy has been waiting over two years for his day in court this has affected his work and has affected his psychological well being and his unfortunately one of tens of thousands of people who are

arrested in the bronx under the stop and frisk programs similar. to this. so many views in. quite a long time this job has been a lifeline for tourists so every time he gets a call that his case is going to trial he has to choose between copping a guilty plea and serving a minimum of three months in jail or fighting the system and risking more jail time if he loses torres has chosen to fight and he loses a day's pay each time he shows up to court hoping his case will finally proceed. you know they start to think the case is bigger than what is all i saw these panels

. got in the new modification and we got deadlines that we got to meet so i can't put my deadlines because i've got to hope in. this case it's not going to change my life it's just going to add on. i want to stop. in new haven the system had one stop for the fair family prison i mean the first time i had to visit my son in prison. i didn't want him to see me cry so. i feel like i'm back here again. ok here. we go to barbara's son shelton knows full well how the police can use the state's drug zone law to turn a minor drug charge into a longer sentence. and i was home i was coming down the street i was walking in this direction in a car is driving on the side of me and they're trying to call me. a slow down look

and asked. what it in asked me so i start to feel like i was about to be the victim of a robbery when the car got about here at least two people jumped out. and i was one that was a guy coming behind me take me back. to the call and i fell down to the ground the next thing i knew i heard him say words that. i knew they were the police. claims that he's innocent that he's the victim of a random drug sweep and that the two bags of marijuana were actually planted on him . and charging him with. possession when it's. within fifteen. project and that was it. but unlike michael torres shelton believe that fighting the charge was a dead end when they put that charge on you god. is not you can do it has a mandatory time. and that extra enhancement on the sands means you've got to

plead out because you're not going to risk eight ten twelve years in prison. shelton pled guilty and was given two years of probation he and his brothers are all out of jail now their mother barbara is glad they survived what do you say to people who think drug free zones around schools are a good idea if the law was truly about that about keeping drug dealers away from kids would be i would be the first in line to say yes we need to. look behind with fifteen hundred feet. look at the outcome of what he does and then try to open your mind and think there's something else going on besides trying to protect our kids. that's just how it's done on a tourist case he has been coming to court since september two thousand and eleven so we're keeping our fingers crossed for tomorrow and hopefully he'll finally goes to court. to face we're going to throw good to see you so i figure what we can do

today is just talk through your case a bit you have been to court one two three four. five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and tomorrow will be your thirteenth chords . always come to court prepared to fight the charges but the system is so jammed up with stop and frisk cases that getting the right combination of been available judge courtroom and police officer to cross-examine has been impossible now my concern is what would have been if they were not ready have to so much time. do we continue to wait a little what's going to happen if they're not ready or if there are no four was available you have to decide whether or not to plead guilty in order to end the case and get back to work or to continue to fight the case and try to vindicate your constitutional rights and we filed a motion to dismiss in your case based on constitutional speedy trial grounds and that was denied even though your case has been open for two and a half years but i think tomorrow that we have

a reasonable shot at actually having to go to trial we've prepared this case countless times. but i'll see in court tomorrow definitely going to be. one of the reasons you were stopped is that new york city has this thing called stops for us because you know i think in two thousand and eleven almost seven hundred thousand people six hundred eighty four thousand people in new york city were stopped and frisked and i guess the theory of the police theory is that you know if you stop low level crime it will stop. bigger crime but what do you think about the how do you they were a guy who was. the first. initiate like. changing it keeping the. people that. changing and. not everyone in new york city agrees with torres that the n.y.p.d. stop and frisk policy is too aggressive or racially biased it's

a complicated issue. when did we become the bad guy in a situation i think every kid in america yourself include myself included was told by all moms and dads well if they were problem go see a policeman well we've now created the atmosphere that the policeman is the bad guy sergeant ed mullins is a current n.y.p.d. officer and president of the sergeants benevolent association he experienced firsthand the rise in the stop and frisk strategy the little crimes made a difference to big crimes we stop people we come up with things. contraband whatever it was we could do we began to fish with a net and out with a poll when though you go to jail you know send somebody on their way into it and report any more every incident or field report was recorded in placed into a massive computer system constant searchable by precinct and capable of predicting patterns of criminal behavior so making these arrest all is all that honest they want by the way and here's the challenge for critics of stop and frisk during the

past twenty years the crime rate for major offenses like homicide rates robbery and assault have been cut by nearly seventy five percent in new york city experienced cops like the rationale for keeping stop and frisk is quite simple. with a crackdown on media and political opposition. getting ready for its national election . when east investigates how far jeopardy is ruling party will go to consolidate its power one of many first on al jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. a bit of

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sergeant ed mullins is a current n.y.p.d. officer and president of the sergeants benevolent association he experienced firsthand the rise in the stop and frisk strategy the little crimes made a difference the big crimes we stop people we come up with things was gone contraband whatever it was we could do i work at the crime is if i'm out on the street the middle of winter cold nights eight degrees out there's nobody on the street and i see an individual looking in call windows is that a crime nope that's not a crime he's allowed to do that ok he crosses the street goes he has a she walks back eastbound looking call wyndham's he still hasn't made a crime so i watch it because the ended up box stands on a corner looks both different ways takes out a cigarette smoke a cigarette a couple minutes later walks into a building to commit a crime you know it maybe lives in a building one else smoked a cigarette or. same scenario now i say let me go stop and go up a what are you doing. my name is x y z wail of

a little brooklyn why are you here as a way of my girlfriend and say are you getting weapons like you and i that know i toss and i quote a screwdriver a weapon know i can buy them at home depot. but it doesn't but a screwdriver is a weapon it's a weapon if you want to use it as a weapon so i remove the screwdriver from why i'm talking to him and he committed crimes knowing what happens if you go to a certain area i stop them after he broke your window and destroyed the interior of your paw now i have a crime. with an arrest the public doesn't understand this scenario of how this happens at what point does the officer stop a. police officers in connecticut are also defending a broken window strategy the use of drug free zones to fight the war on drugs here an effort is underway to shrink the size of the state's drug free zones from fifteen hundred to two hundred feet. from free zones or controversy oh you know in certain parts of the country in certain rural areas you can understand an exclusion

zone around the school about selling drugs and adding a mandatory minimum to the drug charge but in a place like new haven a very urban concentrated center it targets minority and impoverished people because their entire living area is a drug free zone. so we're heading over to see law enforcement here in new haven to hear their side of the story to hear why they feel these drug free zones are effective policy. sorghum or handle the current issues to foreign and we use it pretty much as a template. and it willy you know not to make it not personal but that's that's where it is for the officer on the beat you find the drugs you find the person you're arresting you find the school or the public housing complex you put a pin in the middle of it and you measure fifteen hundred feet from that and if they're in it it's just another charge tell me what you think of the you know the drug free zones is that is a useful tool is that yes it's

a useful tool but i think it's more of a hansom and it's used for plea bargaining tools om i like it because we can make a statement sometimes with people hey you're in a if you're in a school zone you're look you're where children are you're dealing in a place that's for been to us part of the problem in some people's minds with the drug free zones in new haven is that they also include public housing projects i mean do you see that as an issue like that it's and potentially traps. minorities you have a high concentration to chose from a public housing area so what better place to not have drugs am i against reducing it no but even if you want to thousand if you look at the map a thousand feet you're still going to cover most of the area and again as a parent do you want someone fifteen hundred your school or three hundred within your kid's school i pick fifteen hundred at first sight and realize what did fifteen hundred feet it was told to us that this is all about keeping drug dealers from coming on school property. that would want that but after several of her sons

were given increased prison time for possession in the drug free zone farber affair was getting frustrated she went to work on getting her sons out of prison and into jobs then her youngest son was arrested for drug possession inside a drug free zone. i just going to madam how he could have got to be. quite a ways away so i went. and talked to some of the people and asked him you know if they can give me a measurement between where my son was and where the school. he was able to get away from that mandatory charge the reality is people don't challenge it that's starting to change in connecticut. today probably caring for senate bill two five nine which is a drug free school zone. harvey this is the beginning of a long process of changing it politically popular last.

because i'm sure it's number one thirty three for me. the hearing is for five nine. and we're trying to reform it from fifteen hundred feet to two hundred feet you're good to go thank you. now i'm trying to just get an idea of. what we need to do. people use soundbites and they say this is we're being soft on crime by changing the rules or making it easy for people to peddle drugs to children the root of the problem is poverty and addiction and unemployment so why don't we look at those things first before we were so busy to look at ways of incarceration you seen this bill in the past you came for us last year just my opinion change from last year. can be a situation where making life easier for criminals and making it harder for law abiding citizens i don't see anything that has changed that will change so obviously you know my mind is unchanged. taking the bus to hartford to represent

the families in new haven whose lives have been negatively affected by this law i think today might be the day that they finally get to miss is that they really need to do something about this has been dragging opportunity. years now i truly truly believe there may really have a shot at this after all these years pray now we have the public and after the public airing. voted out of the committee and then after passing the senate and the house without any problems then it goes to the governor governor has to sign it's a long process this is what we call the waking it would be an interesting day to see. the first person signed up is state representative prosodic srinivasan. to represent you may proceed whenever you're ready thank you i'm testifying today in opposition of his bill and for us to say that because shrink this is zone

sense in my opinion of the wrong message i'm actually appalled that the even considering shrinking this drug free zone. back in the bronx it's the end of a long work day for michael torres with a court date tomorrow his limbo status in the legal system could finally be coming to an end. going to feed the girls first the. whole feel. of. the awful that you've. got to be there because i've got a shoulder to scott's office. over to the courthouse to go. and think is situation i know people that have been in this situation but they have never dragged on this long like this is that this is a little excessive mike says that nothing is like that bad luck. good matches much as far. they might to judge him. for his background you know they don't

believe people can change and people do change you can make a lot of people make mistakes. i love you. not a bad person he's a very good guys very responsible works every day. and you know existing time off and it puts a toll because you know he doesn't get paid for his time off. so the no comes more you know more stress for me and i have to you know pick up whatever you can pick up and it gets a little expensive after a while and how kids are expensive have no maintaining our household you know car insurance everything's expensive. out of the group of people. arrested for the same situation. though most of them got think. oh they were forced to cop out. everything all wrapped up. and pray and i'd say go shower then. you got to get up early baby.

all my love don't forget i have to iron his stuff. i don't think that there is a conscious decision to do this on the part of the police that is to overwhelm the courts but the style policing that we've had in new york city for the past twenty years has led to just a flood of misdemeanor cases in the system the number of mr mueller arrests in new york city has skyrocketed since the early ninety's the result is criminal courts in new york spend all of their time processing cases and just managing calendars rather than conducting hearings or securing evidence or calling witnesses in the bronx michael torres is about to have his day in court his misdemeanor marijuana case has been delayed twelve times he's hoping number thirteen will be as lucky number the plan is heading to court will go to the m.s.g. part which is where the very old misdemeanors go and then it's just sort of a lot of hurry up and we will really just have to play by ear and see you know if

there's a judge available there's a courtroom available whether or not the police officer actually shows up. there is just something deeply unfair about promising people their day in court and dangling it in front of them for. years on end and never actually get into the damage that that open case has done the mr tauruses life is not damaged it can be undone overnight. and still see. that. there are real psychological costs of living with that inside that low level is id that follows you everywhere when you have an open case i'm ahead and you're go through security and then you're just down the escalator. that's all right. i'm an optimist i think we have a great shot i certainly don't know the outcome but we are always prepared and we are going to fight like hell for mr torres.

in hartford the state's judiciary committee is holding a public hearing about a controversial bill to shrink the state's drug free zones from fifteen hundred to two hundred feet most conservative opponents of the bill are from small towns or wealthy suburbs places where the idea of voting to shrink the size of a drug free zone is hard to fathom. just make sure that i understand your position they're saying that a person who is apprehended selling drugs five football fields and distance away from a school should be arrested and prosecuted and subjected to an enhanced panel to be on the basis that that activity is endangering the children that are attending that particular school is that correct yes i mean i did not realize that fifteen hundred was five five football fields. regardless of that the fifteen hundred should still

be the area where and hand ante would be would be handed out to the bus and was adopted in light of that response do you think it would be sensible to clearly mark the area which a zone. for example instead of just posting a sign at go the boundaries of been zone maybe we should stripe the streets or paint the streets wide. for the length of fifteen hundred feet away from the school or daycare center chairman that that part has crossed my mind as to how to make that demarkation very clear that this is a drop three cell but i'm not sure how the law just takes them as well especially in our urban cities where you take a lot of white and there be thirty six. this is part of the process to get. out of my life things that.

would. make it through. what is going to be the. law to shore. this case but of. the fact that if they do it. now i have to. tell them this in. this situation. for them because. at the office just the facts to. come out and. before. this went on and see what had. the connecticut state sentencing commission is testifying its studies have shown that the current law unjustly penalizes the state's urban residents especially those who are found in possession of small amounts of marijuana it makes no difference if you possess or sell on the doorstep of a school or in the an office building in downtown are so we're left with

a feel good law that is in effect even results a nonviolent low level drug dealers being locked up for longer periods with additional prison costs but without any real advantage to the society luckily this would not be an entirely a social experiment others. have taken similar measures to reduce their zone sizes twenty eleven delaware went from one thousand three hundred in two thousand and twelve massachusetts went from a thousand feet to three hundred feet in two thousand and thirteen indiana went from a thousand feet to five hundred feet it's very difficult. and i'm going to be honest for me to entertain lowering a drug free zone where potentially it may be working i mean the whole point here is that urban centers are more densely populated and with hundred feet law that urban centers. why is that bad i state what is wrong with. tori

and discrimination is wrong and i wonder if this spirit treatment was happening in other communities where people understand why we need to move on the books quite frankly i'm not prepared in any way shape or form to be like any drug dealer who is victimizing our young children i'm in no position. to make such a drastic change you know they say sanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result i think i'm ready to sign myself into a facility that. it seems to be the same. there are. no judges available to try to. wait around for an hour to receiving.

it. in two thousand and twelve new york state's chief judge launched a special program to clear up the backlog of cases in the bronx since then this so-called blockbuster court has been working to cut through decades of bureaucratic red tape but while the number of pending felony cases that are two years or older have been reduced there are still thousands of open misdemeanor cases. so we checked in with the original trial part and originally when the case was called there were no car parts available but we can call the case they called the case again they were able to find us a court room and we're now waiting for the police officer to arrive so we can begin the hearing this is about as close as we've gotten and so we're very hopeful if we get to actually have some testimony and a decision on our on our hearing i think this is this is going to be a first for the project for sure. in hartford the public hearing is over for the drug free zone bill now the judiciary committee gets to decide if the bill can go

forward senate bill two fifty nine is the final item on the committee's agenda time is running short and the vote is too close to call we're not going to be able to crawl into the mental calculus of a drug dealer someone has already decided to break the law and say you know we're going to change our decision making process because if you stay in that corner you get penalty a but if you stand on this corner you get penalty big drug dealing occurs more in big cities than it does on a farm. in the country and if that's where the trafficking is then let us allow the higher penalty to prevail voted against this in the past but looking at some of the research and following the way law enforcement will have a better tool you know i just don't buy the fact that this is being soft on crime i think that's rhetoric i really feel that it's not reality for what. i can do with

this bill here today i do have in my hand e-mails and letters of variety of constituents and not only from my phone but throughout the state of connecticut and i have not received any. any to the best of my knowledge any communication about doing away with this legislation i've received many in opposite there and so i can't support this you have a school. zone around the school and you also have a has penalty for this out to kids our kids will be safe if you pass this bill. after twelve failed attempts to have his case heard in court michael torres is finally catching a break the police officer who arrested him is scheduled to take the stand i mean yes got everyone if you. register this ok. we asked permission to film the trial but were turned down by the court after two

and a half years michael tour is as fate is about to be decided. please call the road. home and yes. with just minutes left in the committee session the drug free zone reduction bill passed by a slim margin the vote was twenty one to nineteen it's a key victory but now holder winfield's bill must survive debates in the house and senate before it can become law are you hopeful this is going to pass i think it has a good chance of passing i think tough work ahead i am under the understanding that what i think is right some people think is completely wrong i wanted to understand some of the stuff that i know about an issue other people don't know but i think if we do that work and we educate people there's no reason we can't get this bill done this year. so

a small. thank god i feel like this weight off my shoulders. so i think they said i'm glad. the stress take this news back to the job maybe you guys. got a good deal of the do i go to the. use first and then i think i think. it's nice that after all this time we go result we want to i don't know i just think in the back of the head i mean all. this detective who arrested mr torres two and out years ago admitted that he remembered nothing about the incident and couldn't testify at all about what had happened in september of two thousand and eleven and so before we even got to cross-examination before we were allowed to ask him a single question the case was essentially dismissed the n o one the box and. at

one of the main reason mr torres fought this case for so long and showed up for as long as he did is he wanted to chance to hear what the police officer had to say and he wanted to chance to have his defense counsel cross-examine that police officer and that never happened he wanted to see the evidence against him and what was revealed today is that there never was really any evidence against him which makes the two and a half years that we waited for this moment and basest victory a little bittersweet and so i think what this case calls for it is the need for a reassessment of our basic institutions of justice. in august two thousand and thirteen a federal judge in new york issued a landmark ruling judge sheindlin ruled that the new york city police department violated its citizens fourth amendment rights to be free of unreasonable search and seizure she also ruled that the police department stop and frisk practices were racially discriminatory in january of two thousand and fourteen the city of new

york dropped its appeal and agreed to work. with a court appointed monitor to reform its procedures wow ah man he. is a big big. silex knight it even though the case is dismissed you know. if you say i just came out of jail in a likely is because this took so long that you know all the punishment itself it was like doing time. i am very hopeful for the future i think new york city is going through a period of change and i think very exciting period of change i think there's a lot of opportunity but i think we need to be vigilant if the system is going to have meaning for people it has to pay attention to people and hopefully are headed in that direction. was.

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lowest temperature for about seventy eight years incredibly cold then and it looks like it'll stay pretty cool over the next few days elsewhere though we do have more the way of cloud and a few showers that's drifting its way across parts of south australia and it will just be really a cloudy affair here as we head into monday that cloud gradually drifting its way across melbourne as well towards the west what a bit of cloud will be with us during the day on monday but it's likely to break up for cheese day and off temperatures fairly respectable to around seventeen or eighteen degrees now for new zealand it's been very stormy here recently there's also been bit of coastal flooding as well this system is now releasing its hold in edging away towards the east there will still be severely keen winds and a few very lively outbreaks of rain there for monday but choose day should definitely be a come a day and to christchurch should get to around thirteen degrees up to the northern parts of asia and for many of us here it's following and draw and we do have a fair amount of cloud over the northern parts of honshu but it's still pretty hot

in tokyo up to around thirty five or thirty six towards the west there's more rain his still over beijing thirty one. with. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power. how has this radical transformation. that made it i mean if you will be shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on i'll just zip. i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces

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paris is seeing drawer years france wins the world cup for a second time with a four two victory over croatia at least two people killed during violent clashes in iraq south a curfew is now in force across parts of the country. palestinians bury two teenagers killed in an israeli air strike on gaza as both sides stepped back from the brink of war and thousands protested ahead of donald trump's arrival in finland he's keeping expectations low for his summit with bloodier putin. and sport a lot more on france's world cup when plot now a backdrop which is back to his back the third beat kavin anderson after south africa had to win wimbledon.

france has won the football's world cup beating croatia in an action packed final in moscow in one thousand nine hundred champions took the lead after eighteen minutes scoring through a croatian only goal but first time finalists croatia battled back and even paris it scored an equaliser ten minutes later the french ended the half in the lead after a controversial penalty awarded following video replays and in the second half france proved too strong for their opponents a powerful strike from nineteen year old killian but there. helping them to an emphatic victory. well the final was briefly held up for almost a minute when four protesters dressed as police invaded the pitch one even exchanged a high five with france a star player buffet in posts on social media feminist group pussy riot claimed

responsibility for the protests while unsurprisingly this was the scene in paris a short time ago images of the france football team were projected on to the after three olds and the eiffel tower was listen up with the colors of the national flag the celebrations began even before the match was officially over and after tinubu into the night when the tasha butler is in paris and she joins us live now so they have won before but that was twenty years ago and here they are winners again tell us a little bit about the atmosphere in parents right now. well i think there's anyone word for it tonight and that is it's a policy people have been on the shows these are just behind me for hours now and it's an absolute cookoff any of noise you've got car horns going people screaming singing people chanting the national anthem and of course alie blue which means go on the blues that's the name of the frogs team because they all the cares of the evening the so many of these fans here this young squad one of the youngest teams

ever in the world cup and then of course that win against croatia i can tell you are the fans there eighty thousand people absolutely erupted in your phoria they came here it's a policy they said they could a possible night they want to save the team tomorrow the team will come on a bus down the shoals li say they'll bring home the trophy and that's what the fans are waiting for. it was the policy they had three dogs and the reality is the best in france found sympathy to the team speak truth. to power says most famous and to see you fred. the players got the job done and we are what champions now that we're going to enjoy it's. eighty thousand people had watched the game of financing the city's firefighters did it best to keep people cool then with the final whistle fronts beating croatia and the crowd in the.

was you know it was a tough final for the team but thankfully we won every chance we scored so you sleep it was amazing we are well champions sham was all right saturday's bands were just children and that was when he was reading my simple fact that the big three to cherish it was a heavy. but i wasn't there i wasn't born but i still remember it because it's a blue eyed hour for us was we miss ninety eight but we didn't miss two thousand and eighteen. when our champions was france's team was one of the youngest in the tournament but their chief once has touched people whom our fans say they'll celebrate until the heroes and trophy come home. so the french certainly celebrating it will definitely until at least

tomorrow when the team comes home on monday but talking there yes comparing between this world cup in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight at the time of course their first win and that was much celebration much talk of the team being a multicultural team that very much reflected the reality of france and showed its strength has that also played a part this time around the passion. well you're very right to say ninety eight sabbats cup winning team was seen as a symbol of multiculturalism you know people were talking about them uniting the nation players like senate in sudan the son of algerian immigrants became you know household names national heroes well you know people aren't quite getting as carried away as they are twenty years old as they were then i should say twenty years on with this team but this is something ninety eight spirit if you want because what's interesting about this team is so many of the young players come from the suburbs around paris places where unemployment is high where to see is

a very difficult and lots of young people say the old start against the jets if these players have come from these areas and the young people there say look if they can make it to the world cup so can i and those players in fact have become role models in many ways i mean we don't talk about multicultural so much this time because these players a born in frogs you know they feel very french and in the words of. one of the main players of the team he said a little earlier last week i'm here representing france as a nation of many colors i'm proud of it i'm proud to wear this jersey and i think that really sums up the spirit at this young team in this world cup. the passion that with the latest for us very happy looking paris right now in the passion thank you. all meanwhile croatian fans have had to come to terms with the reality that for all of their efforts this was not to be their year. thousands gathered in the center of the capital. zagreb to cheer on their team's

first ever for a into a world cup final or open for a steal walker is in the croatian capital zagreb so robyn i mean they didn't win so i guess there is that disappointment it could have gone better but they still got to the final and how how is that news being received in zagreb visit is still a time for celebration. you know there was very little sign of disappointment very few dejected faces when all the thousands of people were gathered on the square behind me there were huge celebrations instead of the game ended although they've all gone home now i can tell you it was crazy see here i've never seen anything like it for a country whose team was on the losing side and the reason that is is because gracious is a little country of just four million and they are just overjoyed to have seen their t. make it to the world cup final the biggest sporting event. the biggest sporting

event in the world and there they were competing against the mighty french and taking it to the french and scoring two goals of their own and putting croatia a little croatia on the map so there is a real pro a real sense of patriotism that i've experienced here months the croatian people this evening and those celebrations are likely to continue tomorrow when the croatian team flies back from moscow they will be greeted and i imagine that there will be again a huge party on the streets the team are going to be given medals by the presidents of croatia she was enjoying the experience as much as the fans back home she would see kissing the the french players as well as the croatian play is. an even kissing the. medal itself the trophy the world cup trophy itself that

a croatian in today's lit up with social media talking about that they're excited president she'll be getting medals to the teams have more celebrations can see doing here despite having lost today how they have lost but certainly i mean i suppose they were the underdogs as you say as well a smaller country compared to france but what about the controversies that some people have been talking about for example the penalty being given what is being said there about that. yeah you know a couple of guys. after the game we were you know we were trying to go around getting people's reaction and you know there were some guys who were saying it was it was some bad decisions by the rare and you know maybe not that penalty should have been awarded it was not a deliberate handball and it was a free kick that maybe shouldn't be given. but i think most people accept that they were outplayed ultimately by the french with that with their prodigious talent and

skills. and the croatians you know i think that they may be time later recriminations and. disappointments that the outcome is you know with these games things can change in a second you know look for a moment as if the croatians might have been able to stick with it and stay with the french and i think though now it's just about again. how far that has come and what a tremendous accomplishment it is to have reached the final. at the world cup today exactly you know at least it didn't and then penalties which is always a very cruel way to a final robin foresty a walk away with the latest from the croatian capital zagreb robyn thank you. in other news let's go to iraq where at least two people have been killed and dozens injured in violent clashes. iraq's southern provinces thousands demonstrated

in basra where a curfew was imposed after hundreds of people tried to storm a government building it's the second week of protests over high living costs and a lack of basic services security forces have been put on high alert and internet services have been shut off across the nation that the lopez what all young has more. frustration pours into the streets of iraq demonstrators say they've had enough no jobs and limited services have reached a breaking point beyond the people in cairo evacuated we have to inject we're still lying in the streets and two of those who were taken away. in the oil rich city of basra like across the country security forces are on high alert they've used water cannon and tear gas blocking protesters from storming the main provincial government building. with growing protests people have recorded an internet shut down and disconnected telephone lines without getting many of those who assault the

institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments to disrupt the aspirations of the people he should be held to a.