no list of threatened species. but i'm going to lock in lot of the top stories head to zero iran has reportedly closed as border crossing with iraq after protests to storm the iranian consulate in the southern iraqi city of basra said he had allied them in straight is angry at what they see is iranian influence in the region it is the latest escalation following weeks of deadly protests triggered by a lack of basic services and deep dissatisfaction with the government on friday one more protest a diet taking the death toll since monday to twelve and the hayward has more. was. it to being a day of tension comin a sing and bass the rain even consummate on pa after being stormed by a group of protesters they tried to set

a team like the dating pool but were pushed back this time though it was left behind it. demonstrates his benching their anger about iran's alleged involvement in iraqi politics and its paid as they say to deliver key services to the city. and they chanted political parties out past remain spree and we will never be humiliated people hey believe the politicians have turned their backs on by stress that neglecting government corruption has caused a systematic decay of its infrastructure yes yes it don't know why i'm living comfortably at parliament and inside the greens and while we're at hand dying of hunger and fast why are young people and graduates squatting in the market sending onions all the government jobs and restricted to the parties. at least fifteen buildings connected to politics in the oath or it is have been targeted in the past

few days this is the shell of the provincial government offices. some iraqis have been killed what's regarded as iraq's shia muslim heartland in northern bass one hundred. the people were attending a funeral and. these were protesters gathered in peace they were protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how dad a happy fire how dad i kill them god would never allow that. during friday prayers the representative of a rexx leading shia cleric clint dempsey violence against both the protesters and security forces guarding the building he also criticised politicians for being too interested in buying the power to shop. for the patient people cannot afford more lack of interest from the officials in solving their increasing problems and the crisis they're competing between themselves for political gain and gaining

governmental posts along foreigners to intervene in the country's affairs. iraq's parliament is expected to hold an emergency session to discuss the crisis on saturday and he would. turkey has warned it cannot take in any more syrian refugees if government forces push ahead with a planned offensive in italy the leaders of turkey iran and russia mention terrorism to discuss the fate of the rebel held province it's fair that full scale fighting in it could cause a humanitarian disaster almost three million people trapped. meanwhile thousands of people across syria protested against the prime defenses ready have been preparing shelters and stockpiling food the case of widespread fighting more than half of it lives population already displaced people who fled to other parts of the country. to brazil now and police there are questioning a suspect after a far right presidential candidate was stabbed at

a campaign rally jab also nara has been transferred from a hospital in june is defo to where he was attacked to snap out of these in a serious but stable condition also are as popular in opinion polls despite making divisive comments on several issues for us president barack obama has given a rare political speech in which he criticized president donald trump his policies and the lack of respect in american politics of people to vote in november as midterm elections which is set to have a major impact on the final two years of donald trump's first. there's a top stories here in our desire stay with us daisy and max is coming right up by phone.

max sits in a room where visits are tightly controlled in the no cameras are allowed. he kept be seen or heard all he can do is write. and this is what he says. gang life this was our foundation and what we all know. i tried to do something different and when i met daisy it was the best day of my life . i wish that they could have gone on forever. my past caught up with me. and made us all pay the price.

like max daisy grew up in south los angeles the place that used to be called south central. infamous for drive by shootings gangs and the rodney king riots. but for hundreds of thousands of families that make south l.a. their home that's just part of the story. come up with a week a thing every day. daisy grew up here the middle of three sisters in a cluster of small houses her dad bought about twenty five years ago. they didn't get it. we grew up in south central bottom all away 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. but it's the polish left by me that have there been never lock us up. with. 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 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 having me here there are 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 friends with 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 has. 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 lists. 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. her and try to like separate. there's just. not everybody locks 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 and 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 max would be on the phone the 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 in you seen with the sheet over him. over a couple of years daisy and max bonded through their passion for community work.

she says i told my coworkers i'm going to marry her. and they said yeah i believe you doug i believe. they said no. no no golly no ok what i am what i did they. see a guy especially just like. 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.

like i've seen a little kid in. one . really. oh yes. oh. but it's an thought. you'll get what they say.

in the though 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 citywide sweep the feds call operation breaking bad. it was very fusing and they were just like where is it where is where did he put it 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 she's had a baby she's sixteen. i'm like ok so you understand how scared i am right now. i really don't know what's going on. 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 really know. 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 handing over. like it just. went from having heard to not having her i don't even remember. that i was on. here 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 burn the confidential informant there's all this is real typical.

max is denied bail daisy will not be allowed to see him in person for three months she will only be able to communicate with him by phone and e-mail both monitored. the raid does not produce any new charges against max but the existing charges from three years ago could put him away for life. if the case elect a bad dream if you 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 how do i handle this.

it just felt like this big boy. somehow when i got an intervention worker gets arrested is 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 and my. 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. in here with kid being max's position they have everything taken away in a word for like he has been told. it's like. being an intervention you have to live in both worlds you don't have a choice if you want to be effective you have to do in where there were better

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and i'm a clock on one of the top stories here on al-jazeera iran has reportedly closed its border crossing with iraq after protesters stormed the iranian consulate in the southern iraqi city of bads rossetti and aligned demonstrators are angry at what they see as a radian influence in the region it is the latest escalation following weeks of deadly protests triggered by a lack of basic services and deep dissatisfaction with the government on friday one more protests to die taking the death toll since monday to twelve so i think has warned it cannot take in any more syrian refugees if government forces push ahead with a planned offensive in the leaders of turkey iran and russia met in terror on to discuss the fate of the rebel held province it's feared that full scale fighting in

it live could cause a humanitarian disaster almost three million people trapped there the leaders agreed to meet again to seek a joint solution meanwhile thousands of people across syria protested against the planned offensive many have been preparing shelters and stockpiling food more than half of it lives population already displaced people who fled to other parts of the country the u.n. says the syrian government's plan to retake it could trigger the worst humanitarian crisis the war. the humanitarian impact on civilians of any increase in fighting will therefore be most severe and the worst case scenario and it lip where millions would flee would overwhelm all capacity to respond regardless of plans or funding made available it has the potential to create a humanitarian emergency at a scale not just seen through this crisis to brazil now where police are questioning a suspect after a far right presidential candidate was stabbed at

a campaign rally jab olsen has been transferred from a hospital in jewish deforest where he was attacked to sao paolo is in a serious but stable condition both are nor is popular in opinion polls despite making divisive comments on several issues. former u.s. president barack obama is given a raft political speech in which he criticized president donald trump is republican party and the divisiveness in american politics of people to vote in november as midterm elections which is set to have a major impact on the final two years of donald trump's first. here today the top stories this hour stay with us stacey max coming up.

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 workups that's the purpose of those it's basically the federal equivalent of three strikes. particular judge were concerned is that he would willingly and force it and at that point rex doesn't have a real bright future.

desean liz start gathering letters of support for max from families he's helped over the years since he became an intervention weren't you just a stronger thank you. from the police department juvenile impact program this is for elementary school thanking him and this from the county. max's lawyer submit snyman deep 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 it is now no is going on out here. and over a monitored phone line if there's so many so much you can save. at this point daisy think she might get sarah out of foster care if her younger sister claudia can get temporary custody. make any money. 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 take my third son there with goodnight. mom i love. oh ok you sent me a picture. ok ok thank you ok bye bye.

right the feet are you. serious they will. kill us and they are. this book's very. unthinking and this happens i'm going to get her back. fast look how pretty you look and looks like from them will leave her alone. my sister in living in a nice neighborhood and home they have no more excuses they can 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. 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. to say bye bye.

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. or you want to stay here if at any point i feel that i'm not fighting for my family i i don't know what that would do to me

so yeah every day is looking to today what came to. be here out. there that's all the way to it during those times or i feel like losing it i remember what mom. and then they realize that there is no way that i could ever imagine what she must of felt. with they must have felt to user twenty year old daughter this they like whether they're getting.

the. lol the man of our gig pasok on a sore throat. if that levee would have a few on the call if you saw. my sister had to endure the message by then and kept it a secret. her husband was a gang member. after a few years she decided to make a life first off. went back to school. had full time job. and he couldn't accept that.

he said you're not you're not going to see another another birthing son. i was fifteen i was with her when this happened. he waited. for us to come home. and i said we don't mean that our doors i just heard what i thought were firecrackers. and i looked over at my sister was covered in blood asking for air. this is why i am the way i is not who i am but is why i am that way

not only the good life. oh. if. she. says. everybody bring injury to you when i. let that happen here. me reading this if you will. just like that. i feel violated. is absolutely not the way that i wanted my daughter to get to know the world. i wanted her to believe in fairy

tale is saying unicorn set up leave ever after and we're going to have to uphold the public's. it's been almost two months since the raid. daisy knows the f.b.i. claimed max had drugs in the house on the night he was arrested. but now daisy's public defender in family court blindsides her with a new accusation. the day i think i'm getting 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. me. closer like daisy sister cloudier 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. did to court. and he was like i've been clean else like i don't use

drugs so that he was even more. and then he asked me is your husband in state or federal custody i said cheryl and then he said all. he said ok i says going. they're using your child as leverage they're trying to pressure your husband and to cooperate. i felt as though someone with knowledge was. on my side now. they cannot be making it so. 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 know. we've got the moral right thirty something and. i mean have you guys tried to inform over when i left or right we called everybody business. 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. he said you do when you say whatever you have to do to get babe. yonder stands. is not something that can be stopped with any paper. it's been nine weeks since the raid max is still in detention waiting for his trial and facing a possible life sentence he has agreed to give up his parental rights and the moment has come for the county to make a decision about sarah. it's

like i don't know what the process is very very junior this year why do they have. exactly those whom 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 picking her up that one. i guess she needed the extra time to get her stuff ready. all right and. we can put this behind.

coerced. and we're in a better place. we're in a better place for her. who will for months ago. almost all would be with us as we took ten. italy squad. for all three to me i think.

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. 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 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 that 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 maximize. his deals so i can go back to be with my family

and prove i am a good person. i don't want to kid to see that mistakes condemn a person forever. the 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 husband 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. where there is life we can survive it all.

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