al-jazeera johannesburg well saturday marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the us investment bank many brothers was triggered the worst financial crisis since the great depression also effects reached across the world its roots lay in small towns in the united states and vulnerable families pursuing the dream of and ship reynolds has been to meet some of the victims. was a lie just before the crash life was good for betty nikka nor her parents and her kids they'd recently bought a brand new house our house let's just hear it was a really big house that had five bedrooms four bathrooms all of all of that it just seemed so perfect but the dream house proved to be a cruel illusion a salesman had convinced her father may nardo to sign an adjustable rate mortgage on a property worth seven hundred fifty thousand dollars but the family's income was only sixty thousand dollars

a year in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine the area's housing prices plummeted like they did nationwide and their home payments rose higher and higher unable to make the monthly payments they reached out to their bank and we tried to refinance they wouldn't help us three weeks later menard zero lost his job and the dream house was sold what was the home worth by the three thirty you bought it at seven hundred seventy thousand dollars yes and it was worth less than yes the family wound up nearly broke with their credit ruined i would get it for three years i don't think this area of california riverside county was one of the hardest hit during the housing collapse and the recession it had the third highest rate of home foreclosures in the entire us. fabian casarez his organization helps low income people with home ownership it was chaos here we were

ground zero the market was just you know upside down here it was it was it was chaos it was total chaos and you know it took years to get out of it and i was still going to say that was the limit the nikken orse struggled to get back on their feet my mom was the one who took it the hardest she went into depression you know my dad was broken into he was like you know i can't believe this happened it was gloria nikken or suffered a series of strokes and heart attacks and earlier this year may nardo nick and nora was diagnosed with colon cancer he's had surgery and has to wear a portable chemotherapy pump but he continues to work every day the nikken norse have saved some money and are now in the process of buying a modest house nearby a step toward security after a decade of pain robert oulds al-jazeera parents california. marking the

actual day of the anniversary with more analysis of the ongoing author facts. i'm lawrence leigh ten years of the financial crash the german economy continues to go from strength to strength but what cost to other european countries. still ahead this news saudi members of an aid organization are arrested and charged in greece accused of smuggling refugees into europe. and sports croatia and to find a way past the usa in tennis is a davis cup. without that action and. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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thirty members of an aid organization have been arrested and charged in greece they're being accused of smuggling refugees into europe among them is a syrian swimmer who helped save the lives of eighteen refugees when that boat sank in the mediterranean sea. the greek island of lesbos on the front line of the refugee crisis. the emergency response center international. which operated on the island of lesbos is now closed thirty of its members facing charges in greece including spying and alleged people trafficking if convicted they could face life imprisonment it means refugee rescue is now the only group operating in the aegean sea its crews informed the greek coast guard each time they go out so they're not suspected of acting in secret. the fact that they trust us and they recognize that we are the we are very skilled that we are very professional. he says it followed exactly the same protocol its founder

spoke to us from an undisclosed location as he prepared to turn himself in to authorities we were working. we were. so. private search and rescue has become politically controversial charities like the i seek to work with or for agrees to bring as many asylum seekers as possible safely onto european shores but european policy is increasingly keen for non european coast guards to keep refugees in the middle east and north africa the european union's twenty sixteen agreement with turkey and italy's bilateral agreement with libya last year have helped cut refugee numbers to

europe by ninety percent compared to twenty fifteen among the e.r.c. i members facing charges is twenty three year old sarah martini a syrian refugee who with her sister used a lympics swimmer saved eighteen refugees from a sinking boat in twenty fifteen says that on the dates of several of the alleged offenses she can prove she was in germany where she has been granted asylum and enrolled in college he says the police evidence is scant then warden of this guy he wanted to charge of espionage is based mainly on the fact that some people have listen on the radio conversations between the greek and your pain coastguards these conversations which you referred to a state secrets all took place in open channels anyone can listen to open channels in fact sailors are obliged to tune into channel twelve so they can hear the coast guard so this is no state secret or espionage issue the shifting politics of asylum in europe have militarized borders and cast suspicion on open hearted

humanitarianism distinguishing this from criminal activity is an increasingly frequent challenge jumpstart ople us al-jazeera lesbos let's get on this for postponing by. nick thank you very much well the most famous or depending on your point of view infamous tennis umpire in the game is back in action carlos ramos is officiating for the first time since he angered serina williams by giving a three code violations in the u.s. open final ramos is in the chair for the davis cup semifinal between the usa and corrosion williams accused him of being a thief and of sexism a she lost last saturday's final new research has shown that men receive three times as many code violations as women in the past twenty years of grand slam events u.s. captain jim courier has given the portuguese by his backing saying ramos was in forcing the rules as he sees them. while shots like this from born

a charge helped put croatia two up in the semifinal with the usa charge defeated steve johnson in the opening singles match on the morrow and challenge one much to against france's t r folk win in saturday's doubles will put croatia into the final . defending champions france are in charge of their semifinal with spain ben wopat won on his davis cup debut for france his opponent public or a noble start was struggling with injury for much of the contest in lille pair winning in straight sets. that much was followed by france's lucas prix against roberto goods the spaniard won the first set with some punchy tennis but we built on pairs earlier work digging deep for a five set victory. for ariz kemi reichen and went quickest in second practice ahead of sunday's singapore grand prix not such good

day face teammates a bustin vettel the four time world champion damaged his car after clipping a wall vettel finished with the ninth fastest lap time championship leader lewis hamilton also took a couple of wrong turns but ended up second quickest in the sadie's draw. it is thirty points clear of vettel in the title standings with seven races left in the season. i'm trying to let the guys past and then they'll both back talk they don't but slow and i was trying to recover ground and. have a semi great balance to fall ball and sebastian try to speed up and then we then i looked up and i was going to hit him sentenced. to avoid him and kill my time but so when i look here myself only of guinea are playing in the african champions league quarter finals for the first time and on friday they kept eight time champions our affiliate bay in cannot carry it was nil nil in the first leg with the return in egypt at the end of the month e.-s. city five beat the defending champions wait at casablanca one nil in the first leg

of their tie well fronts and egypt haven't played each other in forty years of the men's volleyball world championships before they met on friday it was france he walked away happy the french giving egypt their third defeat in three much is that this is total and jointly hosted by its lee on tape in bulgaria all of those have been by three sets to nil as well france go to top of pool b. while egypt stay rooted to the bottom but the north africans will be favorites in the next much against china. african champions chin is yet suffered a similar fates to their neighbors they were unlikely to get anything against four time olympic champions russia three sets to nil in this one as well russia's top of hussein. new zealand take on south africa in the rugby championship on saturday looking to continue their dominance of the southern hemisphere sides australia hosting argentina looking to build on their win against the springboks last week david polka missed the game with

a neck injury but house been made captain for the game on the gold coast. well it will take a miracle for new zealand knots or retain their title it was one of their defeats of australia that caused a serious injury with the captaincy coming immediately after he was finally cleared to play. and weeks a long time in rugby. as well it's one of those things we. were told by this morning and put it put a new plan in place and. you know i don't think it changes as players this is coming in at all the times are. you trying for that. the war of words has intensified ahead of saturday's world title fights in las vegas between undefeated middleweight champion gennady glove can and cannot alvarez go off skins trainer has taken a job at canal calling him an insult to boxing this will be their second fight they battle out a draw one year ago the rematch was meant to happen in may but failed to drug tests

blaming it on eating contaminated meat champion goal of can however doesn't leave his mexican rivals excuse and has accused him of cheating. now anyone taking on the new england patriots in the n.f.l. might hope to give themselves a psychological edge with a bit of trash talk but the jacksonville jaguars jaylen ramsey has taken it into new territory asked about his promise to dominate the patriots rob graham koski on sunday he said not even his own grandmother would be safe from him on the football field. i don't believe in having friends on the field i mean my brother my dad my mom grandma was out there like this is all after the game we can because i don't matter you would really not have lee was you know that would mean that i don't know that i learned he was you know that. it. was he had me but there were more like you know from one of my legs. that i am definitely not going to be stepping onto a football field with him that's all for now. back to nick and probably

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young trainees and to create interest and explore how the experience prepares them for life and death decisions what do you tell a mother and there's a very strong possibility that she could be. canada's new doctors on the people's health on al-jazeera. donald trump for my campaign chairman pleads guilty on two criminal counts agreeing to cooperate with a special probe into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen elections. the saudis are live from london also coming up in the program today rebels in yemen say more than a dozen people are being killed in saudi and mirage the coalition air strikes on

the day to. protests in syria against a planned government offensive to regain control of rebel held it. at least three palestinians including a teenager killed during protests along the gaza israel border. us president total transform a campaign manager has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges as part of a deal with special counsel robert mueller full manifold has agreed to cooperate with miller's investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election he's pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy against the u.s. and conspiracy to obstruct justice in return ten criminal counts against him have been dropped particle height and the latest. he always walked into court with that

kind of swagger promising he would fight till the end but the end came today a subdued paul man afore told the court he would plead guilty to two felonies and co won't break with special counsel robert mueller in hope of getting a lesser prison sentence tough day for mr metaphor for his accepting responsibility . and. he wanted to make sure that each family was able to remain safe and live a good life he's accepted responsibility and this is for con. that dates back many years the charges date from a decade ago but run through twenty sixteen when metaphor was working to get donald trump elected president they involve work he did for the pro russian government in the ukraine and ties to russian oligarchs he is the highest official yet to flip he once had the title of trump's campaign chairman and he was in the meeting with the kremlin linq lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton the president's son and

son in law were there too they say there was no dirt manna for it will now tell prosecutors if that is true bruce fein has worked in the justice department and says this could be very bad news for the president they would only accept a plea if they thought they were getting something serious in return and we know that the primary target really of the ball or investigation is president trump the president had called man a fort brave for resisting and not flipping and somewhat unusually he has yet to tweet about this development but the white house released a statement saying quote this had absolutely nothing to do with the president or his victorious twenty sixteen presidential campaign muller will ultimately decide if that is in fact true and now he has one more key witness to help him figure it out. al-jazeera washington. the rebels in yemen say fifteen people have been killed inside iraqi led coalition airstrikes in the port city of data fighting there has escalated as the coalition tries to take her lead her data from the rebel forces i

do simmons has more now from djibouti. hooty rebel forces say these are civilians caught in the saudi a morality led coalition's line of fire in her data the hooter's say at least fifteen civilians were killed on thursday evening and twenty injured. this man asks why have these people being killed and who to say this is kilo sixteen in the main road link between the red sea port of her data and the capital sana'a controlled by hutu rebels if fully verified these deaths and injuries will add ammunition to a different battle one that was waged this week in the united states congress u.s. politicians convinced by a report that blame the coalition for unnecessary civilian deaths failed to pass a resolution to stop u.s. support for the saudis. further down the road in sabine hospital where supplies are

meant to go different images burnt into the fearful thoughts of parents and would be mothers and fathers all across yemen there's no need for confirmation here the most vulnerable suffer in war in yemen it goes to extremes aid agencies warn that if the supply line of food medicine and other aid stays cut then money fission could kill more babies than weapons do it's the united nations official though who explains what's at stake. the conflict has made yemen a living hell for its children are eleven million children or about eighty percent of the country's under eighteen population out in need of humanitarian assistance they face the threat of food shortages displacement and acute lack of access to basic social services hutu rebels have posted video which they say shows an ambush on government fighters in the saudi amorality led coalition near her data so the

reports say hooters have been fleeing the battlefield the rebels deny that and the who it is a warning that food diapers could come under attack on the pretext of coalition claims that weapons are stored there whatever the truth in this war the attempts to bring calm and some hope of dialogue still rests heavily on the shoulders of the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths he met the hutu delegation that should have been in geneva last week in the capital muscat on thursday it appears martin grover's isn't giving up on his attempts to try to build confidence as he describes it between the two sides but they don't appear to want to give up the fighting now mr griffiths has had talks with the rebels. they say those meetings ended up with no agreement whatsoever he plans to come to start with what will take place remains to be seen but he will end his trip in the saudi capital riyadh but time is ticking

on this whole process he knows that under a summons al-jazeera djibouti. so kid sixteen is the main highway in haiti east out of the port city of data it's easy to see why it's such got such deep importance as it's the start of the road supply route from yemen's main port to the capital city of sana which is one hundred forty kilometers northeast well amanda bryden from save the children says kilo sixteen is critical for humanitarian aid the port is a lifeline for the rest of the country say over eighty percent of the country's commercial imports are coming through this country through this port sorry and what we're seeing with the fighting is there a critical junction at sixteen is the artery towards santa and there are other parts of the country and so really this is a situation of life and death for yemeni children and their family that they can't

access their food feel limited supplies though the huge numbers are critically at risk and really based on coming months so for us what we're seeing is that. four hundred thousand children are at risk of severe acute malnutrition so the most severe form of my interest in by the end of the year if we see this lifeline cut off so be rubio says the intercept to the missile fired by hutu rebels in yemen in a statement published in saudi state media military forces say the ballistic missile was fired towards the city of jos and they say rebels have so far fired one hundred ninety five missiles toward saudi arabia killing one hundred twelve civilians. antigovernment demonstrations have been held across syria the protesters are angry at plans to launch a massive military offensive to retake it lip the united nations has repeatedly warned an assault could unleash an even bigger humanitarian crisis in syria settle

the whole fear war stephanie decker has more now from untuck here near the turkish syrian border i think. careful scenes not seen in egypt for years. because. if. we won our freedom they sing these scenes a reminder of the early days of syria's revolution before the violent government crackdown before the arrival of countless foreign backed armed groups before russia got involved and changed the course of this war before millions were forced from their homes hundreds of thousands killed before homes in cities were leveled for the fabric of syrian society was arguably destroyed.

chant the same as it was in two thousand and eleven the people want the downfall of the regime i don't know how but today we're here to fight for the demands of this revolution that the regime must go will not reconcile with them whatever promises they make whenever trust issues seem the media lies and they say we're terrorists but it's a people's revolution just like when it started when i was there. but so much has changed seven and a half years on it libya's the last province and opposition control representing the final hopes of syrians opposition. syrian government forces and their allies are expected to recapture the province and that will be done remains a subject of intensive negotiations between turkey and russia one of the issues how to separate the so-called terrorist groups and the so-called moderate opposition. formerly known as the mr front as one of the groups labeled a terrorist organization and accused of being affiliated with al qaida turkey's

trying to get the group to disband with no results so far. some sources say the operation will go in phases and could take many months more than three million syrians live in italy a province their stories often forgotten among the military and political developments but this friday it's the people who came to the streets to say no to military offensive and to say no to living under a government they have sacrificed so much to remove stephanie decker or jazeera antakya. at least three protesters including a fourteen year old boy been shot dead by israeli fire during friday protest gaza's border with israel the health ministry in gaza says dozens of others have been injured more than one hundred seventy palestinians have been killed by israeli fire since we can protest began almost. all the israeli army has close roads leading to

the village of qana lama in occupied east jerusalem which is scheduled for demolition and scuffles have broken out between soldiers and palestinian protesters angry at israel's decision to flatten the village to make way for the building of illegal settlements and run call has more now from kama. on friday the palestinian commission on walls and settlements issued this statement in english and hebrew saying that any israeli soldier involved in the demolition of a law will be prosecuted in the international criminal court now palestine is actually a member of the international criminal court has been since two thousand and fifteen and the statement which was issued in arabic just a couple of days ago says that the court's decision to demolish the village. evacuate its inhabitants flagrantly violates the right statute and is considered as a crime that falls within the jurisdiction of the international criminal court now

we've also heard from senator us senator dianne feinstein she says via twitter israel must not demolish the palestinian community of qana last month the only reason to destroy this community is to expand the by israeli settlements and split the west bank in off the potential for peace depends on what happens in holland what so we've had a lot of international condemnation the european parliament in the last couple of days and now the u.s. senator dianne feinstein using twitter to get her message across the international criminal court is also another avenue that the palestinians could potentially to see if they state militia takes place however the residents of the activists here don't know when the israeli bulldozers will come in so here they wait wondering what their fate might be still to come here on the program two massive storms coastlines of opposite sides of the world with four day to the united states and eight were people smuggling thirty p. .