in the midst of this battle of resistance i have given instructions to distribute the national supply of all the products the people lead starting this monday on a massive scale lawyers in sudan is saying that nine female protesters have been sentenced to twenty lashes and a month in jail for rioting it comes a day after president tomorrow bashir ordered the release of all women detained over anti-government demonstrations students have continued to protest in the capital khartoum despite a state of the nijinsky. also colleges and universities in algeria have been ordered to close their campuses two weeks ahead of their schedule spring break being seen as an attempt to quell student protests demanding that their ailing president abdul aziz beautifully car resigned the ruling comes a day after one hundred ninety five protest as were detained as tens of thousands protested against the government. new satellite images show increased activity around a facility where north korea assembled most of its ballistic missiles it has taken

over two weeks ago show a flurry of vehicle and train activity which has now died down suggesting items might have been transported elsewhere the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have again delayed steff idle assault on the village of whose i saw was lost and played in syria they said they were expecting more civilians to be evacuated from the area and there has been a third attack on a bola treatment center in the eastern democratic republic of congo hours before a visit by the head of the world health organization armed fighters targeted a facility and the ten b. which was attacked last month one police officer was killed in that attack well that brings you up to speed with all of our top stories this hour rewind is next which visits the most dangerous city in the united states stay with us for that. as women's rights in the gaming acceptance of the world. what's the status of global gender equality and how can progress be

made executive director of un women from. al-jazeera. hello welcome to rewind i'm richelle carey since al jazeera english launched more than a decade ago we have built up an extraordinary archive of award winning documentary here on rewind returning to some of the best of them finding out what's happened in the years sense back in two thousand and nine millions of americans were celebrating a new president in the white house promising radical change and

a better future president obama inspired the entire nation no more so than in baltimore or over sixty percent are african-american and violent crime and drug related deaths have been on the rise for decades but what became of all that optimism in the years following obama's election in two thousand and twelve al jazeera faultlines went to baltimore to find out here's baltimore anatomy of an american city. we're following a funeral cortege through the outskirts of both to me. and his home in northeast baltimore. he was twenty seven. today his family and friends are bearing.

it while the us homicide rate overall is stable. those involving black youths have risen. faultlines is in the city of baltimore to try to find out why in the inner city neighborhoods of a bomber's america. life for so many young african-american men continues to be a fight for survival. our city's stubborn homicide count which is the lowest level since nineteen seventy seven. and we know that these crimes are the ones that gave us a bad reputation as a dangerous place and for too long instilled the deep seated fear that drove

families away baltimore's man stephanie rawlings blake is delivering her annual state of the city address it's not time to celebrate a combative the population of baltimore the largest city in the state of maryland has been shrinking for decades. blake wants to grow it again by ten thousand families within the next ten years there's let there be no doubt the state of our city is now better safer and stronger. for all the talk of the coining crime rates baltimore is still one of the deadliest cities in the united states but still talking about it. it's one forty five pm and demand to be shot. just had about another shooting incident in the city of

baltimore so we're on our way to the crime scene or listening to the police scanner to find out exactly where her place is also messages sent out on twitter by the baltimore police department. police photographers forensic officers and detectives to investigate the scene the bullet casings and marks that a. victim here was shot in the back. of the paramedics got off him before he was taken away tossed people have been taken away and everything. the pace of violence in baltimore can feel relentless. almost every day off is up another shooting. today dismal a cover to be followed in all these days come out but. they come running down the street star she and she. did he fell in front of

the chinese still. have to defy him. to state i would be sitting there yet but he did say this incident could have been avoided but. this neighborhood is very close to downtown baltimore and there was a shooting incident here west six shots were fired and the police are being called out this is the thought of shooting that we heard about in twenty four hours and being to the crime scenes here in the city of baltimore. today illegal guns drugs in the states that number one target for law enforcement. the baltimore police department has invited us to walk the streets with them in this area don't tori's for drugs notorious for drugs. but as many people as you see said now it is always one person with a gun but you want to stop the drug dealing as well right i do but i would rather stop the killing. not that the drug dealing isn't bad. but the voluntas and most of

the arrests you make must be for drug offenses very well at this point now but again. that's not the goal scorer fellas i don't want to be. the man since it's the strategy of targeting illegal guns that seem the murder rate dropped to the lowest figures in over three decades to anybody i have id on i'm trying to figure out how they get in the hands of kids or how they get into the hands of bad guys if the number of murders are down in baltimore and i don't know but if they are. that i would not describe ascribe that to a changing program ed burns is the former baltimore detective and school teacher who went on to write the hit television series the wire we're not dealing with the root causes. so if you lock up a person with a gun there's a kid coming behind him he's going to pick up that gun it's an endless cycle the population in baltimore is way down all right so if the population is down your

numbers are down and we've gotten rid reductions and violence at the same time reducing the number of arrests which tells me that are targeted approach of targeting our most violent offenders is what will make the difference but one the focus is on guns man rulings blake says drug crime will continue to be targeted to i don't know we're never going to be at a place as long as there are people selling illegal drugs on the street whether they're illicit drugs or prescription drugs you know we will enforce that those laws. you say we want to get rid of and then once the post is. in combat making them public housing they can't get health care is films they came get the jobs so how do they live and you should know a convicted murderer dony used to rob drug dealers for a living. he and his nephew don't say who's

a former dealer said some of the neighborhood kids are growing up in the feel like conflict zones this is. one. of the. shootouts that's what it feels like. got into dealing drugs after an injury ended his hopes of becoming a basketball player you know. eighteen. or . so there's always been a recession and right it always been a recession it can mean that's why we go we will go to the first day with. it's the easiest quick at. which you go into what you want to add in a slow and. then. dante and his friends say the environment they've grown up in makes it difficult to imagine another way of life.

so. a lot of favs gone. nobody had a god given so he turned to all the negative does nobody to get. the blame for that dante friends say shouldn't only be attributed to those sucked into the drug business one of the few multi-million dollar industries the city still has left most of the government didn't they like best and that's just plain wrong so they let him know there was a police down here are we lucky young black you for the that's the only place is really gone baltimore wasn't always a city in decline. it was once a shipping powerhouse. one of the largest seaports of the mid atlantic states. and a major center of industrial manufacturing. in the late sixty's baltimore had intercedes like bethlehem steel huge ship building and

a very active port neill franklin is a retired police major who spent thirty four years in law enforcement he's seen the decay firsthand late sixties early seventies mainly started leaving baltimore industry started leaving going overseas were ever it ended up just wasn't here in baltimore anymore but it was also around that time that richard nixon decided that he was going to start a war. against public enemy number one drugs but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a literal one you have to show they do have a criminal problem so how do you do that rest at a time when drug crime was actually on the decline not on the rise we went crazy arresting people for crack cocaine because of this. so-called epidemic that we were at incarceration rates began to just saw off the charts and we just put tons of

black people. from our inner city. unguardedly no. more arrests meant more federal money. it's a system that still exists today in the form of federal stimulus and the u.s. department of justice grants for crime control community policing. it's not a war on drops don't don't ever think it's wrong. it's a war on the blacks it started as a war on the blacks and has now spread to hispanics and poor whites alicia was a war blocks and. it was designed basically to take that energy it was coming out of the civil rights movement and destroy it we have all would ten million people reckon it. makes ten years we have ten more me and i knew more maybe i mean come on then we got to stop at some point say you

know what you know people saying then we had to fight for rehabilitation for chances for people to save for opportunity. according to a two thousand and three report from the bureau of justice if currency conservation rates remain unchanged one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime even in the age of obama something akin to a caste system is alive and well and. mass incarceration of poor people of color is tantamount to a newcastle stone one specifically designed to address the social political and economic challenges of our time michelle alexander is a law professor who says that the disproportionate numbers of black people in prison in america today is akin to a new system of social control comparable to slavery. she says that while president obama has made some positive steps like signing legislation that reduced sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine where it really counts obama has not

broken from the past but the reality is a drug control budget looks much like the bush administration's the ratio of funding invested in enforcement as opposed to prevention or drug treatment is about the same as the bush administration this is where it's not his real name he's agreed to talk to us if we disguise his identity. has been a drug dealer and a gang member he's currently awaiting trial charged with attempted murder very gruesome. murder scene with. maybe a man walking the streets before it's a. drug operation is on hold while he's out of jail on pretrial supervision one way that maryland has dealt with overcrowding of the prison system is the reason he deals is simple and he does it because he says it's the only way

he knows to support his family and guns just a tool of the trade is them is amusing to me because this isn't the name it was a party sixteen years ago so i'm used to with incentives if you lived in a mining town you would go into the coal mines as this is all you know and this is all they know so they're going into this where they know the danger is there you know but what they what they have is no choice and the way the game is rigged they can't win i mean the number of guys that actually survive the corner to get into mid-level drug dealers so they can get away from the corner they're few and far between hopefully i can be in the position of either position one of the work something positive i have nothing to do on my own and would want to know. when i was.

growing up in a poor neighborhood in baltimore means the olds a stacked against you. and so we have a school to prison pipeline operating in baltimore and in other cities across the nation where young people believe with some good reason that their destiny lies behind bars and they too will become members at the end or cast the most probably the urban children who will most children remain children. with occasional i would think you mean. is there was a. mom oh was that sal was the head you know. a moment tell me see hating me. you know in the get out of the source kill. the head and. no one's thinking about like let's look at these these infants let's help these instance out let's help these mothers out so that these kids are raised in a healthy environment let's let's put the money there rather than put it into. the

back you know twenty five thousand per prisoner per year in the federal system is probably thirty some thousand per year that's what we're putting our money a lot of drugs in baltimore d.c. blumenthal. for grown up and used for the end of the middle figures. streets or partly for. the we don't have that family foundation people you know definitely don't have seen you know these kids are just chewed up and spit out and they're broken they get the criminal record they can't get jobs you know they go to prison they come home same thing repeats itself until they find their bodies ventura breakdown ellis got us comfortable because when we first come then. by all adults i do this on a. sick and.

bad experience. located in the very heart of the city the baltimore city detention center is one of the largest pretrial detention facilities in the united states. i would think. it's intended for adults but on the haunch get tougher laws passed in maryland and some other states juveniles charged as adults also help a fifteen to a room they held indoors for about twenty three hours a day. and to be thomas and was just sixteen years old when he was arrested for the robbery and charged as an adult. he was ultimately cleared of all charges but while waiting five months for trial he wasn't attending school he was in baltimore city detention center that's not people. people you just go crazy i have people i know

that you know once they got in there they wanted it more stuff and they would all want to. ban adults and that had gone and. i kind of things which are supported by a kind of get at. the u.s. department of justice agrees that spending nearly huffy.