[000:00:00;00] ah, al jazeera, you believe me with ah no shield there with me. so robin in doha, reminder of our top stories, at least 126 people are now died and dozens, laura missing in western europe. severe flooding devastates towns and villages. most of those killed were in germany, which is experiencing its worst weather disaster. in decades. batson has more from bond in germany. people are basically locked up in that area. you could see the extent of the damage. they are a visibly very strong current of water has damage,

houses has damage, roads has damage, shops, everything with clothes, people are really looking for food and some water to drink. so supplies are wanting shore pretty quickly. and as you can actually really feel, when you talk to people there, they will very much caused by surprise, by this immense amount of water. so that because president says the week long and rest has killed 117 people was planned and coordinated several route pose, a says 25000 soldiers will patrol the streets to stop further looting and violence . and it's quite clear that all these incidents, invest and looting were instigators. instigators. people who planned it coordinated it is regions of sending fighters to the north to support government troops. its rates concerns with the conflict with to ryan rebels

may be on the verge of escalating again. a pulitzer prize winning indian santa journalists have been killed. and i've got his sons kandahar district danesh. the leaky worked for the reuters news agency and was writing with the african special forces he has caught in the crossfire between the taliban and african troops. thailand has posted a record daily high of current virus infections as concern mounts about delays and vaccine delivery mold. and $9600.00 cases reported in the last 24 hours in the us. estimated 4 and a half 1000000 vaccine doses to indonesia. as it battles southeast asians worst growing virus outbreak. indonesia reported a record of 1025 virus related deaths on friday. i mean, i full tower has reopened to visitors after its longest closures, as well as war 2, the la monk has been shut since the start of the 19 pandemic. it will not accept 13000 people today. those with headlines and back with more news and half law here

and algebra to stay with us. i was a school in the seventies and eighties were totally different from what school are these dates? there was no other choice for them. there were i my, and lot of t within the system they shall be in the victim, eyes marginalize picked on. and unfortunately, that mentality that existed at the school develop some sense of non belonging and so many, it's trailing lebanese families. the battles in the school yard turn into battle at home. the parents speak little english and ministration born children speak no arabic. they can communicate with their parents anymore because the parents are still living so back in

a 970 is in the middle east. and the kid is living in the 1980s early nineties in australia. and it's very different. and that communication between the families got lost. you're getting called, wog, and hope can were wide and all sorts of a school. and then you come home. you parents, it was speaking to an arabic all the time and you think maybe these guys, right? maybe i am a walk. maybe so you're falling more liberties on strategy. what am i on right now? and for parents struggling with english, the education of their children becomes at the v. a test niandra bashes 7 children are expected to do well at school. and she never has an education one day, very good that he, if he ever came 2nd in the class, you'll see in his room and quite easily and i student now my mother on the other

hand never went to school. she does matter with roy arabic or unusual metal. she's never, ever experience been in the classroom and be told by 3 jobs, which are fun, phenomenal, because my mother is a very, very strong lady and a very, very smiling become any time she had him way. and she came to me, mom, what states, what? i didn't tell them i carry the right. i didn't have to be smart, you have to read it. you have to do deep have to do that inside my heart. some like my wife and the amount that's all the time i told them, i want to be doctor, i want to be say let's, i want to be compute his name. i want to something good for you. futures. me style l care and his younger brother sam,

both go to punch bol boys high. there was probably about 70 people out of my he that actually got into a university of some sort. were still young back then, but you can choose which parts you really want to take, but at school, they are already on different val, heading to the university degree. we've san looking forward to the lessons of the straight, the same data complained model didn't everyone does yolanda holloway who lives in front of a school and dad enough to raise principles down your sample to spend the for so and so, and i'm translating today i'm doing well, at school and principal just wants to compliment me and compliment you on raising

me the way you have. and as we walk and walking out of the office, all sorts of good over here, the arbiter joe walked into the office and he was in my dad from the, from my dads days at the shop. and he said, or you now you're sound good, suspended for 1234 and dentist under and looked at me like what you're, that you're not getting the job. that was not the story. the other building over that one number to review the me with them. i dropped the bill, actually ross of it after that, given it a belligerent, kevin holly that was really love to deal with. and the rogers are really station that to go get dollars. lation michelin and after school on the streets of south west sydney, many australian,

lebanese teenagers drift away from the parents. dreams of a university education and drift towards the excitement of easy money from petty crime was to break into places for the sake of getting shirts and drinks and lilies and stuff like that ought to get a 100 dollars. you know, just wasn't silas to still stop bills and gentlemen, for us. i was have a couple blacks that i should be hanging now. we will get into, fortunately of the day when you don't have many prospects with your education, we have many prospects with your work. whenever any prospects for the future, we have any prospects in the community that you live in. it's really appealing to the wrong thing, get quick money. it's really appealing because to that one moment, you could be a little bit of a superstar if you know, if you belong to someone or something, you know,

a bill ability going to find someone that food the same. why like you. and they're going to be your friends to the door when about a minority of those kids who felt trapped in the ganglion mentality to rebuild against teachers against principal rebuild against police. they looked at criminal activities as a way out of poverty rather than education. crime is often the 1st thing to flourish and doesn't because it validates people's identity. it gives them power in a world in which they are otherwise. palace. it's very attractive for a lot of people to go that way. the me almost a decade after the exit is from lebanon, begins the new lebanese, it's trailing in a building,

a cohesive community. in southwest little complex political conflict involving christian and islamic militias is left behind . 11 instead, south with sydney reflects a different reality ah, in live on i was raised in a very respectful community. i remember them a slim families which go to the christian neighbors to celebrate christmas. and then the christian would come to visit muslim neighbors to celebrate ramadan, we own was exchanged, i'm sprayed, we supported each other, we've always been open and respectful. oh, $11.00, east trailing community is a mix of christians and muslims. i said,

but here in like amber parts of the old european immigrant and anglo community still struggle with the unfamiliar faith of islam. luck and amongst open in the late seventy's, enter the critics of multiculturalism. it is a symbol of a dangerous cultural divide. the building of the mosque creates a lot of local intention and a hostility. this opposition from long was limbs to its presence. in fact, it's one of the 1st of the many mosques that are challenged by local communities all over sydney in the long time that really changes partly because people who don't like move out and people who do like it move in. and so the, the neighborhood becomes increasingly islamic,

they are pray, homes, book shops, how long butcher ease, very good liberties, takeaways restaurants, it looks a bit like a small town in lebanon, some years, ah, adjusted the lebanese australian community embraced peaceful coexistence in south west sydney. they find themselves under attack on a national scale, influential forces question if a stranger can cope with immigrants and their foreign ways. multi culturalism is now issued by the federal government invites national disunity jeffrey blaney of norman historian, mike some major speech and then writes book condemning what he sees as the emerging tribalism in australia caused by the arrival of all these new immigrants. the. the views of the 3 bodies in camera, a very different to the views of those people who live amongst the new modem and

have to work with them on my one line with the races. tensions rising, the liberal opposition later, john howard thin, the stark method to the supporters of a multicultural australia. the only thing that can unite this country and keep this country united by sea cor, australian values to which all of us can subscribe. and that is his vision of what makes a strange, unique and strong. and anyone who deviates from that is seen to be honest writing and in some are you, are you my room? and i mean, you might do that. the operation desert storm is right on schedule. important for sky live

that the world understand the big countries cannot invite small neighbors and get away with the 1st gulf war shift, the media focus to arab australians. the simmering suspicions of old anglo astray alia began to boil the backlash from the gold for we have not been ready for something like that, especially as the female side of all the community who actually borne the brunt of the 1st wave against every one that is islam make every one that is arabic, and every one that was a hit job or had a funny sound ignite, just show the ugly face of racism and such a way that we could not cope. was it at that time? in the me

a 12 at the time of the golf all and, and it didn't have any impact and i'll never forget mom who is he's having her job is sort of someone attempted to take his job off. well, i could never understand why. and then there was another time when somebody sped at her and i thought, what a low act she's got, nothing to do. what's going on. we're actually proud of striving for a generation lebanese is trailyn, has been struggling to find a place in a so called multicultural country. now for the 1st time in our post war history, refugees are being asked to declare their religions, arab australian who saw you on the 1st straight. i already answered this question, are we starting citizen, my lord, these dos trailer and i shouldn't be asked about this. this is the 1st time they

are straining identity has ever been challenged in this sort of way. it's the 1st time they are being confronted with a choice between being on our strike because up to now the multicultural story is your both. and now suddenly they may not who vehicle for this type of 20 piece of pressure on this community. we have lived in an atmosphere like we have been and i trisha cooker they are a big carnival at golf woodland park, preceded peacefully until like this afternoon. the shadow of the gulf war and a perceived divide between anglo and arab astray looms over, an arab was trailing and family festival in the evening. the fight between 2 young women escalate and the conflict intensified further. as more police respond,

it just highlighted how distant the community was from the new south was police, and how ignored it. police officers at that time where they could have diffuse a situation very easily, but they were having this attitude in your face and things escalated, the local doctor, jamal, re fi. is that the festival with his family? i believe it would be a different story. none of the food stamps were used to move the mom, the many in the arab community believe divine and

ignite because the police have no respect for them. i mean, his occasions way for people would be sitting in a car and for no apparent reason. other than will lebanese or middle eastern that pulled over and stretched out of the full ca, searched month along the road. and it happened quite a quite a bit. after leaving punchbowl boys high fell l. okay. is that university on the threshold of a management career? but he still believes he, the belief target i distinctly remember ones who are on the north shore, driving around at night. it was a day off, you know, something we got pulled up by some police and essentially got to make the lie on the ground. and worst of the effect of this is not your area. we don't want your client, these don't come back. but the reality is that the police a facing

a crime wave that engulfing south west sydney and it's young, lebanese australians who are often to blame. i'm not saying it was a model of model citizen i did straight to the disappointment of his parent. phantom care is not interested in the family, fruit and vegetable business. for sam and his friend berra easier, far more lucrative ways to make money. me a lot of young men that were doing something illegal and the police just had no way of combat. ah, the most profitable illegal activity of all if the racket known as car rebirthing a stolen vehicle is fitted with the serial number from a wrecked car to give it a new identity. i would steal you very high profile, very expensive, my vehicle get

a rig and re booth within days. and what would pop out was a car that she could hardly tell almost couldn't tell was really booth if i got to seem to get it. i could rebirth a car within a day. there was big money in all my my son is driving around the flesh and making the money. so it was just sort of say someone else so much money to do and started doing the same thing and was just crazy money didn't have to work you up when you want audio in just one year between 9 195996 more than 47000 cars stolen in new south wales. as the racket peaks, the police hit back the car wreck, it is the biggest so far uncovered in australia and has taken 2 years of police investigations to unravel. police have recovered $120.00, stolen cars with

a value of 2 and a half $1000000.00. we will be doing right in the backyard of houses and had $3.00 and $4.00 car shells. they were obviously cow rebirth, and he'd been taking place. it was a hydra never the enemy because they were at the stop you from making your easy money. mm hm. okay. is convicted of a number of offenses but escapes a jail sentence, tyran industries at it and bought a t. r in use of the media increasingly demonizes south sydney as a hot bed of crime. john howard suite de power after 13 years in opposition and one nations pauline hanson is elected in queensland. ah,

get rid of this multi culturalism because that is wanting to body and soul. so as a nation, we are multi racial. we are strong and, and be proud of it. with the return of john howard, as prime minister multiculturalism has been abandoned as a national audiology. and so people are feeling much more comfortable in the period of pauline hanson about talking about race. and we're using racist remarks, calling people racist names and eliminate kids in places like punch bowl getting caught up in the adults. as hostility increases, the police focus on a new source of conflict. lebanese is trailyn gangsters, ramping up the drug racket. there was a lot of illegal activities taken place from members of our community

and was no shame whatsoever. a lot of drug smuggling, cocaine and when and people who were at that time dealing and distributing it was a sense of pride because it was a way for them to make money. these are small and numbers, but what existing they did happen to low p a straight punch bowl goes from decent. laura biding suburban, straight to a drug drive through supplying much of bandwidth evening. young people with drug users as a way, a drug addicts and their family would not do anything about it because it was, it's under the carpet because i didn't want anyone else to know that their son or daughter is

a drug addict. a community isn't denial. as drugs in cash create a powerful criminal underworld, it was a new phenomena. this was the development of 1100 organized crime. and then model of crime was balance. it was law and was predicated on violence and fee. if people went to the police station to give them any kind of information, those criminal elements would know about it and they'll come to retaliate. we could not trust the police at that time. we wanted to. but what that sense of fear? ah, things are the pitch. people are short, fuse drugs everywhere. there are guns everywhere. it's the wall waste. next time, once upon a time in punch ball, ah, a lot of the lebanese young gangsters thought that they were unbreakable and

untouchable. and the see phones, but one of the most infamous race riot in his, in history, the training only needs a told to go back to where they came from, the alarm. and the thing is, but strongly flag being carried away, which i think these totally inflection ever be carried. yeah, you have no idea why not. you got my culture and you have not that much. what we've done to use me the seeds by violent crime and drugs confronted by racism and integration out there, a trace of the history of 1st generation lebanese australians. exploring the conflict

and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time and punch bulb on al jazeera, ah ah, ah ah ah, ah, it's too late for the journey to winter sponsored by cattle airways. hello, the weather, looking a little unsettled for part so far. south america, just the round power was spilling out of bolivia, rony down towards the southeast of brazil. line of shabby ranges making his way through heavy at times, causing some localized flooding. i suspect as we go through the next day or so to

the south of that, can we drive want to service at around 16 celsius santiago, smith, temperature here. well, i will turn a little wet adjust to the south of one of services. we go one through a sad day and notice it'll turn a little cooler. that way. weather runs its way back up into where bolivia just pushing up towards the, the main showers across northern parts of the amazon with stretch their way up towards the caribbean. and we got some rather wet weather to its parts of the caribbean, i think, particularly for the greater antilles. cuba hispaniola. you make a catching some larvae showers as we go through friday. so bad for the eastern i'll is at least for friday become set starting the showers here becoming a little more widespread and a little heavier in the process. and we've seen some very heavy rain recently making its way across. the central parts of the us running across the plains received some live the storms into were ontario as well, just north of the board with the tool nato. this weather that we do have moving across the plains, sliding by further north was in east with the saturday sponsor

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i had to go west city center at least to get the head, begging for food and just working and lived in a 2 meter. that's the place. oh, do i go up to date? did that to me it's just sometimes exceed. and my friend is not adding something. so what we've been in the i go to go poor people i

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