who lost a son, which adopted a generation latifah, a witness documentary on al jazeera. you want to help save the world, sneeze into your elbow in the. ready news. hello barbara, sarah london. these are the top stories on al jazeera. there's been another increasing current of virus cases around the world blamed on the highly contagious delta variant. in the us, the latest figures show the 7 day average of new infections has risen by 53 percent in just the past week. president joe biden has been urging americans to get vaccinated in an effort to stop the spread around 90 percent of patients being admitted. the hospital for the virus have not been inoculated. the cooper $900.00

task force has be meeting to discuss tightening the policy or last. kimberly how can has more than that from the white house. right now the policy in the united states, if you've been vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask. it's a personal choice. those required to wear mask or those had chosen not to get vaccinated, but given the up to can cases from the very highly contagious delta. very of all of that could change but officially for now there is no change to the best policy, but it's something we've seen discuss because we know infection in the united states of 35 percent from last week and death up 26 percent from just last week so that's a very sharp right now. what we also know is that in most cases, this fight is occurring in places where people are largely vaccinated. states like florida, texas, missouri. so what's the white house is doing? is increasing spending to kind of get the message out him, other words traveling to some of these rural areas,

making it easier for people to get a vaccination specific about a $100000000.00 on that outreach in denise is now the epicenter of the latest wave of corona virus, in se asia also fueled by the delta very, and it's reported a record $1400.00 deaths in just one day, but testing rates are low and the true figures could actually be much higher. the world health organization has urged the government to introduce a strict are locked down. here is jessica washington. with the latest from jakarta, indonesia has now passed more than $3000000.00 cases in total. what we have seen on the positive side is that the government has been able to ramp up testing, and they were able to test 200000 individuals in one day, which is a market improvement. however, still way of the target of trying to test 400000 people each day. and you can imagine that in a country like, and these are, there are people who would struggle when there is

a strict lockdown and many all doing it tough, particularly across your college or a java and many parts of the country. but epidemiologist say that the government must strongly because the situation is continuing to wasn't intensive care unit in hospitals, but only in chicago, not only in java, but across the country on stretch them. we're seeing concerning signs of health care system across the country and more regional provinces, including a west hub for with the, with the health care resources are certainly not what we have here in jakarta, and the numbers that you mentioned earlier. it's concerning, as they found the fact that indonesia now is asia covert at the center. they don't represent the reality on the ground because of low testing rates. some local data agencies using data from cities from provincial governments, say that the actual just toll is likely to be greater than one. the government's numbers suggests. meanwhile, japan's capital t o q as another 6 months high of new cove. in 1900 cases,

just the day before the olympic games opening ceremony, almost 2000 positive tests were recorded over the past 24 hours. that's the highest figure since mid january. and that's the spite tokyo being under a state of emergency. for the past 11 days. china has deployed its military to who none province. the central region is struggling with the worst flooding in recent memory. at least 33 people have now been killed. and 800000 are displaced, france, where the president has held an urgent national security meeting to discuss the pegasus spyware scandal. it follows reports that the phone of the malware, mac crone was targeted by israeli spyware. on behalf of moroccan intelligence, morocco denies the reports. well, those are the top stories that stay with us once upon a time in punch bowl is coming up next. ah,

i came to us right from live on to get away from the war that was happening at the time. and they came to restart a life as a migraine, when i showed up i, i struggled. it was very difficult. i wanted to give us every data that was at the beginning. i'm like, my parents are forced to decades, liberty, families come to australia to build a better life and escape the destruction of war. but many

a demonized in the new land. only live beneath it, rid of this multi culturalism that designing, dividing adulthood. and then after 15 years of immigration from lebanon, anglo, and arab, australia is divided by the 1st gulf there being confronted with a choice between being either arab or restraint. it's up to now the multicultural story is you're both when you 1st australia i already answered this question, harmon, australian citizen starts trailer, and i show on behalf of this john hardesty, we typically the about the, about this in as well in the 1919 a tiny criminal minority become drug dealing gang to define the law. these games will be wiped in

2001 kara rhythm raises fears that arab australians are an enemy within 35 years later. and he, our pension explodes into one of the most infamous, right? try it straight in just a little each week and a 1000. we have been in the fisher effect for 30 years. the people converged on chronology. what happened on that sunday in chronology? is it black all 3 countries in am i live in a lunch time. what am i on at not? i am is jillian. i am living. i am muslin. i'm a mother. i'm a georgia. i'm a child. i'm old. anyone. this is a story of what it's like to be living and call a trailer at home. we are

a strategy and, and this is our homeland is where we belong and this is what we have. title i i the 180 police, we've done hundreds across sidney southwest early this morning. 9 people arrested for a string of bond crimes over the past year. admitted the having and the single long thing noise. there was a lot of creams on the streets. there was a lot of crime with the police couldn't creep on the streets except what they're, what they are all the streets. let's put it this way. and at that time, there was no one to stop them. in sidney,

south west lebanese criminal, the said to be running out of control, punch, bowl banks, town can't re, la, came back. the suburbs are described by law enforcement officials as hot bits of concept cocaine, trafficking, and violence. me sound way. sidney is the center of extraneous lebanese community. ah, the $990.00 deeply religious and conservative community is being characterized by a tiny minority of criminals from both christian and muslim family. we suffered as a community because over the kids there were dealing with drugs there with drug addict, the way of making good money and just kill people. it was so easy for them in

such a mentality to kill people. they sold their weird, untouchable. ok. yeah. in the mid 90 ninety's, you got the growth of crime of drug gangs was sort of stuff which is essentially the consequence of not planning for multiculturalism. this is sort of if the race and if you like of criminal delinquency as a preferred lifestyle is the choice you make when access to the normal rewards and normal pathways a society is blocked. i don't really subscribe to the societies to blame, sort of train of thought and i, my family arrived here in the sixty's and we probably could have used more of a hand than what we got. but you make 2 and you get on. and you probably make

a success of all your efforts and your life. yet egyptian born new south wales deputy police commissioner, nick called us, still recognizing the pressure of growing up arab in wider a strayer. i think anybody who says that there is no racism in sydney, australia as they hit in the sand, the rules racism. and that does contribute to some extent to people being united and people go down the wrong path. in fact, with me, the wrong path means gang activity. the politicians order the police to use 0 tolerance, the gangsters get personal threatening offices and their family thought the environment was significantly boylen live in these games running, destroy it involved public place, shootings, cabins,

murders. it was in the face, ball had grown we're proud of this money and they're proud of the easily gained wells the we're the greatest enemy to where community at that time. and we needed to make a stand against the wanted to form a partnership between the no abiding citizens and over a community. and the new south was police against those criminal elements. a lot of the lebanese young gangsters thought our bigger than i thought that they were unbreakable and untouchable. and that's why i tried doing seem like the police 18 year old was shot twice in the legs in a pockets conch paul up the weekend. the full heat in the area in the past and with the rise of the criminal gangs, comes and insidious influence. american gangster culture in music and movie,

had the powerful effect on australian lebanese to see when you watch games to movies and you see all the money in the last. all of those sort of make you want to live life growing up in bank town with them. i you known as westy is like many young teenagers with a passion for gangster rap. when you become a j o is open up to a lot of things and just to follows 6 drugs and rock and roll and weakens. direct you to different paths rep videos and you like cars and blaine and girls and guns. that's the culture that they grew up in the family. okay. it grows up surrounded by a similar culture, but graduates university and worked in management. we are

a very mild dominated culture as well. there's no, there's no denying that. and i'm, i guess, to prove your man who did a lot of cases. yeah. you show how much you've earns with your cars and, and jewelry and everything else. being on the streets and hanging with sort of didn't mean identity where everyone starts to know who you are and they start the fee because of you and your boys. ah, it's just things that you do when you're young and stupid and not really thinking brought up in a conservative catholic family in nearby parameter george basha and his friends also aspire to the glamour of gangster rap. i think it's cool, you know, you don't, you really think it's like cool, you know, i need to go and you do it and, you know, thinking, thinking ahead us thinking in the moment it's always in the moment

when he comes from a concert that he's working class family to immigrate during the lebanese civil war . when i was young, i had a very good. i had everything offered to me from my mother and father and i had all the love and affection from them. he does well at school until he and his friends discover drugs, a serious thought and smoking marijuana. first thing we started taking alco then went to ecstasy, then it went to illustrate. they went to cocaine, saying that my father decided me. he's still in a shining mates and i'll tell you future, which is so true. the 3 all in off track because you are doing the same thing, getting on drugs, making money to support a drug habit. and just like in every community in sydney, anglo or not,

the drug culture crosses generations many who stray down the wrong path when they're young. turning to worried parents back with in my twenties, when we're in control and a phone call, you can get hands on anything. you know, i mean, hands on from going to marijuana to guns, to whatever, and you want to go. fellow care's little brother, sam, had some run ins with the law and he's lucky to avoid jail. but it's a father with a young family. he worried about the drug record evolving in southwest sidney. when you get older and momentary, you want to keep you and you have kids, you want to keep your kids as far away from stuff like that as possible. you don't want to say the things that you're saying, you don't want him to do the things that you've done i've had a lot of unfortunately interaction with people on drugs and all the dealing all

with people actually using. and unfortunately, because on the community and we've drunk come violent a more what i've seen, i've seen people issue. i've seen people get step. you know, i've seen i've seen it all by the early, 900 ninety's. george basha is a panel beating apprentice by day and a d. j at night. but with the gangsters dominating the streets. he's also the son of a worried mom. he worked at t j on all the time. i was writing. i see in the all the time i see some stop. i look from the window. if george back home line or not. so in his back home, i feel comfortable eisley, my husband said to me, crazy, we solid noise, you see in the window. i filled them because i was want to, he went different places. you know, what's happened day, you know, it was a,

some people, some people might because i was trying to get in a puff that late joe went to my mom, you know, get to find goes at, we're going to find, going to tell me all your friends 40 for his life with when you want to be and he asked me, it's just been a lot to pull him and nave. lead him up and he's falling. suppose walking up, make it the sort of your friend the lame hospital to come from all over his body. i remember a coin was very the way the crying and south turned away and then i went home and closely couldn't sleep 9. i'm thinking if i can demonstrate that's me. what for westy and his teenage crow,

the big life lessons a scale to come for them, drugs and petty crime. go hand in hand with 16 to make money. i to to puff of doing crime. the majority of those kids penance. i 1st generation they came in from lebanon and they didn't have much control overs at kids activity. and that i didn't know what that kids were doing, even though some of them were using their parents' home as a distribution center for drugs. and that sort of things. ah, but with these parents and not so naive, my parents eventually started to know the rose taking drugs in that i was making

money because my mom would find a lot of casual mutual fun jewelry. she'll find, you know, she started uncovering things big boy be. and so she asked me, where did you get to law found that to make some excuse. but she knew always doing things. ah, and for with these dad, there's only one response in physical violence with my father tried to discipline me in that form, but it really doesn't work when you have someone it just makes them rebuild. and in the mid to late 19 ninety's. this is where many rebellious lebanese tains find a drug supplies. tilapia straight punch bowl. this quiet family enclave becomes the illegal drug distribution center for south sydney to load the

street was renee and for being a violent and organized crime area. there was significant drug distribution taking place on runners. the lower level straight deal is full drugs. so there would be a lot of cars going dental i peace trade looking for dealers to have them supply drugs to people going to the store. it was actually the same as any fast food out there you go. they still put 5 2nd to get to officially it's only a handful of dealers, but they terrorized the strange and they directly linked to formatted and 25 shootings. this was the korea they tried. they continued on a tradition of other people who would bring involved in organized chrome,

and some of the young men knew nothing kills bought to be criminals. unfortunately, there was a well founded fear at the time that if people went to the police station to give them any kind of information, those criminal criminal element would know about it and they'll come to retaliate. it's difficult for people to stand up and give evidence as a witness against some of those cron gigs, cuz our volunteer. and as we saw later on they would shoot and kill people who they thought were going to give evidence against them. the for the hello p, a straight gangsters. hand guns, a part of everyday life drug drug dealings and carrying guns. do i go hand in hand on people protecting us? i guess. and unfortunately, a gun culture certainly has come into prominence every on the guns are supplied by crooked gun dealers. and it's the beginning of illegal

international gun in port through the post. so suddenly you've got the capacity of young people to get guns, fuel by money, and they see themselves as likely new drug lords, they're on a short fuse, but i think money is easy and the police will never touch them. there were significant place response to this which, which resulted in police undertaking surveillance coven operations until i p st. buying drugs themselves. making sure that on the cover a pretty good down the street. identifying that as you're responsible for selling the drugs. the police under political pressure to get tough on crime, also struggle to keep the community on side. the community policing at that time did not exist. police officers on the street did not communicate as

a force, communicated and treated young people in a very bad manners. and at the same time, there was the idea was in the community that it is, all of corruption was in the police force felt i think, from a policing perspective, engagement is, is key. it's all important. perhaps in some ways in the, in the ninety's we would not as engaged as we could have been as a relationship with the police becomes increasingly fractured. christian and muslim families a gripped by crime and an epidemic that steals their children. a lot of the young people were buried much earlier than was, should have because of their drug habits. a lot of family way to broken at that time because of the drug habits and pat and didn't know how to deal with it.

they just did not know how to deal with it. i have seen it 1st hand in my capacity as a general practitioner, we had an excess of 80 different families. they were all mother or father or sister or brother of i had a when addict and over community that was staggering. ah, as to low p. s. street. think deeper into the criminal abyss. westy moves from southwest sidney to pick up the drug trade in kings. cross, when i was 7 friends or living in the city and making all the money and living the high life. but when he's high on drugs, it's a robbery that finally brings western world crashing down on the train. and there was 3 individuals which started to swear at me in arabic,

on them once warned them twice, one them 3 times. they wouldn't listen and live and lined up for being all 3 of them, which i really didn't have to do because already making a lot of money in the city. but being off my head, i've done so and stripped them of all the woods. he's arrested and convicted of robbery and served a year in jail with 2 years parole and back on to lo, be a straight punchbowl to violent drug trade. 4th of the teenager to pay the ultimate price. ah, school boy, but lee was bashed, stabbed in short, half in the end. it was a single knife wound to behalf which killed him. and the people already reeling are about to be demonized. a 14 year old korean schoolboy is stabbed

when he walks into the wrong front yard by mistake. edward and full friends and jobs pulled up their class. my 15th birthday. a young boy going to a birthday party. it just happened that there's the party antelope. yes, street, he went to the wrong house, said the blogs the way he looked stopped him. it wasn't good for the community, but it's sort of fitting with a pattern of life around punch bowl at the time. the shootings and the capping, whatever you want to call it was, was unfortunately very common at the time. edward's parents are receiving counseling. he was an only child. his friends have told police, they didn't know their attackers, and there was no reason for the killing. was done by will have to find who did it for the for the dental have

me. i think in some ways the matter of edward lee and to live yes. st. focused the whole lot of media and public attention on the street and on the on, on staff where sydney they were adamant as women. they were other people who were killed in very tragic circumstances. but they didn't sort of grab the public imagination and the media attention the way the li murder did. and what happens next is kind of main, a disaster for the live in his community. and all those associated with. i have a kid beyond the taken without hesitations. who died for carla. they find that out. a lot of new babies were dying. i did not think it's neglected. babies to dec, people empower, investigate, exposes,

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