play an important role, protecting human. ah, ah, ah, me. oh again peter, i'll be here and go home with your top stories on al jazeera. the took us trebled olympics are officially underway with the opening ceremony being held and virtually empty stadium $1.10 people attending the games of tested positive for covered 19 in the run up to the events protested rally near the venue to voice their opposition to the games opponent say they shouldn't be going ahead for the corona virus remains a threat, and richardson has more now from took you will the limpid games that many people

may never happen all now officially underway. a huge challenge for the house to really shift public opinion behind these games. the director of this opening ceremony says he intends to show to be sober and in sync with the sentiment of today. and the challenges that you're on the world are facing during this pandemic, really since $1896.00 in the start of the modern lympics, the opening ceremony house being an integral part to any limping showcase. the national identity of the host country rarely has a country, had such a big challenge in a balancing act. before we look at the national stadium behind me, a $1400000000.00 stadium built all these games intended to house around $68000.00 fans. and of course for this ceremony and the games ahead, there will be no spectators allowed inside you to cove. it 19, at the rio 2016 opening ceremony will more than 12000 spectators and performers

that number will be down with some athletes concerned that if they take part in the ceremony and that a subsequent athletes has positive, full covet 19, they could be identified as a close contact and participation in these games could be under a threat. if we're looking for positives, then gender parity is one of them. 49 percent will at least taking part at these games will be female. that is the highest number we've ever had. and that will be reflected in this ceremony. west of the on countries can choose a male and female athlete to carry the flag into the stadium to represent that country. a member of the tele bands negotiating team says there'll be no lasting piece in galveston until any government is installed in cobbled at all sides. agree on su. hail. shaheen says the taliban doesn't want to monopolize power fights as have been seizing many areas. is the last of the u. s. in nature forces leave afghanistan. a shortage of fuel to run generators in several lebanese hospitals is threatening the lives of patients that be,

that they could run out within hours. electricity outages can last for more than 20 hours per day. doctor ferris abbey ad works with the rafi curry re hospital in beirut. he says, the situation is the worst it's ever been. we cannot continue like this, and we are putting a lot of patients in harm's way, especially considering that we are seeing the surgeons in the number of new cases yesterday live and report with one of the highest number. of course, with the case it's been several months and it's clearly that our i c use are also receiving motivations. so electricity now is more critical than once in rains of triggered landslides. in western india killing at least 35 people flooding left thousands of people stranded with parts of the state and rushed or badly hit. the damn ports have ease, but rescue teams have been struggling to reach areas cut off by the flood waters. indonesia has recorded more than 1500 corona virus,

deaths in 24 hours. that's the new record. it also registered just under $50000.00 infections. the countries become the epicenter of a surgeon cases in se, asia fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. rapidly rising coated 19 cases of lead to a declaration of emergency in the australian states of new south wales, half the country's population has not been put into lockdown. the outbreaks built into other states stay at home orders in sydney. i'll actually to be extended beyond the current end date of july. the 30th the impromptu swearing in of a new government in samoa has been approved by the country's court of appeals. that means the army, naomi mutter offer will be the 1st female prime minister of his polynesian island country after elections. in april, her party held its own swearing in ceremony in may, after members were locked out of the parliament. those are your headlines up next. once upon a time in punch bowl, no news in 30 minutes to the

news. ready i came to us friday from live on to get away from the war that was happening at the time. and that came to restart a life. as a migraine, when i brought the trailer, i, i struggled. it was very difficult. i wanted to give us every data that was in the beginning. i'm like my parents sick for the last 2 decades. lebanese 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 in the root of this multi

culturalism, because that is only dividing a full nation. then after 15 years of immigration from lebanon, anglo and arab australia is divided by the 1st gulf. they are being confronted with a choice between being either arab or restraint is up to now the multicultural story is when you add 1st or strength. i already answered this question. i started citizen stella. and i shouldn't ask about this. john hardesty, 3 tip of the, about the about this in as well. all in the 90900, a tiny criminal minority become drug dealing gang to define the law. these games will be wiped in

2001 kara rhythm rises 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, you know, straight into the middle east and the week and a 1000. we have been in fisher effect for 30 years. the people converged on chronology. what happened on that sunday and chronology is a black all 3 countries in am. i live in a garage. what am i not? i am a stallion. i am living. i am muslin. i'm a mother. i'm a georgia. i'm a child. i'm all that anyone. this is a story of what it's like to be living and call it try me at home. we are

a strategy and, and this is our homeland is where we belong. and this is what we have. me i the 150 police. we've done hundreds across sydney, south west, early this morning, 9 people arrested for a string of bond crimes over the past year. nick 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 keep the bad boys on the streets except what the, what they were 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 criminals are said to be running out of control. punch, bowl banks, town canterbury, la, came back the suburbs, 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, we're making good money and just kill people. it was so easy for them and

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. my family arrived here in the sixties and we probably could have use more of a hand than what we got,

but you make 2 and you get on and you possibly make 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 estrella . i think anybody who says that there is no racism in sydney, australia as they hit in the st. the rules racism and that doesn't contribute to some extent to people being united and people go down the wrong path. in fact, with sydney, the wrong path means gang activity. the politicians order the police to use 0 tolerance, the gangsters get personal threatening offices and their families, central gulf views. the environment was significantly fallen. 11 of these gangs running, destroy it involved public place, shootings, night campaigns,

murders it was in the face, ball and crawl were proud of this money and a proud of the easily gained wealth there with the greatest enemy to a community at that time. and we needed to make a stand against them. wanted to form a partnership between the law abiding citizens and over community. and the new south was police again was criminal elements. a lot of the lebanese young gangsters thought our bigger than i thought that our unbreakable and untouchable. and that's why i tried to intimidate the place to 18 year old, was shot twice in the legs in a pockets punch fall of the weekend. heating 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 a trailer and lebanese to see when you watch games to movies in the and you see all the money in the last. all of those sort of make you want to give that lifecycle growing up in banks town with them. i you known as westy is like many young teenagers with a passion for gangster rap. when you become a teenager, you're always open up to a lot of things and follows 6 drugs in rock'n'roll. and we can direct you to different paths. read the videos and the like cars and blaine and girls and guns. that's the culture that they grew up in. family. okay. grow 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 just to prove you, man, who did a lot of cases, yeah. you show how much you've earned with your cars and, and jewelry and everything else. being on the streets and hanging with my friends sort of did mean identity with everyone starts to know who you are and they start the fees 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 paramita, george basha and his friends also aspire to the glamour of gangster rap. they think it creates, they don't see really say cool, you know, i need to go and you do it and you know, thinking, thinking ahead us thing in the moment,

thought in the moment when he comes from a concern that he is 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 for 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. see, we started smoking marijuana 1st thing we started taking alco, then went to ecstasy, then went to illustrate. then i went to cocaine. and my father decided me though he still showed me mates and i'll tell you future, which is so true. the 3 all went off track because we're all 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 in my twenties when we're in control and a phone call, you can get hands on anything. your name is on from coca tomorrow on or to, to guns, to whatever you want to end up with a phone call, fellow cares. little brother, sam has some run ins with the law and he's lucky to avoid jail. but as a father with a young family, he worries about the drug record evolving in southwest sidney. when you get older and more material, 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 them to say the things that you're saying, you don't want them to do the things 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 on 40 to coast on their communities and we've drunk comes violent. 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 waiting apprentice by day and a d. j at night with the gangsters dominating the streets. he's also the son of a worried mom. he worked each day on all the time. i was writing, i see in the window all the time. i see some cars. i look from the window. if george back home line or not soon he is back home. i feel comfortable eisley. my husband said to me, you're crazy. we solid noise to see in a window a to them because i was want to, he way different places. you know, what's happened day? you know, it was a, some people are drunk,

something might because i was trying to get in a puff that late afternoon joe went to my mom. now gotta find goes, we're going to find tommy, all your friends 40 for his life. when ospital you want to be and yes me is just being a little more to pull him and nave, lead him up and he's falling off. he will not make it the thought of your friend, the lame and hospital shoes come from all ivy's body. i remember a coin was very the way the cry and so i turned away and then i went home and sleep couldn't sleep 9. i'm thinking 4 kids and then he said, that's me. what for westy and his teenage crew,

the big life lessons are still to come. for them, drugs and petty crime go hand in hand 16 to make money on to to puff of doing crime. majority of those kids penance. a 1st generation they came in from lebanon and they didn't have much control over that kids activity and 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 thing. so i 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 fund a lot of casual mutual fund. juries you'll find, you know, she started uncovering things, bit by bit. and so she start asking me when you get to law found to make some excuse. but she knew all was doing long things. ah, and for with these dad there's only one response physical violence more father tried to discipline me in that form, but it really doesn't work when you have someone it just makes them rebuild. ah. and in the mid to late 19 ninety's. this is where many rebellious lebanese tains find a drug supplies. to be a straight punch bowl. this quiet family enclave becomes the illegal drug

distribution center for south way sidney. to be street was renee on 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 the until i piece trade, looking for dealers to have them supply drugs to people going to the store. it was actually the same as any fast food outside the ago. they still put firestick in to get to officially it's only a handful of dealers, but they terrorized the strange directly linked to formatted and 25 shootings. this was the korea they tried. they continued on a tradition of other people who had revolved and organized chrome,

and some of those young men knew nothing. gills bought to be criminals. unfortunately, there was a well founded fear at that 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 to stand up and give evidence as a witness against some of those cron gigs cuz our volunteer. and as we saw later on, i would shoot and kill people who they thought were going to give evidence against the for the hello p, a straight gangsters, pan guns, a part of everyday life drug drug dealings and carrying guns. do i go hand in hand on people protecting itself? i guess. and unfortunately, a gun culture certainly has come into prominence over the guns as supplied by crooked gun dealers. and it's the beginning of illegal

international gun import 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. they 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 em sills. making sure that on the cover are pretty so down the street . identify that as you're responsible for selling 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 and 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 itself. 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 were not as engaged as we could have been as a relationship with the police becomes increasingly fractured. christian and muslim families are grouped by crime and an epidemic that steals their children. a lot of 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 they've had and didn't know how to deal

with. it 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, or leaving 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 of them 3 times they wouldn't listen for of pull out on life and lined up for being all 3 of them, which 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 him of the woods. he's arrested and convicted of robbery and serves a year in jail with 2 years parole and back on to lo p, a straight punchbowl to violent drug trade force 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 a people already reeling are about to be demonized. a 14 year old

korean school boy is stabbed when he walked into the wrong front yard. by mistake. edward and full friends, a job pulled up their cars. 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 why he looked so i stopped him. it wasn't good for the community, but it's sort of fitting with a pattern of life around punch ball at the time. shootings, and they kept things. 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 won't have to find who did it for the for the dental have

me. i think in some ways the minute of edward lee and to live yes. street focused a whole lot of media and public attention on the street and on the on, on staff with sidney. they were murdered women. they were out of people who were killed in very tragic circumstances. but they didn't sort of grabbed the like, 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 a community. and all those associated with. i tell mom, trying to flag for her nation has been putting in play crickets on what be country between my dream play in the world. wow. providing for her family ways. waiting game. that's my

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