sunday is the first day of meteorological autumn. and for the the headlines: early days of september it will feel there have been more violent clashes a little on the chilly side. we have in hong kong between police and protesters after tens a little on the chilly side. we have of thousands of people defied a ban a band of cloud that swept across to march through the city. the country yesterday. it is behind police confirmed two officers fired live rounds into the air that that we are drawing in a cooler during operations to clear fresher air on a north—westerly protesters from the streets. tens of thousands of people have held demonstrations across the uk breeze and that will bring some more in protest at prime minister boris showers, particularly across johnson's decision to suspend northern ireland and scotland parliament for five weeks overnight. in between those showers in the run up to brexit. there is still a chance of catching the government insists it's acting properly, there is still a chance of catching the northern lights were northern but critics say it's an attempt areas. further south across the uk to bypass democracy. we will have some longer clear skies. with that cooler air coming hurricane dorian has strengthened down temperatures will drop away and to a category 4 storm, threatening to cause it will be chillier than it was last catastrophic damage to the bahamas. night. 7—9d in towns and cities, a storm surge and winds in excess of 200km/h cooler than that in rural areas. a could directly hit sunny start for many parts of the islands within hours. england and wales. scattered showers forecasters say it's likely to skirt florida's east coast for a while in northern ireland, early next week. heavy thunder everyone's pushing eastwards a cross heavy thunder everyone's pushing eastwards across scotland and northern england and down towards the wash. very few showers for the midlands, no chance of staying dry

now on bbc news, charlotte callen in southern england with temperatures sneaking up to 20 investigates an innovative scheme degrees. further north with the showers it is a cool 15 or 16 but at developed by avon and somerset police that uses mentoring and education to help least it will not be as windy on young drug dealers break out of a life of crime. sunday. those heavy showers should clear away from eastern areas. another band of cloud and showers pushing through northern ireland and the heading towards scotland. some brea ks the heading towards scotland. some breaks overnight and another chilly one, particularly in north—eastern just like scavengers, basically. scotla nd one, particularly in north—eastern scotland where temperatures could be down to about three degrees or so. we used to walk around and rob people. and hurt them? into the new week and we will replace the north—westerly wind with mild, cloudy west south—westerly yeah, if they don't give us the money. wind. around the area of the frontline, there was a time high—pressure feeding in those that the police couldn't weather systems piling in the rain even drive down there good. again for north—western areas to get and we would be mad dogging england and wales probably a dry them as well, like... what are you going to do? start, chilly was sunshine, clouding over a bit more from the west. we do you know what i am trying to say? have rain coming into northern ireland, pushing into scotland, into so i think that put us number one cumbria with some wet weather over the hills late in the day. 15 on the police‘s hit list. degrees in glasgow, 22 in london in clinton wilson, known as king aggi. the south—east. a touch warmer on monday. the sort of weather pattern

the aggi crew were a group really for monday into tuesday, we of friends from east bristol still have the brisk wind off the who grew up to become violent atlantic, a lot of weather front on the scene but essentially northern and dangerous criminals. and western areas will have most of the cloud. a better chance of the police couldn't grab me catching some rain and that rank off this road here. could be heavy again over western i would stand right here parts of scotland. very little if with my back to them, any rain through the midlands, east anglia and the south—east and temperatures north of those on like this, but they ain't running monday. in the middle of the week in, because if they grab me, the wind direction will change again all of them is running it. so we've got a problem. with high pressure to the west of because you were such a tight group? the uk, drawing down coolerfresher because we were such a tight group. more north—westerly wind bringing sunshine and some showers. the aggi crew ruled the crack cocaine market in bristol with intimidation and violence. but when clinton wilson's criminal empire crashed around him, he lost most of his adult life to prison. but 20 years on, bristol is still the crack capital of england. now, clinton wants to stop other young people getting involved in drug dealing, ending up in prison or worse. you have to understand these kids nowadays. they are running around with swords, but i know that they don't know that if they stab you, you are going to die.

new figures show that 100 people have been fatally stabbed so far welcome to bbc news. this year in the uk. i'm simon pusey. greater manchester police says that it is increasing efforts our top stories: to tackle knife crime... detectives have launched a mass shooting at two locations a murder investigation in texas leaves five dead after an 18—year—old man was stabbed and many more injured. police describe the lone in birmingham last night. u police officers have held talks running battles and brutal violence with the home secretary to discuss in hong kong in some of the worst clashes yet the problem of knife crime... between police and protesters. tonight, we start with the scourge of knife crime sweeping england. it is the very centre drug dealers don't just flood of hong kong, and look at it. our streets with crack and heroin, they warned them not to protest today. they are also carrying knives the government buildings under siege to assert their control. but is prison always the answer? and it is complete mayhem. police in bristol have another idea. french formula 2 driver anthoine hubert is killed they have named it the call in, in a high—speed crash it is risky at the belgian grand prix. but they hope it may save lives tens of thousands take and keep some young to the streets across britain people out of prison. to protest against prime minister borisjohnson's decision what i do see is an awful waste to suspend parliament. of talent and bright young and bearing down on the bahamas — individuals that have turned to criminality. what can we do them — might do to hurricane dorian threatens catastrophic damage. stop them offending? that is what the principle

is all about. go to court and both present or go ona go to court and both present or go on a six—month course to break out ofa on a six—month course to break out of a cycle of crime. it goes further than any other uk police force as before. clinton is using his experience to reinforce the message that crime doesn't pay. the young people have been given access to education, apprenticeships, even driving lessons, with the hope that they will get a job and a legal means of making money. the police also hope that it will cut violent crime on our streets. but will it work, or will these people who have had a very difficult upbringing be lured back to their bad ways?

we've lost our last three games because all we can hear is clint. we are fifth, but that ain't good enough, we're better than that. these days, the only shooting clinton wilson is involved in comes on the football pitch. but in the 1990s, he was the leader of the aggi crew, one of the most feared gangs in the country. it started the same as probably most of the gangs in the ghettos, just me and two of my friends. you know what i mean? we were just going around doing badness on the streets, getting up to boys mischief, really and truly. lots of robberies, just trying to make money. we was the tightest gang that bristol has ever seen, definitely. we loved each other, that was the main thing. so, everybody knew that

they were safe, as in, nobody couldn't trouble us without repercussions. the relationship between the police and the community in st pauls was difficult. attempts to enforce the law had resulted in the infamous uprising of 1980. and more violence six years later, during a raid on the black and white cafe, the hub of drug dealing on the frontline. distrust of the authorities was passed through generations, and as the ‘80s became the ‘90s, many young people in st pauls still felt they lacked opportunities. why didn't you just go and get a job, you were 16, go and get a properjob like everyone else? when i was 15, 16, i was offered jobs, i used to cut hair and i was wicked at barbering, but all i was being offered as a young one was yts. i was making more money than yts when i was 13, 111. yts was £25 a week at the time.

yeah, so, in my eyes, i ain't do no yts for two years, £25 a week, work every day. in a ghetto youth's mind, that's wasting time, because you can't live on £25 a week, and more to the point, you're worth more than £25 a week. so, the way the aggi crew decided to get money was to take it from other people, even if that meant using violence, something clinton now regrets. we was prepared to do anything to everybody. everyday when they were going out to do things, it was about how much money we could get and bring back, that was it. but it became clear that there were more lucrative moneymaking opportunities in st pauls than street robbery. i bought a 16th of crack, which was £100 then, i made ten stones out of that 16th. i got a phone call

and it was a mate, he said, "yeah, there is some girl at the bottom of the road, "ohe wants one of those things, isn't it?" so i left the bedsits, walked up the road, came back with 20 quid. you have to think that before this, we might be out all day for £20. there has been days when we have robbed four or five people and got a fiver between ten of us. the aggi crew were already well—known to the authorities for their robberies, but they soon became the main players in bristol's class a drug market. and when the occasional £20 sale of a rock of crack had developed into a multimillion—pound business, there was no bigger target for the police. bristol saw the effects of the crack and heroin epidemic land within its city. so as a result, there was a fairly significant drug market, which resulted in violence on the streets. that was from a range of murder, to violence and a significant amount of assaults. gary askins, who runs the call in for avon

and somerset police, was an officer in east bristol when the gang was at its peak. and the drug war on his patch saw guns being carried by both sides. to comment on the level of violence that the aggi crew and other gangs posed, it resulted in armed police being deployed in the city. and that was the first time an english force had done that? i believe it was, yeah. we had guns, i am not going to lie. but we'd only take the gun out if we were going to shoot somebody. so, you shot people? people have been shot, yeah. by you? i shot nobody, no. this area would be full up with people, mainly outside here, outside the cafe. which one was the cafe? this one. the police hoped that getting the aggi crew off the front line would give them the opportunity to stop the scourge of crack cocaine

that was blighting the area. but clinton thinks differently. if i need this line today, there ain't no less drugs being sold out here, i ain'tjust not selling it. trust me, there ain't no taking me and drugs off no road. no, no, no, no, no. all they're doing is stopping my money, they're not stopping no drugs. the users are not going to go, oh, he's locked up, let's not smoke drugs no more. they don't, they come down here the same way, they don't have to see me, they will see another guy. they didn't take no drugs off the road by locking me up, trust me. what you did here meant you went to prison for ten years? yeah. more? more than that because i have done two of them. how much did that change your life? dramatically. do you know what i mean? because that's a long time. the first time i went was seven years, the second time i went was five years, so that's 12 years off your life.

obviously, anybody loses 12 years, it is going to change them, do you know what i mean? but ijust grew up anyway, to be honest. i wouldn't say prison rehabilitated me and taught me new skills and taught me how to think differently or nothing like that, i done that all myself. prison didn't teach me nothing, it was just wasting my time. for many gang members, trying to breakfree is near impossible. clinton spent many years in prison, some of his friends are still inside and will be for the rest of their lives. but one former member of the aggi crew paid the ultimate price. he was murdered in december 2017. too many young men losing their lives, there's too many families having to go through what we have experienced. clinton lost a friend that day.

leila powell lost her brother and solomon powell lost his son. jama powell was stabbed. do you think his death might actually be a warning to some people? i think that probably made a couple of people put their knife in their pocket the next day. do you worry that you might be next, that you might be a target? yeah, of course, but i'm not going to stop walking on the street or stop coming out of the house, do you know what i am trying to say? this is what you will live with, these are the things you've got to live with.

nothing will bring that young man back. i met with the parents, i saw the absolute distress that they had gone through. what words could i say as a police officer that would make things right? you can always say we will do our best. whatever words i said would never be enough, and i think the community have stood back and realised that enough is enough, and thankfully, now the communities of east bristol are pulling together. they've always been a very tight community, but i think the death ofjama really resonated across that area. i am just crying for peace right now really in bristol among the youth. i have got a son, he is seven, if you think about the younger ones, their future, what is going to happen. it's really sad. we don't want this happening

on a regular basis, to see people come mourning a life because of knife crime, it is so sad. clinton fears going back to chris — risen so he says he has put his lifestyle behind him. he wants young people promised a life of easy money for selling crack or heroin to think again. if somebody came to me and said, look, you don't have to go to jail. i know you did that, a mistake, you know what i mean, but we can maybe do something through certain things, you can get around that. one of the mentoring schemes used is cold in. like clinton, clayton grew

up cold in. like clinton, clayton grew up in east bristol he chose a different path that make path in life. i remember looking at the aggi crew and clinton when i was younger, he was leader of the group. i realised these guys were doing things the wrong way but they had leadership. he had something about him. for him to do what he did at that young age, i realised people in the corporate industry were doing things in the right way but exactly the same things. looking at somebody from the street like clinton, he has the product, the drugs. he has his crew. the corporate has a team. he is the boss man. the corporate has the manager. they make money, lose money. corporate people, profit and loss. street people go to prison, or you in the corporate industry you go bankrupt and lose theirjob. what i've realised is if you have the right mentor and have the right belief, you can achieve anything. surround yourself with those people. these kids are not too far gone, they are not.

they are talking about positive things, you know what i'm trying to say? the future, they are chatting about the future, which they probably don't really do very often to be honest. all brainstorming together, coming up with good ideas. it's like a rotating door, and there's no point sending them to prison when they don't have skills to come back out and survive anyway. like myself. you end up going back and forth, back and forth, until in the end out here becomes probably a lot harder to live in than inside. what would success look like for the call in? one man who has turned his life around is roger moore, who went through the street to boardroom programme a couple of years ago. he had a long immigration struggle and didn't have the right to work in the uk so ended up selling drugs just to make some money. getting involved in that is risk. for some people it's life and death. i thought at the time

i didn't have a choice. because you couldn't get a normaljob? i couldn't get a normaljob so i couldn't depend on my mum. i'm a big man, what do i do? it's not something i wanted to do or glorify or i was proud of, but i didn't know another way to make a living, so unfortunately i had to get involved in that for a while until things changed. it was only when the situation escalated that roger realised he needed to get out of that way of life. someone pulled a gun on me and that put things in perspective for me. i sort of dropped it immediately after that situation. it was easy for me to let it go because i saw what that lifestyle leads to. either prison or the grave, and i didn't want either of those things. after attending a street to boardroom course and receiving guidance and support from clayton and his expert mentors, roger has achieved his dream

of opening his own caribbean restaurant in bristol. i think it needs to be as easy to get involved in business and learn trade and entrepreneurship as it is easy to pick up a knife, as easy as it is to get involved in drugs or any criminal activity. there needs to be doors that are open for people of my background. when you look at roger moore, he came from the course and he is a bastion for street to boardroom. he is believable, you're not talking about it, they can see it. he is the ceo of his own restaurant. gary wants to see roger's success story replicated by other young people facing similar challenges. given those that have committed a crime an opportunity to see the misjudgement they have made. giving them the tools within their toolkit, giving them a mentor and some guidance, put them in key, mandatory courses with clayton and people like that,

so they can see the error of their ways and perhaps understand crime isn't always the way. give them the opportunity, how to apply for a job and seek further education. give them basic life skills that perhaps were not available at the time. young kids all across the country are getting involved in drug dealing and gangs and some of them are carrying knives. tonight i have come to an inner city bristol youth project to meet a young boy called zac. he is only 11; but he has already been in trouble with the police. we have changed his name and voice to protect his identity. how did you get involved in drug dealing in the first place? i know people take drugs. it's just easy. i know where to get it from, from weed to heroin, crack, cocaine, pills. ijust wanted to make quick change, quick money.

why was it so easy? because coming from the place i come from, it's just one of those things you are supposed to know, are expected to know. when you say coming from the place like you've come from, talk to me about your life. places where there is like poverty, drug addicts, single mothers, everything. what kind of things have you been through in your life. you are only 111. i've experienced family members being killed, my dad being injail, family members being injail, being poor. what kind of things were going on in yourfamily? you talked about your cousin who was shot. what happened and how did you feel?

some people came to his house and shot him. it was sad when i heard about it, but then after i was like, ijust got on with it. it was just normal. what kind of things have you been offered to sell drugs? hundreds, thousands of pounds. zac says he doesn't carry a knife but he knows people that do. he says the reason is they do are not what the media would have you believe. they are making out young people look like theyjust carry knives because they just want to hurt people, sort of thing, or that they are troubled or crazy. it's not really like that, to be honest, no. so why are young people carrying knives in the way that they were not before? i don't know, for protection, i don't know. i can't speak on the past generation

but it's just for protection. how easy do you think it would be to get away from the drugs and the money and the danger and say, i can be a 14—year—old and i can live a safer life? all i know is just being in the streets. i don't know, like, i can't see myself working a normal nine to five. but i can see myself doing stuff that's wrong. which is obviously kind of messed up, but... when you meet zac you realise just how young these kids are. he's 11; and at school, yet he talks about knives and guns and murder is as if they are all

just completely normal. it makes you wonder what he will be like when he is say, 16, 18, and whether projects like the call in are simply too late for him. for so many different reasons people make the wrong decision in life. and they get a criminal conviction. so what we have done in bristol east is trying to think of a number of diversion schemes that will stop people making that wrong decision that will either end up in their injury or a criminal conviction or could ultimately end up in somebody's death. the knife carrying issue is not going away. we still continue to have one too many young people injured from violence and knife—related criminality. what would you say to the people you hurt? because they want a sorry from you. i would say i'm very, very sorry. definitely, to the people i hurt, the people i robbed, even. it wasn't theirfault,

you know what i mean. how important is it people like clinton are involved in trying to help other young people? my personal opinion, it is hugely important because for somebody like clinton to come forward and say crime hasn't paid for him, isn't that a lesson for everybody who takes that journey? i would love to try and change some stuff around bristol. just to help the youth, give them some insight into this thing, the real thing. find the real thing. help them from being in gangs, yeah, fighting about nothing and going to prison. i just believe that enough of these kids are doing this thing because they are scared. street to boardroom, we broke that down real quick. that's what it's about, a mentality, nothing else. that's what we are trying to change. if you can change the mentality,

you change a whole heap of things in this area. some people will question whether these young people should be given a second chance. they have committed the crime, so they should do the time. but the police say one mistake shouldn't define the rest of their lives. we know that one person on the call in has already been kicked off for reoffending. it's now down to the others to take this opportunity and break free from a life of crime. could this be a real answer to the problems we've got with knife crime and gangs and young people? i think it will make a difference. but i'm invested into it so i'm naturally biased towards it. ultimately for me, the risk is we allow that young people to go back to prison, and be criminals again. or do we invest in that person.

to stop them committing crime — prisons don't pay. don't get me wrong, i have met people in prison where i think, they should be in prison and they shouldn't be let out. there are people in the world like this. but the majority of people you meet, they have just gone down the wrong path and don't know what to do. if we get one success then it's worth investing into. for me to take that one young person who could be a victim or perpetrator, but to give that young person an opportunity is surely a successful story. if i could help one guy, just one of them, then have i not 00:26:34,687 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 done something good?