i don't think from what i we're going to patrol on the other side. some of the men carry guns. let it after 5 minutes then reach a central square. mall. because i was already doing over there in london along with a lot of hands up turn around the other times when we were thrown from the valleys of. this is. going to go about what you got to get out i don't want to go search the pockets of ordinary check their shoes or look at them. and their problems are not on your own or rather because of the focus of. the boys had drugs on the. it's part of the one. where did you get runs for. luke abt you know. put them on top don't smoke that crap around here i mean look

even from the government who would be a little. sorry to force the same idiocy. we won't do it again. get out of here. cannabis is a banned substance in guatemala. alan confiscate the drugs and sends the 3 boys home. half an hour later they spot 2 more suspects. we don't want to see with his crap again get out of here. but 2 teenagers were smoking joints. they quickly disappear. at the edge of the neighborhood allen's group meets another patrol.

at this checkpoint anyone who wants to enter budesonide night has to identify themselves. with everything ok. the local residents have installed 5 checkpoints like this one they control who enters the neighborhood. the strategy seems to be working as the area has become safer. but sometimes the gangs do find a way and. in july 2803 men attacked a delivery van leaving 3 people injured because of the attack was filmed by a surveillance camera. one of the attackers sent a message to allen's vigilante group. having a safe neighborhood comes at a cost. in just 3

years 5 members of the vigilante groups have been murdered by the moderates. on the day of one funeral the other members fire their weapons in honor of the dead. tom. thanks to the nighttime patrols peace has returned to the neighborhood. on the streets of the capital empty in the evening no one in but he's to rush home . the store stay open after dark and residents walk the streets without fear. of. such a welcome development for business owners to prove that. they keep the criminals

away. either because it is everyone here happy about it and it was. yes everyone's happy when we all stick together there aren't any problems. but the security guarantee isn't free. business owners have to pay around $4.00 heroes per week to have their stores protected. in some accuse the vigilantes themselves of running a protection racket. but the amount is only a fraction of what the modest demand plus there is now peace. because the state is incapable of protecting its citizens they've taken the law into their own hands. and it's likely to stay that way for a long time to come. a modest continue to recruit members not difficult in a country where more than half of the population lives in poverty. young people

with no prospects find a new family in the form of the gangs. and they're happy to embrace the notorious lobby of. the crazy life of violence robbery and murder. who are these young people. we meet with mario our intermediary. he describes himself as a former gang member. he still maintains close contact with some members of particular 18. yeah that's me i'm by the corner but on the hurry up it's getting late. and yes i'll wait for you having. this. 15 minutes after the call 4 young men pull up in a car. sale

euless at 1st they're suspicious and i don't know but after a half hour or intermediary is able to convince them to talk to us for the interview we follow them to a nearby squat. 2 women and 4 men live here in a simple dwelling in a back yard. they're all around 20 years old. he says. because of the years boy's death when your kids are at. this. for these for becoming a gang member is a childhood dream come true yes you know that oh it was going to be a good omen for us if you got it well let me tell you when you join the gang things

are good they give you clothes food and lots of money to do anything as possible when body 018 supports your body through the night a little is a only a little for sure we love the gang that's why we do everything the ball sunsets. and by then most of the money away it was. just a few years they've risen through the ranks of their gang from mere helpers to contract killers. to. the dozen but. we always carry a gun for protection thinking about it but i get out we can shoot anyone the minute we get the order. we don't ask why. it was you know my friend i have a lot of guns i have one of them here. i guess what type of gun is it. isn't a 9 millimeter. and that's the

deal here. that. the young men seem happy with their gangster lifestyle almost and i just think that. there's more than a little fatalism in their voices for one that isn't how do you see your future. your know to be honest i don't believe in having a future in the quarter that is going i know that i risk my life every day i live in the here and now that's what matters. to. not be it's almost like i'm so that life will suffer more because life of risk and adventure club you know look. for most young men like them one of 2 fates awaits them prison or premature death. hardly anyone manages to escape the clutches of the gangs. one person who did lives in la he will

not. it's one of the most violent 5 bailiffs in guatemala city. here we meet next gang member christiane. the 28 year old is a paraplegic and lives with his parents. one day in 2010 christiane's lobby loka came to an abrupt end. he was robbing a bus when he was shot in the spine. being in a gang has taken everything from him except his life. maybe i was seeking refuge with him. i liked the way they dressed. i wanted to be like them. i never imagined a joining a gang would bring me some many problems in my. life and.

bring one for your wife to. christiane has left barrio 18 he now works as a tattoo artist a skilled profession that had earned him respect in the past. looking at these colors i couldn't quite get the same result for you it will be dark a year and completely black that. some of his customers are also former members who now want to get rid of their gang affiliation tattoos. i used to have diamonds and stars the diamonds formed a figure right i covered them up with roses. i had to cover up the tattoos so that people would no longer identify me with the gang. you know represent that is some

people change their tattoos and. some even burn them you know the rules. so christiane's tattoos are a way to overwrite one part of a brutal past. and that's not the only thing he does to challenge the games so. every sunday he joins his father and the rest of the family in the kitchen. to make lunch for children in the neighborhood. on the menu today. fried chicken with potatoes and salad. christiane and his father want to offer the children an alternative a few hours respite from the violence on the streets.

they're still waiting for 2 of the children to arrive because. it's a moment of humanity the teachers the children something important they don't have to be a gang member to have friends. or the funny remember that. one of the children here is hot he told you i know his father from the old days. he died when hockey toll was very young. one day hot utah came up to me and said. i want to be a killer like my dad. always a look at that's exactly what we want to avoid that the children follow the bad example of their father's love you look at the you know males we want to foster the good in. this in that ideology. efforts by citizens in the state to secure peace. seem to be bearing fruit. the murder rate in

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this is d.w. news live from berlin thousands detained as police crackdown on m t putin protests across russia huge crowds turned out in moscow i'm told their city is demanding the release of the jailed kremlin critic plexi his wife is among those held also on the program. france tightens its laws on incest after a new book has sparked national outrage president or manual maicon says that children must feel better protected and files that abusers will be tracked down.

and in sports honestly the highlights coming up as underdogs minds pulled off an on likely win against title hopefuls leipsic in a 5 goals for. m pablo foley s welcome to the program police in russia have detained thousands of demonstrators at the biggest mass protests seen for decades government opponents are demanding the release of the jailed opposition leader alexina valmy he was detained when he returned to moscow from germany after hospital treatment following an assassination attempt wife yulia is among those arrested huge crowds joined at nationwide protests against official corruption and these detention. with chance of putin as a thief and freedom for the volney thousands of demonstrators rallied throughout

russia. and government officials say at least $4000.00 people gathered in moscow as pushkin sky is square. independent observers put the number at more than 10 times that. police detained participants on mass at the unsanctioned demonstration. amongst those who were bundled into police vans were election of on his wife yulia . and prominent supporters of the opposition leader like his aide. the jailed opposition leader called for the demonstrations after he was arrested at a moscow airport and quickly sentenced to 30 days in jail. what for many of the demonstrators today's protests were about more than free no. janja is the word no we are not for nirvana or against putin i don't care who's in charge i just want to live like a human being that's it like a human being like

a normal person that's it that's why i'm here today. most organizers didn't apply for permits expecting they wouldn't be granted and ahead of the protests authorities warn security forces would be deployed citing concerns about the covert pandemic. going to. refrain from participating. i have to warn you that law enforcement agencies will ensure that the necessary order is kept in the city. but to. arrest were made in cities large and small across the country as part of the largest opposition action in years. and alexina of all these anti corruption foundation is calling on its supporters to prepare for another wave of protests next week and. now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the spanish coast

guards have rescued 36 migrants from the atlantic and transferred them to the island of guam kind of via the group included 3 children hundreds of refugees from north africa have landed on the carry out and in recent days many have been rescued by emergency services. at least 9 people are dead after a powerful storm hit the port city of beirut in mozambique most were killed by falling trees so i clone and always caused less damage than feared but heavy rainfall could still bring serious flooding over the coming days. many bars and restaurants in the czech republic have opened their doors in protest of coronavirus restrictions nationwide lockdown measures have kept most catering i have lots closed since last october dozens joined the protest called by an anti shutdown action group called the dog is dead. now drug maker astra zeneca has come in for scathing criticism after announcing delays in delivering its

covert 19 vaccines the british swedish company is blaming its suppliers for a drastic short folds in supplies promised to the european union health authorities already struggling to vaccinate their populations are furious. pharmaceutical company nova sept recently hired more than 100 new work as the company is collaborating with astra zeneca are on the production and supply of key substances and their corona virus vaccine media reports say this is west some of the issues that led to the delivery problems occurred in a surprise announcement astra zeneca said 60 percent of its promised deliveries would not be made after all e.u. health commissioner kariya keady s. was outraged and the e.u. commission and member states have expressed their deep dissatisfaction saying we insisted on a precise delivery schedule so that member states could plan their vaccination

programs which is swedish company astra zeneca is not planning to cut supplies to the u.k. i'm really angry with this company. i think the last word is not yet spoke you know they announced that in the u.k. supply will continue as planned but because there is a supply chain issue at the european continent they will cut the supply in the european union by 60 percent this is completely unacceptable we have a contract the european commission has a contract and they should fulfill and when there is a problem everybody should be refused and not other parts of the world continue to supply the german health ministry refused to comment on the company's possible preferential treatment of the u.k. if the supply cut goes ahead the e.u. will have only 31000000 vaccine doses available instead of 80000000 in the 1st

quarter. ireland has announced it will have to postpone its mass vaccination rollout as a result italy is considering a little seat. france is to tighten its laws on incest a new book accusing a top political commentator of abusing his stepson has stirred up a national outrage thousands of victims of childhood sexual abuse have come forward in recent weeks to tell their stories president in one year on my cause says abusers will be persecuted and children must be better protected. i know today it is up to us to act very mean with it we must never accept it we must do everything we can to stop the violence against our children from listening to them and looking out for every possible sign on and off. well our reporter and shorter is here with more on this story so welcome to the show what has

a president my called promised to change exactly well he wants to make the laws in fronts different to be able to protect children from sexual abuse from family members and what he's doing is he's also the justice minister to start a consultation process and that's to change the current laws it's not clear whether it's just changing the laws or changing the whole judicial process that a sexual abuse survivor has to go through in order to get justice against the person who abused them he's also suggest he also wants to make it easier for victims to get psychological help so he said that victims can recoup the costs of that death or a-p. through the french social system and why is this coming about now and well if it's to do with the book a book came out at the beginning of january it was written by a woman who is really part of one of france's powerful families she's part of the

french leave her name is camille krishna and she has father was a french politician and her stepfather. she was a he is a political commentator he's a constitutional specialist in this book she accuses her stepfather of sexually abusing her twin brother when they were just 14 and as a result of this book they are allegations that she's made in the book olivia hasn't faced a trial. yet but as a result he is he stepped down from a position at a top university in france and a president mccrone is promising to listen to the victims and survivors of abuse and in the video message he put out heaves really on the side of the victims wanting to listen to them more as a take a listen to his sound bite that was going to be some of you have been freed of

a burden of shame that you have carried for too long because you wanted to be free but sometimes has a tainted i just want to tell you that if we are here we are listening to you he will never be alone again we believe you. were caught well tell us a little bit more about how this case has resulted in many victims taking to social media actually well there have been a lot of people sharing their stories of their own childhood sexual abuse on social media under the hash tag need to incest and some of the stories range from just a couple of lines saying who abused them maybe not naming a name but saying the ages that that they were abused and some of these these ages with child sit things like child sexual abuse that will was so shocking 5 years old 7 years old it really does break your heart to read things like this but oppressive

mccraw he was saying that shame is really shifting sides so the shame is now on the perpetrators the victims are coming forward and telling their stories a very difficult story thanks for bringing about it to us on a shorter. well moving on now and it's time for some sports news and in the bundesliga at leipsic suffered a shock defeat 2 minds coached by goldman leipsic headed into the fixture 2nd in the table while their opponents were 2nd from bottom with just one win to their name it sees. like 6 union argos man was worried about his opponent's unpredictability ahead of his side's trip to mites and few indeed would have expected this game to unfold as it did. when muscles a bit so lashed a speculative drive on to the crossbar tyler adams was there to mock up the rebound the 15th minute lead for 2nd place like see nothing out of the ordinary but 2nd

from bottom minds produced a rapid response another rebound saw the home so i drew level looser and you got a punishing peter good luck in the lights go. 6 minutes later the favorites were back in front thanks to moscow house and bird's 2nd goal of the season. but only 5 more minutes had elapsed when you say back to his 2nd goal of the game to level the school's once more. like jake again failing to deal with a simple set piece leaving a load to tap in from 2 metres out not those months men were held to a frustrating 1st half stalemate and a half time rest bite would be short lived. the hosts came tearing out of the blocks in the 2nd half and in the 50th minute they released. this time the goal came from open play new loan signing danny de costa dons passed house in bag before liam drogba rewrote the good action to the cross the 21 year old's 1st ever put

this league a goal sending his club on the way to a huge victory. for stunned leipsic could find no reply and mines dug in and held on to complete only their 2nd win of the season and their 1st under new coach post vincent. us broadcasting legend larry king has died of covert 19 he was 87 in a career spanning 60 years the chat channel veteran became one of the most recognizable faces on television and he interviewed everyone and was. my name is larry king and this is the premier edition of larry king live that's a camera larry king sat down with persons of celebrities during his career from world leaders to stars of television. on the silver screen orders one or more favors them over time never would larry king is when he interviewed marlon brando and marlon brando gave him

a kiss on the now i never forgot that that was a wow i'll get that after. the bye. in a career spanning decades king created and let's memorable television moments he sets himself apart what seemingly innocuous questions that's often true revealing responses from his side profile guests works the easiest thing that i do he once sat on his relaxed interviews one how many admirers it's time it was just to get it done there's a. fine to getting things even though he may be already many parts of it you know he always says that. for larry king his interview subjects were the true stars of his programs he was just there to connect them with the audience i don't know what to say except to you. my audience.

thank you and instead of goodbye. all right then the show coming up next after a short break reporter on location joins protesting indian farmers heading to town for me in the respite team here in berlin take care and see you soon. don't miss our highlights w. program. w dot com highlights. look closely. carefully. soon too.