>> welcome to glglobal 3000. today, we visit a school in jasthan whwhere child bridides e defying trtradition and d learg to lead inindependent lives. we go to the u.s., where the love of guns is often passed down from parents to children. and we h head to southth afri, where a local pastor wants to end gang warfare in the townships of cape town. ♪ apartheid may have been abolished 25 years ago, but life

remains extremely tough for south africa's black majority. millions live in poverty and unemployment is the harsh reality for almost 60% of young people. a hot bed for violence and crime. recent crime statistics registered 20,000 murders a year, the equivalent of 56 a day. the townships of cape town's cape flats region are not far from popular tourist areas. and life there is dominated by violence. there are many young men with few opportunities in life and a lot of weapons. in some districts, the death rate is akin to that of war zones. [gunshot >> it's beenen likened t to ar zo, wiwith0 fatalitities a month, evevery month. dozensns of gangs fighting for susupremacy anand territory ine poverty-striricken townships f

cape town, most imimportantly r controrol of the n ncotics mark. crystal meth and heroin have become a serious and deadly business. [screaming] > the e cape flats arerea has onoe of thehe highest homomicide ratn the planetet. it lies thehe shadow ofof tab mountainin, and is j just a few miles away frorom the city's's downtown area. among the victims, alcardo andrews. he was shot dead because he refused to join the local gang. his son levi was only five when it happened. >> i just heard shots go off, and thenen people raran out ty mom's house. and i saw that my daddy was shot.

>> he told me that they wanted to kill him. the e guys were calling. but i couldn't understand, becaususe he was so peacaceful. he said, "mom, if anything happens to me, remember that i never signed up as a gang member." >> alcardo andrews' mother insists his murder could have been prevented. in other parts of the world, he might have been able to ask the police for help. but here, say locals, the authorities gave up the fight for law and order years ago. but there is a team dedicated to taking up that fight, led by local pastor craven engel. they've installed microphones and cameras in the hanover park and manenberg neighborhoods, enablingng them to see and her whenever there's a shooting. they typically occur around three times a day. instead of waiting for the police, the group prefers hitting the strereets themselv. they have their own approach and strategy.

>> this is not arresting someone and putting them in prison. he's going to come out again. he's got full access in prison to promote vioiolence outside. so putting him in prison is not really helping. >> at shooting scenes, members of the organization try to negotiate a peaceful resolution. today, the streets are quiet. the pastor has worked out a temporary cease-fire between rival gangs in the area. the pastor is a respected figure, as are his team, most of whom have criminal records themselves. like wilfred mckay. he did his first stint in jail aged 12, and acquired his first gun when he was 14. he specialized in armed robbery until hehe decided to turn his life around. >> that was my main thought -- i want to be a daddy for my child. that was my whole reason for changing. afterwards, i realized i can also be a daddy for others in this street. that's my main aim, to be there for somebody else also.

>> with the cease-fire in place, people feel safe to go outside again, including children. many of them had grown too scared to go to school. today, the pastor and his team have arranged a very important meeting. he's invited one of the local gang bosses to his home. the man calls himself "the lord," and tells us he has no problem being filmed. he's eager to emphasize his good relations with the pastor. but the police, he says, don't get much respect here. then he expresses an opinion you wouldn't expect a hardened criminal to hold. >> some countries give you death penalty, in some countries t ty kill the people. but not in the cape e flats. if there were something like that, the people would be scared to kill someone. >> suddenly the police pull up outside. but the self-proclaimed "lord" sees no reason to call off the

meeting. maybe he knew that they'd drive off again just a few minutes later. ♪ >> local people have been calling on the police to finally clamp down on gang violence. levi and his grandmother are taking part in an anti-gang warfare demonstration that takes them right through downtown cape town. and here, the police are present in numbers. they'd prefer it if the protesters had stayed in their own neighbhood. but the police force is reportedly understaffed, leading some to suggest deploying other means of control. >> army persons standing on something, and looking over a crowd, and the crowd can see there'e's a man watching. the big eye is watching. it gives the public a sense of comfort, a sense of safety. >> the kind of safety that some locals can only find here, in an

isolated spot just outside the city. this complex is home to men who want to leave their gangs. they were all in their teens when they turned to crime. some have committed murder. many of their crimes went unpunished. one of them is willing to talk to us. but chevano williams doesn't like discussing the details of his past, or whether he personally ever killed anyone. i wasn't afraid of the police. some of them are gang members too. so you can kill someone today, and be back out of jail tomorrow. >> it's hard to say how much he can be believed. what is clear is that chevano and the others are afraid of the men running the gangs they once belonged to.

at this safe distance they can learn gardening skills and in some cases how to read and write. until recently, the project was supported by the city authorities. but that funding has now been withdrawn. that prompted levi's grandmother to try and help in her own way. she runs her own soup kitchen for poor neighbors, aided by donations from a businessman. her hope is that it will help reduce hardship and take back the streets. >> the first time they were in the queue, my son's wife was dishing for them. and she just looked at them and started crying.. i just showed her, go on, go on. and that day was really tough. but we had to move past that. we have to do it. we still live in the community, and they're still part of us. we have to do it.

>> a second chance for people from the neighborhood who might have a murderous past. a second chance for the likes of chevano williams. he believes the gang war will never truly end, but it's a war he no longer wants to be part of. ♪ >> 857 million firearms. that's how many are in civilian hands worldwide. almost half of these weapons are in the u.s. americans are the most heavily armed citizens in the world. the right to bear arms is laid down in the u.s. constitution. but it's highly controversial, too. in 2017, nearly 40,000 people in the us were killed by gun, two-thirds of them suicides. thererare aroundnd 121 firears for every 100 americans.

43% of u.s. households own a gun, including many families with children. this is not a toy. it's a small caliber rifle designed especially for children. nine-year-old connor is using it for training. his sister s shyanne is alreada great shshot. dan, their single father, loves guns. >> this one was my first one. it was on my fifth birthday. and then last year on my ninth birthday i got this one. >> i first met the family last year at the annual meeting of the national rifle association. the children have been nra members since birth. >> i started her sitting on my lap when she was five, shooting one of my .22 rifles

just to get her acclimated to the sound and what it would do so she wasn't afraid of it. and then i started quizzing her on the safety rules. >> these days, shyanne has sponsors and is on the women's competitive shooting circuit. she's 14 years old, similar in age to the thousands of high school students who've been calling for greater gun controls in the u.s. shyanne shows me her collection of guns including an empty ar-15, a semi-automatic rifle. during last year's school shooting in florida, 17 people were killed with a gun like this one. shyanne believes the solution is to arm teachers. >> they need to have the proper training. i think it's important for a teacher to have a gun because it will help potentially save lives. >> in an emergency, she would be prepared to use her guns. >> i'm not going to let somebody come in and hurt my family. and i have these firearms to protect me and my family. >> but she tells me her main reason for keeping the rifles is

to take part in competitions. i'm amazed by the arsenal of weapons stored in her bedroom. south carolina does not require owners to lock up their firearms. the family moved to the state in part because of its liberal gun laws. the children clean their guns in preparation for a competition the next day. their father says it's important to him that his children are able to defend themselves. >> we live in the country, in a relatively rural area, the average police response time to a 911 call is seven to nine minutes. in an area like this, it could be even longer. i don't think it takes much imagination to think about what someone with ill intent could do to two children in seven to nine minutes. >> dan says he never leaves the house without this handgun. i notice that like many gun supporters in the u.s., he sees danger lurking everywhere. the next morning we head to the

firing range. shyanne and connor are competing in a training tournament. i meet seven-year-old sophia, who's come along with her father tom. >> hey sophia, what are you doing here? >> i'm here to compete against shooting. >> oh really? and do you help your dad over here? what are you doing? >> i'm going to be shooting and going to help daddy put the bullets in the magazine. >> i try to teach her the discipline of shooting, focus, you know this is a task that's very repetitive, it's hard for a young person to focus onon. but she's learned that. >> the basic rules of gun safety, >> the organizers go over the safety rules several timimes, s the competitors s are using lie bullets. >> each ping means a successful hit. sophia's parents see s shootings a hobby for the whole family. it's their cononstitutional rit to beaear arms, they tell me, something everyone here holds

dear. i ask people here if they'd agree to a ban on automatic rifles. no way, they say. what about banning guns for the mentally ill? who decides when someone's ill, they ask. now it's shyanne's turn. she hits the target every time. she wants to become a chef later on or join the military. for me, it's a whole different world. as a european, it definitely crosses a line. but for people here, the subject of gun control crosses a line. we've grown up with guns, they say, they're part of the american way of life. a way of life that's being passed on from one generation to the next. today in global ideas, we ask whether cocompensation schemes n help balance out environmental damage. our reporter christian roman visited a pipeline site in northern colombia. the construction work is

destroying v vast areas ofof tropicalal fores the gas company behind it is now helping save a national park from deforestation. >> this processing plant on colombia's caribbean coast puts out nearly 7 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. its operator, promigas, is the country's second largest supplier. one of our objectives as a corporation is to connect the whole of colombia up to the power grid. we a are thereforere ensuring t energy souources, in thihis ce natural gagas, c be susupped to

energy facilits ththrougho thehe country.y. thahat means w w pipenes. in 20101 promigas hacked a cocorror through the tpipical inforest here, 2meteterside and 192 kilometers lon c cutting downhousanands of trees and devastatining natural hahabit. john bejejarano from t the und nations' devevelopment progrgm nenegotiated a d deal with thes provider.. promigasas was to compenensater the envivironmental dadamage h funding fofor new projecects ad at protetecting biodiviversityd ecosysmsms elshere in e cotry. >> [speaking spanish] translator: compensasation isa good insnstrument, even ifif it turns out to be the very last option, , if we can no l longer avoid, reduce or mitigate enviroronmental damamage. itit can be papart of the solun in a developing country like colombia, where the infrfrastructure i is growig contininuously, withth new ro, new elelectricity grgrids, news pipepelines, new d dams and neww

ports going g up that all l imt onon biodiversitity. the cocountry still has 50% of s nanative forests, but a high proportion of its population also livesn poverty.y. >> expandingng infrastructcturn colombia has a already had a a r impactct. trtropical rainfnforests harbog unique ecosysystems once s stred over 40% of f the country.y. nonow they coverer just 4%. the tiny los colorados wildlife sanctuary is home to two and a half thousand plant species, many of them endemic. but the conservation area is just a thousand hectares in size, , and still shrinking. >> we haveve one of the e most biodiverse countries in the world bubut we're losising it ry fastst, also rightht now due too dereststatio being a ae to work hands-on wi c commutities is sothining i'm rereallyhankfuful for.

> this is onene of the communitities nefititingrom the compensatition. christal angnge and her ngngo k togethther with the e farmers on jujuan dnepomumuce. fofor years,heheir liv a and liliveliods wewereisruptededy armed conflict between right-wing pararamilitaries ad left-wing insusurgent groupsps. the peace process in comombia has lowewed ma farmemerso return. the id i is fothe fafaers to li andnd wk in a m more sustainable fashio a and miminimize envirironmental dae from deforestation, farming and livevestock brbreeding. >> we've b been working g with natitional park sysystem, we'ven working g with other n ngo's, be haven't worked with the private sector. it's something new for everyone, not just for us but for the community y as well. we've e been having very dp discusussions with t the commuy about t how much shohould we compensatete, what is

compensatition, and how dodo te resources s from the pririvate sectoror end up in t the handf the e community? >> the money does not go directly to the farmers. instead, they're provided with uniforms andnd tools, and invid to take part in workshops. instead of monocultures, they now plant native varieties of fruit and vegetables such asas yams, which they sell in thehe capital. meanwhile, the rainforest is being renewed in other locations. the farmers now sesee the importance of the environment for their own livelihoods. >> it is imimportant to h have te forested areas, cause they provide us with water, medicinal plants, and oxygen. the entire ecocosystem has a a direct impact on our standard of living, our health, and the physical development of people here.

>> every single year in colombia, we lose forests covering an area the size of our capital, bogotá. for john bejarano, the compensation scheme is just the beginning. if colombia's precious rainforests are to be preserved, everyone here will have to do their bit. >> compensation helps companies think k about the impact their tions ha on the tural environmen and mak them realizthey h he a respsibibili. athe same me, loca mmunities are asmingng me obligatis. it's notust aboureceivin donation 's aboutreater areness o bothheir rigs and thr responsilities towards t vironment.

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dhapu's s mother regrerets marg off her r daughter. she says the groom is a good-for-nothing. >> her husband is not a good choice for herer. i feel b bad for my daughter. i feel sorry for her. what can i do to save her? i love my daughter so mu a and i am wried t thashe willllpend her life with h an alcoholic husband. >> but d dhapu's fatheher hast written off f her husband.d. ststill, he accecepts that it'ts imimportt for r hidaughterero get an education. >>y y daughter should complete her ststudies first bere goingg to her husband. her studies are morere importat than anything else.

>> lunch time. dhdhapu isow e enrold at a a colllleg rajasthan, a comparatively conserervative and p patriarcl state,e, this is a s significt achievement t given her bagrground. dhapapu hopes she e is a role l for r other girls.s. >> whei i get job, i i wil teach illiterateirlsls w were married as childn n to rd andd wre.e. bebecae they w were maied,d, ty didn't get an n edation. >> dhapu is optimiststic abouter fututure. veerni means heroine ihihindi. thanks tththe boarding schchoo now dhapapu has a chanance to be heroine e of her own l life. ♪ >> that's all from us this week. we are back next week k and wee always happy to hear from you . write to us at global3000@dw.com or via our new facebook, dw women. see you next time. take care. [captioning performed by the

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