taking the truth with them you go if you're going on forty the ask a village in russia's far east. i'll be back with the headlines in a few moments stay with us as we continue wrapping up the week's news here at r.t. . to live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets in afghanistan or baghdad.

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dot com. for the full story we've got it firsthand. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today. wrapping up the week's headlines as russia's republic of north mourns after thursday's suicide bombing that killed seventeen and injured more than one hundred sixty local police are accused of negligence and failing to stop the bomber. as

commemorations marked the ninth anniversary of the nine eleven terrorist attacks as clashes too over plans for a mosque near ground zero and to facing the current. pilot safety land a passenger plane in the forest after their communication and navigation systems fail on route to moscow and russia's far east. and brainstorming for a brighter future top minds gather for the global policy forum in jaroslav will discuss a formula for better peace and democracy up next our special report about the grim and dangerous challenges for kids living in the black ghettos of san francisco stay with us here on r.t. . i was so. i was once on my foot size in the very time of the first time in the back three blows once of my liver and that's why i have a liver of a liver drawings and i had to get surgery to get the bullet so i know the only way

i would get three i know that my liver. was only four where i go to motivate to. do wayne larry is from bayview he was lucky he got out alive he's twenty five years old. visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district bayview is a deadly gas that most of the young people here won't live over twenty five behind the well painted facades of the public housing projects lines dire poverty here most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts on the high end dealings and some of crime this to seemingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. but.

one dead in the bay view shooting not a single month goes by without fatalities rival gangs have been caught up in a senseless ongoing war for many years. the scenes were filmed by a local boy you know exchanged is going for a camera. devin melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. off a lot. of people going. who will be. for me robbing people i don't been through a lot of the same i spent so much for my neighborhood so we're at a point where i'm why family i want to do right. so far with five names or rail and waggle. today devon is looking for

a way out of the ghetto he doesn't want to live where getting low and senseless fighting is the law of them and man and all through way back i can tell you that i would cry when even more when a. minute a minute for. just a few miles from here in done town san francisco a ghetto veteran is trying to get support for his project against juvenile gang violence showing richards is talking to mayor gavin newsome he wants to set up a civic behavior course for the toughest members of the city's gangs at city hall but he needs a room and so girls were there to help us try to figure out but no one today this morning michael said well look i think it's about that exact role oh it was so i thought it was right it would take me ten seconds you know the fix but the reality is gang related activity violence generally. it's baseline is the fact that people

are impoverished people don't have opportunities and they gauge in activities that are not constructive or destructive that feed on themselves every rich city in this country is exact same thing that we have income inequality in this country the likes of which we've not seen since the one nine hundred twenty s. and that's the big burden being mayor and the big burden challenge to live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets of afghanistan or baghdad but we tend to glorify what goes on there but we frankly turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really a tribute was received by st john. shown richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag the mission of the thirty six year old and the half dozen people working in the organization is to give the youth in ghettos some hope they're the only ones working to keep the kids out of prison one night of every

three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five. by works with the juvenile court it looks after young people who've broken the law and helps them make it through perrotte will. take years to come to the world's so she had no. the need for brothers again can be seen on these walls but this poster is just one example the list of poor young african-americans who've been killed in ghettos like bayview is almost endless. one way. that these kids are they are in the air is like animals and this herd is here is

heard is here in this packets you can fax here. and it's like i got to. you know. some of the kids are just scared you know and i just want to finish and they just want to be a part of it. and actually have kids that they don't think they're past twenty one or twenty five. so they're going to get all they can do on. the. where. you now. live where we are. the. leaders here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty four this three month course trains the neighborhoods toughest kids for joins.

the classes will be held in city hall and. monitors and you know graduation so you know the reason why we don't want it that way is because you know in coming in they're strapped. city hall struck. that's you know i'm saying he don't you know i'm saying that's why i started this program and started for the other reason with my little brother. verse three of the murder of his brother tracy schoen visits his great who woke me up as were my brother back to me in a major way and. it opened a law and it made me realize what i was dealing with and what i was becoming and that i was a that i quoted the reason why these days because he was trying to look up to me pattern up me follow up to really. showing richard is also was some of the good so violence and drugs were his world when i first seen

a shooting when i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know i'm saying these kids used to be right smack in the middle of shootouts. i had a good shout mangal life you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was they but give me what they want to i wanted more and that's out all. you know you start off. you start off hustling and then you start all making a few dollars and then start of making more dollars and then you start over more more you get greedy woody it becomes like. something you need is like is like using a drug which is now using a verb because you addicted to the money. well here. this wild world that.

show me often visits the house where he was born now his mother lives here alone. is a. hundred years old. she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do and behind my back and i didn't know it and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never wanted him to be in that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life you know and. he really herded me a lot and i put him out and i found out you know you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody they get put out the house where they grew up and you know be angry about it but i mean she won the you know so i decided i said ok fine go. for a couple days them i mean when i graduated from high school you know i was hustlin and caring and on the streets and stuff and so basically you know that wasn't what

she wanted you know in our household you know and i just pray and ask these kids it think twice before they pull a gun on anybody's babies think about it because you're not just heard and not heard in that car you're hurting the family we're the one have to be left degree even feel that pain just thank a party for you to. god bless our kids. devin melvin who works in the museum in san francisco on saturdays his girlfriend comes to pick him up devon was imprisoned by juvenile court for belonging to a gang. to where i am today for i want to say june made me stress and i just was. bad but when i got how it was really when it happened when i got out and really got on probation in. a lot of.

i don't really see this part of town so much as. i used to be yeah i don't really get around to much. out of my neighborhood. there are just a few miles between whites and francisco the city visited by tourists and bayview but there are two completely different worlds here devon in this you know can't live a peaceful life there from different neighborhood turfs run by enemy gangs. no one is transportation around. the neighborhood it's me living. but when i'm in a neighborhood there's no. outside. i know i. haven't seen me and. when i. hear from.

people. in my neighborhood. carrying pistols as young teenagers fourteen and under forty. in my neighborhood as i can speak for me that's what i'm seeing every day. and then go where the video he made in his neighborhood here young people from san francisco was a given the chance to do something creative. his friend david shows them life. and. places i still feel. places but. back then i will.

begin to where i had to go i was. shawn also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old pals who are still associated with the harbor road guy about three hundred yards from west point his reputation as a former gangster in his new role as mediator and friend had given him protection from the violence in this area. in west point near the bank go from there are two streets where the local youths hang out the kids in the harbor roadside meet here in the square outside the gym this is where they chat sometimes smoke are just hanging out. there anybody right that already right problem wrote. me.

a ghetto we grew up in a war always. i don't know my father still i grew up in the street where my best friend was mom. these brothers go eat they go to the movies they go to other places just like all the other people do all for certain ole but when they come out the area they just odd as that's more recent time a gang bangers the drug they just why why do you everybody that would tag we not day so take the tag off motto is very few people like us to talk to the youngsters now it's like they are here with their head cut off like no telling what to do the school they go to juvenile back and floor that's why brothers like us see our race study go on i mean if you out here you know you are in the streets you

know there are many security around you officers standing around you. turn. small. for those that can make it. as they are now. the basketball tournament. brothers against guns is committed to a long list of projects like the basketball tournament organized by the housing institute but perhaps the most ambitious of its projects is the redirection project which tries to change the course of the bugs of those who sign up selection must be strict accounting that's coming from a war zone as was all of that when the flood brothers was. the redirection project will start on the fifteenth. as you seen older boys come down today and fill out the application we've got

a bunch of them coming down here we don't know nobody to be popping up and they got beef with somebody yes. you be indented by michael stafford just. me and we have we have questions we have course we have like tina beats and questions that we ask him are you gang related do you go teasing him out do you got the major beef you still smoking marijuana and the last question really going to be are you willing are you ready to make a change because if you're not then redirection is not for you it was there and just like most of you got caught up in why the city jobs because they still smoke a week. you know since still you know they have to take a piss test and were told they had to take a piss test and it wasn't a fair play and want to go take a pest as an existing back then one day. when they simulate a total nation why do they think it's all nations.

the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room in city hall and will last for three months in neutral territory far from the war zone these kids are told a little of everything i will look for a job how to get my id card or simply how to fill out forms. and they learn civic behavior in the end what they really want is to find a job. and almost typical sunday morning in the american neighborhood but here nothing is typical. kids can't come here because it would mean risking their lives. is very committed to his community and to peace promote his latest cd. everybody. we don't.

work with. j.t. promotes peace with his music the neighborhood association organizes the gang but this is nothing but a brief time out public festivals with police are a far cry from daily life in the neighborhood for the young people who live here. they have. no hope their only choice is for the future prison. films everything with this camera this footage reveals what life is really like in beijing.

no. doubt but they. always talk i'm always how we need to get money. well rules. a little to what. we use and you'll. hear. here at any moment fun and games can turn into tragedy. there's been another murder in the streets of a car drives by. once again a family races into the street to cry over a young man. here drive by gang shootings are common in san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly in.

the snow. like klitzman. said. this is how the kids remember their dead friends and specter tony. brief from the special brigade against youth gangs tell us about. these. things they don't know why they're doing it they just remember the last shooting that they need to adventure the last killing that they need to send a message about. all right. so. i mean. just literally been held hostage or you know i mean. they made their lives but everybody knows. according to the inspectors the presence of gangs here is evident they inspect an empty house in west point which

according to what they've heard has become a new meeting place. is almost like renewed gang newspaper yeah who their enemies are. to rock big block and kirkwood. corsi that assess we're on earlier. do you have the allies you have the home gang here west of this this actually is then you have sunnydale. it was a group way on the other side of the city who. clicked out with or ally with. the officers comb the neighborhood street by street they disagree with most people who think that the violence only stems from personal rivalries. we have a lot of photos of these guys they're wearing rags and it looks you know if you don't know any better you think you're in south central los angeles and there were

rags to one of the gang signs you got photos of guys don't want to w. and they got their rag. they've got tattoos all over miss a big block to live for we all we got i mean at some point they take a leap from just being a neighborhood or her people are saying hey these are neighborhoods or these are sets because they don't really want to recognize that their kids belong to a gang at the gangs are present because that brings up negative connotations and why the kids end up getting into it there's a lot of reasons a lot of these families are broken so kids are joining gangs because they want to feel like they belong to something they're looking for that sense of family that they're not getting at home. it's sad to see these really really nice views spoiled by all the shootings and killings up here. the situation is so extreme that a senseless concrete barrier has been put up dividing the neighborhood and two for

the kids here crossing it can be fatal. they're at the point now where their backs are against the wall and they're like you know what i want out and it's mainly the older guys the younger guys they're still kind of caught up in it but the older guys and when i say older we're talking twenty three and up those guys are saying we want out we want jobs we want to do something better with our lives because this is taking us nowhere except to the cemetery. the city's black community has got a done ten big celebration the first san francisco bay area wrapped festival music's been key to the success with many of the young people in ghettos one of them is a big surprise j.t. has brought kids from his neighborhood with them from both barber road and west point. i think you know that i sort of street legal fees right now is going to get into. nothing really. bringing the two

factions together is risky as one belief shows. down. little. the singer has a tough time but he manages to keep the peace perhaps this festival will serve to give some hope to the district's hopeless youth but the ghetto and crime are always a part of drop music. it's time for the awards the winning groups take over the stage.

j. . t. is getting ready to appear with his boys his latest cd has also won a prize. which is expected to get the first place if the. thirty suits says. it's time for the redirection project graduation ceremony at san francisco's city hold your teachers and brothers against guns give speeches bill of hope they've given these youngsters an opportunity and there's nothing more that they can do. one by one the graduates are given their diploma special richard this is the second

try seven i think the twenty one people in last year's course still have jobs will show managed to increase the rate this year. to keep the streets where. the streets were a day was too much they could get was no boy would i mean we could have got more but you know it was too much when it was enough basic enough to help us get through what we got to do and teach us about life in the way they are our sixth sense. but he says what right now and it's determination in your willpower words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail lost his job four months later. doing his twelve votes and his body. he couldn't appear in the last photograph because he was killed before it was taken .