these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. charlie corporations rule today. on the back row with their teachers all over the top stories france's military initiatives in libya and i rico's backfired home with president sarkozy losing points and allies of the french public are angry their leaders imperial ambitions are costing the country its money and reputation. india's faster earning into it i'll try next weighs down with western companies sending computer junk to the poverty stricken country instead of recycling it while a consumer society provides work for a local city or health was being put at risk when those kids return stress. russia

is preparing to launch one of the most promising projects for the future of space exploration the biggest telescope ever to enter orbit will allow the deepest corners of the universe to be scanned with extraordinary clarity. that's what had winds news continues at the top of the hour next though tales of the golden gate city as we report on the struggles in the ghettos of san francisco. i was so it's a time i was once in my foot's life in a very. big time in the back three buzz words of my liver and that's why i have a liver liver drawing. blood to get surgery to get the birth so i know that only i would get three imo no the three of my liver. was left there. but only for rod go through metal detectors and.

the wayne larry is from debut he was lucky he got out all life he's twenty five years old. and visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district bayview is a deadly gas or most of the young people here want to live over twenty five behind the well painted facades of the public housing projects lies dire poverty here most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts on the high end beatings and some of crying this deceivingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. with. one dead in a beijing shooting not a single month goes by that i can tell if he's right will gangs have been caught up in this senseless ongoing war for many years. these scenes were filmed by a local boy you know exchanged is going for

a camera. that. devon melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. i think a lot. of people being you will get. from me robbing people i don't been through a live thing alive i spared so much for my neighborhood so what a point where on my family i want to do right. i lost two friends in the five names or whale and wagon here but i want out. today devon is looking for a way out of the gas so he doesn't want to move for a gun law and senseless fighting is the law of the land when you go through way back i painted the table i went to the bone i thought before this is. my i'm in it

i'm in for. just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco to get through veterans 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 so girls were there to go over the start of the route no one would start trying to set up the think it's about it's a roll call it was so i thought it might take me ten seconds you know the fix but the reality is gang related activity islands generally. it's baseline is that people are impoverished people don't have opportunities 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 bird being mayor and the big bird and challenge to live in a country that got understand that there's more violence the streets of this country than there are in the streets of afghanistan or baghdad but we tend to gore filed goes on there but we write they turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really a tribute last recession but 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 on 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 miles. by works with the juvenile court it looks after young people who've broken the law and helps them make it through perot will

mention take him to some town rooms so she had no. the need for brothers against guns 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. like. when it is in a great way. for them to. these kids are they are paid a o'hare's like animals and this herd is here is heard is here in this packet see if the facts here. this and it's like i got to go on but you know. i'm machines will have time for you. to pick some of the kids or just scare you know i just want to fit in they just want to be

up for the stuff and it. has to happen is that they don't think they're past twenty or twenty five years old so they're going to get all they can do on a. little. panic. getting you now. be in a lab where we have the. big. leagues here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty four this three month course strains the neighborhoods toughest kids for joins. the classes will be held in city hall and the reason one class will be able to see your because you've got monitors and you can see the graduations and you know and saying the reason why we don't want to be that way is because when coming in your stretch. you get to come in a city hall stretch. that's model you know i'm saying he don't you know i'm saying

that's why i started this program in study for no other reason other. than the verse three of the murder of his brother tracy schoen visits his great who woke me up as my brother got to me in a major way. it opened and made me realize what i was doing and. what i was becoming and that i was a product the reason why is the because he was trying to look up to me pattern after me follow up. richard is also was because of violence and drugs were these were not personal issues and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know saying these kids used to be right smack in the middle of. a life you know and everything i wanted as

a kid you know my mother and father was they but give me what they want when i want to move and that's out all begin you know you start off. hustling and then you start off making a few dollars at the store of making more dollars and then you start to get more and more you get greedy woody becomes like. something you need is like is like using a drug which you now use a verb because you would think it's in the much. right here. so mom swell grew up at a. show mouth and visits the house where he was going now his mother lives here alone. so. she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do right around behind my back and

i didn't know him and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never want to hear to be in that kind of environment or that kind of life you know and i don't think he really heard me i'm not and i put him out when i found out you know you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody to get put out their house when they grow up and you know don't be angry about it but i mean she didn't know me you know i'm so i decided i said ok fine i'll go i mean i slept in my car for a couple days they might seem to me that when i graduated from high school you know i was hustling and caring to go out on the streets and stuff and so basically you know that that wasn't what she wanted in our household you know and i just pray and ask these kids that think twice before they pull a gun on anybody's babies think about it when i just heard and not heard that guy you're hurting brownlie we're the one have. left to grieve and go back i just

think about it for you to compress the whole. devon melville 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 good. probation got me to where i am today for i was saved juvenile and stress and i was. bad but when i got out it was really when it happened and i got out and really got on probation and. i feel helpless but i feel. i feel helpless. i don't really see this part of town so much. of the five used to be i don't really get around. to my neighborhood.

there are just a few miles between white san francisco and the city visited by tourists and they view but there are two completely different worlds here devon and the xing the county live a peaceful life there from different neighborhoods turfs run by enemy gangs. and transportation in their around. neighborhood. living. but when i'm in a neighborhood there's no form there's no. outside would be by the side i know i can be a shot or killed or something happens to me any day when i'm up on that oh it's like i don't hear from the. big the first beat myself happy. i know. people by one i'm. like i'm always kid that's on have got a car to take in my neighborhood is young the scary is young teenagers fourteen and under four i think from twelve on up. in my neighborhood i thought

this before but that's what i'm seeing every day. devon is a name. you know where he said it's new video he made on guns in his neighborhood here young people from san francisco's gators are given the chance to do something creative. but from his friends david shows us the life he once lived. in a place where the last one i live the. life that i got. but now i'm just. back there and i think i didn't always say when. i was. shown also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his own who are still

associated with the harbor 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. the trees. in west point you bet i go first there are two streets where the local youth night the kids on the harbor roadside meet here in the square outside the gym this is where they chat sometimes smoke are just going out. like this. right here. right problem row right no marker. me. a ghetto we grew up in a war always rooted. out in our mark potter stole our street oh well my best friend was my go.

these brothers go eat they go to the movies they don't have a place is just like all the other people all with susan or less well when they come out the area they just asked more recent time eating banks to drug us they just bought vibing everybody got to have a tag on we not pay 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 the hey kind of like no telling what to do the school they go to juvenile back to floor that's why brad is like i see your race steady go and then now i'm leave you out here do you have to look in the streets. you know is it true you were you officer standing around you. i'm all. for those i can make it. as the new.

bass won't turn me. 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 prog. which tries to change the course of the minds of those who sign up selection must restrict the kind of that's come from a war zone that's was on the back of a flat brothers as. redirection project will start on the fifteenth. as you seem older boys come down again pull out the application we've got a bunch i'm coming down here we don't know nobody to be up in up and you got people somebody yes this is. america. needed. me and we have we have questions we have course we have like it's

a question that we ask are you game related do you go team up to the major be still smoking marijuana and the last question really going to be are you really are you ready to make a change because if you're not then we ration is not void and you say and just like most of that call out and while i'm losing a city just because they still smoke a week you know since they were you know eleven take a piss test and with only had to take a piss test and it wasn't a fair play and when to go to a place there's an existing beggary they want to see you listen you're a total nation wide do this in your traditional. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room in city hall and the last for three months in neutral territory far from the war zone these kids are told a little of everything i do for a job how to get an 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. an almost typical sunday morning in the american neighborhood but here nothing is typical the harbor road kids can come here because it can mean risking their lives . a rap singer is very committed to his community and to peace to promote his latest cd. for everybody. we don't. know that. he was able. to. bring. people to work for the. white. rapper 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 surveillance are a far cry from daily life in the neighborhood for the young people who live here daily life is going to help their job so feature no hope their only choice is for the future of prison. devon films everything with this camera this footage reveals what life is really about in beijing lives. with nobody to be a real threat of. any day any second thought. not the people i. know so they call me. a kraut but they were they were about to put it like that i'm always talking i'm always speaking about how we need to get money before. the rules . a little to let the family right now the we use and

you'll. see it's all wrong here. here at any moment fun and games can turn into tragedy. for. the. night there's been another murder in the streets of a view a car drives by shots ring out once again a family races into the street to cry over a young man's dead body. to get here drive by gang shootings are common and san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly in they view. the world for russell to. see the snow look like it's. going to seem simple this is how the kids remember their dead friends inspector tony chaplin and then bro bring from the

special brigade against ugandans tell us about. these guys get caught up in things that they don't know why they're doing it they just remember the last shooting that they need to have been for the last killing that they need to send a message about. so go folks i mean a lot of girls posted just literally being held hostage to their you know i mean. they never lies but everybody knows the time to come. according to the inspectors the presence of gangs here is evident they inspect an empty house and west point which according to what they've heard has become a new meeting place. is almost like rena gang newspaper yeah who their enemies are they have. to rock big block and kirkwood.

corsi that assists were on earlier then again you have the allies you have the home gang you're wesnoth who's turf this this actually is then you have sunnydale. it was a group way on the other side of the city who where some obvious clay dealt 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 right good riddance. we have a lot of photos of these guys there were rags and it looks you know if you don't know any better you get yourself in south central los angeles and there were rags to one of the gang signs you got photos of guys don't have a w. and they got the rag. they've got tattoos all over miss a big block for life or we all we got i mean at some point they take a leap from just being

a neighborhood or turf 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 resistance 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 into 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 arbor road and west point. was it a street right now it is. it is. bringing the two factions together is risky as one believes shows.

down. 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 are broken is it. it's time for the awards the winning groups take over the stage. j. . he is getting ready to appear with his boys his latest cd has also won a prize.

for the play. it's time for the redirection project graduation ceremony at san francisco's city hall heard the teachers and brothers against guns give speeches full 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 diplomas by sean richard this is the second try seven iron for twenty one people in last year's course still have jokes will sean manage to increase the rate this year. they are aware of the arrows to keep the streets where. the. game was too much they could

get was nowhere with me we could got more but i know it was too much when it was a nice enough to help us get through where we are due and teachers of my life the way they are our success. but the success or lack. any determination in your willpower words full of a commision six months later three of these young men were in jail lost his job four months later. doing has twelve bullets in his body. he couldn't appear in the last photograph because he was killed before it was taken that. we know that. they kill people and that. it's something. that makes. it part of the

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