she tells her lies about siberian mountains and her people follow the same routes as hundreds of years ago. welcome to the translight. russian fleet so. it without its having a good time in headlights now a french official calls for ground troops to enter new via the spite the un resolution forbidding such action such as france fights three foreign thing was president sarkozy finds himself struggling to gain support from. a critically ill russian convict and speeding to end the sennight severe dogmatic concept of treatments in jail but officials are adamant that euthanasia will remain banned in the country. and veterans in georgia said the country they fought for has abandoned them no pensions and in force to supply them fifteen thousand not soldiers recently

tried to protest when the falling detainees. the next struggles of living in america's golden gate kittens. robbers so. i was one of them are for the prize and i'm. very proud of the back three birth of my liver and that's why i have a liver. a liver draining. gravitas surgery to give birth. and the only way i would get. my love. for them who are right go through metal detectors. and. the way malaria is from bayview he was lucky he got out alive and he's twenty five years old. visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district they view is

a deadly gezer most of the young people here will live over twenty five behind the well painted facades of the public housing projects like the dire poverty here most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts underhand dealings and some of crying as the seemingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. a. hundred. one dead in a baby shooting not a single month goes by without fatalities rival gangs have been caught up in the senseless ongoing war for many years. these scenes were filmed by a local boy and exchanged as going for a camera. devon melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried

a gun. i think a lot. from people who were going to run from me robbing people invent the live thing a lot i spent so much in my neighborhood so what a point where i'm like family i want to do right. i lost so far with names a whale and a ladder. i want out. today devon is looking for a way out of the ghetto he doesn't want to live for a harem low and senseless fighting is the law of the land when i go through way back when i came to the table i went to the mall and i thought i'd be friends with some i didn't i i mean it i made him up for. just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco against veterans trying to get support for his project against juvenile gang violence showing the rich are just

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 we're going to help us try to figure out what the world today was like set up the think it's about exact role oh it was so i thought these were great it would take me ten seconds to know the fix but the reality is gang related activity islands generally. space like this 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 the. country the likes of which we've not seen since the one nine hundred twenty s. and that's the big burden of being mayor and a 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 work on there but we try to turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really a term people ask me to say but say it's not. showing richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag the mission of a thirty six year old and a half dozen people working in the organization is to give the youth and get 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 while. by works with the juvenile court it looks out the young people have broken the law and helps them make it through parole board mentioned in the papers and to some town rules so she'd know.

the need for brothers against combs can be seen on these walls but this poster is just one example the list of poor young african-americans who have been killed in ghettos like bayview is almost endless. like this one it's been a great way of very. good family. that. these kids are they are pagan they all errors like animals and this herd is here is her to see this fact as you see it because facts here. has met this and it's like i've got to go on you know. i'm machines will have time to find. some of the kids are just here you know and i just wanna finish and they just want to be a part of the. company and has the happiness that they don't think they live past twenty twenty five years or so they're going to get all they can do on

a fairly what they can bring to the past. it will happen at. the beginning you know being the last where we are the. big. leagues here to sign up for the redirection project for youths 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 the reason one class will be able to see your because they got monitors and you know you went to the graduation so you know and saying the reason why are we doing it that way is because you in coming in your stretch. you come in and see all strep. that's model you know i'm saying he go in i'm saying that's why i started this program in study for no other reason but. the verse three of the murder of his

brother tracy schoen visits is great but what we have is my brother got back to me in a major way and. it opened really made me realize what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a part of the reason why is. because he was trying to look up to me pattern of me follow up to. richard is also was some of the good so violence and drugs were once his words now person assured me and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know say these kids used to be right smack in the middle of. i had a good shout and i don't lie you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was a but he gave me what they wanted when i want to move and that's how it all began you know you start off the most a. story of hustlin and then you start off making

a few dollars and then you start of making more dollars and then you start getting more and 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 would think it's the money. right here. this woman this wild world that. show me often visits the house where he was born now his mother lives here alone. is a mom. and. she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do right arm behind my back and i didn't know where and how 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 i don't think he really heard of me i'm not and i put him out or not you know you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody they get put out the way they house where they grew up and you know don't be angry about it but i mean she didn't want me you know so i decided i said ok fine i'll go i mean i said michael i thought couple days them i think you mean when i graduated from high school you know i was hustling and carrying a gun on the streets and stuff and so basically you know that wasn't what she wanted in our in our household you know when i just pray and ask these kids that think tries before they pull a gun on anybody's gravies think about it you know i just heard and not heard in that car you're hurting apparently we're the one how could be left to agree you didn't build that i just think about it for you. and god bless them.

devon melville who works in the museum in san francisco on saturdays his good friend the singer comes to pick him up devin was impressed by juno who works for belonging to a getting. to where i am today for i was. stressed and ice was. bad but. it was really when it happened when i got out. and. i feel. i don't really see this part of town so much as. travel the five used to be i don't really get around. to 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 in devon and the singer can't

live a peaceful life there from different neighborhood turfs enemy gangs. you know when you're transportation in there around. the neighborhood i mean living. when i'm in a neighborhood there's no form there's no room left and it could be on the outside but deep down inside i know i can get shot or killed or something happens to me any day when i'm up on that hill oh it's like i don't hear from them i think the first thing i simply happens when i'm on the line and. people like one i'm sorry i come all these cameras on have been in a car to take in my neighborhood is young in this period is young teenagers fourteen and under four like you from twelve on up is home in my neighborhood i saw just before that's what i'm seeing every day. devon is named geo where generation

a video he made on guns in his neighborhood here young people from san francisco's gas was given the chance to do something creative i'm trying to make some. rest will help me and my community basically telling my story. but from these friends david shows us the life and one slant. only time i would feel because when i asked an angle on my chest when i let me. go places i got the feel. i says but now i'm just more i think about them twice now back then i will think twice about i didn't go out on the subway me going to where i had to go i was full of you know and then i got something i want to do now i think. shawn also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old pals who are still associated with the harder road going about three hundred yards from west point his reputation as a former gangster in his new role as mediator and a friend had given him protection from the violence in this area.

of trees. in westpoint you but i go first 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 hang out. right problem row marker. me pick them. together we grew up in a war always. out in our my father sold out of the street where my best playing with my. these girls is go eat they go to the movies they already places just like all the other people do. but when they come out they area they just pass that's more recent

time and again banks the drug dealers they just why why do you everybody got to have a tag on we not pay so take the table motto is very few people like us to talk to the youngsters now it's right they are here. like no telling what to do the school they go to juvenile back in for that's my brothers like us see our race steady go until now i mean if you out here you know you're in the streets. here you were you spinning around you this was all a turn. to maul. for those actually making. the 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 be strict and kind of that's coming from a war zone that's was on the back of the flood brothers because. the redirection project will start on the fifteenth. as you see notable is come down any day of the lot application we are going some coming down here we don't know nobody to be an up and happy for somebody yes this is. america or it is me to. me and we are we are questions we have course we have like can if it's in question that we asked him are you game related to that goal teaching him up to the major be still smoking marijuana in the last question really only are you willing are you ready to make

a change because if you are not then we direction is not the way you say this 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 they had to take a piss test and we told them if they can piss test and it wasn't a fair play and let's go take a test there's an existing back don't get it when you say. listen you're a tradition we're live in this thing it's one nation like. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room incident and the last for three months in neutral territory for the war zone these kids are taught 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 america neighborhood but here nothing is typical of the harbor road kids come here because it could mean risking their lives. a rap singer is very committed to his community and the peace promotes his latest cd. everybody. we don't. know that. he was. working for the. rapper j.t. promotes peace with his music the neighborhood association overnight since the game 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 have a job so future no hope their only choice is for the future prison. devon films everything with this camera this footage reveals work life is really about you baby you. really trust nobody. any day any second thought. no. crowd but they. are back and i'm always talking i'm always thinking about how we need to get money before. the we use and. people.

here at any moment fun and games can turn into tragedy. for. tonight there's been another murder in the streets of they 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. it's good to hear drive by gang shootings are common in san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly in bayview it's . one russell to. see the snow on. the fritz split. second this is how the kids remember their dead friends and specter tony chaplin and then bro brief from the special brigade against youth gangs tell us about it. 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. all right. so go for i mean a lot of go folks that are just literally being held hostage or you know i mean. maybe later lies but everybody knows the time to come when women. 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 rain again newspaper yeah who their enemies are there to rock big block in kirkwood. corsi that assess we're on earlier then do you have the allies you have the home game you're west madhu's turf this this actually is they have sunnydale. was

a group way on the other side of the city who. clicked it with or ally with. the offices comb the neighborhood street by street they disagree with most people who think that the violence in the stands from personal rights movements. 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 yourself and south central los angels and they're wearing rags and it's one of the gang signs you got photos of guys going up a w. and they got their rag. they've got tattoos all over miss a big block full life or we all we gat 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 do 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 people long to something they're looking for that sense of family that they're not getting at home. it's sad to see these. a really nice view spoiled 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 who are 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 when i say older we're talking twenty three and 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 sam francisco bay area raps that's the vocal music and 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 harbor road and west point. out in oxford street legal fees right now and it just didn't. bring the two factions together is risky as one belief shows. 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 grow up and use it. it's time feel the rewards of winning groups take over the stage. kate. he is getting ready to appear with his boy his latest cd has also won a prize. to play if.

it's time for the redirection project graduation ceremony at san francisco's city hall your 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 i think the twenty one people in last year's course still have jobs with sean managed to increase the rate this year. they are aware of this to beat the streets were set the streets right think it was too much like it was no war with i mean we could have got more but i know it was too much you want to know basically enough to help us get through what we got to do and to

just my life in the right way bear our success. be successful right now and it's determination your willpower words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail ali lost his job four months later. doing his twelve votes in his body that's. the quickest he could interfere in the last photograph because he was killed before it was taken that you think. we don't think that if. we kill people and that if down the. front of. the face. the part of the thing. like a. from

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