there was headlines here on our team and western the military initiatives in north africa backfire at home the french president already losing public trust over what's described as his colonial ambitions france is also suffering from the influx of immigrants from a troubled region and is considering suspending the border free charlie agreement. it's one year since a deadly explosion at a drilling a platform in the gulf of mexico killed eleven and caused a major oil spill that dealt a measurable blow to the environment because the residents exposed to toxic

chemicals say they've been left to deal with severe health problems all on their own. and christians around the world are united in easter celebrations this year the event falls on the same day for all of them in russia thousands flock to a service of the country's main orthodox cathedral with both the president and the prime minister among the bushes. right now our special report on life in the ghettos of such. i was so good same time i was once on my foot size in the very time. they carved in the back three buzz words of my liver and that's why i have a liver of a 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. so i have. learned it.

was on the far right go through metal detectors. and are the wayne larry is from dave you 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 that most of the young people here won't live over twenty five behind the well painted for sides of the public housing projects lies the dire poverty here most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts underground beatings and some of crying this to seemingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. because. one dad in a baby and she's not a single month goes by i would like to tell if he's right will gangs have been caught up in a senseless ongoing war for many years. these

scenes were filmed by a local boy who exchanged his going for a camera. devin melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. off a lot. of people here who are going. from me robbing people i don't buy into a live thing a lot i spend so much for my neighborhood so what a point where i'm like them i want to do right. so for all of the five names are real and why. my one filed. to date haven't is looking for a way out of the gas or he doesn't want to live for care and lo and senseless fighting is the law of the land when you go through a bad i painting with

a bit i want to cry when even more when i thought i'd be finished this. i like i'm in it i'm in for. just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco and guess who veterans trying to get support for his project against juvenile drawing violence showing the rich are just hoping 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 that's all girls were going to help at the start of the route but don't want to take one like stepped up to think it's about the exact role oh it was so i thought this would. take me ten seconds it'll be fixed but the reality is gang related activity islands generally. it's baseline is the fact 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 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 a big burden challenge to live in a country that got 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 would goes on there but we frankly turned a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really good to be blasphemous said biceps not. 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 in 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 their 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 broke in the low and helps them make it through all that will eventually take him to some town rooms so she had no. 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 they view is almost endless. right now when it is in a way very hard with. these kids are they are paid a zero errors like animals and this hardest here is hard to see this fact is you can facts here deal with. this and it's like i've got to go on you know. i'm machines will have tough. if

somebody has the despair you know and i just want to fit in they just want to be a father saw it. coming and actually have kids that they don't think past twenty one twenty five years old so they're going to get all they can do on a scale like i think. the past. where. you now. be in a lab where we had to. break. the. lease here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty for 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 monitors in your graduation so you know i'm saying the reason why we don't want it that way is because when coming in

a stretch. to come in the city hall stress. that's my low brow you know i'm saying he don't you know i'm saying that's right started his program and study for no other reason but rather. 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 them on really made me realize what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a part of the reason why these days because he was trying to look up to me pattern up me follow up. richard is also with some of the kids or violence and drugs wounds his world when up or seen a shooting and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know these kids used to be right smack in the middle of.

a good shout and i think a lie you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was they but give me what they want i wanted more and that's out of the game you know you start off. slow and then you start off making a few dollars a good store 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 a drug which is now using a verb because you addicted to the money. right here. so mom swap world that. show him off and this is the house where he was going now his mother lives here alone. and.

she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do in her and behind my back and i didn't know it and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never want to hear you know could be in that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life and and i don't think he really heard of me i'm not and i put him out and i'm proud that you know you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody they get put out they house where they grew up and you know don't be angry about it but i mean she didn't know me and 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 the guy that was and 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 you know i just heard and not heard that

guy you're hurting apparently we're the one have. left agree even go back i just think about it for you. got there are some people. devon melville works and i see him in san francisco on saturdays his girlfriend there comes to pick him up and devon was imprisoned but you know who works for belonging to a kind. of basic i mean to where i am today for i want to say. i was. bad but when i got how it was really when it happened when i got out it really got a probation and. a lot of. i don't really see this part of town so much. so trapped by. the yeah i don't

really get around too much. to my neighborhood. there are just a few miles between whites and francisco the city visited by tourists and they view but there are two completely different worlds here devon in the scene account live a peaceful life there from different neighborhood turfs and i'm a gangs. transportation getting around here neighborhood it's me living. but when i'm in a neighborhood i have no friends there's no. outside. i know i can get shot or killed or. any other day. oh it's not on here for. the first. i know. that people like the one i'm. always here. in my neighborhood young men with us

carrying pistols as young teenagers fourteen and under four and i think from. those in my neighborhood i thought this before that's what i'm seeing every day. and then go 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 and slant. always i will hear the case when i ask him and when i let me. go places i got. to go places but. back then i. didn't. know where i had to go i was.

shown also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old pals who are still associated with the harbor road 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. and she knew him well. the trees. in west point you go back go france 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. and like. right here. right problem row. there are. a ghetto. who are always. right in our mark

potter sold out the street where my best friend was marco. these brothers go eat they go to the movies they don't have a place just like all the other people do officers in all it but when they come out the area they just as that's more recent time meet again banks the drug dealers they just walk why does everybody have a tag we're not gay so thank you ted. is very few people like us to talk to the youngsters now it's like they are here with the head cut off like no telling what to do the school they go to juvenile back in for that's why we. see your race steady go until now i mean if you were out here do you want to play in the streets. around you spin around you this is all it's not.

from all. for those that can make it. as they do. basketball trying to make. 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 account that's coming from a war zone as was all of that will flood brothers as. 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 i'm coming down here we don't want nobody to be popping up and they are people somebody yes this is. america it is me. me and we are we have questions we have course we have like ten to

fifteen questions now we ask them are you gang related do you go team up do you have the major beef 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 we ration is not for it and you say and this like no stop we got caught up in one of the movie city jobs because they still smoking weed you know since they're you know eleven take a piss test and we've only had to take a piss test and i wasn't prepared today and want to go take a piss test existing beggary really want to see you listen you're a thug nation why do this thing it's only. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room incident i'm a last for three months in neutral territory far from the war zone these kids are

told a little of everything i look for a job how to get an id card or simply how to fill out forms. and they learn civic behavior in the end with they really want is to find a job. and almost typical sunday morning in the american neighborhood but here nothing is typical the harbor road kids can't come here because it would mean risking their life. a rock singer is very committed to his community and to peace to promote his latest cd. for everybody. we don't. know that. is. really. hard. work for the.

white. rapper j.t. promotes peace with his music the neighborhood association organizes again 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 very poor and they have no job no future no hope their only choice is for the future of prison. devon films everything with this camera this footage reveals work life is really like invading your life so i got to go with nobody i'd be a real threat of. any day any second thought. now the people i know . like they call me they'll probably depends on a crowd and they say. that i'm always talking i'm always speaking about how we need to give money. overrule. a little to let them do right

now though we are using. people capable after all this is all wrong here. here at any moment fun and games can turn into tragedy. 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 you can. see it here drive by gang shootings are common in san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly in debut it's. a world war russell. wilson told. the snow already clits. we're going to see. this is how the kids remember the

dead friends and specter tony chaplin and then bro brief from the special brigade against us and tell us about. these guys getting 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 i go for walks i mean a lot of go folks that are just literally being held hostage or you know i mean. they later lies but everybody knows what's on the cup going. according to the inspectors the presence of gangs here is evidence 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 yet. to rock big block in kirkwood.

coarsely that assess we're on earlier then again you have the allies you have the home gang here wes and who's turf this this actually is then you have sonny deal. who's a group way on the other side of the city who west mob is played 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 rights brings. we have a lot of photos of these guys they were in rags and it looks you know if you don't know any better you think you're stuck in south central los angeles and there were rags and it's one of the gang signs you got photos of guys don't want to double you and they got there rob. they've got tattoos all over them it's a big black 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 where 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 is being put up dividing the neighborhood and 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 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 rock festival music's been played to the success with many of the young people in ghettos one of them as a big surprise j.t. has brought kids from his neighborhood with him from both arbor road and west point . out in oxford street right now going to get into. it and. 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 new but the ghetto and crime are always a part of broken zick. it's time for the awards the winning groups take over the stage. j. . he is getting ready to appear with his boy his latest cd has also won a prize. to

play. here. it's time for the redirection project graduation ceremony at san francisco's city hall short for 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 will sean managed to increase the rate this year. they

are aware of this to beat the streets with. the three big it was too much because it was no more but i mean we could've got more but they you know it was too much for what it was and now facing enough to help us get through what we got to do and pictures of my life i never heard of where they are six cents. but he said what right now and it's determination in your will power words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail colleagues lost his job four months later. doing his twelve votes in his body. he couldn't have here in the last photograph because it was killed before it was taken that. quote we don't think. that. that. kind of.

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