design and height acted as something of a fortress here indeed as sort and just to show you how close we are if you have a look through this hole at that hospital while everything behind that is isis's part of the city of that is or across the river they also hold sway this is all their territory that's the euphrates river and across it is isis it's from there that they shelled the city at will and from there that they launch the occasional raid across the river taking the other bank is key to liberating the city entirely isis still sends fighters and back and forth across the river at night it may take weeks but it is inevitable isis in syria is on its last legs its collapse has been as spectacular as its rise since the beginning of the year the

so-called calif it has lost thousands of square kilometers losing precious oilfields and strategic towns to the advancing syrian army and the u.s. backed rebels that is not to say it's over all that it will be easy isis has nothing left to lose according to the syrian military and the families of isis fighters and diehard supporters have allegedly retreated to the town of my idea and they have nowhere else to go in the shrinking caliph at this is the final act the dream of an islamic state has been shattered but even in its death throes will inevitably claim more lives more eid guys do you have see from that has order syria. well for more on those and other stories please go to. and i'll be back at the top of the other news headlines.

there are some nazis in the if it's not the mass of the h.d. voters but you know that saying that our culture of atonement. oh remembrance of nuns nazi crimes is wrong that's too much it's the attitude of some people in the if deep which by the way is no in the process of tearing in sales of hard to.

hide. my name is alex i had to come in through filmmaker also have a musician to sway the stories especially interesting to me because it's going next to music right now we're in. bill's c.l.o. are you mexico and this is a very special place where it now if we're to meet me gil local journalist and thanks to me go will be able to find out more about what is going on here. by helping us can you know why i want to use the computer why is it interesting for you personally. well one hand i want to learn more it's just you know trying to write a give the series history of the markets rafiki's you know that i want the world

to know what's really happening here i want them i want wilders then. war. is the largest and the richest seedings you know more than half a million people live here there are no official statistics showing exactly how many work in the illegal narcotics business but we do know for sure that many c.l.o. drug cartel members have made click on their form according to the c.i. a it's the world's most powerful drug syndicate. mexican drug gangs gained power after the colombian cartels were overthrown in the early ninety's since then the mexicans have controlled the whole drug supply chain from the plantations in south america all the way to mexico's mountains to the

dealers on the u.s. streets some say it was the enterprise and spirit of the santa lloyd drug cartel the turned america into the world's primary kicking and marijuana consumers it's estimated that between them the mexican cartels make at least twenty to thirty billion dollars a year from the u.s. say. yes you know you're. also a more. peace man who was just fourteen when he turned to crime and he was wanted for murder so he's grandmother gave him money and he went on the run he joined the drug gang and over many years worked his way up to a senior role. in the past now he's asked us not to reveal his real name. into the i will. never move. in this world is coming and i will do what is brit are going to get out of war. she.

or will you. again stage the fatal accident that killed this man's daughter somehow his wife survived but it was he scar and he was the real target back then he was a self-styled king of the hill he had money influence property and a family now he's alone but things got every day that he is still a life. that is great. for more

than a century the night of may second has been special and click on the police remain vigilant but there isn't usually any trouble that people have seen l.o.l. say he has a small beer the himself maintains order on this day he's a local saint for his believe verse that evening has a similar filter the night before christmas it's not a birth that they commemorate so enthusiastically but the same is death no one knows his exact date of birth he was around thirty eight when he died well more accurately was executed there is now a chapel in the town center mike in the sport where he died it was funded exclusively by his faithful followers there were almost certainly drug lords among them because the law of course didn't see here's a small there there as a saint legend has it that he took money from the rich and gave it to the poor.

this is no there that is known by several nicknames. but rocks ain't. that mexico's robin cook dinner is benedict angelo the poor and weak you know still but was he when real there's very little in the historical records to sell for that yes well here that even existed but people believe there are hundreds of thousands of poles here in mexico who come to this temple and they pray and the house call health and many of these people receive what they need to see what they. come to come from all over the country many leaders say they have experienced miracles and returned to think of the saint and. what doesn't really mean is that he must be able to listen i. think.

that it was a good idea. he told. us well that. this element going to. our product of ok joe lieberman i think everything is your family children and if i mean it was really good for my thinking about the for my kids. the film will. receive. and. i was just filming just on that with ross and even though there's more there it is not recognized by catholic church just treated like the same here. and it is trying to temple people come with candles you see what there is a cousin a small very that everywhere but at the same time it doesn't feel like a regular temple it's very relaxed it's very free atmosphere with the dogs it's

just strange being used to other type of. churches and temples. i'm confused by the same time i think comfort of. the virgin mary it's perfectly acceptable here and that isn't just anyone full. she's an elected member of congress she's been here for many years. looks and know they're there as a member of his family. who will come when you'll. have a yeah. the second phase. of this one of. us will be that. the voting.

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i believe. this is a personal opinion. many times a family no or this relative wife's on what do you want to name it. into. and they do nothing. they used nothing. and that's why this psychologist told me the biggest the bigger the tomb the bigger the guilt. i mean listen this is huge you see deal arms sign over the house are conditioner. bulletproof glass you know any family that is capable of building this kind of tomb they do happen and they do have. what's the use of the parking lot yeah that's the parking lot and if you own cities great for

a few. hours it's on. and you get in you can feed easily at least so what think cars here. then cars. maybe while let's say cars here so that gives you an idea. now do you know how much east each load so you can be revealed once like a lotus like the tiny thing. it's about seven thousand dollars more or less. each one of those just a lot just one single space like you see that the real thing is one space so. close it was about seven thousand dollars just a very sound i mean. it's. like one of those just one you see that that's like let's say let's say let's say six thousand six thousand six thousand so try to picture how many spaces like these they have to buy to have

this you know the whole property. you know do the math. you're almost work reflects. the drug culture he writes and sings ballads called readers here's his latest. capitol of contraband. book tour we were in that got people on the i'm going to. say oh no they don't do good. work you left your notebooks with. a little something but i got it out of the granite get all out of.

your acquittal. and i will never see you. not so interested in the. moment that it's all. ok but i mean the people. in. this. it's traditional among local drug dealers the commission and personal curry to be sun and celebrations good friends they can be sun and funerals to commemorate the subjects achievements which might even be embellished a little habits that actually encourages. more people to be. coming up in the.

single law we need all of it and guess what we're going to sit there with our little thought of what i was mean to me don't. you dollars. happen. only. in america a college degree requires a great deal. decades. studying hard it requires. going through mediation to enter society.

and paci sometimes quite literally. i want other true colors of universities in the u.s. . peacekeeping when it was only about maintaining peace between states at an essentially symbolic value when you have militias when you have criminal groups. the symbol is not enough you need robust force. the young man who led this extravagant most elite would probably have afforded several songs about them and then these julissa let's as you know she doesn't have much time for america but admits that they are popular. the family takes it in turns to tend to the mole julie i'm julie says done today.

money like many people. do. you need to know my head and you don't. owe me one but i know you have seen it again oh he asked me what on my deal yes momentous on one side and yes and we. know you know what i am going to do. there is always something being built here at the garden is still in my cemetery like in a small city new blocks and be a constantly there is plenty of work for the laborers here even if they do complain about low wages video and think about becoming a drug lord yourself or being a golden drug doctor because business probably you can get much more money here than just doing construction work here it's just building graves for those the right words. to humanity. and what. i don't know yet.

even for imo yet again. i am a. grand yeah and a little i hope i don't know what i do you. know and what the. neighborhood to scold must be knows defiance. and this is what i was braced. and this is the house where i was born. yet we simply soaker. against the kid from the oldest straight which is through number twelve this is. number thirteen and one of the kids that i used to play itself against. was became

a drug lord it's very high running. joke for two months i became a journalist among a filmmaker and he came up drug lord i mean how ironic if we only knew when you were a kid if you only knew what it's going to be your life then when he was the one of the most wanted men in the war. or a woman a. that's not an idea different. let me tell you that anything going to. pain you know the blue line it's you know because i have a family that could lead me in the right direction p.d. have any pines he says he's his father was still when he was thirteen years old so he nor fun and you know there was snow on the left. and that's what happened.

so i. gave the cartels are as well called how young do they start in it's real dad sometimes when they are thirteen fourteen years old they start off from which means the washing machine so you know they want to see one single spot. washings if you want to merge them on the soldiers just passed by the day when all you know the door the money's going in that direction is so that's usually when they're starting to smooth then they move us a. little see. which is like a gunman and then they a star your new movie is rock so it's different steps in the charts of deals and. you know. we don't know how this boy died but he was only sixteen.

cardenas built in maya is known locally as the narco cemetery it's where a lot of very young men are buried and that's no surprise to anyone around here about five hundred people a year interred in this prestigious cemetery ill from any drug trafficking was then lena q patient but nobody talks about that openly it's illegal after all if the deceased had a drug trafficking connection occurring those belled is one way to share his story regardless of criminal activity. many sons goodman written about his money or the. logically what made him f.o. key role comparable to robin hood locals often turn to kansas mall there and then when they want to pray for anyone still life but involved in the drugs business the legend says he'll help anyone who believes no matter what they do for a living that is why mexicans adore him as a small there. is no very easy believing. he's.

better. so. it's. you can see he's so much better. if for these so long what they're going to never miss i was. there. for the story of what you. see. to keep.

the main celebration of kids isn't all there there is on the third of may some start to worship him early in the morning just after the night's prayers and this debate has. been for an hour or two ready to carry on. the streets around in his mulberry this temple including a pact with thousands and a celebratory procession to one of the saints begins. to back up everyone had the right to be happy and whatever makes you feel that's fine with there they feel like i drink whiskey you see.

i'm. also makes many people feel good but that doesn't mean that everyone here is somehow connected narcotrafficking director because i know just by the local culture traditionally there that gets the first it's an important local ritual murder one isn't legal in sin or yet but no one is jailed for possessing a small quantity especially in the public hold the police still on the thing they were in scenes they had little we want to hear is like a show to run. a small gesture of affinity with those who believe in bed with cards. this is near. seattle. where almost our ticket group. is the.

only. approve that it is booked this. morning. so you know. they were supposed to meet on the break you were covering. this is a little delish just felt side kliptown going into the mountains and did so very well controlled area. over work as you know roll people leave here. and. i'm just going to say hi

to him in the little. store. it's a grocery store. so i'm just going to say hi just to see if we are just staying inside the car they're going to you know these people express suspicious skillfull come off to ask questions. we've been asked not to reveal where we're going next but even mention the village where this man leaves by local standards it's a large and fluent settlement the village has electricity and nearby school you can only get further into the mountains in this serious. and there is no electricity. to be found anywhere. local say there are almost no legal jobs here so growing marijuana is normal. from local pope is was first produced in the late nineteenth

century it was legal then and supply the same market that it does now. it's just to get. these people a car i called bike and motorcycle and many other things that regular farmers can they really afford. just. looking for food because she's going to go through this phase here if you don't want to see it on its least family like many others nearby because growing marijuana for more than a decade. produces literally thousands of tons of illegal drugs each year.

there are some nazis in the fifty it's not the mass of the a fifty voters but you know to say that our culture of atonement. oh remembrance of nuns nazi crimes is rome that's too much it's the attitude of some people in the if to which by the way is no in the process of tearing itself are.

in the us a child can choose an army course in school. with retired officers as teachers we don't. recruit will says to you if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers. to step up to an apollo so that all for a point comfortable with yourself. you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is very popular first year video games. it's plain ass because the military like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn up for a lot of these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them

to be told or does it just need more recruits. ah. ah. ah ah ah one of my. please. please yes it was. fun it seems a rupture in catalonia is independence referendum with police and with us for.