born here. in treme an african-american neighborhood. the bethel church is packed this morning . if you're a. hero right i thirty five i was shot and killed during what appears to be a revenge that. they are fairly common in the area. or much the mother of the victim has already lost a relative in a shootout. guns killed almost one person every day within the black community. leaving me. during the victim's brother his visit. there was murdered and out sound was all for you know her to restore no it allowed us to sit in the united states but. you know

that's not a support it's always put in a better place doesn't help. putting to caribbean tradition if you must be joining. the funeral march turns into a celebration. dances jazz and alcohol companies good to see this town is less. starts today. that little boy like the sun like. life without love.

spin the cars and three titles in honor of the neighborhood of the deceased the surge destroyed the. list the rate has increased by thirty percent this. new orleans is one of the most dangerous cities in the united states it's also the one considered as the most joyful. its nickname is the big easy. but hurricane katrina struck louisiana in august two thousand and five and it literally saw new orleans. winds over one hundred ninety mph floods over several feet. one thousand were killed. one hundred thousand were forced to leave new orleans falls into chaos and power.

cuts like. in the neighborhoods hit by the floods criminality exploded. especially on the eastern part of the city where murders happen on a daily basis. so simple citizens like brandon gear up to defend themselves. keep a lot of this stuff handy just in case again something crazy happens active shooter . a young millionaire sidney torres fights to increase security in the tourist. is what. those little connected electric. field said was happening and that's you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. right now to see what the machine is. built on swamps new orleans is surrounded by

alligators there are more allegations they are everywhere. plagued by violence in. the big easy as falling into chaos. in treme to reno welcomes us inside his mother's home in the house where he grew up but his brother killed by gunfire. with i would love. to out. to reims cousin who was also affected by violence. come sixty years ago i lost a son down in the wall he was seventy it be about thirty eight now he was shot he was shot emerge it's the second murder your mum has several more for

a minute or i can come about a lease over the years by the at least twelve members of my family close numbers and murder. the reason behind those murders is drug trafficking. like many others trains brother was a drug dealer he made a lot of money. cia me. and this is already at a pretty much lived his life up you know for the most part man he's the clown at the usual i have a purse and i talk about movies. even using you know clothes as one of the things that we. know when mayhem was together. very early on the young man felt deep into criminality most criminals have weapons here.

that he's got a lot of. black sheep in the us he wanted people shooting up and out of a lot of time. so that's something that i still check for. in the afternoon goes to the very fancy esplanade ever to go to st anna church. an entire wall is dedicated to the victims of crimes committed in this city. no. less a lot of man. on this one more than three hundred acres for this year only. most of these men and women were shocked. and under thirty.

who would have to come every since of the people that lost their lives said. bill terry the priest came up with the idea to write those names on the walls of his church. and we decided that naming the names of murder victims in a public display would be helpful in reminding us all that these are human beings. this morning you will add five new names to his memorial including tarim brother. there are so many victims that he no longer has time to have the names of the great source of the september. america raised off a bot. it's not just by god it is one of the reasons look at the movies in america that are the stuff that goes on in this country so that equates to the it's as our it's. the last name that the priest and his terrains brothers.

pray for the truckers. her. military began writing those names eight years ago you will soon run out of space to write the names of the new victims. at the same moment east of the city a young man was just killed another drug related act of revenge. the police has shut down the neighborhood the local t.v. stations are already there. it is very real what was it like on fire killed somebody else. a young cousin of the victim was shot in the arm also with him having gone well too heavily armed men fired on the young man as he was leaving his home. shell casings are all over the ground bullet holes.

the neighborhood is in shock. and. the mother of the victim this devastation that. this is my son. this is still that is being seen in so history and it. soon as that goes on is that much now gone kill you know was designed a month of the love in the bullet in my birth the birth of the may in the n.h.l. my life brave enough before you so in his own untruthful you want me gone out of the book given the. kind of a risk every day this is my brother. how can it. keep it running. through. the now if.

it's a member of. the murderers could be from the same neighborhood. just unbelievable so you can identify you know you know the guy who shot yes oh my nieces and my son i'm not because from aleppo. jacob lives just across the road. he's also a drug dealer. what happened today doesn't surprise him. it wasn't that most people of my age looked up to him to do which is street light i.e. handy so you carry a gun when he was in the bowtie you know but what you do call me. like they'd say you. know. in the black neighborhoods like this for. forty percent of children the below the poverty line. unemployment is twice as high as in the rest of the city. these inequalities have created

racial tensions. on the other side of the town in this upmarket area tarina stopped by one of. the door the fisa fellow was. just giving him grief for talking to a white journalist. living with his best interest. you have the right but i mean eight. months or one in time to bring in more of a mountain. historically of like ok i'm sure there would have been you helping him bring more white people. in this. case so this is a mix like neighborhood is not just right now the whole center and we don't have you know how well known neighborhoods like this are now they make and there's a video saying this don't bring more of their rights and he's are going to have

those i have no say this person who took to the black neighborhood right after this first they answer this question they think ok ok he's like ok can you pass an address this is you anybody else i am aware that one have not let down like a gun in a free space is that the separation is our salvation. the best on the way we can get them to stop killing devils. like. this woman is part of the nation that this is. a radical muslim organization that promotes the superiority of the black race.

and. i would say. we don't have any protection for whistleblowers at all if you do have to die for recently. i think the public sector as well as in the private sector that information would have to be how it can be made public and that actually puts pressure on the parliament to become more on this. and. that business is in favor off the public to. apply to many. over the years so i know the game inside out it's. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch pull the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each a billionaire owners and spending shouldn't twenty million on one player. it's an

experience like nothing else i want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great so one more transfer. and thinks this minute. in new orleans two centuries of slavery have left painful scars within the african-american community. that accounts for two thirds of the town's population moreover that african-americans feel that they were abandoned during hurricane katrina. in two thousand and five under the pressure of the water dozens of poorly maintained levees broke. mud flooded eighty percent of the town that was under sea level. today the town still bears the scars of the disaster especially in the poor

neighborhoods. aka the dancing that is here one of the most devastated areas. he believes that nothing has been done to rehabilitate this neighborhood. i'd. just ask tough. tough tough team after its name. this is only one of about twenty thousand. that twenty thousand that's like. right when you left. for air it was a bend in areas so the reason for the increased crime rate. this is down the black neighborhood. high crime people

become a crime in a weapon drugs where you've got drugs are. african-american people being flushed they do with the situation of the country no job no food if you're not easy. if you now do. i land when a situation yeah yeah you know you will go to the extreme the hungry people of will to be extreme. since the hurricane criminality has increased by forty percent. on the other side of the city we encounter a different atmosphere. louisiana is a former french colony and the most touristy area really is the french. arena tourists from all around the world get a. lot of the. kinds of

access. and of course here jazz is everywhere. bars with dance floors and every. day for the last three business is also played by violent last year one person was killed and nine were injured in a shoot out in the middle of the french quarter. and another night a man attempts to kidnap a drunk girl. man tries to stop him. but the aggressor points into seattle.

the man begs for mercy. dresser shoots him in the stomach then tries to kill him. luckily his weapon jams. the shooter takes flight. the men will survive this incident. the aggressor you're a cain twenty one has already been charged with rape and robbery. you'll be arrested two days later. by night these types of aggressions are multiplying especially in restaurants which have become new targets for the criminals. the pathway is a fancy restaurant. from six months ago the own choosing and his team were the victims of an armed robbery. as lorenzo general manager. fellow for the back right up front you know. how you do it it's

a riot. yeah on that day the restaurant was packed like it is tonight. the security cameras have recorded the whole scene. there were three robbers. one guy came in and maybe a second attitudes and slated to get came in behind the first and then the second guy came in sit very well or maybe go rounds the first day i sit here to the register. right here go in the drawer then for a second put a gun to his head maybe go to the ground they've got this is not a job now or what else. play in carries a gun but he chose not to use it on that night avoiding a bloodbath it's the threat of being shot or killed that's the it's not a wallet it's not

a cellphone it's not money it's not stealing my car it's someone gets shot and there's no other option do you carry a gun to know it's a difficult issue though because i'm not for it but in a mill you like this worse there are so many dangerous people with guns it makes sense for people those guns to protect themselves. in the united states the gun issue is a sensitive subject. for traction are they responsible for the increasing number. in new orleans more and more people chose to arm themselves. play. brennan forty years old former police officer. he doesn't leave the house without his arsenal and i'm going to just go right on the waistband.

all the medical evidence is really very simple it just has what we call combat also this particular goals has a static agent. you know he in the not only saw they both have this wave opening feature which imagine my my pocket here got this little hook as i go to pull this out the pocket this little hook catches the inside of the pants and opens it automatically as a pull it out so i can i can defend myself from either side maybe a push against a wall and this side i'm not able to get this knife so i can get to this one or vice versa. like most people in new orleans brennan was traumatized by katrina. at the time he was still the police officer get to face chaos. this is if you look right there's the mississippi river this is all part of the levee system there was a breach in a levee where one of the oil tanker barges hit it and with that there was some oil so it was really nasty down here.

disaster. when you have adversity at the level that katrina was that's when those true call the start coming out. of family members to dallas to evacuate and when i was coming back into the city in dallas texas i had in a p.t. units passing me leaving the city. many police officers never returned. and now we're you know we're very low on manpower dangerously low not only for the citizens but for the department themselves i mean these guys are you know we look we get more and more people shoot up police is just it's never seen more that than i've ever seen before. obsessed with safety. he transformed his car into a real armory. i keep all of this stuff handy just in case again something crazy happens active shooter as a you know concealed carry permit also keep

a rifle is the actually technically a pistol but i keep something that's a little bit bigger than i keep additional ammunition as as well. body armor medical equipment the stuff that i would simply need to see an active shooter at a school or something like that and then also just keep kind of general preparedness stuff vehicle maintenance stuff tools things for spare flat tires a water fluids for the vehicle general maintenance stuff that you know probably everybody should have in their vehicle. after putting the police brennan chose to open a gun shop. you can find everything here from an automatic gun to an a k forty seven. but the rest is are going oh oh how far is the range zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero for letting us know a little bit with the growing insecurity about brennan says this is flourishing

because like especially considering that in louisiana arm sales are deregulated cool clothes you know if you anything i love you would say you have gone. and you carry it with you you have it on you today and you're sure it's ok so you feel in danger. you know. in this town the number of firearms is booming. their sales doubled the last ten years. but a new orleans. man has found another solution than weapons to fight criminality. it's in the heart of the french quarter that live sydney tourist a forty year old male you know. he made a fortune in the garbage disposal service. i

drive you know rat today. a good quote around eight hundred ninety thousand per. a millionaire in. his house had been burglarized several times so soon he decided to invest part of his fortune into the security of french quarter. he created a unique camp. in allows people to send real time information to the policeman of the neighborhood. you see something that says look suspicious prostitution drug dealing you see somebody getting rob you take this and you can take a picture and send it and it goes directly here it's like having a police officer in your pocket. although one second this is a crime just came in over the radio and they say they sent a picture here you see suspicious person delfina governor nichols and they took

a picture of him see him on the corner you see him on the ground they act like they're sleeping but they're they actually rob people when you walk. his idea was born after his conflict with the mayor of new orleans who he publicly accused of doing in active in front of the rise of criminality i tried to get a meeting with the mayor and he wouldn't meet with me so i made a thirty second commercial and i started putting it all over the t.v. calling the mayor out on the crime in the cities the french quarter is under siege by criminals the problem can be it is only six blocks by thirteen. you may as well advised me to come in this woman in the front the millionaire often struggling with the violence in the city and every sane way to do it with garbage like. we should hold for the ministry for there was a real provocation. and so he didn't like it and he took offense to it he made millions and millions and millions of dollars off

a garbage contract in the french quarter and maybe he should just to get some of that money and do it himself if he thinks it's so easy it's just not like they decided to follow his advice and invested several hundred thousand dollars to create the french quarter task force a unit that works directly with the task force you download it and you're able to connect police do exactly this was something that was launched just days ago in tonight's businessman city tour today the young millionaire has become a star in the american media. you know who as you can see had way last gray white black and blue. this afternoon he has yet another t.v. interview. has become a reference in the fight against criminality. you know it's not just draw people in jail for arresting our way out it's not that it has to we have to have

programs the mayor the city the citizens work together. if we receive so much. it's because he is a real success in his neighborhood criminality is down by forty five percent. according to the department of justice r t the channel you're watching now is an

agent of before and even hostile power all the while the d.o.j. refuses to explain why this is the case critics warn r.t. is a test case for a wider campaign of media suppression. you seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun bad guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have better live better and i think they are and hurting one of my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa a million americans have been killed by phones in the us and we had a thought i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who had met and photographed those years

ago i don't know that but we are not. almost three hundred islamic state fighters are believed to have fled the liberated syrian city of raka the pentagon admits that only a few suspected militants were detained as they left. the russian parliament passes a law allowing the kremlin to classify media outlets as foreign agents it calls a similar move made against r.t. in the united states. and the u.k. think tank claims that volunteers attempting to help refugees cross international borders are being treated as criminals by the e.u. . for all the details on those stories and more head to r.t. dot com crosstalk is next finding out why r.t. america has been forced to register as a foreign agent and at the top the hour my colleague kate snow and we'll bring you your a live news update so do stay with us.