the free syrian army side i was the air force intelligence and carmel jamelle which were two of the most dangerous parts of aleppo at the time and on new year's eve after i got to photographs i went there for i was on my way out forty five minutes from the turkish border when i was abducted by the on the ocean front ok i mean syria i didn't want anybody coming to rescue me there was no way you can land seals in the areas that i was in one prison yes it was out in the country every other one was in a lot so there's just no way to fly black folks low enough where they're not going to get shot down so i didn't want anybody coming to get me but i did want them doing the best that they could to keep me safe and none of that was done. vonte don't comb or any of her other social media for the latest from us twenty four seven from the line from moscow it's kevin i was saying thank you for watching this latest update.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. on the shores of the mississippi river new orleans louisiana. the city is known around the world for its jazz. the famous musician louis armstrong and sidney bishop born here. in treme an african-american neighborhood. the bethel church is packed this morning

. if you're a. hero right out thirty five was shot and killed during what appears to be a revenge that. they're fairly common in the area. the mother of the victim has already lost a relative in a shoot out. shoot guns kill almost one person every day within the black community. leaving me so never. to remove the victim's brother his visit. here was murdered and out sound was of course you know her to radar know it arrives to sit in the united states but. not at the start or it's always when the better they tell something else. is going to caribbean tradition

if you must be joining. the funeral march turns into a celebration of. dentists jazz and alcohol companies good to see this town is less church. starts today. so let this little boy take the sun. light out. and then spin the coffin three times in honor of the neighborhood of the deceased the third district was the first. to 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 big easy. to get. 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 poverty . that's when it comes to cyclists.

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 to my. backyard said was happening and that you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. right now to see that the machine is. built on swamps new orleans is surrounded by alligators there are more alligators they are everywhere.

and. plagued by violence not the big easy as falling into chaos. in treme to reno welcomes us inside his mother's home and the house where he grew up but his brother killed by gunfire. was i would love. to out. to reims cousin who was also affected by violence. i'm sixty years ago i lost a son down in the wall he was seventy he'll be about thirty eight now he was shot he was shot emerge it's the second murder in your family the there's several more for the many oh i couldn't come at least over the years by the least twelve members

of my family close members and murdered. the reason behind those murders is drug trafficking. like many others trains brother was a drug dealer he made a lot of play. games. and this is all of that in putting lives life up in the. for the most part man in blue is the clown and that in the usual i have it personally when i talk about movies. mean was it you know close 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 car loans he wanted people to know and i

don't mean a lot of times and so that's something that i still check for. in the afternoon to remind those at the very fancy esplanade evidence to go to st anna church. and 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 names for this year only. most of these men and women were shocked. and under thirty. who would have this type of commemoration so 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 tarin brother. there are so many victims that he no longer has time to have the names of the graves were shot 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 all of that equates to the vibe just as our it's. the last name that the priest and historians brothers. pray for the truckers. her.

military began writing those names eight years ago he 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 critical that was hit by gunfire outside help. a young cousin of the victim was shot in the arm also admitted to 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 about. this is my son. this is still about it think he is though he's three and it. soon is that go inside that's not going kill him no was this is not a month of the love in the bullet in my birth the birth of the my in the n.h.l. my life baby nephew floyd so in his own untruthful he wanted me to write born out of the book money in the. only kind of a risk run every day this is my brother. how. they keep it running. through. the effects. great. britain. the murderers could be from the same neighborhood. just

unbelievable so you could 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 look up to you to do which is street light i.e. handy so you can see when she was in the boat you know but what she do home is a like they say you. know. in the black neighborhoods like this one. forty percent of children live 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 i want to. be doing the piece about. she's giving him grief for talking to white journalists. he would say that's then. you have the right but i mean a government in time to bring in more of a mounting. case darkly of oh my ok i'm sort of there where they can. help and i'm very much i think. and it was. ok so this is a neighborhood you know it was not just right now the whole center and we don't have night you hands out one of those neighborhoods or does i now have a maid and there's a video saying this don't bring more of their rights i need our stories out because i have no answer just hours to talk to the black mayor all right those are the things they do as a discourse they think ok ok i hear you but you know people can yes it's just this

is you and you bring as i am aware that one have not let down like a gun in a free until you see the separate scene his arm salvation. that's on the way we can get them to stop killing devil. like. this moment is part of the nation of islam. a radical muslim organization that promotes the superiority of the black race.

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 right. off back ten years after it's me. this is only one of about twenty thousand. that twenty thousand that's like. when you come up. for air and there's a bend in there is a reason for the increased crime rate. this is a. black neighborhood a high crime neighborhood become a crime in aware of drugs wherever you got drugs are. african-american people the floods they do with the situation of the country roads . 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 go hungry people go to beach stream. 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 quarter. every tourist from all around the world gathered a. lot of. access to. my mind. and of course here jazz is everywhere. bars

with dance floors and every. day for the last two. his name is also played by violence last year one person was killed and nine were injured in a shoot out in the middle of the french quarter. on another night a man attempts to kidnap a drunk girl. the man tries to stop him. but the aggressor points and it was the end of. 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. 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 had two seconds later two guys came in behind him the first at last and then the second guy came in sit very well or maybe go rounds the first day and he wanted to hear the rest are. right here in the drawer. for a second put a gun to his head made it go to the ground they got this is not a job now or what else. claim 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 protection 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 balsam this particular gauze 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 it opens it automatically has a hole 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 a police officer get to face chaos. it's as if you know 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.d. units passing me leaving the city. many police officers never returned. and now we're you know we were very low on manpower dangerously low not only for 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. a lot of this stuff handy just in case again something crazy happens active shooter as a you know so 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 a good show ammunition as well as a. 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 quitting 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 there going oh oh how far is the range zero 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. even if. 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 the weapons to fight criminality. it's in the heart of the french quarter the live city tourists a forty year old millionaire. he made a fortune in the garbage disposal service. i'm trying to get you know rap today. a good quote about eight hundred ninety thousand herb by. a million.

his house had been burglarized several times so sidney decided to invest part of his fortune into the security of french quarter. he created a unique and. it 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 out 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 once again this is a crime just came in over the radio and they say they sent a picture here you see suspicious person dolfin in 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

being 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 clip from the millionaire i was driving to violence in the city and every sane way to deal with garbage like. we should hope for the misery 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 i decided to follow his advice and invested several hundred thousand dollars to create the french quarter taskforce a unit that works directly with the task force you download it and you're able to

connect i think 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. who as you can see had way last gray white black and blue. this afternoon as yet another t.v. interview. has become a reference in the fight against criminality. you know it's not just one people in jail for arresting our way out it's not that. 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.

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