Gong, which is near the tick rate region. This fighting words has had no letup ever since it started about 9 days ago has caused massive casualties and the civilian casualties that are being witnessed in some parts of the region are not giving any confidence to the people. There already. 100000 people who were already internally displaced within the region even before the christmas started. And that was the last happened just about a 100 kilometers from where we are right now in a small town called mike cutler. Of course, the government is blaming the tea p. L. F. Fighters for the killings of people, most of it done through beheadings and using all kinds of weapons. But on this evening, the t. T. L. Of leader, the protests you dont get there. Michael held, released a message where he said that it was not his forces who carried out these mutha and said that there was no need for an independent inquiry into the killings in my country. Of course, the government is claiming huge victories in the western part of the take a very region, particularly areas near the border with eritrea. Today they claim that they have taken the town of the ambassador and have their sights on the capital mackellar, the Prime Minister, says this is going to be a very quick operation. But when you look at how heavily armed both sides are, it looks like its going to be a protracted war. And that is what is causing concern for many people. Something that the brain fear is that this conflict is going to have ramifications far beyond the borders of ethiopia. In our, of the headlines, more than 40 people have been killed and 20 others a missing after typhoon vanco battered the philippines. Extensive flooding is destroyed. Thousands of homes and emergency workers is still trying to rescue, trapped residents. As the typhoon hit the country in just 3 weeks. Top u. S. , government and Election Officials say this months president ial election was the most secure in american history. This is the strongest rejection yet of Donald Trumps unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. The group says there is no evidence that ballots were compromised. China is now the latest country to graduate from president elect joe biden. In while trump is refusing to concede, well, the u. S. President is expected to give a news briefing within the next hour at the white house. This is going to be the 1st since his election defeat. Of course, want to convey how kit has more on that. This is coming as we now know that there is another state that has been called for joe biden as the u. S. State of arizona. And in fact, one of the lawsuits by the Truck Campaign to challenge results in that state has been dropped. Now, the Campaign Still insists that it is exploring all legal options. Donald trump has been saying on twitter that he believes that he is the rightful winner of this election. But again, the evidence mounting to the contrary. One of the most powerful officials in south africas Ruling African NationalCongress Party has appeared in court on fraud and corruption charges. Prosecutors say millions of dollars of Government Funds were misused, and secretary general was a provincial leader. He denies any wrongdoing has been granted bail until february. So coming up next, ill just share it, daisy and max. Its the story of a young mother and a Gang Violence counselor. Well have more news after that about often else time as you, but later life. Now max sits in a room where visits are tightly controlled. The no cameras are allowed. He cant be seen or heard. All he can do is write and this is what he says. Gang life. This was our foundation. It what we all know. And i tried to do something different. And when i met daisy, it was the best day of my life. I wish that they could have gone on forever. My past caught up with me and made us all pay the price or the like max daisy grew up in south los angeles. The place that used to be called South Central. Infamous for drive by shootings, gangs and the rodney king riots. But for hundreds of thousands of families that make south l. A. Their home. Thats just part of the story. Come up with a week, a thing every day. Daisy grew up here, the middle of 3 sisters in a cluster of small houses. Her dad bought about 25 years ago. They did it. We grew up in South Central bottom all away from where the l. A. Riots started. The day with most of me, my sister surname, 1st generation americans and my family comes straight from mexico. My dad brought all his brothers and sisters with the dream, then the hopes of them having a Better Future record of a cake. And what is the polish less poverty that have been never lock us up, but what is thought of her in 2002 when daisy was 15, the security her parents had worked for was shattered. Her older sister, on helicopter was shot and killed in the driveway of the family property and had finished college and was just about to start a great job. She was also raising 2 boys. The shooter was a gang member. And this fact as mark daisys life in more ways than one. Welcome to be here. Your heart. Thats what youre going to do. There. Either in the questions for me. To start teaching myself a little bit about you. I have a bachelors in psychology, a masters in francis psychology, and i in the counseling psychology program. Now i have dedicated my career to working with you that are involved in generational gang involvement. And if we can help more people like that, then maybe we can prevent more victims. So when you consider while shes studying for her doctorate, daisy has been working as a counselor for that risk families and their kids. But its a job that sometimes puts her in danger. See thats not good. But to get it on, somebody spending this. And im going to call live i couldnt, i couldnt get where they were from. There will be here like i like chaos at the park. They were throwing up their gang signs. See, i would be fair. He would know what to do. If daisy could call him max would know what to do. He had been a gang member for most of his life. Before he became an interventionist part of the intervention workers really, really help and they come like this just now everybody wants becomes a gang member in florence. Crown the lowest estimate is 3 percent. The highest estimate is 15 percent of the kids in those neighborhoods to become gang members. Violent crime and gang membership in los angeles has dropped in recent years as it has in other parts of the country. But people in south l. A. Are still about 3 times more likely to be murdered than in other parts of the city. And summer is the most dangerous time. In the hot months when the tempers flare, even a small class can turn deadly in the city, hires interventionists like max to work in the parks and head off any violence. Gang intervention workers still have credibility with the gang. They cannot oath. To have the respect of Law Enforcement and not snitches. So these guys live on their word. They walk a very thin line. Did no one else can really fully appreciate what these and women do. They keep one body bag from becoming 15 body bags to the max started trying to reduce the violence about 12 years ago when he was 31. By that point, he writes, all i knew was gang life in prison. And all reality, i did never see me getting out but then one day i couldnt explain to a friends little girl why i couldnt come home for christmas. That broke my heart. And i decided i had to change oh max and i would be walking arm. Because i would just join him in his walk so we would just make our presence known, you know, with the kid, with the people playing basketball inside. Or, you know, teenagers to like to hang out in the back. That wouldnt be going on. And he was here, let me tell you that im here and thats what i meant. Basically because the max, he had me talk to her on the phone regarding a client that was that i was service team, but he got shot in their area. The max wouldnt michael be on the phone, the whole phraselator and i started doing this job. I was sent out to a lot of crime scenes. I saw a lot of stuff that was very difficult to deal with. Its not easy to see a kid that youve been working with. You see him at school and then the you get a call and you see and with the sheet over him. Over a couple of years, daisy and max bonded through their passion for community work. He says, i told my go, were going to marry her. And they said yeah, i believe you do, i believe. And they said no, no, no, no. Ok. So what i am, what i did they see and i just like my pregnancy was the happiest time of my life. I never felt so full of life literally. You know, there was this look in his eye seen him experience something new and it just brought me joy. Like ive seen a little kid in oh yes yes. But its and thought nothing of a joke. You know, they say the guy in the though were not far media can more like this, then thats so youll get out then after but they will, theres going to salem and there lets start over on the fact board up there. Yes, i could, and he solve it. Its been 6 months since baby sarah was born. Max is working on the streets. Daisy is studying for her doctorate. And sarah has 2 parents who adore me behind the gates of the family. Property. Life seems to be going pretty well until in the middle of the night in late spring, daisy wakes up to loud voices and the sound of her door being smashed in. I couldnt move by. I couldnt move. I just stood over my baby because i dont want to know mess with her. Its an f. B. I. Raid and its part of a city wide sweep. The feds cause operation breaking bad. It was very fusing. And they were just like, oh, where is it . Where is where he put on like, what are you talking about . Maxs hauled outside where he is cuffed, arrested, and taken away. Daisy is left by herself with her baby and several armed f. B. I. Agents. Have some of these agents sad are trying to talk to you like theyre your friends like you, you know my wife, shes had a baby, shes 16 months old and im like ok, so you understand how scared i am i really dont know whats going on. I just you know why you nicely but they dont leave. I mean, what starts as a bad dream turns into a nightmare. The social worker is coming. And then i look, i already know when you, once you call the social worker, shes not leaving empty handed. I reckon she came and said, im going to have to take the baby im thinking youd have to kill me to take my child. And they were just like, if you cooperate, everything will be easier. So she was like either make her bad or i could take i dont even remember handing over like it just went from having her to not having her. I dont even remember being there that i was on today, and its been over 4 days since the f. B. I. Was here. Its just hard at the nothing makes sense. Everything is kind of odd. So i feel as saw this has been a big mistake. Max is held in the federal Detention Center in downtown l. A. The charges against him are for a minor drug deal. 3 years ago before he and daisy became a couple the f. B. I. Agents told social workers they found drugs in the house. Based on that baby, sara has been taken away to a foster home. I have to find a place for her outside of this property and do some made a drug test and pending that. And my people be given back to me. Theyre arresting people that are charged with these, you know what in the governments mind or these horrific crimes and theres kids or so the easiest thing to do is scoop the kids up, put them into what the government considers a safe environment and then let the family court determine what to do with them. And theres one charge against max for a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine with him on a codefendant. 3600. 00 was involved in the transaction and the customer turned out to be a confidential informant for the f. B. I. They arrest happens 3 years later because they dont want to burn the confidential informant. Theres all this is real. Typical max is denied bail. Daisy will not be allowed to see him in person for 3 months. She will only be able to communicate with him by phone and email. Both monitored. The raid does not produce any new charges against max, but the existing charges from 3 years ago could put him away for life. If the case elect a bad dream, if you nightmare like some of the kids started calling would happen, there was hardly last the matter that my brother and her problem this is happening to her. I handle this just feel like theres big boy somehow when i got an intervention worker gets arrested. This sort of when i told you so all mentality from the public. But i know what these men and women do. There are amazing human beings. But they do not walk on water. Max is not allowed to discuss his case, but daisy strongly denies. There were drugs in the house on the night of the raid. The f. B. I. Insists there was meth in the house, but is not releasing any documentation to prove. I took a drug test hours after they took zahra, the social worker calls me and says, your urine was too clean. Why did you drink so much water . And i said, you know why, you came into my home, you took my child and i suppose it may be a family in this one. Even daisy who has no criminal history, takes another drug test and passes it. She moved her things to her aunt and uncles house and asked the social workers to inspect it as a new home for sarah, outside her old neighborhood. But as the weeks turn into a month, the baby is still not released to her or to family members like her mother and father who have applied for custody as shes not getting any answers from the county. When max decided to change his life a decade ago, he could have walked away entirely from gangs. But instead he chose to stay in that world to become a gang intervention worker and try to undo some of the damage he had done in his past. Having one foot in one foot out his 1st, getting them in trouble, trying to make peace agreements between gangs. You have to speak to criminals. As speaking to these people will make you guilty of a crime him. I have had many conversations about this work while we were colleagues, and he said that he would give his life in the street if it could save any of these kids. Max writes, if you grew up in a community where there is no violence, you dont see the struggle that kids go to when they see gangs as positive. But like any of us could be maxs position. There are everything taken away in oh, i feel like he has been tainted. Its like being in a religion. You have to live in both worlds. You dont have a choice if you want to be effective. You have to in river bed. Weve done in our paths would train like a 2 for it and its not recognised, and its always the bad whatevers bad. 1st, our past always hunts us to drive their industrial expansion and european powers colonised, huge areas of the world rich resources. 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Everyone close to would benefit by the abuse of power and corruption, jolo hunt for a fugitive on the jersey war, the war, the war. Hello, im Maryam Namazie in london with a quick look at the headlines now. United nations is saying its concerned war crimes might have been committed in ethiopia is no integrate region by Government Forces of battling local leaders. Its when the fighting could spiral out of control leading to heavy casualties. The 10 day conflict has already killed hundreds of people and sent thousands more fleeing across the border to see don Prime Minister ahmed as accuse the to great Peoples Liberation front of treason and terrorism, and says the offensive wont end until its removed. Amnesty International Says schools of civilians have been massacred, jaring the fighting, some of them hacked to death. Im going to doe is new to grey in the city of gone. Were talking about this is talked to about 9 days ago called the cultural truth and the 3000000000, cultural witness in some parts of the region. I will give you any comfort to the people who are already 100000 people who were already in connally, displaced within the region, even before the conflict. How it did, and what must happened, just about a 100 kilometers from where we are. You know, youre most welcome home, hold my cobra. More than 40 people have been killed and 20 others missing. After typhoon van battered the philippines, extensive flooding has destroyed thousands of homes and emergency workers are still trying to rescue trapped residents. Its the 3rd typhoon to hit the country in just 3 weeks. Taught Us Government election. Officials say the president ial election was the most secure in american history. Is the strongest rejection . Yes. Of Donald Trumps unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. The group found no evidence that ballots were compromised. China is now the latest country to congratulate president elect joe biden on his when trump has so far, refused to concede defeat. One of the most powerful officials in south africas erling African NationalCongress Party is appearing course on fraud and corruption charges. Prosecutors say millions of dollars of Government Funds were misused when a snag a shoot, a was a prevention leader. He has denied any wrongdoing and has been granted bail until february. Its back to daisy and max. Now that Program Continues and till 2100 g. M. T. And i will be back with you for the news hour. See that the health of humanity is at stake. A Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. Is the guardian of global health, delivering lifesaving tools, supplies, and training to help the worlds most found people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments. And of that. Working with scientists and Health Workers to learn all we can about the virus keeping you up to date with whats happening on the ground in the ward and in the land, advocating for everyone to have access to essential health services. Now, more than ever, the world needs w. H. O. , making a healthier world for you. For everyone. The month after an f. B. I. Raid toward daisys family apart. Baby sarah remains in a foster home and max remains in a prison cell. Based on his prior record, the prosecutors are going to seek a life sentence for the small drug deal from 3 years ago. The judge doesnt have to agree to the possibility of life, but he may theyre destroying gangs workers. Thats the purpose of this is basically the federal equivalent of 3 strikes. The particular judge where were concerned is that he would willingly and force it. And at that point, rex doesnt have a real bright future. Desean liz, start gathering letters of support for max from families. Hes helped over the years since he became an intervention where the give him just a stronger. Thank you. Think of the phone, the Police Department juvenile impact program. This is from elementary school, thanking him this from the county. Maxs lawyer submit snyman deep 3 pages of support letters to the court, and everyone waits to hear what the judge will decide. In the meantime, daisy has to keep working through the Family Court System to get her baby sarah back. Daisy has made every condition the social workers have given her. But without success. So macula speak to me, he would be like, oh, no. They said that, you know, you should have the baby backs on by heat is not know whats going on out here. And over a monitor phone line. If theres only so much you can save at this point, daisy think she might get sarah out of foster care. If her younger sister, claudia, can get temporary custody. Maybe maybe we had an appointment at 8 at 750, but cloudier will need to apply for custody from a new house away from the family property. So daisy and cloudier. I going to pool their resources to rent a house east of the city. Since sarah was taken, daisy is only allowed to see her twice a week. Her mommy loves me miss you are my son please dont take my 3rd son there wit. Good night mama. 7 mama, i love, 000. Could you send me a picture . Ok. Ok, thank you. Ok, bye bye. I. They feed you serious. They will kill us and they are this books really unthinking. And this happens. Im going to give her back fats. Look how pretty you look. And looks like from them will leave her alone. My sister living in a nice neighborhood and they have no more excuses. They can give me any more excuses. Its been about 6 weeks now. Daisy still cant understand why shes not been allowed to bring sarah home. And its looking possible that max may never get out. We had filed everything about max in our social services are worthless in the community. A judge was not real receptive chargers not known for his compassion. I wish the best, not everybody, but were talking about a lot of time. I have families dont survive as families. Sara daddy writes you this letter with tears in my eyes. Im sorry. Im not with you. To see your 1st steps. You say . Daisy there are no words in the can express what i am feeling. Knowing our daughter was taken from us. I never meant to put you and sarah in the situation that i did. I dont want you to feel incarcerated with me. No matter what happens to max, daisy has to keep Going Forward to bring sarah home. So she, her sister, cloudy, and cloudy as husband jerry get ready to leave the family property or the big house. All you want is there. If at any point i feel that im not fighting for my family. I i dont know what that would to to me. So yeah, every day is looking to today looking to be here in town. Right there, as old boy during those times or i feel like losing it. I remember when mom and i realized that there is no way that i could every marriage she must of felt with they must have felt to user 20 year old daughter. This is like elica yak, one of the would be men of iraq, a, a hawk on a sort of lovely who would have a few on will call a hero. So my sister had to endure the message by then and kept it a secret. I spent with a gang member after her a few years she decided to, you know, make a life 1st, went back to school, full time job. And he couldnt accept that. He said, youre not, youre not going to see another another birthday of our son. I was 15. I was with her when this happened he waited for us to come home. And i said were in the our doors. I just heard what i thought were firecrackers and i looked over and my sister was covered in blood asking for air. This is why i am the way and is not who i am. But is why i am not the good little. Oh, oh, oh. Check system out there by bringing joy to my letters that i have been here saying read it. This is it you have just like that i feel violated is absolutely not the way that i wanted my daughter to get to know the world. I wanted her to believe in fairy tale or sing, unicorn set happily ever after were going to have to hold the public. Its been almost 2 months since the raid daisy knows, the f. B. I. Claimed macs had drugs in her house on the night. He was arrested but now daisys public defender in family court blindsides her with a new accusation. The day i think im getting settled back. My public defender tells me that theyre going to take me to trial just like the public defender tells daisy the social workers think she must have been hiding something because she took too long to answer the door for the f. B. I. And i say, why was this question asked of me before i was a you dont know me, you have no idea what ive been through. I dont know how im going to do it, but i need another lawyer. There was like daisy sister, cloudier borrow several 1000. 00 from her boss. And daisy uses the money to hire a firm of attorneys who specialize in family law. I went to go meet with my lawyer and he was like, they have a place here with family. Im like, no why . Urge to go to court and he was like, ive been clean else like i dont use drugs. So then he was even more and then he asked me, is your husband in state or federal custody . I said federal and they sit. All he said ok, i says going is like theyre using your child as leverage. Theyre trying to pressure your husband into cooperate. I felt as though someone with knowledge was on my side now. They cannot be making them and they have nothing against me. They can even say i have a ticket. Daisys new attorney talks to the judge who also questions why sarah was not placed with family. The judge says she sees no reason for duty to be separated from sarah any longer but the county social workers still have the final say, you know, a lot bigger than normal friday, saturday, sunday, and have you guys try to fling over the net or what we were told there were many years after her 5th visit to family court. Daisy finally gets a meeting at the county social workers offices for daisy to get sarah back. The social workers tell her max has to give up his parental rights. Since daisy is still not allowed to visit max in person, she has to tell him over the phone, calling from oh, he said, you do and you say whatever you have to do to get the baby yonder stance is not something that can be stopped with any paper its been 9 weeks since the raid max is still in detention, waiting for his trial and facing a possible life sentence. He has agreed to give up his parental rights. And the moment has come for the county to make a decision about sarah like, i dont know what the process is very, very, to leave you just why do they have exactly. I just want one of them called me back. Hello. Ok, great. So where do i oh ok, thank you so much and all this means to me. Ok, thank you. Ok, bye bye. So im picking her up at one. I guess she needed the extra time to get her stuff ready. All right. We can put this behind call your name and know were in a better place or in a better place for her. With for michael, that almost all would be with us as we took 10 beliefs. Walk around free to me, but i think its good to know you did this if you think this is a step step that been a journey of a 1000 miles im thinking be thankful for what you have just after sarah comes home, daisy is allowed to start visiting max in person for the 1st time since the raid and tell her were going to go see daddy. But that good news is short lived. Out of the blue max gets hit with a new set of charges. This time its in a federal racketeering case with 30 other people alleging that he is still active in a gang. Is the indictment on its face. Going to have a potential for a life in prison. But this is the type of thing where once again, they can add that career criminal enhancement of this toast. The federal government has used record tearing laws against organized crime for years. Recently the f. B. I. Has been using the same laws to sweep alleged gang members off the streets and somewhere like, oh my god. So rejoice. That was my 1st thought. Then i realized what this presented to me as an opportunity to be in front of a different judge. The new judge gives max a chance. If he pleads guilty to 2 of the new charges, he can escape a life sentence. So like 97 percent of people facing federal drug charges max enters into a plea bargain. He is thankful to have a release date. He is just optimistic that things will work out for us and hell be out some and for some reason i, i believe him. Right after sarahs 1st birthday, max was sent to a federal prison, a few hours outside l. A. To start serving a 15 year sentence. Daisy texeira to visit him every saturday as he finishes writing access to these deals. So i can go back to be with my family and prove i am a good person. I dont want to kid to see that mistakes, condemn a person forever. The result. But unity for change if you want it in your you know, i guess something something wrong have to want your life for something that comes next and it helped me get i graduated and i was working thanks to them. Other brother max that they see had told me, even if youve got a sure way, youre going to have something a rock in the way that you got to get up and keep on long enough here today to talk about a communication. Oh boy here has been, had ever been put down. What i do comes from the heart is in the midst of your storm. You meet other people that just survive, dont you admire this person. So in me helping them, they help me where there is life. We can survive it all since 2013 wish the World Innovation summit or health has gathered health care leaders, practitioners and understand just together to learn, interact, and engage with innovative organizations. This year. Wish will take place spiritually under the banner of one world are on the register now. Wish dot org dot q a damaging storms have been the thing in queens in the New South Wales in the last couple of days. Largely because the temperatures inland the quite high and there was enough more should to generate these things. The tension as springs is about 40 in the forecast. The average is 6 below that and its quite windy here that again, that in juice is some pretty big showers. In northern territory, whilst things are improving from the point of view, wet weather of a queens in New South Wales and is getting warmer in melbourne, but a lot warmer in adelaide at 29. The opposite is happening in perth in western australia. Its overcast and occasionally wet. Maybe as wanted is there was a lot of spring remains hot, of course, which if the opposite to happen in most of the station winter is still hanging around. Its certainly into cycling. Arent in the far north, top, your screen there and your figure in the breeze in sapporo banalities fine, sunny picture for japan, the korean peninsula, and china. The exception being the southwest of china because vancouver makes landfall in vietnam was spread shadows of it. There were grungy and also possibly for india, west and south. But this disturbance coming through afghanistan to pakistan, will briefly improve the air quality in the hall. And in new delhi, a lot of the fans from my telephone were locked down. We are the ones traveling the extra mile. Where are the media . Dont go. We go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. This is aljazeera. Oh i Maryam Namazie all watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. Civilian deaths in northern ethiopia could be war crimes. The u. N. Warns the exodus of thousands threatens to overwhelm aid agencies. We need clothes, food. We dont even have to begin water a battle for survival after the deadliest typhoon of the season in the philippines and gradually