Challenges president jacob zuma successor will lead the party in the next president ial election in two thousand and nineteen tanya page is in johannesburg. The African National congress elect of conference is underway and its going to be unfolding here over the next five days but most of the discussion and debate will be happening behind closed doors in those buildings there just in the distance behind the fence we can see some of the delegates there about five thousand or so have come here from branches of the a. N. C. All over the country they want to just be voting for the top job president but deputy and in fact all the top one hundred eighty decisions but of course its the presidency that is the most contested the most important to the future of the a. N. C. And there are really two main contenders the first being and course as many zuma she is a very experienced politician. She was a member of parliament and a minister under successive governments of the a. N. C. Shes a former chair person on the African Union very experience shes had a bit of a catchphrase in the campaign that of radical economic transformations shes seen as being very pro force and accused of being populist by some of the main rival is the current defeated president Cyril Ramaphosa another a. N. C. Stalwart neither of these individuals is a new name a new face they have a long history in South African politics and in the liberation struggle in the struggle for freedom so around oppose it was a trade unionist he helped formulate this countrys constitution a very popular man seen as being probusiness he has a business background and a bit of a darling of the markets hes got more to find economic policies perhaps because of bad blood many zuma is the favored candidate of president zuma in fact they used to be married to have Children Together she is believed to be the one most likely to protect them from any legal action there are hundreds of corruption charges hanging over him that could resurface where is his deputy so rehman pose a potentially the next president of the a. N. C. Is less likely to protect the outgoing zuma from those charges funerals are being held for the four palestinians killed by Israeli Forces in the latest protest in gaza in the occupied west bank the railing against the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital if there are was one of those men shot in gaza he was in a wheelchair protesting when he was reportedly hit by a sniper bullets i would throw it was an activist who lost his legs during an israeli air strike in two thousand and eight hundreds of other people were also injured in the confrontations. The u. S. Embassy in honduras has been surrounded by protesters angry at waiting three weeks for a definitive results in the president ial election demonstrators accuse the u. S. Of interfering in last months vote which both candidates say they won proves congresss initiated impeachment proceedings against president pedal problem it was triggered by allegations that kaczynski failed to disclose payments his company got from brazilian construction giant order bricked kaczynski has resisted calls for him to resign and denies any wrongdoing. Relatives of crew members from the missing argentine submarine are demanding the International Search operation continues until a vessel is found contact with some one was lost in mid november Argentinas Navy ended its search two weeks ago after an explosion was detected near the subs last known location row gunday has taken over from his mother sagna as president of indias Main Opposition Party the Congress Party lost popularity over the past three years since its defeat in the general election by the b j p dandies recently stirred talk of a political revival i was just about to become the only country in western europe with a far right party in the government the winner of octobers parliamentary elections the conservative peoples parties reached a Coalition Deal with the anti Immigration Freedom Party as the headlines the news continues on aljazeera but first it is once upon a time in punchbowl. Various crimes or strive. To get away from the war that was happening at the top. And they came to restart their life. As a margaret when i first arrived at this rally i like it i i struggled. It was very difficult. I wanted to give us the data but it. Was a part of the beginning there isnt for us the last. Few decades lebanese families come to a stranger to build a better life and escape the destruction of. That many and demonized in a new land. To. Get rid of this multiculturalism the first that is kind of body and soul. Then after fifteen years of immigration from lebanon anglo and arab australia is divided by the first gulf war theyre being confronted with a choice between doing either. Because up to now the multicultural story is both. First. I already answered this question are going to start as he does or not all the stars trailer and i shouldnt be asked about this. On my odyssey weeks if theres a tally of the about the flick about this. All. In one thousand nine hundred a tiny criminal minority become drug dealing gangsters defying the law lose games will be watched. In two thousand and one. Terrorism raises fears that arab australians are an enemy within on the part of a terrorist or the rival in all of my five years later and our intention explodes into one of the most infamous race riots in a strain in history dont go to the middle east to bottom to the weak or the now that we have been in the eye for sure effect for so tedious for people converged on print out of a chance to outweigh. What happened on that sunday in court all of it is a black or for a country. Im a live in asia wants to own is what i am what i dont know i am a straw man i am lebanese i am muslim im up a majority. Im all that i want this is a story of what its like to be live in ames and colas try and. We are striving and this. Is where we belong and this is what we have. One hundred fifty police were on homes across Sydney Southwest early this morning nine people arrested for a string of bomb crimes over the past year with the having and in the long thing there was a lot of screams on the streets. There was a lot of crying with the police couldnt keep. Going. On the streets it did except the ones who want to save all districts lets put it this way and at that time there was no one to stop them. In sydneys south west lebanese criminals are said to be running out of control punchbowl Bankstown Canterbury look came back the suburbs are described by Law Enforcement officials as a bit of coffee it cocaine trafficking and violence. South west sydney is the center of a strain is Lebanese Community. By the nine hundred ninety s. This deeply religious and conservative community is being terrorized by a tiny minority of criminals from both christian and muslim family owns. A gun i thought. We suffered as a community because of what kids deal with dealing was drugs their way of drug addict is a weird making good money. And this is just killing people it was so easy for them such a mentality to kill people. They fold their weird untouchable. Up. In the mid ninety ninety s. Youve got the growth of crime of drug gangs was sort of stuff. Which is essentially the consequence of not planning for multiculturalism. This sort of if fluorescence if you like of criminal delinquency as a preferred lifestyle is the choice you make when access to the normal rewards a normal path ways a society is blocked. That really subscribe to the society is to blame sort of train of thought. You know my family arrived here in the sixtys and we probably could have used more of a hand than what we got that you make do and you get on and you make a success of all your efforts and your life yet egyptian born New South WalesDeputy Police commissioner nick kaldas still recognizes the pressure of growing up arab in wider australian. I think anybody who says that there is there racism in sydney or australia as they head in the sand the reason rises and that does contribute to some extent to people being a united and it will go down the wrong path. In south west sydney the wrong path means gang activity. The politicians all over the place to use zero tolerance. The gangsters get personal threatening offices and their families but you dont know. The informant was significantly vala. Games running destroying. It involved public by shooting in the campaigns matters it was in your face forward craw. Who would proud of their money and theyre. Proud of the easily gained whirls there with the greatest enemy to Work Community at that time and we needed to make a stand against them. Wanted to form a partnership between the low obeid being citizens and over community and the New South Wales police against those criminal element. A lot of the lebanese young gangsters thought though a bigger than benhur they thought that they were unbreakable and untouchable and thats what i tried to intimidate the police this eighteen year old was shot twice in the legs in a pocket punch bowl of the week in the. It in the area in the end with the rise of the criminal gangs comes an insidious influence american gangster culture in music in movies has a powerful effect on a stray in lebanese take thought. She when you watch gangster movies and and you see all the money in the last all of those sort of you want to give the voice for. Growing up in bankstown. You known as westy is like many young teenagers with a passion for gangsta rap when you become a teenager your eyes open up to a lot of feelings and. Six drugs and rock n roll and were going. To different parts. Like cars and bling and girls and guns thats the culture that i grew up in sally care grows up surrounded by a similar culture but graduates university and works in management with a very mild dominated culture as well theres no theres no denying that and i guess the prove your manhood a lot of cases where you show how much youve earned with your. Jewelry and everything else. Being on the streets and hanging with my friends sort of did you mean identity. Starts to know who you are and they start the fee. Because of you and your boys. Its just these that you do when youre young and stupid and not really thinking. Brought up in a conservative catholic family in nearby paramatman. George basher and his friends also aspire to the glamour of gangsta rap. Its cool in a scene on t. V. The other. Its cycle in and its going you do it and am not thinking ever thinking ahead youre sitting in the moment its always in the moment. Westie comes from a conservative working class family who immigrate during the lebanese civil war. When i was young i had a very very good. Riffing off a kidney from. I had or the love and affection from them. He does well at school until he and his friends discovered drugs who is further smoking marijuana first thing we started taking alcohol then i went ecstasy you know and. You know went to. Cocaine. There sat in my fathers side of me that. Is still you know i shall be a mason up to the future which is so true. Thats we all went off track because ror doing the same feeling getting on drugs making money to support a drug habit and just like in every community in sydney anglo or not the drug culture crosses generations many who stray down the wrong path when theyre young turn into worried parents back with them odd twenties when were all. Hands on and never you know i mean hands on. From car going tomorrow on the to the guns to whatever you want to didnt end up with of uncle sally cares little brother sam has some run ins with the law and hes lucky to avoid jail. But as a father with a young family he worries about the drug record evolving in south west sydney. When you get older more mature you want to get real and you have kids you want to keep your kids as far away from stuff like that as possible you dont want to say the things that you said you dont want to do that youve done. All that a lot of. Unfortunate interaction with people on drugs and other dealing or with people actually using unfortunate because american units. And with drugs comes violence. A more often or absolutely short of simply able to step in i have seen ive seen it all. By the early one nine hundred ninety s. George basher is a Panel Beating apprentice by day and a d. J. At night. But with the gangsters dominating the streets hes also the son of a worried mom. D. J. And all the time. I was what i see in a window. All the time i see some cars top i look from the window. If a judge back home one or not. So in his bed car i feel comfortable i sleep my husband said to me crazy is all of the noise you see in the window i did them because i was one and he went different places you know whats happened there. You know the water is some in from the drugs some people trouble michaels. All styling it in a puff that you know is are. There. One toy mouse get a five dollars at work get a phone call a tommy are your friends falling for his wife with when ospital said do you want to be. And yes me is just bein a. Civil lot. Good to poornima name up and hes funny for. The sort of your friend. The lying in hospital chief come from all of his body. I remember. Very the way the croyde. Turned away and then when i looked closely couldnt sleep tonight. Im thinking of what could go on then he said thats maybe. But for westy and his teenage crew the big life lessons are still to come for then drugs and petty crime go hand in hand. To make money or to powerful doing crime. Is a measure of those kids their parents. Years generations they come in from lebanon and they didnt have much control over that kids activity and so i didnt know what that kids there were doing even though some of them were using parents home as a Distribution Center for drugs and that sort of thing. But westies parents are not so naive. Fear and eventually started to know that i was taking drugs in that i was making money because the woman would formed a lot of cash on issue one joy to find. She started uncovering fings big boy b. And i should start asking ridge a girl to love god have to make some excuse but she knew i was doing. Wrong feelings. And for westies dad theres only one response physical violence. Why farver tried to discipline me in that form. It really doesnt work when you hit someone it just makes them rebuild. And in the mid to late one nine hundred ninety s. This is when many rebellious lebanese tains find their drug supplies. Tonight be a straight punch bowl. This quiet for. Amalie on clay becomes the illegal drug Distribution Center south west sydney. Street was renowned for. Being a violent and organized crime area. There was significant Drug Distribution taking place from runners the lower level street dealers for drugs so there would be a lot of cars going down to like the street looking for dealers to have them supply drugs to people going on the street. And it was actually the same as any fast food outlet you go they stop for five siggins you get to pick a new leaf. Its only a handful of dealers but they terrorize the street they are directly linked to form that is and twenty five shootings. This was the career they tried and i continued on the tradition of other people who would bring involved in organized crime and some of these young men knew nothing kills but to be criminals unfortunately there was a well founded fear at that time that if people went to the Police Station to give them any kind of information those clean criminal element would know about it and theyll come to retaliate. Its difficult for people to stand up and give evidence as a witness against some of these kron gangs because i was on and as we saw a lot on i would shoot and kill people who i thought were going to give evidence against them. For the street gangsters handguns a part of everyday life. Drug you know drug dealing and carrying guns do i go down people protecting its of our ideas and unfortunately a gun culture certainly has come into prominence or relieved. Rounds are supplied by crooked gun dealers and its the beginning of illegal International Gun imports through the post so suddenly youve got the capacity of young people to get guns fueled by money and they see themselves as likely new drug lords there are on a short fuse they think money is easy and the place i never touch them. There were a significant place response to this. Which which resulted in police undertaking survival and. Covert operations until id be straight on drugs themselves mike is sure that undercover operatives were down the street identifying those who are responsible for selling the drugs. But the police under political pressure to get tough on crime also struggled to keep the community onside. Community policing at that time did not exist. Police officers on the street did not communicate they forced subjugated and treated. Young people in a very bad manners and at same time there was their idea was in the community that there is a lot of corruption within the police force and so. I think from a policing perspective engagement is what is key its all important perhaps in some ways in the in the ninetys we were not as engaged as we could have been. As their relationship with the Police Becomes increasingly fractured christian and muslim families are gripped by crime and an epidemic that steals their children. A lot of young people would bury it much earlier than was a should have because of their drug habits a lot of family way to broken at that time because of the drug habits their parent didnt know how to do it was it just did not know how to deal with it i have seen it firsthand in my capacity as a general practitioner we had in excess of eighty different families there were all. Mother or father or sister or brother of a heroin addict in over a community that was staggering. As to low p. A straight sinks deeper into the criminal abyss westie moves from south west sydney to pick up the drug trade in kings cross. When i was seven thirteen was living in the syrian macon or the money and living the hard life. But when hes high on drugs its a robbery that finally brings westies world crashing down. On the train and there was three individuals which started to swear at me in arabic. Or warn them once one of them toys one of three times their wooden lucerne f