Antigovernment protesters most of them students facing up to Riot Police Outside tear on university but what began as a protest about rising food prices and welfare benefit cuts turned political on saturday. Earlier in the day they chanted not gaza not lebanon my life a wrong. Dont be afraid were staying strong together. An expression of anger about claims the government is focusing more on regional issues than economic problems at home. Iranian t. V. Showed a display of strength by crowds of progovernment supporters in cities nationwide tens of thousands of people on the streets chanting death to america down with israel in support irans Supreme Leader ali khamenei letter that people have protested against inflation other problems but that does not show that our people have turned on each other or are against the ruling system and their leadership. The progovernment rallies were preplanned to mark the anniversary of the end of the unrest that shook the country in two thousand and nine unrest in iran prompted several tweets from the u. S. President on saturday warning oppressive regimes cannot into a forever you know many reports of peaceful protests bahraini and citizens fed up with the regimes corruption and squandering of the nations wealth to Fund Terrorism abroad iranian government should respect their peoples rights including rights to express themselves the world is watching for some time now theres been some disparate groups have been protesting whether it was sabres who have lost their savings through these corrupt Financial Institutions whether his pension is no longer going their pensions will have to live on pensions as people worried about the environment this woman is all these groups and theyve been testing and testing and you could see that the those those slogans are now becoming more radical you could say that the atmosphere is going tense or intense and most of all what you could say is that they no longer seem to have that fear from the Security Forces there in that that. While this was a huge display of support for the iranian leadership the government will be concerned it just how quickly a protest about food prices could become political pizza shop al jazeera. In other news footage has emerged from syria showing children being rescued from the damascus suburb of east and good the following airstrikes this week and agencies evacuated twenty nine critically ill people including children from the rebel held area as part of the deal with the civilian government a funeral has been held for a palestinian man who was shot by Israeli Soldiers during the protest and gaza the twenty year old was one of thousands of palestinians confronted by Israeli Forces along the border the protesters were demonstrating against u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as israels capital liberias president elect has made his first speech since winning the countrys Runoff Election earlier this week george way of formal world footballer of the year is pledging to fight corruption russias secret service has arrested a suspect in connection with the bomb attack in St Petersburg eighteen people were injured when the device exploded at a supermarket on wednesday i saw has claimed responsibility for the attack greeces government is seeking to reverse the decision to grant asylum to one of turkish soldiers who fled their country during last years failed coup saturdays ruling by a greek asylum tribunals angered turkey which has repeatedly called for the soldiers extradition. Frozen sharks have washed up on a beach on the North Eastern coast of the u. S. As the region enjoys a record breaking cold snap conservationists say its likely the three males died after becoming stranded as they tried to get to warmer waters. Those are the headlines on aljazeera but do stay with us once upon a time and punchbowl is coming up next. Various kinds of strategy. To get away from the war that was happening at the top. And they came here 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 play of the beginning very sick for 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 the bottom of the list and then after fifteen years of immigration from lebanon anglo and arab australia is divided by the first gulf war they are being confronted with a choice between doing either. Because up to now the multicultural story is both. First. I already answered this question im going to start as he does or not all the stores trailer and i shouldnt be asked about this. 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It was billed as the dyke or not the residents were tied back to the beaches. But it shouldnt turn told by. The sunday that the ride occurred all i remember seeing is so many people pushing and shoving so many and good faces. I felt very hurt and i thought you know what we dont like. What is it about us that you hate so much in two thousand and five. In high school but like the rest of the lebanese a straining Community Feels under attack. By afghans the more turned on any one of the least in appearance by members up stairs in my parents bedroom watching t. V. And all i remember is the night going from just a normal i pace watching to be to just panic and chaos and i remember feeling terrified and i felt very very scared i didnt mind that anyway. As the horror of the days events unfold. Me mats Father Community leader jamal rifi is frantically on the phone. I spoke with Many Community leaders at the time that we needed cooler heads to prevail brothers in the tickets. And we needed to act and act quickly because if we didnt then we would lose control. It was a very very touchy touchy tone there was a lot of angry people the things that were said about religion and the things it was about Community Well melissa being. Disrespected the more disrespect them hard. Sam al qaeda grows up in punchbowl hes been going to cronulla since he was a child. And is married to an anglo astray in. My inlaws are living it can all or some or cold of my wife and said. Oh you and your sisters and your father isnt as close as i want to and thats. Because no one no one wants to say stuff like that in this country we dont need people to come in and inspire hatred over frustration in parks or or groups theres no need for us. As night phones on this day of shame hundreds of angry lebanese is trainmen a gathering in punch ball park i looked outside the window in my own house i saw one come to come three four come unto us all go home for the boys. Just ready to. Revenge was the only thing on there much. On the night of the riots kemal saleh is a High School Student living with his parents across the road from the park. I was angry i guess they were angry too youre talking about one hundred fifty boys guarantee theyll saw in my house in front of poncho park something ive never seen before. Commands little brother harry is just ten years old at the time of the riots that in chewers hadley understands the crisis that police are about to face well as the asteroid forelock say ten fifteen minutes it was very calm very good no no swearing no music no nothing it was very calm by you could say the boys were angry they came or met up together. You had one place car that was coming up the street from the back of punch road going once the place of the came thats when everyone jumped back may cause and started to leave one by one. And the rules over in a few minutes they all go on to. Always in the car with. A young guy who had a very serious weapon on him and to actually be in the car with somebody who was really to use. A powerful weapon was scary. At the time of the riots muhammad is in hes a conditioning apprenticeship and hes quickly swept up in a call for revenge. There were guys there who were. There ready to kill. And once we left we went from from suburb to suburb around the crawler area looking for trouble. Even the most the most articulate and the most intellectual people in our community with filled with outrage because how much can someones. Before they crack. Seen up to eight pm dozens of cars a straining towards cronulla seeking revenge. And its probably the revenge attacks that were most shocking. To people because almost like the wider public could understand young your drunken australian prices. What they couldnt in visits was this forwarded cavalcade of dozens of cars bicycling much on the east nothing like that ever happened in australian history. Gangs of them in the middle eastern origin. Bank for rubin. It was awful the first time i saw a figure about a man walk in downs a strict and people bennys backgrounds they come in and attack him i cried. I just could not believe my eyes. Could have been me in a coronata or someone else working down the street in punchbowl. By nine pm the police have set up roadblocks all around. And the convoys of cars still pouring in change routes. By decides tactically to simply avoid kuala. Place to get into whereas the east and boat shoes much more open and much more available to a sort of widespread scatter gun attack and people peel off theyre angry and they feel. To what the hell my life once they have been attacked in such a scarlet. Remorseless why they feel that bets are off i can do what i want. Ten pm to beachside suburbs of brighton the sounds in the room are under attack was. The shocking violence continues into the early hours of monday morning. Full of lebanese they all just jumped out my husbands truck a large. Pressure every single car in the street got the shovel of his truck through it strikes rampage and we know it was an absolute love its no big surprise you know were a lot of the thinking thats really stupid what you know what good does that do how it. How does the car being damaged solves anything. Weve got some river and we got pulled over by the police. They will. Propagate a bus stop and searched and then. They started searching the car and the cops just said. In a noise way and i get the f. Out of here in the car to look in oh. Its a relief for mohamed and phonemic his future wife i was really shocked that i was one of the guys that went down only because its really out of character for him like hes really much more logical than that but at the same time i can really understand i can put myself in that position i can understand being an eighteen year old guy whose whole world is falling apart because people will not stop picking at every bit of you. When i go home i thought a bell how stupid i was and how stupid we were. Something serious could have happened to myself or to somebody else. And it could have been yeah incredibly bad thing for me growing up it couldve destroyed me the. Sunrise the next morning a nation awakes in shock. Therapy zero zero riot should train a drunken right they have to have a judge that believing that he or terrorism has to play investigators are seeking several miles of middle eastern appearance from i raise my tie its like a although they really dont think. The next day would return that its like any other day kids went to school i went to work but we knew deep down that the emotions is bored like. Then we started to get a lot of hate mail. So early monday morning straight after the come over or its some time i should start coming to the police that there was going to be some retaliation. And some violence towards look in the mosque. Denny mccarty is a lebanese a strain senior constable in the New South Wales police and is still reeling from the nights events. I was quite disappointed close to being devastated at the retaliation because i was hoping would be better than that i was hoping that. Members of our community wouldnt get sucked in to. Putting the shoe on the other foot. It reside with me that we need to keep it close eye on the tensions so i attended the very early. The mosque staff knew me very well ive been working the fees and initially there was absolutely no problems but as the i was went on the crowds began to swell and very quickly there were thousands of people down there. And what was interesting was that the people that were starting to come down there definitely one of an islamic background a myriad of cultures of those greeks italians different types of europeans as darkness falls the atmosphere is increasingly volatile. I was at the corner of punchbowl road and i was talking with the Police Officers and you could feel the tension. You could taste the anger. And you could anticipate support. I remember that evening sitting at my parents place and i you know they live on the whites are like a mosque. And sort of like its a people zooming past young people running out of them all that sort of think these are young people you know not only middle east and but also so muslim. Non arabic. Whatever you whatever you want to say it was probably actually the most multicultural like a mad thing. And i asked somebody said whats going on he said i havent heard you know the gangs are coming down here they apparently want to come and burn the most you know im going to let them. Then High School Teacher jihad dede learned that two of his brothers are in the crowd outside the mosque i thought my brothers. My brothers are there and before anything else my familys the most important thing to me. And im going to go for my brothers im going to bloody get him from the rear bring them out as i would i need to shoot. God damn it. And they would have been thousands and thousands of people at the. If i were a public and on the way we have to buy them on a shelf label id get it that it obviously have stopped the police. At the corner of my on notice freelance photographer and within an instant you could see. Members of the credit spotting. And just steal towards ive just sprinted ahead of the crowd and gone straight to him. Just asking and telling him get in the car and get out of here so hes got in the car and driven off and im feeling pretty good about myself ive got rid of that situation but ive looked over my shoulder enough noticed thousands of very angry people now who had someone else to base their frustrations at and ive just run towards me. So ive said to myself ok this will be the last day for me on earth. So i quit praying just brace for impact. And as im watching these thousands of people run towards me. All of a sudden. Like a black why did i just this stopped. Members of the mosque had formed a human china all the way around me and they shoot at me from the bulk of this writing force of a crowd. Within about a few seconds i started to the most beautiful sound in the world which was placed orange coming in from everywhere and i remember turning to a colleague and i said. Thats how thank you for the years of hard work at this mosque and thats a day that i remember that thats the day that the community saved my life. The bright light in the door was that it was people who were. Muslim remember talking to i priest though people who were fights of all communities and just what are you doing i would have been in the mosque but also i had weapons a bigger one to fit into. Your mind of the call for them to get even raise your hand and. It was like this. Holy place is off limits. Remember it came time for prayer and it was like this thank chris ok everybody plays his prank. And there were actually coming down. And it to be surely people dispersed. But as they struggled to contain the rage of the disposing crowd Community Leaders fear the worst. I know from people was actually does a have. And i was quite a lot. Of bold old baseball bats so it was a lot of guns out there. And i was very affected. By eight pm the crowd is still fuming and large groups gather at a nearby service station. I know nine pm its clear that the horror of the night before is about to be repeated. The middle east was on the move with the second strike. The next morning Community Leaders make calls to the place and New South Wales premier. I knew we needed to act but we need to act to quick otherwise we will not be able to contain the situations supreme new source wells was contacted and we told them what we should be done on the fifteenth of december. Newsource was parliament was a recall for one solution to actually posit you. Down. In lockdown hundreds of palais stopping vehicles coming out the british interests elderly shiela care report to you that the police will step up their efforts to bring in the fives and drops your response of all for those not time attacks to justice. The tough new laws result in the Biggest Police operation since the sydney olympics with two thousand place setting up road blocks on major roads going into for an hour and all the major beachside suburbs unfortunately some of the televisions took place but. I must tell you that could have been taos. Some people think it means that the muslim Lebanese Community is going to withdraw into itself turns back on australia and bunker down in some sort of see each others see it as a cathartic moment which to my agent after years of separation and mutual antagonism. The future after an hour is going to be very difficult. As the new dont the horrifying events of december two thousand and five still reverberate among Community Leaders in a place that. I think anyone who saw the level of anger and venom that was sort of coming out of the series of events that