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It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and as we said for a first major conversation on March 18 Nigerians came out in their numbers to vote for the preferred governorship candidates across different political parties in 28 states of the Federation results from the election are now being announced of course by the independent National Electro Commission and Some states are inconclusive results are expected from other states But in many states the dynamics changed after the presidential election with political parties Clinging to their victories after losing to the opposition that during the 25th February 25 25th February Presidential election in Lagos Hill Progressive Congress had lost to the Labor Party and during the presidential poll But things changed during the governorship elections held on Saturday APC's Babajile Somolu Had or has been declared the winner while the candidate of Labor Party Madaba Rhodes Vivo came a distant second The LPs candidate alleged of course the election was rigged and there were many reported cases of violence and voter suppression during the election The results so far declared as of 10 p.m. Last night indicated that the all progressives Congress pulled One the governorship poll in polls in 15 states including Sakkoto Katsina Jigawa Gombe Lego state Quarra state Niger state Yobes state Nassar state cross river state and boy in state Benway state Kaduna state and bonus state the people's and credit party on the other hand had wanted a plateau state Bauchi state or your state a Delta state River state and a quibble states while he knew Nigeria people's party Emerged victorious for the first time In Kanu state the results of election in Nabiya state and in the states where they laid Following the dispute between the Labor Party and the PDP of our results in some local government areas They also some situations that we are monitoring in a dam our state and KB state I'm glad to say joining us this morning is Building show me who is a public affairs analyst as we continue our coverage and of course analysis of the governorship elections You'll be showing me. Thank you very much for your time and good morning Thank you for having me. Okay along the line. We expect to be joined by the Chairman vice chairman south south of the Labor Party Prince Fever Rubin, but building show me in in the sentence or two, please describe your Opinion your analysis your assessment of the Governorship election and the House of Assembly elections held on Saturday, March 18 Yes, the government ship elections Elden Legos were driven by different Sortings Which surfaced? It was partly religion driven just like in the presidential election partly driven by ethnic or some what a primordial considerations no doubt about that the tensions became so heightened that There were An atmosphere some people are latched that they felt in apprehension Because of that they decided to stay at home or not to vote We also have some incidents in some areas in the states, you know, there are reported incidents of Voters intimidation or talk This happened in the states, but by and large and generally In many areas of the ghost the elections went on smoothly I would Want to cite examples of but I agree it was very smooth in a way to smooth it could do better and Some parts of Lagos because I also observed the elections. That's an accredited observer In a gay gate or smooth Suruli there was a problem if you're at no problem, but I was problem in in A go Area problem in a good That was a no, I was told of the problem. No should divide never got that there was no problem in machine and some other area So when you take into account the percentage of the population and the areas affected generally speaking if you're talking about legal states Generally speaking then one would say the election substantially Comply with the electorals, but that does not mean that there were no Incidents or issues in some parts of Lagos Okay, let's look at the fact that some some Governorship candidates are some candidates who are anointed by incumbent Governors didn't win and The power of incumbents is very strong and a determining factor in most elections state elections, especially we have the Governorship elections in the House or assembly elections, but we sing in us for instance in in kind of state the anointed candidate of Governor Ganduja Omar Ganduja didn't win rather the NMPP is in power for the first time in kind of state in In in touch the state Simon la longs anointed candidate Didn't win. Yeah, the people's aquatic party won that election and in in Benway state The case is also different as well the incumbent governor some of the tomb of the g5 fame and Had his candidate defeated and Of course, so we know that the rare and father or the S or Reverend father one What do you think accounts for this this trend in in some of these states that the candidates of the anointed incumbent governors These are strong governors powerful governors, you know, likes of Ganduja or Tom and La Long that he had noted candidates lost out in the governorship election quite a surprise to some Yes, we are beginning to see the impact of new technology They give us introduced to our education purposes by a net made a major difference in the past what politicians used to do particularly sitting of us is to use incident from to preach The gap what they simply do is they look at the number of total register voters if the total number of registered voters is 10,000 and only 6000 voted so they help people by Filling the blank form in coalition with type next officials And then get the number necessary numbers they want as long as it's below the 10,000 but what Bevers has done is that it's not about total number of registered voters It is about the accredited voters people who actually turn off for accreditation and the number of vote cast must not So that narrowed the gap for any manipulation and it minimized it drastically So we are beginning to see the results of the people if people were allowed to vote Counting in the case of being with it. It's totally different case completely the government tried to play on the on the fears and anxiety of the people over the The the heads Problem the hardest problem It successfully did that for some time, but for God the father he did not pay speed to salary He was going them up to six months a lot So We've seen the results manifesting in the fact that the rejected is them candidates and voted for a more popular Catholic father a layer in the case of In the case of Other states and like No, or your states or your state's case is totally different marketing. They seems to be kind of marketing they being rewarded for Is the stance he took in presidential election? So there is a kind of groundswell opinion, you know in within the Political parties particularly the APC and they are caught and they have to let him come back That's what's accounted for that and the opponent has respected that by congratulating me in other cases too We've seen even sitting governors, you know losing Tickets not being able to go to Senate. They used to use Senate as their retirement tools People are beginning to reject that is simply because they be vast made a difference people's votes accounting That is where people are not frightened or 13 or if they're able to cast their votes, it's not beginning to help All right, thank you very much. We have a Prince Fever Rubin on the line Prince Rubin, thank you very much for your time and good morning to you. Good morning Prince Fever Rubin All right, well, we try to get back to Prince Fever Rubin. Let's continue with our conversation But we show me public affairs analysis still with us And of course given us his analysis Behold, we show me interesting analysis from or your state and the role that Governor Makin they played even though he was of the PDP but in probably taking the stance of the G5 with his help don't be with wiki to say that a we're going to support a candidate from the South and And And that is what what we played in his fever. You talked about support from the APC and even a court party Which is a strong party. That's that's quite interesting What about the situation in In a dam our state what are your thoughts on that because you know people felt a benigny Was going to emerge as a governor of a dam our state until we began to see something different And those who are saying hey, hold on a minute wait to line I can ask his results actually won the argument Well, what are thoughts of what's been played out in a dam our state so far where you know sudden results were brought by the the collision officers, but The INEC returning officer said no, we cannot take the results because they are manual We would go for what is in the beavers and that led to what we're seeing right now where The dam our results was you know put on hold For the meantime Sorry, can you hear me, please your line sounds faint? I do not know if you you you can get closer to your phone Yes, I can hear you Okay, okay, it's better. Please go Okay Is the home state of the Presidential candidates In the last election A very very humbling after losing the presidential election So again now lose Adam our state a few of the very popular grassland candidate. She's not the first person Now we have a benign And this one had been a very A very strong group strong grassland politician for me they could opponent in the sense that The governor they've done the elections Remaining only one to come in yesterday, but the result that came in Was fantastic and they were not backed up, you know by the accreditation And even the fact that the number of cancelled Poles In different user number of that, you know are even more than the The margin of victory if they were to accept the Ferrari Poles The iNEC had no choice, but you To actually Agree to cancel it and then, you know the scheduled New polls and that is exactly what would happen. There'll be new elections in areas where they are cancelled So all hope is not lost. We may end up having the first to make up Um Because I would have been more secure to meant to police those areas since the whole Vienna election has come to an end Largely so but that is basically The issue in Adamawa. It's you know, you have a very sitting of now who has a lot to show also For his own performance in office. So he's always going to be highly contested like that Okay, um, I'm glad to say we have Prince Favre Rubin on the line Prince Favre Rubin. Can you hear me, please? Good morning Prince Favre Rubin, please can you hear me? All right, we apologize that we'll just move on From that what I thought some uh, be able to show me of this rejection in initially by the the state Returning officer for iNEC in or the resident electoral commissioner rather of of of the manually collated results And he said that they were going to rely rather on the IRF results because there was a disparity And do you think that is something that probably should have been Toad a line that should have been told by iNEC all this while right from the presidential elections You know to this particular governorship election results Collated at the polling units Um should be different from the one On the higher because The results in the IRF is expected to be the ones from the polling unit If we have a difference in that then there's a problem somewhere Um, what we have to remember is that the IRF is just a few important The real declaration of results happen that the polling unit take into the local government What you need to look at government and then to the state level for final declaration by the returning officer So whatever is if if there's any difference in what is in on the iNEC portal and what people have with them That would be a subject of litigation. Of course, that would be wrong Is not expected to happen that could have been an error on the part of staff uploading Or it shouldn't be different and this is kind of the error that iNEC needs to watch out for When you Yes, people will give them room that there will be a margin of error when you are trying a new technology for the first time But election is too important and too sensitive Um to have them two different results, you know for the same polling unit So I think our next deal has a lot to do I'm also a lot explanations to make In election petitions tribunal to explain why they had those differences Okay, um, uh, the what what about the fact that the The regulations and guidelines to the count of elections that's released by iNEC These are guidelines that are for any elections in Nigeria until they come up with new guidelines See that they should take the result that was uploaded Uh electronically over the one that was presented manually Yes, um The problem we have is the fact that there are two court judgments On this very particular matter on transfer of result or transmission, whichever way we want to call them There is a judgment by the federal high court in Abuja saying that iNEC has a right to prescribe The mode of transfer that is they can choose Uh, uh transmission and then change their mind, you know to manual then there's another judgment which I'm now aware of You know granted by justice lethal of the federal high court iKoi Saying that iNEC in respect to legals iNEC should Transfer the results, um electronically That's for the governorship election. So these are two judgments we need until this case is Sorted out at an affiliate level. It then becomes impossible for anybody to say Whether iNEC is wrong was wrong To have allowed the manual transmission of results All right Because the both federal high courts are courts of equal, you know coordinate jurisdiction So we need an affiliate ruling on on on that very matter. That's my own view, you know to stay within the law Okay, um, I want to read um A section of the uh the regulations and conduct of the Regulations and guidelines for the conduct of elections Uh to you Um, okay, I do not have have I think this is the The exact but it says where the iNEC had copy of collected results for the immediate Lower level of collision does not exist the collision of such I'll use electronically transmitted results or results from the irf portal To continue collision. Um, so so it's it's it's it's clear from what this law says that Um, you can use the results from the irf portal to To collate It's a show me Yes, correct. I've never I've never You were questioning you said the irf portal is just for viewing but um, this is section 93 of guidelines and uh Conditions for the conduct of elections In Nigeria. So so, uh, what do you say about this because it says you can use the area water. Yeah Yes, not not the absence of one big old water. There is no shall Shall So if you have there is not it's not obligatory. They may choose not even to use that as a source of information That's the problem, you know, because the originals raw source material, you know, it's the from ec8 ec Is is ec8? I think ec8c which was signed at the polling unit level ec8a yet That should be the same result on the irf portal in a situation Where you have the what is on from ec8a different from what is on the irf portal There's no way they can use the one on irf portal because it's from ec8e that is authentic That's the source material that has been uploaded So in my view, that is why it you it you it is not mandatory It is not obligatory that iNEC must use the information on the v portal, you know for the the purpose of Determining that and is the job of a returning officer, you know to do that it may choose To to use it or not to use it is not obligatory on this part. That is the point. I'm trying to fix that Okay, uh, mr. Show me actually a section 93 of the regulations and guidelines or the conduct of elections to actually says And that you shall And even section 94 also says that you shall Uh, yeah, shall no section 90 93 Okay, so so he says that Where the iNEC hard copy of collated results from the immediate lower level of the coalition does not exist the coalition officer shall shall use electronically transmitted results or Results from the irf portal to continue the coalition so It's there's no may that shall That you you can use the ira ira portal is available to be used for coalition because it is simply A picture of the from eca the same from eca So i do not know what the fear is I mean, if it's the same thing it's still the same thing. Yeah, so And he says shall which is you know, that's what he says you shall use it That is what i'm saying is no mandatory that they shall use the ira portal. There's still you know Other forms of them verification And a returning officer can choose Not to use the ira portal for its own verification Given the fact that the the source of the The the material uploaded on the ira is actually the form eca if I have that with me. Why then do I need to use another portal? Is not obligatory that that is the only means that they must use that's the point i'm trying to make I don't know whether but what makes it sure me is it is it not the form eca that is on the ira portal Well, you get me an example earlier on where What's on the ira portal is different from from eca So you can have a situation, you know, we are dealing with politicians You can have situations where the form eca could be mutilated deliberately, you know for political ends or for mysterious ends And at the end of the day You then have a different results on the On the ira let me give you a good example the example given by dino melai on the eca team that the information he had between On the form eca, you know stated that there was overvoting and the returning officer who is the chairman of INE Actually said looked at the papers and study once within the notion of a vote initial You know under undervoting so you can have a situation where people can deliberately Or mysteriously wanting to score a point, you know all that those information But the bottom line is whatever Information only from eca is not only given to all the agents of political parties But also given to the to the security officer in charge of that polling area Maybe in this case the the commissioner police So therefore When it comes to litigation so many other issues, you know, we will crop up and they got to be able to determine What is right from what is wrong? It does not mean that either attack or not even be hijacked or hard You know to to change the information on the system. We are using this technology So it will have its own challenges and the cuts will resolve this Within a short possible the shortest possible time of when it is so so when when when there's a discrepancy or disparity, sorry between the results on the As the results she captured Uh on the irf portal that's the one they snapped the resource sheet at the polling unit and then the one that was Uh, the results that have been announced or brought to the coalition center by the local government returning officer For instance, what is that disparity because we've seen results being changed with pen You know, yes Yeah, it's just simple. You just put a zero in front of someone's result and then cancel one numbered and When they added a two in front of sorry that becomes 200 and something and when you have that disparity where they the uh the The results on the irf portal is showing something different. Which one should be taken? well, um The results submitted by the inek returning officer Um, will be the one inek will go with if that results differs With the one with the political parties, of course, the party agents are expected to challenge it And then the returning officer will have to determine What to believe if he chooses to ignore the ones Provided by the political party agents is required in writing to states To state that there was objection and he overruled it Is required to do that But if he chooses to accept the objection, the end that becomes final on that path The only thing anybody can do is after the declaration of results, you know We have seven days in which to make further representation to inek to review the decision taken by the returning officer Otherwise we go to the tribunal. That's the process. So everything depends on the returning officer. Okay, whatever it is There is final. Okay, only you need to let me show me. I think uh section 93 of the guidelines regulations and guidelines to the conduct of elections in 1922 Really resolve the controversy what you said about whether the iraq portal iraq portal can be used to collate results It says it can that one is settled But section 51 of the regulations and guidelines Gives us the answer to to whether and I want to thoughts on this whether the If there's a discrepancy or disparity There's difference between what is is placed on the front of the coalition officer Paper eca versus what is online the moment any party raises an objection There is a dispute mechanism procedure that inek itself would in place and this is contained in section 51 of the Regulations of guidelines for the conduct of election. It says where there is any discrepancy In any result submitted by a presiding officer to the r.a or world coalition officers verified From the result transmitted Or transferred directly to from the polling unit the r.a officer world coalition officer shall I request explanation from the presiding officer Or officers concerned about the circumstances of the discrepancy II Locate the point of disc of discrepancy Resolve the discrepancy using the electronic result And request the presiding officer to endorse the resolution That's what it says and the last one I make a report of the discrepancy So it says you resolve it using the electronic result. It is in black and white. May I show me it is clear You know unambiguous. Don't wouldn't you say sir? You need you really need to go back and read it properly. There are two stages of coalition The first stage is in relation to all elections from national assembly up to state level The the coalition point, you know, it's at the level of the state It is only the presidential election that the coalition point is at the level of Um, is what is done in Naguja Now if there is a dispute the the the electoral rules are very very clear The steps to be taken if you read Electoral act section from section 60 is very clear if anybody has any objection On any voting material, uh, ballot paper or what have we you state that to the presiding officer and the presiding officer Can choose To reject your own Objection, but then the returning officer has the final say It is only the returning officer that has the financing because it's the only one that can declare the results if he's satisfied Of course, it's bound to ask the presiding officer, you know to explain why Is disagreeing, you know with what the party agent, you know observed and he will state his own case If the returning officer agrees with the presiding officer, then that's the end He that's final. He will now make a pronouncement to say that Well, um, he's accepting the result and once he's done that You can't be, you know, go back within seven days to INAG You know for make for that representation or go to the elections petitions tribunal That is all what one can do in relation to that whether it chooses to use a very important like ira You know to Make up his mind to determine the the objection or not Um, it's not The issue if it chooses not to use ira, you know to determine There's nothing we can do because it's not mandatory for him to use the ira, you know, as the only source of the term name or resolving this books Complaints made by thank you. Thank you. That's the point. Yeah, but Mr. Show me a section 60 of the electoral act doesn't talk about the resolve a conflict resolution mechanism it it's if in anything it talks about The procedure of announcing results counting results signing the results sheet and also the penalty for those officials who contribution any section of the electoral act or who intentionally you know Scotland election you go to prison You know, which is what some of these are like Officials even things are done right should they should be cooling their heels in prison Um, because some of them have deliberately changed the results. Mr. Show me some of them have gone I had to to do what the day the electoral act says they shouldn't do but we won't leave that for another day um Section 60 doesn't it doesn't Yeah, but but so show me I'm just about to ask my question You see we don't live in a banana republic where you know because you are At my neck official you can do what you want. You actually can't do what you want even the president Even the annex chairman cannot do what he wants. There are laws You can't just say because I'm the Yeah, so the law is clear. I think what you are referring to is found not in section 60 of the electoral act but in section 51 and section 93 of the regulations and guidelines for the conduct of elections now section 91 makes it clear I'm coming sir. Can I learn can I learn please can I learn Mr. Show me please please I appeal to you section 93 clearly states and I'm going to read it again that the irf can be used as a means for Determining the results of of of an election. Moreover, the irf is not only the only means you have electronically Transferred or transmitted results, which also are there. So this can be used otherwise. Why are they transmitted? Why would the results be electronically transmitted? We can even leave the irf and talk about the results as electronically transmitted And it said but it says in section 93 already before And that where the inek had copy of collated Results from the immediate lower level of collation does not exist the collation officer shall use electronically transmitted results which is what we said, which is the first thing The electoral act talked about when it says inek should transfer the results in a manner they deem necessary The guidelines now say they're going to first of all Trans transmit or transfer the results electronically. They secondly Upload the results on irf portal, which is the second thing. A lot of Nigerians get confused about so section 93 says that The collation officer shall you shall sir use electronically transmitted results or The results from irf Portal to continue collation. So they can they can be used for collision. That is not in doubt that is sorted out But section 51 sir is clear. It says that where there is a discrepancy I'm going really already for you sir the first time. I'll just take it again if for emphasis sake It says where there is any any discrepancy In a result submitted by a presiding officer to the ra or world collation officer as verified from the result transmitted Or transferred directly from the polling unit. It says the collation officer shall I request explanations from the presiding officers concerned about the Circumstances of the discrepancy. I I sir Look at the point of discrepancy resolve this discrepancy using the electronic results And request the presiding officer to endorse the resolution So it's clear You use the electronic results Yes, yes, yes, please What seems very clear to me is you Still do not either A path communicator or I'm not, you know, making the point clear The issue in contention is this In my view Is I rev portal the only means Mandated by law To resolve This but i'm refreshing it in my own words. Maybe because it's more convenient for me to do that In my view and what i'm saying is it is not the only one it is not Mandatory in law that that is the only instrument to be used to resolve this but And when you go by the two sections you read He's saying it can No, sir. No, no, no, sir. No, sir. Mr. Show me, please That is not what he says. I have a copy. I don't know if you have a copy. I have a copy of both laws He doesn't say it can Mr. Show me he says Shall You need to read it again. If there's a conditioner. It's a conditional No, sir. No, sir. No, sir. Mr. Show me. No, no No, please. Please. Let's tell misinform our public. It doesn't say if The first thing you said no, sir. It doesn't say if no. No. I didn't read if maybe you are you are deliberately Not hearing what i'm saying. It says where? Where there is any discrepancy the collation of sir. Shall but you've consistently said it doesn't say shall please It says shall I think we should we owe a duty to nigerians at least to to read the law correctly And that is what i'm attempting to do to read the law correctly You also said the ira potash can never cannot be used for collation results and i read it to you out there They said you shall you can use it Sir, sir, please at the end of this program You need to go back and lead saying to what you read and i'm sure the viewers had you when you said If There is a show me it's here. I said where where no, I said where there is I'm okay if I said if i'm correcting myself Where there is any discrepancy anywhere They preside the collation officer shall I I Look at the point of discrepancy resolve the discrepancy using electronic results I said where not if And what difference does it make but I said where Mr. Show me thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. If you're correct me Look if you're correcting yourself now I have commented on what you said earlier on if you are now saying something else Then that's a different thing completely. So are you agreeing that are you agreeing that if there's where there's a discrepancy? The the electronic results will be used. Are you agreeing to that? I'm saying to you that is not obligatory that our mandate, sir. It is obligatory and mandatory according to law It's here Are you gonna listen to me? Yes. I'm listening to you, sir. Yeah, it shouldn't be a you don't have to agree with my viewpoints Even in a part of law you have two Opinions or several opinions before it is only a judgment that would determine it You can disagree. You can choose to disagree with my own Interpretation on my own leading What seems to be very clear to me is when you read from section 60 up to 65 You will come to a conclusion that if there is a dispute the presiding officer will resolve the matter and if If the the returning officer has the finality on accepting a result or not accepting Is this section 60 section 61 section 62 63 Since first of all, I've read it. It's not there. What you're saying isn't known to law. I'm sorry. Mr. Show me On how to resolve the issue that it's not the presiding officer It's on how to resolve issues that he would have been done Be on the show me. Thank you for your time. I've always always enjoyed talking to you, sir And definitely we engage again. It's lovely to have your perspective and your point of view. Thank you so much, sir All right, we have a duty to to inform the public and to tell them what the law says and I mean if if it's not in the law, then please feel free to Correct me and correct us right here plus CBA Africa But it's it's their black and white section 51 of the guidelines and regulations for the conduct of elections in Nigeria and section 93 As well. My name is Kofi Bartels. We return tomorrow with more on the breakfast and plus CBA Africa. Good morning


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We have a variety of ongoing needs that include home goods, like bedding pillows, different things that people need when they move into a home, especially when they come in without a lot due to their circumstances. And then COVID-19 related, we continue to go through a tremendous amount of cleaning supplies, masks, gloves, all of those types of things. And we appreciate any support we can get around that. OK. And if someone wanted to donate that, could they just drop them off here? They could. They can come to our administration building and just knock on the door. OK. We will happily take those donations. And also, please visit our website. There's also, we still have volunteer opportunities as well in our food pantry and our kitchen. So feel free to visit our website and learn more about St. Vincent de Paul. OK, awesome. And I'll have a link to that. So thank you so much, Jennifer, for taking the time to speak with us. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone. I'm over here with Abigail with St. Vincent de Paul. Now, they have a golf scramble coming up on the 21st, which is Monday. And we, Oxford Toyota, is sponsoring the whole in one with a 2020 Toyota Camry. So Abigail, what does that mean for you guys? So, Oxford Toyota has been involved with St. Vincent de Paul clubs and cocktails since the inception 17 years ago in 2003. I think every single year, Oxford Toyota has been involved in some sort of capacity. This year they're sponsoring the whole in one contest. And it's a really great opportunity for organizations throughout the community to get involved and give back to the community. And we really, really rely on these organizations to help us fulfill our mission of feeding the homeless, providing homes for those living in poverty. So every little bit helps. Now, is there anything right now that you guys specifically need for this? I think with the pandemic, we're trying to have a successful event since it's outside. I think we're going to be able to socially distance everyone and then they'll be out on the golf course. We have sold out of teams for this year, but we will be having an online silent option starting on September 18th. We will be posting it on our social media and our website. So you can definitely take a look at that. We're also going to be starting a couple of raffles. I will say bourbon, but I won't say what the bourbon is yet, but it involves more than one bottle of this bourbon. So stay tuned. It will all be posted a little bit before September 18th. We'll have some previews on our website. And that's a great way not only to support St. Vincent of Paul, but maybe get a little bit of bourbon or different auction items at the same time. Right, that sounds great. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. Really appreciate it. And before we leave, where are we right now? This is a food pantry, right? So this is our food pantry. This is the six-year that has been running. It is 100% by volunteers about the filming part of the town. We are open on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the 4.02.03 zip code. And we're open from 9 to noon. People can come a couple of times a month to get a USDA food, their produce, different items. The pandemic we've had to, it can't be germinated in advance. Typically, it's a set up like a grocery store where you can come in with a grocery cart and you can pick your different items. Because if you don't like Brussels sprouts, we don't want to give you those. It's just being wasted food with like green beans. We have the green beans, we'll take those instead. So we never shut down, we just completely shifted what we did. And our amazing volunteers have been doing this from the beginning. Said of course we'll be here, we're going to help everybody still be able to eat every day. Right, that's awesome. It's really great that they're able to still do that. Thank you so much Abigail, it's a pleasure being here. Thank you. All right guys, any questions? I will have all of their contact information listed below. Thanks so much for watching, we'll see you guys soon. Bye.


Hello everyone, myself Mr. F. R. Sayed. I work as an assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering at Walton Institute of Technology, Saulapur. The topic for my today's lecture is dynamic programming the general method. So, we are going to see what dynamic programming is. Now, at the end of the session the students will be able to describe the general working principle of the dynamic programming. What is dynamic programming? It is one of the problem solving approaches. The first important thing why do we require dynamic programming? Now, let us consider a function for finding the nth term in the Fibonacci series. This is a function named as fib n where n is a parameter. Now whatever parameter n is passed to it if its value is less than equal to 1 then return the value of n. Otherwise return this value or the sum of the value where the two values are nothing but recursive calls to the Fibonacci function by passing the value of n minus 1 as well as n minus 2 into different recursive calls to the function. Now this is a procedure called tree for the Fibonacci function where the value of n passed is 5. So, as you can see when Fibonacci 5 is called it makes recursive calls to Fibonacci function by passing value of 4 as well as passing value of n as 3. Similarly, this fib 4 will call itself recursively by passing value of n as 3 once and then as 2 and for fib 3 it makes a call to fib of 2 and fib of 1 and this goes on and it stops at a point when the terminating condition occurs meaning when n value becomes either equal to 0 or 1 as we can see in this diagram. This is a recursive approach to the Fibonacci sequence program. Now as we can see the highlighted part that the Fibonacci function when it calls recursively itself by passing the value of 2. Now this value is actually called 3 times rather this fib 2 is to be calculated 3 times in one single call to fib of 5 for calculating its result. So, fib 2 was calculated 3 times from scratch. So, every time the recalculation of such values will lead to an exponential time algorithm. We are going to focus on the time required for the algorithm to run. Now using dynamic programming such calculated values are used and it may take only time of O of n instead of exponential time. So, that is actually an enhancement to the recursive version of Fibonacci sequence problem. So, this technique of saving the values that have already been calculated and making it use further is called as memoization. So, which is nothing but a concept related in dynamic programming. Now what is dynamic programming? As I have told dynamic programming it is a problem solving approach for algorithms. Now an algorithm design method which is used when the solution to a particular problem it can be viewed as a result of a sequence of decisions. Meaning there are a number of decisions that have to be taken and a sequence of decisions out of that which sequence of decision will give us a proper result meaning an optimal result that is what dynamic programming focuses on. So, an important point related to this is the principle of optimality which we will be seeing further. Many problems that were solved using greedy method can also be viewed like this that is like having a sequence of decisions. We will see some examples. First example is the knapsack problem as we know the knapsack problem it tells us that it has a capacity of m and maximum capacity of m and the elements n elements are to be added into it out of n which elements need to be added to the knapsack is to be decided. So, that is what x i needs to be decided meaning x i is either equal to 1 or it will be equal to 0. The first decision is taken on x 1 then x 2 then x 3 and so on. What are these x i's? x i actually indicate that if x i is equal to 0 that object is not selected to be put into the knapsack. If x i value is equal to 1 means that i object is going to be inserted into the knapsack. Now the optimal sequence of decisions that maximizes the objective function summation p i x i where p i is the profit of object i and x i is an indicator whether ith object is going to be inserted or put into the knapsack or not. So, this objective function is to be maximized so as to get maximum profit and these are the constraints that is summation w i x i should be less than equal to m meaning w i is the weight of object i and x i indicates whether object i is selected or not. So, the summation of the products of w i x i of all the elements it should be less than equal to m meaning it should not exceed the knapsack capacity maximum capacity and x i value is either equal to 0 or 1 as I have already said. This example where we see a decision sequence is that of a shortest path problem. Consider a directed graph with an vertices. Now suppose that the shortest path from vertex i to vertex j is to be found and the shortest distance is to be calculated. Now this is nothing but it is considered as a sequence of decisions to be taken. Now the main task here is to first of all find which is the second vertex in the shortest path meaning in the path that will give me shortest distance which is the second vertex. Then similarly which is the third vertex next vertex and so on and we are going to continue this till the point we don't reach the last vertex j. So, if this the sequence of decisions is taken. So, it will yield shortest path distance from vertex i to vertex j. Now an optimal sequence of decision is the one that will give us a path of least length. Now what could be the different problem solving approaches? For some problems optimal sequence of decisions can be found by making only one decision at a time and never making an erroneous decision. Now this is something that we have already seen related to greedy method. In greedy method only one decision sequence is generated and based upon that decision sequence the decision are taken so as to give the optimal solution. But for some problems if it is not possible to make a sequence of decisions that could lead to an optimal solution then we have a solution of trying all the possible decision sequences. Now in that case we need to enumerate all the decision sequences and we need to choose the best one out of it meaning the optimal decision sequence. So, this could increase the time and space requirements meaning it could take large amount of time and space so as to store all the decision sequences and then to choose the optimal one out of it. Now what is the dynamic programming general method? It is an algorithm design method which is used when the solution to a particular problem it can be viewed as a result of a sequence of decisions. Now dynamic programming drastically reduces the amount of enumeration by eliminating those sequences which cannot be optimal. In dynamic programming the optimal sequence of decisions is found by following the principle of optimality. Now principle of optimality is to be followed by the sequence of decisions so as to yield maximum profit or so as to minimize the cost in short to get an optimal solution. Now what is the principle of optimality? An optimal sequence of decisions it has the property that whatever may be the initial state and the decision the remaining decisions must constitute an optimal decision sequence with regard to the state resulting from the first decision. So, thus ingredient method as we can see only one decision sequence was generated whereas in dynamic programming there could be many decision sequences generated out of which the optimal one is to be chosen and till the last step it is not clear as to which decision sequence will give us the optimal solution. Some of the features of dynamic programming although the total number of different decision sequences is exponential still dynamic programming algorithms often have a polynomial complexity. Now one of the reasons could be that the values to the sub problems solutions or the values of the solutions to the sub problems are generally retained. So, that if it is required in future it is reused rather than a recalculation. Now optimal solutions to the sub problems are retained so as to have a recomputing the values this is the point which I have explained. These tabulated values are used to recast the recursive equations into an iterative algorithm. Thus it is an optimization over plane recursion. Next we see the comparison with the greedy method. The greedy method finds feasible solution at every stage with the hope of finding global optimal solution whereas dynamic programming it first of all breaks the problem into series of overlapping sub problems. Second point greedy method it takes decision in one time whereas dynamic programming it takes decision at every stage. Third greedy method it never reconsidered its choices but dynamic programming it may consider the previous state as well. And lastly greedy method its work is based on choice property whereas in dynamic programming it is working or its working is based on the principle of optimality. Now the students are expected to think and write the answer to the following questions. The first question is are the solutions to sub problems in dynamic programming stored? And second one how many decision sequences are generated in dynamic programming one or many? Now pause the video and write your answer. Okay the first question are the values of solutions to the sub problems in dynamic programming stored? Yes those are stored for further use if required. Now an example that we have already seen is of the Fibonacci where if the recursive version is used we need to calculate the value of Fib of 2 three times which increases the time of running the algorithm whereas in dynamic programming we are going to retain these values so that it could be used further which will reduce the time. Now how many decision sequences are generated in dynamic programming one or many? So the answer is many decision sequences are generated but the most important one is the optimal decision sequence is chosen so as to give the optimal solution. This is the reference used for the video lecture. Thank you.


Member statements. I recognize the member for Essex. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On March 11th of this year, the LaSalle Police Forces and the Windsor Police Forces joined forces to create something called the Offender Management Unit. Now, this is a special unit whose job it is to seek out and re-arrest people who are found or alleged to be found in breach of their bail conditions. In the first three weeks of operation, the police officers re-arrested eight individuals and issued warrants for three more. Yes. And these are people who have already been charged or convicted with serious offenses such as murder, attempted murder, robbery, or sexual assault. The Offender Management Unit was made possible through a grant from this government under our programming and our specialized attention to the enforcement of this issue. LaSalle Police Chief Duncan Davies said, we are grateful to our provincial partners for coming through on funding for this very important initiative. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful too. I am grateful to our police for catching offenders, putting them behind bars, and keeping our communities safe. I want to thank this opportunity to say thank you to our police officers. Member statements. The member for Nickel Belt. Thank you, Speaker. April is Be a Donor Month, a month dedicated to raising awareness about organ and tissue donation. The Trillium Gifts of Life tells us that 90% of Ontarians want to be a donor, but only 35% have registered. Right now, there is 1,400 Ontarians that are waiting for life-saving organ, and sadly, every three days, one of them dies. Three years ago, Nova Scotia implemented an organ donation system where all Nova Scotians are considered donors unless they opt out. The first year saw an increase of 40% in tissue donation, and the numbers continue to rise. Ontario is ready for this, Speaker. I have tabled the Saving Organs to Save Life in Memory of Peter Carmel's sixth time. There is no opposition. Let's get this done. But until it happens, I want to thank every Ontarian that have registered to be a donor and save lives. I want to thank Richard Saint-Amour in my writing that has helped Nickel Belt achieve 57% registrations to be a donor. Yesterday was Green Shirt Day. Logan Bullet Organ Donation inspired 100,000 Canadians to register as donor after the tragic Humber Bowl Broncos Junior Hockey Team boss crash in Saskatchewan. We were green to recognize Logan and all the donors that have given and saved lives. Remember, Speaker, be a donor. Member Statements. The Member for Kitchener South-Hesburgh. I'm talking to some of the politicians in the room, the stuff we don't always talk about and how it can be quite interesting to be a politician, a person with social anxiety, and then you have to walk into a variety of events often by yourself, having no idea what you're going to get. And because of that, when you find a group of people or an organization that you connect with as a politician that make you feel incredibly welcomed and supported, it is quite a remarkable thing. And so I actually have some guests today that I will introduce later, but from the Grand River Malayali Association. I first met these people during the Onam celebrations from last year, and I feel like I mentioned this type of thing a lot, but we connected initially because I turned up in a sorry that I hadn't pleaded properly, met the President, immediately asked to speak to his wife and ended up having their emcee and another person essentially unwrap me and re-wrap me in my sorry before I went on stage, which is a really wonderful bonding experience that I recommend to everybody. But since then, I've been to several of their events and I can honestly say I don't think I've ever met a group of people that are more proud to participate in Canadian society. Every time I look, they're canoeing in Algonquin Park, they're at Tim Hortons, they're at Canada's Wonderland, they're doing something that shows just how much they love being part of this country. And it's such an honour to have them here today and I will introduce them later, but thank you Speaker and the Grand River Malayali Association. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the Member for Waterloo. Very much, Speaker. Caitlyn Rother was a bright, successful, beautiful young woman. She was a third year University of Waterloo student who had dreams of working with children with special needs. On April 28, 2022, just four days shy of her 21st birthday, we lost Caitlyn to mental illness. Long wait lists and gaps in the system meant she fell through the cracks. Her parents and members of the Ruth family are here today. The Ruths are focusing on helping others. The mental health system failed them but they are fighting for positive change. Approximately 4,500 people die by suicide each year in Canada and suicide is the second leading cause of death among young adults. This afternoon I will be tabling a petition with over 7,000 signatures. It calls on providing mental health services with a focus on evidence-based trauma-informed care and to provide funding for alternative destination clinics in Ontario. Waterloo Senator Marty Deacon also supports the Ruth family with a call for compassionate, consistent and caring responses at all levels of intervention, support and recovery. Supporting this petition is a strong step forward. Thank you very much. To honour Caitlyn's legacy and the many Caitlyn's out there, the Ruths created a foundation to help fill in the gaps because there were so many gaps in Caitlyn's journey. From her parents, Caitlyn, our beautiful brown-eyed girl. With the million-dollar smile, we love you always and we cannot let others slip through the cracks of this broken mental health system. Thank you very much. Member Statements. The Member for Leeds, Grenville, Thousand Islands, Rideau Lake. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the province of Ontario recognised the significance of organ donations and the impact of the Logan Boulet effect. The devastating Humboldt Broncos bus crash deeply affected both our province and our country. Among the 29 passengers, 16 lost their lives while 13 had life-altering injuries and among those was Broncos defenceman Logan Boulet. On April 7th, 2018, Logan tragically lost his life, but despite this tragedy, Logan and his family's decision to donate his organs saved the lives of six individuals demonstrating the life-saving power of organ donation. While April 7th continues to invoke painful memories across Canada, it has also become an opportunity for us to promote organ donation awareness. This has led to the establishment of Green Shirt Day and the profound impact of the Logan Boulet effect. Just like Logan and his family, everyone who is comfortable and willing should sign up to donate, and that has the power to save so many lives. I'm proud that a teenager in my riding, Ethan Boss of St. Mary Catholic High School in Kentville was the impetus for Bill 112, the Green Shirt Day Act. The bill was sponsored by the honourable Michael Parsa and received royal assent on April 11th, 2022 that promotes organ donation across the province. If you or someone you know wants to register to donate, you can do so at any service Ontario location near you or go online at serviceontario.ca be a donor to check if you're already registered to be a donor as well or have an existing registration. Anyone who is OHIP-eligible, an Ontario aged 16 or up, can register for this life-saving service. I want to thank Minister McCarthy for all the promotion through service Ontario. I encourage all members to recognize the Logan Boulet effect and support be a donor this month. Thank you. Member's statements. Member for Ottawa Centre. Thank you very much, Speaker. Ottawa lost a warrior last week and warriors come in all shapes and sizes. Vula Sardelis was barely five feet tall. She was living in her 101st year of life, but her stature was towering all the same. From very humble beginnings in rural Greece, three years ago she actually inspired unanimous agreement in this house. By then I had worked with Maria, Vula's daughter, for two years and I learned how some caregivers faced unfair retaliation based on complaints they raised which were legitimate on behalf of loved ones in retirement homes, long-term care homes and group homes. In 2018, after Maria raised those concerns with her mum's care in an Ottawa-based retirement home, she was issued a trespass notice and she was separated from Vula for 316 days. But that act of cruelty sparked a movement for change and I'm proud to say in Vula's name as they celebrate her life back home in Ottawa today and on March 4th in this place, Vula's law passed. Motion 129 passed and it was a victory that Vula inspired. I met Vula personally for the first time on her 99th birthday. She smiled, she reached for my hand, she kissed it. I did my best to dance to Greek music with Maria. It was a remarkable day for a remarkable woman but let we always remember the power of our elders and the responsibility for us as legislators to ensure that people with disabilities and seniors get access to their caregivers when they want. Thank you, Speaker.  Thank you very much. Member's statements. The Member for Brampton East. Thank you, Speaker. This April marks the 10-year anniversary of Sick Heritage Month, a celebration highlighting the contributions of the sick community in Ontario. Ontario has one of the largest sick community diasporas in the world with over 200,000 sicks residing in the province. Six believe in five key principles taught by Guru Nanak Dev Ji. They are Vandeshakko, sharing whatever God is giving you and helping those that are in need. Ketikaro, meaning a making an honest living. Namjapal, chanting the name of the true God. Sir Bhattapala, asking God for everybody's happiness and speaking the truth without any fear. This year, Sick Heritage Initiative has organized many events across the city of Brampton and the province, including flag raising, art exhibitions, concerts and a number of workshops. I encourage everyone to attend and also there will be a Sick Heritage Month celebration here at Queen's Park and I encourage all members to attend as well. Speaker, April is also significant to the sick community as they celebrate Vasaki, a spring harvest festival and the day the kalsa was created. Vasaki is celebrating by visiting a Gurdwara, doing seva, a selfless act to service others. Vasaki will also be celebrated through the annual Kalsa Day Parade, which takes place in Toronto from Exhibition Place to Toronto City Hall. Speaker, I would like to take this moment to wish all sick Ontarians and all those celebrating a Happy Sick Heritage Month and Happy Vasaki. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Member Statements, the Member for Algoma, Nana Tula. Well, thank you, Speaker, and we're just getting back from an awesome constituency week and it's great to see everyone here. And like everybody else, I dealt with issues across my writing and some of them that came across were landlord and tenancy issue, paramedic coverage, particularly that is lacking in the horn pain and white river area, municipal integrity commissioner office issues that are happening at municipal level, the Northern Health Travel Grant, the lack of French services in the healthcare fields, particularly in home care in the community of Duberville and other road maintenance is a high priority. But there's something I really want to bring to the floor of the legislature and I want to thank two constituents. There's still scams that are going on and these scams are targeting seniors. The one scam that is going on on the North Shore, we had a really bad storm a couple of weeks ago and there was a lot of power outages. There's a 1-800 number that came out that charges people to report power outages through Hydro. I'm happy to say that Hydro is aware of it and they're dealing with that scam and they're trying to find out how people are being charged for reporting their calls. There's also the antivirus McAfee boondoggle that is going on. That scam is also targeting many seniors. What I want to say to seniors is reach out to your family members and make sure that you have the discussions with them because if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the Member for Oxford. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Last weekend I had the pleasure to attend the Norwich Firefighters Association annual pancake breakfast. Volunteer firefighters spent all morning flipping up delicious pancakes and collecting donations for the Norwich youth unlimited. Also known as the upper deck. They're raising funds to renovate their space and provide even more programming for youth in our community. It's a wonderful opportunity to support great organizations in Oxford and thank our volunteer firefighters for their service. All while enjoying a delicious breakfast. This event was made sweeter not only because of our volunteer firefighters but also because of the maple syrup that was flowing. With the support of amazing local sponsors like Hupa Tree Line and Lot 17 families in Norwich enjoyed delicious Oxford maple syrup with their pancakes. It's been great to see yet another successful syrup season in Oxford. Thanks in part to our government's investment of $1 million through the sustainable Canadian agriculture partnership which supports the province's maple syrup sector. We're proud to keep producing delicious maple syrup and bring the rest of the world to taste Oxford. Overall this was a great weekend highlighting the very best of what Oxford has to offer coming together to support a local community organization, dedicated volunteers making it happen and of course maple syrup. I'd like to thank everyone who put this event on Mr. Speaker and all those who came out in the support. I'm already looking forward to next year. Thank you very much. Member statements. The member for Etobicoke Lakeshore. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Nice to be back. You know smiles in the community sphere were full swing in Etobicoke Lakeshore, especially with all the Easter bunnies hopping around at our BIAs on Easter weekend. And especially at the Mimico Square where our local artists sold many other products. And of course I'm a shopper so I indulge with a little necklace from a local artist. You know from seeing our youngest artists to more experienced artists, I want to highlight the importance of art and the talented and creative individuals from Etobicoke Lakeshore. We are all blessed every day to see murals on our business walls, on our utility boxes and underneath our bridges, statues and structures and even the architecture that stands tall on Humber Bay Shores. We are so proud of the community of South Etobicoke. Etobicoke Lakeshore is a home to many creative people and today I'd like to highlight a few. With thanks to the staff and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, each year youth from 12 to 18 across the province are invited to display the works of art throughout the legislative building through the Youth Arts Program. And I'm sure many of you working in here admire the beautiful art display throughout our halls. This year two young constituents, Stefania Dita and Sofia Lobadovic, have the pleasure of showcasing their artwork. Thank you for decorating the halls of Queen's Park with your talent. Through the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport and their $60 million budget to encourage art and culture, we continue to see wonderful programs at Franklin Horner, Arts Etobicoke and Medibals Arts to Mame a Few. Thank you for your continued support of arts and our local communities. Thank you very much. That concludes our member's statements for this morning.


As part of their efforts to equip the Nigerian labor movement with required knowledge in line with global practice standards, all newly elected labor union leaders in the country have been mandated to go through compulsory labor relations studies at the Michael Imodio National Institute for Labor Studies. The Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, who was represented by the Director General of the National Productivity Centre, Kashimar Ako, disclosed this at a lowering the choir state capital during an event at the Michael Imodio National Institute for Labor Studies, where he noted that government would no longer recognize any labor leader who feels so comply with the directives. The important thing is that we need to take a closer look at labor education and then labor policy, because labor policy, if not properly understood, it gives rise to wrong labor education. The second thing is that we need to also detail the conditions prevailing in all industries – health and safety, compensation, the number of persons, gender policy, the impact of labor climate, because that's the way to the future, to create a more effective system. For doctors, educational programs, for employers of labor, for organized labor, for workers, for government officials, on labor issues, with wrong programs, with participation of no less than 100,000 workers, as well as other participants in the last 40 years. And the whole idea is that we've built capacity, or now they can handle grievances at work, we've built capacity in a way that workers will be able to know that. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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Let's get into this, man. Stories over a three month period from the front line of the epidemic of knife-crime and grip. They're just that thing.   Still early, the guys are tipping out the pubs yet. Absolutely, anything could happen tomorrow. Let's face it, it doesn't take much to get stabbed in our society today. Let's be with you. Okay, I'm not gonna lie, the cinematography in this looks absolutely stunning. BBC should go back to this. We don't wanna hear no more interviews. Just go back to this type of stuff. Give us all documentaries that I can react to. That'd be great. On any given day in Britain, a knife attack will intrude on a young life. The youngest to die so far this year, just 14. How best to give our youth a chance? We've been trying to find out with the help of one of the busiest trauma centres. That's right. It's, what, just after one in the morning. We've been here now for five days and there have been seven in all stabbing victims admitted to the Royal London. So, at least one a day. And what's really sad is that the staff say it's been a slow week. Literally, I was about to say that. That sounds like that's good that it's a slow week, you know what I'm saying? Nobody wants to go endure that. But like, I don't know, like, I feel like people don't really get the, like I get it, this is London, it's a lot smaller than Chicago, but like people don't really get the severity of what be going on in Chicago. They said seven in five days in a month in Chicago, there's like 300. Let me, no, no, no, I'm reaching. In a month, there's probably like, nah, I'm not reaching. I feel like I'm not reaching. Like gunshot wounds entering the Chicago hospital, they gotta be like, it's gotta be touching two, three on it. Yeah. Cause unalivings is touching a thousand, 800, 700, a thousand, you know what I'm saying? Like what was the last holiday? Fourth of July, I didn't hear nothing, but like Memorial Day, like it was like 70, wasn't it like 70 gunshot wounds on Memorial? I might be exaggerating, but like it was up there. Maybe not 70, like 20. This is 16 year old Lucas, an approximately 1630. He's been allegedly assaulted by a group of people and sustained a singles incision wound to the left upper quadrant. Lucas Perry has been stabbed in the chest. One of two knifes. That's a crazy name, my boy. Salute, though. I was about to say it, but then I read it. That's my 200th follower though. Salute to you. Tim's admitted to the Royal London Hospital this evening. His painkillers haven't kicked in. Okay, chest x-ray, complete the primary with a D. Consultant Martin Griffiths will soon operate on Lucas. He's stabilized, but nothing's certain. How you doing? I'm right here. Open your eyes. Oh, definitely. Sounds like you got a collapsed lung. Look at me. What's up my hand? What's your name? How old are you? 16. And what happened to you? I would've, yo, Doc, get me to the operating room. I don't want to talk. The attacker's knife pierced his liver and punctured his stomach after Lucas refused to hand over his bike and phone to a group of teen robbers. Got a phone call, got my phone. If you're getting robbed at any type of gun point, knife point, give it up. It's not, it's not, you're not a BITCH if you give it up, man.  Simple as that. Give it up. They've been stabbed. Just can't believe. I just, it's absolutely awful. I just got to open them up and see where the knife's gone, what it's hit, and take it from there, really. There's not things that could go wrong. Lucas was randomly assaulted, but a rising number of victims are being specifically targeted by people who know what they're doing. We know we're seeing a lot more, that 10% rise year on year, and we get the feeling we're seeing more complex wounds in areas with BITCH-draught-to-get-a-junction areas like the neck and the groin, and that suggests that there's a movement towards more severe wounds, more numbers of wounds so individual people get more wounded in more dangerous areas that require the expertise of our service. That definitely ain't seen. What's going on there? What's going on out there? I hope it's just a blip. I worry that there's a change in attitude towards knife injury, the people becoming better educated and how to cause more damage. That ain't no blip, it's just people just becoming more savage. People turning a savage up, unfortunately. I don't condone that. You too, I'm just saying, I'm just giving you the reality of what it is. Those often first on the scene, the paramedics have noticed the trend too. In the last year or two years, we've seen more iniquity and disparity. We haven't looked at stab wounds and the frequency as well. It's a 17-year-old slashed seven, eight times in the buttocks, lower back, really deep wounds. Martin is very, very worried because this man has lost a lot of blood. He's going to be touching them. Another victim comes in, I'm telling you, I would hate to get stabbed.  They're just trying to get that man a Glasgow send-off? That's crazy. Seeing him to use a colostomy bag. One example of the... You see what I'm saying? You see what type of person this is? You see what type of person yields a knife? They were aiming to do that. You see where your mindset is? Look at this, this is wild. Twisted nature of the story of knife crime. A veteran of all the violence, Martin Griffiths has now been appointed the National Health Service's Violent Crime Reduction Chief for London to educate wider society on the causes of knife crime to find solutions. Let's strip away convention show. Let's strip away what we expect to happen in our lives. Let's strip away resource, shelter, warmth, comfort, parenting, structure. Let's introduce chaotic parenting, inconsistent food, inconsistent shelter, no aspiration rather than no aspiration and a group or a society around you in which that behaviour isn't the norm. Hey. Yeah, I ain't even gonna try to get this one. I know this one getting... Mm-mm! And put around that a big fence of which people are judging you from and deem you as being worthless. And let's give you no access to get out of that place. And let's see how you behave. What will happen? It's gonna be explosive. It might be positive. I got stabbed in my arms seven times and my trigger finger still works. Went left couldn't get much worse. I was in a bus with a nurse and I still flirt. Today's poet's writers and musicians have a shadow of a night man asked a rapper Michael Pauldin. That's L.R., yo. Unfortunately, it's from his eminute video. I got stabbed 11 times recently and what am I meant to do is stay in my house. Hell, yeah.  How many times has it been? You done got sliced seven, 20 times. Man, it's time to give up, retire. Stay home. All right. Yeah, move. You are not good at whatever you're doing out there. Give it up. That's what that, you know what I mean? This time, a blade has injured tendons in his left arm and may have severed an artery going into his wrist. He shines away from telling us exactly what happened. So I could make a song. I've got stabbed 11 times. I could have made a song that week, talk in the talk and got millions of views. Michael, that's pretty bad. No, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's not a song called, It's Not Not Bad. He's now trying to escape a world where violence is glamorised, but no longer suggesting it's cool to carry. But the bottom line is there is not one borough on the whole of this map in London that is not affected by youth violence and has not been affected by young people being murdered on the streets. And that's the reality. And, you know, the fact that we're living in a society where this is normal, how is that acceptable? Children being murdered on the street. Roshin Kevel works alongside Martin Griffiths and outreach worker. She offers the support some families need to prevent young people from turning to violence. If you're big enough to be walking around with a knife and thinking you're bad enough, but the reality is, is these kids don't fully understand, they fully don't comprehend. It don't even be that most of the time, man. People walk around with weapons out of fear. You know what I'm saying? Out of fear. Now, yeah, there's a couple of people that's just doing it like, that's overly savage, but a lot of people, like, majority, are moving like that out of fear. Because how many of them I do wonder actually intend to murder? Some do, I reckon, because of the level of violence that, you know, they inflict on their victims. But I don't believe that they set out on that day.  A huge concern is revenge attacks. And ultimately, the aim is to stop those young people from getting re-admitted back here. Getting re-admitted or becoming perpetrators. Because whether they're re-admitted, that's another trauma. Or if they become perpetrators, that's an even bigger trauma. Stopping them turning from victims. To perpetrator. Right. Where they're letting... Yeah, she wouldn't, she wouldn't. She wouldn't. End up in a criminal justice. Like, no offense when I say this. Like, when I see women of this skin complexion and they date in black men, which is cool. 100% do what you do, you know what I'm saying? I don't discriminate as well, you know what I'm saying? But like, you could never understand.   You're gonna fully understand the level and you have to raise those children with those expectations and that mindset that these things could happen. That's when your world gotta really open up. Just as them where they could end up being, you know, responsible for taking someone's life. I came on duty one day to a 17-year-old in one of our beds who'd murdered one of my clients the night before. Hey. And he got 17 years. He was 17, he looked 15. But I told him when I met him, because I don't know if he was fully responsible for that young person's death. I know now he's been charged and he's doing a life sentence. But I said to him, you don't need- He's not doing a life sentence, he's doing 17 years. He'll be out at 34. You can understand the enormity of what you've done. You cannot fathom it. I said, but if you are not guilty, you're good, isn't it? But if you are guilty, you better start praying, you better start repenting.  But some seem willing to accept that gift for the rush of revenge. Hi, it's Will from Boogalore. Two swallows here. Meet Jermaine, a nightclub bouncer who was attacked for refusing entry to one customer. So this guy cut my face because he thought he was disrespected. It's a respect thing. Makes sense. It's like people are fighting for territories, people are fighting for respect.   So after getting back, it's pointless because we're killing each other.  We're just killing each other and it's pointless. That do be a lot of it. In Chicago, a couple of years ago, a bouncer got murdered or unalived for rift, so because he refused entry for somebody. On the wind, another emergency. The anguish was overwhelming for Frieda and Peter Muller when they found out their son, Gardie, had been stabbed. The 15-year-old is now recovering. He was attacked on his way home from football training. Let him be alive, God, please let him be alive. That was my concern at that point. Those were my feelings as a mom. What I actually remember is I heard I got stabbed here, as you can see the things there, and I got... Come on, camera! So weird he's talking. I got stabbed here. And I didn't see him, actually, aim for that. But I didn't know. And then I remember him stabbing me here and I think I tried to grab the knife or something, and then I was just screaming. And those few minutes of violence and now forcing this family to question everything. So they're saying the best thing to do is to move out of the area. And that's the fear. It shouldn't be like that. It's not new. So you just got to live with it. But for Gardie, there's a realism fueled by social media. You're able to talk to this kid, too. Because situations like this, when you minding your own business, walking down the street, coming from door in the right stuff, and you get randomly attacked, this will turn you into... This will turn young men into K-I-L-L-E-R-S's. This will do that. Because he'll go home and be like, bro, I'll never be a victim again. And he'll get right. He'll hit, you know what I'm saying? And he'll make sure anybody moving funny around him, he'll never like again. Like, you got to walk... You got to talk him through that and make sure he cool. As a peering, I'd probably move for sure. They're always showing you videos of people getting stabbed. Yeah. Or they're showing you pictures of, like, police, they'll say they caught someone with this, and then someone that was there at the time took a picture of the actual weapon used, and it would be a knife or a gun. And it's like, you look at it and you're like, well, it's London, so... Social media always, like, portraying it everywhere. We are dealing with a generation that are angry, that are disheartened, that have been neglected, that are let down, that no one really cares about. That's why Rosheen and her colleagues tried to talk to stab victims straight after their surgery to tackle their emotional as well as physical injuries. If you've got a parent who's substance misuse or mental health or there's domestic violence, you cannot nurture that child as much as that child really needs nurturing, because you're consumed with whatever you're holding as the adult. But does it depress you? You know, seeing this all the time? Oh, it breaks my heart. Because you're seeing... It depends if the show is on YouTube or not. Children, you're seeing f... We're talking, like, after this show, talk to me. Amelies, his lives are destroyed. You know, I had a young person here a couple of weeks ago. His mom found out on Snapchat.  That's... What does that say about society? After receiving the treatment he needs, Michael discharged himself and is heading home. She worried about going back out there onto the streets? Not worried. I'm not worried. Nah, because he kind of like... This guy, I don't know. He gives me a weird vibe. I feel like he'd be putting himself in situations so he can go back and rap about it. He's got to be, I think, more aware and more on point. If you know other people are rolling or carrying things like that, then you're going to carry things like that to protect yourself, also. And then it becomes a spiral. That affects... Do you carry a knife? I used to. My little brother's been stabbed as well. Which one? The 21-year-old? Yeah. He carry a knife? He recently got arrested for carrying a knife. And is that the problem that a lot of young men have in London? That fear that they're going to be attacked? So they've got to carry? Told you. And as a result, it's a spiral that just goes on and on. I've probably seen or heard about a friend or something that's happened to them, and they think, oh, I'm going to safeguard myself and I'm going to carry this to protect myself. I don't want that to happen to me. So it's part of the game, isn't it? That's what I think. What game? Life? Yeah, it's part of... It's part of life? Part of... Part of being in London, a young man in London? Yeah, maybe part of growing up in London. It gets like that. I think so. I can't sleep well at night because sometimes I'm still up because I'm just, like, paranoid or just, like... I think about it and I don't want to sleep. So, you know, it's one of those things. Back at home, Gardi is experiencing nightmares, flashbacks of the day he was stabbed. It's called PTSD. The streets that gave you PTSD, victimless crimes that gave you PTSD, anything can give you PTSD. It ain't just a war thing for the veterans. Salute to the veterans though, but... These guys, they come up to us. Like, they said, where are you guys from? And then I just froze. Everything just froze. Like, I didn't know what to say. Then my friend left the back and he just said, Brun. I trip over. Like, I'm stumbling. I don't even remember him stabbing me here and stuff. And then he actually got me here. I was bleeding. I was bleeding. And then, like, so it was a blood support. And now I was just holding it tight, squeezing it. I told myself, what I'm gonna do is keep calm at that time. Like, you don't panic, because if I panic, then you never know, because your heart starts racing.  Like, it's more that if you panic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. If you panic in these situations, you gotta think about how the body works.  You got open wounds. Even more, you got to... All right now. Like, if you panic, if I panic, I feel like I'll have to pass the win. If I was, like, panicking, and I didn't know what to do, I'd have to pass the win. But in that situation, I told myself, just keep calm. W.K. Football eases his mind. Helps dispel the memories. And he's good, hoping to turn professional. He's built a life around football, where he lives, and doesn't want to leave because of what happened. But his family's first instinct is to escape. If you're not safe, there's no way you're going to play football. If you're not safe, you're not going to do the GCSE. But there's a tension. Moving away from this part of London, will that give you peace of mind?  The dilemma of a decent family. That's what I'm saying. His situation really turned people and kids into savages. Being driven away by a violence that's staying put. I'm leaving. I'm completely against it, to be honest. Because I have football and I have school. You don't know if I'm going to put it just against the fact of leaving. It's not that they targeted me, though. I know, I know, I know. It's like, about me being safe, it's like, I know. Because I'm not involved with anything. I know. Why would they come attack an innocent person? Why? Everything. You're all right. You're all right. Cool. Six weeks later, Gadi is catching up with Levine Smith, his case worker from the St. Giles Trust. She's been providing... I always feel like when people do that, when people harass civilians, they don't really want no smoke with their real ops. That'd be my main process in my head.  You probably got some real ops. But you're choosing to mess with civilians.  So coming up to me, you're asking me, where are you from? No, and I'm not... You know I'm not... If you got to ask me where I'm from, you know I'm not your... You know I'm not your... I'm from somewhere that you don't know nothing about, apparently. So what do I got to do with anything? If you're looking for your ops, go on, they block. You know exactly where they be. Not saying that I condone this. All I'm saying to say this is leave the civilians alone. They're civilians. And with added support for the moment, he was stabbed. They've been supportive and... They said they were going to refer me to a counselor or something like that, and I said, I'll think about it. I'll be lying in bed and I'll just get frustrated sometimes. And I'll just be angry sometimes. You know what I mean? Stuff like that. Why him? Why all the other victims of knife crime? So many young lives disrupted. See, BBC don't even know what's really going on. When he land in that bed, he's really thinking, why me? Why me? Should I really give him a reason? Should I go spend? Should I get on that? That's what he really thinking.   Studying self. He saw and on the mend. But what about his family? All of you have been traumatised by this. All of you. You want to look all right. If you look all right, you're probably not all right. OK? So it's going to be a long process, not six weeks, not six months. It can be years before you're back in a happier place. Being home will help that process, and we catch up with... You'll know how it's going to noise. Lucas, a few days after being discharged... You're OK now, are you? Yeah, I'm good now. He's now finally able to tell me what happened. They just sort of put it at nice, but I didn't. I'm not going to run away. What were they after? Well, Lucas, next time around. I didn't want to push back or something. I was on the phone, but then I came over because he was trying to stab one of my mates, so... Come over and just stab me. Well, I think it's just the way the youngsters now think. It's just one of those things. You hear of it happening so often. I can't even lie. Lucas did not run. He didn't... He backed his boy. He paid the cars for it, but, you know... It's just...  It's just something that could happen in their lifetime. He top dog at school at that point, you know? If you're walking along the streets and you see them, what's going to happen? Obviously, I want them to go for that. I want them to feel what I feel, but I wouldn't stab them. I don't think... I don't know, Luke. I think Luke is on that now. Edmonton, in most ways. A youth on a mo-head joins two other men attacking with knives in broad daylight. A young man into the floor. The shouts of onlookers have no effect. They slash and cut with impunity as normal life goes on around. As the attackers escape, one of the weapons clearly visible. Onlookers then try to help. An ambulance eventually arrived and took the victim to hospital. He survives, but this was a warning. They'd have killed him if they felt like it. The attack and everyday reality in many of our cities where did society go wrong? A consensus is now developing that tackling knife crime needs a holistic approach, that the perpetrators, as well as the victims, must be treated with some degree of understanding. I'm angry. Not with these young boys, not with their parents, but with the societies that's failed, not just once or twice, but throughout their entire lives and allow that to create a situation where violence is part and parcel of how they pretend to be. And they're all victims of violence. They're not perpetrators. Every person I see who's been stabbed or shot has had somebody. Yes, it's always the victims that you're going to see. People that are involved are doing it. They never get, you know what I'm saying? The criminals never get caught. Can't defend themselves. Use a weapon on them. And they deserve my help. I know it's easy to fall into that sort of abusive apathy and negativity about the lives of these people. These boys, these things happen to them and them and them and them and them and them and tolerate it. But no, I know that every single one of these kids doesn't want the life they've got. But when you are coming deep down, they don't want the fear of anxiety or the stress. When you understand the rules of the game, you understand what happens. And can you see that it's kind of oozing here? Yes. Why I was about to say, what happened?  In the battle against knife crime, teenagers in parts of London now have the option of learning life-saving skills alongside their studies. How long? Until the prime medicine. Yeah, I'd say so. Martin's team is trying to raise awareness. It's come to this. Innocency raised at so young an age, but the fake blood may just save real lives and make a young person think twice about carrying a knife. So what happens if you're out until you find out someone's carrying a knife? What are you going to do? Tell them, what do you think you're doing? LAUGHTER I didn't find the humour in it. You can go to the police. Yeah, it's because you're scared. No, we've got, like, going to the police. So you're going to tell me that it's good to carry? No, no. It's not good at all, but, like, from the... Because I can hold, like, some of the people that I know, and not I know, but I've heard, like, these gangs of rivalries that they're in, they think it plays some significance in their life and they don't really understand the impact in the long term that can bring them if they get hurt or are in danger. I don't know, someone, like, won't like another person and then all of these people that are friends with people just have a reason not to, like, another person. Mm-hmm. Just escalate. We've been carried. I'm not evil people. Some of these people don't even know what the beef is. They just... they just... continue on it. They do it for fear, do it for protection, they do it out of peer pressure, do it to be part of their gang, do it because that's what everybody else does, because no one else doesn't do it. But knives make you more likely to be violent, because it's in your pocket, and you can use it. Any big metropolis is burdened by the capacity of a few for violence that will never go away. But when it comes to rising levels of knife crime, Martin Griffiths argues things can change if society appreciates the true nature of the problem. After three months filming on the front line of this crisis, the complexity of the issue is clear, less so, perhaps, the solution. Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's a good way to wrap it up. The complexity of it is severe. I mean, it's clear, but the situation is not violent. Violence will never be solved. Like gang violence or any type of violence will never be cured. You just got to know how to manage it, man. Till I leave a like comment, I'm gone.