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Tonight tonight, he risks his life and faces possible charges. Why did

he go to Syria? A massive fight broke out and I was terrified. How

being in the wrong place at the wrong time can destroy lives. It

happened and it should never have happened and he paid for it with his

life. And the rise and fall of the inventor of the must have toy of the

70s. He ended up losing the lot. He burned everything to do with the

kite. Why would anyone leave the safety of

the UK, travelled to Syria join the bloody battle against so-called

Islamic State? I went to meet you one young man who risked his life to

do just that. It is all well and goods at -- asking someone to go and

do something but if you believe in those things, you have to do

something about it otherwise it's something about it otherwise it's

just talk. My name is Josh Walker and I went to Syria to join the

fight against Isis. A lot of the bravest most intelligent people I

knew dad died. I decided because I was the last English speaker left

alive, that I should go home and tell people about it. Josh has come

back to the city where he spent his teenage years and where, when he's

not at university, he calls home. This time he has the threat of

terrorism charges hanging over him. You felt strongly enough to pick up

a gun and do something about it. Surely that is the same sentiment a

terrorist has. There is a difference between those that want to commit

Jess is that -- genocide and those that want to stop it. Every war

kills civilians. Is everyone who is there a terrorist? Quite clearly

not. It is about the widespread destruction and the disregard human

life. Last summer against Foreign Office advice, Josh took a plane

from Bristol to Istanbul and to Iraq and travel by road to northern Syria

to an area known as Rojava. He was met by Kurdish men and women

fighting against Islamic State. They are not on the British government's

list of terrorist organisations but living life as and a grand --

undergraduate it -- undergraduate without telling any family? Why did

you want to go out there? Because I do believe that what they YBG and

their allies are fighting for is the solution and I should help them in

that. I tend to describe myself as a socialist and I would describe

myself as an internationalist. I can say we should help people who want a

breast on fighting against general right -- genocide and it is

happening in front of my eyes and I don't help them. I think it is

hypocritical. His main role was as a translator helping volunteer

fighters communicate with the locals but he was still taught to use an

assault right -- assault rifle. It wasn't training in the YBG. It is

on-the-job training. I didn't go out thinking I was going to fight

everyone but I accepted if I happen to be in a situation where we were

under attack, I was going to fight so I would need a gun. I wasn't

going to go there completely unarmed way people were fighting to death to

protect it. I just hope they wouldn't find me and decapitate me

on video. His first contact with the enemy exposed his lack of

experience. One of our snipers saw an Isis member sneaking around and

shot them and then just a massive fight broke out. Mortars were fired

at us and stop there was sniper fire gurgling overhead. It was a full on

attack. For the first 30 seconds, I was terrified. I didn't know what

exactly to do. His next brush with IAS saw him use his gun for the

first and only time. There was one time when a suicide car was coming

closer to base. Sniper rifles, machine guns were trying to shoot at

this suicide car. It got close enough that I was told to fire and I

fired once and then the suicide car hit one of our minds and exploded.

He became good friends with another British volunteer, Ryan Block, who

had travelled to Serbia without telling his family. He was a good

laugh and had common sense. He was helpful. He was pretty brave and he

was popular with the ladies. Josh also got close to Michael Israel and

another German. He would witnessed the attack that killed both of them

and ten others. We fought all through the day and night to God the

Turkish air force -- we fought all through the day and the Turkish air

force came in and killed them both. Even though the Turkish fighters

fighting IS, they had frequently attacked each other with tragic

consequences. There is no word to describe being under aerial

bombardment. All you can do is keep your head down and hope it stops.

The headache afterwards was nasty because I was feet away from being

blown up by one of the bombs when it hit the house. A lot of the bravest

most intelligent people I knew there died. It does hit you hard with the

truth of what war is when something like that happens. This was the

tipping point for Josh. Now with his agreed six months up, it was time to

head home stop with travelling back through rack he heard the tragic

news that his friend, Ryan Locke, was dead. It was Christmas Day and

we were having pizza. I could contact home and I got a message

from another YBG volunteer telling me that he had been killed along

with the Canadian that I have been with for a lot of the time there. It

was likely in a very heavy attack and they had died fighting. I was

very sad. They were good friends of mine and good people. It was later

reported Ryan had turned a gun on himself to avoid capture by IS. A

lot of YBG members would have a think that they attach to the barrel

of their gun which they could fit a spare bullet on. They would put the

last round in the chamber and shoot themselves. Other would keep a spare

grenade so they could deliver Isis A. Brand of irony. I kept a grenade.

Luckily I never had to use one. Like I said, there's no way I'm letting

my mum see images of me being decapitated and broadcast around the

world. This is where it strikes me as the Sailfish nature of it. Brian

died. You met his family. -- selfish nature. You have seen how sad they

are and this could have caused this paint your own mother. It is

possible that many mothers elsewhere in the world aren't crying over

their dead son 's tonight because of what we did. Because of the

sacrifice Ryan made. In my opinion, that is worth it, that ending Isis

will give so many more families happiness than just my end all

Brian's end. You mentioned you want to do something about it. Why not

join the army? I wouldn't be able to go and the people. I wouldn't be

able to choose where I went at all. I would have to fight based on the

whims of the politician of the day. It a very big moral decision. At the

end of his journey, he was arrested at Gatwick Airport and the terrorism

act and is on police bail. Even though his life is on hold while he

faces the possibility of being charged, he doesn't regret going. I

wouldn't have forgiven myself if I hadn't gone and I will always be

proud of myself that I did. Do you think he was right to travel to

Syria? Go on our Facebook page and let us know.

Gloucestershire is described as the gateway to the Cotswolds so it is

probably the last place you'd expect to see a disturbing increase in

knife crime. Tonight, Delroy Ellis shows us some more sinister sides to

the county. Gloucester, a city I'm proud of. Best known for its iconic

cathedral. The rugby team and the historic docks. Recently we've been

hitting their -- the headlines for many reasons. Knife crime is a

worrying trend amongst our young people. At the sight of another

police stabbing. The effect on the victims, families and friends is

devastating. The police walked me past where he was laying covered

over with the yellow sheet and that is where our lives stopped. Craig

was stabbed six months ago. The last 16 years, I've been working to stop

kids think Leicester fall into a life of crime. 17 years ago I lost a

dear friend of mine through knife stabbing and two years ago, a young

person I have worked with. I had been stabbed myself as a child and

things difficult for me from the age of 15 to 21. I was in and out of

drugs, selling and using drugs. It was when my dad died of a

drug-related illness that I turned my life around and decided to

support others the same. I really like that. I believe there is a lot

more to be done and I feel like we are not doing enough in the city. I

think what their needs more of and I say this with a passion, is more

positive role models for our young people. In 11 people have been

stabbed to death in Gloucestershire since 2013 and incidents involving

knives are increasing. The police often connect knife crime with gangs

but I know it touches completely innocent lives also. This is my new

piano piece called I forgive you. 19-year-old son was killed in a

machete attack outside this pub in Gloucester two years ago. Today,

I've come to meet his sister and his grandad, Malcolm. This is the bench.

It is. Zach was an innocent buys -- bystander trying to protect his

friends. I got into bed and the phone rang and there was this

terrible noise on the phone saying come to me, Zach is dead. I said

this wasn't funny. I said, where are you? He was lying in the car park

dead. I skidded to a halt and the police walked me past where he was

laying under a covered sheet. That is when my life stopped. I can still

see it now. I never parked the car there. It was... It was absolutely

horrendous that it happened. It should never have happened. There

was an altercation and he stood in front of somebody and he paid for it

with his life. It is terrifying knowing my four-year-old is going to

grow up in a community where it is becoming more of the norm. The more

awareness that anybody can create and the impact it has on people's

lives, the whole community, it's everybody else involved. The family

and friends. You are on rails is serving a life sentence for

murdering Zach and will spend at least 28 years in prison. I want to

understand why people feel the need to use knives in the first place. I

-- Ayesha went to prison. In her neighbour and got in a fight with

him and picked up a couple of nights to warn him off. I lost it and shut

my eyes. I started going at it and he was on the floor and had a lot of

injuries. There was a lot of blood everywhere and it was really scary.

This is hard. I went back to my place and I was sat on the bed and

was shaking and didn't know what was going to happen next. I heard a

noise and it was the police back came and they took the door off. I

went outside and their whorls yellow cones everywhere. I realised really

quickly that I had actually killed him. It was supposed to be a prop to

scare the person I was arguing with. It escalated over a period of time

and the next thing I know, I have my eyes shut. I had a meeting with the

victim's child and it ripped me. It was really hard to explain to earn

11-year-old. How do you feel about what is going on in Gloucester at

the moment around knife crime? It is everywhere. People go to McDonald's

with a knife in their pocket. The places we have been seeing a

reported, it is not a gang thing, it is like a fashion. I believe these

stories can have a massive impact on young people. I am the founder of a

charity. As part of the charity I run, we going to clubs, schools and

colleges to get the message across that it is never worth carrying a

knife. Today we are with the group that has been kicked out of school.

We educate people about the risks of carrying knives. Don't feel like

this is you carrying knives. It is just an educational workshop. You

need to protect yourself from each other. Don't worry, this is just a

game. Away our colleague can show the impact of using a weapon. The

laceration on the stomach would be an open wound. The longer it is, the

more it will open. It gets gory and the stomach starts falling out.

Here, a puncture wound to his stomach. Possibly where it is, if he

was stabbed like that, it could puncture his long. They hardly went

each other. We can see now how somebody attacked -- was attacked 48

times. You can start to gain a picture. After I got a chance to

speak to the teenagers. It always surprises me how many of them have

been affected by knife crime. Some person came up to me and pulled a

It was more the shock that he pulled It was more the shock that he pulled

the knife out and I didn't do much. When I tried to run copy managed to

catch me. When I went to hospital about it, they said I was lucky. I

was at risk of death because whether knife hit me. I was 11 or 12. After

that moment, I'm more cautious about where I go. I'm always looking over

my shoulder and stop it is more a shock of what happened. I don't want

it happening again. Tomorrow the trial is due to stop the killing of

17-year-old Cameron Green come stabbed to death in Gloucestershire

in October last year. Another death to add to the list. It is clear to

me that it is important to educate how young people about the dangers

carrying knives. We have a proper man talking to these families and

listening to them and knowing that one day maybe if I had children, I

may have to go through that, it scares me. This could be my cousin

and my niece, my nephew, the family I care about. When I sit down

tonight I will be thinking about it a lot more. It is upsetting.

He brought kite flying to the masses but while Peter Power's life was

filled with soaring highs, there were also crushing lows. It could've

been the end of his famous kites but his sons different ideas. Born in

Gloucester in 1932, tempt was in his 40s when he devised the kites that

would make an further -- famous. The Peter Powell stunt kind. Peter

brought kite to the world because he made them accessible stop anyone and

everyone could get involved with them and enjoy them. It took me a

long time to work the name out for one of these, about five years. I

came up with Peter Powell stunt kite. He was like a celebrity at

that time. He was at the time. Everyone wanted to meet our dad. He

would come back with cars and everybody would come back to the

house and open our birthday presents for us. When you think back, it

would've been nice to have had a father figure there because we never

to see him. The Peter Powell Stunter was on the birthday list of

everybody. But when computers took over, kite sales crashed. Peter's

story is one of big highs and bigger lows. A decade after he brought a

dramatic end to his business, his sons come Paul and Mark, opened

their first shop in Cheltenham. Determine their father's neigh man's

legacy will live on. How did he come up with the idea? He was in the pub

with man called Trevor, a family friend. His kite was a one line

scout and it was going to the scout and it was going to the

left-hand side. He was asked if he could stabilise the kite. He said if

he could attach a line to the other side, the kites stabilised. He

thought of people that hard, the car -- the kite started to turn. They

add three lines and one in the middle. Now he could steer the kite

and the breakthrough came when he cut away the line in the middle and

he had full control of the kite. It talk four years of development to

get the perfect shape and a nice long tail and it was like a red

arrow. Before inventing this terrible kite,

Pete had attempted to build and fly the biggest kite in Britain which

was featured on the BBC. It didn't go quite according to plan. The kite

took off so suddenly, things got out of control. As it shot up, David

Hearn on that -- then let go. Peter was lifted several feet off the

ground. Suddenly, disaster struck. And in the same year in a

particularly infamous stunt, he persuaded 70 rolled Mary Hardy to

sit in the chair lift 30 feet into the air by kites. An idea she was

not thrilled by. Hammond of these do you need to get one person up in the

air? In ideal conditions, five. If the wind drops, usually eight or

nine. A little more wins, granny. Lovely, yes, she soars. How is that?

OK. Well done, you are away. How is that? Judging by the lending, her

fears were well founded. Although he flirted with celebrities later is

through these TV appearances, it was during the heatwave of 1976 that

Peter rarely hit the big-time. With his stunt kite. He was a bit of a

celebrity at that time. He was on programmes and flew his kite down

the back of the Hudson River. Sun-macro must have been an amazing

thing to do. It was another TV appearance that sell it -- sent kite

sales soaring. Nationwide was the BBC's daily magazine programme and

with a regular audience of over 10 million viewers, it is perhaps no

surprise that Peter's business boomed. He opened up five factories

and in his heyday, 70,000 kites a week that he was producing. He was

such an enthusiastic, larger-than-life character. He came

to the first kite festival in 1986. He loved interacting with the cloud.

One year we didn't have a huge amount of wind but a massive crowd.

Peter got into a car and was flying a stack of his stunt cars -- kites

out the back of his car because he was determined to put on a good show

whatever. His story isn't an entirely happy one. On the face of

it and his business was a global success but poor commercial

decisions left with nothing. It is bound to go wrong. It is too good.

I've been searching all my life for such a thing. It all went bad. He

ended up losing the lot. We came home one night and it looked like

the house had been on fire. He went round the factory and burned

everything to do with the kite. He said, whatever you do, do not start

their business back up again. Obviously, 15 years later, we

started the business back-up. And we told him about it. I had the task of

telling him because they left me to do it. I went round with a packet.

He looked at it and said, "That's a kite in there." I said it's not any

kite, it's ours. We recreated your kite again. He put his hand out and

shook my hand. With that, he had to go and have a lie down. He must have

been so proud. We were so pleased that he was thrilled to bits. If it

wasn't right, he could disown you. On a windy day, it would be a shame

not to try out Peter's amazing inventions are welcome to the field

where it all began to meet up the family. How are you, are you all

right? Good. That looks hard. Bit of practice and 20 minutes and you are

good to go. Mark and Paul have had few decades more experienced than me

but I'm pretty confident I can do the business. Even their children

can do it and rather than throwing me in the deep end with a stack of

three, they have created something very special. OK, the kite will go

straight up. All it gently on the left and the kite will go over to

the left. Put them together. I will let you go. You are away.

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