:00:11. > :00:20.Tonight tonight, he risks his life and faces possible charges. Why did
:00:21. > :00:25.he go to Syria? A massive fight broke out and I was terrified. How
:00:26. > :00:31.being in the wrong place at the wrong time can destroy lives. It
:00:32. > :00:36.happened and it should never have happened and he paid for it with his
:00:37. > :00:44.life. And the rise and fall of the inventor of the must have toy of the
:00:45. > :00:45.70s. He ended up losing the lot. He burned everything to do with the
:00:46. > :01:03.kite. Why would anyone leave the safety of
:01:04. > :01:06.the UK, travelled to Syria join the bloody battle against so-called
:01:07. > :01:16.Islamic State? I went to meet you one young man who risked his life to
:01:17. > :01:20.do just that. It is all well and goods at -- asking someone to go and
:01:21. > :01:22.do something but if you believe in those things, you have to do
:01:23. > :01:28.something about it otherwise it's something about it otherwise it's
:01:29. > :01:33.just talk. My name is Josh Walker and I went to Syria to join the
:01:34. > :01:39.fight against Isis. A lot of the bravest most intelligent people I
:01:40. > :01:43.knew dad died. I decided because I was the last English speaker left
:01:44. > :01:53.alive, that I should go home and tell people about it. Josh has come
:01:54. > :01:57.back to the city where he spent his teenage years and where, when he's
:01:58. > :02:03.not at university, he calls home. This time he has the threat of
:02:04. > :02:10.terrorism charges hanging over him. You felt strongly enough to pick up
:02:11. > :02:16.a gun and do something about it. Surely that is the same sentiment a
:02:17. > :02:19.terrorist has. There is a difference between those that want to commit
:02:20. > :02:28.Jess is that -- genocide and those that want to stop it. Every war
:02:29. > :02:32.kills civilians. Is everyone who is there a terrorist? Quite clearly
:02:33. > :02:39.not. It is about the widespread destruction and the disregard human
:02:40. > :02:46.life. Last summer against Foreign Office advice, Josh took a plane
:02:47. > :02:59.from Bristol to Istanbul and to Iraq and travel by road to northern Syria
:03:00. > :03:05.to an area known as Rojava. He was met by Kurdish men and women
:03:06. > :03:12.fighting against Islamic State. They are not on the British government's
:03:13. > :03:19.list of terrorist organisations but living life as and a grand --
:03:20. > :03:25.undergraduate it -- undergraduate without telling any family? Why did
:03:26. > :03:33.you want to go out there? Because I do believe that what they YBG and
:03:34. > :03:39.their allies are fighting for is the solution and I should help them in
:03:40. > :03:43.that. I tend to describe myself as a socialist and I would describe
:03:44. > :03:48.myself as an internationalist. I can say we should help people who want a
:03:49. > :03:52.breast on fighting against general right -- genocide and it is
:03:53. > :03:58.happening in front of my eyes and I don't help them. I think it is
:03:59. > :04:02.hypocritical. His main role was as a translator helping volunteer
:04:03. > :04:08.fighters communicate with the locals but he was still taught to use an
:04:09. > :04:18.assault right -- assault rifle. It wasn't training in the YBG. It is
:04:19. > :04:22.on-the-job training. I didn't go out thinking I was going to fight
:04:23. > :04:27.everyone but I accepted if I happen to be in a situation where we were
:04:28. > :04:33.under attack, I was going to fight so I would need a gun. I wasn't
:04:34. > :04:41.going to go there completely unarmed way people were fighting to death to
:04:42. > :04:45.protect it. I just hope they wouldn't find me and decapitate me
:04:46. > :04:50.on video. His first contact with the enemy exposed his lack of
:04:51. > :04:55.experience. One of our snipers saw an Isis member sneaking around and
:04:56. > :05:02.shot them and then just a massive fight broke out. Mortars were fired
:05:03. > :05:10.at us and stop there was sniper fire gurgling overhead. It was a full on
:05:11. > :05:18.attack. For the first 30 seconds, I was terrified. I didn't know what
:05:19. > :05:26.exactly to do. His next brush with IAS saw him use his gun for the
:05:27. > :05:33.first and only time. There was one time when a suicide car was coming
:05:34. > :05:40.closer to base. Sniper rifles, machine guns were trying to shoot at
:05:41. > :05:48.this suicide car. It got close enough that I was told to fire and I
:05:49. > :05:54.fired once and then the suicide car hit one of our minds and exploded.
:05:55. > :06:00.He became good friends with another British volunteer, Ryan Block, who
:06:01. > :06:07.had travelled to Serbia without telling his family. He was a good
:06:08. > :06:15.laugh and had common sense. He was helpful. He was pretty brave and he
:06:16. > :06:21.was popular with the ladies. Josh also got close to Michael Israel and
:06:22. > :06:26.another German. He would witnessed the attack that killed both of them
:06:27. > :06:34.and ten others. We fought all through the day and night to God the
:06:35. > :06:39.Turkish air force -- we fought all through the day and the Turkish air
:06:40. > :06:44.force came in and killed them both. Even though the Turkish fighters
:06:45. > :06:51.fighting IS, they had frequently attacked each other with tragic
:06:52. > :06:54.consequences. There is no word to describe being under aerial
:06:55. > :06:58.bombardment. All you can do is keep your head down and hope it stops.
:06:59. > :07:04.The headache afterwards was nasty because I was feet away from being
:07:05. > :07:08.blown up by one of the bombs when it hit the house. A lot of the bravest
:07:09. > :07:12.most intelligent people I knew there died. It does hit you hard with the
:07:13. > :07:20.truth of what war is when something like that happens. This was the
:07:21. > :07:24.tipping point for Josh. Now with his agreed six months up, it was time to
:07:25. > :07:30.head home stop with travelling back through rack he heard the tragic
:07:31. > :07:36.news that his friend, Ryan Locke, was dead. It was Christmas Day and
:07:37. > :07:42.we were having pizza. I could contact home and I got a message
:07:43. > :07:45.from another YBG volunteer telling me that he had been killed along
:07:46. > :07:50.with the Canadian that I have been with for a lot of the time there. It
:07:51. > :07:58.was likely in a very heavy attack and they had died fighting. I was
:07:59. > :08:05.very sad. They were good friends of mine and good people. It was later
:08:06. > :08:11.reported Ryan had turned a gun on himself to avoid capture by IS. A
:08:12. > :08:15.lot of YBG members would have a think that they attach to the barrel
:08:16. > :08:22.of their gun which they could fit a spare bullet on. They would put the
:08:23. > :08:29.last round in the chamber and shoot themselves. Other would keep a spare
:08:30. > :08:42.grenade so they could deliver Isis A. Brand of irony. I kept a grenade.
:08:43. > :08:49.Luckily I never had to use one. Like I said, there's no way I'm letting
:08:50. > :08:55.my mum see images of me being decapitated and broadcast around the
:08:56. > :09:04.world. This is where it strikes me as the Sailfish nature of it. Brian
:09:05. > :09:10.died. You met his family. -- selfish nature. You have seen how sad they
:09:11. > :09:16.are and this could have caused this paint your own mother. It is
:09:17. > :09:19.possible that many mothers elsewhere in the world aren't crying over
:09:20. > :09:26.their dead son 's tonight because of what we did. Because of the
:09:27. > :09:35.sacrifice Ryan made. In my opinion, that is worth it, that ending Isis
:09:36. > :09:43.will give so many more families happiness than just my end all
:09:44. > :09:48.Brian's end. You mentioned you want to do something about it. Why not
:09:49. > :09:54.join the army? I wouldn't be able to go and the people. I wouldn't be
:09:55. > :10:07.able to choose where I went at all. I would have to fight based on the
:10:08. > :10:12.whims of the politician of the day. It a very big moral decision. At the
:10:13. > :10:18.end of his journey, he was arrested at Gatwick Airport and the terrorism
:10:19. > :10:23.act and is on police bail. Even though his life is on hold while he
:10:24. > :10:28.faces the possibility of being charged, he doesn't regret going. I
:10:29. > :10:35.wouldn't have forgiven myself if I hadn't gone and I will always be
:10:36. > :10:40.proud of myself that I did. Do you think he was right to travel to
:10:41. > :10:48.Syria? Go on our Facebook page and let us know.
:10:49. > :10:53.Gloucestershire is described as the gateway to the Cotswolds so it is
:10:54. > :10:59.probably the last place you'd expect to see a disturbing increase in
:11:00. > :11:06.knife crime. Tonight, Delroy Ellis shows us some more sinister sides to
:11:07. > :11:12.the county. Gloucester, a city I'm proud of. Best known for its iconic
:11:13. > :11:19.cathedral. The rugby team and the historic docks. Recently we've been
:11:20. > :11:24.hitting their -- the headlines for many reasons. Knife crime is a
:11:25. > :11:32.worrying trend amongst our young people. At the sight of another
:11:33. > :11:37.police stabbing. The effect on the victims, families and friends is
:11:38. > :11:42.devastating. The police walked me past where he was laying covered
:11:43. > :11:51.over with the yellow sheet and that is where our lives stopped. Craig
:11:52. > :11:54.was stabbed six months ago. The last 16 years, I've been working to stop
:11:55. > :12:03.kids think Leicester fall into a life of crime. 17 years ago I lost a
:12:04. > :12:07.dear friend of mine through knife stabbing and two years ago, a young
:12:08. > :12:13.person I have worked with. I had been stabbed myself as a child and
:12:14. > :12:18.things difficult for me from the age of 15 to 21. I was in and out of
:12:19. > :12:23.drugs, selling and using drugs. It was when my dad died of a
:12:24. > :12:28.drug-related illness that I turned my life around and decided to
:12:29. > :12:33.support others the same. I really like that. I believe there is a lot
:12:34. > :12:40.more to be done and I feel like we are not doing enough in the city. I
:12:41. > :12:45.think what their needs more of and I say this with a passion, is more
:12:46. > :12:52.positive role models for our young people. In 11 people have been
:12:53. > :12:57.stabbed to death in Gloucestershire since 2013 and incidents involving
:12:58. > :13:00.knives are increasing. The police often connect knife crime with gangs
:13:01. > :13:16.but I know it touches completely innocent lives also. This is my new
:13:17. > :13:19.piano piece called I forgive you. 19-year-old son was killed in a
:13:20. > :13:26.machete attack outside this pub in Gloucester two years ago. Today,
:13:27. > :13:35.I've come to meet his sister and his grandad, Malcolm. This is the bench.
:13:36. > :13:40.It is. Zach was an innocent buys -- bystander trying to protect his
:13:41. > :13:44.friends. I got into bed and the phone rang and there was this
:13:45. > :13:53.terrible noise on the phone saying come to me, Zach is dead. I said
:13:54. > :13:59.this wasn't funny. I said, where are you? He was lying in the car park
:14:00. > :14:05.dead. I skidded to a halt and the police walked me past where he was
:14:06. > :14:10.laying under a covered sheet. That is when my life stopped. I can still
:14:11. > :14:19.see it now. I never parked the car there. It was... It was absolutely
:14:20. > :14:23.horrendous that it happened. It should never have happened. There
:14:24. > :14:28.was an altercation and he stood in front of somebody and he paid for it
:14:29. > :14:32.with his life. It is terrifying knowing my four-year-old is going to
:14:33. > :14:37.grow up in a community where it is becoming more of the norm. The more
:14:38. > :14:41.awareness that anybody can create and the impact it has on people's
:14:42. > :14:49.lives, the whole community, it's everybody else involved. The family
:14:50. > :14:52.and friends. You are on rails is serving a life sentence for
:14:53. > :14:59.murdering Zach and will spend at least 28 years in prison. I want to
:15:00. > :15:06.understand why people feel the need to use knives in the first place. I
:15:07. > :15:11.-- Ayesha went to prison. In her neighbour and got in a fight with
:15:12. > :15:17.him and picked up a couple of nights to warn him off. I lost it and shut
:15:18. > :15:21.my eyes. I started going at it and he was on the floor and had a lot of
:15:22. > :15:28.injuries. There was a lot of blood everywhere and it was really scary.
:15:29. > :15:32.This is hard. I went back to my place and I was sat on the bed and
:15:33. > :15:36.was shaking and didn't know what was going to happen next. I heard a
:15:37. > :15:41.noise and it was the police back came and they took the door off. I
:15:42. > :15:49.went outside and their whorls yellow cones everywhere. I realised really
:15:50. > :15:56.quickly that I had actually killed him. It was supposed to be a prop to
:15:57. > :16:02.scare the person I was arguing with. It escalated over a period of time
:16:03. > :16:11.and the next thing I know, I have my eyes shut. I had a meeting with the
:16:12. > :16:17.victim's child and it ripped me. It was really hard to explain to earn
:16:18. > :16:23.11-year-old. How do you feel about what is going on in Gloucester at
:16:24. > :16:28.the moment around knife crime? It is everywhere. People go to McDonald's
:16:29. > :16:35.with a knife in their pocket. The places we have been seeing a
:16:36. > :16:39.reported, it is not a gang thing, it is like a fashion. I believe these
:16:40. > :16:46.stories can have a massive impact on young people. I am the founder of a
:16:47. > :16:50.charity. As part of the charity I run, we going to clubs, schools and
:16:51. > :16:54.colleges to get the message across that it is never worth carrying a
:16:55. > :16:59.knife. Today we are with the group that has been kicked out of school.
:17:00. > :17:05.We educate people about the risks of carrying knives. Don't feel like
:17:06. > :17:10.this is you carrying knives. It is just an educational workshop. You
:17:11. > :17:19.need to protect yourself from each other. Don't worry, this is just a
:17:20. > :17:30.game. Away our colleague can show the impact of using a weapon. The
:17:31. > :17:36.laceration on the stomach would be an open wound. The longer it is, the
:17:37. > :17:40.more it will open. It gets gory and the stomach starts falling out.
:17:41. > :17:46.Here, a puncture wound to his stomach. Possibly where it is, if he
:17:47. > :17:52.was stabbed like that, it could puncture his long. They hardly went
:17:53. > :17:58.each other. We can see now how somebody attacked -- was attacked 48
:17:59. > :18:03.times. You can start to gain a picture. After I got a chance to
:18:04. > :18:08.speak to the teenagers. It always surprises me how many of them have
:18:09. > :18:13.been affected by knife crime. Some person came up to me and pulled a
:18:14. > :18:17.It was more the shock that he pulled It was more the shock that he pulled
:18:18. > :18:24.the knife out and I didn't do much. When I tried to run copy managed to
:18:25. > :18:29.catch me. When I went to hospital about it, they said I was lucky. I
:18:30. > :18:36.was at risk of death because whether knife hit me. I was 11 or 12. After
:18:37. > :18:43.that moment, I'm more cautious about where I go. I'm always looking over
:18:44. > :18:47.my shoulder and stop it is more a shock of what happened. I don't want
:18:48. > :18:52.it happening again. Tomorrow the trial is due to stop the killing of
:18:53. > :18:56.17-year-old Cameron Green come stabbed to death in Gloucestershire
:18:57. > :19:00.in October last year. Another death to add to the list. It is clear to
:19:01. > :19:07.me that it is important to educate how young people about the dangers
:19:08. > :19:12.carrying knives. We have a proper man talking to these families and
:19:13. > :19:16.listening to them and knowing that one day maybe if I had children, I
:19:17. > :19:23.may have to go through that, it scares me. This could be my cousin
:19:24. > :19:27.and my niece, my nephew, the family I care about. When I sit down
:19:28. > :19:33.tonight I will be thinking about it a lot more. It is upsetting.
:19:34. > :19:40.He brought kite flying to the masses but while Peter Power's life was
:19:41. > :19:45.filled with soaring highs, there were also crushing lows. It could've
:19:46. > :19:58.been the end of his famous kites but his sons different ideas. Born in
:19:59. > :20:05.Gloucester in 1932, tempt was in his 40s when he devised the kites that
:20:06. > :20:12.would make an further -- famous. The Peter Powell stunt kind. Peter
:20:13. > :20:16.brought kite to the world because he made them accessible stop anyone and
:20:17. > :20:20.everyone could get involved with them and enjoy them. It took me a
:20:21. > :20:25.long time to work the name out for one of these, about five years. I
:20:26. > :20:34.came up with Peter Powell stunt kite. He was like a celebrity at
:20:35. > :20:41.that time. He was at the time. Everyone wanted to meet our dad. He
:20:42. > :20:45.would come back with cars and everybody would come back to the
:20:46. > :20:49.house and open our birthday presents for us. When you think back, it
:20:50. > :21:00.would've been nice to have had a father figure there because we never
:21:01. > :21:04.to see him. The Peter Powell Stunter was on the birthday list of
:21:05. > :21:12.everybody. But when computers took over, kite sales crashed. Peter's
:21:13. > :21:15.story is one of big highs and bigger lows. A decade after he brought a
:21:16. > :21:21.dramatic end to his business, his sons come Paul and Mark, opened
:21:22. > :21:26.their first shop in Cheltenham. Determine their father's neigh man's
:21:27. > :21:32.legacy will live on. How did he come up with the idea? He was in the pub
:21:33. > :21:36.with man called Trevor, a family friend. His kite was a one line
:21:37. > :21:41.scout and it was going to the scout and it was going to the
:21:42. > :21:46.left-hand side. He was asked if he could stabilise the kite. He said if
:21:47. > :21:51.he could attach a line to the other side, the kites stabilised. He
:21:52. > :21:56.thought of people that hard, the car -- the kite started to turn. They
:21:57. > :22:01.add three lines and one in the middle. Now he could steer the kite
:22:02. > :22:05.and the breakthrough came when he cut away the line in the middle and
:22:06. > :22:10.he had full control of the kite. It talk four years of development to
:22:11. > :22:12.get the perfect shape and a nice long tail and it was like a red
:22:13. > :22:24.arrow. Before inventing this terrible kite,
:22:25. > :22:29.Pete had attempted to build and fly the biggest kite in Britain which
:22:30. > :22:36.was featured on the BBC. It didn't go quite according to plan. The kite
:22:37. > :22:42.took off so suddenly, things got out of control. As it shot up, David
:22:43. > :22:55.Hearn on that -- then let go. Peter was lifted several feet off the
:22:56. > :22:59.ground. Suddenly, disaster struck. And in the same year in a
:23:00. > :23:03.particularly infamous stunt, he persuaded 70 rolled Mary Hardy to
:23:04. > :23:15.sit in the chair lift 30 feet into the air by kites. An idea she was
:23:16. > :23:22.not thrilled by. Hammond of these do you need to get one person up in the
:23:23. > :23:30.air? In ideal conditions, five. If the wind drops, usually eight or
:23:31. > :23:45.nine. A little more wins, granny. Lovely, yes, she soars. How is that?
:23:46. > :23:54.OK. Well done, you are away. How is that? Judging by the lending, her
:23:55. > :23:58.fears were well founded. Although he flirted with celebrities later is
:23:59. > :24:04.through these TV appearances, it was during the heatwave of 1976 that
:24:05. > :24:10.Peter rarely hit the big-time. With his stunt kite. He was a bit of a
:24:11. > :24:21.celebrity at that time. He was on programmes and flew his kite down
:24:22. > :24:26.the back of the Hudson River. Sun-macro must have been an amazing
:24:27. > :24:39.thing to do. It was another TV appearance that sell it -- sent kite
:24:40. > :24:43.sales soaring. Nationwide was the BBC's daily magazine programme and
:24:44. > :24:48.with a regular audience of over 10 million viewers, it is perhaps no
:24:49. > :24:53.surprise that Peter's business boomed. He opened up five factories
:24:54. > :25:00.and in his heyday, 70,000 kites a week that he was producing. He was
:25:01. > :25:05.such an enthusiastic, larger-than-life character. He came
:25:06. > :25:09.to the first kite festival in 1986. He loved interacting with the cloud.
:25:10. > :25:15.One year we didn't have a huge amount of wind but a massive crowd.
:25:16. > :25:21.Peter got into a car and was flying a stack of his stunt cars -- kites
:25:22. > :25:26.out the back of his car because he was determined to put on a good show
:25:27. > :25:31.whatever. His story isn't an entirely happy one. On the face of
:25:32. > :25:36.it and his business was a global success but poor commercial
:25:37. > :25:43.decisions left with nothing. It is bound to go wrong. It is too good.
:25:44. > :25:50.I've been searching all my life for such a thing. It all went bad. He
:25:51. > :25:54.ended up losing the lot. We came home one night and it looked like
:25:55. > :26:01.the house had been on fire. He went round the factory and burned
:26:02. > :26:07.everything to do with the kite. He said, whatever you do, do not start
:26:08. > :26:11.their business back up again. Obviously, 15 years later, we
:26:12. > :26:17.started the business back-up. And we told him about it. I had the task of
:26:18. > :26:24.telling him because they left me to do it. I went round with a packet.
:26:25. > :26:33.He looked at it and said, "That's a kite in there." I said it's not any
:26:34. > :26:38.kite, it's ours. We recreated your kite again. He put his hand out and
:26:39. > :26:45.shook my hand. With that, he had to go and have a lie down. He must have
:26:46. > :27:02.been so proud. We were so pleased that he was thrilled to bits. If it
:27:03. > :27:06.wasn't right, he could disown you. On a windy day, it would be a shame
:27:07. > :27:10.not to try out Peter's amazing inventions are welcome to the field
:27:11. > :27:30.where it all began to meet up the family. How are you, are you all
:27:31. > :27:35.right? Good. That looks hard. Bit of practice and 20 minutes and you are
:27:36. > :27:38.good to go. Mark and Paul have had few decades more experienced than me
:27:39. > :27:42.but I'm pretty confident I can do the business. Even their children
:27:43. > :27:47.can do it and rather than throwing me in the deep end with a stack of
:27:48. > :27:55.three, they have created something very special. OK, the kite will go
:27:56. > :28:01.straight up. All it gently on the left and the kite will go over to
:28:02. > :28:27.the left. Put them together. I will let you go. You are away.
:28:28. > :28:39.Sorry! We are always updating our Facebook and Twitter feeds so do
:28:40. > :28:47.catch up with this then. For now, thank you for watching. Next week...
:28:48. > :28:54.At the latest twist in the 5000 year history of Stonehenge. The way the
:28:55. > :28:58.whole landscape sits together, it is modern score on an ancient
:28:59. > :29:10.landscape. It breaks my heart. Breaks my heart.
:29:11. > :29:11.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update.
:29:12. > :29:14.Did some of President Trump's team collude with Russia
:29:15. > :29:17.The head of the FBI says they are investigating the claims,
:29:18. > :29:20.but says there's no evidence President Obama bugged Trump Tower.
:29:21. > :29:23.The Prime Minister will give the formal go-ahead for Brexit
:29:24. > :29:26.Theresa May will trigger what's known as Article 50,
:29:27. > :29:29.kicking off two years of divorce negotiations with
:29:30. > :29:33.Google has apologised for letting adverts appear next
:29:34. > :29:39.A number of big British companies like Marks and Spencer