and how what is the situation generally for people of a minority race or creed and we think that it's very tolerant it's very accepting but what's a reality for people of a different a different hue. if i may begin by expressing my profound condolences first of all for those who have lost loved ones this morning and also my concern for those wounded as well as solidarity with the muslim minority and new zealand as a whole because this incident strikes at the very heart of what new zealand represents as a democratic society my understanding with regard to the muslim minority in new zealand is that it's relatively small it's about one percent as we've heard so about forty four thousand or so but it's quite well established the first muslims

arrived in new zealand already in eight hundred fifty and there was a further group that came in the mid eighty's around nine hundred eighty seven and thereabouts after a coup in fiji and then after that we've seen people arriving from a variety of countries or a very diverse population and their descendants and these have been arrivals coming as refugees and also the students so a diverse society a very vibrant society. of muslims in new zealand. but also very open to working with the majority community i know that mosques there have been holding open days to reach out to the majority community so generally i think a well integrated and well established community and that makes the events today all the more shocking so that we should believe then the. ability to say the hype

perhaps that's the wrong word but we should believe that and the image that is projected by new zealand is themselves that it is a very tolerant very accepting very open society and if that's the case how far does an incident like this that she broke the nation's own sense of self his own identity because clearly these people are not loving and giving him a sceptic. no exactly and of course it's know that a country like new zealand has to stand by its democratic values because a group like this is wanting to shake the democracy by its foundations. now i should say that we minority rights group we work to counter hate and extremism towards minorities worldwide and one of the things that's important to remember is that extremists like

these don't work rice elation at case a huge issue easy to wave them away as as a small element in society to look at the underlying causes have you had to do much work much advocacy inside new zealand until now and if so now it is a group like yours going to be really quite necessary in order to try to heal the wounds. to be honest our focus when working on new zealand so far has been in support of the maori indigenous people of new zealand but of course now we will definitely be working in support and solidarity with the muslim minority. cala said a bag of minority rights create international thank you very much indeed thank you very much. right now let's go to andrew shipped out because he's looking at the

online reaction to these attacks as. well there is certainly a big conversation happening online about the footage of this event and what responsibility these online platforms the social media companies have martín we've made the decision as a channel not to show any of the seventeen minute long video that was broadcast live on facebook and the new zealand police have also urged the public not to share links to what they and many people all of us are calling extremely distressing footage but i have to say it is all over the internet at this point true harwell is a technology reporter for the washington post who puts this into a bit of scope for us before it was live streamed on facebook the shooter and now it's what he was going to do on a chant if you haven't heard of it it's an anonymous message board which is dedicated to free speech but many think it's one of the most vile websites on the internet because of the hate speech that is tolerated there now his comments were also his manifesto in the video itself were praised on

a chant by other anonymous users and comments like this one now the video was then on you tube in the company says that it is working vigilantly to remove any violent footage and as drew mentioned in that swedish edge a moment ago as you mention it was also discussed on reddit one of the most popular websites on the internet in a forum believe it or not called watch people die people were narrating the video some praising the shooter sharing screen shots and other links facebook has released a statement saying our hearts go out to the victims their families and the community affected by the horrendous shootings in new zealand police alerted us to a video on facebook shortly after the live stream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter's facebook and instagram accounts and the video we're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we are aware we will continue working directly with the new zealand police as the response and investigation continues so there. a lot of big questions out there for facebook and other platforms namely how something like this could be live streamed

for so long the u.k. home secretary for one such a job it is one of these people asking these tech giants to stop violent extremism from being promoted on these platforms he says take some ownership enough is enough now i should say we have seen a lot of people using these platforms for good on this day posting messages of support both for new zealand and its muslim community this woman here in this post here you'll see she says whatever you need to feel safe we will do all that we can do martin andrew thank you very much indeed lots more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including bangladesh's cricket team a safe despite getting caught up in that attack on a mosque in new zealand. eight years only take a look at where syria's war now stands and what the future may hold for those who are still suffering.

now weekly protests along the israel fence area they have been postponed hours after israeli airstrikes hit the besieged strip the israeli military says around one hundred hamas targets was struck friday it was in response to a rocket attack on the israeli city of television of the exchange of fire is raising fears of an escalation of the conflict. what happened is the new israeli aggression against gaza added to a series of its crimes including the main one of the continuation of the siege of the gaza strip our people will continue their struggle to break the siege despite this aggression the resistance is ready to defend its people and is committed to calm as long as the occupation is. a let's go live now to that border area between the between israel and the girls. fences and it.

would be wrong to call it a border but this is the scene normally on a friday where you see hundreds if not thousands of palestinians protesting protesting about the right to return to their homeland. that's right we're on the israeli side of the fence that separates gaza from israel but yes the the that this area the area on the on the gaza side of that border fence is one which every friday since march last year the end of march last year has been the site of this mass demonstration this continuing mass demonstration called the great march of return and this friday is the first time that hamas has decided to call that off it's a fairly significant development given the fact that it's been going on for year they've been coming up for the first anniversary of the end of this month it's a sign i think that hamas is keen to offer something of

a deescalate three message towards the israelis of course what happened on thursday evening was this double launch of rockets from gaza territory towards television the first time that it happened since two thousand and fourteen since the war then no damage or injuries recorded in those when those rockets came to earth then came this very major israeli response some one hundred targets hits according to the israeli military in that response but in the scheme of things in terms of at how these events usually play out it seems that israel was quite careful to target training areas tunnel areas warehouses. the sort of things that were likely to have been evacuated by hamas in the meantime jury not some nine projectiles were launched from inside gaza towards the area out here in the israeli neighboring areas six of those were intercepted by the iron dome system two of them fell inside

got inside one of them fell inside gaza and two fell into open ground on the israeli side there is also a message coming from the israeli military about exactly how this launch took place they did in the early hours of this morning blame hamas for it despite the fact that hamas had denied. responsibility now they're saying perhaps it was a mistaken launch whether they mean that some sort of technical problem or whether it was a lower level group that did something without the sanction of its commanders is not yet clear but both sides do simply sending messages to the others to allow some kind of room to to deescalate the situation and it has been calm during daylight hours and how it all narrowly it could be an incident seemingly is as routine if you like as this that could that could lead to much greater conflagration between the two sides so clearly both sides and not very keen to go down that route at this particular occasion but tell us more about the egyptian

delegation that was in girls or at the time and i think it has actually left now. that's right the egyptians left a reportedly because they were recommended to do so by the israelis ahead of the israeli military response but they were there according to hamas they were actually engaged in talks when these two rockets were launched which was part of hamas his case for saying that it was not them that was responsible or at least not hamas leadership that was responsible for this this double rocket launch the egyptians have been trying very hard over many months now to try and broker some kind of long term truce between israel and hamas they've been trying to tamp down the tensions which erupted several times in the last few months when we've seen escalations getting close to the point of real outbreak of conflict and each time its both sides with egyptian mediation have managed to wheel them selves back from that kind

of point and yes as you say it does seem that neither side wants to get into that level of conflict at this moment it is israeli election season it's the ninth of april is the polling day and benjamin netanyahu while on the one hand wanting to project some sort of image of strength in the run up to that election he knows as well as everyone does that you can predict how these things will play out if you go too far and so it does seem that both sides are calibrating their way out of this. live in the border area between israel and gaza. there are more large protests are being held across algeria as demonstrators continue to demand the resignation of president bush a frica they want elections and to choose their own representatives which of leader has said that he won't be seeking a fifth term and has canceled next month's election eighty two year old has appointed a new prime minister but the protesters are saying that the appointment is designed to keep the status quo to keep the to flee empower this week now to abdul was

offended he's professor of politics and dean of the school of social sciences and humanities at the day her institute for graduate studies that's rather long title is net but welcome and thank you very much for joining us what is the scenario at the moment on the streets of algiers at least if not the rest of the country in that beautiful has said he's not going to run for a fifth term so that's a victory for the protesters there is a transitional arrangement which has promised all sorts of delights in terms of a technocrat government with all people involved i mean what's what's not to like about that i think suspicion in justifiable because they know that there is kind of what you call an interstate in algeria which has you're running the show for the last thirty years or so and. they have been known to change the faces of people and sometimes give them killed like the former prison

for short wave of these and others were replaced by the system remained the same so the suspicion is warranted but i think. he has have also to realize i suppose they have to talk. to the existing region because i mean i would assess in them in areas of transit a democracy you always unless there is a civil war unless there is a collapse of the diem you have to talk to incumbents in order to release kind of halfway deal about the transition then the transition will usher in the new government in the transition you have to speak about elections about the rules of the game about the generalities not just. what's your sense and all of the opposition movement at the moment insofar as we don't have identifiable leaders do

we have a an objective is there a clear objective objective just clear is to change the regime completely of course is easier said than done you cannot change our region like the algerian which is entrenched which is militarized where the political party the ruling party has also been the army in. front of national liberation was actually a military. militia with them became a party and became an army and now it's a state so you need to be in the us i think the people have spoken today as you have seemed the demonstration even larger than before well organized people seem to be speaking out just moments was one voice and did you have listened to what least we hope they have agreed to listen so i think the next step is to test them by as you mentioned some leadership emerging and starting to negotiate about the next steps i mean do you sense that there is an appetite for this kind of negotiation if

you lie on the part of the opposition we've been speaking to a few opposition members here at al-jazeera and they've distinctly sounded willing to even. in the dial up level i know we have the same problem with sudan. well the protesters feel that they have won victory and they want the people in office just to walk away and for them to walk in that's when you have it that way you cannot have it that way because who's going to walk in there to suppose that beautifully old. regime and everybody said ok we're walking out saying this you're nominated for president send us your name and i think that is not realistic you have to have a position where i think they're saying you have to nominate somebody who did the transition still this is an issue which needs to be talked about because there's no election either they ask for the elections to go on i mean i see one thing they

could do is to ask for the election to be continued and for them to nominate somebody who will then run for president and take over that has an interesting thought you know after one have him afraid he had severe. thank you very much indeed i just think it's a. now friday is the eighth anniversary of the start of the syrian war it all started with peaceful protests against president bashar assad in march twenty levon protests started in several cities because of the torturing of fifteen schoolchildren who wrote antigovernment graffiti in that are in the south by twenty twelve armed opposition groups began seizing control of parts of dead are of eastern there and homes the syrian kurds and also began to effectively control kurdish parts of the country in june twenty forty in abu bakar al baghdadi announced the creation of a so-called eisel caliphates and within a year i saw fighters had captured large parts of the country in september two of

the fifteen russia entered the conflict tipping the balance decisively towards the government and his forces recaptured rebel held areas like eastern aleppo and holmes twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen saw the final push against by u.s. led coalition troops they sent force fighters to retreat from their strongholds and here's where we are now the government has regained control of much of the country the opposition is confined to the north western province of it and the kurds they control almost a quarter a syrian territory and i still is on the verge of losing its last remaining on clay . well the war may be winding down but it's certainly not over eight years in and millions of people feel that they have no place in. syria they know how to reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. eighty years of human

suffering. syrians continue to bury their children. sixteen year old muhammad and his fourteen year old sister ali were killed in government artillery strikes. we buried them in a mass grave i didn't see them because it would be unbearable they were burned no flesh no burns. there is an active frontline between the government and opposition in the southern countryside of rebel controlled where a ceasefire should be in place. was instead almost two hundred civilians have been killed since the beginning of the year. thousands have been forced to flee in recent weeks adding to the millions already displaced many of them displaced multiple times.

the bombardment forced us to leave our home in the northern countryside of homes we escaped into east homes. and had to move from the front lines and there is nowhere safe. there is little peace even in government controlled territories where rights groups report arbitrary arrests and a return to repressive rule so-called reconciliation agreements in four opposition held areas are not being respected. the most recent cases were documented were six volunteers with the time for no reason there are many other cases where people are afraid to provide information because they fear the intelligence services. the absence of the rule of law and accountable security agencies or some of the reasons why syrians were belled in two thousand and eleven the regime refused reforms back then and chose to crackdown pushing the

opposition to take up arms. the syrian president is still refusing demands for change the international community wants bashar assad to engage in a credible political process that would lead to a new constitution and free elections but political reform would mean giving up power and the syrian leadership is unlikely to hand over what it didn't lose on the battlefield. the sub that's up for us has been warned some countries have already started to normalize ties with his government but much of the international community won't accept it until political reforms are in place . and there remains the problem in the north of the country much of which is not controlled by the government and is being fought over by the many interested parties and the millions who live there can't and won't return to syria for them the war is far from over. beirut. right time for us to take

a look at the weather and steph is concentrating on the coast of mozambique that's right this want to talk we've heard nothing out of barrett since it was struck by this cycling and take a look at where it's been it's been with us for eleven days now in that time it swirled around this area meandered very very slowly and now it has made landfall in fact it made landfall around twenty g.m.t. on thursday so it's been over land for a while and since then we've had nothing out of beera where we almost was a direct hit of so the tropical side here when it made landfall we had wind speeds of around one hundred sixty kilometers per hour which is fairly strong it will be a category two if it was around the waters of the americas but the movement is very slowly thirteen kilometers per hour which means it's got prolonged heavy rain across this region and there's also a lot of water around from the sea as well the wave height it was pushing ahead of it was around seven meters there was also a storm surge that's on top of that around two meters and it hit quite close to high tide and high tide itself gave us five metres in height so all added all those

together and you get a massive wall of water that we had working its way towards the city and communications and electricity have been down since before the eye of the storm made landfall and now we've still got that rain falling over us at the moment and over land it's lost it's because it's lost its energy source the sea but it's just going to dump all of its moisture into some of us particularly in the western parts of mozambique we could see around four hundred millimeters more rain so that could give us easily will flooding and landslides marty. thank you very much indeed still to come on this news a high profile murder leaves new yorkers fearing a return to the days of bob. and football's governing body prepares to discuss whether qatar's world cup should be expanded to forty eight teams that's coming up with peter in school.

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on al-jazeera. to take a look at the top stories here on the news hour at least forty nine people have been killed in new zealand after two mosques were targeted in christ church one man's been charged with murder. with the protests along with the girls and israel fence area have been postponed hours after israeli airstrikes hit the besieged strip earlier rockets launched from gaza fell near television. protests are being held across algeria as demonstrations continue to demand the resignation of president bush a frica they want elections and to choose their own. presented to

the trophy has said he won't seek a fifth term and just can't sort of next month's election. i came back to my main story that of the mass shootings in new zealand our correspondent andrew thomas is now joining us live he's in christ church andrew your outside the no mosques mosque and that is of course the place where the vast majority of those who died were killed yeah forty one of those that were killed were killed at the alamo mosque and it's about two hundred eighty mates is down the road on the right hand saw it the first most to get a time and the government left that mosque killing all those people and he drove off at speed is actually a car just a little way behind the camera that has its back window completely smashed out because i'm told by a local hero just towards a few moments ago that as he drove off the gunman was still shooting out of the window as people were fleeing away from the most he was shooting at them as they

were running down the road and he hits some of the calls that were parked along this street as he went this gloss all over the right as you say i'm at the cold and as close as i can gets to the al gore mosque. all this happened now what twelve thirteen hours ago the gunman drove from here went to the other mosque which is about a ten minute drive although i think we believe it was about fifteen minutes later five minutes later that he started shooting in that second most in the suburb of lynwood now i've only just arrived in christ church of come straight from the airport is the dead of night it's three thirty in the morning now but the roads are completely. quiet the nobody about two thirty in the morning a reason the small city perhaps you would expect that nevertheless there is a real same sort of eeriness because of course nothing like this ever happened not just here in christchurch but anywhere in new zealand and possibly in many ways anywhere in the world i mean a right wing white extremists who deliberately target muslims in this way and killed so many i'm not sure this is this is

a president in this part of the world but it's probably fairly unprecedented anywhere and for it to happen here of all places i relatively sleepy city in a relatively sleepy country it's just absolutely shocking there a place to place that got rifles or shotguns they're guarding these cordons to see a place called ever to be honest their profile is relatively low the airport which is sort of single place office there wasn't a huge sense of lockdown there until we got pretty much here we didn't see any sign of the place presents a tool of the site that for us most to be at sites just down the road the other one just across the city and that was immediately after the attacks and i mean there was a pretty much a lockdown and people were told not to gaze at mosques children were kept inside schools and so on that was lifted several hours later but is there a sense i mean it's probably how to say it help us to in the morning for any city let alone one has just gone through something as traumatic as this but is there

a sense that the new manatee is likely to return quite soon or do you feel that you know the heavy pool of this tragedy is going to last for some time. it's a very hard questions about that michael king has been here a little longer than me and she said that the city has been pretty quiet all leaving people have taken the place advised they've stayed indoors and even earlier in the evening the streets are very quiet they're completely quiet now how long this city this country will take to return to some sort of normal say well that's anybody's guess and to be honest i'm not sure that it on this is maybe speculating but almost all that ever will because new zealand in its national mindset has an idea of itself as a special quiet country that isn't known for big news it's known for its beautiful landscape is known for its place will go on holiday that will never be the case again it will now be known for many many months and possibly years as the state of this horrific attack in christchurch in the same way that it was defined in some

way by the earthquake that hit this city in twenty eleven people often talk about that earthquake as being the defining moment in christchurch his history will this horrific events will now become part of this city's story and i again knowing what i do about the earthquake and how it has really affected the psyche of this city i'm not sure this attack will affect the psyche of the city going forward for many many months many many years this is not what they city is about and you will hear this and you've been hearing it on television all day is even is an open country it's pretty multicultural in a city like christ church this is not what this place is about having said that this is a small city four hundred thousand people the muslim population in christchurch were very very small fifty almost people killed from that community it will have decimated the muslim community here in christchurch again i'm speculating but i would imagine that just about every muslim person in christchurch will know somebody personally who was killed or injured in this attack and i guess i really

will have to really hope and you know the emotions of the city now i would have to agree with you we've been speaking to many people who've been closer. to the tragic tragic events and they will concur with exactly what you're saying for now and to thank you very much indeed now we get a sweet to cynthia military's who's a professor of education sociology at the american university and she is also of the extreme gone mainstream which is an interesting title she is joining us via skype from washington d.c. . these attacks carried out by at least one young man there are several others being questioned but with quite clear fall rights uncompromising. hateful views of others i mean does it surprise you is there a rise in the number of these sorts of young individuals or are we just noticing them more it's definitely not surprising and we are seeing

a rise i think one of the most depressing things about this is its utter predictability and it's very similar to other kinds of attacks that we've seen it's just escalation and we're seeing larger numbers of deaths and and but you know it's not that different from from the pittsburgh shooting from the sikh temple shooting from. from from the shooting of african-americans in a church we're seeing again and again these kinds of violence in very peaceful places and being in acted. in a climate of rising hate why what is enabling that climate then of rising hate. there are many things going on and it's you know it's just like when we saw a rash of school shootings in the us some decades ago there's no there's no actual formula that can predict this but we know there are on the one hand there's a rising legitimacy of white supremacy rising from political leaders from kind of

populist anti you know anti immigrant sentiments that are out there in political discourse much more commonly and social media enables these kinds of conspiracy theories and deep radicalization to take place in in ways that often aren't detectable until pretty close to the to the actual violence and so individuals can be much more. radicalized in online way that makes it harder for people to detect what's happening what you say it is it may be too simplistic to say.