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we. rewind. handcuffed and shackled to the main suspect in the newseum shoes and remained silent in court as he was charged with. and welcome to al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha with me in his approach also ahead. battles three southern african countries dozens are killed and the city of beta and mozambique. examined bodies from mass graves and north of the bok un forensic team search for the remains of c.d.'s i saw atrocities and opposition supporters tried to storm
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parliament saying the government is corrupt and controlled by drug gangs. new zealand as in mourning following mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch forty nine people have been killed more than forty others remain in hospital some and critical condition the primary suspect has been charged with murder and remanded in custody when he reports from christchurch. dressed in white prison clothes australian born brenton terence stood before a judge charged with murder you. tyrant is the main suspect of an attack at this mosque in christchurch a survivor filmed the scene inside moments after the gunman had opened fire the gunman live streamed his attack on facebook as he indiscriminately opened fire on
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more than two hundred muslim worshippers shortly after that shooting there was a similar attack at lynnwood mosque about ten minutes away four patients die on their way into the hospital used to die dying before they arrived. those injured ranged in ages from a very young to quite healthily patients eleven of them are in the intensive care unit. including one female agent who mid twenty's all of those in i.c.u. what we would consider critically ill. new zealand's prime minister said the suspects arrested weren't on security watch lists arriving with a bomb disposal robot the police have started their investigation indeed need in a small city to the south of christchurch where terence lived the area was evacuated as a precaution earlier they had discovered two bombs in the main suspects cause the unprecedented violence has prompted the government to commit to changing gun
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control rules my understanding is he how how the category i gun license and again i prefer my advice currently is that he under the gun license was able to legally acquired the gun said he held they will give you an indication of why we need to change our gun laws the national threat level has been raised from low to high as police politicians and the public come to terms with the worst and most shocking attack the ever experienced. as the forensic work is completed the size of the police cordon around el nor mosque is reduced those who came here to pay their respects to the dead made sure that hundreds of floral tributes would not be left behind ultimately people want to be able to mourn right at the gates of the elmore mosque which is still around two hundred meters beyond the cordon the police are still working they're still trying to piece together exactly what happened and more broadly how this was possible here in new zealand. christchurch.
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how world leaders have been offering messages of support to the people of new zealand on saturday u.s. president asked promise to just. what he could do to help audience response sympathy and love for all muslim communities the u.s. president has called the attacks terrible the suspect has described himself as a racist online suggested that trump was a source of inspiration as mike hanna reports from washington. it was a somber day of prayer for american muslims all expressing sorrow for those who died in the new zealand attacks i'm absolutely heartbroken as everybody is today i woke up to the news with my. best and i was absolutely i needed to do my hair but in a nation that has seen its share of attacks on houses of worship this concern about what many view as a sometimes inflammatory comments by the president i actually think that the
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rhetoric that exists from the white house is very much ignites responses that causes events like these to happen around the world a message driven home by this muslim leader. your awards and. your. they impact the lives of innocent people at home and globally in recent years the u.s. has seen and taken extreme right wing violence at least one convicted extremists with clearly defined links to president trump seize a say accent pipe bombs to the president's critics and had pictures of donald trump on his van. and there was no specific criticism from the president a white supremacist in charlottesville whose actions led to the death of an anti races protester the president's response there are very fine people on both sides. after expressing sorrow for the new zealand attacks president trump insisted he did
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not think quite nationalists were a growing global threat i don't really i think it's a small group of people that have very very serious problems and i guess if you look at what happened in new zealand perhaps that's a case i don't know enough about it yet they're just learning about the person and the people involved but it's certainly a terrible thing and discussing his border wall the president echoed the words of one of the killers who'd allegedly written we are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history people hate the word invasion but that's what it is it's an invasion of drugs and criminals and people the trump presidential campaign galvanized the u.s. right wing attracting supporters like this former ku klux klan leader we are in the most critical lection probably in our history and donald trump is the guy that really stands up donald trump repudiated duke support but conservative whites with
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a key to his election victory a demographic the president continues to court for what he hopes will be another successful campaign. al-jazeera washington. let's move on to other news now and at least thirty one people have died in the east in zimbabwe as tropical cyclone a dive pushes into the country over forty people are believed to be missing after holland streets and fields were battered by heavy rain rescue services are trying to help but damage roads and bridges a slowing efforts the storm is now losing strength stored well earlier in mozambique tropical cyclone a die killed at least nineteen people thousands have been affected by the storm which is cut off power and caused major damage to bridges and roads half a million people in the city of beta have been isolated let's get more on this now we're joined by eulogy isham where he's the head of communications for africa of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent and he's joining us
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live from nairobi thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us on al-jazeera firstly are you hearing anything about how the people in beta coping since they've been cut off. right or one of the challenges we are means of the full extent of the damage is not yet clear but the first reports we've got big city or below in surroundings have taken a serious beating. and so what is your all the lies of zation doing to help i imagine it must be impossible right now to get into better but there are of course are there other areas that you can access. you are the first of all we have the red cross teams in all the locations of the country so even before the landfall we had some teams there are so we do have a few people on the ground so in terms of what we're trying to do because in a situation like this so many homeless or the first thing we're trying to provide
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is shelter in this is compounded by the fact that even before their land or of. the die thousands of people had already been displaced by the floods you know you have to remember that this landfall of this comes after days of heavy rains which have caused floods not only just mozambique but also in neighboring countries and towns and mr shinde where one of the worst affected areas right now. so as i mentioned we do not have the full extent of the damage in our team already unroot as i mentioned one of the challenges is that the flights have been canceled but it's within the province of beira inside around the it's so there are several locations that have been mentioned but we'd rather wait for the final report to be specific about the specific towns and the people affected so our team is already taking a route of sixteen hours because the flights have been canceled that is. joining
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us live from nairobi thank you very much for your time and the update on the situation thank you thank you for having. now un forensic teams have started as human bodies from mass graves around the town of seven in northern iraq it's estimated more than three thousand people from the minority community were killed by isis fighters five years ago. reports. forensic scientists search for evidence of human remains in code village on the outskirts of sin as the relatives of the missing presumed dead watched them work it's thought i saw fighters killed thousands of men women and children in sin jaw over just a few days in august twenty fourth targeting them for their religious beliefs many may have been shot the headed o'byrne to live. today the iraqi government and the u.n. are opening the first mass graves it contains the remains of almost fifty bodies
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all men from the village this is the first of seventy three mass graves to be examined in this area the u.n. says isis campaign of murder and sexual assault against these e.d.'s amounts to genocide. this mass grave that we've seen today contains the remains of people a community that face the most heinous kind of criminality by i saw. nobel peace laureate nadia murat is from she was among thousands of women and girls subjected to a systematic campaign of rape and sexual violence by isis fighters she says those who were kidnapped and taken to syria need help to return home. we demand the international community and the iraqi government form a committee that will search for yazidi woman and children in syria with the end of eisel there the fate of thousands of years e.d.'s is still uncertain. many as it is
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remain in camps the internally displaced people in northern iraq for those who have returned home reminders of the atrocities committed against their community all around victoria gates and be al-jazeera. afghan special forces have been sent to help hundreds of soldiers besieged by taliban fighters run seven hundred troops is surrounded and by the province on the border with turkmenistan they took refuge after the taliban overran a dozen checkpoints on friday afghan forces have been battling the taliban in the region for nearly two weeks thirty soldiers have been killed and up to forty taken hostage. now french police have fired tear gas that yellow vests protesters in the capital paris it is the eighteenth weekend of demonstrations against president about back home protests began over a proposed increase in tax on diesel which has since been scrapped but the rallies have grown into a wider anti-government movement. u.s. president donald trump has vetoed
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a decision by congress for the first time trump scrapped an attempt to block his emergency declaration to secure funds for his long promised rule along with us mexico border the democratic speaker of the house of representatives nancy pelosi says a new vote will be held and overriding the president's veto but it's not clear if the new vote will get the two thirds majority needed to permanently block emergency declaration. still ahead on the bulletin it self determination is not a crime the cry of caution on protesters right now in the streets of madrid we will be live from the capital. and shops and other business is a reopening in venezuela after a crippling blackout across the country. hello
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the rain clouds are gathering again for the middle east and we have got more disturbed weather that's rolling in from the mediterranean some clown and rain just coming into sight for us based on parts of the bad we'll see some rather disturbed weather nestle pushing its way across iraq into kuwait big downpours coming through here night is still some snow a possibility over the high ground some wet weather there making its way into iran and beyond it will push through prices guys do come back in as we go on into monday on places but really heavy downpours coming into a good part of central and northern pakistan up into afghanistan snow there over the high ground rather wet weather pushing by the way up toward sea caspian sea bright skies coming behind the night seventeen eighteen that full. and also for jerusalem that a bit of that wet weather that may well make its way across in concepts and showers long spells of right a possibility they will clear through as we go through sunday temperatures fall back twenty nine. becomes a twenty six for monday but at least the sun will be out the winds pick up there so
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it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the gunman arrested after new zealand's mosque attacks has been charged with the murder twenty eight year old brenton talent didn't enter a plea or seek forty nine people died in shootings at two mosques in christchurch on friday. at least thirty one people have died in instance and barboy is tropical cyclone pushes into the country and earlier in mozambique strong winds and floods killed at least nineteen people. and un forensic teams have begun examine the bodies of the ice by some victims in a u.c.d. town in northern iraq it's estimated that more than three thousand people from the minority group were killed and seven and twenty fourteen. now tens of thousands of
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people from caution dornier are protesting in the spanish capital madrid against the trial of twelve pro independence leaders there was a heavy police presence in madrid after three hundred eighty bus loads of people traveled from across caution on here the leaders were arrested on the twenty seventeen independence referendum to choose to treason by madrid let's go now to our correspondent david changer he's joining us live from the spanish capital talk us through what's happening there david. well the president didn't drop the head of the march up his main street today but this is not the first throw into the occasion the first time the catalonian independence protesters being in these budgets got in such for the research hundreds of searchers of the last year of the plane sort of the fall the trains the fall so there's been nothing like this seen before in this part which capital is
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a huge headache for the police here there's a very heavy presence trying to keep. many right wing hicks famous nationalist groups away from the catalonian independence parade they hear a century which soon wash was very sorry that democracy is about a deciding. self-determination it's not a crime that's important because of course we see more than a month of the child in the spring of twelve catalonian in and then its leaders that charge with sedation. and investing on some of those charges carry up to twenty five years in prison but the people here surrounding me at the moment are saying essentially this is a political show trial but on the other side they're saying of course that the whole referendum that took place in october the first twenty seventeen was breaking the spanish constitution and that's why the independence leaders are in court at
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the moment though the the main watch here is to make sure that no violence breaks out there's no intention amongst his crowd a tool for any violent demonstrations they say that the violence that was seen during the referendum in october twenty seventeen was caused by the police of course that's highly contested we've heard over the last month hundreds of accounts by policeman at that referendum saying they were attacked violently people here say the opposite is the truth but at the moment everyone wants this to pass of peacefully they here to show that they still want catalonia independence they want to make sure that their voices heard here for the first time so loudly in madrid it is a huge issue and spain saw this this trial of david and it's coming at a time a sensitive and important from the time of the upcoming snap election.
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yes that's right fredricka such as your socialist prime minister lost in the budget photo in the parliament he had to call us not election that action will take place on april twenty eighth and we could well see a much more significant number of the right wing. the inside the spanish part of that means the mood might change even more against the desire of the catalonian leadership here to push forward independence for for the whole region but in the end because of the elections unable to indiait the mere fact this trial is continuing means that everybody's mind is concentrated in what is essentially the open wound of catalonia this will actually polarize opinion
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and it's probably going to be the case that the right wing will gain seats and even more importantly the extreme right wing the focus party who have broken the socialist grip on undiluted the other most populous region of spain for the first time in thirty six years they're expected to gain seats in the parliament as well and that suit is very very strongly against catalonian independence so by the time the trial finishes of course it could be a very different mood here both imagery and hold across the whole of spain against this period for catalonia to david thank you very much for that for now that's david chase the live from those rallies in the spanish capital thank you. to albania now where police have fired tear gas and use water cannons on anti-government protesters after they attempted to storm parliament demonstrations accuse the government of being corrupt and having ties to organized crime the opposition is calling for a snap election and the resignation of prime minister eddie bauer john seraphina's
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has more from the capital to donna. at least. twenty thousand people have gathered here today they stretch from scandal base square in the center of tirana to the prime minister's office that's a distance of half a kilometer a very broad avenue packed with people here and they are unhappy at the corruption that they say pervades the government at all levels including daily services provided by the state but going all the way up to the cabinet which has now shifted to ministers for drug related offenses and prime minister eddie rama has reshuffled it twice in an effort to show that there is renewal that there are new faces but these people are not convinced they say corruption goes all the way up to the prime minister the democratic party is calling on him to resign it wants to hold a general election this also two years early and it also wants to bypass the local election that is scheduled for the end of june it simply wants this government to
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resign to make it turn itself into a caretaker government and wait for a fresh mandate from the people and of course the democratic party has already walked out of parliament last month they are no longer part of the constitutional political process they have taken to the streets instead and they want supposes to gather in ever greater numbers in order to show the government that it must go. it will become too politically unstable to govern and it appears to be winning that gambit because this gathering is from what we're hearing larger than the previous ones that took place last month so maybe that albania will become an ever more unstable place politically heading to a crucial june deadline when the european council will decide whether to invite this country to open membership talks in the european union that is the deadline
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against which all of this political pressure is ramping up. to venezuela now accounts again. there in the capital caracas for another rally and supporter of president nicolas maduro he's trying to show the country and the world that he's still the legitimate leader with a mandate from his people being under increasing pressure from the opposition and why those who claims he's the interim president but on the streets the best of a power right now is all about outre city to raise a bar reports from caracas. boxes of food ready to be distributed in venezuela. they're the government's way of handing out subsidized food as the country struggles with the consequences of a long running crisis. because of the economic war cybernetic war or the territorial leaders that give away the boxes to the people. venezuela is recovering from a power outage that left most of the country in the dark for several days still millions
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of people are struggling for water and the many other parts of the country the government used to distribute this. year every month but now they're doing it every fifteen days because of the economic crises inside there's some other means rice some flour or oil among other things many of the people we have spoken to say that it's not enough. the boxes as they are known here are the only way most minutes have to survive they're sold for a few cents of a dollar much cheaper if people were to get the same items in a supermarket. but just like water these days and many other things in. the boxes do not reach everyone in need. and won't be getting a clap box this month. i can't survive like this tried to see how to sustain myself my daughter is helping me but she couldn't get the clock box this month everything
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is extremely difficult for us these days. opposition leader still claims he's the country's legitimate into repressive and his bid for power has the support of the united states and dozens of countries. he continues to take to the streets almost every day on the military to rebel against. i we're not begging we're demanding our right as citizens and knowing there are risks in a dictatorship like this one we see the government smiling what are they laughing at when the people are starving. but for now the military won't give into why those call they remain loyal to the government even though the opposition has promised to forgive many of the crimes they're accused of. the opposition of the united states are wrong when they think that the military are defending nicolas maduro they're defending themselves because they're part of the government this is military and civilian rule where they play a crucial role and all the things that you can blame the government for you can
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also blame them. giving away food has been the government's way of winning times in the middle of economic trouble but the political crisis is not over and nobody really knows how long it will last. us aid agencies and preparing for monsoon season which could start as early as next month and last until october. refugees can be at risk stephanie decker reports from the camps of cox's bazaar and southeast. john katun son helps her carry sand up to where they now live a small basic hut in the biggest refugee camp in the world we spotted her picking up sand at the bottom of a hill this she tells us is to prepare for the upcoming monsoon season only to go up the concern for us is that the water will come inside the home plus it erodes
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this soil around the home and it's still continuing to erode the children sometime slip and fall so we are paving the place we send almost one million rohingya refugees live here having fled me and marjorie in the government crackdown in august of two thousand and seventeen this will be their third monsoon season away from home one of the main concerns of the monsoon season are landslides and that's because many of these huts the been built on slopes and you can see the sandbags have been used here to try and hold the ground but when the rains come you will think to wrench a water pouring down the slopes many people will tell you that these hearts which are made out of bamboo in tar poland will stand little chance but we're told reinforcement work has taken place on vulnerable areas and a whole new campus been built with stronger homes the ground too is getting extra help these are called soil retention walls all this in an effort to prevent
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landslides and allow the expected deluge of water to drain of quickly. sanjeeda was recently moved to this hut and she shares the space with her husband and six children those i'm a good deal of but a little. our previous home had taught pauline which was blown away during the storm we fixed it with a double layer it was also located in long flat land but this one is in a higher ground a much more protected. there are many aid agencies operating here and the size of the camps means that this is more like a city but without the resources to cope with the same number of people and last year we really created twenty six twenty six thousand refugees who are especially vulnerable and there are places. and that was a good measure this year we hope that the number much much smaller because we have strengthened. the south as here we have one more year of experience and that's why
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we have kind of optimistic what is certain is that the rains will come high winds will pound these huts and the ground will turn wet and muddy but what's less certain is what will happen to all these people now living here stephanie decker or just zero in the refugee camps of cox's bizarre. hello again on the there's a problem and our harbor the headlines on al-jazeera the government arrested after new zealand's mosque attacks has been charged with murder twenty eight year old brenton terence didn't enter a plea or seek bail forty nine people died in shootings at two mosques in christ church on friday. at least thirty one people have died in a tropical cyclone ida i die pushes into the country and earlier and mozambique strong winds and floods killed at least nineteen people. tens of thousands of
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people from catalonia protesting in the spanish capital madrid against the trial of twelve pro independence leaders as a heavy police presence in madrid after three hundred eighty fast loads of people travelled from across cautioned or near leaders were arrested following the twenty seventeen independence referendum they were accused of treason by madrid. albanian police have fired tear gas and used water cannon on anti-government protesters after they tried to storm parliament demonstrators accuse the government of being corrupt and having ties to organized crime they want to snap election and the resignation of prime minister rubber. us president donald trump has vetoed a decision by congress for the first time trump scrapped an attempt to block his emergency declaration to secure funds for his long promised rule along the us mexico border the democratic speaker of the house of representatives nancy pelosi says a new vote will be held aimed at overriding the president's veto but it's not clear if the new wote will get the two thirds majority needed to permanently block
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trump's emergency declaration. french police have fired tear gas at gallo vest protesters in the capital paris it is the eighteenth weekend of demonstrations against president a million medcom protests began over a proposed increase in tax on diesel which has since been scrapped but the rallies have grown into a wider anti-government movement. un forensic teams have begun examine the bodies of ice a look timbs of the u.c.d. town in northern iraq it's estimated that more than three thousand people from the minority group were killed in sindh jar in two thousand and fourteen. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have a full news bulletin for you in just under thirty minutes coming up next though as inside story thank you for watching.
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how can online hate speech be stopped internet phones are criticized as new zealand mourns the last shooting victims is it time to regulate social media on the darkest corners of the web this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian for the new zealand is in shock and mourning after the worst attack in its history forty nine worshippers in two mosques were shot dead whilst saying friday prayers police in christ church arrested brenton tyrant he's appeared in court charged with murder he was remanded
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