tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera March 18, 2019 12:00am-1:01am +03
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you know the major sighing he's pretended for a long time so he's obviously not of samar no i don't think it's our nation to travel to have a say so i think that that boy has china. complained plato way new which i sorry for the families over there before the days when they're injured they would just. think nothing else just want to go on and. it's our reporter who traveled to grafton in new south wales and found a community trying to distance itself from its dawn and the sleepy provincial town of grafton is waking up to another day of reflection about the horrific events in christ church and its connection to it brenton tarrant spent at least the first twenty years of his life in grafton before travelling around the world he went to the local school and worked as a personal trainer in
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a gym his alleged attack on two mosques in christ church last week has deeply disturbed religious leaders in his home town we got inside to you know you know they were all we all sectarian you know. all of the people are going to leave the members of the most community in christ church the mood here is samba this is a community grappling to come to terms with one of their own being a suspect in the worst mass killing in new zealand's history it's just a time for the community to gather and just kind of be together get strength from solidarity and hopefully put our roots down deep and sign are we not that's that's not us what happened and what this guy did is not is not crofton's parishioners who know the tyrant family say it's well respected and he's been here for generations god like one pipe and farmer was good down bourke bible. what did you
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think when you heard that someone from grafton was involved. i was shocked. others had a message for christ's church people grafton just reach out and say you know we we don't know what went wrong but obviously that will come in but you know we just some thoughts and prayers with you and and hope that you can get some to closure while the town family has deep roots here community members say it's keeping a low profile following the attack in christchurch we've managed to speak with people who knew brenton tyrant well they say they don't want to appear on camera because they don't want to be associated with the alleged killer of fifty people they say the man accused of the christ church attacks is not the man they once knew . him al-jazeera grafton well one more note on the story the acting white house chief is defended the u.s. president for not calling out white supremacists following the massacre in new
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zealand i think of any said donald trump has done what a president is supposed to do by reaching out to new zealand's leader and offering condolences trump has also been criticized for not explicitly condemning the attack who hailed the u.s. president as a symbol of renewed white identity in his manifesto it's just taken with a really is all new in washington on this one the problem of white supremacy it is something that does seem to follow donald trump to a degree. yeah sure does i want to get to those comments that you mention from mick mulvaney here in a minute but this is certainly really the talk right now in washington particular because we just saw it here on sunday and let me explain why president trump tweeted earlier this morning here on sunday praise for a fox news host by the name of jeanine pirro now why is this important because this fox news host is actually reportedly suspended from fox news right now she hosts a show that's on the weekends there and she's also a personal friend of the president he just tweeted support for this suspended host
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of the fox news because she was suspended because of some islamophobia comments and anti islam comments she said during her program against iran omar a muslim congresswoman so that's why the channel suspended her and just this morning president trump tweeted support for her again just a couple days after this terrible attack in christ church new zealand so all this is leading a lot of people to again question trump and his anti muslim rhetoric it goes back many years as you mention it's not only did he not mention muslims in his condolences to the victims of new zealand but also has got to remember his first policy decision as president a couple years ago was a so-called muslim band banning people from muslim majority countries into the united states he's also you know goes back years he falsely accused president obama of being born in kenya. during the campaign running for president bandied about the
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idea of closing mosques in the united states and he also falsely has said in the past that to muslims in new jersey celebrated the nine eleven attacks of course that no evidence of that at all either so add all of this up and what you get is a lot of people saying that his rhetoric coming from the white house coming from this president for so long has really bold and emboldened white supremacists and muslim people all over the world now that's something that the white house denies as you mentioned nicolle mulvaney went on the sunday shows here and he shot back at that he said that's just simply not true this is what he had to say. instead of worrying about well. who's to blame how do we stop from doing this mcdonald trump is no more to blame for what happened in new zealand than mark zuckerberg is because he invented facebook there are some terrible people in the world we need to work with our partners of which new zealand is one of them to try and figure a way to find them expose them and bring them to justice. yeah but you know listen
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i mean a lot of people are saying here that dave course the president has a very big bullhorn what he says people listen to not only in this country but around the world really and he really needs to stand up according to the democrats and many critics of his and we need to stand up and call out racism call out islamophobia and i says as long as he doesn't do that all he's doing is prompting more fear for muslims all over the world but so far trump has been very reticent to call out these things all right thank you gabriel elizondo in washington the rest of the day's news is coming up as the philippines becomes the latest country to withdraw from the international criminal cold blooded one that's happening and also a tropical fine can devastate in parts of southern africa with dozens of people dead or missing.
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some right in the full cost of central parts of china over the next day or two but not really too much to speak of you see with the main area of cloud is so that's going to push towards the east coast for monday fun to dry for hong kong twenty five celsius maybe touching the twenty seven as we go on into tuesday and by cheese day that area cloud and right things and break some bright skies come through for many eleven legacy of showers is coming back in behind the philippines lots of dry land settles alist southern parts of the country to watch out for trouble depression which may well push in through the middle part of this week's ice maybe link coming in here some heavy rain shop showers making their way into her at the moment much of india is fine and dry i've had a few showers into northern parts but this is next weather system which will push across pakistan. snow there over the high ground pushing up into afghanistan let
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a little continue to drive its way further east was thinning and breaking as we go on through choose die projects guys coming behind that are the temperatures beginning to thirty one in new delhi a thirty seven in my pool the showers they are set to continue for sri lanka meanwhile we had some showers just around the western side of iran recently that in the prices of pulling away bright skies come back in behind doha with the high twenty five. they were searching for a sanctuary in australia but instead were detained for years on a pacific island now one zero one east follows the journey of two refugees as they forge a new life in north america on al-jazeera meaning three years after the equal value to leave the european union to accept is yet to take for. britain seen through its divorce from its european neighbors the whole process still be ready to stay
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with al-jazeera for the latest. the top stories for you here on al-jazeera extra police are to guard schools businesses and places of worship in new zealand after shooting it too must police commanders say there will be a highly visible presence nationwide on monday morning after fifty muslims were killed at friday prayers in christchurch prime minister jacinta are done hopes bodies can be handed over to families for burial by weapons extra police staff also helping with identification and new zealand's gun laws will most certainly tighten following the attacks the government will discuss options on monday such as banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and
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a government funded by back of outlawed says. let's move to other news actually we're going to stay with the story as facebook says in the twenty four hours after the attack it actually removed one and a half million videos globally of people are still posting and sharing the suspects shooting video putting social media platforms under pressure for failing to stop it and the hate filled manifesto from going viral that's from our technology editor mariana hunt. the attack was designed to get maximum coverage teased on twitter and h.n. broadcast live on facebook and all while referencing a popular you tube channel to grab attention and accelerate its spirit and spirit it did by the time the social media companies stopped its broadcast it had been shared repeatedly and migrated to listen on sites so why was it so difficult for big to companies with all their resources and latest technology to contain the
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damage well it turns out it's not as easy as it seems. facebook google twitter and you tube use automated moderation tools to track and remove objectionable content they're part of the global internet forum to counter terrorism letting each other know about extremist material and they attach digital signatures known as hedges to stop their content being uploaded again but machines aren't enough they also have human counting to moderate is tracking checking and deleting content around the clock but live content is problematic and the attack video was live for seventeen minutes long enough for it to find a home on smaller sites last down rabbit holes that the vast majority of us know nothing about one of them is the listen on misses board a chain which he used to propagate his extremist views and where he announced his attack it's a digital haven where users can remain anonymous and there is little moderation
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people there have been posting and praising the gunman's actions. some commentators say there is little incentive for the big tech companies to do better it's monitoring comes here and given there are no fives and no penalties if they fail or they're now just too big to police content effectively anyway blocking sites is one option but that's open to abuse by those who support censorship potentially taking away more than a protects our open unfettered access to an n.t. connected global network of information for everyone is what the web was founded on but something failed during the mood is in new zealand and no one's yet sure how to fix it and whose job that should be now moved to other news in the israeli army has launched a major operation in the occupied west bank after at least one israeli was killed two others wounded in the stabbing and shootings by a suspected palestinian attack
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a hairy force that's monitoring that one from west jerusalem. the israeli military has set out the sequence of events that it says took place in the occupied west bank on sunday morning it says at around nine forty five at the ariel interchange southwest of the city of nablus and a palestinian man approached a soldier stabbed that soldier and took his weapon before firing on nearby vehicles that soldier one thousand years old israeli army says was killed in that attack israeli civilian in one of those vehicles was also shot and seriously wounded israeli media saying he was he is a forty seven year old man a resident of one of the illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank another vehicle which was abandoned was then apparently taken by this individual he drove it southwest and fired on a bus stop where another israeli soldier was wounded that vehicle then discovered in or near the city the village of burkean palestinian village of booking further
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southwest that became the center of a pretty major israeli military operation as houses were searched and the focus of this search was undertaken there were reports in the palestinian media as well that there was an exchange of gunfire at one stage there this military operation extended well beyond that village though checkpoints were set up illegal settlements were closed down for some time as were some other palestinian villages the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that the perpetrator or perpetrators of this attack will be captured in the justice will be brought to them there have been celebrating the events that have taken place in gaza where hamas and islamic jihad have both welcomed the news of this attack and they're also be tensions that erupted elsewhere in the occupied west bank with settlers stoning palestinian vehicles and homes currently this major military operation is still ongoing gunmen have attacked an army base in mali killing at least twenty four
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soldiers vehicles were destroyed when the base in the central region of the was briefly under siege on saturday night a camp commander is amongst those who've been shot no groups admitted responsibility but attacks by groups linked to al qaida and eisel are common. the philippines as officially withdrawn from the international criminal court began the process to leave last year after the hague based court launched an initial examination into president rodriguez attack as drugs war thousands of suspected drug users and dealers have been killed since the crackdown began three years ago the philippines the second country in recent years to draw from the i.c.c. after burundi which left in twenty seven has had a cap and now international human rights lawyer he says ditto say well find it difficult to untangle him self from the i.c.c. process one of the points of being a member of the international criminal court when when you agree to sign up. to its
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jurisdiction if you withdraw that that withdrawal is suspended for a period of twelve months afterwards that is in effect to prevent situations just like this where a state is accused of war crimes crimes. and they withdraw to shield themselves from prosecution though the whole point is that you cannot be permitted to do that so the i.c.c. will continue and will have jurisdiction over prosecuting the president and the sooner if issues that they consider to be responsible clearly there are a lot within the philippines that want to ensure that the the regime is held accountable you know when one looks at the geishas that have been made the they are stark where in terms of the number of killings the brutality of the killings and the president hasn't sought to distance himself from them quietly country is has taken full credit for it so the evidence against him is overwhelming and of course
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he should stand trial and this step will not change that and hopefully the supremum court will take a strong stance to uphold the rule of law and ensure that he's held accountable. and as well as opposition leader has begun a national tour in a new effort to oust president nicolas maduro started what's being called operation freedom in the north the city of the landsea he's in a power struggle with madeira who accuses the u.s. of masterminding a plot to overthrow him so far the united states is focused mainly on sanctions to increase the pressure on the do is to reserve or to raise about reports from caracas that it's just made an already dire economic situation even worse. i feel philly is in desperate need of medicines he suffers from diabetes and needs dialysis three times a week but the power outages of the past few days have been difficult for people like him. because of the blackout i couldn't do my dialysis my felt dizzy and weak
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i don't know what is going to happen in this country. and sometimes i feel there is no way out i flew the leaves with his wife sort either in a poor neighborhood in caracas the situation is extremely difficult for people in venezuela that need medicines alfredo was told that he needs to take all of the medicines and he was not able to find them he was also given this other one at the hospital last week and it is expired people here fear that with sanctions the situation will get even worse. venezuela's cash strapped government is struggling with an economic crisis that has forced the country to reduce imports this combined with hyperinflation is making it difficult for people to buy or even find medicines hospitals are struggling to find basic items to help those in need. the venezuelan government says the united states is to blame for the current situation
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. i have done everything to try to import medicines and other our money is being blocked because of the u.s. treasury one them to release our farms so we can provide our people with the most economists say us sanctions were implemented four years ago when the damage to the economy was already done. well first sanctions that prevented venezuela from negotiating its step came after venezuela already had one of the highest risks in the world the risk was because of the drop in oil prices and the government continued with the same policies venezuela continued spending when it already had billions of dollars and. but in january this year the u.s. and. new sanctions with the objective to choke venezuela's economy even more. this time they have had a direct impact on venezuelan oil exports. the u.s. financial system has tentacles around the world so any commercial operation that
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has anything to do with venezuela will be affected any transaction that is in u.s. dollars will be affected you know the real sanctions began was the u.s. the european union and other countries in the region recognize opposition leader why those as venice who are less interim president. the u.s. has said it wants to force model out of office and hope the new sanctions will help speed up the process is the news nor the united states is betting on a total collapse of the country and it has been disappointing there's been applied in cuba and iran and north korea yes the government got weaker they have complications but the government didn't change. many economy will certainly deteriorate even further as the u.s. sanctions start to impact the oil sector later this year but it will be people like alfredo félix who are surely suffer the most there is how will.
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the serbian president has sent out a warning to protesters a day after they stormed the state run television station demanding his resignation . thousands of opposition supporters of the presidency building in belgrade. held a news conference inside is promising tough action against those behind the violence this is the first major incident after months of peaceful protests against the populous leader demonstrators calling for fair elections and a free media. excuse me the leaders of zimbabwe and mozambique have cut short their foreign trips after a tropical cyclone in die caused death and destruction in southern africa zimbabwe is the latest country to feel the storm's force at least thirty one people have been killed as flash floods swept away homes bridges and roads thousands of people
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are still missing and bad weather is slowing the rescue efforts. well the storm's already killed around one hundred people in malawi and mozambique tens of thousands there were forced from their homes and power blackouts have now become widespread you know that there might be i saw a woman being hit by debris it's not safe for people walking here the situation is very chaotic. they said was that a majority of houses a ninety five percent that collapsed was precariously built in poor materials. and a mass funeral service has been held for some of the victims of the plane crash last sunday. thousands of mourners led a procession through the streets of. their company seventeen empty caskets draped in the national flag relatives of the one hundred fifty seven passengers or crew have been given bags of earth from the crash site instead of remains because the d.n.a. identification process could take up to six points. taken
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to the headlines now on al-jazeera extra police are being deployed to guard schools businesses and places of worship in new zealand following shootings at two mosques on friday police commanders say there will be a highly visible presence nationwide this is after fifty muslims were killed at friday prayers in christchurch prime minister just hopes all bodies can be handed over for burial. when he has more from christchurch the announcement from new zealand promised to. the police that the process is beginning of handing back the bodies to family members will certainly be welcomed there had been growing frustration really among some of the family members who have been waiting for news waiting for confirmation waiting for those bodies to be returned to them some of those people voicing their frustration saying that this process was taking too long
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because of course islamic custom dictates that the body should be buried within twenty four hours after death and the headlines israeli soldiers are searching palestinian communities in the occupied west bank after at least one israeli was killed in stabbing and shooting attacks two others were wounded by that suspected palestinian attack a government of attacked an army base in mali killing at least twenty four soldiers vehicles were destroyed when the base in the central region of moxy was briefly under siege on saturday night a camp commander is among those who've been shot and while no groups admitted responsibility attacks by groups linked to al qaida and eisel are common. the philippines is officially withdrawn from the international criminal court it began the process to leave last year after the hague based court launched an initial examination into president has drugs war thousands of suspected drugs users and dealers have been killed since the crackdown started three years ago. then as
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well as opposition leader has begun a national tour in a new effort to oust president nicolas maduro started what's been called operation freedom in the northern city of balance and that is a look at your headlines we're back with more right after one east. they left their home seeking sanctuary in australia but instead spain is detained
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on minutes island a tiny speck in the pacific ocean. now two refugees of forging new lives in north america one i want to joins them on their explored narry journey towards freedom. thomas morning. eric guster major this is a mirror. and imre getting on a boat is what put they use young men on men a silent today we're going to take them off it. this is the beginning of my journey with twenty four year old emilia tuckey mia a christian convert from iran and iran mohammed at age twenty three
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a minority regime whose fled persecution in million mom. after four years in detention then now committed to move around menace the controversial detention center is being closed down now the island is their prison by. there's one other spot the refugees can visit. and their day he saw the boys once in a town and told them you know if you want to have felt to have a little bit of peace you can just come in here and relax you know nobody's going to hear. us. mandolin at all just off mannus is where the refugees see a different side to p.
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and g. . the island's custody and lets asylum seekers stay here for free he says losing his arm in a fishing accident has told him to be sympathetic when they come or what they may do will come to him and like them they are like me but because they have a problem in the country or source so that's why they didn't come over here to my place that's why i like than. others most of the morans experiences on manis haven't been so positive when i interned in the center i show people who are depressed and people who are housed and the man away yearly. it's going to be bad i'm not here to be processed i'm here to be tortured.
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iran's odyssey began aged just sixteen escaping persecution in me in march for malaysia he was in succession held hostage by people smugglers in immigration detention in indonesia for almost two years and after a boat trip to christmas island was detained and transported here i was treated like any month in many places i was beaten by. i have experienced. things in life that i shouldn't have been in miami life. in. my industry and it has destroyed my tran as a human being. the. past
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. is. converted to christianity always a lot of stuff in person and i like to question things always start to question things. and because i was a very old person i started questioning from if you prove that i wasn't supposed to do that cause me trouble was that i was almost getting killed the. the. whole. the. left iran as a fourteen year old boy to live in malaysia. and you know
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we have a brother. amir we're happy to have because it's converted into. a believe is. fearing he'd be imprisoned after his malaysian student fazer expired amir also boarded a people smuggler boat headed for christmas island i had seen people getting on these boats i had seen these boats that they were leaky boats i had seen them looking. and terrifying and i had no option so i had to take. to buy a twenty thirty mm more than the thousand asylum seekers had perished at sea including many aboard despite smashed upon the rocks of christmas island.
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amelia and jim rohn arrived safely here after this tragedy but in one sense their timing couldn't have been worse for. landing just after the labor government declared that all future boat arrivals would never be settled in a strike. by joint thirteen hundred other single men on mannus crammed into a center that previously housed three hundred fifty it compounds just like a chicken house and they would throw people in there and they would lock these doors chains locks fences everywhere and all of them are guarded you can't leave you can go anywhere anywhere you want to go you have to be escorted. him and. another detainees secretly filmed. mia for
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these guided to up of life on the inside. you seem also like everyone is covered a bit because one of the rules they shall be for these because of the crap is because too many people get. pleasure out of the model. of oh no not over for use on a mere witnessed riots beatings and the shooting attack by drunken soldiers. no no. we saw people dying we saw people scrolling on the ground for pain of seeing people pulling out their own teeth. i've seen people cutting their necks. and. many other things just these four years was always always always
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a great trauma that i could. i can never forget. the only why out was a ticket to the homelands that had fled all resettlement in pay n.g. . behind the scenes and unusual refugee deal was being broken in twenty sixteen the u.s. a grade to resettle up to twelve hundred asylum seekers from menace and nauru in america. it's nearly six months since i met amir and dimmers despite president trumps reluctance the us refugee deal is still on the y. but the details arrive pyke. small groups of men are being flown from madness to
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