to come to terms with one of their own been 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. now we're not that's not what happened and what this guy did is not is not profit and parishioners who know the tyrant family say it's well respected and he's been here for generations like one pipe and. what did you think when you heard that someone from grafton was involved. i was shocked is an expression. others had a message for christ's church people craft and 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 of the prison with here and and hope that you can get some sort of 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 tarrant 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 cross church attacks is not the man they once knew . him al-jazeera are often. so yes the suspect comes from a study but we want to look a little bit more about the issues all right wing extremism and issues to do with religion in new zealand in the wake of all this and we've got douglas pratt with us to do that he's an honorary professor of theological and religious studies at the university of all counties on skype from or can think you are getting up this morning to talk to us. i'm uneasy and to myself a friend of mine texted me just yesterday saying you know speaking of saying how could this have happened in new zealand but she also said having grown up in christchurch that she knew exactly how it's been enabled do you agree with that

there has been this undercurrent they even though people say new zealand is such a tolerant place absolutely this is one of the paradoxes of this kind of situation is that it brings to the surface latent for almost subterranean threads of extremism and hate and so on it's been bubbling away for a while but also the same time it's fair to say that tragically. a situational or a critical evil in interior to actually bring out the best in the world and we're seeing from the community a huge response of support and concern and worry to uphold the muslim community and in a good of our the muslim community as well as other others part of us and it's just really that kind of symbol and harbor will us has been managed more is the sooner that it might help to neutralize the undercurrent which since two thousand and five

of it we're all in this country and it's been in the crushing end of the region and the watch pretty has been bubbling away for even longer where she just looking at some pictures on screen of me prime minister just sent her on to an attending a mosque she's wearing a headscarf how important is her visibility in the last few days been towards confronting this. tremendously important i think those that make that was an early newspaper over the weekend showed her bracing a muslim woman and i thought it was our home hem of the world leaders will become doing what she's done so her leadership and her visibility has been critical in i think well just restating the healing process and the and the the sense of acceptance by wider use in a society of the muslim community and i think it's fair to say that even though you know most of the most monks that the they were those who are citizens those who

were resident and those who are cased is being those on bases or visitors to the country also not there so there's a sense of the country embracing all of them and saying you all part of us and i think that is important and will help i think i think new zealand as well acknowledge that there might be an underlying problem here it would be easy to look at this event and say it's almost a lone wolf style thing that someone who's actually coming from another country and perpetrated it but do you think there will be some introspective moments on what might be going on. well i hope so i think that's badly needed yes it looks appears that he is a lone wolf which which is good to know that the likelihood of an actual act of so that's going to carry on with other kinds of activities like this is not the case nonetheless. in the area of these kind of robbery extremisms one of the problems is

that there is often a religious dimension and underlying religious cultural missions are often overlooked and it's seen as somehow purely a racist thing. it is far more than race nature is far more than eighty immigration less just one element of white right wing white supremacy which this guy represented in his manifesto for example really cuts and pastes tropes of. history and tropes of interpretation of events in the past missions and from out of europe and also other right wing or right movements and that italy under the british norway in many respects whilst in terms of the number of casualties the scale of this has been parallels not to live in america in terms of a style it's made sure that it is actually more redolent of the norwegian of into two thousand that they live. from the university of oakland we thank you very much

for your time do appreciate it if you stay with the story in the acting white house chief of staff as defended the us president for not calling out white supremacists following the massacre in news event of any said don't 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 or who did the u.s. president as quote a symbol of renewed white identity in his manifesto and is on there with more on that from washington. just on sunday president john donald trump tweeted comments of support towards a fox news host by the name of jeanine pirro this is important because pirro was suspended from her fox news show after saying very anti islamic islamophobia comments on her program trump tweeted support for her again this comes

just three days after the terrible shootings in new zealand that claimed the lives of dozens of muslims now the president's chief of staff mick mulvaney was on the sunday shows and he said this about that claim instead of worrying about well who's to who's to blame how do we stop from doing this donald 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 democratic senator tim kaine also was on the sunday shows and he had some very pointed comments i want to read it to you he said we have to confront the fact that there is a rise in white supremacy anti immigrant an anti muslim attitudes in america tim kaine said the president united states uses language that's often very similar to the language used by bigots and racists that was from senator tim kaine on sunday many people hoping the president donald trump will be more do more to denounce this

but so far in his presidency he's been reluctant to do so. here's what else is coming up for you on this news hour the philippines becomes the latest country to withdraw from the international criminal court will be looking at why. the congolese rulers that they could do whatever they wanted with their people nobody cared about them and this is still going on secret files finally released the horrors of decades about the needs repressive communist regime. and in sport pakistan takes another big step in its effort to convince the cricketing world it can host major international matches. now the israeli army has launched a major operation in the occupied west bank after at least one israeli was killed two others were wounded in the stabbing and shootings by a suspected palestinian attack harry force it is following developments 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 the 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

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 celebration events that have taken place in gaza where hamas and islamic jihad have both welcomed the news of this attack and there are 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. u.s.

backed forces fighting to drive ice a lot of its last pocket of territory in syria are facing stiff resistance from the fighters the battle is now in its third week these the latest pictures from nearby who's where kurdish led syrian democratic forces are again attacking what's left of the armed group the s.d.f. says the operation has been slowed usually land mines and concerns about civilians still held by isis gunmen of attacked an army base in mali killing at least twenty four soldiers vehicles were destroyed when the base in the central region of nazi was briefly under siege on saturday night a camp commander is among those who've been shot and one 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 began the process to leave last year after the hague based court launched an initial examination of president rodriguez to territories drugs war thousands of suspected drug users and dealers have been killed since the crackdown started three years ago

the philippines is the second country in recent years to withdraw from the i.c.c. after burundi in twenty seventeen his job it had been an international human rights lawyer who says to church they will find it difficult to untangle himself 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 jurisdiction if you withdraw that that with a girl is suspended for a period of twelve months afterwards that is in effect to prevent situations just like this where where a state is accused of war crimes crimes and hundred eighty 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 senior officials 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 allegations that have been made that they are stock. in terms of the number of killings the brutality of the killings and the president hasn't sought to distance himself from them quite a country is has taken full credit for it so the evidence against him is overwhelming and of course 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 we're going to get a look at some headlines from europe now an island in broadcast center is lauren tyler thanks kemal again in serbia where the president has warned violence will not be tolerated after opposition supporters stole the national t.v. station to protest against his rule i sound of which was speaking at a news conference thousands of demonstrators gathered at side determined to stop

him leaving the building which is facing increasing demands to resign and for the country to hold fair elections. it's a little surreal me to servia will not allow while and threats to anyone. everyone who thinks that with hooliganism violence physical attacks and people can gain political results they are mistaken most protesters who stormed the serbia television headquarters are demanding greater press freedom and say the television station presents a biased view. we beg for freedom of the press to give us the opportunity to make the voice of the opposition heard a different opinion so that the organizers of these demonstrations can be heard on serbian public television. authorities in paris have begun a huge clear up operation after violent yellow vest protests caused extensive damage on one of the world's most famous streets rioters ransacked and set fire to shops and other businesses along the shores in easy violence started when

protesters threw smoke bombs and cobble stones at police one two hundred people have been arrested the demonstrations began four months ago over proposed fuel tax rises that have grown into wider protests against president emmanuel in my home. this caller says although surrounds it scandalous i understand there is a social movement but all i can see is violence and that for me is not a social movement i live in paris i've been living in france for thirty years this is shameful. for decades albania was ruled by one of the world's most repressive and isolated communist regimes hundreds of thousands of people were sent to forced labor camps or executed the crimes against the state government recently gave these former political prisoners access to their secret police files to help them find out what happened some people believe the government hasn't done enough to make up for the violence and repression just for a press report. graham harjo was nineteen when he tried to escape from communist

albania he was caught and sentenced to twenty two years of hard labor drilling blast holes in the copper mines of spuds this is where he slept for thirteen of those years on the top bunk against this wall next to forty nine other men while here lost his father his youth and his dream of a life in the united states the government recently released the file the communist party kept on him and he found the name of the man who betrayed his escape plan. i thought then what am i to do kill him whoever has done wrong must not judge by our people were beaten some could take it and some couldn't or some time someone was condemned to death they would keep him for forty five days with its head covered and his hands tied then someone would come from the central committee and say the party had spared your life but you must work for. albania was one of the most isolated and repressive communist regimes people weren't even allowed to talk

to foreigners they were fed a propaganda diet suggesting that there's was an exemplary society and enver hoxha who executed thousands ruled them with an iron fist people could end up with for listening to western music or being overheard saying they didn't like albania or complaining that they hadn't enough to eat during half a century an estimated one hundred thousand people served time in forced labor camps including women and children that's one in eighteen albanians thousands died in such places in the three decades since the fall of communism there has been no inquiry and no justice for the denounces and persecutors of these political prisoners. that says agro is because the same people have remained in politics that could be why this history of political persecution isn't taught in albanian schools dollar runs an awareness program for young people because she believes the failure

of the political system to account for its past mistakes still haunts it the company's rulers they could do whatever they wanted with the people nobody cared about them and this is still going on still now we see that we just grow and we we support very ultra tarion leaders at the end who don't take responsibilities for mistakes they do the government gave a gram sixty five thousand dollars as compensation for the fifteen years of hard labor he did he spent it sending his three daughters to study economics in germany and the u.k. and to stay there enjoying the freedom he never could jumpstart oprah last al-jazeera. that's it for me for london now back to come out in the hot ok thank you lauren still ahead for you on this news hour from bad to worse now new u.s. sanctions are adding to the struggles of venezuelans. the pilot wanted to turn back almost immediately after takeoff new information about the deadly ethiopian

airlines crash and in sports a last minute goalkeeping era makes all the difference as the semifinal lineup is decided in the english f.a. cup sanity with more. how i once again well it's a case of the iranian middle east for some we have got some wet weather making its way across syria pushing into iraq bright skies to come back in behind it you see some clouds there and some right just around the east side of the math that will make its way further east was from monday eighteen celsius. by rate and also for. ninety celsus of baghdad no great shakes hail the temperatures but the race but this is where we got that wet weather some really heavy rain there just around tire and pushing for the race was heavy rain there into pakistan northern parts of

pakistan seeing some heavy downpours we some snow once again into afghanistan at all try to make its way further east was a few showers some of the wintry do travel away and behind but temperatures starting to play to say twenty celsius by rate nineteen so she's in jerusalem on choose day off name a while some of the weather now in the process of pulling away from the gulf that western side of iraq bright skies here in doha quite brisk winds through monday so a little bit lifted dust instead of wind will ease as we go on into choose day twenty five celsius and much of the potential staying dry and settled dry and settled into good parts of south africa for mozambique and for zimbabwe the flooding rains set to continue. the government you support are believed to have detained maybe a million people in reeducation camps certainly not grabbing headlines in china only in the wild kings of the people's republic just probably not best just to

dismiss everything as propaganda to use propaganda because your abrasive aggressive way of addressing it maybe has some challenges chinese finance yet you wrote something critical of president chiluba i said this would not be regarded well by the western press caught up. on al-jazeera and made every weekly news cycle going to see the simple breaking story and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's janet least that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means i joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were caught on the story that matter the most embed is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. or

on the news here at al-jazeera these are our top stories police are to god schools businesses and places of worship in new zealand after the shootings at two mosques police come on the site it will be a highly visible presence nationwide on monday morning after fifty muslims were killed friday prayer of st christ church prime minister just into our hopes all bodies can be handed over to families for burial by weapon state extra police stuff helping with identification and new zealand's gun laws will most certainly tyson following the attack the government will discuss options on monday such as banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and a government funded buyback of outlawed guns. people in the united states are surprised by how quickly new zealand's government appears to be moving on gun

control social media producer andrew chappelle that's looking at. the basin reserve cricket ground shared some powerful pictures of tens of thousands of people attending a vigil in the capital wellington people around the world have showed their sympathy and solidarity by attending similar events now others have made sure that the world knows exactly who we are talking about here khalid beydoun started a thread to know the names remember the stories and celebrate the lives of the fifty people who were killed they include khalid mystify he fled the violence in syria as a refugee only to find it in new zealand and that he's one of nine pakistani nationals who was murdered that day now for many online commentators the prime minister just into arder and has been a role model for the kind of compassion that they expect from political leaders when she was asked by president trump what support the united states could provide her message was sympathy and love for all muslim communities but it was her

immediate promise to change gun laws which dumbfounded so many people in the united states especially compared to what they usually see after a mass shooting is expected to discuss some potential changes to gun laws with the government ministers in just a few hours here's how some people in christchurch feel about that it could well be a bit of a comeback on the bunch of guys that got more weapons on line and. you know as long as they were responsible just because of the rationing i mean you could have some sort of freedom. i mean you know. you're getting away from the surprise here for what you're using it for you know that there will be no opposition to it because. because there's no there's no movement here in new zealand or they like this like all the news stations all of them. like politics is likewise going again we are still waiting to see what action the government might take new zealand already has far stricter gun laws than the united states and its

citizens have no constitutional right to own a gun but that's certainly not a good enough excuse for inaction as many people are discussing today. venezuela's opposition leader has begun a national tour in an effort to oust president nicolas maduro on goto started what's being called operation freedom in the northern city of valencia he's in a power struggle with murderer who accuses the u.s. of masterminding a plot to overthrow him so far the united states is focused mainly on sanctions to increase pressure on the two or however that has 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

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

but i am god i have done everything to try to import medicines and all that 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 u.s. 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. announced 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

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. u.s. the european union and other countries in the region recognize opposition leader as venice interim president. the u.s. has said it wants to force out of office and hope the new sanctions will help speed up the process if. 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. who are surely suffer the most.

algeria's newly appointed prime minister notre dame by the way is started talks to form a new government the new cabinet will include experts without political affiliation in response to the ongoing nationwide demonstrations but it's still unclear whether this would be enough to end the protests that forced algeria's ailing president to abandon his fifth term bid that is of zimbabwe and mozambique have cut short their foreign trips after a tropical cyclone a day cause death and destruction in southern africa zimbabwe is just the latest country to feel the storm's force dozens have been killed as flash floods swept away homes bridges and roads. dozens have died houses have been washed away people have been displaced and some of them are still missing people simply don't know where they are the extent of the damage is huge this is a major was the main busy road completely destroyed by the powerful water the

bridge has been washed away that means people that side of the bridge are stranded they contrast over to the side where they can get the help they needed so in the brave ones i've been trying to cross in a small patch of grass is dangerous to another to fall into the water but they say they simply can't stay that side because it is still dangerous everyone is spoken to so far i see the situation on the ground here is desperate. and then. as. we discovered that all the bridges have been washed away. when the floods came the electricity was cut off even when we are here our phones aren't working there's no way to communicate risky efforts are underway but it is slow and difficult the army has been trying to ease helicopters to access people who've been stranded cutoff by the rising waters but because the weather has been so bad at times it's not been easy for them to meet

all the people who need help we know the risk you say does the instead of a big one. told people to go over there to try and get help but people need a food clothes and blankets we told the water has right now it. has been cut off because of the bad weather and the situation there is some schools in the area there be completely cut by the rising waters hundreds and hundreds of children say to be stuck at school waiting for help to come when it is safe for those choppers flying around in the sky to make matters worse zimbabweans have been told that it will likely keep raining for a few more days which will likely make risk if it's even more difficult so that zimbabwe already killed about one hundred people in malawi and mozambique tens of thousands there have been forced from their homes and power blackouts have been widespread. out of him but. i saw a woman being hit by debris it's not safe for people walking here the situation is

very chaotic. they said was the majority of houses a ninety five percent that collapsed was precariously built up or materials. and flash floods and landslides have killed at least fifty nine people in the indonesian province of pop or files and people have been forced from their homes as torrential rain causes damage in the provincial capital jayapura floodwaters have receded now leaving a trail of mud fallen trees and homes which need drying out. a mass funeral service has been held for some of the victims of the ethiopian plane crash last sunday. thousands of mourners led a procession through the streets of. accompanied seventeen empty straight in the national flag relatives of the one hundred fifty seven passengers and crews 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 months. and new information has emerged

about last sunday's crash reuters is quoting an investigation souls who says the plane flew at an unusually high speed after takeoff reports from. grieving families of some of the one hundred fifty seven victims of ethiopian airlines flight three year old to. mourn the loss of their loved ones. arriving at this field that lies true not around brings it all home to. the airline officials say they haven't found even a single body intact just body parts which would make the added process took awhile . ethiopian airlines didn't give us anything they told us to wait until thursday we waited and thursday came they are now saying they couldn't find anything i wish they told us that they found nothing in the first place this is major grief heavy we came into handed and we're going back empty handed. the boiling seven.