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morris at about ten past seven in the morning andrew thomas good morning to you andrew what's expected today. well we're expecting more commemorations here on dame saudi this is the road that runs alongside the al normals the bigger one that was attacked cinderalla done in her press conference sort of a bit there in ones report she said they'll be a national commemoration of a national memorial but she said it was too soon to have it this week so the date hasn't yet been set and as wayne said again in his pace they'll be a national inquiry as well looking into all the background of the man who is alleged to have carried this out looking at the overall legal situation in new zealand hate speech gun laws everything could this have been prevented i was this thing a few minutes ago to the opposition leader the leader of the right of center party here in new zealand and he was saying he doesn't know the specific details of the tunnel proposals that the government came up with in the cabinet meeting on monday
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but broadly speaking he is going to support them to the hilt he's not going to offer any objections and he also talked about the failings and he couldn't failings of the security agencies he said maybe it wasn't anybody's fault that they failed but they clearly did they should not have been allowed to happen this man brenton tyrant if indeed he was the man to carry this out and a court case will decide that well he shouldn't be able to say and it was security agency failings that allowed him to do so so we've also of course got funerals now the bodies have been held in christchurch hospital over the weekend as autopsies go on the families are beginning they hope to get those bodies back on tuesday and the should be funerals later in the wait i spent all morning on monday with one family who lost their father and grandfather. it was thirty six years ago but haji daoud nabil left afghanistan to live in new zealand a good country he thought in which to bring up
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a family three generations of that family are now grieving. has been his radical people the people here he doesn't care about ourselves my eyes but if the people my son using were easy why did reason why did they tell your local you further gone to the last. yama nabil doubt son had been heading to the mosque himself with his daughter when he saw people running the other way it was on saturday at the community center that he heard the list of names of those who had died. did not want to hear the question who would like to reach out and really. put the news was not good the gunman had murdered haji dowd nabil was.
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just saying. grief is now mixed with frustration the family would have liked to have buried house you doubt by now that land then twenty fourth the border should be even the graveyard in place but actually. they did not eat the profit people being shot in the heart not in the audience cation so you understand that allies do yes. yama would like us father's killer to face the death penalty his brother disagreements he forgives the guy did not win he'll never succeed there's no way he will be helping is very and hippie is skid is unstable this is why he carried this on how can you forgive somebody like this was their confidence of knowing god my father is going to paradise but for the
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whole family the grief is rule as well as his wife nabil had five children and nine grandchildren that's fourteen direct descendants now in mourning and these are scenes being repeated right across christchurch. the flowers are the public displays of grief the private ones are going on behind closed doors. very sad being in that household on monday dowd's family signed all the paperwork at the hospital late on monday to get his body released and it should be released early this morning tuesday morning and they're hoping that they'll be able to bury their father grandfather later on tuesday and thomas reporting from christchurch thank you as we mentioned australian police have conducted several raids as part of the investigation into the attack has more on that from sydney. the two properties
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belong to members of brenton tyrant's family one his mother and the other his sister police say they took both his mother and his sister to a safe place for their own protection earlier today on monday and said that their system them with their enquiries police were also at pains to make it clear that there were no impending threats that they were just looking for anything that could support the new new zealand police in their investigation so it seemed as though it was just an evidence gathering exercise looking for anything that could help the investigation into the christ church attack now there isn't a lot that is known about brenton parent and his movements of the last few years these training government says that he's only spent forty five days here over the last three years he was most recently here for his sister's birthday about a year ago so it seems as though police are looking for any clues anything that
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could help them paint a more comprehensive picture of the alleged attacker. here's what's coming up here on this news are venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro asked his entire cabinet to quit the first step in his plan to shake up the government just a month to go before the elections in israel and the leader of the far right to jewish party has been banned. i mean. what this legend has to say about the possible expansion of the twenty twenty two world cup in qatar. mozambique's president says more than a thousand people may have died after a cycle in devastated southern africa the official figure stands at eighty four international red cross as a tropical storm destroyed ninety percent of a major port in mozambique cyclon a day which tore into bear on thursday with flash floods washing away homes and roads. from. up to half
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a million people in the city of bear have been affected by the cyc loan that it whole days ago power lines were knocked down and people here just beginning to try and pick up the pieces but their efforts also being pushed by ongoing rain it's expected that rain will continue throughout the week people here say they have not seen anything like it the city is devastated aid organizations a calling the off to match the dead the devastation the destruction caused by the psych loan horrifying the biggest challenge for many of these will going to aid organizations is that they're unable to access or rather the extent of the devastation floodwaters continue to rise especially after a dam burst in the last a day trees have been knocked on this billion area in the city where trees haven't
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been uprooted power lines knocked down and many homes destroyed now aid organizations that have a rived in barrow in the last day or two and that's only off to the airport was reopened after it was closed say they have a mammoth tosca ahead of them in the thick of the psych load on short term rebuilding the city helping the people affected it's going to take a lot of time and then also mozambique the storm battered neighboring zimbabwe cussing off the eastern district of chin money money at least seventy people have died there so far out of the towns the reports from the town of shipping in southeastern zimbabwe. a big problem is that a lot of the bridges and roads in the area have been cut off or destroyed by the flood waters so a lot of people are stuck in the car moved so this is an alternative and people in the local community are coming together using big rocks to try and create different
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growth so people can pass through analysis areas people have been stuck some of them for days the situation in some parts of the region like inches money money for example we are told that some boarding schools have been cut or sold and they are stranded the army is trying to reach them but of course that depends on how good the weather is with the helicopter fly and reads the children who've been stranded they also hundreds of people stuck at a hotel who were able to walk the when the floods came and they sought shelter b. but they need things like food blankets and clothes and they say time is running out the problem for aid workers the military anyone trying to reach people who need help is that the roads are just not possible at the moment so the community are trying as much as they can to take it upon themselves to make sure that people who need to cross over and help people who are stuck are able to do that of course is going to be a long process it's all manual as you can see it in on the scenes here so who knows
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how long it will take these people to get the work done meanwhile people are lined up across the road in their cars because they can pass hoping and praying that this process a slow painful review process. venezuela's president has asked his entire cabinet to step down as he struggles to maintain control of the country because my dear is engaged in a two month political crisis after the opposition leader one weirdo declared himself venezuela's leader in january the latest now with. the government. and now thinking she's shuffling the whole having advice precedent does the it's also set the precedent that the rest of nation of the members of the cabinet and that he will start naming and we giving information about who is going to be part of that happen at school and this is not strange even it will enable us to have had at least for a vice president since taking office that this is clearly an attempt to we know
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inch he said when it's too ancient to show the venezuelan people especially his own no way for the government is trying to solve many of the problems that people in this country are facing today among them there's been an enormous power outage and medics were left for days people who were without electricity without remorse for among other things people struggling with hyperinflation shortages of medicines among other things and everything that the situation is going to get a joystick here at u.n. sanctions start to have an impact in venezuela very effective to begin the old sanctions against this country later in april but we're being told that it's already having an effect i'm not sure if you can figure i am importable acquittals in the state of and so i think he and i can count from here at least seven oil and currents that are venezuela that has not been filled with oil that venezuela has not been able to sell in its way like winds will replace the face of the united states has in its oil markets here but apparently they're trying to send it to
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india and of course russia and. what we're being told that there is already what is known here is over compliance people that are afraid of buying that its will and all because of the consequences that something like this could have with the united states and angering their own and states in the meantime the opposition leader on why i don't sense that he would start going around the country and trying to get people to march towards the pilots of you know if that's where he. decides that the presidential that he would be given enormous demonstration that's what open fish and you know is trying to do and i would generate more tension in that country. a second israeli has died as a result of the shooting that happened on sunday in the occupied west bank israeli media is identified the attacker as a palestinian man suspected of killing an israeli soldier and a rabbi there is
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a manhunt underway in a number of arrests have been made in the village where the suspect lives and abraham with more from ramallah. there's a really army is still looking for a nineteen year old palestinian whom they believe has committed the attack yesterday they have raided the village of as we in the north of the west bank and they have interrogated several members in the family including the father who was detained and released later on the fifteen year old brother is still in israeli detention and according to an israeli army statement the army is looking at demolishing the house of the suspect now the army has also been very edges need to buy confiscated security cameras over there and palestinians across the west bank fear such retaliation meanwhile israel's supreme court has banned the leader of a far right party from running in next month's election michael ben-ari of the jewish power party incited racism against palestinians the decision overturns
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a ruling by israel's election committee the court also reinstated israeli palestinian parties which had been disqualified are a force of following that one from western. michael ben-ari is the leader of the aughts me a hoodie to a jewish power party which is the descendant of the harnessed party of the one nine hundred eighty s. led by the rabbi meir kahane of a party which itself was banned in one thousand nine hundred eight for its racist stance that is what has happened this time around the high court rather than banning the party vote is targeting michael been ari himself as an individual in accordance with the opinion of israel's attorney general of the judgment being eight to one ruling that he had indeed incited racism or taken concrete steps towards supporting anti arab anti palestinian racism his party though is still eligible to stand so his party colleague it and i've been banned via will still be
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able to stand for the knesset and the root of the reason that this is of such significance at this time is because the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu himself engineered a new lines between this party and other right wing parties to try to shore up the right wing vote make sure it was translated into seats in the israeli parliament the knesset on the april ninth elections to ensure he could get a coalition and maintain his right wing coalition after that election it's a step which is seen criticized by moderates here in israel especially by jewish organizations in the united states for dealing in racism there has been some blowback towards this from the right of israeli politics this court decision criticism that the court has been intervening in politics of the justice minister saying that it has crossed a red line and that she would take steps after the election to try to reign in the court at the same time it has reversed the early decision of the election commission to ban a joint list arab party run by a large and also
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a far left jewish candidate those decisions have been reversed they are eligible to stand michael ben-ari is not. still ahead for you on this news our. valises like it's contagious disease you know. marquis is watching us do the same thing a. former gang members take a new approach to ending gun violence in the united states. in general there were fifty cases that week now we have an average of twenty five cases per week so there is a decline of progress in fighting the crisis in the despite danger is a big obstacle a string of violent attacks though on the city and in sport the long wait for title is over for this former world number one son i will have that and the rest of the plate.
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hello the weather has not settled down yet in this part of the worlds a circulation here in the southern part of the caspian but back washed will bring a certain amount of rain or snow to northern iran and the forward edge of it is still bringing rain it is now out through afghanistan that's the picture for the rest of tuesday and we end up like this terence probably in the sunshine one storm finally breaks into the west i think things are clearing up syria looks fine by this time in beirut about twenty degrees i'm not so that'll be the last of the storms this one as it happens with probably just for part during wednesday the circulation running a long way north and then we are quite all way back to the mediterranean coast for the time being south of this and likewise the winds already swung round to the north went down to the gulf is not particularly strong and steady the moment it's just large is reduced skies a fairly clear we go to the opposite happening the n.t.
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coordinates through the middle of saudi arabia's probably quite dusty here with temperatures in the middle thirty's which is usual for mecca there's still plenty more rain to come out of the remains of the tropical cycle of the winter beyers so still for mozambique occasionally from malawi and zimbabwe expect a lot of rain. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby. and i three million dollars of what i have should. reveal secrets and connections some don't want exposed. others are not of one. if they are all. al-jazeera investigations how to sell a massacre coming soon after the rifles or somebody's gun sometimes even. yaps
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oldest muslim undertakers working here is a seven days a week job that's grown with a community my father purchased a black ambulance man and started to do the funerals in london and the family we saw stopping father and daughter and weekend business partners the stories we don't often hear told by the people who the gift is such a level of. east and undertakers this is europe on al-jazeera. you're on the news here at al-jazeera these are our top stories dutch police have arrested a suspected gunman who shops in
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a tram in killing three people the motive behind the shooting is still unclear the counter-terrorism agency has downgraded the threat level now in the central province following the arrest after an eight hour manhunt. big setback for the british prime minister theresa may the speaker of the house will be will not allow another vote on the brakes a deal unless there is a substantial change to its new zealand's prime minister says gun laws will be changed in the wake of friday's shooting at two mosques that killed fifty people the government will consider banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and buying back. well following the christchurch attacks facebook has faced widespread criticism for allowing the live stream of the attacks was seventeen minutes but the company's getting some high profile supporters well in its efforts to fight online extremism and chappelle's when looking at. christ church in menlo park maybe thousands of kilometers apart but the moderators who work here in california and
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more than twenty offices around the world deal each day in matters of life and death no amount of people that we can hire will be enough to review all of the content last year facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg praised the artificial intelligence that makes facebook safe as well as the thousands of moderators. so what went wrong to allow the killing of fifty people to be broadcast on facebook live arguably facebook has done exactly what it's supposed to do all but three hundred thousand of the one and a half million shooting videos were blocked in the first twenty four hours but the system is not foolproof facebook's ai except footage published by what it deems trusted news channels the algorithms are overruled and the videos can be published and shared again and again new zealand's prime minister says social media platforms bust accept a greater responsibility the fact that we're only one point two of those times is being automated tells me they're of course our power is to take
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a very direct approach to instances of. speech that incites violence or that incites hite there's a lot of work that needs to be done but should facebook be commended for its efforts well tech against terrorism is a project launched by the un counter-terrorism committee and it says yes it should and that society and mainstream media outlets also need to ask themselves some very important questions in terms of what facebook is done and i think it's really commendable that they're able to stop one and a half million uploads. so that's essentially saying one million people potentially . video and i think there is an argument here that there's only so much that technology can do if so many people are trying so hard to get terrorist content back onto the internet now facebook live is another story the moderators in machines clearly failed on several counts according to an internal memo telling
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employees exactly what to look for such as evidence of potential violence involving people display or sound of guns or other weapons screams shouting actual or threatened violence and evidence of human despair including crying pleading or begging now some of new zealand's biggest companies are deciding whether to pull their ads from facebook because of the unmoderated content around the christ church shooting and now the social media company faces additional pressure with more than two and a quarter billion users facebook is already regulating more speech that any government on earth so as we've reported new zealand's decided to tighten its gun laws off to the mosque attacks but in the united states attempts to tell from the failed so far some former gang members though are doing their bit to reduce gun violence and they're doing it in a novel way as john hendren found out in chicago follow the tracks from the chicago skyline and you'll find some of the most violent neighborhoods in america. last
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year here in the windy city five hundred thirty people were murdered fewer than the previous two years or so to see that. a group called cure violence is using a novel approach to reduce the killings treating violence like an epidemic and sending health workers mostly former gangsters into dangerous neighborhoods to stop the contagion a lot of people don't know valises like it's contagious disease you know. is watching us do the same thing just to sell us the approach started in two thousand after spending fifteen years with the world health organization battling tuberculosis cholera and aids in africa dr gary slotkin returned to chicago to find an astonishing parallel it looked to me just like these other problems like these other infectious diseases to say the maps showed clustering cholera
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and a. contagious disease. in west chicago in the most dangerous police district in the country shootings and killings fell sixty seven percent in the first year since then the program has expanded to several of chicago's worst neighborhoods and to twenty five other cities in more than fourteen countries we joined the group in two thousand and thirteen when a rival gang shot up the van of a man called grandad in a case of mistaken identity as the gang prepares to retaliate granddad calls cure violence then known as cease fire after the violence interrupters broker a tense negotiation the government offered three hundred dollars for repairs the price of a life here. the violence interrupters like to get out and meet people during the cold months because summer is when everyone's out and that's when the violence happens so a little interaction now can mean a more peaceful summer studies show neighborhood violence interrupters can reduce
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killings by fifty to seventy percent new york and los angeles each spend about twenty five million dollars a year on the program from a gun carry on with. the. pre-surgery. they want to have you know but funding for chicago where it all began is just five to six million dollars a year and each year the city sees more murders than the two larger cities combined but even five million has made a difference john hendren al-jazeera chicago right we're going to get a look at some more european news now back to felicity in london thanks so much paul guess a course in russia's chechnya region has sentenced a human rights activist to four years in prison for illegal drugs possession of was stopped by police in january they say they discovered marijuana in his car to t.f. is the head of a moscow based human rights group that has been critical of chechen place his
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supporters describe the case as the sickly and activated. france's chief of police for paris has been sacked according to the country's prime minister at what felipe also said the government would shut down yellow vests protests if demonstrators were found to be part of violent organizations on saturday parasol violent protests and riots with shops and businesses torched to neuter it in the center of the city a new paris police chief is due to be pointed on wednesday. opponents of the saudi led war in yemen have been protesting against u.k. government arms sales the highlighting the proposed sale of more eurofighter typhoon jets to the saudis which they say is illegal under international law of syria's lawrence lee has more from that protest in london. it's only a model but the point is a stark one the u.k. government has already sold two dozen of the british typhoon jets also known as the
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eurofighter across the european union to the saudi government and plans are in the works to sell their leaf fifty more it's all worth hundreds of millions of dollars along with this message for the cameras they handed in a petition of fifty thousand names condemning what campaigners describe as a legal and ethical insult to international law that the british government is ignoring the international arms trade treaty a treaty that it was a champion of not so long ago in a drive to continue selling these arms five billion pounds worth of arms since the onset of the conflict that is seven times as much is being spent on aid in the man the random nature of the saudi led attacks on yemen the heavy civilian casualties have prompted several european countries to suspend arms sales to riyadh every week more and more evidence arrives suggesting a blaring of the lines between military and military targets.
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there was a strike on the house and they told us to go inside because they're asked strikes we ran into the fields to disappear then the plane bombed dissin as we got there for women and four girls died and the only one left from those who were with me. the argument from britain amplified by the american government is that freezing arms sales would open the door to either russia or china stepping in and campaign is against the arms trade argue that that is effectively the same as saying the whole thing is a business opportunity as with everything in the u.k. at the moment brics it's plays a policy in all this as well just the other day the government minister in charge of international trade was celebrating a continuation of trading relationships between the u.k. and papua new guinea if that's anything to go by than you'd have to assume that the arms trade with saudi arabia is going to be over. important components of life in post bricks of britain. in central london russian president vladimir putin is in
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crimea celebrating the fifth anniversary of its an exemption from ukraine and twenty fourteen russian troops and russian black separatists invaded the key strategic and insular on the black sea since then putin has invested billions in infrastructure despite condemnation and sanctions from the west charlie angela has more. switching on the power for crimea cutting off another link to ukraine russia's president putin inaugurating two new power stations in the cities are so vast a pole in simferopol announcing that the peninsula is now energy independent she would. today another important step has been taken to strengthen the energy security of the crimean peninsula and the whole sounds of the russian federation to develop its economy and infrastructure. the ceremony is part of a three day festival marking the events of march two thousand and fourteen when russian troops invaded and successfully seized crimea moscow sealed the annexation
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with a referendum in which majority of crimean devoted to rejoin russia a vote condemned by the west. five years later they lie in the streets to celebrate that day speaking of their happiness under the russian flag the u.s. . you have to do it this is my life i was born in crimea russia is everything to me i am russian this is why i came here to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the return to russia my motherland. but international sanctions designed to punish moscow have isolated them pushing up prices and slowing crimea's development. at the same time putin has poured billions into the region ensuring its isolation from ukraine a new bridge now links crimea to the russian mainland what as sixty kilometer security fence snakes along an illegal border with ukraine in brussels the european council marked the anniversary with condemnation today with this informal opening
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of our council we are further underlining our european unity and our commitment to keep crimea high on our collective agenda we will continue to implement our non-recognition policy of the legal and exception to restate our firm belief that is ukraine. but despite the costs internationally and domestically this is a president with no regrets charlie angela out is there. and that is it for me here in london back now to come all in davos of it thank you the world health organization says the fight against the ebola outbreak in democratic republic of congo is moving forward health workers predict the virus may be fully contained by september but it tacks on treatment facilities are threatening that progress has kathy a lot of young reports the evolver alberich is just one of several problems facing the democratic republic of congo treatment facilities have been targeted in recent
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weeks and in fear to a community that are already on high alert violence from armed groups is posing another risk for patients and health care workers so there is a need for to strike a balance between what we do in terms of security protection but at the same time staying with the community to fight. earlier this month a treatment center in the city of baton bo was attacked twice within days soldiers carried one of the suspects away from the scene of a health care worker was wounded a police officer killed more than one hundred armed groups are reportedly active in eastern d r c teams on the ground believed two of them may be behind the attacks these are not a missing clue to the allied to the country forces as well as my my groups the latest outbreak in the republic was detected in the.

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