this is deja vu news live from berlin it's being called one of new zealand's darkest days. and it's with extreme sadness that i tell you that is a it seems in pm tonight we believe that forty people have lost their lives and this act of extreme violence the city of christchurch put on lockdown and mosques around the country told to shut their doors after an unprecedented mass shooting authorities are calling it a well planned terrorist attack. also on the show britain's parliament to put the

brakes on lawmakers forced the government to ask brussels for three months to lay to the start of britain's departure from the e.u. but will you say yes. and students in more than seventeen hundred cities worldwide take part in the fridays for future rallies among them young activists in hamburg who's been skipping school to protest germany's climate policies. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show we begin in new zealand where forty people have been confirmed killed and forty eight wounded twenty of them seriously during shootings at two mosques they took place in the city of christchurch on the islands on the country's south island rather the first attack happened at the isle noor mosque the second at the lynwood. i witness is say people fled in terror during

friday prayers three men are now in custody a woman as well has been questioned police say they were defusing a number of these found after the attacks mosques across the country have been urged to keep their doors closed. a prime minister has called it one of new zealand's darkest days this is what you had to say at a press conference a short while ago it is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack. from what we know if it does appear to have being well planned two explosive devices attached to some speaks of the coast have now been found and they have been disarmed there are currently four individuals who have being apprehended but three connected to this attack who are currently in custody

for the very latest let's go live to d.w. samantha early joining us from christchurch samantha new zealand is on a high security alert level right now what are police focusing on. yes that's right and i think this is the first time that we've been at such a highly will of alert here police focusing on you securing all of mosques across the country the town in two zero zero zero and this is people is present each month in new zealand and yet you just really by saying are trying to track down who had. the people and have to they name has had any through the supporters yet had the commissioner places actually address the media. and to do that as we speak it's nine o'clock at night so we'll hopefully have more details about what exactly the place the honeynet are shortly yeah these

shootings took place just about nine hours ago of forty people we now have been killed dozens have been wounded twenty seriously how are hospitals and authorities coping with this high number of casualties. if you run on and on speaking people or. the shooting actually happened at the mosque where the most victims were it was actually very very close to questionable spittle and just across the tracks so. the house at the hospital was also on lockdown poorest people hours while. the situation was still. yet a very extreme emergency situation so lots of people have been treated at question as well i think i was moving that day who are two of the areas where he started and . it's really been a challenging time for emergency services what can you tell us about new zealand's

muslim community how big is it and has it been under attack in the past. and it's quite a small opening as a and relative to the population roughly about one thousand and that's a call. to the latest is a nation that we have quite a small thing in a city and relation to the population agreed to this community age and the last thing says about a quarter of the people in new zealand who see the muslim and we have one here and the other three which is from the pacific islands and asia the middle east and africa some theory to this community perhaps this most new zealanders would want to of course out of felt not at home here and with psyche and it's been the reaction from the vast majority of new zealand and in the rethink abstains is absolute dismay that the people here who. have been attacked in this way.

samantha earlier bring us up to date from christchurch thanks very much one of those in custody at this hour is australian born more on that let's go to clare richardson the university lecturer joining us from melbourne australia good morning clare we understand that the australian prime minister has confirmed that one of those under arrest is from australia what we know about this individual. that's right we now have confirmation that an australian born citizen is among the four people who have been taken into custody as a key suspect in this attack now he is believed to be a man who self identified as a twenty eight year old who posted a rambling manifesto online seventy four pages in which he laid out his intention to commit the attack how he was going to do it and also criticised things like multiculturalism and immigration in new zealand he had the usual objections he said he identified actually not as australian but that he felt culturally european and

he even said quote my blood is europe you. know we've been hearing a lot of condolences prime minister scott morrison said it was a violent extremist right wing terrorist attack and australian authorities are working it to investigate further the case of this australian man who's been taken into custody there also providing support to the relevant agencies in new zealand to try and eat up the security situation there and across australia we're seeing flags flying at half mast in condolences with the citizens of new zealand in this difficult time clare richardson bring us up to date from melbourne australia thanks very much. now let's check in with some of the other stories making the news this hour the u.s. senate has voted to terminate president trumps national emergency declaration over

the situation on the border with mexico the president vowed to veto that decision he declared the emergency to access funding for a border war with mexico twelve tromso republicans crossed party lines to side with senate democrats. israel's military says it has launched air strikes on a number of targets in the guard gaza strip that in response to a rocket attack on television palestinian media reporting a hamas naval base near the town of qana munis was targeted there's been no immediate reports of casualties. people in the brazilian city of south power have held a ceremony for the victims of a school shooting two former pupils carried out that attack on wednesday such incidences have been relatively rare in brazil last major shooting at a school was in two thousand and eleven. a russian american team of three astronauts has successfully docked at the international space station back in

october two of them have their journey into space cut short when a technical problem on their soyuz rocket led to the flight being aborted two minutes after launch yest also be conducting various experiments during their stay aboard. vesa gaiters say a piece of wreckage from the crash if european airlines plane shows a link to the lion airplane that came down last year a fragment from the tail stabilizer may reveal that the jet's nose was forced downwards a photo also shows you hear of an airline's plane's flight data recorders damaged but not destroy. this image was released by the laboratory and in france where the jet's two black boxes are now being analyzed it's hope that they'll reveal the cause of the tragedy that left one hundred fifty seven people dead. it's to london now and the british parliament has voted to delay its departure from the european union lawmakers voted strongly in favor of asking the you to postpone brock's it

for at least three months but any delay has to be approved by all twenty seven remaining new countries and they have signaled dail only do so if there's a specific reason or a fundamental shift in britain's approach to brics. the third night a third vote and a firm decision to put the brakes on bricks that. the icy right four hundred twelve the nose from the left to underpin to so the eyes have it the ayes have it on low. temp he's overwhelmingly backing a motion to try and extend britain's plan departure from the e.u. brussels now has to sign off on the delay which would last until june if the u.k. approves the deal in the coming days failure to agree a deal could lead to a much longer postponement and potentially to know that at all.

for prime minister to resign may who's plan to leave the e.u. has been rejected twice fear of losing control of bricks that might just be enough to get stanch bracks that backers in her own party to finally support her plan in a third vote in parliament next week. the e.u. insists that mayes. and which is the product of two and a half years of painstaking talks is the only one on offer. sheet or your money. if the united kingdom still wants to leave the european union and it wants to leave in an orderly manner which is what the prime minister tells us in this treaty such as it is which organizes the orderly separation this treaty is the only one possible and available at the theater should push hebrew. on the streets of london people on both sides of the debate vented their frustrations. was think the most sensible

solution would be that we leave on the twenty ninth of march with no deal it is easy to say sorry we made an absurd mistake certain stake it's no question about that in my mind i'm astounded absolutely stunned by what's going on think it's a complete shambles after calle says so much fun this well politics should be no one knows what's going on nothing's bigger waves by anyone it's all falling apart do you find this into taney. scrambling for a way out of the country's worst political crisis in decades two and a half years after voting to leave the e.u. it will now be up to process to decide if they want to help britain make a clean break with the bloc. but how long might that clean break take joining us now is did abuse bag of mosques in london and beyond three get in brussels good morning to both of you if we could start with london and baghdad what do lawmakers

baggett want to gain with this extension. well lawmakers know that there really are the end of the right and in two weeks' time the u.k. would crash out of the european union if no solution is find so this really in a says city for parliament to just do something they call and really agree on any way forward and they just had to just agree on this one thing which is to ask the european union for foreign extension because theresa may is trying one more time to get a deal through parliament that's going to go dead is going to be next week she's got one more chance but she concreting or the brits is not a bricks of legislation through parliament in two weeks time even if a deal passes so no other choice really. down to brussels now the ease donald tusk is saying he's open to a long extension to give britain time to rethink what it wants is this an

indication of brussels believes it's possible to keep britain inside the european union. but as it stands now this would be of course wish with the thinking the brits want to leave the you this is the common sense here. is trying just to open another window of opportunity maybe to think about a second referendum or something that might change the cause but realistically there will be a question for extension at the next leaders summit here in brussels and the leaders of it grant this is this extension that is for sure because they don't want to take the blame for a crash whatever comes then so mrs may will get the extension until the third is of june most probably to try then either to implement a deal or to find another emerge dorothy for a deal with the e.u. of course the european elections are coming up then and this is very difficult to

extend the extension after the thirty's of june because the parliament would constitute itself in the first week of july ok baggett there's a new possibilities now for three some may what are the chances that the prime minister will pull off an unlikely victory and get her back said plan passed in the end. really and i'm like victory because her deal is really hated it's hated of course by those who want to remain in the european union because it falls behind the deal that the u.k. has now with old doubts but it's also hated by those who really advocated for brics it because in their mind trees amazed just knocks the u.k. too much into the european union also in the future and this is why they cannot unite behind it or they could not so far we've heard in the last days that some of those who were more on the right wing of the conservative party who opposed the deal they might just change their mind because they know if it doesn't get through

parliament one last time next week then anything could happen it could be a longer extension like ben has has mentioned it could be a second referendum debrett's vote might be overturned so they might not want to run that risk that will be decided next week in yet another crunch vote here in london. the e.u. for its part has so many pressing issues right now migration and security are just two of many how much is the focus on preventing brussels from moving forward with its own agenda. but of course it is overshadowing most of the summits and discuss or see in brussels and there's a kind of a brics it fatigue you can sense it is there some people that say that just push them over the brink and let's get over with it but i think think that majority of the euro kratz and bureaucrats bristle brush to say we have to to play along is to

resist mates tactic because we don't want the negative effect of aggression. we have to manage the breck said and just give the prime minister what she bones we have to run around in circles as we did two years and just sit and wait what the british will do ok so time of is of the essence both in brussels and in london many thanks this morning to read it and debate that mosque there in the british capital . all students around the world are out on strike today calling for action against climate change under the motto fridays for future swedish climate activists turn back has called for protest marches in cities around the world young people are on strike in the indian capital of delhi for example to persuade also titian's there to take climate change seriously they're being joined by students in japan with school strikes and protests planned in dozens of other countries including here in germany the u.s. and brazil. also here in germany are

due to join today's protests in a couple of hours and thousands of them taking to the streets for weeks now to protest against this country's energy policies joined one young activist in the northern city of hamburg where they tell me as that. young owner wants better climate protection for the last three months he's been regularly skipping school to take part in demonstrations he's one of the organizers of the friday for future protests in his home town is you know this is just a little bit a bit different from speaking in front of three hundred people but it will be cool . yet all the things climate politics in general our desire to have a protest march in hamburg he says it's up to his generation to do something about . what he says are good morning i'm glad to be here i'm yano that from the area in a bag we can do it because we're not just another climate initiative

a movement we are the last dam cry for help of a whole generation get on your. was. young will have little time for school at the moment he's meant to be studying for biology but the demonstration is who he can concentrate on. his phone goes nonstop the protest is organized through various chat groups. so i was off i got this phone in december and since then i've had one hundred nine thousand messages come through. yet known as mother supports the protest but she has difficulty with the fact that her son now has little time for anything else really other than really young or when can we eat five there's a telephone conference and at six and then again at seven he has to have ten minutes somewhere in between when he can eat with his family. that have ongoing

current issues so that's in the last few months dinner conversations have some to do around environmental issues you know this family only bites organic food and eats meat just once a week but giving up the two family cars is a little harder here in the countryside. preparations have started for the strike this friday students worldwide will again take to the streets during school time some politicians have accused the students of just wanting to skip school. but my studies here i'd say that most of the students at the protest don't want to miss school at all they want to do something for their future that's what's important to them thank you guy students must listen to this two hundred demonstrations have been planned in germany alone an entire generation of schoolchildren taking to the streets for the sake of the climate and for their future. and it seems determined students are not the only ones unhappy with the government here it's one years since all americans conservatives want to go election for the social

democrats but a new survey shows that seventy percent of germans are not satisfied with the coalition's performance it's been viewed as a marriage of convenience germany's grand coalition between the countries opposing big tent parties under the auspices of chancellor i got america that was a year ago. and yet less than a third of germans now surveyed say they're still satisfied with the coalition between conservatives and the social democrats seventy percent are not it took half a year following the two thousand and seventeen general election for germany to get a government they didn't take long thereafter first in the early fall largely over migration policy meanwhile the grand coalition has tackled some of its platform for example more money for daycare and schools. seventy percent of germans think the parties are at odds with one another lacking a unified vision just twenty six percent reject this negative view. of voters blame

for the current political situation one person they don't the chancellor herself. germany's most popular politician but her days as leader of the country are likely numbered now that she stepped down as the leader of her party. decision to stay on as chancellor until the next general election in two thousand and twenty one has the support of nearly sixty percent of german surveyed thirty seven percent would like to see her go sooner and if the election took place this sunday her c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc would capture the most votes with twenty nine percent. while the social democrats would fall to seventeen percent the far right alternative for germany would take home thirteen percent with the business friendly free democrats and the left party getting eight and nine percent respectively it's the greens making waves with nineteen percent of the vote they become the second largest party in germany. we

have some sports now and in football it has been a great week of results for the english teams in europe with both arsenal and chelsea staying in contention for the europa league title arsenal have a place in the last day after a comeback win over the french side then chelsea humiliated dynamo kiev on route to an eight nil aggregate victory a benefit needed extra time to get past dynamo zagreb while frankfurt scraped past interim along with a solitary goal that means they are the only german side left in european competition. and taken action after their humiliating seven no loss to manchester city tuesday coach to monaco did asco has been fired today is going to go over. in july or twenty seventeen and the club finished runners up in the bundesliga in his first year in charge but. are struggling this season sitting fourteenth in the league hopes the vns has been hired as interim manager it's his third time in

charge of dutchman took them to a for a cup lawrie twenty two years. and football's world governing body fifa meets in a special session later today to vote on sweeping changes to world football top of the agenda is a plan to extend the next world cup and qatar to forty eight teams if a president giani inventin no wants to increase revenue afy further changes include an expansion of the club world cup and a new global nations league. is planning big changes first qualifying national teams will take part in an expanded world cup possibly sooner than expected instead of forty eight teams in the tournament and twenty twenty six that expansion could start as early as twenty twenty two in qatar. furthermore there might be a global nations league that would be similar to europe's new nations league in club football they could also be an expanded club world cup d.w.

reports of florian power asked the head of the german f.a. which teams would play so i took the i live. if the club world cup is played every four years one idea would be to see which teams have been particularly successful over the years. before i get in and do the teams only come from the champions league or how are other clubs involved especially through solidarity payments. for i know for large they're on to thailand so that they're not particularly disadvantaged by the new competition he's annoyed that there's on those but not only for president giovanni infantino has been keen to increase revenue his new proposals were put forward a year ago and are based on an offer by a consortium willing to invest over twenty two billion euros they in return would hold a forty nine percent stake in the competitions the changes will be voted on later

today by fief is two hundred and eleven members. let's get you the latest now on our breaking news story new zealand police now say forty nine people are dead dozens more have been wounded in mass shootings of two mosques in the new zealand city prize for. one of the four people arrested after the shootings is understood to be an australian citizen prime minister using the ardor described the shootings as a terrorist attack and she condemned the quote unprecedented act of violence on one of the country's darkest days. more details as they come. on that story up next the state of your business and want to know how the economy is doing just as attacks occur and two weeks before elections in turkey you're likely to get your fault. we'll find out lost more on business was gary hart just coming up after the break. don't forget you can always find out more about the

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