this is news coming to you live from berlin forty nine people are dead in twin attacks on mosques in christ church new zealand the prime minister condemns it as towers. it's one of new zealand that. clearly watches here it is an extraordinary. precinct that. one man in his late twenty's is charged with murder and two others are under investigation up for what authorities are calling a well planned terrorist attack. and marching for their future.

as thousands of schoolchildren around the globe skipped school to call for action on climate protection will be in downtown berlin to hear what german kids want the government to do about global warming. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program we begin in new zealand where police say forty nine people have been killed and dozens wounded twenty of them seriously in twin attacks in the city of christ church the attacks happened to last in the city the first at the el noor mosque where the majority of victims lost their lives and a second mosque in the suburb of lynwood worst. several more fatalities were reported

police say a man in his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will appear in court on saturday prime minister just into our dunn has called it one of new zealand's darkest day world leaders joined in condemning the attack in a place where gun violence is relatively rare. new zealand now a country on edge. a city on lockdown. health officials have activated mass casualty plans. the carnage unfolded at the busiest of times at the biggest mosque in the country worshipers at friday prayers described a man dressed in military fatigues and armed for mass murder and he had a man and he's given the office. of the military and he's begun. one and. another gun. and they're here but.

what they're doing and not looking or not that we. started shooting. a second nearby mosque was also attacked it's not clear at the shootings were carried out by the same man the prime minister has called it one of new zealand's darkest days. it is clear that this can now only be described as a terrorist attack. from what we know it does appear to have being well planned two explosive devices attached to suspects of the coast have now been found and they have been disarmed. a driver filmed the moment caught the man believed to be the terror suspect his car off the road we'll still spending he has been identified as an australian citizen with a trail of far right extremist views. determining if anyone else was involved.

three other people were apprehended we believe one of those persons. who. was at the same had nothing to do with this incident. and the two other people. began a position of foreigners in the general we are working through to understand. elsewhere a grieving community grapples with its own sound for answers. you don't think something like this could happen in new zealand. of all places where such a small community was so kind and loving understand why someone would hurt us. in such a way that they are just like an animal like why would you treat us like that we we've done nothing and i'm some really for not just a huge loss of life today i don't know if i'm going to be feeling safe by myself wearing my headscarf and i've never felt that way. but

a sense that things may never be the same again. early in christ church and she gives more details about the situation there and how new zealand has been coping with this emergency. well a men is jesuit here tomorrow in the christchurch district court on a charge of murder and we'll find out more about their dean the prime minister just in and doing he described this as a terrorist attack she says none of the s.p. that are currently in custody or in total or free agent additional source. at any number at the southeast of the police here apparently or army. much less than a zealot is on high alert how are security and emergency services dealing with this

situation. is the whole country's very much on alert security. services have advised masks to close there is. a police presence that masks throughout the country and. there's also been. just even runs on high alert there were there was a response to a bomb scare up in the land area and another city in the not islands and it just shows how on earth our needs into an alert people after the country that wasn't thought to be now related to the question which incident last just shows that everyone from the eighteenth on high alert in their place have really mobilized the people there the mosques that were targeted here were are in christ church of course how are the people there the people in christchurch coping with this. how

the home studies and shark it really is in shark. is just absolutely unbelievable that this could happen here and the whole city you know what was on lockdown really worked for quite a few hours. the children were loudly it's gone people weren't allowed to the hospital and at. buildings in the central city you will sense and make their way higher in most people i would imagine are just keeping your eyes on much happening after a media and just expressed fear excellent shock and dismay that something like this could happen here and in muslim community this must be devastating for them. he is the muslim community in new zealand is quite a small community totaling roughly fifty thousand based on the last since this data that we have. about one percent of the population so for a small community a question of this can you save. this to measure about

a quarter of the people who are muslims in the one hand and the risks from all over the world are also. a large number of the written g in migrant community here in the. heart of the muslim community so. just real sharp that this community has been targeted here. a minister was. very much trying to incite yes. this isn't new zealand this isn't new zealand and people are about and you will sustain already i'm expressions of that sort of solidarity on social media and we're just people wanting to support the fellow citizens and. make clear that. the sort of the text. that the those sort of any hopes seem to matter behind the text don't belong in new zealand that was the very strong

message that the prime minister gave the country earlier condemning really god's motives behind as a tech. early in christchurch thank you very much. well as we heard new zealand's prime minister descend down has called the attack unprecedented in the country's history she also implored people not to spread footage of the attack online and listen to what she had to say. we have undoubtedly experienced an attempted eye that is unprecedented i'm like anything that we have experienced before but as i say new zealand has been chosen because we are not apply since we're violent extremism exists we reject ours and actions and we must continue to reject them this is not an on clive for that kind of behavior for that kind of ideology we will and must reject it this is apply sweet people should feel secure and will feel secure i am not going to let this change new zealand's profile none

of us should we should all be condemning obviously what has happened here today in the peaceful nation of new zealand and what all of us can at least it was ensure that we do not shia sprayed or actively engage in that message of height we have been given assurance that online. platforms we have some of those images have been she had are actively being remote but i just asked people down she had them. zealand's prime minister just. commenting on the shootings in christ church well for more now i'm joined by raphael boss song he's a security analyst at the german institute for international and security affairs thank you for being with us today what can you tell us about the background of the mains suspect in this case i know you've been looking into well we shouldn't rush to conclusions of course that's the job of the police no but based on his manifesto

which you published the traces he left online he describes himself as an ordinary person who didn't go to university just work travel around the world and then somehow became convinced by this narrative that white race is on. or attack and that he has to take action and that's basically his narrative whether there's anything else in his background a personal crisis or someone that we don't know yet but is possible that he left behind a manifesto or he published this manifesto. that gives some further insights into his mind perhaps i understand that you've been looking at the suspects manifesto what's in it well it is a concoction of ideas of racism fascism and he calls himself actually an ecological fascist which is a very strange combination but it looks like a mixture of actually very media savvy statements of what he wants a chief and trying to talk to different audiences and the same time is also as had rambling of different ideas saying he was the boxes first and then the libertarian

then came to that so so also some undertones of a disturbed mind of course did he provide any indications of why he would target sounds like he had a lot of problems and he was angry at a lot of things why would he attack mosques well as i said he clearly espouses a very racist white supremacy ideology or talks a lot about the so-called great replacement so that's the idea that's been going around for actually many many years but it's been increasingly prominent on arms the right so the idea that western civilization is under threat from other races that have a higher birth rate and that we have to sort of send a signal that these people are not welcome and that we have to regain some pride of that kind so that space is the essential message and the hope is that with attacks like these that there's more division and hate in society and that's exactly what they want that they want some kind of civil war and a rearmament of white supremacists that's the kind of idea in the last few years

we've seen a number of attacks you you looked at many of these yourself do you see this what we've just witnessed in new zealand fitting into a pattern unfortunately yes i mean in this case of course. it seems on one hand to be individuals that have really kind of follow their own devices on the other hand they do feed on each other's inspirations so i'm just braving the norwegian attack of from two thousand and eleven is unfortunate seen as a great inspiration to many and we've also seen in the u.s. a number of similar incidents recently there was a fourth attack by a member of the u.s. coast guard who was also planning to do something similar so at least in the u.s. actually the recent study could've said that seventy five percent almost seventy percent of percent of terror victims are from right wing terrorists not jihadi terrorism so it is a major concern and should really be just as equally serious as you had the terrorism an important point the suspect in this particular case in new zealand he was very active on twitter on social media he made

a point of filming what he was doing and posting it on a live stream on on facebook is social media playing an important role in all of this it is i mean terrorism has always been intimately connected to the media terrorism is only possible because of the modern media but it's sort of taken a new spin with with what we've seen now in this life feeding is certainly taking it to a new level an a and a terrible one as that but i think apart from the dissemination now it's also important to recognize that of course there may be other person experiences that have driven him to this kind of ideology but then hardening of his ideology and taking the step to action clearly was also supported by his online exchangers in more close forums but that's something that we will also continue to look at in the coming days and whether more regulate reaction can be done on that front rafael both song security analyst at the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin thank you so much for your insights. well german chancellor going to medical has extended her sympathy to victims and their loved ones here's

what she had to say it's time to be here on my own path this is a horrific attack on people as they prayed and on their house of worship. this is an attack directed against muslims. it is also an attack on new zealand's democracy and on an open and tolerant society does not have religion prayers go to the victims and their families. for well bangladesh's national cricket team were among those caught up in the attacks the players had travelled to christ church for a match against new zealand the team and officials went to visit one of the affected mosques when they were told a shooting was going on inside the video shows them escaping the scene one of them one of the team members there described the experience as frightening.

report a hunch when lee has been following the story about the the bangladeshi cricket team which just happened to be at that mall school what more can you tell us what we know is that the team were on a tour in new zealand where they had been preparing and practicing for a final match against than the cricket team in new zealand and so this is a video showing one of their practices and in fact the place where they have the training as very close and it's just a few hundred metres to the mosque. and so this morning they were on their way to the mosque for friday prayers and the team manager said they were actually just about fifty yards from the mosque when the shooting began and then he described it as a cold call so the team then returned to the hotel and the manager says the team members are safe and sound but then they will travel home in the coming days so the obviously very shaken after something like that what else are we hearing from the

team members themselves while they've posted on twitter shot shortly after the attack for example the team's high performance analyst he said that just like skate they just xscape active shooters and there were heart beats pumping badly and there were panic everywhere and the captain of the team. that lost saved them while the shooting and he asked people to pray for them and another team member tommy qual concept the entire team got saved from the active shooters and he described that the experience was frightening to them so the members are safe but then the match that it was supposed to happen on saturday morning has been canceled hunch when lee reporter from d.w. news thank you so much for bringing us up to date there. now moving all the students in this to made one hundred countries around the world are out on

strike today joining this girl behind me i hope we're going to see her picture here in just a moment perhaps not anyway we're talking about swedish climate activist great to. she started a movement demanding action on climate change i'm sure you've heard about it by now it's called fridays for future and that has inspired schoolchildren around the world great to tune back herself being only sixteen at this point well today is the biggest day for her and for many of the young activists who have followed her lead . you know i know. delis youngest were out in force india's capital is one of a thousand cities where schoolchildren planned protests against grown up in action on climate change sparked in part by swedish sixteen year old greta to unbearable. like she is the only one who took the initiative in sudan and because the thought of you got to know about this is just envy out of supporting her benefits only the

children we're joined by some with a few more years of breathing delis infamous smaug sometimes described as deadly older protesters have all but given up on their own generation are looking to the next for a solution. now the cuban really come forward it's followed them in their future we have ruined it for them and i have no hope from our generation also i mean even if we get the government even if it isn't. in hong kong the young generation borrowed chance from the old making their point clear act on climate change now deny the deniers they said. in berlin young people were practically bouncing off walls and trees students mostly and parent teacher or adult activist thrilled to be out of their normal friday routine and they hoped making a difference. finally where it all started great to herself was on stage in stockholm but not the center of it all she has said time and again the issue is the climate not the young woman who started

a movement. let's go directly to two of those cities where young protesters have been taking to the streets today and for many months many weeks at least i'm joined now by d.w. correspondents rebecca ritter's in brussels and kate brady in berlin let's start with you kate so what's the atmosphere like at the berlin march for climate protection and one of the protesters demanding. it's can see after six hours out on the streets today here in berlin the demonstration here behind me is slowly dying down many children headed home for the weekend but there was much excitement everyone was in really great spirits earlier today but hidden behind all the excitement and the great vibes coming out of this demonstration today is this first ration which we're seen towards previous generations as well as politicians and that is who this demonstration is aimed to still see the environment ministry

here behind me and these children that took to the streets here in berlin today want to see action and one of the main issues here specifically for germany is the phase out of coal fired energy now at the moment the german government plans to phase out coal fired energy by twenty thirty eight of the students who were on the streets today that simply isn't soon. rebecca in brussels we understand that the just friends of the fridays for future movement they have different demands regarding climate protection depending on the countries where they are what's the cultural perspective. that's right terry but i would have to say that today's protest is very much about the international perspective here in belgium i've been speaking to a lot of people here today they say there's nothing says if you can build and spilled them so much that they're looking for but it's more this they want

governments to be maintaining the agreement that was struck by all the european countries in paris the paris time agreement they say countries simply haven't been doing enough there's a real call to change here and save the atmosphere is one of the really positive but as kate was saying on also a frustration a lot of the people i've spoken to are saying that they're just tired of the inaction nothing has been happening here and they're really hoping that. there's a big summit summit of evaders here next week climate will be a matter genda and they're really hoping that days like today are really going to push those leaders to actually make some change. many of the young people out on the streets there are skipping school how are schools and politicians reacting to that fact what do they make up of starting with you rebecca. yeah well you know there is a growing supports amongst politicians both a you and belgium politicians. one last month actually one environment minutes

in does indeed have to stand down when he had made public announcement that he got intelligence to say that these protests were a conspiracy which was in fact false and he had to stand down but apart from him there's been a lot more support and in terms of schools that's really been growing as well support i spoke to people here today that said when the protests began and you should be there they were not the schools were not that most schools were not that supportive but now they're actually giving the time off to the students but the students are having to make up those hours so but the people i've spoken to it seems that the support is growing. back to you in berlin kate so it's obvious that young people around the world are developing a strong awareness of climate issues it's not just young people of course but they are really going up into the into the streets all this how much momentum does this

friday's for future movement have how much traction do you think it has moving forward. but i think if you look at how the figures have the number of students who have been toting out on the streets now only here in berlin but across germany over the past few weeks and they just continue to grow we saw around ten thousand students hit the streets in the day similar numbers frankfurt in southwestern germany and as those numbers continue to increase are sending a very clear message to politicians in that until we see so many media action we will not be returning to school on fridays and while that is still the case i can see the numbers continuing to grow and clearly this winter weather which they've been facing every week since they took to the streets here in germany two months ago clearly isn't putting the demonstrators off and i have a feeling this won't be the last march kate brady in berlin for us there in brussels rebecca ritter's thank you both. so a look at just

a couple of other stories making headlines around the world today police in mexico are investigating after multiple plastic bags containing human remains were discovered in a sewage canal in the western state of disco security services received an anonymous tip off about the find forensic investigators are now trying to determine exactly how many bodies are in the bags. then investigators say a piece of wreckage from the crash to the open airlines plane shows a link to the lion the airplane of the same make that came down last year the pregnant from the tail stabilizer may reveal that the jet's nose was forced. photos show that the flight data recorders damaged but not all does not destroy it all one hundred fifty seven people on board were killed. and just a reminder of our top story forty nine people are dead and dozens more have been wounded in the shootings at two mosques in the new zealand city of christchurch

police say an australian man in his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will appear in court on saturday he's reported. who posted a rightwing extremist manifesto all aligned before the attacks prime minister just into our down describe the shootings as a terrorist attack she condemned the quote on president an act of violence as one of the country's darkest moments. so you know years from now coming up next the indian women developing apps to make their lives safer thanks for. the for.

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