this is d.w. news from berlin twin massacres leaving forty nine people dead in new zealand the prime minister condemning it as an act of terror was. just. clearing his pick and here is an extraordinary crease of. a man in his late twenty's is due in court shortly charged with murder police are investigating two other people after what they're calling

a planned terrorist attack also coming up tonight the young people who are marching for their future. thousands of children around the globe skipped school today to call for action to protect. i'm off it's good to have you with us tonight forty nine people are dead dozens wounded in two mosque attacks in the new zealand city of christchurch one man has been charged with murder and is expected to appear in court within the next few hours the attacks happened during friday prayers at two mosques the first at the eleanore mosque in the center of the city is where the majority of the exams lost their lives the second was in the suburb of lynwood where several more fatalities have been reported. new zealand is

a country with little gun violence and the prime minister has described these events as one of the country's darkest days let's hear more of what she had to say . we have undoubtedly experience in a tech today that is unprecedented on like anything that we have experienced before but as i say new zealand has been chosen because we are not a place where violent extremism exists we reject ours and our sins and we must continue to reject them this is not an enclave for that kind of behavior for that kind of ideology we will and must reject it this is a place where people should feel secure and will feel secure i am not going to let this change new zealand's profile none of us should. are there was the prime minister there of new zealand here at the big table with me is rafi obols and he's an expert on terrorism and crisis management with the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin good to see you again you

read the manifesto that the one suspect who's going to be charged allegedly left behind. to explain what was in his mind why he did what can we glean about his beliefs from that manifesto while there is a debate actually ongoing what's the status of this manifesto is i mean it's littered with lots of internet references some irony as well so not everything what's in there is to be taken literally but i think there is no doubt that this manifesto stands for racial racist white supremacist ideology and the title i mean the great replacement really sort of speaks for itself and this is this well known right wing conspiracy theory that worse than european nations are going to be sort of replaced by other races other countries muslims and that's the fear of these extremists half and that's what they want to fight against the idea and this fear the hate that motivated him as we understand tonight part of it came after he paid

a visit to europe and things he saw in europe which allegedly radicalized him what do we know about that well again it's kind of rushed to conclusions because so far we only have his own online postings and no further investigations what he really did who was in contact with what else might have triggered his trajectory to violence but he claims he had made to travel to europe in two thousand and seventeen. going to various places france where he allegedly experienced this kind of multicultural society and found it very alarming and then he also claimed that he was further radicalized by terrorist attacks in stockholm which also happened at the time so it's in a way you know many people are fearing this and we've seen this before but now this is even more in the open this kind of nature. all. say you know jihadist terrorism and writings to terrorism you know almost competing with each other or feeding off each other and these are very similar scenarios says right yes that's a very well you could call it that way i mean they're both sides are aiming for

a polarization of society to destroy the gray zone they both of them want polarization and more civil strife and that's the very able to terrorism and both of these sides or for these camps of hate there has to be a channel of communication and a conduit and today we've heard a lot of criticism about the role of social media not only in these massacres but also in the radicalization of people everywhere i mean what do we know tonight about the role of social media in what happened today again it's a long running debate i mean it's not that people just watch stuff on the internet and pick up a gun and i mean that's at least in the vast majority of cases would research showing that people have other social contacts other personal reasons to turn to more radical ideas but then once they're have embarked on a journey can really help them to accelerate the journey to consolidate their view and really make them take the final step and at least he claims that he's been in touch with other right wing extremists and try to reach out to associates of under

brave if the two thousand and eleven terrorist in norway so so it can be a facilitator or a conduit for this journey to violence and i'm just wondering about the role of these social media platforms and help they should be behaving when we have alleged or suspected terrorism crimes taking place and when you look at what happened today with facebook and youtube and that the video from this crime was a wow it's still out there it can be seen. a couple in some ways well maybe you know both those platforms and the government has in a way of focused far more attention on crawling jihadist propaganda on those platforms and less. this kind of radical thoughts and i think this is going to be something that's to be addressed there is no easy solution there i mean we don't want a complete sense of chef we want free speech but the same time yes there will be

hard questions and i think we will see more regulation for this kind of violence not just bred as far as it could reveal the song of the german institute for international insecurity your fears we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. well world leaders have been extending their sympathies to victims and families here is german chancellor on the american side of the heel of 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 my attack on new zealand's democracy and on an open and tolerant society because we share these values with new zealand . and we share their horror and condemnation of this terrible attack he's a stick to talk well among the reactions from other world leaders is this tweet from french president manuel my chrome he writes all our thoughts are with the

victims of these heinous crimes against the mosques in christ church in new zealand and their loved ones france stands up against all forms of extremism and works with its partners against terrorism across the world pakistan's prime minister imran khan has also been expressing shock. tak this reaffirms what we have always mean. not have a religion prayers go to the victims and their. we know that the gunman lined street the footage of the massacre on facebook why once again drawing attention to how social media can be exploited by terrorists i'm joined you know the big table by didn't use digital reporter i'm sure it's good to see you again so this is this is an explosive topic today because of what has happened with facebook this isn't the first time that facebook life has been

implicated in some type of criminal or terrorist using that platform to broadcast a violent crime why hasn't the company taken more radical action to stop it while facebook already has an agreement. to get to tackle this at uses a mixture of artificial intelligence and some content what arranges to actually identify and take down violent content but the problem with that with today's and didn't was that it was a life stream and today's content monitoring algorithm is just smart enough to actually automatically recognize violence as it happens in their life stories as a human would have had would seem that and reacted and i now agree with them can't or artificial intelligence can see that and recognize it as quickly exactly it needs something it needs a reference to actually like it can actually recognize ok it's violence but

a full. body conscious stop everything that's going online because like it can happen and a movie it can happen and like in a movie trailer and late yes i know that i know that facebook and youtube both they say that they took down the video quickly but what is quickly mean because i know before we went on the air tonight it's still possible to see this video if you search enough on the internet yep it actually has taken out like it actually has taken hours for facebook to actually take this. to take the videos down and but the problem with that is that it was a life stream video and so the users were actually notified about this on another website on another social media site so they were prepared and so when the live stream actually happened so they recorded it and spread it and so after that original video was taken down. the video got

a real again and again facebook on twitter on you tube i mean are we seeing here that this is probably the ultimate. for a terrorist knowing that when she lines stream something once it's up there and someone has recorded it for example or shared it it's on it's perfectly impossible then to stop it from being seen by others right yeah that's what we're hearing that from the social media platforms is that type of honesty being given to the public or are we hearing more talk about artificial intelligence in the promise of algorithms yet while of course there are. artificial intelligence like taking like working on this but as i've said it is pretty much impossible for them to actually take off every kind of content. and so. and actually in this case users were actually able to move content across platforms just much processor than

the platforms themselves can react you know the move in the platforms to react maybe even more humans need to be a part of the equation they are actually as always thank you thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world hundreds of thousands of people enjoyed marches in cities across algeria witnesses say they are the biggest protests yet against long term president abdulaziz despite caving in to the pressure on monday and reversing his decision to stand for a fifth term the president has stopped short of stepping down german media have revealed that the berlin christmas market attack originally planned to detonate a bomb in a busy shopping center here in the berlin capital the mall is closed to early offices twelve people were killed when an armory plowed a truck into the branch site plants market in december of twenty sixteen.

well thousands of children around the globe have been skipping school today to cope with world leaders to do more to combat climate change the student strikes are affecting an estimated one hundred countries they're part of the fridays for future movement which was started by the sixteen year old swedish climate activist gratitude or today is the biggest day yet for greg and for other young activists following her late. creates its own verb started it with a simple bit of activism a student strike today things were still fairly simple for her a march on the swedish parliament as with just about every friday for months now and the simple message of action on climate change young people didn't cause this she says but young people will have to live with the consequences commission we're not going to acceptance and that's why we're striking we strike because we want to future and we will continue. i they want

a future in india as well students took to the streets in delhi i supported it that is the only one who took initiative in sweden and because the thought of you got to know about this just hand me out of supporting her benefits on young people in delhi were joined by some with a few more years experience of breathing delis in from a small older protesters have all but given up on their own generation and are looking to the next for a solution. now to make on forward it's for them their future we have ruined it for them and i have no help from our generation also i mean even if i get the government even if it isn't in italy there were strikes and protests in dozens of cities students left class to hammer home the same messages that great a tune bird first made in her first strike this the biggest day in a global movement that shows no signs of abating. and here in berlin there were plenty of schoolchildren taking part in that climate protest pending and david thoreau accompanied one of them who says that she wants the german government to do

more to safeguard the future for her and her generation. her message protect the environment now sixteen year old nor a mother and thousands of other high school students have come to berlin city center to protest they want germany to do more when it comes to climate change policy. to clean up under. that's as old as the president of the south that climate change must be stopped before it's too late in the day that's going to send out a mass of. green party leaders are watching closely as thousands of students are calling for action and no one has some very concrete ideas when it comes to people's daily lives in connection with protecting the anybody. yes yes yes. thank you just a few in fact so much it's unbelievable that it's cheaper to fly than to take the train oh yeah. no i also finds the government's plan to phase out cool energy to

slow she doesn't agree that climate protection policies lead to unemployment many demonstrators criticize that the last coal plant will be shut down in twenty thirty eight whether it's in berlin or brussels politics has to speed up the exit of coal energy. the fact that some political factions don't like to see students ditching school every friday doesn't matter to know what she believes that teachers and politicians should except actions taken to clean up climate change scares me we have to do something about it before it's too late so missing the last two periods of school just measured that much no one knows how long the young climate activists will continue with their weekly protests but for no i'm all are and her friends one thing is clear if the politicians don't step up their fight against climate change then the students plan to up the pressure another notch. facts stand is one of just

three countries in the world that has yet to be declared polio free no polio is a virus that mainly affects children despite a fresh vaccination drive in the country violence is getting in the way at least seventy health workers have been killed since december two thousand and twelve there are a mixture of mis information and militancy we have this report now and people at the forefront of the. to eradicate the disease. is the woman on a mission her goal to rid kharaj and her country of a potentially deadly infectious disease. on the back of a motorbike shirazi travels from door to door to families to get their children vaccinated against polio. it should be a routine task for a health worker but in pakistan it's dangerous. is this all too well niece and her sister in law were gunned down when they were immunizing

children and twenty ten. when i open my door i saw the dead bodies of my two relatives lying in front of me. they were shot dead. my world was completely ruined at that moment. i can't forget that incident and whenever i recall that moment those wounds are torn open again. this is a. relative when the only ones to suffer the fight dozens of polio workers have been killed since twenty eleven. the reason and suspicion partly caused by the actions of the cia in twenty eleven the agency orchestrated a vaccination program in pakistan to track down al qaeda leader osama bin laden the campaign was much criticized and its still used by militants to fuel anti-vaccination sentiment. has been linked to the. stalled

the it will be linking back to the. group was initially picked up by the pool your team sort out. particular. group which took. some global for foreign intervention and. distrust of vaccines also has other reasons one is the belief that the polio jab can cause infertility in young girls attract back to a claim by in nigeria and fundamentalist doctrine that the world health organization was covertly spreading anti fertility drugs through its vaccines. the united nations and the nigerian government have just missed the allegation but the rumors persist. pakistan's government has recognised that polio workers are in need of protection. police officers are scorching polio workers in the field

and we also have police personnel on call so they can respond quickly in an emergency situation. but police escorts have also come under attack in the past in the current climate there's simply no way to fully guarantee the safety of pakistan's polio workers nevertheless. is determined to carry on. the death of my family members has given me courage. i will continue working until pakistan is polio free. i am a member of this team and i will remain a member in the future as well. she says she won't stop until every child under the age of ten has been immunized. our sports news now in football the draw for the champions league quarter finals took place in switzerland today with

english teams dominating the last eight one of them in chester united was drawn against spanish giants barcelona in arguably the pick of the ties united rivals manchester city played well last year's beaten finals liverpool take on portuguese champions porto the dutch side played it leaves you of interest to the last eight. well the overhaul of germany's national team is making progress team coach want to move now and see the addition of three newcomers to his squad at a press conference in frankfurt the change comes after germany's disappointing twenty teen year right we're going to talk about that now here with our very own public polling so how significant then are these what these additions new blood exactly and you know if you look like you mentioned there was a very disappointing year for the germany squad in twenty eight hundred now if you're looking at the twenty three players who are actually who make up the germany squad now and if we forget of a three goalkeepers because there's been no change is there a little bit just

a little bit later and just nine of the players so nine of nineteen were actually one of twenty three now were actually at the. world cup last year so there's a huge number of changes and eleven of the players within the team didn't play at the world cup at all and like you mentioned three of those have been called off their new gods they're young and one is look us cluster man he's a right back at leipzig and then there is nicholas stock from have to berlin he's in the vendor maximum midfielder from brain so three young guys hungry to play in the national team and this is part of a whole overhaul of the squad by live he says that he needs to change germany style of play he says that he wants to team to be more dynamic to be faster and he felt that younger players were needed to do that sort of bring in this new level of energy and one thing that he's really going to focus on is he wants germany to be dominant again in matches. last week we. will be leaving some big names out of

the squad right that's right and i mean he said that for example big names like drone boat tank mats hummels i'm thomas miller now these are players who were in you know were part of the twenty four thousand champions team for germany and they were not happy at all obviously. to play continue playing well this is it i knew he was saying you know that they were particularly they were very irritated because they said it was quite unexpected and they felt like it was almost like they were forced into an early retirement with miller and humble saying that they actually continued to fight for a place within the team so they are really prepared to give us the role but what's interesting is what. actually had to say in response because it's been a lot of criticism for this and let's hear what he had to say. it would not have been fair to tell the players that have played eighty or ninety or one hundred international games that we would make a decision regarding their future at a later date and tell them that we may invite them to rejoin the squad in july or in september tell them that we'd have to see how the new young players perform. it

would not have been fed to do that to them. i wanted to be honest with the players who've achieved so much we haven't bombed them from the national team much. you know getting old is hard to do they say i mean he's been criticized for cleaning hells if you will but also for leaving some players in the squad yes i mentioned earlier the goalkeepers and i don't want to go into too much detail because it's to go keepers that i want to talk about now manuel neuer of course now he is also the captain and has said that he is going to give him his backing this despite the fact that he's been far from convincing this season to say the least in fact he's been blamed in many respects for liverpool's first goal in their three one win against barnet champions league on wednesday forcing the player of our new nick and it's also surprised a lot of people because you have you know marco who is you know many many people far better goalkeeper at the moment but you also never said that nor knows he has

to deliver performances so for the moment he is our number one so we'll see how they get on against serbia and against that remain our sport's number one. thank you very much baba. there is one thing that berlin loves it's a polar bear or bears in general ever since twenty eleven fans have been pining for a new arrival david cities to your partner showed off the latest content. to his mother tanya back in december now the zoo says the cub who doesn't yet have a name is developing well and will be allowed daily to meet her fans a proud mother and her new baby enjoying the first signs of spring in. these were the first steps outside after more than three months she was born in december last year but only allowed out today. it was also a proud moment for the german capital. she was the first polar bear to be born

in berlin since celebrity pair newt who died prematurely from illness in two thousand and eleven. is growing very very well she's three and a half months old when we first examined her she already weighed eight and a half kilos on tuesday we examined her again but we were unable to weigh her because she wouldn't stay still. in clinton. this susi the cops arrival as a reminder of the challenges our environment is facing if we see this little polar bear as an ambassador for the natural habitat we call the arctic it's an increasing threat from the climate change waste discarded in operations and the movements of people into animals living space to pot beilin say they will unveil the cops name in a few weeks time she will now be allowed out every day and no doubt become the sous news star at traction. you're watching news coming up next eco

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