this is d.w. news live from berlin bonfires of violent clashes and looting in the streets of paris as yellow as protesters demand change in the french capital it's a crucial moment for the protests which have now taken place for eighteen consecutive weekends also coming up. new zealand in mourning after a deadly attack on two mosques as christ church remembers the forty nine victims of friday's massacre this is specter the gunman appears in court and is charged with

murder. and the german capital shows off its newest fluffy celebrity three month old baby polar bear sniff some fresh air for the first time to make her debut on the public stage at the berlin tear park as do. i marry in evanston it's good to have you with us in paris police have again been firing tear gas and water cannon as yellow as protesters ignite fires and ransacked shops there the most violent street clashes in paris since december of last year this is now the fourth month of demonstrations by a loose coalition of activists unions and citizens the demonstrators accuse president a monologue of forgetting ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead . at the very latest from paris we're joined now by journalist john laurenson

so john why has there been this sudden upsurge of violence today haven't the yell of us protest actually been losing momentum they had over recent weeks and suddenly today there's been this sudden upsurge of violence as you mentioned i think the reason is that a lot of consultation process that's in the new america two months ago came to india yesterday and he launched this so-called great national debate where you try to find out what the universe lupin's in particular and the french people in general want. so my crown has been showing people that he cares about their concerns he's also made some concessions why is this not enough for the yellow vest movement well and i think the universe movements now wants action and i think the reason why there was this dismissed extra level of violence

today was because the demonstrators were trying to send a message to macro saying that we've been talking for the last two months we've come up with the so we should be listed in tomorrow's very very long list of demands now you know what we want not want to see you go to congress things. well as we know these protests for launched back in november of last year are they the same people though now who are demonstrating are the same people as those who began the movement. i think we could distinguish many different groups very different currents in the area in the best demonstrations i like to draw your attention to the truth really i think if you're looking at the finest today looking at the shots who should decide which were attacks and. quite famous

brands such as this press over in charge aman and hugo boss. you also see the back its hands and sets on the set on fire eleven people injured there who had to evacuate it by the fire. baby and also the food at the very famous cafe on the shores of the city there was a symbol of the political and the business elites in the front these these places were attacked by these black bloc. militants and says a small group of highly organized extreme left activists and dressed in black to cover their faces in this cross the military way really going to get a vest demonstrations these people have. been left out of revolution and i don't think they represent the yellow vests they want their tool the beginning of the universe movements are right in november ok john laurenson reporting from paris

thank you. now less than twenty four hours after the mass shootings at two mosques in new zealand the suspected gunman has appeared in court and has been charged with murder the twenty eight year old australian man brenton terence was remanded without a plea until his next court appearance which is scheduled for april fifth new zealand's prime minister just into our turn has promised that the country's gun laws will change in light of the attack she's been reassuring muslim community leaders in christ church meeting personally with them the attack left forty nine people dead and many dozens more injured. it's new zealand's worst ever peacetime mass killing and the community of christ church is still struggling to process the events. they were supposed to be safe in a country that prides itself on being welcoming and inclusive but the massacres at two of their places of worship have stunned the people of christchurch it really

hit home because i used to go to that mosque i used to play being used to hang out there with my friends and stuff so seeing that something like this is happening and it was to them here where you know we we saw islamophobia and racism and xenophobia is something just something to happen in america happening but it's here and it is dangerous this center is providing information and psychological support to friends and relatives who still don't know the fate of their loved ones. is one of those awaiting news she says the attacks will change new zealand forever. i think which in turn is the key to getting to be. more spit on the focus in on the one community and this is not the easy. to get it down a little the authorities here are still on high alert this is one of the two mosques where dozens were murdered as they met to pray on friday afternoon.

as you can see the area has been heavily cordoned off and authorities have warned other mosques to keep their doors closed as investigations are under way but you can also see from the number of people here how deeply this is upset the local community in a city that is usually a quiet and peaceful place i spoke to people who told me they cried all night unable to believe that something like of this could happen in new zealand. but a police warning for people to stay inside couldn't keep these residents of christ church from paying their respects to the muslim victims at a makeshift memorial. concert will hear you. probably from the muslim community with better roads i think about we want to. show that we support them this is a city where people you know we've been through pranks to give like this just i just feel sort of from the city that i know today christ church is in mourning and

doubling down on its values as a multicultural society. let's get the latest now from new zealand and for that we're joined by journalist peter mckenzie who's in the capital wellington hello to you peter so it's an unspeakably horrific attack how is the country coping a day later. the only reaction. to the station. or really struggling to understand what this means for a country to really understand the nature of the events that just yesterday as it's a really troubling part of the country well in specially in light of the fact that new zealand is known as a very peaceful place a very open place it's also quite small just five million people live in new zealand just how widespread is racism in the country. well you're totally right this is a smaller peace loving country and that's the reason why we were targeted.

explicitly stated that he wanted to make a bigger stash splash by targeting a country that has a strong record of of safety and peace with us and that's what makes that all the more despicable the attack really shows that our vision of ourselves as a peace loving country has really obscured growing islamophobia and pockets of new zealand and that's really come out in the schools surrounding the of him is being commentary from our race relations commission discussing just the deeply ingrained islamophobia that people of muslim people who are muslim have to suffer on a daily basis here in new zealand and that's something that you don't is really going to have to confront over the coming days and wait. well it said that the high number of casualties was a result of the type of weapons that were used in this attack and now the prime minister of new zealand says she's looking at actually tightening gun control laws

what needs to happen. well the last time i got a loss was significantly straight when was. the last major mass shooting in new zealand which was nine hundred ninety one what i'm asking since the hoffa machine lot of changes our gun laws are very stated so at the moment we don't have a registry of all the different far as that exists new zealand making it really quite difficult to track those. who owns washington we also allow the position of some simular americans which with some small modifications would be turned into the kinds of weapons that the shooter used in that horrific massacre so those are the two kind of main issues that look like room table for gov woman coming weeks the prime minister a signal that she's keen to look into this issue senior policymakers have expressed a lot of eagerness and the police minister has a record of engaging in this issue and pushing to go forward so it really looks like. journalists peter mckenzie talking to us from new zealand capital

wellington thanks for your reporting well now to some of the other stories making news around the world slovaks are electing a new president today almost four and a half million people are eligible to vote if none of the thirteen canvas gets an absolute majority the top two contenders will enter a runoff vote later this month polls suggest a strong lead for a pro western liberal activist. if she could become slovakia's first female head of state. iraqi authorities and u.n. investigators have started to examine hundreds of bodies of years these families from a mass grave near the northwestern village of concho many of the deceased were killed by the so-called islamic state in twenty fourteen nobel peace prize winner nadia more on to as an activist drawing international attention to the years even as fate was among those witnessing the opening of the mass graves. more than two thousand

people in malaysia have fallen ill after toxic waste was dumped into the kim kim river in the city of joy who are authorities ordered the closure of more than one hundred schools due to dangerous toxic fumes many of those affected are children and three men have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping. now if there is one thing berlin loves its polar bears ever since polar bear canoe to live in berlin's main zoo died in twenty eleven fans have been pining for a replacement that friday the city's tear park zoo showed off a cub born to its mother tanya in december the zoo's says the company doesn't yet have a name is growing well and will be on show regularly to meet her new friends beginning next week. a proud mother and her new baby enjoying the first signs of spring in bloom. these were the first steps outside after more than

three months she was born in december last year but only allowed to be. it was also a proud moment for the german capital. she's the third bad to be born in berlin since the liberty newt he and two others died from illness disease and because this. 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 corpse of arrival as a reminder of the challenges our environment is facing if we see this little polar bear is an ambassador for the natural habitat we call the arctic he said the increasing threat from climate change waste discarded in operations on the

movements of people into animals living space to park bilin 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 seuss new star attraction. all right some soccer news now and time to take a look at the bundesliga results so far this weekend shaka lost their first game under new coach stevens said guarded hoffenheim share the spoils outspoken it had over four point five goals dorf on friday night club drew with freiburg kicking off soon how to berlin take on dortmund and on sunday leverkusen battle braman frankfurt face nurnberg and byron munich need minds. motor sports now in formula one defending champion lewis hamilton has claimed pole position for the season opening australian grand prix hamilton set a new lap record at the melbourne circuit edging out teammate military botha's with

a dramatic late run the mercedes pair were well ahead of ferrari's a busted federal who could only manage third on the grid because hamilton six consecutive pole position in melbourne. they're up to date now on d w news omarion evans teen for me and the entire team thanks for watching. my first boss i also sewing machine. where i come from women are bound by the social rules even something as simple as learning how to write a by side that isn't. since i was a little girl i've wanted to have a bicycle of my own but it took me years to. finally gave up and went from buying young guys like this but returns because so we machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for girls.