this is d.w. news line from berlin bonfires of violent clashes and looting in the streets of paris as the elbows protesters and 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 affected gunman appears in court and is charged with

murder. and a day after the west imposes additional sanctions on russia the country is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the controversial annexation of crimea. welcome to the program i'm marion evans dean in paris police have again been firing tear gas and water cannons as yellow as protesters ignite fires and ransacked shops for 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 demonstrators accuse president of mental model of forgetting ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead. for 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 his 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 so obvious consultation process that's in the new america two months ago came to an end yesterday where 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 may have meant well and i think oh the all of us movements now wants action and i think the reason why there was this this. extra level of

violence today was because the demonstrators were trying to send a message to map are they saying that we've been talking for the last two months we've come up with this or we should really list of demands a very very long list of demands now you know what we want not want to see you acting on those things. well as we know these protests for a launch to back in november of last year are they the same people though now who are demonstrating are they the same people as those who began the movement. i think we could distinguish many different groups very different currents in their best demonstrations i like to draw your attention to the true really i think if you're looking at the violence today looking at the shots who should decide which were attacked and. quite famous brands such as mispresent entire john and hugo boss. you also see even back its hands and settlements set on fire

eleven people injured there who had documented by the fire. baby and also the food at the very famous cafe i'm sure losing there is a symbol of the political and the business elites in front of this these these places were attacked by these black bloc. militants and says a small group of highly organized extreme left activists dressed in black to cover their faces and in this cross the military way really going to be so best to demonstrations these people have. left a revolution and i don't think they represent the yellow vests they want their tool the beginning of the universe movements are right. ok john laurenson reporting from paris thank you. 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 tear and was remanded without a plea until his next court appearance which is scheduled for april fifth new zealand's prime minister just send our journey has promised the country is 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 more dozens 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 rights to play being used to hang out

there with my friends and stuff so seeing that something like this is how it was to them there were you know we we saw islamophobia and racism and xenophobia is something just something to happen to me or happening but it's here and it is dangerous visit 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 what its intent is the interview yesterday to be. more spit on the focus in on the one community and the season on the easier to get it down to the bone 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 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 we're here. i'm currently for a muslim community with better roads right here but we want to. show that we support them this is a city with people saying to you that we will be in three places to give like this just i'm just sort of from the city that i know today christ church is in mourning and doubling down on its values as a multicultural society. well one horrifying aspect of the new zealand attack was

that it was live streamed on facebook before the rampage the main suspect posted a manifesto on a website known for extremist and violent views he then filmed his attack using a helmet mounted camera and streamed to the footage online giving it a video game like aesthetic many users then copied and posted various versions of a seventeen minute long video on twitter and you tube social media platforms later struggles to keep the stop the video of the attack from being shared further. the w. digital reporter hanks and lee is here in the studio for more on this so good to see you now and we do know that these social media platforms eventually managed to take down this very disturbing video but it took a while didn't get why is that yes it actually took them a whole day to take the video down because it is very difficult for today's content

monitoring algorithms to automatically recognize violence in a life stream when it happens and it just can't delete it immediately because they are smart because they are smart enough now facebook uses a mixture of artificial intelligence and human contemn water reaches to identify it and take down violent content but that only works if it's a video file and in the case of life stream it's still kind of relies on other uses on the platform to flag the live videos with falling content but by the time that the videos from flight it would have been too late it would have been copied and we uploaded it again and again just like the case of the crisis of the christchurch attack yesterday and also the constant want to sue florida let's say a douceur take video a and put a watermark on it and upload it as video be that the algorithm will struggle to actually detect the videos of the say so that makes taking down videos really difficult ok so it's difficult to do this but yet shouldn't facebook and other

social media platforms actually be responsible for the content that's on their platforms yeah it's a big debate but since we don't have enough time to talk about this i just like the points well a lot of uses such social media said that facebook should put tougher controls on this because it's their platform and facebook should be subjected to regulations that applies to broadcasting companies because like the us is when they come like they can live stream the like broadcasters where they're using it as a source of news now. yeah yeah but then there are also all the people that say that facebook is just a platform and it shouldn't get people's content before it goes up and so there are also laws in place so governments should enforce these laws and not facebook so vetting of content and also it will be an infringement of the freedom of speech and

it's also a kind of censorship so that's like really a big debate there but anyway it reveals that social media sites yesterday weren't capable to react quickly to that incident and some say that the company should invest more into developing and improving these. digital reporter hands friendly many thanks indeed thanks maria. let's get you up to speed now on 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 candidates gets an absolute majority of the two top and tenders will enter a runoff vote later this month polls suggest a strong lead for a pro western a liberal activist who is on the chopping tova she could become slovakia's first female head of state. iraqi authorities and u.n. investigators have started to examine hundreds of bodies of us deedee family from a mass grave near the northwestern village of course show many of the deceased were

killed by the so-called islamic state in twenty fourteen nobel peace prize winner nadia raj who's an activist drawing international attention to the unseating speight was among those witnessing the opening of the mass grave. more than two thousand people in malaysia have fallen ill after toxic waste was dumped into the kim kim river in the city of johor the forties order the closure of more than one hundred schools due to danger is toxic fumes many of those affected are children three men have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping. now russia is marking the fifth anniversary of its controversial annexation of ukraine's crimean peninsula most countries do not accept russia's move dismissing it as a violation of international law but russia has planned a whole program of events to commemorate the occasion it celebrating what organizers call crimea's reunification with russia back in twenty fourteen in

moscow be event is being marked with a three day festival called the crimean spring. our next report takes us through the events leading up to the annexation. march sixteenth twenty fourteen tens of thousands celebrate in crimea. peninsula had voted to become part of russia the man who is today crimea as prime minister congratulated the crown. told the way we are going home a phrase repeated over and over on this day this time backed up by the russian national anthem. the previous month had seen violent protests in ukraine's capital kiev the demonstrators wanted to rid. use russian influence the protest drove the country's pro russian president from power moscow responded by sending its forces into ukraine's crimean peninsula which has an historical link with russia soon the referendum was called but the result was

clear from the start efficient tally showed over ninety percent voted in favor of leaving ukraine yet the idea of russian role was especially bitter for the indigenous crimean tatars who are traditionally muslim in the one nine hundred forty seven leader joseph stalin deported over two hundred thousand tartars to central asia tens of thousands died. but in one nine hundred fifty four stalin success in akita khrushchev gave crimea to ukraine as a gift but when the soviet union collapsed crimea was suddenly in a separate country. sixty years later russian president vladimir putin saw himself as the man to take back that gift on march eighteenth twenty fourteen he welcomed crimea's leaders to moscow that the two sides signed an agreement making crimea part of russia or again for moscow a cause for celebration for the ukrainian government and the international

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