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

the country is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the controversial onix station of crimea. i'm max foster thanks for joining us the man suspected of carrying out mass shootings at two mosques in new zealand brenton terrance has appeared in court and been charged with murder new zealand's prime minister just into arder and has a promise to tighten the country's gun laws in light of the attack that killed forty nine people and injured dozens more the act of terror is new zealand's worst ever peacetime mass killing and the community of christ church is struggling to process the events. a nation reeling a community paralyzed by shock. at christ church as botanic gardens

serves as the official site of morning city residents have been coming here to pay their respects with flowers messages and prayers. disbelief in anguish two at a roadside memorial outside one of the mosques targeted by the shooter residents outspoken in their rejection of hate. i think everyone in the community is absolutely hundred percent in support of. the muslim community and. muslim families that have lost loved ones and we just we just want to say that we have an i pod or that we don't believe what this guy believes and we are hard at the same in support if you. support echoed by the country's prime minister who arrived in the city to meet with survivors victims' families and muslim community leaders just in the adjourn said the victims came from across the muslim world including indonesia jordan syria and pakistan. our show of solidarity is just not your

here in. new zealand is a crisis that we cherish. for its inclusiveness forty start to city. and are more considerate more recent mission as prime minister it just seemed that at a press conference our durance said the perpetrator had a gun license he semiautomatic rifles and shotguns undoubtedly new zealanders were question how someone could have come to have been in position we pins of this night shot. one of the issues we facing is that. the guns that were used in the skies of peace who have been modified to date is a challenge that police have been fighting in that's a challenge that we will look to address in changing our law was a short distance from the court that saw the shooter remanded in custody the hospital where thirty nine people are being treated for gunshot wounds he inflicted

among them a four year old girl in critical condition. for more now let's cross over to the richardson who is in christchurch at the town of gardens where people have organized a makeshift memorial at their prime minister just into art. has met with some members of the muslim community how much is that doing to reassure them. that's right the prime minister was in christ church yesterday afternoon to meet with both muslim leaders and some of the victims of the attack i saw her at a center that they have to set up to offer both information to families about their loved ones and also to give psychological support to these people now as she was flanked by her foreign minister and the opposition leader to show a united front at this time of tragedy and we understand that she has promised increased police protection for muslim communities in christ church and also said that the government scheme that will be paying to help support the families who lost their breadwinners will also be helping cover the cost of funerals for the

victims. the prime minister is also promising to tighten new zealand's gun laws is it safe to assume that no there'll be a lot of support for such a measure. that's right she came out right away with a promise saying that new zealand would get a tighter gun laws that has been in georgia today by the police association they've said it's essential to act quickly to instate any sort of legislation here unless the gone the gun lobby get involved in a way that it has like in the united states now at new zealand compared to the us has tighter gun control laws but compared to the rest of the western world actually fairly lax laws and after the events. after the massacre is at the two mosques there is a lot more public support here to tighten those laws particularly after it became known that the gunman was legally in possession of five firearms including two semiautomatic weapons it's. here that the police but also some members of the

public intervened quite quickly during the events can you tell us a bit more about that. that's right there is one man whose being in particular hailed as a hero a middle aged man from pakistan sadly he and his son were at the mosque and were killed in the attack one of the six things about this attack was that the alleged shooter actually live streamed what was going on in the moment and in that footage you can see a man at the mosque what appears to try to disarm the man to save other worshippers from his own fate and he's being widely hailed as a hero for that action. by rejecting christ church thank you for that. and 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 candidates gets an absolute majority the top two contenders will enter a runoff vote later this month polls suggest a strong lead for the pro western liberal activist susanna shepherd told us she could become slovakia's first female head of state. iraqi authorities and u.n. investigators have started to examine the bodies of hundreds of members of the families buried in a mass grave in the northwestern village of. many of the dead were killed by the so-called islamic state in twenty fourteen nobel peace prize winner and activist drawing international attention to the disease fate was among those who witnessed the opening of the mass graves. more than two thousand people in malaysia have fallen ill after talks of waste was dumped into the kim kim river in the city of joy for authorities ordered the closure of more than one hundred schools due to

dangerous talks accused many of those affected were children three men have been arrested in connection with the illegal dump. in paris police have again been firing tear gas and deploying water cannon as yellow vests protesters ignited fires and ransacked shops there the most violent street clashes in paris since december the demonstrators accused president call for getting ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead. of the protester numbers had been playing in recent weeks but saturday i saw many more of the so-called yellow vests joining rallies in several cities across france in paris protesters called for unity. i think this should have been a convergence of causes much of the now so this can continue we need to merge we need everyone to wake up we need to stop it sacking the riot police people to.

what i don't want. but despite starting out peacefully the latest our statements direction also saw a return to some of the violence and destruction of only a protests. police arrested more than one hundred people in the capital alone. luxury shops were attacked and looted and buildings were set on fire. the country's interior minister could have cost on a accuse the vandals in a tweet of being need to demonstrate is no trouble maker is but rather murderous he also said he thought the movement was dead. we can see the very violent people there and they are responding to the battle cries of certain leaders who have no really long words today they want to see this movement lost through violence. protesters reject this and say they simply want greater fiscal justice and income equality. and to shed a little more light on the situation i'm joined now by journalist john laurenson in

paris john can you tell us why has there been a sudden upsurge of violence today haven't the yellow vest protest and losing momentum. two months ago when your micro launched a great consultation exercise a great national debate called it that consultation exercise came to an end yesterday and over that period there would be no the big debate between us went across the country and they've come up with a great list of demands from the universe and so i think today that these demonstrations were saying you see what we want now give it to us. and it's in a position to be able to do that i mean we gave some money out at the beginning of the protest what what what's next for macaulay all of us protesters and that's a good question because this list is so long and it is so graphic i'm just taking a few to

a few of those demands randomly for example they're talking about some hike to the minimum wage ok that might be x. might be too might be expected but then they're also talking about a cap to the maximum wage so you know if you have been given to earn more than fifty thousand euros a month. in france if you're a best to get away well some other areas if they're interested in for example they want to get sure effective expulsion of migrants whose asylum applications are being turned down and they want eradication of the problem of brush sleeping in paris all kinds of things that matter is being asked to do and so can he do all of that well probably not in any case that the pressure is on there from the streets to him sooner so that now that the consultation process is finished and sounds like quite larger that can't can you just coming back to the protesters themselves who are they and how they changed over the past weeks. yes

they hatch we in the media tend to focus. on the drama we tend to focus on the violence i think if you look at the people who've been carrying out these attacks today i think that we're. talking about the so-called black blocs i.e. extreme left radicals who have a resolution really marxist agenda and so these people are the people who began the invest movement back in november who were people who we've never seen really in demonstrations before you know. building businesses people who are sick of being sort of the eventually the cause to be built of the french tax and so there are different words in this movement ok thank you so much john larson john laurenson reporting from paris. 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 is celebrating what organizers call crimea's reunification with russia back in twenty fourteen in moscow the 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. have been insular had voted to become part of russia the man who is today crimea as prime minister congratulated the crowds don't know if 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 reduce russian influence the protests drove the country's pro russian president from power at 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 soviet leader joseph stalin deported over two hundred thousand tartars to central asia tens of thousands died. but in one nine hundred fifty full stunning success a nikita khrushchev gave crimea to ukraine as a gift but when the soviet union collapsed crimea was suddenly in a separate country. you're watching the news live from berlin coming up next is

a documentary called the baltic path europe's model citizens get all the latest news information around the clock on our website as you know dot com on the spicer thanks so much for tuning in. first. or first economy was booming as grand a moment arrives. joining a regular jane on her journey back to freedom. in our interactive documentary. returns home on the d w don't come in tanks.