on d.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin the death toll in the christ church mosque shooting just fifty. new zealand is in mourning after a deadly attack on the mosques this is affected gunman appears in court and is charged with murder. bonfires of violent clashes and looting in the streets of paris as if you live 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 a day after the west imposes additional sanctions on russia the country is marking

the fifth anniversary of the controversial an expansion of crimea. thanks for joining us. l. last few minutes new zealand police have revised the number of people killed in a friday's shooting upwards to fifty they say two people arrested as part of the police dragnet during the killings were not suspects new zealand police commissioner mike bush said at the moment only one person has been charged in relation to the attacks morning thank you for gathering again. i think you know who i am but i did want to with your help the public as to where the operation and the investigation is that the first thing i want to say is that it is with sadness that i advise that the number of people who have died in this pool

full of it has now risen to fifty. as of last night we were able to take all of the victims from both of those scenes and in doing so we have located i fear the victim so that brings the number of those who have died to fifty. i also want to say that the number of injured is also fifty thirty six of those remind and christchurch hospital with. being treated with the utmost care and professionalism by medical staff to do remain critical and we also have one child being well looked after it's stash of hospital and cross church earlier the man suspected of carrying out the mass shootings in christchurch appeared in court brenton terence was charged with murder

the act of terror is new zealand's worst ever peacetime mass killing. 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're hundred the same in

support of 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 into a durned said the victims came from across the muslim world including indonesia jordan syria and pakistan. our show of solidarity is just not you're hearing. new zealand is a place that we cherish. for its inclusiveness forty diversity. and i would consider it more recent mission as prime minister it just seemed that at a press conference our daryn said the perpetrator had a gun license he had semiautomatic rifles and shotguns undoubtedly new zealanders will question how someone could have come to have been in position of weakens of this nature. one of the issues we fry singh is that. the guns that were used in this case of peace who are being modified date is

a challenge that police have been facing and that's a challenge that we will look to address in china was a short distance from the court that saw the shooter remanded in custody the hospital where dozens of people were being treated for the gunshot wounds he inflicted among them a four year old girl in critical condition. for more now let's cross over to clare richardson who is in christ church claire prime minister and has met with some members of the muslim community did that do much to reassure them. that's right she met with some muslim leaders here yesterday afternoon in christ church to assure them that there would be continued a police presence at mosques around the country and indeed we just heard the police commissioner confirm that that will be the case they have a lifted their previous order that mosques remain closed as we heard they have also increased the death toll to fifty people we still have several in critical

condition so that could rise again and it includes people ranging all the way from as young as toddlers up to people over the age of sixty something else that we have learned today is also that two of the suspects in custody have been released they now believe that the one australian suspect is the man responsible for both of the attacks at both mosques and he appeared in court yesterday and will be held there until we next see him on trial on april fifth. you've got your finger on the polls as regards the public mood there do you think this information is likely to reassure people and to any extent the mood here really has been a one of grief more than a finger pointing or revenge i was certainly people are happy to know that somebody is in custody but you would you could say the mood here is very much one that is meant to reassure the muslim community that new zealand stands behind them and that their values are ones that welcome multiculturalism and immigration you can see

makeshift memorials all around the city where people have left teddy bears balloons and notes saying that something like this should not have happened in new zealand in a place with freedom of religion and that they hope to bring the community together during these difficult days difficult days ahead indeed and just looking even further down the road the prime minister was talking about tightening gun laws do you think given the state of the nation with the way people are feeling will be a lot of support for moves like the. well we have heard from the police association that they would like to see her act quickly to avoid any influence from people like the gun lobby in passing tighter gun laws and i think people here are really outraged to find out that the man who is suspected of carrying out these massacres legally possessed five weapons including two semiautomatic guns after he acquired a license and twenty seventeen so with that in mind although new zealand has not

such tight gun regulations as many other countries in the western world people are now asking how could this have happened how did a man like this have access to such weapons and i think you're going to see increased support for any policy from the prime minister to tighten gun control. many many questions to answer i'm sure in the days ahead clear richardson intro's troops thank you for that. in paris police have again been firing tear gas and deploying water cannon as yellow vests protesters ignite fires and ransacked shops there the most violent street protests. december demonstrators accuse president. for getting ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead. of the protester numbers had been dwindling in recent weeks but saturday 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 calls as much as early of the now so this can continue we need to merge we need everyone to wake up we need to stop expecting the riot police people to. well i don't know. but despite starting out peacefully the latest paris demonstration also saw a return to some of the violence and destruction of earlier protests. police have arrested hundreds of people in the capital city alone. luxury shops were attacked and looted and buildings were set on fire. the country's interior minister. accused the vandals in a tweet of being me the demonstrators no troublemakers but rather murderous he also said he thought the movement was dead. what we can see the very violent people there and they are responding to the battlecross of certain leaders who have no really words today they want to see this movement lost through violence.

protesters reject this and say they simply want greater justice and income equality . and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. slovaks went to the polls to elect a new president today almost four and a half million people were 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 as. she could be comes from back his first female head of state. thousands of people have taken to the streets across germany to protest against racism and right wing political parties demonstrators rallied under the banner march against racial racism in the capital berlin and other cities the protests were part of the international week against racism. iraqi authorities and u.n. investigators have started to examine the bodies of hundreds of members of the

families buried in a mass grave near the northwestern village of cultural many of the dead were killed by the so-called islamic state twenty fourteen nobel peace prize winner. and activist drawing attention to the use it is fate was among those who witness the opening of the mass grave. russia is marking the fifth anniversary of its controversial atic station 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's 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 this through the events leading up to the annexation. march sixteenth twenty fourteen tens of

thousands celebrate in crimea. has been insular had voted to become positive russia the man who is today crimea's prime minister congratulated the crown's. we're going home a phrase repeated over and over on this day this time but under russian national and i. the previous month it seemed violent protests in ukraine's capital kiev the demonstrators wanted to reduce russian influence the protest of the country's pro russian president from power responded by sending its forces into ukraine's crimean peninsula which has an historic link with russia soon the referendum was cool but the result was clear from the start the official tally showed over ninety percent voted in favor of leaving ukraine. yet the idea of russian rule 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. but in one nine hundred fifty four stalin successor nikita 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 are again for must go because the senate gratian for the ukrainian government and the international community an illegal act. five years to the day since the referendum which paved the way for russia's takeover of crimea and the authorities here won't let you forget about it the celebrations are everywhere but this is a referendum which the west and even many of russia's closest allies still refuse

to recognize. to the kremlin this anniversary is about more than crimea and its two and a half million inhabitants crimea has become a symbol of russia's place in the world its standoff with the west and present. soccer now and time to take a look at the bonus league a result so far this weekend dortmund won a thriller against her to berlin shock lost their first game under new coach stephens stood guard of hoffenheim share the spoils beat had over put five goals past dusseldorf on friday night drew with freiburg on sunday leverkusen battle braman frankfurt face nuremberg and buyer nick needs bites. don't forget you can get the news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use that to

send us photos and videos. you are watching news live from berlin coming up next is shift it takes a look at how autonomous vehicles work you can also get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that's dot com on the express or thanks for watching. the colby's in germany to learn german. why not learn with him. you learning course speak.