prize winning documentary song from the forest starts first w. . this is d. w. news live from berlin the death toll in the christ church mosque shootings rises to fifty eight. zero zero and there is more in the victims of the country's worst ever terrorist attacks the government promises police protection from mosques and tougher gun laws the residents of christ church struggled to come

to terms with what has happened in their city also coming up the philippines turns its back on the international criminal court today the country will become just the second in history to withdraw from the world's only permanent war crimes tribunal it's quitting over the court's investigation into president bribery go to tear to his war on drugs a crusade that left thousands of people dead and drawn international condemnation. thanks for joining us i'm married and stayed. third death toll in new zealand's mosque attack has risen to fifty authorities have begun returning the victims' bodies to their families for burial members of the christ church community are turning out to pay their respects in many different ways at a makeshift memorial outside of one of the mosques a biker group performed a haka

a traditional dance to honor the victims prime minister just send joined those leaving flowers close to the scene she's reiterated to muslim community leaders that their mosques will receive police protection. new zealanders are still trying to come to terms with the country's worst ever mass shooting our correspondent in christ church spoke to some of the people mourning. tributes around the city are piling ever higher as grief sets in new zealanders are finding ways to express their sorrow over a massacre in their muslim community. police are sweeping the area around the mosque as a team of officers elsewhere work to identify the victims. for now it's still a crime scene. but police are picking up flowers to take closer to al-noor mosque

where dozens of people were slaughtered during their friday prayers. on the other side of the park christians have gathered to pray for their muslim neighbors. one woman has brought an art project meant to show the bond between all faiths. so this is an works that i did such a day for some petrik stay and i wanted to. make something for the whole community to acknowledge is sadness and sorrow. and it feeling of. connection with the muslim community. this man has found another way to show his support had quite a few people come and have coffees and hugs it's been nice i guess it's nice to see

people just showing up in showing their support and solidarity. which is i think what new zealand is all about being welcoming and loving and peaceful people the support for the victims is overwhelming most here are satisfied with the government's response to the murders but they want to know how the suspect slips through the cracks they say more needs to be done to address racism and to combat far right radicalization the way we can help people who already feel like that but we can at least try and stop the younger ones from work occasionally us if we can. the message here is clear that hate has no place in new zealand. well earlier we spoke to correspondent clare richardson who filed that report from christ church and we asked her what new zealand prime minister just into our john has been doing to support victims' relatives and her. reassure the country's muslim community she

was here in christ church meeting of both the victims and leading members of the muslim community she then went on to the capital wellington where she has been to meeting muslims there as well and she is doing everything she can to put this community's mind at ease firstly she has offered continuing police protection for their mosques so that they can continue to pray at their places of worship without fear i she has also made clear that these individuals affected are eligible for a ten thousand dollars grant to cover the cost of funerals and said that immigration status will not be a factor in whether or not people can receive them she said there will be additional funding to help these people it down the road available as well now the one thing that many people in the muslim community are very upset about here is the question of what to do with their dad in the muslim faith it's very important that bodies are buried as quickly as possible but certainly within twenty four hours and obviously that mark has long passed so

a lot of people are particularly distressed over this issue. that was our correspondent claire richardson well the killings and christ church are again drawing attention to the role of social media in the spreading of hatred the suspect live streamed his attack on facebook the company remove the video shortly after the attack but not before it had been downloaded and shared by others well this morning facebook revealed the scale of the videos reach writing on twitter that in the first twenty four hours it had removed one point five million videos of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked at upload the companies said it's removing all edited versions of the video as well. reported hanks finally is here in the studio with me to talk about all of this hi to you hanks one so. this is really likely that facebook is going to be able to remove every single copy of this video is that even possible i would say it is not

impossible but it will be really really difficult because right now it uses an internal database of blocked videos and the content to turing system could then detach and automatically remove the video once it gets uploaded again now the problem with this system is it's flawed it's not smart enough so once a user check make some changes to the videos that say by adding a watch a mark then. the system won't be able to detect it again so it will be it needs to be flagged automatically sorry manually again and so it's going to be really difficult to completely wipe off the video from facebook but it's not impossible really makes a sound that people can just endlessly alter it and reposed it and alter it and reposed it i mean anyway well the prime minister of new zealand just sent our she says she wants answers from social media giants over the live streaming of the

attack we have a clip of what she said a short while ago let's have a listen. i've had some context. i haven't spoken to her directly but she has reached out. and acknowledgement of what has occurred here in new zealand and this is an issue that i will look to be discussing directly with facebook. all right so the prime minister of new zealand wants to discuss this with facebook one tell us what could facebook actually do technically to block live streaming of horrible events like an attack like this at the moment basically nothing because as i've said the content monitoring algorithm is just not smart enough to actually detect to detect violence when it happens in the life stream so it needs. beings to actually monitor that and to flag that

video sorry to flick that life stream and so it's going to be really difficult and once the video has been flagged it would have been too late and then what companies would have been made in and that's too late it's all right so it sounds like what you're saying it's a losing battle like there's really not much anybody can do to stop videos like this being publicized or shared. do you think though that these social media giants have their own responsibility then to be more proactive in perhaps stopping the hate to the fuels videos like this i mean that's a big it's a big debate like on one hand you can say that well it's the social media sites responsibility. but on the other hand you can also say too much control on social media could be an infringement of our freedoms and we should just be able to say what we want on the internet right but the system like what happened in church christ church just like it clearly shows that social media sites and needs to put

more control. get and it's a big debate really well right social media expert hank friendly we appreciate all your thoughts on this. all right let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the world in the occupied west bank a man believed to be a palestinian has shot and killed an israeli and booted two others one of them critically the sale and reportedly grabbed a gun from a soldier at a highway junction near the settlement of arielle israel's military says troops are still searching for the gunmen. venezuelan opposition leader won by doe has them barked in a new stage of his campaign to oust president nicolas maduro is beginning a tour of the country gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo he promised to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. now until today only

one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court and now the philippines will make it to the country's president rodrigo to territory announced plans to pull out a year ago after the court launch preliminary investigations against him for crimes against humanity the alleged offenses include thousands of extrajudicial killings as part of the war on drugs that he launched after taking office in two thousand and sixteen despite the charges the brutal campaign against drug dealers and users shows no sign of abating. another family torn apart. mary jane can't understand why salvador had to die. shot in the head before the eyes of their four year old daughter. they found drugs on him but if that was the reason for his murder.

it's likely she'll never find out. the grim reality in a country where extrajudicial killings are encouraged by the president it's been almost three years since president would be going to terror to started his relentless war on drugs officially some five thousand people have been killed but human rights saying that number could be as high as twenty thousand and typically it's poor communities like this one that's all for the most. remote part of the our lives in one of those communities she remembers august thirty first two thousand and sixteen as if it were yesterday it's the day her son was murdered for being a drug suspect. and not a day has passed since when she didn't think of them. really makes me sad it was not with my son when he died i. was there

when they killed him. just like visit me in my dreams. i want to know what happened to. what you had to suffer. as with the vast majority of drug related extrajudicial killings no one has been held accountable for her son's murder but once justice. that's why she joined dries up a church organized volunteer group assisting the victims of the drug war together they filed a suit with the international criminal court i c c against president to tear to himself for crimes against humanity. since the philippines have withdrawn from the i.c.c. to terror to claims the court has no jurisdiction over him his administration will not cooperate with any investigation. human rights advocates are calling this a test case for the i.c.c.

is relevant. we cannot allow. perpetrators together we with. serious violations simply by the stroke of a pen we have a very strong. example of international justice by ensuring that this mother is fully investigated any. indictments should follow. that's also what hopes for she wants to take his henchmen to pay for her son's murder. whenever she can muster the strength she likes a candle where he was killed. here it's like he is here beside me i feel that the candle speaks to me sometimes the flame is sometimes it's restless i almost feel his presence whenever i come here. at this night falls in the philippines the killing continues. but other

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