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about recipes for success or strategies that make a difference. baking bread. on g.w. . plate plate. this is t w news live from berlin the death toll in the christ church mosque shootings rises to fifty barclay at a low new zealanders mourn the victims of the country's worst ever terrorist attack 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
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their city. also coming up the philippines turns his back on the international criminal court today the country will become just a second in history to withdraw from the world's only permanent war crimes tribunals it's quitting over the courts investigation into president fredricka to tear to his war on drugs to crusade that's left thousands of people dead and drawn international condemnation. and a dream start to the new formula one season for voluntary both sides to finish its want over his mercedes team mate lewis hamilton to win the australian grand prix. omarion haven't seen it's good to have you with us. the death toll in new zealand's mosque attack has risen to fifty authorities have begun returning the victims'
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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 one of the mosques a biker group performs a haka a traditional moer a dance to honor the victims prime minister just send to our door and join those who have been leaving flowers close to the scene she reiterated to the muslim community that mosques will receive police protection. when new zealanders are still trying to come to terms with the country's worst ever mass shooting our correspondent 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
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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 saving us and sore.
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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 spin nice ideas 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 slipped through the cracks. they say more needs to be done to address racism and to combat far right radicalization. we can't help people who already feel like that but we can at least try and stop the younger ones from work occasionally if we can. the message here
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is clear that hate has no place in new zealand. well earlier we spoke to correspondent clare richardson who found that report from christ church and we asked her what new zealand prime minister just into our turn has been doing to support victims' relatives and to 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 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 she said there will be additional funding to help these people down the road available as well now the one thing that
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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 richards been speaking a little while ago. well the killings in christ church are once again drawing attention to the role of social media in spreading hate 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 this morning facebook revealed the scale of the video's reach writing on twitter that in the first twenty four hours it had removed one point five million videos of the attack globally a which over one point two million were blocked at upload the company said it's
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removing all edited versions of the video as well. all right let's have a look now at 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 wounded two others one of them critically the sale and reportedly grabbed a gun from a soldier at a highway junction near the settlement of aureole israel's military says troops are still searching for the gunmen. venezuelan opposition leader one has them barked in a new stage of his campaign to oust president nicolas maduro why do i was beginning a tour of the country which is gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of valencia and he promised to deliver a better life for struggling with his wailings. germany's biggest bank deutsche bank and domestic rival commits bank have confirmed a plan to open talks on a possible merger which bank said in
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a statement it was quote reviewing strategic options adding that there is no guarantee a deal will be reached. thousands of cattle on independence supporters marched in central madrid on saturday they are protesting the ongoing trial of twelve separatist leaders who faced years in prison for their role in organizing a failed independence from spain in twenty seventeen twelve are on trial at the country's supreme court. until today only one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court and now the philippines makes it to the country's president rodrigo to tear ten ounce funds 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 he launched after taking office in two thousand and sixteen despite the charges the brutal campaign against drug dealers and users
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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 reagan to tear to started his relentless war on drugs officially some five thousand people have been killed but human rights groups are 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
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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 him. really makes me sad is that i was not with my son when he died. the year when they killed him. just like visits 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 herbal wants justice. that's why she
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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
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hopes for she wants to use henchman to pay for her son's murder. whenever she can muster the strength she lights a candle where he was killed. but i don't feel like he's 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. and other family is left with nothing but a memory. another murder but most likely will go unpunished. so motor sports now and in formula one mercedes driver voluntary boaters has won the season opening australian grand prix in melbourne but turns out staged teammate lewis hamilton he overtook the defending world champion
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at the first corner and didn't look back. another formula one season underway but the other miss a these to the four having been edged by his teammates in qualifying battery both tass on the left wasted no time getting back at lewis hamilton. was potash streets ahead of this behind him when left to toil daniel ricardo's renault debut didn't start well this bump along the curb tore off his front wing your straightly and eventually forced to retire in front of his home in france carlos signs vacated his run a c. to ricardo after the frying pan into the fire and overheated engine pushing the damp has on his mclaren debut. back at the front door task was eking out more time as he pitted later than his rivals his advantage over the rest clear for all to see hamilton there to just enough to hold off max for stop and the marauding red bull
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driver make this pass on sebastian fatso a disaster for ferrari with vettel questioning why his team was so slow the same certainly can be said for both tasks this in finished more than twenty seconds ahead of hamilton for just the fourth win of his career starters really get. it especially my best race ever. i don't know what happened to us just felt so good and everything was under control. so we're different to sadie's driver at the top of the podium the trash determined to show hamilton he won't have it all his own way this season. in golf staines john iran has a one shot lead over rory mcilroy and tommy fleetwood going into the final round of the players' championship australia's jason day is two shots for their back if day wins he'll join a small group of players to win the tournament multiple times golf's biggest prize outside the four majors shot of the day at sawgrass went to seamus tower. have
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a look at the. that was the first polar one of his career. well today march seventeenth is st patrick's day and in ireland and throughout the irish diaspora that's reason to celebrate the country's patron saint the sessions featuring plenty of traditional music and lots of the color green are the order of the day leave you with impressions from new york and chicago thanks for watching. them. players. table. state.
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