w. . this is d. w. news live from berlin the death toll in the christ church mosque shootings rises to fifty. zero new zealanders mourn the victims of the country's worst ever terrorist attack while 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 on the program 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 tribunals it's quitting over the court's investigation into president first rico to terrorist war on drugs a crusade that's left thousands of people dead and drawn international condemnation . i'm married to evanston 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' 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 performed a haka a traditional dance to honor the victims prime minister just send auburn joined those. who have been leaving flowers close to the scene she reiterated muslim to

muslim community leaders that mosques will receive police protection. while 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 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 our mosque where dozens of people were slaughtered during their friday prayers. but.

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 that 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. and and 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 send our john has been doing to support victims' relatives and to raise. sure 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 these communities 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 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. and that was our correspondent claire richardson speaking earlier to us from christ church well the

killings in christ church are once again drawing attention to the role of social media in spreading hate the suspects live streamed his attack on facebook the company remove the video shortly after the attack but not before it had been contacted and shared by others 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 one point two million were blocked at upload the company said it's removing all edited versions of the video as well. w.'s digital reporter henchman lee is here in the studio with me to talk a bit more about this so is that even possible for facebook to remove every single copy of this video i think this is not impossible but it is very difficult we know that facebook has been working around the clock to remove copies

about video so right now it has an internal database of the blocked video and so the system can automatically detect and remove copies of those attack media once it gets uploaded. so far so good however there is a big problem with the system it is flawed so if they used to make some changes to that video let's say by adding a watch unlock them the system could be tracked and that you say could theoretically still be able to upload the video onto facebook so it's that's why it makes it so difficult to wipe off the video completely once it's been recorded and uploaded for multiple times well the prime minister of new zealand just in the audience said she wants answers from social media giants over this live streaming of that attack we have a clip let's have a listen i've had some context. from share of same big 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 says she intends to talk to facebook about this there are many others there are saying these social media platforms have to be accountable but how is it possible to make them accountable i guess my answer to this will be pressure more pressure from the government more pressure from the consumer legislations have to be in place we have an example actually from germany it's about hate speech so we know that it's a big problem globally and facebook's that it did everything to combat hate speech problem people weren't seeing any changes and so in germany there was this hate speech law and it's been passed and then so rapidly facebook just hired all of a sudden it hired

a lot of moderate just and it also deployed new technology to combat this problem so that's an example of how pressure could actually change a company's stands. and so we have to make facebook to prioritize that to prioritize to fight of spread of terrorists terrorism or extremist concerns and thoughts well so i guess is a question of investment investing in actual human beings who work as the moderators combing through all these videos also investing in new technologies but all of this is a question of control and controlling these social media platforms and i guess there will be pushback against that as well won't there yeah. of course too much control of the social media is not a good it's not a good thing it could be an infringement of our freedoms however facebook has two billion active if users we have to keep in mind. and so it has an enormous reach

so off easily social media sites like facebook needs to do more to combat this problem i guess is just like we can compare this to c.c.t.v. like on the streets. do you want more c.c.t.v. like we can feel savior of course but it could be an infringement of our privacy so we have to really find a balance between control and freedom and that's a very difficult balance to find. digital reporter hank finally thank you so much thanks. all right let's take 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 assailant 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 embarked on a new stage of his campaign to oust president nicolas maduro joe is beginning

a tour of the country which is gripped by an economic and political crisis at a rally in the northern city of aleppo the promise to deliver a better life for struggling venezuelans. germany's biggest bank deutsche bank and don't mistake rival commits bond have confirmed a plan to open talks on a possible merger to asia banks that in a statement it was quote reviewing strategic options adding that there is no guarantee that a deal will be reached. until today only one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court will now the philippines makes it to the country's president rodrigo to charity announced plans to pull out a year ago after the court launched a preliminary investigation into possible crimes against humanity linked to terror to his drug war the i.c.c. probe focuses on allegations that

a tear to his government is behind thousands of extrajudicial killings while 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 salvatore had to die shot in the head before the odds 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 going to terror to started his relentless war on drugs personally 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 saw for the most. part 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 him. really makes me sad is this i was not with my son when he died i. wasn't there 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 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. most serious violations simply by the stroke of a pen we have to show a very strong. example of international justice by ensuring that this matter is fully investigated and if. indictments should follow. that's also what

herbal hopes for she wants to. pay for her son's murder.