this is news coming to you live from berlin new zealand stands in silence as the names of those killed in a mass shooting are read a lot. from the. representatives from countries around the world are there to remember the

fifty people gunned down during friday prayers two weeks ago. the british parliament is set to vote again today on teresa mayes twice rejected breaks a plan it's a last ditch effort to arrange the comfort orderly withdrawal from the e.u. . and thailand after last weekend's election both of pro party and its opposition claim. to form a government. also in this half hour from t.v. star to political powerhouse ukrainian comedian who plays a blue collar president on t.v. he is leading in the presidential polls against kiev's political elite. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program and national memorial has been hell.

in christ church new zealand to remember the fifty people killed in two mosque attacks two weeks ago thousands stood in silence as the names of the victims were bred allow new zealand prime minister just attended the ceremony joined by representatives from governments around the world she spoke out against the anti muslim and anti immigrant hate that motivated the alleged killer event took place near the elnora malls where the majority of victims were shot to death during friday prayers on march fifteenth and here's what some of those attending the ceremony said after the service there is a very visible. pushback on racism and i think that is what we hope will continue as we need to live in a peaceful and. hopefully we can take. the silver lining. i'm grateful to be here until it's one of these people's lives yeah i do there's only one message peace peace to the new zealand and all of what. it is

a message. from this we learn that the hate is so small and obvious so much big might think we've become a more inclusive society. that's. still means even the individual thinking key fleet center and they were just anyone he or correspondent samantha early is in christ church and joins us now from there some mental and emotional morrill service people from around the world were there tell us more about. this well we're at the world is just a very close that we have a memorial service was held for tens of thousands of people and frankly as you see the standing and the silence is the names of the victims were read out of the service was very somber and quite focused. well on the zealand's diversity with

a lot of representation from the indigenous community as well which has felt quite a special affinity with the muslim community in the past two weeks we've been hearing some emotional statements from the survivors of this attack let's listen to one of them who says he has forgiven his attacker. but only here to go on to some some hunting in this life. some traumatic thing happened to him and he could not process where he's somebody you do don't construct . their soil they don't stop or do the wrong which i did the same time i can not deny the fact that he's my human. gage a human being is my brother he's my sister this is my feet and this is what love has taught me. an extraordinary expression of human

compassion there from one of the survivors but despite their best efforts to cope things in christ church and in new zealand as a whole will never really be the same after this well they. know it's the one of the major media organizations here it's actually the coverage of this the end of our innocence and that it's really what it feels like quite a lot of people it's. you must remember we're not used to seeing police on the streets and normally our police are on but we've been on high security it's a little fitz who wakes and a lot of people as well firstly a christian there are motivations there are prejudiced is that they might have had and really talking about what needs to be done on an individual level as well as a community level who really interest crisis and hatred and say in a five year. beyond memorial services how is new zealand coming to

terms with the aftermath of this attack. well today's memorial about yes exactly to wake since the shootings was really seem to be marking a turning point between the initial response and the ongoing recovery and the challenge and some of the things we can be expected to hear more about in the few weeks are calls for every just star of high crimes in new zealand. speaking to hear more about tough but. also accountability for social media companies for destructive content and also be looking closely to having a royal commission of inquiry actually into what could have been done much the thora sees sysiphus is. and the stick it is how possibly this attack might have been able to have been prevented all these things are going to be looked at very

hard over the past few weeks so some next steps there. samantha thank you very much t w samantha early there in christ church new zealand. a turkish court has dismissed a case against investigative journalist and contributor pailin. was being sued for defamation by the turkish finance minister after reporting allegations connecting the politician to offshore tax havens or investigation was made possible by police documents known as the paradise papers because court case was dismissed for exceeding turkey's statute of limitations. pending care is used to court appearances by nine she's been through two criminal trials her husband and father by his side. at side court on thursday the family was relieved. with this event of course i'm happy about this verdict but it's bittersweet earlier

this year the same judge sentenced me to more than thirteen months in jail when today's verdict was announced the judge said unfortunately i have to drop the charges and she looked at mr lawyers apologetically. that says a lot about the current state of the judiciary in this country. and the talks here on that. one cares encounter with the turkish justice system they can after she joined the international network of journalists investigating the so-called paradise papers. leaks documents detailing the use of tax havens feith thousands of individuals and companies. in care found alleged ties to turkish finance minister by iraq and his brother and to the family of four much turkish prime minister. wen homecare

published her findings in turkish newspaper chum her yet both politicians sued her for defamation. the case has now been dropped on a technicality but in the year in case you can catch could still be facing more than thirteen months in prison. a generalist has never been sentenced to prison for publishing about the paradise papers anywhere in the world . this only happens in turkey instead elsewhere the authorities have actually taken some action against these tax havens. the case has once again raised questions about media freedoms in taki. britain kat is determined to continue reporting as she awaits the results of. thailand's election commission has released its latest figures from last sunday's

general election the first since a coup in two thousand and fourteen they announced that the pro army. party which backs the current military leader had won the popular vote but senior members of the opposition party type party who came in second or accused are accusing the commission of presenting discrepancies the anti-military future forward party is in third the official results won't be released for weeks. well joining me now from bangkok is torn ging wrong key the leader of the opposition party future forward thank you very much for being with us first of all your party won a lot more seats than expected your potential coalition partner has offered to support you if you wanted to become prime minister but you have declined that one. why i think it's because we want to protect the college off of democracy

in thailand we believe that the prime minister should be coming from a party that means the direction now you are part of the coalition that's to turman to form the country's next government but the military camp is saying you're not in a position to do that what's your response. if you believe that we believe that the party that wins the most seats in the election have to right to form coalition government by shout out body which is. riches of arriving at number two. they shoot. into forming off the next government but they are trying very hot now to to fall to government competing with the party. be no more seat i think that is not very

appropriate considering that pati patni. tried to two full course budget done that was shot. at the next prime minister. it looks very much like thailand your country is headed into a political deadlock also because neither side is willing to give in then how can you resolve this stalemate. election result is not decisive enough its pro-democracy camp is now having a how. it has five and it seats. having a powerful one hundred and two hundred forty seven two hundred forty nine seats so it will be need a few lost seats we need. mall pro democracy party to join the schoolies and you

know do to stop these down that we have trying very best how best to be able to form the next government. tell you what having said that i have two main chando roll off the yes no please go ahead. oh i have to mention the roll off the epithets and it does. lead to. east now a party to process off appointing said it does and the two hundred fifty senate appoint that's in it as have the right to water for the next prime minister aswell so even though we could fall a major already coalition to get the. two hundred and fifty waterfall days and it is a crude overturn. of the people and fall the next government to the torn ging room leader of thailand's future forward party thank you very much

for talking with us. thank you. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a prominent philippine journalist known to be a critic of president has been arrested again this time over an alleged investment violation maria ressa who heads the online news site rappler was detained in the middle is international airport faces a string of chargers she says she's being targeted for her work. as well as main opposition leader and self declared interim president who has been barred from public office for fifteen years the country's operator general cited your regularities and his finances. has dismissed the announcement he accuses incumbent of rigging last year's election and has the backing of the u.s. and dozens of other countries. the death toll from a massive fire that tore through

a high rise building in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has risen to twenty five a day after the blaze firefighters are combing through the charred shell of the building and police say they're investigating allegations that the building lacked adequate safety measures. britain's parliament is set to vote for a third time on the break that neil negotiated by prime minister theresa may today this time she is she's asking parliament to both only on the withdrawal agreement and not the future relationship with the e.u. it's a split many members of parliament have already rejected on principle made his promise to resign if the deal does go through today march twenty ninth twenty nine thousand was the day that britain was originally scheduled to lead your opinion. let's cross over to our correspondent in london big today was the day the u.k.

was scheduled to leave the e.u. at its own request we have to remember can you explain in a nutshell. why that's not happening. well terry polman finds it very very difficult to say goodbye and as you have explained they have already rejected the deal the reason may and the european union have agreed on and they all objection is to reason may's own party members n.p.c. and paul amend they think that in the future that the u.k. will be tied too closely to the european union so this is why some of her conservative m.p.'s are still motivating with her all say it's about the future of northern ireland the northern irish party is know to not voting with her who are actually her allies in government and then the labor party they've got their own reasons and they want to also influence the form that breaks it takes they're hoping for a general election so people just have their very entrenched opinion as far as

bracks it is concerned well this is been going around in circles for a while and here we are again the u.k. parliament voting once again on the brakes a deal they've already rejected any chance that it will pass this time. you know it really doesn't look like to reason may is going to have the numbers this time ryan we've already had that did do you peter the northern irish small part ally. will not vote for of course things can change everything is movable you know there can be surprises i had but as it stands now it doesn't look very very likely now people have so many different and fun views on the on the future of this country we've caught up with no but let's get the chairman of the german foreign affairs committee to ask him what he thinks should be the way forward. of course it's not up to me as a german politician and parliamentarian to give advice is what could be

a good way my view has always been clear i consider breaks it is dishonest i'm and even more so given the political developments and upheaval and raffling so europe has to stay and stick together and not fall apart in order to remain relevant. and apart from that given the paralysis of the institutions and the system i would say you have there is only one one approach to recon side and come to a conclusion and this means to give it back to the people who started this process what took the decision but now nearly three years later it's much clearer what bracks it really means and they should say do you really want that what you know no it is about all do you prefer to rethink and to remain so you think

they should have any deal put it put it back to the people absolutely i can consider a a a solution in that toxic issue that could reconcile perhaps the country and bridge the deep gaps and divides without the people having a say on that is there may be a very german wish that in the end bracks it will not happen i there is a german wish it's not only a german wish. because we well you the british membership in the european union we know the valuable contribution of britain to the european union perhaps germany even more than others do so our wishes clear but our respect is also clear it's up to the british people or britain to this country to decide about its own future we are only two weeks away from. really dangerous no deal scenario what do you think

would be the implications you talked about geopolitics if britain really did crash out would that destroy the basis for a future friendly negotiations. it would be an overall disaster economic and nobody has had any experience with such a situation so surprise would be a government it would be a granted and certain element of what we are going to experience. so quite likely huge economic disadvantages for both sides i would say mainly for britain but also for europeans also for germany and we would deliver to the world an example of being not able to come to stay together to to solve and resolve and fix our problems and it would be an example of falling apart so it would significantly weaken the europeans but the long term

impact and i think we can't afford that. this is was not about the let's get her to say i know obviously it shows that the european union is looking at this what's going on here in parliament with great great interest so not just people here all around me are sort of fixated on on what's going to happen in parliament but it really is the whole european union absolutely assuming beggared the parliament rejects the briggs's deal again today for the third time where do we go from here. well we know that m.p.'s are hoping to have another second round of these so-called indicative aides which is their way of trying to form a consensus to whittle down an option that they can get behind having disagreed with to reason may steal time and again of course reason he is also trying to get

a deal three one more time so if he pauses that that would lay the groundwork for the u.k.'s exit for the european union but if he doesn't then the m.p. . hoping to take charge in a way and instruct the government what to do if that happens they would most likely have to ask for another extension from the european union but if there is no agreement whatsoever then the twelfth of april is. there is really not much time here in london to come to some form of call inclusion form of end of the scale as that was seeing here right now all european. again today. there in london thank you so much. ukraine goes to the polls on sunday to choose a new president it's the first national vote since two thousand and fourteen when

the revolution toppled the pro russian government three main contenders are now in the running for the top spot incumbent petro poroshenko former prime minister yulia timoshenko and a surprising newcomer who's made a strong showing in opinion polls. he's a comedian famous for playing a president in a popular t.v. show. good morning mr president. an ordinary man taken by surprise catapulted into the top job by a string of coincidences that's the story of the ukrainian servant of the people now its lead. is poised to become ukraine's president the second time and this time it could be through real polls consistently put him ahead of both incumbent president petro poroshenko and prime minister yulia timoshenko and there's the rub

where both his closest rivals have been at the forefront of ukrainian politics for decades. blank page he's never previously been involved in. let alone held elected office but in a country struggling with massive corruption and a seemingly. flick in the east many are desperate for fresh faces. and i'm running for president i'm challenging the elites on their own turf that's why they're tearing into me and calling me a clown yes. he is a candidate unlike any other and he's refusing to play by the normal rules of campaigning there are no rallies and very few interviews selenski is running a campaign that's almost all online and he's using social media to talk to his potential supporters directly the central message transparency breaking with the kind of politics that has made ukraine one of europe's most corrupt and poorest

nations selenski called it becoming president but staying. he says he doesn't want to make promises he can't keep on the really big questions he says he'll let the people decide referendums but is it enough to donald trump and it. will. be the next show business outsider to shake up his country's politics. creating a really popular political myth in ukraine the theory goes that only an outsider can defeat the existing political system on his own i doubt he'll succeed. but how much of an outsider is really his critics argue that in reality he's anything but launching a campaign calling him a puppet of the oligarch. whose channels have made selenski famous. he is one of ukraine's richest men and an arch enemy of president petro poroshenko. selenski

denies there is anything untoward about their relationship but the questions remain in servant of the people. plays a president protocol out of the window much to the delight of the crowd. but within weeks his enemies begin to sabotage his plans preparing for his impeachment how he would do in real life is anything but clear but for now it looks likely that ukrainians could well soon see any new season unfold this time on the political stage and without a script. you're watching news just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here today new zealand has held a national memorial service for the fifty people killed two weeks ago and attacks on two malls thousands gathered to remember the victims prime minister just into our dead and called on the world to and extremists. and the

british government is putting part of its praises deal to a vote by lawmakers today as in a bid to fulfil an ultimatum from the european union and earn another short extension on britain's exit from the e.u. . up next here on its quandary go this time the international panel will discuss the use of new copyright laws which some say could stifle online expression stay with us.

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drive a nail in the free expression on the way out. on the internet that's our talking up the treat it was just. want to go next on d w. comes charging to take one step further. than face. time you're up just such they are no. and the fine for the truth. is hard to overcome boundaries and connection. it's time for. indeed obvious coming up ahead. on inside d.t.

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