and political and social topics considered from different perspectives. we cover the issues that move turkey on or you make a platform for information. plus ninety connect to an unbiased agenda subscribe now or new to. march the fifteenth twenty nineteen. it was a dark day for new zealand fifty people were killed and fifty injured in twin shootings suddenly nothing seemed the same. heaving.

a. fight eat a command was one of the survivors but he is surrounded by memories of his wife who is now who was not so lucky a month ago they visited the mosque together for friday prayers miraculously despite being will champ ound managed to escape through an emergency exit where he waited for his wife is he to me. i have seen. in their home and.

the club. who scored on me. suddenly he was alone his sister nora nieces and now helping him. left bangladesh for new zealand over thirty years ago he used to regard the country is the safest in the world but now he is full of anxiety and his fears go far beyond the attack itself. what if. muslim young person become. something so i started thinking about the peace in security what across church for new zealand and for the rest of the. christ child chance three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants it's the biggest city on new zealand south island but in many ways it

has the air of a sleepy small town here people are proud of the country's colonial heritage school uniforms cricket and rugby friday the fifteenth of march looks set to be a day like any other the weekend was just around the corner. here in the heart of the city hagley park a huge municipal recreation ground and right next to it the al-noor mosque. shortly after one thirty pm the in mom called the people to friday prayers. at the same time a white car pulled up driven by a twenty eight year old australian dressed in military style camouflage he was filming himself streaming the video live to face book he was preparing to go to war lying on the cars passenger seat and in the boot

a number of weapons his enemies are the muslims in the al nor mosque at one forty pm he entered the prayer room. five minutes ten minutes and this is the. speech and then. someone come. here. so the washing. the gunman shot anyone who was unable to get away men women children at one forty one pm the police received the first emergency call out. of the. police cars raced to the mosque. at first police officials didn't know exactly what they were dealing with or how many

people were involved but the gunman was alone. after killing forty two people he jumped back in his car and raced off eastwards the first ambulances got to the al nor mosque just before two pm. try to. get a stretcher into the mosque but we couldn't it was the fatalities and the way we ended up having to. lift the bodies over top of other bodies onto stretchers there was no. there was those people bleeding and there's a lot of. christchurch hospitals accident and emergency unit is just five minutes away many patients were critically injured some were fighting for their lives while they were being tended to the gunman arrived at lynnwood mosque in the east of the

city again opening fire without any warning. first of all abdul as e's thought that a firework had been set off outside the mosque then he saw the perpetrator. tried to get more guns. and they're just. going to. probably. drive of. police arrived at lynnwood mosque shortly afterwards to find seven more victims the two seventeen pm they were finally able to arrest the far right extremist at gunpoint a witness filmed the scene with his mobile police are convinced that the gunman was on his way to a third location. praying

helps give strength he wants to remain strong for his daughter's sake the baby on the photo is now fifteen years old. she was at school when the terror attack happened she said what is were. is it has moved to good. the most difficult thing i hear in malay punch you see. you telling me a deliberate mother in the movie. they said here is a word from nowhere near a modern. i mean unified that. we

just have to change their gender all in we have to wear one. less than one percent of the population of new zealand are muslim by faith but the entire nation wept and grieved with them in part two for the country's lost innocence new zealand one stood for safety openness tolerance the attack has called all that into question. there is a sense of uncertainty mixed with the tears. by actually immigrated from a different country when i was

a kid in one of the reasons my parents brought me here is because it was so say. so it's hard to say something that is happening here but. yeah it's just as is it was pretty confronting for us here i hope we take a long hard look in the mirror. and rode out righteous of it all its forms here because a doesn't have a place here this wasn't the new zealand that we thought we were. and i really hope that we that we don't go forth from the us more unified as a nation against the sort of. extremism research poll spoon lee has been much in demand since the christ church shootings for years now the sociologist has been observing how far right extremists have been steadily gaining influence worldwide he was surprised at most by the scale of the terror attacks here he says that new zealand had been a little bit too complacent. when you look at new

zealanders and their response to or attitude towards immigrants it tends to be very positive sometimes twice and sometimes three times higher than you would find in most european countries. and of course we don't have a lot of hate crime we do have hate speech but people are not are we are if they're generally so i think new zealanders have been naive and somehow we're exempt from what's been happening elsewhere in the world. in the days after the attacks new zealand's prime minister visited muslim communities in the country to express her condolences and offer her support she told them over and again you are safe and just into arden wore a black head job as a mark of respect she set the tone in a country struggling to come to terms with the attacks. speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them. he may have

sought notoriety but we in new zealand will give him nothing not even his name as salaam aleikum. peace be upon you and peace be upon all of us. pupils from kashmir high school welcome the prime minister with the haka the traditional maori dance. are done wanted to show solidarity with the children who had lost two of their fellow students in the terror attacks. to some means making a place where this no environment for violence to flourish we don't leave racism exist because racism free extremism breeds some of the things we unfortunately have had visited upon new zealand and so this is my request i alone cannot get rid of those things by myself. i need help from you froot single one of

us. was born in somalia and says that women wearing head jumps have to put up with a lot in new zealand only now in the wake of the attacks she finally prepared to speak openly about this she says sometimes strangers come up to her in the street and call her a black terrorist or a jihadi bride hadn't really fat until i wore the scarf they fatah when i really. knew that there is racism in islamophobia i didn't know much english i had no idea the language was the language barrier but i knew there was a feeling of fear in me and i was feeling quite scared as well because you know the comment for very negative i could feel so i couldn't put a word to it racism always but i knew it was there. islamophobia exists in new zealand too it is just that no one has been prepared to say so up to now. now christ church is giving very conspicuous backing to its muslim population

by gangs have been standing guard outside mosques during friday prayers working hand in hand with the police many members of the gangs are maoris descendants of new zealand's indigenous peoples and like many muslims they have often felt like outsiders. who may have different beliefs but i want to make it clear that we live in a society where people think because we disagree we hate but i can disagree with somebody but it doesn't mean i hate them. and that's something that's that's gotten in the fabric of well society and their causes. do need in three hundred fifty kilometers south of christ church is whether suspected attacker has lived since twenty seventeen that's when he moved from australia to new zealand apparently choosing to target. this small country with its multicultural society he lives here

in a small apartment attracting little attention and with little outside contact police raided his home shortly after the attack fearing that he might have set booby traps they used a special robot to enter the house at this point the suspect was attending his first court hearing he refused to say anything about his motives but a manifesto written by him further reveals the depth of his hatred for muslims whom here cuse is of wanting to displace the white race. extremism research poll spoon lee isn't surprised that the gunman wasn't on any security watch lists even though the australian hadn't made any secret about his far right views online he says there is a hardcore of two hundred to two hundred fifty far right extremists in new zealand who are prepared to carry out acts of violence but because the group seems fairly small the government has failed to take them seriously up till now. i think it's

the pressure that's come internationally for new zealand to buy international requirements to look at security and the interest in the. islamic terrorist threat as it was perceived those that think it's a failure of western societies in which the governments that they really have not paid much attention or sufficient attention to the threat posed by the right. doesn't like to talk about far right extremists he prefers to view them as a few did range to members of society he says that he is wired by anti muslim prejudice but he also regards the outpouring of empathy in new zealand after the christchurch attacks with hope he doesn't plan to follow the trial against the alleged attacker he trusts that justice will be down. this wall that all the. well being in they want to stick to white. when they want to

for god's. cause being the community looking after the sick people in good people so this is war you know but one thing they want just to. know is how difficult it can be to find your way back into life twenty years ago a drunk driver ran him down doctors didn't write his chances of survival very highly now the fifty six year old is trying to help those injured in the attack yes off from ethiopia and most of far from turkey tell us about their physical and mental wounds it is still not clear whether they will make full recovery as the woman. and the shrapnel fragment is just on the morrow. actually from

ethiopia long we came here for safety our country is good but this is more safety and security so we never expect something like this it will never fly here her door seen something like this but this first time i still cannot believe the government has been of a strong scrutiny and to make sure they want to siphon noble. terrorist act again. while we can be sure it can't happen again. and we can run away from. praying together to make sense of what happened for them that means believing that fire eats wife and the other people killed and now in paradise. we the faith teaches us that if we push owns. it in for our patients we will get the word

from god as well so faith has the biggest hurdle for coping. in this kind of situation. this christ church community center is full of the work of sewing machines the women are busy making head scarves for the memorial event a week after the attack they want to show their solidarity with muslim women who are afraid to walk the streets with their heads covered me and i can contribute something that i enjoy and i have not problem at all what i was wearing a headscarf myself and there are. no i'm fine with anybody that show their face. the name of the movement headscarf for harmony it includes police women students pensioners women across new zealand the country's embracing its muslim communities never has the relationship been so demonstrably close. today

we really did feel the support from everywhere and new zealand has been amazing and i think israel has been amazing and it's just just having everyone by our side this is it truly means a lot to all of us. it's beautiful so thank you. a week after the shootings the call for friday prayers broadcast live on national t.v. and radio it's a symbol of solid. that will be inconceivable in most other western countries. fifty victims the coffins of men women and children among them who is now. her. husband is touched by the response to then he had only known many of his neighbors by sight

now they embrace him he printed small cards thanking his neighbors for their support. they came running you know there were there in tears. that was wonderful support. an expression of love. feeling that to you know i should also take the opportunity to say to them that i also love. muslims and non muslims coming together many for the first time talking together the encounters put prejudice to the test. a movement a lot about as well as last few days and it's all i really positive. crazy. how to fight so. i. can be with.

the country's prime minister wants to offer more than sympathy. just into art and wants to tackle violence and racism first the country must look for the roots of these problems. today kevin it agreed the inquiry will be a royal commission it is important that no stone is left on tune to the get to the bottom of how this act of terrorism a cood and what if any opportunities we had to stop at. the bruce rifle club sound. do needin is now closed for the forseeable future but this ranges where the suspected attacker who had a gun license trained regularly he bought the weapons that he used in the mass shootings at gun city the kind of supermarket for gun fans with branches throughout new zealand up to now the country's gun laws have been regarded as very liberal now the government wants to change that today i'm announcing that new zealand will be

in all military style seamy order medic weapons. we will also been all assault rifles. here on the edge of the southern alps we catch up with hunting legend david hughes for many new zealanders hunting and shooting are what they associate with the great outdoors with freedom and a certain way of life there are hundreds of rifle and hunt clubs up to now and largely without incident but in recent years davey has noticed a trend and not just in new zealand towards semiautomatic firearms like the ones the gunman used. they can be reloaded very quickly and are potentially streaming dangerous. i think if you asked people do you really need a semiautomatic rifle generally the answer is not especially in new zealand

but do you want one and a lot of people say yes i do want one i want one because i enjoy going out and shooting targets i enjoy pulling the trigger you know never dharmapala trigger the rifle actually goes off so i think it's just they're getting some sort of self-fulfillment toward enjoyment from actually shooting city or americans. davey himself is happy with a normal hunting rifle just under five million people live in new zealand and among them they own some one and a half million firearms the precise figures are known as up to now they didn't need to be registered and anyone with a gun license could buy as many weapons as they wanted the government wants to change all that the hundred samples that but he expects opposition from other weapon owners they're concerned about. they are going to have the guns taken away from them or their guns not just semiautomatics the rights of i still going to have

and if they get really concerned about that i think value act if the government doesn't act. it's right well i think that a lot of guns will go on the ground. a lot of guns. over say the government is offering up to one hundred twenty million euros in total to buy back firearms. changing weapon laws is the first step says only he is now spending a lot of time in wellington advising the government but the extremism researcher says more steps will be needed soon such as stricter laws against hate speech spoony says that's the only way of getting to the root of discrimination against us nikken faith minorities. i think we've got to put more emphasis on what's happening on why we've got to

understand that we have hate speech in this country we've got a record and we've got to let people know that it's happening i think part of the problem is that people just aren't aware of it apart from those who are being targeted. in the dark corners of the internet you can still find traces left by this respect it attacker on the online message board where he announced the attacks for example new zealand believes that here it's also up to the big internet concerns to take action the perpetrators live stream of events on facebook went undetected at first because it's algorithm was apparently unable to differentiate the images from those of a computer game. and so for hours the government got what he most wanted international attention for his acts of mass murder be. he could be

months before the suspects main trial opens. many of the relatives of the victims are hoping for a tough sentence. from minute. get lucky. try to keep away we don't want to get up we want to suffer here we want it to be fun this you know a punishment for will promise the length of the paper. it's three weeks after the attack. fire it is returning to his mosque for the first time it still smells slightly a fresh paint there are no signs of the bullet marks. some people might find it hard to understand but fight he'd wanted to come back here at all costs even though he lost his wife here.

kier their call again. in usually whom is their place of security who means. priests peaceful place home means you know a. place with a love in here. the care of his community and new zealand. in spite of what has happened fareed has probably never felt closer to his adopted home country the now. so it was a test that. last one. was a feeling peace in the heart was a feeling in every in. every or in the feeling of that illusion serve the lesson. there

i was tested in a war and in the. new zealand has lost its innocence paradise doesn't exist not even at the far ends of the. in the days after the terrorist attack the country looked into the mirror and saw dog shutters bought new zealand has also responded by moving closer together in a way that hasn't been seen in any other nation. long laborious. eco india.

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