to increase in power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. a terror attack in new zealand mass shootings at two mosques in christ church killed forty nine people and injured thirty nine more many of the survivors are in critical condition. to do. much money and i'm single my lord oh my god it's going to happen to know who was. and everybody was distraught over the bad goes just to save themselves. four suspects are now in custody one of them is an australian national were portably lifestream the attack on facebook posts right

before the massacre allegedly said he'd been planning it for years. and other news this hour the israel defense forces say they have hit around one hundred hamas linked targets in gaza overnight in response to for rockets launched from gaza at tel aviv since the two thousand and fourteen war. and the u.k. parliament votes to seek a break that deadline extension from the e.u. the brussels has expressed little appetite for further talks. here watching our change of national coming to you live from the russian capital worth just turned four pm welcome to the program. mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch new zealand have killed forty nine people and. injured

thirty nine the country's police commissioner also confirmed four suspects are now in custody one of them a male in his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will appear in court court tomorrow this is a recap of what happened. they're pretty distraught over the back doors just to see themselves good is such that you go one by one. and some people that. believe. in the mean the rule. it looks people some of them would be some of them would screaming bloody. the monument especially on me and i'm still marveled oh my god it's going to happen to me now.

this is one of them you see ellen's darkest days the first reports of the shooting were reported at one forty pm local time at the el norte mosque minutes later another mosque just five kilometers away was reported to also be under fire a video of the aftermath of one of the attacks has appeared on social media warning you might find the footage disturbing. forty one people were killed at the all nor mosque and seven at the lynwood mosque another victim later died at the hospital in christ church we're now joined live in the studio by our correspondent there what's the latest we've heard from the police commissioner. so far police have arrested four people but almost nothing has been disclosed about them we didn't hear any names from the police the

only thing that we know from them is that one man and his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will appear in court on saturday two other suspects are definitely being held in connection with this case and about one person they're still not sure whether he or she has anything to do with it and i'll tell you what the police haven't even explained what the number of the attackers were and if everyone who's posing danger has been caught there are still quite a few questions that have been made by the authorities. at this point we are not actively looking for any identified persons we never assume that there are other people of all very and right across new zealand we don't have nine or identified people that we're looking for but it would be wrong to assume that there

is no one else. there was something else we learned from mike bush which is even more astonishing the fact that he says authorities and relevant agencies both in new zealand and australia knew nothing about the perpetrators or their preparations before hand so you've said that the police aren't identifying this suspect yet but media has already named a name to allege lifestream cracked. it looks like the supposed terrorist was life streaming everything he was doing on facebook and despite the fact that the authorities were saying to the media and to the public please don't show it please don't share this stream and then the recording of it was all over social media for the first few hours after the attack and we are not going to show you that one maybe just

a few screen shots but it is absolutely surreal everything is disturbing about this attack but this is just beyond words. it appears like the camera was attached to the man's face or maybe somewhere below so you can see the actual goal in fact looks like a video game and where ever the gun is pointing you can actually see the gun the man just kills everyone who he sees in these rooms people who are trying to escape what he does is he just keeps running around all these rooms trying to look for more and more people in this case or finding and does that mean that suspicious social media accounts could have been traced before the incident you can actually see the name of the man who was live streaming and journalists and other people started looking for it and there were plenty of ugly things to be found there posts by the suspected terrorist by these supposed terrorists showed that he was

preparing for this for almost two years we saw a post with photos of actual gun parts with names of christians who fought in wars against muslims so he was clearly heading there for some sort of purpose and a few hours before the attack happened a manifesto again supposedly by that same man appeared online with motives being outlawed some of them included immigrant sentiment and also revenge for attacked. your knowledge go back to some of the things that senior officials from new zealand were saying it was also a press conference by the prime minister and she had something very emotional to say about why she believes her country was targeted and it is because of all that diversity in new zealand. we new zealand. we were not a target because we are a safe for those who hate. we were not true isn't for the sake of violence because

we can darn racism because we're an on clay for extremism. we would chosen for the very fact that we are none of these things so this is a tragedy that no one expected in a location where nothing like that had ever happened but new zealand will have to live with this now the country before the incident and the country after it these are just completely two different new zealand's. thank you for staying across this tragedy for us. for more on this we go live now to international political analyst andrew long and thank you for joining us on the program now new zealand's prime minister has said that the country was targeted for its multiculturalism for its diversity and its acceptance do you think that was definitely the reason. well

that's maybe part of the reason. the other part of the reason of course there is much less daunting because of this multi multi cultural rizzle and more liberal kind of society there is much less safe guards or security guards. for the muslims as well as for the nationality of religious groups and so it was targeted because it's easier to perpetrate such a crime a tragedy but i think that it also. really is this is a. game changer in the sense that there's almost racial kind of white terrorism targeted against. islam in fact that. it reflects a simmering kind of. islam over there is not only happening in

this in australia but all over the world i mean in western countries you see it in europe certain countries in europe you see it in the united states and there is other places and this is because a recent terrorist attacks. quite a number of them were committed by groups with islamic connections and also the calls all immigration. islamic the kind of people emigrating to western countries and there was a lack of all. social integration and the courses of the ten or. so and also the. the the western countries that people feel that our culture is subject to erosion. and then to the people of this alien to them so all these feeds into. bring him

home is the move. and indeed the economy gratian immigration trend. that's also happening in other areas. part of. it. translates into. so i hope that this is what we're. going through with. a crash of civilization which it will be because i'm look at you look at history. i mean. who say. the wars of religion. and i think that this is quite disturbing but i think that the way to go about this is really to. copy what new zealand is whom do it. successfully in sort of socially integrating the various immigrants.

versity. and also more education and also enabling the various immigrants the been ethnic groups. religious beliefs to integrate into their winter sonti but there's also uses. because at the moment. it's kind of you know as it were all is there. and also send. a kind of. countries closing in themselves resisting immigrants. resorting to extremism. you're talking about islamophobia and whatnot we heard the new zealand prime minister saying that this can only be described as terrorism but they're not calling it a hate crime despite the evidence why do you think that. well. the news. minister doesn't want to. translate this into

a kind of racial hatred in itself of course is that terrorism but the back of his heart the. people. in particular. suggest that. there was a religious and racial element in the book and the reason. behind this act you see that also there was a wising up on all. islamic centers in various societies as i said i mean. a lot of western countries are beginning to feel that this immigrants are brain all sorts of social problems and of course that the rising tide of all refugees coming problems is that countries doesn't help the situation a little. international political analyst and long thank you so much for your time

and your insights. thank you very much for more detailed and live updates on this incident you can always head to our website r.t. dot com. in other news this hour an exchange of fire has escalated tensions between israel and palestine islamists in the gaza strip israeli warplanes bombed around one hundred hamas linked targets in response to two rockets sent into telling me it was the first such attack on central israel since the two thousand and fourteen war. there were no casualties on the israeli side while four palestinians were wounded hamas has denied it was behind the rocket attacks and media reports claim the israeli authorities now believe the rockets were launched accidentally we spoke to

journalists on both sides of the border there been a lot of statements issued by different political political leaders here very nice ryle. particularly i can look at to some of the. most prominent he does one being many guns who he's a serious contender for the upcoming elections among other things he says that it is time that israel and. hamas leaders but also other political leaders saying that they expect out of prime minister binyamin netanyahu with very serious response given what happened last night last night was one of the scariest and most frightening nights for the civilians in the gaza strip as the israeli military carried on airstrikes in the entire gaza strip thousand ministry of health has reported that four civilians have suffered burns and injuries as a result of the airstrikes that happened last night all the palestinian factions

have denied any involvement with the escalation that happened last night the night before last night said that it's looking into the shooting bowing to take measures against those responsible for it my colleague neil harvey spoke to the israeli education minister at knopf tully bennett to get his reaction to this latest incident. we cannot accept this going to rocket fire on our homes here in tel aviv and down in the negev we left the gaza strip about thirteen years ago now and. the moment we left they've been shooting rockets at us so we will not give up any more land it just doesn't make sense when we had land over to the arabs they turned it into a radical islamic terrorist state and now it's time to fight back to the state and we will the un says that. palestinian civilians were shot by israeli forces so are

you surprised that there is an aggressive. response coming from palestinians we have the right of self-defense and they do not accept any sort of preach from folks on the other side of the world when we're being shot rockets from a piece of territory that we handed over to the arabs what i can say is that we won't do that again at least no one's trying to preach i don't think everybody understands no matter what the grasp of the situation in the middle east is that the violence the cycle of violence continues and that begets more aggression. how he's you know the what you're suggesting going to improve the situation we left gaza we want peace the moment they stop shooting missiles at my children's. home and kindergarten is the moment there will be peace we have no territorial

demand over gaza and they just need to stop it if they stop it there will be peace that's very simple. still to come the british pm may have once famously said rex that means back that but it seems parliament is not convinced of all the latest on the ongoing divorce saga right after the break. is not an ideological scarecrow russia is a real neighbor was whom we'll have to leave it always being good nato e.u. or wherever. for us to go to russia to talk to the russians and to understand that. the infinite is not built for security so we have to take it to

a different level and we have to take the new value that is five g. level but you can embed security security is an industry and the security has all they need to expose the fears and all the hacking devices so that people get freight and they get to know we have to come up with new infrastructure this is very important to start thinking of this me about the new tools to build a new system. here watching our to international welcome back to the program that is heading for yet a nother cliffhanger after british m.p.'s wanted to delay the u.k.'s departure from

the e.u. prime minister theresa may will now return to brussels and seek an extension to the brics and deadline but just two weeks before the currently scheduled exit date frustration is building in westminster. we are like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel never ending or beginning on an ever spinning real it's just going on and on and on now we're told that the way that we can avoid any delay is to support the deal that the government has concluded with the european union yet this house as my own girlfriend has just mentioned has twice rejected that deal most recently only two days ago the deal is dead it cannot be resurrected was her deal and no deal a simply no longer viable option it isn't just the prime minister let down by. the countries being misled and now the plan has been mislaid she has bludgeoned us black and blue with a brain food deal on her robotic manager of it's my deal or no deal this is

a waste of time and a waste of time for our chamber and that should not be happening what we should be to is thinking am asking now a way forward and a life full weight is to extend article fifty a british people are sick of this pricks it's those people in this house are a third vote on drugs that will now take place next week if m.p.'s again vote to redress reject recently as planned she will have to ask brussels for a long delay which could last years that could potentially trigger a general election or a second referendum on the other hand if it is passed then the prime minister could request a postponement till the end of june by then the u.k. might either leave the block with a deal or walk away with nothing at all if both sides fail to reach a consensus rosser of european law at edgehill university francisco result oh breaks down the list for us. we mustn't get carried away with the idea that this

was a great victory for the prime minister in the government tonight when it won its by its motion to delay exit by four hundred twelve to two hundred two this was a defeat and it can't be dressed as a victory remember we were supposed to be leaving on the twenty ninth of march and when no where near that even if let us say by some political miracle she wins next week at the time of asking the truth of the matter is west still going to need an extension because we don't have the domestic legislation in place to be able to leave in a in a reasonable way. the response to france of yellow vests protests by the country's police force is putting several liberties at risk that's according to a french human rights watchdog of clare has the details. rubber bullets tear gas on the vehicles the way the president mccracken has

responded to the mass anger of the yellow vests movement has sparked widespread condemnation. in france along with the decline of public services a policy of strength and security and repression has taken root in the face of the terrorist threat social troubles and fears about an immigration crisis that has the country's human rights on but simon in his annual report shocked to born says that the number of people of wasted is unprecedented. and some of the weapons used to disperse the crowd should be prohibited over the course of the protests thousands of people were injured some lost they are as others had the heads blown off the road or you know oh. policeman sturdy to shoot to help the firefighters to get through and it was the

last thing that i remember because actually that is after the hour and a grenade hit my head. i. was. now let's see who lost and the government is completely blind even with the video footage they can't accept responsibility for what is happening. but the french government rejects the claims saying the police officers were protecting themselves you have to ask a simple question do our security forces have the right to defend themselves in the face of the ultraviolence of some demonstrators both the united nations and council of us have criticized the excessive force off mccombs response we encourage the government to continue dialogue and urged. full investigation of all reported cases of assessing use of force the heavy handed way the president quelled at the protests and dealt with public anger continues to haunt him policia r t.

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a facebook spokesperson told breitbart was nothing more than quote a mistake with our automation to detect spam as soon as we had done it by the issue we worked quickly to fix it but then on wednesday facebook and its monopoly of social media sites which includes instagram messenger and whatsapp found themselves victims of an epic outage that affected millions of users around the world and back and if that wasn't enough the cherry on top came late wednesday when the new york times dropped the ball that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into david deals space books struck with some of the world's largest technology companies well now while not much is known about what exactly the investigation is focusing on one can certainly imagine that it. might have something to do with the whole profiting off of letting other companies see a user's friends contact information and other data without consent so with facebook now looking almost almost as awkward as bait o'rourke's i was born to run

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