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we were teaching these kids about racism about police brutality taking pride in the arts these kids are a part of history. terror attack in new zealand mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch killed forty nine people and injured forty eight others many of the survivors are in a critical condition. but the monument less than money i don't think oh my lord oh my god it's going to happen to me now it was done we believe equal and everybody to. cover the back doors just to save themselves for suspects are now in custody
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one of them is an australian national he lives strange the attack on facebook social media companies are under fire for failing to detect the racist manifesto from one of the alleged attackers where he reportedly claims have been planning the atrocity for years. and u.s. threatens to revoke visas from members of the international criminal court but his washington continues to pressure the body to stop investigating alleged war crimes committed by u.s. forces in afghanistan. so whistleblower linked to the exposure of alleged massive corruption in football fears for his life after a hunger in court rules that he'll be extradited over data theft charges his lawyers a warning that it's all part of an attempt to destroy evidence. joining us this evening this is our international. mass shootings two mosques in
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christchurch new zealand of killed forty nine people and injured forty eight others the country's police commissioner confirmed four suspects are now in custody one of them a male in his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will now appear in court tomorrow here is a recap of what occurred. there pretty distraught over the bear calls destroy themselves you good and you go one by one if you kill and some people die two worlds believe people. in the mean that all men on. the side it will burn deep bloods people some of them will be some of them were screaming bloody but the monument splashing money and i'm thinking oh my god oh my god it's going to happen to me now.
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this is one of new zealand's darkest days. the first reports of the shooting came in at one forty pm local time the hour nor the mosque minutes later another mosque five kilometers away was reported to wall so big under fire a video of the aftermath of one of the attacks has appeared on social media i must warn you may find the following footage disturbing. to the. world leaders have condemned the attack and criticize the rise of islamophobia they also offered support to the victims reports on the attack. so far police have made four arrests but almost nothing is being disclosed about these four people we
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didn't hear any names from them the only thing that we know so far is that one man in his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will appear in court on saturday now two other suspects are definitely being held in connection with this shooting and about one person they're not sure whether he or she has anything to do with the attack and i'll tell you what the police haven't even explained what the number of the shooters was and if everything posing a danger has been caught so far still quite a few questions have been left unanswered at this point we are not really looking for any identified because we never assume that there are other people involved that's why we've got a. prison cell. across canterbury and right across new zealand
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we don't have nine or identified people there we're looking for but it would be wrong to assume that there is no one else something else we learned from police boss mike bush and it's actually very astonishing that the agencies and the relevant authorities both from new zealand and australia are hard nothing about the perpetrators or their preparations before hand so as you said earlier police aren't identifying the suspect yet but me. we are already naming a name through an alleged live stream then yes there was this life stream and we cannot confirm that but it looks like the attacker was live streaming everything he was doing on facebook and everything is absolutely disturbing about this shooting spree but the life stream is just surreal if you look at it you don't believe it's something that can happen in real life it's like a video game the authorities asked the media and the public not to show it not to
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share it but obviously in the first few hours after the shooting it was all over social media we're just going to show you a few screen shots from it again if you look at it just. you cannot watch it without crying or anything without getting shocked it appears like the camera was attached to a man's face or somewhere below so you can actually see the gun and the people falling from all the gun shots it looks like the man was shot to kill as many people as possible running around the rooms of the mosque people were trying to escape but they couldn't and so that means suspicious the media accounts could have been traced before the incident yes and quite a few ugly things could have been found in the posts we could actually make a conclusion that the supposed terrorist was preparing for this for two years and one post there were actually photos of gun parts with names of christians who
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fought muslims in wars centuries ago the names were written on these parts so he was clearly going after muslim believers and a few hours before the shooting happened a manifesto by the supposed terrorists allegedly appeared online and this long manifesto law and the motives were racist they were anti immigrant sentiment was clearly there and it was also because of revenge for earlier terrorist attacks in europe now a little earlier the prime minister of new zealand spoke and in a quite emotional way she tried to elaborate why she believes her country became the target for these extremists we new zealand. we were not a target because we are a safe height. we were not chosen for the sake of violence because we can darn racism because we are an enclave for extremism. we would chosen for the very fact
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that we are none of these things and any case we are waiting for more updates from the stories from the police but new zealand will never be the same. came new zealand before this killing spree and after our to be different country. as you mentioned earlier the alleged shooter posted a seventy four page racist manifesto encouraging attacks on long whites there he claims they've been planning the attack for years although the united states was his first choice he also identified himself as a fascist the shooter also live streamed the attack on facebook and twitter for around twenty minutes social media giants facebook and twitter are now under scrutiny for their failure to highlight that extremist material soon. facebook twitter you tube and other providers have taken action to remove the b.t.o. and other purpose and the related to the attack the government has been clear that
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all companies need to act more quickly to remove terrorist content there should be no safe spaces for terrorists to promote and share their extreme views and brake lights others the issue is not whether or not there is technology available to police social media the bigger issue is are we as a global community ready and ready to allow social media to be policed that's really the big question right here it needs to be a public private partnership government and social media corporations absolutely need to collaborate on cyber crime such as this we know factually speaking that terrorism regardless of its vaine terrorism uses social media to recruit and to plan attacks we know this to be true in that being the case one of those elements can't operate without the other the private sector corporations social media companies and government need to work together to provide
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a safer global community. washington are starting to revoke or deny visas to members of the international criminal court wants if they attempt to investigate all prosecute alleged war crimes committed by u.s. forces in afghanistan since two thousand and three. we are determined to protect the american and allied military and civilian personnel from living in fear of unjust prosecution for actions taken to defend our great nation these visa restrictions will not be the end of our efforts we are prepared to take additional steps including economic sanctions if the i.c.c. does not change its course the international criminal court has been investigating the crimes of the taliban in afghanistan and they published a report in twenty sixteen now the report described many atrocities committed by the taliban and the afghan forces in the country however a section of the report they published in two thousand and sixteen did refer to war
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crimes by u.s. forces it referred to torture cruel treatment outrages upon the personal dignity and rape and essentially according to the report the i.c.c. published in two thousand and sixteen they said that these crimes had taken place in detention programs in the early years of the us the us military presence in afghanistan is reasonable basis to believe these alleged crimes were committed in furtherance of a policy old policies and to eliciting information through the use of interrogation techniques involving cruel violent methods which would support u.s. objectives in the conflict in afghanistan now the united states has never been a member of the international criminal court however in the year two thousand bill clinton did sign the declaration of the statue of rome that essentially created the i.c.c. however the united states never fully joined the i.c.c. now national security adviser john bolton at one point threatened sanctions against the i.c.c.
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if they continued probing into american war crimes and activities in afghanistan we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. and lee certainly will not join the i.c.c. we will let the i.c.c. die on its own after all for all intents and purposes the i.c.c. . she is already dead thuggish attempt to penalize investigators resuming attacks against the court sends a dangerous signal that the united states is host to human rights and the rule of law so at this point there's a clear disagreement the international criminal court seems to be pursuing the and investigating the activities of u.s. forces in afghanistan and u.s. leaders are not happy about it. let's bring in former pentagon security analyst michael maloof good to have you know michael strange situation remains is always thought of course is being you know a force for good enforcing laws to protect people why is the u.s.
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seemingly running scared. well because it will implicate its leadership if found guilty and. it does represent an extraterritorial reach in the end that there is some question about due process. the people who might be accused. but this is a you know as you point out as your report pointed out the united states never has been a party to this. and i don't believe russia nor china is either and actually a few countries have dropped out of the international court of justice so its popularity wanes i guess. and the country such as the united states in particular because it has such a an outreach of its own and its everywhere in the world feels that if there is any atrocities or alleged to trust there's a very trying but they will take the action but what we've discovered is that that
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generally doesn't happen particularly under the trumpet ministration and not the stand in the numerous reports of the killing the killing of civilians that we've seen also also in syria by by u.s. forces and u.s. led coalition's and. in a perfect world it would seem that based upon the old nuremberg tribunals and what have you have a problem world war two that you would need a court that that would take action if a country itself failed to do so and that seems to be there seems to be a backpedaling in that direction now. and at one point i recall that george bush and. dick. cheney and others who were involved in the iraq war of two thousand and three were basically. accused and and held up for alleged war crimes and and that in the fact that the united states was not
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a signatory to the i.c.c. it it refused to cooperate whatsoever and we're seeing where it is today you got to keep in mind too john bolton doesn't like any international agreements and he's made this very very clear. and from the i.n.f. treaty with the with russia i think you're the start new start treaty and that comes up for renewal in twenty twenty one is going to be a problem and he's he's also bowed out of the he's also counseled the president on bowing of the person agreement there is anything that limits the u.s. capabilities in any way shape or form john bolton trump seem to be opposed to it but. i think one of the things are very concerned about is that individuals individual soldiers themselves will be held up. allegations of. brawn doing and there's some question of being able from the u.s.
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perspective on how how these people will defend themselves when they were involved . in the firefight and things like that so it's. it's it's a debate that's not going to end and i can tell you the u.s. will not join up and and the only way you deal with this i think is the continually publicize these human rights violations and that's the only thing that's going to work at this point as far as threats go michael do you think that the pressure being applied will deter members of the international criminal court. well they can't get in the united states can't opt in so if their if their reasons are revoked that's the end of it. the question will be they they probably could issue judgments in absentia and if any of these people travel and if so you tories to that to the i.c.c. are so inclined they can they can. detain him i would imagine i mean that's really
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getting the be hard core and in fact i think it's really it's were subject to that line in the great britain and they cancel all troops in the great britain a few years ago. so i think that they're there are really there are recourses of action that so this is going into the courts of their countries and should these individuals who have been accused in any way shape or form travel to their country that if they're a signatory to the i.c.c. and and are strong backing it that they can and that that country can take necessary action to detain the individuals and you've seen to where where people like george bush and and others and i believe it was donald rumsfeld the former director secretary of defense refused to travel at all because of that potential threat. my guess is our former pentagon security policy
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analyst michael maloof michael thank you. pleasure. israel claims it said multiple hamas targets after a rocket attack on television we'll bring you details after the break. when normally gets manufactured sentenced to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round lives only the one percent. nor middle of the room six. million real news is.
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the braggs it saga continues a deeply divided british house of commons can only seem to agree on one thing it doesn't want the u.k. to leave the e.u. without a deal the problem is there isn't a parliamentary majority on what to do next maybe this was two resumes planned all along breaks it down version. footballer whose leaks of embarrassed some of europe's top clubs claims that there's an attempt to silence him that's after rubin tote lost an appeal against extradition to his native portugal where he's wanted for obtaining stolen data. he
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has the story. thirty one year old drew pinto from portugal might not be as well known as we can exclude founder julian assange but make no mistake about it he is football's biggest whistleblower he is believed to have founded the football league's website exposing the dark side of the beautiful game. and football leagues has indeed shaken the full billing world from an official probe into the cristiano ronaldo rape claims doing an investigation into the financial dealings of the powerhouse of modern european football champions league quarter finalist manchester city all that and many more emerged thanks to football
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leagues it was like to see a bigger car with a. missile blowers and i also felt this is the. premier now is the in the field business will have all the people. in the forward and trying to do what i think is in fact at least four european states seeking information from pinto to aid their investigations into different cases related to football but they might not get that information because this week been to a loss the legal battle against extradition from hungary to portugal that is despite being represented in court by julian assange just form a lawyer. risks it in light of the european community and more about the very sophisticated structured character of the criminality which kerberos the football world. pintos legal team argues that if he returns to portugal it's authorities will destroy all the data he possesses on top of that pinto fears for his life by.
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home after reported death threats to his family some believe that many in portugal the country that sees football as religion would want to extract their revenge on the whistleblower why because not only did he take a swipe at the untouchable portugal's idol cristiana ronaldo but he also targeted the country's superclubs benfica and sporting leagues coming from pinto alleged massive corruption and shady transfer dealings perpetrated by these two all things happening around him to have a striking similarity to the case of julian assange with one major difference while the australian whistleblower want to go into any court soon as he is still holed up inside london's ecuadorian embassy pinto is expected to be extradited to portugal on monday to face trial on accusations of data theft after that the fate of him and the information he carries which could prove essential to multiple scandalous investigations will be completely unknown. the r.t.
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reporting from moscow. students around the world of taking to the streets for climate change protests rallying is a lack of government action over global warming he called in its so-called school strikes were inspired by sixteen year old swedish activist greater than burke who joined the protest she began holding such demos in front of sweden's parliament last year in the protests have spread around the world friday's protests are expected to be one of the biggest international relief so far demonstrations are planned in more than one hundred countries. and exchange of fire is a scalar to tensions between israel and palestinian islam ists in the gaza strip israeli warplanes bombed around one hundred amassed linked targets in response to two rocket center to television was the first such attack on central israel since the two thousand and fourteen war.
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there were no casualties on the israeli side while four palestinians were wounded amasses denies it was behind the rocket attacks media reports claim the israeli authorities now believe the rockets were launched accidentally we spoke to journalists on both sides of the border. in a lot of statements issued by different political political leaders yuri knees role . particularly can look into some of the. most prominent leaders one being any guns who is 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 a 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 that's
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a 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. i spoke to the israeli education minister naftali bennett to get his reaction. we cannot accept this. rocket fire on our homes here in the. 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 lent over to the arabs they turned it into
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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 mean i 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 the begats more aggression. how is 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.
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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. and sustain without international updates on our top stories coming your way in half an hour. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one all to give you. i'm going to talk about football not three or else you can think i was going to go
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chilton we're glad you're on board coming up is britain barreling toward a broken branch that with the days dwindling ahead with a march deadline lawmakers vote on a delay of the new article fifty notification hillary for which the c.e.o.'s trail mark is standing by to discuss plus there are tons of auto headlines from bokes wagons job cuts to the arts major recall warren fix the current coach helps us drive through some of these key vehicle news plus levi's is making its green returns of public markets and is getting some huge boost smally barrow's joins us to analyze what that i.p.o. could look like all of that is directly ahead but first we had some headlines let's go. a step into ever greater uncertainty on bragg's that leads our global report today as the british house of commons has voted by margin of four hundred twelve to two hundred two to delay the nation's departure from the e.u. the motion recommends a prime minister theresa may.

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