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i i i i i i i i i. terror attack in new zealand mass shootings mosques in christchurch kill forty nine and injured another forty eight many of the survivors are in a critical condition. the one. from apple who know it was believed and everybody the. three suspects are now in custody one of them is an australian national who allegedly live streamed the attack on facebook social media companies have been slammed for failing to detect
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a racist manifesto from one of the alleged attackers where he reportedly claimed to have been planning the atrocity for years. so the u.s. threatens to revoke visas from members of the international criminal court as washington continues to pressure the body to stop investigating alleged war crimes committed by u.s. forces in afghanistan. plus a whistleblower linked to the exposure of alleged massive corruption in football fears for his life after hungary and court rules that he'll be extradited over data theft charges with his lawyers warning it's all part of an attempt to destroy evidence. good evening welcome this is. mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch new zealand which left forty nine people dead and more than forty
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inches of now been officially classed as acts of terrorism here's a recap of what took place. just trying to cover the bad calls just persuade themselves you're good to go one by one. and some people back to work believe me it will. mean that. it will have plenty of people some of them will be screaming bloody. murder will never going to happen. this is one of the new zealand's darkest days the first reports of the shooting came at one forty pm local time in the north mosque minutes later another mosque
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just five kilometers away was also reported to be under fire a video of the aftermath of one of the attacks has appeared on social media i must warn you though you may find this footage coming up now disturbing. was. was. before people were literally arrested in connection with the attack one of them a male in his late twenty's has been charged with murder and will appear tomorrow in court two others remain in custody or thirty's later said the fourth person held was likely not related to the attack parties are trying to has details. so far police have made four arrests but almost nothing is being disclosed about these four people we 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
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in court on saturday now two other suspects are definitely being held in connection with this shooting and i'll tell you what the police haven't even explained what the number of the shooters was and if everything 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 of there are other people involved that's why we've got a. prison cell. across canterbury and right across musial and we don't have nine or identified people that we're looking for but it would be wrong to assume that there is no i want to know. something else we learned from police boss mike bush and it's actually very astonishing that the agencies and the
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relevant authorities both from new zealand and australia hard nothing about the perpetrators or their preparations before hand so as you said earlier police aren't identifying the suspect yet but media are already naming a name through an alleged live stream then there was this life stream and we cannot confirm that but it looks like the attacker was live streaming everything he was dawn 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 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
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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 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 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 the
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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 that we are none of these things and any case we are waiting for more updates from the thora g.'s from the police but new zealand will never be the same new zealand before this killing spree and after are to be different. it's.
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well as you mentioned earlier the shooter posted a seventy four page racist manifesto encouraging attacks on nonwhites that he claims that he'd been planning the attack for years though the u.s. was actually 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 the two social media giants are now under scrutiny for their failure to highlight the extremist material earlier facebook twitter you tube and other providers have taken action to remove the video and other propaganda related to the attack the government has been clear that 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 braddock lies others the issue is not whether or not there's 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
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really the big question regular 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 if you plan attacks we notice to be true in that be the case one of those elements can operate without the other the private sector corporations social media companies and government need to work together to provide a safer global community for more details on live updates on this incident had to r.t. dot com. washington threaten to revoke or deny visas to members of the international criminal court but
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if they attempt to investigate or 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 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.
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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 aimed 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. 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.
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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. . he is already dead us thuggish attempt to penalize investigators resuming attacks against the court sends a dangerous signal that the united states is whole style 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 end investigating the activities of u.s. forces in afghanistan and u.s. leaders are not happy about it former pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes that the u.s. never cooperates with any agreements that could limited sanctions. but i keep in mind too john bolton doesn't like any international agreements he's made this very very clear. and from the i.n.f. treaty with what russia has also canceled the president on barnabas the person agreement there is anything that limits u.s.
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capabilities in any way shape or form john bolton and seem to be opposed to it george bush and. dick cheney and others who were involved in the iraq war of two thousand and three word basically. accused and and held a full knowledge war crimes in the fact that the united states was not a signatory to the i.c.c. it. refused to cooperate whatsoever and in a perfect world it would seem that based on the old nuremberg tribunals and what have you been following world war two that you would need a court that would take action of a country itself failed to do so and that seems to be. backpedaling in that direction now. students from one hundred countries have taken to the streets for climate change protests rallying against a lack of government action over global warming the coordinated to circle school
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strikes were inspired by the sixteen year old swedish activist gratitude in berkeley joined the protest and start he began holding six demos in front of sweden's parliament last year since then the protests have gone global fridays protests are expected to be or the biggest international rallies to date. whistleblowing football these leagues of embarrass some of europe's top clubs claims that there's an attempt to silence him after really pinto lost an appeal against extradition to his native portugal where he's wanted for obtaining stolen data. has a story. thirty one year old from portugal might not be as well known as we could weeks co-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.
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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 leagues it was like to see a bigger car with a. missile blowers and i also felt this is the. premier now. 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
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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 last the legal battle against extradition from hungary to portugal that is despite being represented in court by julian assange just form a lawyer a few. risks it in light of the european community and more about the very sophisticated structured character of the criminality which corrodes 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. 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
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the countries superclubs been fever and sporting leagues coming from been to 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. reporting from moscow. six civilians have been killed after three suicide bomb attacks targeted crowds fleeing islamic states last stronghold in syria and seclude into u.s. backed forces the attack is near the eastern village of booze we were in women's clothing although it's thought that they may have been burned it's considered to be
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the first assault on civilians since this operation and they are still enclaves began u.s. backed opposition forces say around thirteen hundred are still fighters in the family surrendered on thursday near the syrian town of by guus also claims at least one hundred twelve militants were killed after a massive military offensive was launched a few days ago with the help of u.s. support. meanwhile as concerns increase about bringing islip stream is to trial in their countries of origin one german father has shared his view on the issue both of his sons left the country to join eisel is a story. yeah . this is fabian my eldest son he should be in a prison of the free syrian army now. and this is my ul my youngest son's.
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birth they both embraced islam they said it was their decision and it was the right faith. in opposition. but i didn't. so they were thankful and said i had been the best parents they asked us to trust that just was their faith and their way which they had to follow. the for. three weeks ago i received a call saying that my older son fabian ended up as a prisoner of the free syrian army that no one was asking for money it was simply informational that three days before fabian had been taken prisoner together with twenty other people. being more certain of that and there are between seventy or eighty german young
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women children men who are currently being held prisoner in syria from a legal point of view i think the german government has an obligation to bring these children back for two reasons one is that they are german citizens and the other is the state is partly responsible for letting so many young people go to syria. and i think of far as escalated tensions between israel and palestinian islam ists in the gaza strip israeli warplanes bombed around one hundred hamas linked targets in response to two rocket sentence tell of a that was the first such a to. on central israel since the two thousand and fourteen war. the no casualties on the israeli side while four palestinians were wounded the masses denied it was behind the rocket attacks the media reports claim the israeli authorities now believe the rockets were launched accidentally we spoke to journalists on both sides of the border. in
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a lot of statements issued by different political political leaders yuri knees ryle . particularly can look into some of the. most prominent leaders one many guns who he's a serious contender for the upcoming elections among other things he says that it is time that israel and women need to hamas leaders but also other political leaders saying that they expect out of prime minister binyamin netanyahu with 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 as 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
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the night before last night hamas said that it's looking into the shooting well we need to take measures against those responsible for it i spoke to israel's education minister enough tally bennett to get his reaction. we cannot accept. 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 learned 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 u.n. says that an armed palestinian civilians were shot by israeli forces so are you
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surprised that there is an aggressive. response coming from palestinians who 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 their grasp of the situation in the middle east is that the violence the cycle of violence continues and one begets 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. 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
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that's very simple. and the head of u.s. special operations in africa has admitted washington its allies are not winning the war on terror in the region and one country became the first service to be paying the price auntie's stunnel quarter reports. you've heard about the u.s. is adventures in f. . on the stand iraq libya syria but maybe you didn't know washington's also got involved in the west african country of bourke enough and well it's not going so great i would tell you it's time we are not winning well he seems more optimistic than some of his allies what we fight against received every day is like a took a don't know with the terrorists won from us for years washington has been fighting that terrorist toxin in burkina faso and like afghanistan terrorist groups in the country are only becoming more active isilon al qaeda splinter groups conducted one hundred thirty seven attacks last year three years ago it was only twelve as
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a result tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and over a million require aid the un is calling it a humanitarian emergency and the government knows it has a problem so far the consequences are terrible schools and health clinics are closed people have fled it's become a no man's land washington solution has been military presence and money france has also brought armed forces into its former colony its air strikes regularly act on behalf of the government to deal with militant attacks you so much will do is just live in today we are militarily engaged in the whole region it was a force its own responsibility to do it because these are friendly countries and because we are all targeted by terrorism which creates a common cause in which we are today deeply engaged there stay in the country hasn't exactly treated the french well though last year the embassy was attacked by militants.
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but human rights groups are saying the government's crackdown on terrorists is fueling the hate extrajudicial killings abuse of suspects in custody and arbitrary arrests to name a few the growing insecurity in birkenau fast so has led to. terrible crimes by both armed islamists and state security forces but in a fuss has been taken over by militants the country itself has suffered immensely the government has not been able to meet top its obligation in or in interest of its own citizens instability in the country in general with many soldiers who were once supporting the government now many have taken arms many and bush many on account for many have even joined al qaeda the government clearly has already put their hands up to say that and not fit not able to contain al-qaeda has decided to increase its attacks against booking afonso simply because it wants to make
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a statement to the united states that it can take the fight to them so as the united states' involvement in the book in a faster saga has increased so have the attacks. with the country plagued by repeated attacks foreign military assistance does not appear to be solving the problem the government is investigating allegations by human rights watch of abuses against civilians committed during ongoing counterterrorism operations. because of the rough things up for this news i'll be back in just over thirty minutes with the latest. the brig's 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
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