i i i. i i. i i i. feel. terror attack in new zealand mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch kill forty nine people many of the survivors are in a critical condition. and i'm thinking my road or my boat is going to happen you know it was illegal and everybody. with the bad calls just. three suspects are now in custody one of them an australian national who allegedly live streamed the attack on facebook social media companies have been slammed for failing to detect

a racist manifesto from one of the alleged attackers where he reportedly claimed to have been planning the atrocity for years. in other news the us threatens to revoke visas from members of the international criminal court that has washington continues to pressure the body to stop investigating alleged war crimes committed by u.s. forces in afghanistan. good evening midnight here in moscow now you're watching r.t. international. mass shootings to mosques in christchurch new zealand which left forty nine people dead now being officially classed as acts of terrorism forty two where this is still being treated for their injuries is a recap of what happened. there but he described the bare walls just to suit themselves. and one by one. it's

about you and some people that he too was believe what i saw in the me in the room . right inside it would burn people plus people some of them would be some of them were screaming bloody the monument splashing money on them from all my god oh my god it's going to happen to me now. this is one of new zealand's darkest days first reports of the shooting came at one forty pm local time in the north of mosque minutes later another mosque just five kilometers away was reported to also be under fire a video of the aftermath of one of those attacks has appeared on social media must warn you you may find this footage coming up now disturbing. was.

four people were initially arrested in connection with the attack here is new zealand's prime minister with the latest. three people have been a restated in relation to this event one strangely in citizen will appear in court today charged with murder. none of those every handed had a criminal history either here or in astray. the individual charged with mood at had not come to the attention of the intelligence community nor the police for extremism. i have asked i can see this morning two weeks with lee on assisting with it was any activity on social media or otherwise that should have triggered a response. the fourth person who was arrested yesterday was

a member of the public who was imposition of a firearm but with the intention of assisting police they have since being released . supposed to want easily to trying to for more information about the shooting. 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 at this point we are not really looking for any identified because we never assume that their on other people involved that's why we go to. prison. across canterbury and right across new zealand we don't have nine to five people that we're looking for but it would be wrong to assume that there is no want to. 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 hard nothing about the perpetrators or their preparations before hand 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 doing on facebook and everything is absolutely disturbing about this shooting spree but the lifestream it's just surreal if you look at it you don't believe that 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

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

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 on cry 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 tease from the police but new zealand will never be the same new zealand before this killing spree and after are to be different.

as we mentioned earlier an account believed to be connected to the government had a seventy four page racist manifesto that encourages attacks on nonwhites claims that he'd been planning the attack for years over the united states was his first choice he also identified himself as a fascist the shooter also live streamed this attack on facebook and twitter for around twenty minutes in total the two social media giants are now under scrutiny for their failure to highlights 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 really the big question about 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 their terrorism regardless of its vaine terrorism uses social media to recruit to 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 head to our website r.t. dot com. washington is certain to revoke or deny visas to members of the international

criminal court that's 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. 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 influence 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.

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 us thuggish attempt to penalize investigators resuming attacks against the court sends a dangerous signal that the united states is hostile 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 former pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes that the u.s. never cooperates with an agreement that could limited sanctions but 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 barnabus the person

agreement there is anything that limits u.s. capabilities in any way shape or form john bolton. seemed to be opposed to it 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 a full knowledge of 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 if a country itself failed to do so and that seems to be. backpedaling in that direction now. on whistleblowing football there who thinks of

embarrass some of europe's top clubs claims that as 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 the story. thirty one year old drew pinto from portugal might not be as well known as we can leaks 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. and football leagues has indeed shaken the footballing 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 also about this is the. premier now live. in the field business will have all the people. in the forward and trying to do what i think is in fact at least for 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 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 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 we've been 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. r.t. reporting from moscow. the un has concluded that in order to protect the environment people need to eat less meat the report suggested a tax on red meat saying it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make people rethink their diet choices it's estimated that worldwide emissions taxes on foods could save around one gigaton of c o two and results in net health benefits at the global level due to reduced consumption of meat the report also states that space for livestock accounts for almost eighty percent of global farmland intensive farming uses huge amounts of water and beef generates at least six times the greenhouse gas emissions as

a kilo of soy or the livestock industry is considered one of the main contributors to deforestation in the amazon. so let's discuss this in more depth now i'm joined on the line by social justice social and environmental justice campaigner george barda who works with a campaign group extinction rebellion and also by former republican state senator john loud and welcome to you both gents george first what effect do you think a tax on red meat would actually have all meat consumption would it really affect people's choices of what they're going to have to eat for dinner. well i think economists have been wrong about a lot of things in recent decades but the one thing that remains fairly true is the incentives do matter in terms of economic behavior i mean obviously how this would work in practice is a hugely sort of complex question and you know of course we're faced with a global scenario where in fact meters hugely subsidized to the tune of billions of dollars across the world. so i think the important thing from my point of view is

that as a point of principle the idea that we try in bring in the real well understood costs of meat eating to human health to the planet we bring that into the economic calculation i think that clearly makes sense and the evidence this report seems to suggest that even even in the very short term let alone the increases going forward it would have a very demonstrative effect. what do you think about that john i mean the accusation coming from this report is that kind of red meat effectively murder to cooling the phrase in the sense that it's damaging the the quality of living conditions that we have on the planet with many many more people going to be here in the us to come and many less resources would attack do you think. well one thing attacks would do is as we know is make people more poor i mean we know that in the united states we typically accept in most states not california

that taxation is supposed to be about raising money to operate government not change people's behavior if you're going to go down the road of taxing things to change behavior then we make enemies of our neighbors i can imagine an industry of people like this gentleman that get up every day and try to think how can they change everybody else's behavior and tax them into conformity with their lifestyle . i mean what i would say my response to that is this is about sensible economic measures that seek to address the real costs of what we're doing and i mean for people in america and europe there are billions of dollars of negative health impacts from meat consumption but what we're talking about across the world is devastating impacts already to hundreds of millions of people from the climate change the meat eating drives enormously we have all sorts of looming crises with

a growing growing population in the twenty first century not least sufficient access to water across the world and the reality is that if we carry on as we are and not eating meat is the single you know for most people in rich countries it's the single thing that we can do that would most reduce our environmental impact not making those changes will inevitably lead to millions and millions of deaths across the world especially in the equitorial regions i especially in the places that have done the least to cause these problems and this is you know the i'm not surprised to hear the the other end laughing at this because how else could he respond you know he has to laugh at this because otherwise he would have to believe that all of the reality that basic oh no i mean this is absolutely demonstrably the case we're already seeing droughts floods typhoons flattening countries and you know i imagine the guy i'm talking to john is somebody that denies the reality of climate change because of course that's convenient as well but this is not something that is meaningful and i will no i it's i or you know

a reality very reality. no i'm talking about scientifically are you with greenpeace he doesn't buy by your reality. i mean he's not going to get into a room with you you know it's not clear who doesn't and he takes millions of dollars and cents and this is not proof go ahead john you respond because you always have something you just want to really get yeah. well i love the way these pinheads talk with absolute certainty that the world's going to end and i ask you why do we no longer call it global warming because the theory of global warming has been thoroughly debunked so now you're going with changing weather changes climate change they change one direction a change another this idea that somehow it's manmade and that col flatulence is going to kill millions of people around the equator is just one of the most

laughable things i've ever heard and it's really amusing to see people like you come on with such veracity as if you've got your case prove it and nobody is going to go for having their feet taxed you can be a vegan don't don't stick your vague and lifestyle on me thank you very much i like a steak. i know and understand i grew up eating red meat as well i very much understand these food is a deep cultural social as soon so i understand this isn't easy but i can only repeat the point that you have to love this because otherwise you would have to take the new different scientific strands that demonstrate this seriously and what we're talking about is millions of lives already being hugely damage and impacted by the pollution caused by the meat industry the meat industry is caused causing dead zones across the world especially in. rivers meet the ocean. i mean there are any number of problems we're talking about a massive looming health crisis of microbial resistance because especially in the

u.s. so many so many antibiotics the vast majority of farm animals because they live in such horrific position. i mean the reality for hundreds of millions of people already is that climate change is a catastrophic impact on their lives and what we're talking about is billions more being affected only really growing globally i mean that. how about we focus. something that i'm sure you can't deny and then the the there is very established scientific reality that i magine you learned about in school about the food chain about how every step you go the food chain you news and the g. and other words to get a kilos of nutrition from a cow the cow has to eat new kilos of grain that could otherwise be fed to people across the world we have an incredibly wasteful food system and then we are always going to die this but we rose so. we throw away you said

or you take these macro views the reality is in ninety percent of the world people are living longer i don't know what you're afraid of actually i mean it's really it's bizarre you don't seem to understand it technology's advance and by the way i live at sea level in florida and my flood insurance that i don't have to buy have hurricane storm insurance my flood insurance went down forty percent so the markets the people a financial stake don't believe you that the seas are going to rise continuously in one direction and never receding go back in the other direction so you know when you throw at the end by the way another one i'm talking to a florida company they have an enzyme that kills the red algae so it will eat that and make it go away we develop technologies to deal with these problems we don't return our lifestyles back to the stone age and live like cave men eating plants and running away from woolly mammoths we eat the meat and we grow it and we prosper

and we live longer lives and enjoy ourselves and so what thank you for keeping your views so very socialist europe and let us in the united states enjoy our very enjoyable and have satisfying lifestyles. it's hugely destructive to the health of the united states i mean it's you would really struggle to find a single medical professional we live longer than agree it was that we need to reduce we needed to do so and i'll tell you want to larry i want to have had the you know if years old again is that what. i would like to live long and healthy well i would like to live long and healthy i would like far fewer people in your country and mine to be living to eighty but on a constant diet of expensive pharmaceuticals that have all sorts of side effects the approach to technology that you espouse which is that any problem we create we can come up with some technological fix what we're faced with on a global scale is the consequence of every fix for

a problem that we face causing secondary problems we have limited understanding of the very complex ecology on which all life depends and this is simply not a question of something that can be reduced to the question to a lifestyle choice of people in the us what the people are doing in the us and across the world what rich people are doing eating lots of meat is having disastrous consequences for the pool and we have a harrowing global there it is we destroy our forests thing right away to get out of a war between the classes. no it's not about some level of juggling or people and. oh in this respect i mean it is you know. this we understand go ahead john you respond i mean you go. you know we have the healthiest we have probably among the healthiest poor in the world here in the

united states the lifestyle the poor here very well taken care of and because we have the largest to care for them and by the way they eat a lot of meat in this country so. the pork poor people here have big donalds. or other fast food restaurant about every block we do well so this idea that you are not going to prosper the rest of the world by taxing the life out of cattle and cattle farmers and swine farmers and we do just the notion that you're just going to tax me i'm glad it you got back to the real point that you really just hate rich people and it's all about social justice equity and bring everybody down to the lowest lifestyle that kind of prefer to or just want to ask you this is everything is correct in this report and we need to make changes to save humanity in the long term an alternative to launching an attack on red meat of the road the

ways that this could be done. this is not a coincidence that this u.n. report you know alongside countless other reports talks about the simple reality that we are destroying a vast amount of the rest of the planet on which we ultimately depend for us survive through our eating of red meat if we stop teaching me as a planet we could reduce ecological footprint by about seventy five percent the deforestation is a massive problem it's having impacts on on water on climate on all sorts of things and one of the key drivers of that is meat eating and you know it's kind of difficult to have this discussion because john on the other side just seems to ignore. ignore science in every way that's convenient to him and he's part of a political movement that allied with corporations has spent billions of dollars in fact on undermining science on all sorts of issues and again there's plenty of very

very real evidence for this written up in many different places you know whether it's the denial in relation to the link between tobacco and cancer between c.f.c.'s and the ozone layer between passive smoking and cancer now with climate change they simply deny reality because it's inconvenient to their view which is that the rich should be able to do whatever they want irrespective of the consequences on anyone else and the simple fact is that if the if we want a functional world in twenty fifty we have to accept the fact that there are there are enough people on the planet now that it hugely matters how we use the earth's resources and it is simply unfair on any any take for the very wealthy that have caused many of the problems through their over consumption already and i include myself and people in this country in that it's deeply unfair that that is having catastrophic effects on millions of people i just come back quickly as one of the things that john said yes we are living longer yes the ability of modern medicine to keep people along.