question. because of the. 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 it's an almighty god oh my god it's going to happen to me now it was unbelievable and if i'm pretty distraught. because just. three suspects are now in custody one of them is said to be an australian national who allegedly live streamed on facebook social media companies have been slammed for failing to detect a racist money first though from one of the alleged attackers he reportedly claimed

been planning the atrocity for years. and in other news the us threatens to revoke visas for 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. joining us this is our international. mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch new zealand which left forty nine people dead have now been officially classed as acts of terrorism forty two others are still being treated for their injuries is a recap of what took place. everybody just trying to cover the bad calls themselves. and you go one by one.

and some people that it was believe me i mean that. later inside. plus people some of them would be screaming bloody the monument splashing money and into my god oh my god it's going to happen to me now. this is why not for new zealand's darkest days. first reports of the shooting came one forty pm local time in el norte a mosque minutes later another mosque just five kilometers away was also reported to be under fire a video of the aftermath of one of those attacks has appeared on social media i must warn you you may find this footage coming up now on disturbing. was.

was. was. four people were initially arrested in connection with the attack new zealand's prime minister has appeared at a press conference during which she pledged that gun laws in the country will be strengthened as a result of the massacre is just and are done with the details of the attack. three people have been a restated in relation to this event one a stray 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 head not come to the attention of the intelligence community nor the police for exterior. i have asked i didn't see this morning two weeks with late on a ceasing with it there 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 . twenty eight year old male appeared in court today and was charged with murder my colleague jacqueline vegas. 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've got. prisons. 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 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 can't 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 gunshots 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 enclave for extremism. we would chosen for the very fact that we are none of these things in any case we are waiting for more updates

from the authorities from the police but new zealand will never be the same new zealand before this killing spree and after are two different countries. most are mentioned earlier on an account believed to be connected to the gunman had a seventy four page racist manifesto it encouraged attacks on nonwhite claims he'd been planning to be attacked for years although the united states was his first choice to define himself to be a fascist the future live streamed the attack on facebook and twitter for the duration of around twenty minutes the through social media giants then down to scrutiny for their failure to highlight the extremist material. facebook twitter you tube and other providers have taken action to remove the video and now their 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 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 back 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 enough being the case one of those elements can't operate without the other the private sector corporations and 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

twelve website ulti dot com. washington a sudden to revoke old deny visas to members of the international criminal court if they attempt to investigate or prosecutes 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 that 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 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. 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 whole store 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 limit its actions. 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 bahrain arbors the person agreement there is anything that limits u.s. capabilities in any way shape or form john bolton. 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 were basically. accused and and held of. the word 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 we were 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. six civilians have been killed after three suicide bomb attacks targeting crowds fleeing islamic states last stronghold in syria that's according to u.s. backed forces it is near the eastern village of bugaboos were wearing women's clothing although it's thought that they may have been men is considered to be the first sultan civilians since this operation on the iceland began u.s. backed opposition forces say around thirteen hundred are still fighters and their families surrendered thursday near the syrian town of by guus the s. the f. 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 isolate stream is to trial in their countries of origin on german father has shared his view on the issue both his sons left the country to join eisel his 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. but you. know they both embraced islam they said it was their decision and it was the right face. in opposition. so they were thankful and said we had been the best parents they asked us to trust that it just was their faith and their way which they had to follow. to shut the fuck up. and. three weeks ago i received

a call saying that my older son fabian ended up as a prisoner of the free syrian army no one was asking for money it was simply informational that three days before fabian had been taken prisoner together with twenty other people. there are between seventy or eighty german young 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. israel bombed gulzar on friday after the first rocket attack on tell of even four years details after the break.

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street banks they don't have that option they should have that option and therefore you would restore some competition in the economy. an exchange of fire is escalated tensions between israel and palestinian islamists in the gaza strip israeli warplanes bombed around one hundred targets in response to two rockets sent into television 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 amasses denied it was behind the rocket attacks media reports now claim the israeli authorities believe the rockets were launched accidentally you 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 eliminated hamas leaders but also other political leaders saying that they expect out of prime minister binyamin netanyahu 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 doesn't 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 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 acacia minister naftali 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 anymore 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 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 no certainly no one's trying to preach and i think everybody understands no matter what their their 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. 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. the head of u.s.

special operations in africa has admitted that washington and its allies are not winning the war on terror in the region and one country begin a fast so appears to be paying the price auntie's donald quarter explains. you've heard about the u.s. is adventures in afghanistan iraq libya syria but maybe you didn't know washington's also got involved in the west african country of burkean faso 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 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. today we are militarily engaged in the whole region force it's our 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.

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. and security in birkenau fast so has led to terrible crimes by both armed islamists and state security forces but in the fossils 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 the interest of its own citizens instability in the country in general with many soldiers who are one supporting the government many have taken arms many are in the bush may be accounted for many have even joined al qaeda the government clearly has already put their hands up to say that and not feet not able to contain al-qaeda has decided to increase its attacks against bookit afonso simply because it wants to make

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 the country plagued by repainted 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. well that's all for me for the cd thanks for your company stick around my colleague mccarron will be here at the top of the hour with updates on a story. that

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beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gonzo and this may be completely different but end of history. is nonsense ideological scarecrow is the real labor was who will have to leave the old ways of being good nato or wherever. it's in no interest to go to russia to settle for russians and to understand that. will trump pardon his former campaign chair and wouldn't pay a political price for that with his base you take a look at that on this edition of. the ponting on larry king on wednesday donald trump's former campaign manager paul

man of fort learned his fate on his federal convictions immediately after began the speculation about whether the president will pardon him but how it is showing a pardon affect his popularity with his base and what role would it play in his twenty twenty reelection bid we will talk about that with rick wilson g.o.p. political consultant his number one best seller everything trump touches dies and a republican strategist gets real about the worst president ever is now out in paperback and he joins us from tallahassee the capital of florida if you would syriac should read to the sentencing a man of forty well larry i think what happened yesterday with paul metaphor it was a shock to very few people he got a very light sentence in the in the virginia case and judge berman issued

a sentence that stretches that out to make it so that paul metaphorically was jailed about the age of seventy eight he was also hit yesterday with additional charges out of new york for felony mortgage fraud related to some of his other activities in this whole shenanigans so paul man a force looking at a very bad set of outcomes in and right now even a federal pardon is not going to change the charges in the state of new york that now face him. the egg says cia director john byrne fan of mr trump says he has no doubt the president will pardon him do you feel that way. i think i think that. mr brennan may be mistaken in this regard donald trump doesn't really have a lot of will to the people who aren't useful to him and at this point now that paul man of fort faces. thirteen charges in new york against him of the from the manhattan district attorney you know there is no reason for donald trump to get mccollum and afford out of jail he is going to benefit is is should have flipped

when he had the chance or should have told the truth to the special counsel when he had the chance these charges might have been levied against him had he been seen to be somebody who had remorse and was cooperating with authorities so i don't think that triple pardon him but the new york matter has to go to trial it does but right now from the from the initial reading that i've done on it it looks like a very open and shut case in terms of the way he misrepresented a value of his assets in order to get these mortgages for these apartments that he was purchasing trends says he's going to rough go if tim does. what will be the reaction of the congressional republicans and his base. well his base in the congressional republicans will look at that pardon as part of trump saying oh it's all a witch hunt it's all fake it's all phony but the reality is i think he'll pay a price.