you know miss one and only game but it. was out it was and. it was a. terror attack in new zealand mass shootings at two mosques in a christ church kill forty nine people many of the survivors are in a critical condition. the monuments to listen in on me and i'm single my lord oh my god it's going to happen to me not to words believe it with any of the pretty distraught over the course of justice who themselves. one of the suspects has been charged with murder he allegedly lifestream to the attack on facebook social media companies have been slammed for failing to detect his racist

manifesto where he reportedly claimed to have been planning the atrocity for two years. 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. to. a low and welcome you are watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital. mass shootings at two mosques in christchurch new zealand which left forty nine people dead have now been officially classed as acts of terror forty two others are still being treated for their injuries here's a recap of what happened. they're

pretty distraught over the bad calls just to save themselves. one by one. and some people that. believe people. in the mean that. it will be plus people some of them will be some of them were screaming bloody the monument splashing money and all my god oh my god it's going to probably not. this is one of new zealand's darkest days the first reports of the shooting came as one forty pm local time in the mosque minutes later another mosque just five kilometers away was reported to also be under fire a video of the aftermath of one of the attacks has appeared on social media a warning he might find the first hitch to.

was. four people were initially arrested in connection to the attack these ilands prime minister has appeared at a press conference during which he pledged that gun laws in the country will be strengthened as a result of the massacre here is just into arms and with other details of the attack. three people have been a restated in relation to this event one as fraley in citizen will appear in court today charged with mood. none of those every handed had a criminal history either here or an astray. the individual charged with mood at had not come to the attention of the intelligence community nor the police for exterior. i have asked i didn't see it this morning two weeks with late

on a ceasing within the 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 in position of a firearm but with the intention of assisting police they have since being released . and twenty eight year old male appeared in court today was charged with murder bryant and harrison tarrant stands accused in connection with the attack on the mosque in christ church in six about they expected that he will face further charges over the shooting early on my colleague jacqueline. information about the. spite the fact that the authorities were saying to the media and to the public please don't show it please don't share this stream and the recording of it was all

over social media for the first few hours after the attack and we are not going to show you that one maybe just a few screen shots but it is absolutely surreal everything is disturbing about this attack but this is just beyond words. it appears like the camera was attached to the man's face or maybe so more below so you can see the actual goal in fact it looks like a video game and where ever the gun is pointing you can actually see the gun the man just kills everyone who he sees in these rooms people who are trying to escape what he does if he just keeps running around all these rooms trying to look for more and more people in this case a few hours before the attack happened a manifesto again supposedly by that same man appeared with motives being outlawed some of them included immigrant sentiment and also revenge for attacks in europe now i just want to go back to some of the things that senior officials from new

zealand were saying there was also a press conference by the prime minister and she had something very emotional to say about why she believes our country was targeted and it is because of all that diversity in new zealand we new zealand. we were not a target because we are a safe height. we were not true isn't for the sake of allah. and because we can darn racism because we are an enclave for extremism. we were chosen for the very fact that we are none of these things and in any case we are waiting for more dates from the stories from the police but new zealand will never be the same new zealand before this killing spree and after our two will be different countries. as we mentioned earlier and i can believe to be connected to the gunman had

a seventy four page racist manifesto and courage in attacks on non-whites it claims he had been planning the attack for a year is the us was his first choice he also identified himself as a fascist this year to also live stream to 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 breaded lice 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 that terrorism regardless of its vaine terrorism uses social media to recruit or to plan attacks we notice to be true in that b.b. 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 of more details on live updates on this incident you can head to our website r.t. dot com. and other news now washington has to essence to revoke all deny visas to members of the international criminal court fast if they attempt to investigate so 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 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 has 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. . c. 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 lee 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 the u.s. never cooperates with any agreements they could limit its actions but keep in mind too john bolton doesn't like any international agreements he's made this very very clear. and from the you know i.n.f. treaty with what russia has also canceled the president on barnabas the person braman 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 a full knowledge war crimes and 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 the country itself failed to do so and that seems to be. backpedaling in that direction now. washington and its allies have suffered some setbacks in the struggle against terrorism in africa as according to the head of u.s. special operations on the continent more on that kind of

a story is coming up after this break. 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 to resumes planned all along breaks it down. it's up to the government to step in and be a player in the economy not just an enabler for monopoly you know the government should be competing for health care and drug prices they should be competing in transportation and education and they should offer an alternative people should be able to get

a public utility bank for example account and get out of the matrix of the big wall street banks they don't have that option they should have that option and therefore you would restore some competition in the economy. welcome back six civilians have been killed off to three suicide bomb attacks targeted crowds fleeing islamic states last stronghold in syria according to u.s. backed forces the attack is near the eastern village of bocuse were wearing women's clothing although it's thought they may have been men is considered to be the first a still tongue civilian since this operation on the ice will enclave began u.s. backed opposition forces there around one thousand three hundred i still find it is

on the families surrounded on thursday near the syrian town of banking. yes the s.d.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. air support meanwhile as concerns increase about bringing isolated stream ists to trial in their countries of origin one german father has said his view on the issue both his sons left the country to join i still has his story. this is fabian my eldest sons who should be in a prison of the free syrian army now. and this is my new role my youngest son's. but. they both embraced islam they said it was their decision and it was the right

faith. but i'm just 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. us at the foot. three weeks ago i received a call saying that my older son fabian just ended up as a prisoner of the free syrian army no one was asking for money it was simply information that three days before fabian had been taken prisoner together with twenty other people. most of the being. 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. the head of u.s. special operations in africa has admitted that washington on their lies are not winning the war on terror in the region and one country bikini afonso appears to be at thirty paying certainly paying the price of artie's donald quarter reports. 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 burke 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 receive 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 you so much will do and gives you television 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 bourke in a 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 mainly soldiers who are one supporting the government and the 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 they're not feet not able to contain al-qaeda has decided to increase its attacks against booking a faucet 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 but 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 abuses against civilians committed during ongoing counterterrorism operations. the un has concluded that in order to protect the environment people need to eat less meat they report suggests attacks on red meat saying it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make people weigh think their diet choices it's estimated that

worldwide emissions taxes on foods could save around one gigaton of c o two and result 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 farmland in the world 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 us and my colleague mia larvae discuss the issue with social and environmental justice campaigner george barda and former republican state senator john larder. what 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 with face with the global scenario where in fact me toos hugely subsidized to the tune of you know 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 one thing a tax 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 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 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 no surprise to the other and laughing at this because how else could he respond you know he has to laugh at this because otherwise he would. i have to believe reality that they say oh no i mean this is absolutely demonstrably the case we've already seen 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 say i did this i owe you a reality very reality. no i'm talking about scientifically. greenpeace he doesn't buy your reality. he's not going to get into the room when you know you know it's not you know he doesn't and he takes millions of dollars and sends it like this is not proof yes we are living longer yes the ability of modern medicine to keep people alive is a remarkable development in the last sixty years but the consequences of the way we're living more and more destructive to the oceans to the forests to the soil to the water to the rest of the species on the planet the i mean there are any number of negative consequences and you can bury your head in the sand but you know because you have a rich privileged life where the world's resources flow to you or you can look at the reality of what your children demand of us in terms of change now. i wasn't

playing football and he's leagues have embarrassed some of europe's top clubs claims as an attempt to silence him as after a pinto lost in a pair they gave six tradition to his native portugal where he's wanted for obtaining stolen data. picks up 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 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 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 been fever and sporting leagues coming from being 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 thanks for joining us on r.t. international we're back at the top of the hour with all the latest. i.

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