that's where your good word. will which will is dedicated to increasing virtue of just. one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. terror attack in new zealand mass shootings at two mosques in christ church killed forty nine people and many of the survivors are not in a critical condition. the monument for me and my lord oh my god it's going to happen to me no it was believed it would and everybody distraught over the course just to save 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 a racist manifesto in which the author claims to have been planning the atrocity for two years. the us threatens to revoke visas from members of the international criminal court that says washington continues to pressure the body to stop investigating alleged war crimes committed by u.s. forces in afghanistan. hello and welcome you watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital. mass shootings at two mosques in christ church new zealand which left forty nine people dead have now been officially classed as acts of terror forty two of those are still being treated for their injuries here's a recap of what happened. they're

pretty distraught over the bad calls just putting themselves inside and you go one by one it's about you and some people that it was believe people. in the main the. writing side there were plenty plus people some of them were some of them were screaming bloody the monument which blessing money and all my god oh my god it's going to happen to me not. this is one of the new seal and its darkest days first reports of the shooting came at one forty pm local time in the al nor 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 you might find the first pitch disturbing. was. four people were initially arrested in connection with the attack new zealand's 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 in dollars and with other details of the shooting. 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 australian man appeared in court today in list charged with one count of murder brenton harrison terence stands accused following the attacks on the mosque in christ church he's been ordered to to be held in custody on the presiding judge said he expected terence would face the charges later and he has more about the terrible events but looks like the attacker was live streaming everything he was doing on facebook and everything is absolutely disturbing about

this shooting spree but the life stream is just surreal if you look at it you don't believe it's something that can happen in real life it's like a video game the authorities asked the media and the public not to show it not to 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 the 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 and 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 or anti immigrant sentiment was clearly there and it was also because of revenge for earlier terrorist attacks in europe now a little earlier the prime minister of new zealand spoke 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 for those who hate. 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 dates from the stories from the police but new zealand will never be the same new zealand before this killing spree and after are two different countries. as you mentioned earlier and i can't believe to be connected to the gunman had a seventy four page racist manifesto and courage in attacks on nonwhite it claims he had been planning the attack three years is that the us was his first choice he also identified himself as a fascist the attack was also live streamed on facebook and twitter for around twenty minutes only hours later did the social media platforms manage to remove the

content from the thought that here giants are now under scrutiny for their failure to highlight the extremist material. facebook twitter you tube and other providers have taken action to remove the b.t.o. 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 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 of ready to allow social media to be policed that's really the big question right here it needs to be a public private partnership government and social media corporations absolutely need to collaborate on cyber crime such as this we know factually speaking that terrorism regardless of its vaine terrorism uses social media to recruit

and to plan attacks we know this to be true enough be the case one of those elements can operate without the other the private sector of corporations social media companies and government need to work together to provide a safer global community from what it has and live updates on this instant you can head to our web site i'll take a call. and have a nice now washington has questions to revoke or deny visas to members of the international criminal court as a bad time to investigate all profit prosecutor alleged war crimes committed by u.s. forces in afghanistan going to stand the c. 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 the policy old policies and to eliciting information through the use

of interrogation techniques involving cruel violent methods which would support u.s. objectives in the conflict in afghanistan now the united states has never been a member of the international criminal court however in the year two thousand bill clinton did sign the declaration of the statue of rome that essentially created the i.c.c. however the united states never fully joined the i.c.c. now national security adviser john bolton at one point threatened sanctions against the i.c.c. 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 li 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. 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 from the pentagon security analyst michael maloof believes the u.s. never cooperates with any agreements that 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 i.n.f. treaty with what russia has also canceled the president on barring of us 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

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 so to come washington and its allies have suffered some setbacks in the struggle against terrorism in africa that's according to the head of u.s. special operations on the continent we've got more on that and plenty more stories coming up after this short 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 the three suicide bomb attacks targeted crowds fleeing islamic states last stronghold in syria according to u.s. backed forces the attack is near the center village of cuckoos where wearing women's clothing obo it's thought they may have been men is considered to be the first assault on civilians since this operation on the i saw enclave began u.s. backed opposition forces say around one thousand three hundred iso fighters and their families surrendered on thursday near the syrian town of big goose. a.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 isolate stream ists or

trial in their countries of origin one german father has shared his view on the issue both his sons left the country to join eisel here's 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 face. in opposition. but i didn't. so they were thankful and said that i had been the best parents they asked us to trust that i just was their faith and their way in which they had to follow.

us at the foot of the table and. 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 most of the boats and 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. and 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 became a found appears to says it may be paying the price as i too thought of course 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 and 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 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. 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 security. berkin 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 the government and the many have taken arms many are in the bush may be unaccounted 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 profit 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 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 other pieces against civilians committed during ongoing counterterrorism operations. the un has concluded that in order to protect the environment people need to eat less means they report suggests attacks on red meat saying it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make people we think that 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. well 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 contributions to deforestation in the amazon and my colleague neil harvey discussed the issue with social and environmental justice campaign a george barda and former republican state senator john lauder. 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 to say 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 can on that calculation i think that clearly makes one thing it 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 changed 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 that on the reality that they say oh no i mean this is absolutely demonstrably the case we've already seen droughts floods typhoons flattening countries and 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 like this i already know reality very reality. no i'm talking about scientifically are you with greenpeace he doesn't bite by your reality. i mean he's not going to get into what i mean when you're writing you know

it's not that he doesn't and he takes millions of dollars and cents it like circumstances 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 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 demond of us in terms of change now thanks for chasing off the international we're back in just over thirty minutes with all the latest to see you.

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into this. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the brags that saga continues this 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 resume its plan all along briggs's death through inertia.

that i'm joined by my guest we're now in paris he's the chief foreign correspondent of the figaro in london we have george galloway he is a broadcaster a writer and a former member of parliament and also in london we have alan skip he is a professor emeritus of international history at the london school of economics right gentlemen cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate george let me go to you first here we've had. two very disastrous votes for to resume its plan the there has been a move that there there will be no exit without a deal the deal is supposed to be voted on again like the two first votes it doesn't appear that that's going to move forward and you have the european commission basically saying that's the deal you negotiated with there's a little wiggle room maybe for invoking article fifty but not much more than that they have pretty much put up by a stone wall here where do we go from this because like i said in my introduction one a cynic and i certainly am. saying this was planned all along.