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the. stories that shaped the week here on are to international new zealand mourns the fifty people killed in the terrorist attack on two mosques a man who made a white supremacist sign in court has been charged with murder in connection with the mass shootings and has to face further charges. of the monument. and i'm thinking oh my god oh my god it's going to happen to me now it was the people and everybody. because this person had done so and. after weeks of political stalemate over briggs's the u.k. parliament votes to try and delay the country's divorce from europe.
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yellow first protest once again descended to violence and looting with police moving in hardin response. good evening and welcome you watching the weekly here are marty international. new zealand was rocked by terrorism on friday when a gunman killed fifty people at two mosques in the city of christchurch doesn't dozens of others were injured a man has been charged with murder in connection with the attack and will remain in custody until april fifth when he will face further charges suspect is thought to have posted a white supremacist manifesto online apparently the same document was sent to state or thought it is just minutes prior to the attack but not enough details or time to
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of the first reports of the shooting at the el norte a mosque came at one forty pm local time minutes later reports came in of a second attack on a mosque five kilometers away the country's prime minister described what happened as one of new zealand's darkest days medina reports. the deadliest terror attack a new zealand's history they attack was so brutal it resembled a video game. this is one of new zealand's darkest days.
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the gunman was a live streaming the attack from had to mounted camera that atrocity lasted for almost twenty minutes the footage showed him firing from close range it was the only after some time but the video has already spread far and wide social media giants facebook and twitter are now under a scrutiny for their failure to stop the extremists material or their 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 old companies need to act more quickly to remove terrorist content no safe spaces for terrorists to promote and share their extreme views in braddock lies others there were also pictures of the guns he posted on twitter the firearms to what we call for it with anti islamic slogans and various languages his account has been blocked since then but what made this young australian kill all these people in cold blood
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so new zealand well he assumes to have plenty attack carefully at least that's according to the documents a sort of a manifesto that appeared on line several hours prior to the attack and believed to be a linked to the at. hacker and now a lengthy document he identifies himself as a fascist and he carried out the attack to save all europeans from nonwhite invaders new zealand wasn't his first choice but it sure was his last enough to show that there are no safe places and the world we new zealand. we were not a target because we are a safe harbor 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 were chosen
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for the very facts that we are none of these things were suspect travel to many countries including france turkey pakistan and others in eastern europe is also thought to have traveled to the united kingdom in the manifesto a number of other countries are also mentioned some of the states he went to have now laws probes to find out what he was doing that we discussed the terrorist attack with political and social commentator. middle east expert the risk i think this wouldn't be that much of a surprise that in fact this attack reminds me of the guitar which was carried out by the you know we have brevik who carried out a similar attack if you recall in norway going to immigrants and also against the muslims one fortunately we do have this ferrari in what we call white supremacy terrorism that's right that i think is the correct or accurate name a more accurate description which we should give to you know this whole hateful
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ideology and we do need to drain the swamp and we do need to go off these people who allow these far right groups to in complicity grow and get funding. to spread who are the ones who support them where does the money go we need to follow the money we need to find out how these groups are allowed to thrive because it is a real problem now. for more on the impact of the events in new zealand head to our website r.t. dot com. thank. you very much. said now to the french capital where the eighteenth consecutive yellow vests protests have returned to violence the interior minister has called an emergency meeting over the damage inflicted by the rally will slit witness stand rest. thank you thank you thank you.
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thank you thank you thank you thank you. the situation here on the city's is getting increasingly violent she demonstrators have been using plastic bottles they've been using firecrackers and they have also been destroying a number of buildings is a bank in a side street that has burned down and a number of kiosks have also been completely destroyed and for that reason we have been ambulances coming in and out and also a number of fire brigades to come and put out the fire thank you thank god this is the eighteenth consecutive week at a speed chase here both are to cast is raby really intense and we've got the
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canisters that are being thrown at us at the same time with the protesters that are trying to block. at the at the octave to thank you thank you there does seem to be a little heavy police presence today but protesters saying that this is really the i. ultimatum that they giving the crown to step down. the protests are getting more and more violent and things continue to be burnt over here further by police are just in front of us so we caught between the riot police and the protesters so. we're just going to move down a little bit but could pass in flames. thank you thank you thank the country's interior minister saying that they believe
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there are about one and a half thousand of these protesters who are here just to cause damage and just to cause violence so he these are the most violent scenes we've seen in paris in recent weeks but it's reminiscent of the chaos the frustration and the anger against president mcconnell's government. thank people are still out on the streets they've been here since early this morning and that's a gas bottle that's been thrown the scenes continue to unfold and this despite the fact that the great debate which the french president mccrone initiated ended yesterday more than seventy percent of french saying that they believe that it is simply a waste of time the french president certainly will continue to struggle to contain this anger on the streets of paris policia r.t. paris. though it may be more than two years since the united kingdom voted to quit
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the european union but it seems the country is no closer to leaving this weekend peace voted to instruct the prime minister to seek an extension to the deadline from the e.u. and that sparked fears that the bags that process might never end. it's just going on and on and on every two weeks we come around on the merry go round we make the same speech all over again and still ride our own hobbyhorses. we have a responsibility to end the other certainty for all our constituents. to be able to fall. into you know remains that the u.k. would leave the e.u. without a deal. lest
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something else isn't predicted this is a waste of time and a waste of time for all change the deal is dead it cannot be resurrected he has bludgeoned does black and blue without breaking the food deal the country be misled and now the plan is being mislaid. a third so called meaningful vote on trees of maize briggs the deal will take place next week if m.p.'s reject that swell she will ask brussels for
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a long deadline extension potentially lasting years depending on the reaction back home that could trigger a general election or even a second referendum but past may still well she'll last brussels for just a short extension until june thirtieth and if no extension is granted or no deal agreed to the u.k. could still crash out of the block we go reaction to these latest developments. the government have made the biggest mess in history the prime minister's utterly incompetent she should never have had the job she got there by accident and she just led from one catastrophe to the next she lied to the public when she stood for office she said she was going to give them breaks it she's trying to do everything to prevent it if we end up having to stay beyond a certain period we have to take part in the european elections then what you're going to see is seventy three nigel for raj use returned to the european parliament you've got to ask yourself whether this is a complete and utter incompetence or whether there's
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a plan on that and i've always said we are really find out until the twenty ninth of march i think this is by is completely incompetent but it is she's carrying out somebody else's plans it was one time in a parliament and i can hear the squeak from here across the river just what does britain do next ask for an extension how long one month to myself what will change in the one month two months the e.u. i have already said there's no for those negotiations possible source it's likely that something dramatic has to be done to break this logjam and my money is now in a general election. thousands of anti-government demonstrators have amassed that side the main police station in belgrade demanding the release of those arrested over last night storming of a major t.v. channel earlier they drove a truck and the police cordon in a bid to form a human chain to block the presidential building. i. protest as
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a denouncing what they say as president alexander who teaches slides to autocratic rule the president is thought to be inside the building having just given a news conference in a televised address. all rioters to justice saturday night protesters tried to storm one of the country's main broadcasters accusing it of not giving enough airtime to the protest i. was i was i was among the protesters with several opposition leaders including the head of the nationalist very party when riot police got involved the head of the demonstrators changed his previous order to refrain from violence and the protesters began to resist rallies are part of a big movement denouncing the serbian government and as a geisha reveals youngsters were forced into confessing links to the islamic state
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down and talk. human rights watch has released a damning report exposing torture and abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state in iraq the group says that iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely for suspects some as young as just fourteen to confess their report features a number of first hand accounts. sort of there are two sure. to me a shot i mean and so you know kolo.
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toure at the. age of obama. well boy are you looking at the world. a lot mr our job what i just started just. enough that i lifted up a lot and. tried to match my for. a lot of our viewers at home. and in our home and they were still better when i don't have. the report describes the kind of torture to which the detainees are allegedly subjected to beatings with plastic pipes and electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks and stress positions are said to be among the methods deployed by kurdistan regional authorities. according to human rights watch at the end of last year wracking kurdish authorities who are holding some fifteen hundred children over their alleged affiliation with ice or at least one hundred ninety five foreign children
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have been convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to jail we heard from one of those behind the report. iraqi authorities or no vote or abuse from the. kurdish there have charged hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their alleged presumed belonging to a islamic state these prosecutions very often rely on very you know dots for my positions because if they are based on confessions that were tortured out of the kids. those children are number one considered us combatants who are trying just as adult combatants and that is not fair that should be the international law is very clear and considers that children who are recruited by armed groups should be considered first and foremost i think those
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who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than prison and told . we recommended the government the iraqi government and kurds who are used to immediately free all those guess who have not committed the crime as for those who are suspected of having committed crimes and other violent action well sure they should be tried but they should be tried accordingly to international rules and compelled to minors in all cases we recommend strongly that there is no practice of torture anymore and that investigations are open jewel hold all the perpetrators accountable these are the recondition that we have addressed to the kurdish and the iraqi government and we are to expect to get answers. we are awaiting comment on the allegations from the iraqi government the country's counter-terror laws to permit the detention and trial of anyone involved with ice and applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only played support
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roles like working as cooks or in hospitals. and you crews arrived at the international space station after the soyuz craft successfully docked. cake and christina coach as well as russian cosmonauts alexi of chinon will now call the i assess home for the next few months of chinon in a good part of a mission that was forced to abort mid flight back in october last year they were warmly welcomed aborts joining three other crew members on the isis on his behalf and witnessed the launch. you can see fifty nine thinks petition to the international space station starts oh god this is a look at. the rocket in this. order russia is. cheating and to nasa astronauts dk and christina we can hear people who have gathered here from all around the
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globe to witness the launch of loading because that was spectacular as you remember their previous mission in october didn't go well it was aborted made flight due to technical problems and just minutes after they leaked all for both sneak and aleksey had to return to earth and went into. this is where they were or who think perhaps he'll pipe down some five hundred one of those from the launch pad but for the world this way to deal with thing they've gone on populated lengthy lengthy epstein and nick clegg lended on harm on the roof given that the climate that he took a woman president he believed to be found many times more than the force of gravity
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while on the ground no one was hurt either. or you want to think tapper and obama going to law before they leave there we have never mind the power for a really think or literally think worth it april showers bring flowers here although i haven't found that i was wrong with. grains for the emerging for fifteen . it is very emotional moment for everybody involved earlier i had a chance to talk to some of these enthusiastic tourists let's take a listen to quit so we can see such an event only once in your lifetime one cannot miss it it's a great occasion it's very interesting and it's a huge step into space for all of the country we came last year in october to see the space launch and as you know is a wonderful experience but they got it didn't get all the way up into space it was an aborted mission so we just got our mind to come back again this is been
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a. dream of mine since i was five years old and to watch a rocket go off is to come here which is the birthplace of russian space the russian space program for me is some emotional there is no long standing sort of ratio but it is just a long long standing jury. ok that means read it today and join me for the latest news headlines and more not top stories in just over half an hour. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the pope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to search the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted
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