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bring you the stories that shapes the week here on r.t. international new zealand mourns the fifty people killed in the terrorist attack on two mosques and a surly national has been charged with murder in connection with the mass shootings the bloodiest of the monument. and anything on my blog or my book is going to happen to me now it was unbelievable and everybody. over the calls just to see it and so. the 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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and yellow vests protest the game descended into violence and looting with police moving in hard in response. to weekly here on r.t. international great to have you with this. new zealand was rocks by terror on friday when a gunman killed fifty people two mosques in the city of christchurch 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 then face further charges the suspect is thought to have posted a white supremacist manifesto online apparently the same document was sent to state authorities just minutes before the attack but there weren't enough details or time to.
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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 auntie's bettina cochon of the reports. the deadliest terror attack a new zealand's history they attack was so brutal a video game. this is one of new zealand's darkest days. the gunman was a live streaming the attack from there had to mounted camera that atrocity lasted for almost twenty minutes the footage showed him firing from close range it was
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only after some time but the video has already spread far and wide social media giants phase book 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 there should be no safe spaces for terrorists to promote and share their extreme views and breaded lies others there were also pictures of the guns he posted on twitter the firearms to what we call verdict 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 so new zealand well he assumes to have plenty attack carefully
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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 this act 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. the suspect traveled to many countries including france turkey pakistan and others in eastern europe is also
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thought to have trouble to the u.k. in the manifesto a number of other countries are also mentioned some of the states he visited have now launched probes to find out exactly what he did the who discussed the terrorist attack with political and social commentator a middle east expert at the risk. i think this wouldn't be a very much of a surprise when in fact this attack reminds me of the attack which was carried out by the you know we jim 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 and terrorism and that's why that i think is the correct or accurate name a more accurate description which we should give to you know this whole hateful ideology and it really we do need to drain the swamp and we do need to go after these people who allow these far right groups to in complicity grow and get funding
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and are allowed 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 information on the impact of the events in new zealand head to our website. they said to the french capital now where the eighteenth consecutive yellow vests protests have resulted in a return to violence the interior minister is called an emergency meeting over the damage inflicted by the rally artie's police leer witness the unrest. thank you thank you. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
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the situation here in the cities is getting increasingly more violent she demonstrators have been using cost foxholes 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 the fire. 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 canisters that are being thrown at us at the same time with the protesters that are trying to box. at the at the uk to tear thank you.
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there does seem to be a full heavy police presence today with protesters saying that this is really the ultimatum that they giving the crowd to step down. the protests are getting more and more violent and thanks continue to be bent over here further by police not 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 butt. passing flames. thank you thank you thank the country's interior minister saying that they believe 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
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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. maybe more than two years since the u.k. voted to quit the european union but it seems that the country is actually no closer to leaving this weekend pays voted to instruct the prime minister to seek an extension to the deadline from the e.u. another sparked fears that the brig's that process will never end.
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going all no no no no no no every two weeks we come around on the merry go round we make the same speech all over again and still ride all road and hope you will see that. we have a responsibility to end the other certainty for all our constituents. to be beautiful ok and you know remains that the u.k. will leave the e.u. without a deal. lest something else isn't predicted this is a waste of time in the minds of time for all chamber deal is dead it cannot be resurrected she has blocked and does black and blue without breaking
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a food deal the country's being misled and now the plan is pretty misplaced. a third so-called meaningful vote on treason is briggs it will take place next week rejected for a long deadline extension that potentially could last for years depending on the reaction back home it could even trigger a general election or a second referendum but if m.p.'s per space deal well she'll ask persons for just a short extension till june thirtieth if no extension is granted or no deal agreed
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the u.k. could even crash out of the blog we've got reaction to the 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 good to see is seventy three nigel ferrars years returned to the european parliament you've got to ask yourself whether this is a complete and utter incompetence or whether there's a plan on the and i've always said we are really fine now until the twenty ninth of march i think this is my is completely incompetent but it is she's carrying out somebody else's plans it was time in the parliament and i can hear the squeak from here across the river just what does britain do next ask for an extension how long
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one month two months what will change in the one month two months. i've already said there's no for those negotiations possible sort of action it's likely that something dramatic has to be done to break this logjam and my money is now on a general election. thousands of anti-government demonstrators amassed outside the main police station in the serbian capital demanding the release of those arrested over last night storming of a major t.v. channel early they drove a truck at a police cordon in a bid to form a human chain to block the presidential building a number of police were injured. i lose these protesters are denouncing what they say is president alexander she slide into rule president was thought to be inside the building having just given a news conference in a televised address future shrouds to bring all the writers to justice saturday
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night protesters trying to storm one of the country's main broadcasters accusing it of not giving enough air time to the protests. i was i was i was. among the protesters were several opposition leaders including the head of the nationalist very party and riot police got involved ahead of the demonstrators changed his previous order to refrain from violence and protesters then began to resist rallies part of a bigger movement announcing the serbian government received attack on civil liberties including freedom of speech. now an investigation has revealed that youngsters were forced into confessing links to the islamic state terrorist group will bring that story and more in just a moment. i
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do think the numbers mean something they've matter to us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent in the world market rose thirty percent somewhat four hundred to five hundred three first second per second and fifth we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overrule. the only number you need to remember one one business showed you know for
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the mid one and only boom boom. breaks it down tonality. human rights watch has released a damning report by exposing torture and abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to his law mixtape in iraq the group says that iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely force suspects some as young as just fourteen to confess the report features a number of first hand accounts. yeah you just saw it sort of there are too short. to mean shut any and so you know colo.
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in order to totally bit. the obama. and the born. yellow of mr ugly job what i just started just had. enough that i listed a lot and leave. much. to a lot of our viewers and for. you know when there was the better when i don't have . the report describes the kind of torture to which the detainees are allegedly subjected 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 i could to stand regional authorities. according to human rights watch at the end of last year iraqi and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hundred children over their alleged affiliation with at least one hundred eighty five foreign children have been
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convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to jail we heard from one of the people 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 larry you know dot for my positions because if they are based on confessions that were tortured out of the kids. children are number one considered us combatants who are trying just as adults combatants and that it 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
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i think those who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than imprisonment 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 actions well sure they should be tried but they should be tried according 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 hauled 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 waiting comment on the allegations from the iraqi government the country's counter-terror laws to permit the detention and trial of anyone involved with eisel that applies even if they haven't committed violent crimes and only played supporting roles like working as cooks or in
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hospitals. scuffles have broken out between supporters. opponents of ukraine's president this was at his campaign rally with protesters chanting shame and wear the chopped off. a lot of comment is a reference to president petro poroshenko pledged to chop off the hands of corrupt army officials after a scandal broke out over an investigative report claiming top defense officials were embezzling huge sums of money i ranked officials have already been suspended following a probe demonstrations have broken out right across the country the presidential elections there in two weeks' time. and finally a new crew has arrived at the international space station after the soyuz craft successfully dot nasa astronauts nick christina cook this well as russian cosmonauts alexi of gin in well now call the i assess home for the next few months
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june and they were part of a mission that was forced to abort mid flight back in october of last year now though they've been warmly welcomed on board joining through the three other crew members on the i assess if a national witness to launch. is the moment you can see fifty nine thanks petition to the international space station oh my goodness look at. the rock and in this. story not sneak a. get here people who have gathered here from all around the globe to witness the launch of loading because that was picked taqiyya lets 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 sneak and aleksey had to return to
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earth. this is where they were a good thing kept down some of the five hundred one of those from the launch pad like when it was this way to would mean they've lost on the way to length i don't think i've seen any pagan lended on harm i've been really given that one with it to feel one of the residents the ballistics and many times over the course of gravity while on the ground no one was hurt either you want to be there think sapper it obama going to law before they leave here we have never mind the power for a really cool little cooling i think worth it april showers bring flowers here
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on that haven't found that i was wrong with what was a craze for the emergency system. 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 it is now is a wonderful experience but they got it didn't get all the way up into space it was imported mission so we just got their mind it came back again this is. the dream of mine since i was five years old and to watch your 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
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a long long standing journey thanks staying with us this is our tail for may for today stick around there my colleague sean thomas will bring you right up to date at the top of the hour. lead. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy own foundation let it be an arms race. sparing dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty to kill time time to sit down and talk. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember that it was most of my family were unemployed. and it wasn't it was bed much worse objective listen today
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but there was an expectation of the things we're going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to know on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow sector of will switch is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.
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what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to the press this is what the full story of the boy can't be that . interested always in the waters in the house. this should. all film begins in hawaii in the middle of the pacific ocean in spite of the island's remote location it is also foreman that day and to the epidemic of the
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twenty first century plastic. the. plastic pollution is littering beaches and endangering certain species of animals no matter how remote or out of reach. but. in this laboratory in the north of the occupied ago scientists study marine animals not plastic at least in theory. no idea what that. but it's certainly plastic. jessica apparel man is a biologist accustomed to finding plastic in fish stomachs she has started a very unique collection. casually often plastic bags. this was all
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coiled up in the stomach when i found it had no idea what it wasn't all that it just. or did you react when in this installment i was shocked i started you know documenting it measuring it taking photos showing whoever else was around in the lab and we were kind of. we were just you know a shock to think that these fish are are really ingesting this i mean. to how disbelief this is the young research it was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began her work on this species. these fish live at a depth of about two hundred to four hundred meters and they're clearly you know coming in contact with plastic and it appears that plastic is is truly a deeper problem that we might have imagined. even swimming at these depths the long said fish casually you might find
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a brand name such as this dishonored bottle label and what is this so this is a label from a water bottle dishonored bottle clearly and found amongst the lancet fish stomach . this is a. design yeah design is a pretty well known. bottled water company. you know finding finding a label such as this in the stomachs makes it that easy to determine where it you know where it may have originated. this is.
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