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the stories that shaped the week here on r.g.p. international new zealand mourns the fifty people killed in a terror attack on. national has been charged with murder in connection with the mass shootings. the. money. is going to happen to me now it was. just. after weeks of political stalemate over break that u.k. parliament votes to try and delay the country's divorce from europe.
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protests once again descended into violence and looting with police moving in hard in response. broadcasting from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. or new zealand was rocked by terror on friday when a gunman killed fifty people at two mosques in the city of christ church dozens of others were injured a man has been charged with murder in connection with the attack and will remain in custody until the fifth of april when he will 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 were not enough details and time to prevent the shooting itself.
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the talk. was cut cut cut cut. cut cut cut was. not just the monument splashing money comes in on my road or margaret remember bruno it was fun believe me it was a good party the front cover the back doors just received and stones.
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the first reports of the shooting of the all nor 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 and he's now been a cauldron of 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. the gunman was alive streaming the attack from there had to mounted camera that
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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 and breaded lies others there were also pictures of the guns he posted on twitter the firearms to what we call verge 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 the europeans from nonwhite and later 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 very fixed that we are none of these things. the suspects traveled to many countries including france turkey pakistan and others in
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eastern europe is also thought to have traveled 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 what he did there we discussed of the terror attack with political and social commentator mo on sar and middle east expert ali risk i think this shouldn't be 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 is. what we call white supremacy 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 we do need to drain the swamp and we do need to go off these people
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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 you can add to our to dot com. thanks. for the. searching gears now also this week too in the french capital where the eighteenth consecutive yellow vest protest has resulted in a return to violence the interior minister has called an emergency meeting over the damage inflicted by the rally artie's polis leader witnessed the unrest firsthand. thank you thank you thank you. thank you. thank
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you thank you thank you thank you thank. him using cost foxholes they've been using firecrackers and they've also been destroying a number of buildings is a bank in a side street that has been in town 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 come secu to week at a speed chase here both are to cast is radiating entities and we've got the canisters that are being thrown at us at the same time with the protesters that i
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had a chance to look. at the at the octave to thank you thank you there does seem to be a little heavy police presence to. with protesters saying that this is really the ultimatum that they giving the crown to step down. the protests are getting more and more violent and things continue to be bent over here further by police or 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 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
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cause violence so he these are the most violent scenes we've seen in paris in which president mccracken's government. thanks people are still out on the streets they've been here since early this morning and that's a cost battle 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. following the unrest of the french government has admitted they did not do enough to stem the arson and looting on sunday prime minister eduardo filipe said the measures taken were insufficient to contain the violence and prevent wrong too . it has been more than two years since the u.k.
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voted to quit the european union but it seems the country is no longer closer to leaving this week m.p.'s have voted to instruction the prime minister to seek an extension to the deadline from the e.u. this sparked fears of the brig's a process will never end. it's just going oh no no no no no every two weeks we come around on the merry go round we make the same speech all over again until right all right in the hope you will see that. we have a responsibility to end the on the certainty for all their constituents. to be beautiful ok and even though remains that the u.k. would leave the e.u.
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without a deal. that. last something else isn't predicted this is the lightest of time in the length of time for all chamber the deal is dead it cannot be resurrected he has bludgeoned does black going to blue without breaking a food deal the country's being misled and now the plan is pretty mislaid.
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if third a so-called meaningful vote on teresa mayes breaks a deal will take place next week if m.p.'s reject it she will ask brussels for a long deadline extension potentially lasting years depending on the reaction back home that could trigger a general election or a second referendum but if m.p.'s past may's deal she will ask brussels for a short extension until june thirtieth if no extension is granted or no deal agreed the u.k. could crash out of the bloc we 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 for raj use returned to the european parliament
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you've got to ask yourself whether this is a completely it's an art or incompetence or whether there's a plan on didn't i've always said we are really find out until the twenty ninth of march i think this is my is completely incompetent but it is she's carrying out somebody else's plan it was time in the parliament and i can hear the squeak from here across the river what does britain do next ask for an extension how long one month two months what would change in the one month two months the e.u. i have already said there's no for those negotiations possible so 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 amassed outside the main police station in the serbian capital demanding the release of those arrested over last night. it's storming of a major t.v.
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channel earlier 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 in that incident. they are denouncing what they say is president alexander. slide into autocratic rule the president was thought to be inside the building having just given a news conference in a televised address to. vowed to bring all rioters to justice on saturday night protesters tried to storm one of the country's main broadcasters accusing it of not giving enough air time to the protests. was. among the protesters were several opposition leaders including the head of the
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national party when riot police got involved in the head of the demonstrators changed his previous order to refrain from violence and protesters began to resist rallies are part of a greater movement announcing the serbian government's perceived attack on the civil liberties including in the speech. and investigation has revealed young people in iraq were forced into confessing links to the islamic state terror group that story much more still coming after a short break you are watching our international. you know world of big partisan movies lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past
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each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufactured consensus to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round be the one percent. can all middle of the room.
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welcome back you're watching the weekly on r t international now 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 iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely force suspects some as young as fourteen to confess the report features a number of first hand accounts as well. what to me is shot i mean and they say you know. it is. i three. hundred. seventy. at the age of the. little at the border. hello mr odd job that i just started just out of but just. enough that i decided that a lot and leave. myself. out
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of our business africa. and there was still a better way than i had the power. of a better one. the report describes the kind of torture to which of 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 employed by critics regional authorities. well 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 eisel at least one hundred eighty five foreign children 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 of these from the. kurdish there have charged hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their alleged presumed belonging to
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a islamic states 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. children are number one considered us combatants who are trying just as adults combatants and it is not fair that should be the international law is very clear and considers that children who are armed groups should be considered first and foremost i think that those who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than imprisonment and torture. we recommended the government the iraqi government and purchase orders 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
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action 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 awaiting comment on the allegations from the iraqi government the country's counter terror laws do permit of a detention and a trial of anyone involved with eisel that applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only played support roles like working as cooks or in hospitals . scuffles have broken out between supporters and opponents of ukraine's president at his campaign rally with protesters chanting the shame and where are the chopped off ants.
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is a reference to president petro poroshenko pledged to chop off the hands of a corrupt army officials that's after a scandal broke out over an investigative report claiming top defense officials are embezzling huge sums of money i rent officials have already been suspended following a probe and the strange have broken out across the country ahead of presidential elections in two weeks' time. all right space is cool i have to say that out right and a new crew has arrived at the international space station after their soyuz craft successfully docked nasa astronauts christina koch as well as russian cosmonaut alexi of cimon will now call the i says home for the next few months of training and they were part of a mission that was forced to board mid flight back in october last year they were warmly welcomed aboard joining three other crew members on the international space
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station artie's rif an ocean of witness to watch. you can see the fifty ninth expectation to the international space station starts oh my goodness look at this line. i can see the rocket in this guy's international crew onboard russia's alec city of cheating and two nasa astronauts take a guy and christina colgan here people who have gathered here from all around the 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 off to the left all for both sneak and aleksei had to return to earth and went into.
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this is where they were or who think perhaps to touch down some five hundred one of those from the launch pad by from or is this way to would mean they've lost on populated lending very well in theory of cheating and nikkei glenda's on harm on who move given that they tried with it to feel warm interested in the ballistic descent many times forward than the force of gravity qualify on the ground no one was hurt either you want to meet their single staffer at obama winter long before they in this area never mind the power for us really i think who clearly think worth it they say throw flowers bring me flowers here on because i found that as well as wrong with what you would praise for the emergency system. it is very emotional moment for everybody involved earlier i've had
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a chance to talk. to some of these enthusiastic tourists let's take a listen to the quiz that you 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 up didn't get all the way up into space it was an aborted mission so we just got in our mind it came back again and this is. the dream of mine since i was five years old and to watch a rocket go off and to come here which is the birthplace of a russian space the russian space program for me is some emotional there is no longstanding celebration but it is just a long long standing dream of it as if we'll be back in let's say thirty four minutes with more of the weekly international.
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front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises us a world without waste that's our objective. but behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to eschew any alternatives to plastic like the return of a bottle i think obviously. after months of negotiations with the american multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview. that's almost certainly done up so well. can i live to see. how polite and when welcome. in the cabin with. the school to welcome the frugal but it seems we have not yet won that trust. question into an additional. problem with every thought well wait a minute that caltex a option. the vice president of the company michael goldsman has travelled
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from the united states to on so all questions well he has worked for coca-cola for twenty one years he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french spica. after a while i was enchanted of it really so i interview is done in french. cook i could ask. some dish told it's human behavior. i think gets me to. sex. because they perceive that. the crane economy circular. is a move. to be l u u t's. who. would
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