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the stories that shaped the week here on r.t. international new zealand mourns the fifty people killed in a terror attack on two mosques an australian national has been charged with murder in connection with the mass shootings. at the monument. and i'm thinking oh my lord oh my god it's going to happen we know it was illegal and everybody. goes. after weeks of political stalemate over breaks in the u.k. parliament votes to try and to delay the country's divorce from europe.
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the all of us protests once again descend into violence and the looting with police moving in are in response. casting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. and new zealand was rocked by terror on friday when a gunman killed fifty people and 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 the fifth of april when he will face further charges suspect is thought to have posted a white supremacist manifesto online apparently that same document was sent to state authorities just minutes before the attack but were not enough details and time to prevent the shooting.
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please. please. please. let up. to fifty feet of. feel bad if. you understand that the monument splashing money empty all my world all margaret remembered me no it was fun believe me it was a good party defining who are the best tools just for sleeves and stones. the first reports of the shooting out of the all nor mosque came in ad one forty pm
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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 artie's medina culture of reports. the deadliest terror attack in new zealand's history the attack was so brutal a video game. this is one of the new zealand's darkest days. the gunman was. live 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 fay's 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 the 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 in braddock lies and others there were also pictures of the guns he posted on twitter the firearms what we call for it with anti islamic slogans in various languages his account has been blocked since then but what made this young australian kill all
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these people in cold blood new zealand well if he is 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 linked to the attacker in 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 for those who hate. we were not chosen for this act of violence because we can darn racism because we're an on clay for extremism. we would chosen for the very. extent we are none of these things the suspect to traveled to many countries
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including france turkey pakistan and others in eastern europe he 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 the terror attack with political and social commentator mo ansari and a middle east expert on the risk i think this wouldn't be of that much of a surprise that in fact this attack reminds me of the attack which was carried out by the norwegian 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 of 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 off these people who allow these far right groups to in complicity grow and get funding
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and allow 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 head to our t.v. dr. in the u.k. a violent assault on a muslim teenager took place on sunday just west of london police are calling it a terrorist act inspired by the far right suspect reportedly screamed to kill all muslims while attacking a nineteen year old in the parking lot of a grocery chain using a baseball bat and of my attacker escaped but was arrested later when local residents saw someone wielding a long shiny metal weapon in their neighborhood the victim was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries and that incident.
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got out of the french capital where the eighteenth consecutive yellow vest protest has resulted in return to violence the interior minister has called an emergency meeting over the damage inflicted by the rally. witnessed it all firsthand. thank you thank you. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. the situation here on the cities is getting increasingly violent she demonstrators
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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 out the fire. thank god this is the eighteenth consecutive week at a speed chase here both are to cast is raby waiting continues and we've got the canisters that are being thrown at us at the same time with the protesters that are trying to block. at the at the octave thank you. there does seem to be a full heavy police presence today with protesters saying that this is really the
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ultimatum that they giving the crowd to step down. the protests are getting more and more violent and thanks continue to people until they hear 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 don a little butt. coughing flames. oh. 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 against president mcconnell's government. people are still out on the streets they've been here since early this morning and
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that's a cost 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. following the unrest the french government has admitted they did not do enough to stem arson and looting on sunday prime minister eduardo filipe said the measures taken were insufficient to contain the violence and prevent wrongdoing. it has been more than two years since the u.k. voted to quit the european union but it seems the country is no longer or no closer to leaving this week m.p.'s who voted to instruct to the prime minister to seek an extension to the deadline from the e.u.
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this sparked fears of the brics a process will never end. it's just going oh no no no no no and every two weeks we come around on the merry go round we make the same speech all over again and i'm still right our own hobbyhorses. we have a responsibility to end the on the certainty for all our constituents. the beautiful u.k. and you know remains that the u.k. would leave the e.u. without a deal. i don't know less unless something else is of predicted this is a waste of time in the length of time for all change the deal is dead it cannot be
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resurrected he has been bludgeoned does black and blue without bringing in food deal the country's been misled and now the plan is being mislaid. a third so-called meaningful vote on that teresa mayes begs a deal will take place next week if m.p.'s rejected 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
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a second referendum but if m.p.'s pass maze deals 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 block we've got reaction to the latest developments. the government have made the biggest mess in history the prime minister was 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 he has 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 that and i've always said we are really find out until the twenty ninth of march i think this is my is completely incompetent but she's carrying out
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somebody else's plans 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 will change in the one month two months. i've already said there's no for those negotiations it's possible. 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's storming of a major t.v. 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. i
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they are denouncing what they say is president alexander vote churches slide into autocratic rule the president was found to be inside the building having just given a news conference in a televised address. 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 nationalist a very old party and when the riot police got involved the head of the demonstrators changed his previous order to refrain from violence and protesters began to resist rallies are part of a bigger movement to denouncing the serbian government's
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a perceived attack on civil liberties including freedom of speech. well an investigation has revealed young people in iraq were forced into confessing links to the islamic state terror group that story much more coming up in just a minute you are watching the weekly on our to international. law. i didn't say the numbers mean something they've matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars of debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich six
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percent of the world market goes thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first second per second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know bored to miss the one and only boom but. welcome back this is 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
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to islamic state in iraq the group says iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely force suspects some as young as fourteen to confess and the report features a number of first hand accounts. what to me a shot i mean when you say you know quite low. at the age of the. at the border. you know what mr average joe i want i just i just had this. and that's that method that a lot of and. to much. of our viewers out for. the better than half. of.
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the report describes the kind of torture to which the detainees are allegedly subjected beatings with a 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 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 they're charged hundreds of minors here is because of their and alleged resume belonging to other islamic states these prosecutions very often rely on very you know for my physicians because
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they are based on confessions that were tortured out of the kids. those children are considered combatants who are trying. as adult combatants and it is not fair that certain being the international law is very clear and considers that children who are armed groups should be considered first and foremost i think those who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than prison time and told. we recommended the government the iraqi government and purchase orders to immediately free all those guess who have not committed a crime as for those who are suspected of having committed crimes and other violent oppression well sure they should be tried but they should be tried accordingly to international rules and to minors in all cases we recommend strongly that there is
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no practice of torture anymore and that investigations are open jewel hauled all the perpetrators accountable these are the recognition 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 countries that counter terror laws do permit the detention and trial of anyone involved with eisel that applies even if they have not committed violent crimes and only play to 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 shame and where are the chopped off hands. is a reference to president or a proportion goes pledge to chop off the hands of corrupt army officials that is after
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a scandal broke out over an investigative report claiming top defense officials are embezzling huge sums of money high ranking officials have already been suspended following a probe of demonstrations have broken out across the country head of presidential elections in two weeks' time the only thing we. have to say outright space is cool and a new crew has arrived at the international space station after their soyuz craft successfully dot nasa astronauts nicole and christina koch as well as russian cosmonauts. now called the i assess home for the next few months of chanaan and were part of a mission that was forced to abort mid flight back in october last year they were warmly welcomed aboard joining three other crew members on the international space station artie's marie for national witness to watch. so you can see fifty nine thanks petition to the international space station oh my
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goodness a look at. the rock and in this. order russia is. an odd. get here people who have gathered here from all around the globe to witness the launch uploading 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 off to the left all for basin economics a had to return to earth when things go wrong oh yeah. this is where they were you think perhaps he'll pipe down some of the five hundred
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one of those from the long spread by going to work this way to would mean they've lost on populated length i don't think i've seen any pagan lended on harm i've been rude given that they have one with it to feel warm if there isn't a team police to defend many times longer than the force of gravity qualify on the ground no one was hurt either you want to meet their single sap or it obama going to last before they leave the area never mind the power for a really cool little cooling think worth it if they grow flowers bring me flowers here all they have are sounds that i was wrong with what it was raised called the emergency system. it is very emotional moment for everybody involved earlier i've had a chance to talk to some of these enthusiastic tourists let's take a listen to the course that we can see such an event only once in your lifetime one
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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 an aborted mission so we just got our mind to come back again this is. the 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 racial but it is just a long long standing journey. as arch international we'll be back with more the weekly and let's say thirty three minutes. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront
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