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the stories that shapes the week here on r t international new zealand to mourn 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 then think oh my world oh my god it's going to happen to me you know. and if it. was just. after weeks of political stalemate over the u.k. parliament votes to try and delay the country's divorce from europe.
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protests once again descend into violence and looting with police moving in hard in response. to broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is our team. new zealand it was rocked by terror on friday when a gunman killed fifty people at 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 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.
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guy passed out i pad i. think i was. half past i. just stood there monument splashing money comes in oh my lord oh my god remember them enough it was fun believe me it was a good friday the fun of the bad calls just to sleep in sevens. the first reports of the shooting at the all nor mosque came out one forty pm local
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time minutes later reports came in of a second attack at a mosque five kilometers away the country's prime minister described what happened as one of new zealand's darkest days medina coaching over 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. emira that atrocity lasted for almost twenty minutes the footage showed him firing
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from close range it was the lead to it's 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 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 breaded lies others there were also pictures of the guns he posted on twitter the fi arms were convert with anti islamic slogans and various languages his account has been blocked since lend cold bloods and new zealand's wells he assumes to have plenty attack carefully at least that's according to the dock. women's' a sort of a manifesto that appeared on line several hours prior to the attack and believed to
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be linked to the attacker and now a lengthy document he identifies himself as a fascist and he carried out the attack to save all you or peons 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 fight. we were not chosen for the sake of violence because we can darn racism because we're an on clay for extremism. we would chosen for the very fact that we none of these things are the suspects traveled to many countries including france turkey pakistan and others in eastern europe he is also thought to have traveled to the u.k. in the manifesto
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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 and the middle east expert on the risk. i think this wouldn't be a that much of a surprise that in fact this attack reminds me of the good talk which was carried out by the you know way 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 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 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
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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. dot com. 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 attack inspired by the far right the suspect reportedly screamed kill all muslims while attacking a nineteen year old in the parking lot of a grocery chain using a baseball bat and a knife the attacker escaped but was arrested later when local residents saw someone wielding a quote long and shiny metal weapon in their neighborhood the victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. now to the french capital where the eighteenth consecutive yellow vest protest has resulted in
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a return to violence the interior minister has called an emergency meeting over the damage inflicted by the rally archies policy or witnessed the unrest 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 have been using dos box holes 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
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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 move heavy police presence today but protesters saying that this is radii the ultimatum that they giving the crowd to step down. the protests are getting more and more violent and thanks continue to people until
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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 in a moved on a little butt. flames. oh. thank you thank you 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 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 mccracken initiated ended
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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. well following the unrest the french government admitted they had not done enough to stem arson and looting on sunday prime minister eduardo has said of the measures taken were insufficient to contain the violence and prevent wrongdoing. there's been more than two years since the u.k. voted to quit 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. this sparked fears brags that process will never it. it's just going oh no no no no no every two weeks we come around on the merry go
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round we make the same speech all over again and still write our own hobbyhorses. we have a responsibility to end the on the surface and to put all our constituents. of the beautiful u.k. in d.c. you know remains that the u.k. would leave the e.u. without a deal. i don't know that. unless something else is of predicted this is the least of time the waste of time for all the chamber the deal is dead it cannot be resurrected teahouse bludging does black going to blue without breaking a food deal the country's be misled and now the plan is prematurely.
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a third so-called meaningful vote on teresa mayes bragg's a deal will take place next week if m.p.'s that 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 passed may's deal she will ask brussels for a short extension until june thirtieth if no extension is granted or no deal agreed
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u.k. could crash out of the block altogether 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 completely incompetent so 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 somebody else's plan 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 to myself what will change in one month. i've already said there's no fraud 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 of the release of those arrested over last night 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. i they are denouncing what they say is president alexander is slide to autocratic rule president was thought to be inside the building having just given
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a news conference in a televised address and 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 airtime to the protests. i was. was. among the protesters were several opposition leaders including the head of the nationalist very party when the riot police got involved the head of the demonstrators changed his previous order to refrain from violence and protesters began to resist the rallies are part of a bigger movement denouncing the serbian government's perceived attack on civil liberties including freedom of speech. 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 report features a number of first hand accounts as well. what to me a shot i mean and they say you know quite low. in the three. hundred just to. run in the spin and. in order to tell the big guy at the. little at the border. yeah don't miss the odd job out i just. decided. to much much better. than out of ours was abducted. and there was still a better way to identify. and there was a better one than. the report describes the kind of torture to which the detainees are allegedly subjective beatings with plastic pipes and electric cables as well as
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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 iraq 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. this there have charged hundreds of minors acts of terrorism because of their alleged presumed belonging to 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
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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 those who need rehabilitation and reintegration into society rather than imprisoning them 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 agreed to international rules and compelled to minors in all cases we recommend 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're awaiting comment on the allegations from the iraqi government the country's counter
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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 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 shame and where are the chopped off hands. that is in reference to president petro poroshenko pledged to chop off the hands of corrupt army officials that is after a scandal broke out over an investigative report claiming top defense officials are embezzling huge sums of money high ranked officials have already been suspended following a probe demonstrations have broken out across the country as well ahead of presidential elections in two weeks. space is
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cool a new crew has arrived at the international space station after their soyuz craft successfully docked nasa astronauts kagan christina koch as well as russian cosmonaut alexy will now call the i assess home for the next few months of training and were part of a mission that was forced into aboard mid-flight back in october last year they were warmly welcomed aboard joining three other crew members on the i s s. witness the launch. you can see fifty nine thinks petition to the international space station oh my goodness look at. the rocket in this. order russia is. an odd. get here people who have gathered here from all around the globe to
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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 basin economics he had to return to earth. this is where they were a good thing kept filled pipe down some of the five hundred 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 rudely given that they have one with a thief to kill one of the resident teams ballistic defense many times over than the force of gravity while on the ground no one was hurt either you want to meet
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their single sap or it obama going to last before they leave there we have never mind the power for a really cool little cooling i think worth it if they grow flowers bring flowers here all they have are sounds that as well as around the globe want to praise what they were doing for the 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 the course so we can see such an event only once in your life time 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 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 been a. dream of mine since i was five years old and to watch
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a rocket go off is to come here which is the birthplace of a 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 journey. all right that does it for me i'll be back in about thirty five and a half minutes with another extra weekly you are watching our international. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's this i'm showbusiness i'll see of that.
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during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hope poles of concentration of wealth and power and. reduced democracy attack solo down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for. that's what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch rule 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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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often scary dramatic did. well to only really engage and i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down in. a. long. term. plan of welcome to worlds apart by the end of this year the number of things
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connected to the internet will exceed the number of people on this planet by several times this new reality of smart three inches and accommodating coffee maker promises to take human conference to a whole new level but not without the cost is it even possible of this point to tell whether we are heading towards a utopia or a distilled here to discuss that i'm now joined by the wrong one kronenbourg the founder of the internet of things council i think tank dedicated to technological governance it was good to talk to you thank you very much for your time don't want to be here now first of all for those of our viewers who have never heard this term the internet of things and what exactly it is well it may have never heard of it but there sure encountered it so is the idea that everything all those things will become sort of smart and in order to understand that we have to have to go back a little bit to what made this all possible which is the internet so the internet
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is basically. computers so it's a protocol to have a language for computers to talk to each other. and up until the ninety's there was sort of computers talking to each other. and then around one in ninety three we got the world wide web h.t.m.l. tim berners lee who put this on top so we have this this language has sparse on the back at all these computers which is going like a virus across the world and then we have w w h t m l on top of this and this is still happening in devices in computers in smartphones and tablets and what we see now is that because of basically two main trends one being the cloud this message amount of computer storage possibilities so before that we already had this kind of internet of things as automation infect a reasoned the engineers they know that they have machines that it was mostly for
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computerese and yes people but now we're talking about pretty it. but now devices like the fridge is the microwave coffee makers that are there and this is because of these these two trends or one of the cloud happening so in this made it possible to store all that data so beef in the ninety's we had the smart fridge the smart car the smart but this will all demos we essentially talking about the environment that allowed all those items that we use in our daily life to be connected not only . ourselves but also to each other yes and so. these that the cloud and the fact that things got incredibly cheap so hardware has become a commodity connectivity has become a commodity which means that it's very cheap and affordable and this indeed is made now possible for the connectivity to sort of leap out of the computer and become
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