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Post by Admin on Mar 17, 2019 17:46:15 GMT
Sky New Zealand has clarified that Sky News Australia was removed from its platform on Friday to ensure the rolling coverage of the mass shootings in Christchurch didn't "compromise ongoing investigations".
The satellite TV provider initially posted a tweet Saturday morning that announced:
“We stand in support of our fellow New Zealanders and have made the decision to remove Sky News Australia from our platforms until we are confident that the distressing footage from yesterday’s events will not be shared.”
Sky News Australia has attracted considerable criticism recently.
Last year the channel apologised and removed an interview with far right nationalist Blair Cottrell.
During the interview Cottrell declared Australia should stop all immigration apart from South Africa. His controversial appearance on the station attracted widespread criticism, including from Sky News staff.
In the aftermath, Cottrell targeted one of Sky's female journalists, Laura Jayes.
In a tweet Cottrell, the former United Patriots Front leader, said he "might as well have raped" Jayes on air because "not only would she have been happier with that but the reaction would’ve been the same".
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2019 7:43:53 GMT
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, 38, is not only the youngest female head of state in the world. She’s also the first woman in nearly 30 years to give birth while in office. After welcoming her baby girl in June, the prime minister sits down with TODAY to talk about her life and career. “My appreciation for parents, mother and solo mothers … has increased tenfold,” Ardern says.
At age 37, Jacinda Ardern is the youngest woman in the world to lead a country – and she’s just about to become the second head of government in modern history to give birth while in office. NBC’s Cynthia Mc Fadden sits down with her for an exclusive interview on TODAY.
Speaking 10 days after two mosques were targeted in a mass shooting, Ms Ardern said the commission would look at "the events leading up to the attack, rather than the response".
"While New Zealanders and Muslim communities around the world are both grieving and showing compassion for one another, they are also quite rightly asking questions on how this terror attack was able to happen here," she said.
"This includes questions around the accessibility of semi-automatic weapons, the role social media has played generally and the focus of the intelligence and security services.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2019 17:51:46 GMT
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has set up a public inquiry into the events leading up to this month's attack on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 people.
A suspected white supremacist has been charged with one count of murder over the Christchurch shootings.
The inquiry will look at whether anything could have been done to stop the attacks.
"It is important that no stone is left unturned to get to the bottom of how this act of terrorism occurred and what, if any, opportunities we had to stop it," Ms Ardern told reporters at Parliament House in the capital, Wellington.
Austrian authorities have searched the home of a prominent far-right activist as part of a probe into his ties to the alleged Christchurch mosque gunman, officials said on Tuesday.
Head of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, Martin Sellner, said police searched his apartment on Monday
They seized electronic devices after Mr Sellner received money from a person with the same surname as the New Zealand shooter.
Head of the white nationalist group Identitarian Movement of Austria, Martin Sellner, said on social media that police searched his apartment on Monday.
They seized electronic devices after Mr Sellner received a "disproportionately high donation" from a person named Tarrant — the same surname as the suspected Christchurch shooter.
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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2023 4:42:44 GMT
(19 Jan 2023) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday she is stepping down as New Zealand's leader and will not contest this year’s general elections. (Jan 19)
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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2023 17:12:55 GMT
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