P.M.: Tougher Gun Laws On The Way; Three Dead Five Wounded In Rush Hour Attack; Yellow Vest Rallies To Be Banned In Parts Of France; U.K. Parliament Speaker: May Cannot Resubmit Same Deal
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: New Zealand's Prime Minister promises answers and gun law reforms, try to make sure the worst terror attack in that country's history never happens again. Plus, police track down the man suspected of opening fire inside a tram in the Netherlands, the motive though still unclear. Also ahead this hour, and emerging disaster in Mozambique, more than 1,000 people are feared dead after a tropical cyclone hairs ashore. Live from CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers all over the world, I'm George Howell. The CNN NEWSROOM starts right now. The Prime Minister of New Zealand continues to speak out about fellow citizens who lost their lives in Friday's terror attack. She's vocal about changing laws to make sure that it never happens again. But the one thing the Prime Minister will not say, she will not say the man accused -- the name of the man accused of killing people in cold blood. His name not even worth mentioning. Jacinda Ardern and made that message quite clear when she spoke to Parliament's first meeting since those shootings. She called the suspect a terrorist who will face the full force of law. 50 people were killed when a gunman attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday. The Prime Minister mostly used her comments before Parliament to comfort victims, their loved ones, and her country. She also promised justice.</s>JACINDA ARDERN, PRIME MINISTER, NEW ZEALAND: There are many questions that need to be answered. And the assurance that I give you is that they will be. Yesterday, cabinet agreed that an inquiry, one that looks into the events that led up to the attack on the 15th of March will occur. We will examine what we did know, could have known, or should have known. We cannot allow this to happen again.</s>HOWELL: Our Senior International Correspondent Ivan Watson is live in Christchurch, New Zealand. And Ivan, the Prime Minister spoke about a nation that is certainly mourning the loss of many of its citizens, but again there is one name that she says is he not even worth mentioning.</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. She confronted the suspected terrorist behind the two mosque shootings on Friday that have resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people and so many more wounded including nine in critical care at Christchurch Hospital down the road from where I'm standing. Take a listen to another excerpt from her speech in Parliament.</s>ARDERN: He's a terrorist. He's a criminal. He's an extremist. But he will when I speak be nameless. And to others, I employ you speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them. He may have sought notoriety but we in New Zealand will give him nothing, not even his name.</s>WATSON: So let's speak about one victim and survivor Farid Ahmed whose wife was gunned down here in Christchurch on Friday. He described that agonizing responsibility of explaining to their daughter that their mother -- her mother was gone. And then he had some incredibly -- incredible words to say for this now unnamed suspected gunman.</s>FARID AHMED, SURVIVOR, NEW ZEALAND SHOOTING: I want to hug him and say I have forgiven him. I want to tell him, if he has any mother, I want to hug her too. And I want to tell her that I'll treat you exactly like my auntie. If he has any sister, I want to hug her, and I have to tell her from my heart I'll treat you exactly like my own sister.</s>WATSON: Now, George, we are hearing about growing impatience from families of the victims that who are desperate to get their loved ones back so that they can conduct proper burials. That is a process that has taken days. It has been slowed by the sheer number of victims and the complication of identifying everybody. And it has clearly overwhelmed the authorities here because they've had to push back there scheduled for when they are going to release the bodies of the victims again, and again, and again. And it is something we are watching, and of course, the families of the victims watching very closely in agony. George?</s>HOWELL: And, Ivan, you know, having covered mass shootings here in the United States and seeing that process play out, it is a great deal of agony for the families and the thing about it that is not the best news. It truly could take many more weeks and even longer as that process plays out but of course, has to be specific in the identifications. Ivan, I also wanted to ask you about Jacinda Ardern speaking out about social media platforms. How they should have greater accountability for the content that they make available and their ability to monitor it.</s>WATSON: That's right. Because not only have the New Zealand authorities but also the major social media sites, they're all scrambling to try to remove the images that the suspected shooter was live-streaming as he was carrying out the attacks on the mosques here in Christchurch. And Jacinda Ardern said that it can't just all be profits. There has to be responsibility. The social media sites cannot just be the postman, they're also the publishers of this content. Now Facebook just put out a statement in the last two hours that reveals some possibly chilling details. It says that the actual live stream of the video on Friday was viewed less than 200 times but there were no viewer reports about it. It was posted to this site 8chan before Facebook was even alerted about its highly controversial just appalling content. And that the first user report only came in 29 minutes after the start of the video stream and a full 12 minutes after that live stream ended. Facebook has also said that in the first 24 hours, it removed 1.5 million copies of that same video to give you a sense of how much and how rapidly it spread like wildfire across the internet. A court here in Christchurch -- in New Zealand rather has declared that any images of the shooter himself must be blurred and they're illegal here. An 18 year old has had to appear in court facing charges of violating a censorship act here for redistributing that kind of content. And the deputy prime minister of New Zealand has raised this issue with the foreign minister and vice president of Turkey when they were visiting in the aftermath of the terror attacks because the President of Turkey was showing excerpts, blurred excerpts of the gunman's video at political campaign rallies in Turkey ahead of elections at the end of this month. The Deputy Prime Minister saying that that could misrepresent New Zealand and endanger New Zealand citizens. George?</s>HOWELL: Wow. Ivan Watson, following the story in Christchurch. Ivan, thank you. Let's take a moment now to get some perspective with Steve Moore. Steve is a retired FBI Supervisory Agent and CNN Law Enforcement Contributor. Steve is joining us this hour from Los Angeles. Steve, good to have you with us.</s>STEVE MOORE, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRIBUTOR: Hi, George. How are you?</s>HOWELL: Good, Steve. The Prime Minister of New Zealand zeroing in here on strengthening gun laws in the wake of what happened to her country. Let's listen.</s>ARDERN: Part of ensuring the safety of New Zealanders must include a frank examination of our gun laws. As I've already said Mr. Speaker, our gun laws will change. The Cabinet meet yesterday and made in principle decisions 72 hours after the attack.</s>HOWELL: Steve, such a clear, sharp, swift response to what happened in that country in quite contrast, a stark contrast to what we see here in the United States.</s>MOORE: Yes. And part of that is because you know, they have a different culture. Part of that though is because they have a different type of government. The other thing I noticed that they -- that the Prime Minister did is immediately start an investigation of what the country itself, what the government itself knew and didn't know. They seem to hold themselves and hold the populace to a pretty high standard on those things.</s>HOWELL: So curious on that point, is there -- the fact that they don't have a gun lobbyist group there similar to what we see in the states?</s>MOORE: Well, I don't -- I don't know if that's part of it. It's probably very likely part of it. But the United States wouldn't have a gun lobby if this -- if some of the citizens didn't want it. So again that goes to the cultural thing.</s>HOWELL: Certainly. Just a noteworthy to kind of look into that as well. And as for the people who commit such violent acts for sport and social media, I'm curious to get your perspective. Given your background in law enforcement, what do you think of the prime minister's comments saying that social platforms need to have more accountability and how they monitor and manage the content that's out there?</s>MOORE: You know, I try to balance this with freedom of the press and people's right to know and the danger that we have in secret trials, things like that. But I couldn't agree more that these people -- and I've investigated these things for decades. People who do these mass shootings want the notoriety. They want to be infamous. They want people to look at them and think that they were something amazing as horrible as that sounds. So somewhere along here, we need to examine how we can do exactly what she's saying. I'm not going to say the person's name unless it's -- unless it's important to public knowledge. But it's not important to know the person's specific name. But it is important -- or their image by the way -- but it is important that social media start taking some responsibility for being the pulpit the people can get up and say and do horrible things with. And it can't be a free-for-all. And I tend to be somewhat libertarian you know, don't let the government get in our way, but at the same time you can't become just an outlet for things that are just unspeakably horrible.</s>HOWELL: So the Prime Minister not saying the suspects name. You'll notice we haven't said it either here during the show.</s>MOORE: Good.</s>HOWELL: Social media accounts or platforms, the Prime Minister saying, should you know take some responsibility for it. But here's the question to you Steve. What about people right, who see this content available who decide to share it or even who decide to look at it, tricking algorithms to make it seem like people want more of that content.</s>MOORE: Yes. And you know, that's -- I don't care if they want more of that content. It's just -- it is just an announcement to what society is. And frankly, if you are someone who just needs to see this or needs to needs -- to share it, you might as well have loaded the person's guns because they are -- they are counting on you to do that and you're helping them.</s>HOWELL: That's a good point, Steve. Thank you for your time today.</s>MOORE: Thank you.</s>HOWELL: A morning rush hour shooting in the Netherlands to tell you about, it's raised regional terror threats to its highest level for some time on Monday. Three people were killed and five others wounded. A suspect is under arrest but as our Erin McLaughlin reports, the motive still unclear.</s>ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Authorities say they've arrested the key suspect in Monday's attack but they've yet to establish a motive. They've yet to rule out the possibility that what happened here at 10:45 in the morning onboard that busy tram was the product of terror but also have yet to rule out the possibility that this was some sort of family dispute. As suggested by an eyewitness that we spoke to earlier in the day who was on board the tram at the time of the horrific shooting describes the shooter opening fire seeming to target a woman on board the tram and anyone who tried to help her. An eyewitness account such as that that authorities no doubt are going to be going over very carefully. The suspect 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis was arrested 800 meters away from where the tram attack took place. Authorities say they've made one other arrests although have yet to link that arrest to the attack itself. They've yet to also release the identities of the victims. Three people killed in total, five injured, three critically injured. The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte a saying that the Netherlands mourns the lives lost on that Monday attack and that Tuesday morning the flags will be flying here at half-staff. Erin McLaughlin, CNN Utrecht, The Netherlands.</s>HOWELL: In France, the government is cracking down on Yellow Vest rallies in some areas after protests turned violent on Saturday. Some demonstrators smashed up shops and restaurants and set fire to a bank on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The French Prime Minister blames radical groups who aren't part of the Yellow Vest movement for vandalism and says the government wants to protect people's right to demonstrate peacefully. With only ten days to go before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union, the British government's Brexit plan has been thrown into turmoil. Our Bianca Nobilo has more on this story from London.</s>BIANCA NOBILO, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A fresh blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal from a familiar face and voice in Parliament.</s>JOHN BERCOW, SPEAKER, HOUSE OF COMMONS, UNITED KINGDOM: Order!</s>NOBILO: The Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has skippered the government's plans for a third vote on her Brexit deal this week.</s>BERCOW: What the government cannot legitimately do is to resubmit to the House the same proposition or substantially, the same proposition as that of last week which was rejected by149 votes.</s>NOBILO: Bercow made this ruling after questions from lawmakers concerned the government would ask them to repeatedly vote on her Brexit deal until it passed. When I interviewed him recently, he said that he wasn't trying to direct the course of Brexit but to ensure that all of the views here in the House of Commons are heard.</s>BERCOW: It's not for the Speaker, let's say in the context of Brexit to prescribe one route or another. And I think the record shows that I've always been particularly keen, for example, to give a voice to the minority or dissident voices in the House of Commons rather than in any sense to side with the majority.</s>NOBILO: But Brexiteers question Bercow's neutrality in the Brexit debate. They say he's not consistent about which rules he chooses to follow and which he doesn't. Hear on Monday, Bercow cited a 17th-century convention which blocks Theresa May from bringing her Brexit deal back for a third time. Just arcane law, says the prime minister cannot resubmit the same proposition without changing it. What does this mean for the government? Theresa May must either get substantial new changes from the E.U. which European leaders have ruled out before or come to an agreement on an extension. Last week, the British Parliament voted against a no-deal Brexit in any circumstances. But next Friday remains the date, the U.K. leaves the E.U. in law unless something else can be agreed. Bianca Nobilo, CNN, London.</s>HOWELL: Bianca, thank you very much. Massive and horrifying. That is how some are describing the impact of Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. We will have the very latest for you as that community, of course, begins to assess the damage that you see. Plus the war against ISIS in Syria has produced a number of orphans with no place to call home and no family to lean on. Some of their heartbreaking stories to tell you about. Stay with us.