Lately for Wednesday 26 August 2020
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Mid Week Mediawatch: keeping focus
10:39 PM.Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Karyn Hay on Lately. This week Colin Peacock chats to Karyn about the tricky task of keeping the focus on the victims - and not the killer or the crimes - during… Read more Audio
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Norway’s different approach to the trial of a mass murderer
10:27 PM.Dear Christchurch, Breivik's trial showed us extremist ideas struggle in the light. Read more Audio
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Day three of the Chch mosque attack sentencing
10:18 PM.The final victim impact statements have been read out today in the High Court in Christchurch, as the sentencing of the gunman who attacked two mosques in the city draws to a conclusion. Read more Audio
Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson
10:20 Day three of the Chch mosque attack sentencing
The final victim impact statements have been read out today in the High Court in Christchurch, as the sentencing of the gunman who attacked two mosques in the city draws to a conclusion.
Twenty-nine-year-old Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, is being sentenced this week for the massacre, which killed 51 people.
RNZ Christchurch reporter Anan Zaki, has been following proceedings outside of court.
Photo: Supplied / RNZ
10:30 The Mosque attack sentencing from the Norwegian perspective
Åsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and author known for her work as a war correspondent. In 2013, Seierstad wrote One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik (Bray-vick) and the Massacre in Norway, which is the basis for the film 22 July. Her articles, drawing parallels between the case of Anders Breivik and that underway in Christchurch -- have been published in the New York Times and - just yesterday, The Guardian.
Anders Behring Breivik is pictured on the last day of the appeal case in Borgarting Court of Appeal at Telemark prison in Skien, Norway in 2017. Photo: Lise AASERUD / NTB Scanpix via AFP
10:45 Mid Week Mediawatch with Colin Peacock
Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately.