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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: New Zealand Will Hold a Top-Level Inquiry Into the Christchurch Mosque Attacks [Watch (HLS stream): New Zealand Will Hold a Top-Level Inquiry Into the Christchurch Mosque Attacks](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vAomUKYt.m3u8) (1:14)  _Published 2019-03-25. New Zealand will hold a top-level inquiry into the massacre of 50 people at two Christchurch mosques that will look into what roles semi-automatic guns, social media and intelligence agencies had preceding the attacks._ --- Jul 28, 2023 2:57 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Army Veteran Planned to Bomb Nazi Rally in Retribution For Christchurch Mosque Attacks, Feds Say](/video/FNnIL7fR/) ### Army Veteran Planned to Bomb Nazi Rally in Retribution For Christchurch Mosque Attacks, Feds Say [Thousands Gather in Christchurch for Vigil Honoring Victims of Mosque Terror Attacks](/video/cjXEPzOB/) ### Thousands Gather in Christchurch for Vigil Honoring Victims of Mosque Terror Attacks [New Zealand Bans Military-Style Weapons Following the Christchurch Mosque Shootings](/video/GYBnTZfK/) ### New Zealand Bans Military-Style Weapons Following the Christchurch Mosque Shootings --- ## Transcript Last week on the 18th of March, cabinet agreed to establish an enquiry into the christ church, mosques terror attack. Today cabinet agreed the enquiry will be a royal commission. All New Zealanders and muslim communities around the world are both grieving and showing compassion For one another. There are also quite rightly asking questions on how this terror attack was able to happen here. This include Christians around the accessibility of semi automatic weapons, the role social media has play generally in the focus of the intelligence and security services. There are questions I too have asked and, of course, want answers to as well. In short, the enquiry will look at what could have or should have been done to prevent the attack. What I can say today is that there will be a focus on whether our intelligence community was concentrating its resources appropriately. And whether there were any reports that could or should been have alerted to them to this attack. 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