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Justin Trudeau seen appeared, with dark make-up in the year 2001 (center) and front (left and right)

A new video from Canada's Prime Minister , Justin Trudeau , wearing blackface, A Day after he admitted that such behavior was racist.

photos of two similar episodes came to light on Wednesday - when he was A Teacher and another a student.

In a fresh statement to reporters, he said that he was "deeply, deeply" regretted his behavior.

The revelations come in the midst of the election campaign for the 21st century. October election if Mr. Trudeau hopes for a second term.

What's in the video?

The images obtained shows Mr. Trudeau, in a white T-shirt and ripped jeans. After his Liberal Party , was filmed there in the 1990s.

His face and limbs, make-up appear to be covered in black. To see, he laughs, throws his hands up in the air, stick out his tongue and pulling faces.

Mr. Trudeau, in his late Teens or early 20s.

Blackface, which was common in The Past , especially in the entertainment industry that involves white people painting their faces darker, and is often condemned as a racist caricature.

What is The Other ?

On Wednesday, the embattled PM has apologized for wearing brown face make-up to a gala in a private Vancouver school, where he taught nearly two decades ago.

shows Mr. Trudeau, then at the age of 29, with skin-darkening makeup on his face and the hands on the West Point Grey Academy.

Mr. Trudeau, dressed in the photo in an Aladdin costume.

The second picture on Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau performing in a talent show as a student at the High School .

He wore blackface and sang day-O is a Jamaican folk song, popularized by American civil rights activist Harry Belafonte .

Trudeau respond?

The Prime Minister has given a fresh statement with reporters, building on an earlier apology on Wednesday.

The pictures are so embarrassing for the Prime Minister , because he had himself as a champion of social justice, and diversity.

When the Cabinet was Sworn In , in the year 2015 celebrated how Diverse the half of the appointments were women; three Sikhs and two members were from the indigenous communities.

Speaking in Winnipeg, he said: "Darken her face, regardless of the context or the circumstances, is always unacceptable, because of the racist history of blackface.

"I should have understood that you have then, and I should have never done that. "

Mr. Trudeau has been reported, calling liberal candidate to apologize for his behavior.

Which brought images.

The Photos undermine perceptions that Mr Trudeau "really is", a CBC commentator says.

"the seizure of hypocrisy" of Mr Trudeau is a different answer, others will write of a broken trust and a crippling blow to his campaign.

campaign itinerary to be scrapped

Jessica Murphy, Bbc News , Toronto

There is No Doubt that these images make it harder for Mr. Trudeau bid for re-election.

His team recognizes how harmful these images could be.

you have scrapped his campaign itinerary for Thursday, as you climb, a wider resonance than his apology on Wednesday night.

counts as much as Mr Trudeau speaks to these images and whether he can convince Liberal voters that he really understands why his decision blackface or brown could be the face, so insulting to many Canadians, he is.

This will also impact on the choice of fight, where suddenly the issues of race and racism in the open and straight forward.

What other reaction to have been?

with reference to the brown face episode, Andrew Scheer , leader of the Conservative opposition, said The Image of a racist in 2001 was, and still racist now.

"What Canadians saw this evening, is someone with a total lack of judgment and integrity and someone who is not fit to govern the country," he said.

New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh , a Sikh,

"Every time we hear examples of the brown face or a blackface, it makes a mockery of someone for what They Live and what their experiences are," said Mr. Singh in front of journalists on the electoral campaign in Toronto.

"This is mocked on every young people for the color of their skin, The Child who had torn the turban from her head," he wrote online.

Farooq Mustafa, managing Director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, said: "If the Prime Minister in the brown face/blackface is deeply sad. The wearing of blackface/brown face is reprehensible, and hearkens back to a history of racism and Oriental mythology, all of which are unacceptable. "

The Council added that it recognised "people can change and develop over two decades". Later apologized promptly.

The Image was also Elizabeth May criticized in a tweet by Green Party leader.

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Source of news: bbc.com