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country. was founded to keep money of america. people in power travels alongside to is hoping to make it in. she's on al-jazeera. preparing to bury the victims of new zealand's mosque attacks police will soon begin to return the bodies of the fifty victims. indicated they will be changes to our rules. of the prime minister reiterate say need for policy change as the country mourns the lives lost. and you're watching out is there live from also coming up
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a cycle and brings devastation to parts of southern africa with dozens of people dead or missing. chaos in the french capital as yellow bus protests against the president and its reforms turn violent. so new zealand's top police officer says there will be a highly visible presence across the country as people return to work on monday this after friday's mosque attacks fifty people were killed by a lone gunman in christ church the police commissioner says there will be extra security around schools businesses and places of worship prime minister just in the ardor and says she's been working with the muslim community to ensure that the victims' bodies are returned as soon as possible for burial and they hope to have them back by wednesday. our dan has also given more detail about the suspected
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killers manifesto which was emailed to her just moments before the attack. i was one of more than fish the recipients of a mean a manifesto that was mild to out nine minutes before the a tech took place it did not include a location it did not include specific dates house i'm advised that within two minutes of its receipt in at least my office it was conveyed directly to parliamentary security but the assurance i want to go visit head it provided details that could have been edited on immediately it would have been but there unfortunately were not such details in their email and as the country mourns families prepared to bury their loved ones under thomas has more from christchurch . on the outskirts of christ church they are digging graves fifty i need it now
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the official number killed rose on sunday when police clearing bodies from the two mosques attacked found one they had not been aware of the fore. a list of victims names have been shared with family the police commissioner confirmed that the man they have in custody brenton tyrant's is the only suspect in friday's attacks three others arrested shortly after they took place a not now believed to have been involved. a witness the immediate aftermath of the attacks he was driving past the al nor mosque and saw people running he jumped out of his call to help the wounded and the dying that was a. daughter who are fighting for their laws particularly the daughter to be about five she was touching god. i've not the boat and managed to get the father of the daughter in the back of that and out because the ambulances were coming and i will add on because i was all the age of the quarter but i would let him because the
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year he was a secure. you know what happened to that go for him and we're all here that there was a father and daughter that hostile wife and daughter this fall i don't know whether that was the site. of the building that we were near. in wellington new zealand's prime minister met with muslim communities to again stress a solid darity and support and around the country christiane church services muslim victims were in their thoughts and prayers. thirty six people remain in hospital twelve still in a critical condition many of the patients. being already drawn from the incident require more surgeries as a consequence the complexity of the nature of the injuries in the crew is church warehouse volunteers are giving their time and florists the flowers to make bouquet
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to lay on coffins each one represents a life a family member they were a mom or day it's. brother or sister. if it's still right. there will be fifty four fifty new graves i'm sure thomas al-jazeera christchurch and our correspondent when hayes outside christ church hospital wayne you know as expected we've been hearing there's been a lot of high level discussions between the government and the security and some press conferences what's been said. yes well the main theme i think from the police over all throughout the course of sunday was that they really want this community to begin to try to return to normal but at the same time exercise vigilance they're now saying that the man they have in custody brinton tyrant appears at this stage to be the only person who was
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involved in the attack on friday remembering that they did arrest other people they have all been released without charge one of them however has got another charge against him or her we don't know who this person is unrelated to what happened on friday and then they did say that they have also promised unrelated charges because . in the course of their investigations into what happened on friday but again unrelated to those killings so as mentioned before that there is going to be an increased security presence on monday when people are going back to school back to work and there will be an increased police presence outside some key facilities like schools in the air as well will certainly notice the police helicopter constantly circling the central part of christchurch and they're saying
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that is really just to ensure that the people here know that they can feel safe despite the fact that many people here still coming to terms with exactly what happened on friday and when there's been an overwhelming international response to it and many condolences coming new zealand's way but i also understand that the turkish foreign minister is there at the moment and has been speaking can you tell us about that. yes the vice president and the foreign minister as well are in new zealand in fact in christchurch they met with the usual and foreign minister winston peters they say they'll also be meeting with leaders of the muslim community in this city to offer their condolences and they will be paying their respects five laying flowers as well the turkish president has said that at least three turkish nationals were among those that were killed in the attack on friday although there has been no confirmation of that from the same from the police as you heard before and andrew's
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story there that the police commissioner is saying that the names of all of those who were killed in the attack have been shared with the family members but the official names the names of those people who have been identified as having been killed in the attack have not been released publicly and the identification process goes on in fact in the hospital behind me that is where all the bodies have been taken to the two mosques are still being treated as crime scenes the forensic investigation continues there but the bodies have now been removed from those buildings and of being brought to christchurch hospital as a say where the post-mortem process began on sunday and the identification process goes on as well the prime minister says that she hopes the first of those bodies will be released at some stage on sunday evening back to the family members thank
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you wayne wayne a in christ church for us in other news tropical cyclonic is causing more death and destruction in southern africa. is the latest country to feel the force of that storm at least thirty one people have been killed in floods and swept away homes bridges and roads dozens remain missing and bad weather is slowing down rescue efforts. this thomas also kills around one hundred people in malawi and mozambique tens of thousands of people there have been forced from their homes and power blackouts have been widespread talk about this in central mozambique since the cyclon hit mozambique's coast where we are into renshaw rains and strong winds rivers of swollen power lines are blown down cyclons are common in the indian ocean at this time of year but few of them hit land and this one has been particularly destructive because it came ashore mozambique's fourth largest city they were and we're still three hundred kilometers from there we're trying to
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reach there and that's not easy you can see the kind of damage cyclons done even here a whole bridge completely washed away because of this wall of a river because the enormous amount of rainfall just within the last day or two so many trucks tried to pass it to try and reach people in bay where they've had to turn around and take another route it in the city of beirut all communications are off the airports closed the power is down so it's very hard to find out what the extent of the damage there actually is with no communications of course and transport routes a lot it's very difficult to find out what's going on also for the people who are there to get the help that they need. and over in southeast asia flash floods have killed at least fifty people in the indonesian province of pop for torrential rain triggered the damage in the provincial capital of jai a poor flood waters have receded leaving a trail of blood fallen trees and homes which need drying out. or than two
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hundred people have been arrested in paris in the eighteenth week of the yellow vest protests police fired tear gas and water cannon to deter the demonstrators there's a fire to buildings and cars and the protests began in response to a fuel price hike before turning into rallies against president. has this report i was a police van becomes a target i'm going to test it. i after weeks of relatively peaceful marches against president emanuel macro economic reforms the protests once again have descended into violence. rioters bromstad shops and such buildings and cars and light the despite long running complaints of police brutality the government says it will continue to take a tough stance not just missouri to saluting her although people take our responsibilities to maintain public order by preventing trouble and putting up with
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the attack because we need a proportionate but very firm response. water cannons did listen to quell the fury of defiant protesters despite the weekly demonstrations gradually getting smaller ten thousand people are estimated to have been on the streets on saturday more than three times the number of a week ago. the spike in turnout follows the end of the series of national debates launched by president come. over to them with issues or grievances made or demands and actually we saw that they were not hurt we got only violence in return they have been thirteen dead and thousands injured it's the only dialogue we had in response. to the bus if we're still here on the streets and if he does not satisfy our demands well we'll take back the roundabouts we will head everywhere and we will block roads. more than two hundred people were arrested as tensions rise in the policies of what a protest to say is an out of touch government president macron has cut short
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a week in trade to return to the capital but it's unclear how far he's prepared to go to appease protesters and stem the rising tide of social unrest. into gray al-jazeera. and still ahead in our desire a. revisit georgia where families have waited almost thirty years to say their goodbyes to the war dead. and we take a closer look at this train connection to the march shootings in new zealand. how i once again welcome to look at the international forecast the heavy downpours are set to continue across much of indonesia across the eastern side of the country what was same around to two hundred millimeters of rain ninety one millimeters in
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the south and this is going to be a line of heaviest downpours over the next few days as we go on across the region furthermore some lively showers also drifting their way into worst southern parts of the philippines as monday's picture but choose to that right starting to set in and notice malaysia will see some heat of the day showers but the wetter weather will continue across a good part of indonesia's carter around thirty two degrees with some heavy downpours here as well that we certainly seen some really heavy downpours across parts of eastern australia heavy showers are set to continue here over the next couple of days as well you can see this little clutch of storms in fact in brisbane we had fifty four millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and sixty five millimeters around the gold coast it's been heavier rain still into. cydney hundred millimeters of rain in only five hours has of course inevitably led to some localized flooding the showers are set to continue as we go on through monday and
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again you're watching out is there and this is our main stories this hour following friday's mosque shootings new zealand's top police officers says there will be a highly visible presence nationwide as people return to work and schools on monday attacks at two mosques in christchurch killed fifty muslims. prime minister just hopes all bodies can be handed over for burial by wednesday extra police are helping with the added fitnation. and zimbabwe is the latest country in the south in southern africa to feel the force of tropical cyclone addai thirty one people have now been killed and dozens are missing after flash floods swept away votes roads and bridges was to almost killed one hundred people in malawi and mozambique . ok let's go back to those attacks in new zealand and the suspect charged
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with the shooting is from australia our port to. his hometown in grafton that's in the state of new south wales and she found a community trying to distance itself from him. it's dawn in the sleepy provincial town of grafton is waking up to another day of reflection about the horrific events in christ church and its connection to it brenton tarrant spent at least the first twenty years of his life in grafton before travelling around the world he went to the local school and worked as a personal trainer in a gym his alleged attack on two mosques in christ church last week has deeply disturbed religious leaders in his home town we've got the inside to you now to set up you know a role we also carrying out all of the people that are going to leave the members of the muslim community in christ church the mood here is samba this is a community grappling to come to terms with one of their own baying
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a suspect in the worst mass killing in new zealand's history it's just a time for the community to gather and just kind of be together get strength from solidarity and hopefully put our roots down deep and sign are we not that's that's not us what happened and what this guy did is not is not crofton's parishioners who know the tyrant family say it's well respected and has been here for generations like one pipe and farmer. good down bourke bible here what did you think when you heard that someone from grafton was involved. others had a message for christ's church people can just reach out and say you know we don't know what went wrong but. you know we just. prison with you and hope. you can get some. while the town family has deep roots here community members say
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it's keeping a low profile following the attack in christchurch we've managed to speak with people who knew brenton tyrant well they say they don't want to appear on camera because they don't want to be associated with the killer of fifty people they say the man accused of the christ church is not the man they once knew. al-jazeera and . marches vigils and rallies have been held worldwide to show solidarity and denounce hatred and racism that he reports in london. gathering to say no to racism and show solidarity with muslims everywhere. this march in london brought together disparate groups all expressing outrage at a gunman's attack. everybody. many speakers drew a direct link between the statements of some politicians in europe and elsewhere
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and such attacks in the last few weeks. you know. i don't think we're surprised. today. so that's the kind of thing i think people. some protesters say the current climate the rise of the far right in the thirty's i grew up. on the. spices that was a long time ago still. it was back. in istanbul a crowd also gathered for a funeral cries for the new zealand victims. and pradesh in northern india students have taken part in a candlelight vigil knowing many of indian origin were reported to be missing after the christchurch attack. around the world they have been calls for governments to
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take the issue of islamophobia more seriously as well as other forms of hatred there are lots of different groups represented on this demonstration but there's a general feeling that hate crimes are on the rise and that more needs to be done to stop attacks like those in new zealand from happening elsewhere. al-jazeera london. and other news one person has been killed in an incident in the occupied west bank two israelis have also been injured according to the israeli military now our correspondent gary fossett is in a west jerusalem for us and we can get more from the mary what other details do you have. well according to israeli media reports what happened was that at this road junction the aerial junction south of nablus in the occupied west bank there was an attack of palestinian suspects grabbing a gun from an israeli at that intersection shooting the person whose weapon he
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stole and shooting another israeli at that location then taking a car and driving to the nearby good time junction and shooting another israeli at that location so what we're being told unconfirmed so far is that one of those three victims has died and the other two are seriously injured the israeli military is saying that there is now a major manhunt underway for whoever was responsible for this attack and as well as that they have issued closures on nearby areas the illegal settlement industrial zone of bark town nearby has been shut down as have four palestinian villages around nablus as well harry fossett investors don thank you. if european airlines says it could take six months to formally identify the remains of passengers who were onboard a plane that crashed near adams adverb week ago and that crash all hundred fifty
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seven passengers and crew were killed the company plans to haul at the memorial service on sunday boeing seventy seven max jets and now grounded worldwide in the wake of that crash that same model of the aircraft came down in indonesia last year . there are major twenty three people missing since georgia's wars in abkhazia and south setia have finally been handed over to their loved ones as since twenty thirty and more than five hundred bodies have been recovered through a red cross program so identify an excavator or graves oben for a stay walker reports on tbilisi. at this ceremony in tbilisi is how the trinity cathedral the remains of some of those who went missing is past conflicts have finally been returned to their families. rivers bitch has waited for twenty seven years to bury his mother. it's just great that now i will know where she is
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and i can go to her grave thank god it's been resolved. and the remains of tires sister and brother in law have also been found. in the us of at least i will bury them next to their son's grave and they will be together their son wanted to bring them home but he died last august. backed by russia the regions of and south of setia for to get in the one nine hundred ninety s. and again in two thousand and eight hundreds of thousands of ethnic georgians were displaced tens of thousands of civilians were killed and more than two and a half thousand people went missing. since two thousand and eleven the international committee of the red cross has been helping to find missing persons and identify them using forensic analysis so far more than five hundred bodies have been recovered but fewer than half that number has been identified while you don't
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have. a peace settlement a peace agreement you have a process you monitor and process in place where again the the the sides to the conflict are able to agree on possible explanation and they are taking place and indeed we are able to call to recover bodies. george's past conflicts have affected and continue to affect hundreds of thousands of people those who've lost their homes those who lost their loved ones those whose loved ones were never found but for the families of these persons finally there is now an opportunity for some closure. we're told her. there were military honors in a nearby cemetery for three soldiers among those recently identified. well the conflicts with its breakaway regions remain unresolved the process of healing has
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begun to. remain for a steelworker. tbilisi but as well as opposition leader has begun a national tour in a new effort to oust the president nicolas maduro. kicked off what's being called operation freedom and the northern city of violence here he's in a paris struggle in a durable accuses the u.s. of masterminding a overthrow him. so far the united states has focused mainly on sanctions to increase the pressure on the door but as there is a bar of course from caracas that's has made an already darr economic situation even worse. i feel philly is in desperate need of medicines he suffers from diabetes and needs dialysis three times a week but the power outages of the past few days have been difficult for people like him. because of the blackout i couldn't do my dialysis my felt dizzy and weak
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i don't know what is going to happen in this country. and sometimes i feel there is no way out i flew the leaves with his wife so. our poor neighborhood in caracas the situation is extremely difficult for people in venezuela that need medicines alfredo was told that he needs to take all of the medicines and he was not able to find them he was also given this other one at the hospital last week and it is expired people here fear that with sanctions the situation will get even worse. venezuela's cash strapped government is struggling with an economic crisis that has forced the country to reduce imports this combined with hyperinflation is making it difficult for people to buy or even find medicines hospitals are struggling to find basic items to help those in need. the venezuelan government says the united states is to blame for the current situation. i have done everything to try to
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import medicines and other our money is being blocked because of the u.s. treasury one them to release our funds so we can provide our people with the most economists say us sanctions were implemented four years ago when the damage to the economy was already done. well first sanctions that prevented venezuela from negotiating its step came after venezuela already had one of the highest risks in the world the risk was because of the drop in oil prices and the government continued with the same policies venezuela continued spending when it already had billions of dollars and. but in january this year the u.s. announced new sanctions with the objective to choke venezuela's economy even more. this time they have had a direct impact on venezuelan oil exports. the u.s. financial system has tentacles around the world so any commercial operation that
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has anything to do with venezuela will be affected any transaction that is in u.s. dollars will be affected you know the real sanctions begin. the u.s. the european union and other countries in the region recognize opposition leader as venice were less interim president. the u.s. has said.

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