everyone i'm kemal santa maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera the headlines one week on and families still await the return of their loved ones from the ethiopian airlines crash as investigators piece together what exactly went wrong and fulfilling a promise the new president of democratic republic of congo makes crucial steps towards freedom a man. just . as will be waking to an increased security situation across the country it is now been three days since fifty people were killed by a government to mosques and while the pain and shock is obviously still raw there is a lot of attention now on making sure it doesn't happen again these ilands top police officers says there will be a highly visible will be a highly visible presence across the country as people go back to work on monday

extra officers deployed around places like schools businesses and places of worship prime minister just into on turns promised to times and gun laws as being widely welcomed her cabinet will consider options on monday such as banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and a government funded buyback of outlawed. but all the while grieving family members well they will soon have the chance to bury their loved ones as investigators hope to return the bodies by weapons today let's start with this from white house in christchurch. the announcement from new zealand's promise to. the police that the process is beginning of handing back the bodies to family members will certainly be welcomed there had been growing frustration really among some of the family members who have been waiting for news waiting for confirmation of waiting for those bodies to be returned to them some of those people voicing their frustration saying that this process was. taking too long because of course islamic custom dictates that

the body should be buried within twenty four hours after death in this case that simply hasn't been possible because of the sheer magnitude of what took place in christchurch on friday the police have said look we understand the cultural and religious circumstances around this being working very closely they say with religious leaders but they had to take their time the forensic process is still underway inside those two mosques where the attack took place the police still working in that area trying to find any pieces of evidence that may still be there the bodies however have been removed and they are all in the hospital behind me hospital where the injured are as well and while the surgical procedures continue. the procedures regarding the did that is post-mortems and also the identification process so that news that the bodies will be handed back to the family members will

be welcomed as i say there was just that this will continue to be a slow process and she hopes that it will be completed by wednesday in the meantime this city will begin to at least try to get back to normal on monday it is the start of a new working week the police saying they want people to try to get back home their feet they say they will be a significant increase in security right around this city as that new week begins outside institutions like schools places of worship as well remembering that mosques were ordered closed right around the country they can now open according to the police but in christchurch they will be a police presence outside those mosques on monday and probably throughout the course of the week tributes of course being held across new zealand for victims of the attacks andrew thomas is reporting from christchurch as well. on the outskirts

of christ church they are digging graves fifty and indeed now the official number killed rose on sunday when police clearing bodies from the two mosques attacked found one they had not been aware of before. a list of victims names have been shared with the police commissioner confirmed that the man they have in custody brenton tyrant is the only suspect in friday's attacks three others arrested shortly after they took place not now believed to have been involved. a witness the immediate aftermath of the attacks he was driving past the hour nor mosque and saw people running he jumped out of his call to help the wounded and the dying it was a. daughter who are fighting for their laws particularly the daughter to be about five she was touching. up not the boat and managed to get the father of the daughter in the back of that and out because the ambulances were coming on their

way to lead and because i was on the edge of the cordon i would let them because the area was a secure. you know what happened to that go for them or of here that there was a father and daughter that hostel wife and the daughter this fall i don't know whether that was the same. volatile that we were here. in wellington new zealand's prime minister met with muslim community needs to again stress a solid darity and support and around the country a christian church services muslim victims were in the thoughts and prayers more than thirty people remain in hospital some still in a critical condition many of the patients that are being already gone from the incident require more surgeries as a consequence of the complexity of the nature of the injuries in

a christ church where house volunteers are giving their time and florists their flowers to make bouquet to lay on coffins each one represents a life a family member they were a bomber day it's. brother or sister. church of sound if it's smart. there will be fifty bouquets for fifty newly dug graves i'm sure thomas al-jazeera cross church. the suspect charged with the shootings is from australia and in his hometown of grafton some of britain terence family members have spoken of their shock and disbelief we're all gobsmacked we don't know what to think it's. you know the major is sighing he's planned it for a long time so he's obviously not of san ramon i don't think sonny since he traveled overseas so i think that china. can play plato knew

which i was sorry for the families over there before the day to. day which is. that no one else does want to go. home has been to grafton in new south wales or just north of sydney and found the community trying to distance itself from him it's dawn in the sleepy provincial town of grafton it's waking up to another day a reflection about the horrific events in christchurch 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 got inside to you now he said you know they were all we all sectarian you know how all of the people 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 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 he's been here for generations god like one pipe and farmer was good down bourke probably or what did you think when you heard that someone from grafton was involved. i was shocked is an expression. others had a message for christ's church people grafton just reach out and say you know we we

don't know what went wrong but obviously that will come in but you know we just some thoughts and prayers with you and and hope that you can get some to closure while the town family has deep roots here community members say 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 alleged killer of fifty people they say the man accused of the christ church attacks is not the man they once knew . him al-jazeera grafton. the acting white house chief of staff has defended the u.s. president for not calling out white supremacists following the massacre in new zealand mick mulvaney said donald trump has done what a president is supposed to reaching out to new zealand's leader and offering condolences trump has also been criticized for not explicitly condemning the attack who had hailed the u.s. president as

a symbol of renewed want identity in his manifesto here is. washington d.c. it's unfortunate that the president of the united states and issues to do with white supremacy they do cross paths a lot. yeah they really do and we just saw it on his twitter account this sunday morning here in washington the president of the united states tweeting support for a fox news host named jeanine pirro now this is important because pirro has been suspended from fox news reportedly and her program that she has on the weekends because of anti islam islamophobia comments she made on the show and now just three days later after the christ church killing of dozens of muslims in those two mosques now we have the president tweeting support for a woman that is suspended from her television program for making anti islam comments so you see it right there but this dates back

a long time with president donald trump even before he became president but let's not forget here his first policy decision when becoming president was a so-called muslim ban banning people from muslim majority country countries into the united states but even other things beyond that i mean he of course said barack obama was born in kenya which is untrue he made the false claim that muslims in new jersey were celebrating the nine eleven attacks that was untrue no evidence of that and he was actually during the campaign said that he was open to shutting down the mosques in the united states so at all of this up his policies and some of his rhetoric that have gone back many years now lot of people are saying that all this does is embolden people embolden racists and borland people that want to do harm to people of other faiths the religions but mick mulvaney the president's chief of staff went on the sunday shows here in the u.s. and he shot back at that he said that's simply not true listen to

a little bit more of what the president's chief of staff had to say. instead of worrying about well. who's to blame how do we stop from doing this with donald trump is no more to blame for what happened in new zealand than mark zuckerberg is because he invented facebook there are some terrible people in the world we need to work with our partners of which new zealand is one of them to try and figure a way to find them expose them and bring them to justice now the democrats and others are just saying that's just simply not true that he has as president of the united states has a big bullhorn where what he says what he tweets how he acts not only is listen to here in the united states but around the world and it's really affects people around the world and so tim kaine a senator from virginia democrat he was on the sunday shows as well and i want to read you exactly what he said is very interesting he said we have to confront the fact that there is a rise in white supremacy anti immigrant an anti muslim attitudes and tim kaine went on to say on the sunday shows the president uses language that's often very

similar to the language used by bigots and racists clearly a lot of people here hoping that the president will call out this an attitude and also not only that but refrain from promoting any of this but so far in his presidency he seems to heed little notice to that. in washington thank you and in a moment here on al-jazeera we'll look at the social media side of the story did the platforms act quickly enough in the wake of the mosque prime minister want some answers from facebook. and the rest of the day's news as well as shooting and stabbing attacks in the occupied west bank and israel's army is launching a major operation in palestinian communities. i once again well it's a case of the iranian middle east full so we have got some wet weather making its

way across syria pushing into their. roxas guys do come back in behind you can see some clouds there and some right just around the east side of the mat that will make its way further east with the monday eighteen celsius the by right and also for. baghdad no great shakes hail the temperatures but the race but this is where we got that wet weather some really heavy rain there just around tire and pushing for the race was heavy rain there in pakistan not impossible to start seeing some heavy downpours we some snow once again into afghanistan at a low try to make its way further east was a few showers some of the wintry do travel away and behind but temperatures starting to places twenty celsius by right nineteen celsius in jerusalem on cheese day off name a while some of the weather now in the process of pulling away from the gulf that west assad of iran brought skies here in doha quite brisk winds through monday so a little bit of lift a dust in south wind will ease as we go on into choose day twenty five celsius and

much of the potential to stay dry and sefl dry and settled into a good parts of south africa up with a mozambique and to zimbabwe the flooding rains set to continue. to use probably can be a beautiful sight. and we're not letting them to our country. has found to keep money out of america people in power travels alongside those hoping to make even. more pain meds she's on al-jazeera.

top stories for you on al-jazeera extra police are to god schools businesses and places of worship in new zealand after shootings at two mosques police commanders say there will be a high visible presence nationwide on monday morning which is now fifty muslims of course skills at friday prayers in christchurch. new zealand laws may also get stricter following the attack the government will discuss options on monday such as banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and the government funded by back off outlawed firearms. or facebook says in the two.