you can get some to the 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 tarrant 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 attacks is not the man they once knew. al-jazeera grafton the acting white house chief of staff has defended the us president for not calling out white supremacists following the massacre in new zealand movies said donald trump has done what a president should do by reaching out to new zealand's leader and offering condolences but been criticized for not explicitly condemning the attack the gunman called the u.s. leader a symbol of a new white identity and his manifesto. has more from washington d.c. . just on sunday president john donald trump tweeted comments of support

towards a fox news host by the name of jeanine pirro this is important because pirro was suspended from her fox news show after saying very anti islamic islamophobia comments on her program trump tweeted support for her again this comes just three days after the terrible shootings in new zealand that claimed the lives of dozens of muslims now the president's chief of staff mick mulvaney was on the sunday shows and he said this about that claim instead of worrying about well who's to 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 democratic senator tim kaine also was on the sunday shows and he had some very pointed comments i want to read it to you he said we have to confront the fact that there is a rise in white supremacy anti immigrant an anti muslim attitudes in america tim

kaine said the president united states uses language that's often very similar to the language used by bigots and racists that was from senator tim kaine on sunday many people hoping the president donald trump will be more do more to denounce this but so far in his presidency he's been a reluctant to do so. many in the u.s. expressed surprise at how quickly new zealand's government appears to be moving on gun control a social media producer under chappelle has more. the basin reserve cricket ground shared some powerful pictures of tens of thousands of people attending a vigil in the capital wellington people around the world have showed their sympathy and solidarity by attending similar events now others have made sure that the world knows exactly who we are talking about here khalid beydoun started a thread to know the names remember the stories and celebrate the lives of the fifty people who were killed they include khalid mystify he fled violence in syria

as a refugee only to find it in new zealand and he's one of nine pakistani nationals who was murdered that day now for many online commentators the prime minister just into arder and has been a role model for the kind of compassion that they expect from political leaders when she was asked by president trump what support the united states could provide her message was sympathy and love for all muslim communities but it was her immediate promise to change gun laws which dumbfounded so many people in the united states especially compared to what they usually see after a mass shooting is expected to discuss some potential changes to gun laws with the government ministers in just a few hours here's how some people in christchurch feel about that it could well be a bit of a comeback on the front some guys that got more weapons on line and. you know as long as they were responsible just because of the everything i mean you could have

some sort of freedom. i mean you know. you're getting away from the surprise here for what you're using it for you know that there will be no opposition to because. because there's no there's no movement here in new zealand for them like this like all the news stations all of them. like politics it's like why are they going again we are still waiting to see what action the government might take new zealand already has far stricter gun laws than the united states and its citizens have no constitutional right to own a gun but that's certainly not a good enough excuse for inaction as many people are discussing today. lots more still to come here on the news hour including more information emerges about last weekend's ethiopian airlines crash the philippines becomes the latest country to be drawn from the international criminal court we'll tell you why. in sport pakistan takes another big step in its effort to convince the cricketing world it can host major international games.

now the new york times is revealing more details about the killing of the saudi journalist says the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october was part of a broader campaign authorized by crown prince mohammed bin soundman the report cites u.s. officials with access to classified intelligence documents joins us live now from washington d.c. mike so what more details have emerged in this new york times report about saudi arabia's secret campaign against dissenters. well daryn the new york times reports that there was a group form the saudi record intervention group round about twenty seventeen at about the time that muhammad bin solomon was elevated to the position of crown prince the report says that this group carried out several operations in neighboring countries including the forcible repetoire asian off

a number of political dissidents back to saudi arabia in addition the report says the group was also responsible for the interrogation of those who'd been arrested in a massive crackdown a couple of years ago in which a number of prominent saudi individuals were held at the ritz carlton hotel on the instructions of the crown prince muhammad been solomon now the television sufficient as quoted by the new york times are not revealed and no names are given the cia itself has declined to comment but certainly what the time does report does reveal is a pattern being carried out by saudi arabia of which jamal khashoggi was just a pot according to the reports of this group was carrying out operations well before the murder of jamal khashoggi it does name a couple of members of the group headed by solid i'll call tawny a close associate of the crown prince and

a man who was allegedly at the consulate when jamal khashoggi was murdered he is one of the eleven that is believed to saudi arabia is has charged with the murder saudi arabia continues to insist that this murder was carried out by what it calls a rogue group unlike president trump and his administration at a very close relationship with the saudis so how is this latest revelation like it's a play out than. well it's not clear what the reaction of the president is being that in the past he's indicated very clearly that he believes that the whole affair of the murder of jamal khashoggi is over this despite information from his own intelligence agencies which did appear to indicate that there was very high level involvement in that murder this despite as well a pressure from congress to reveal fully what information he has about the murder

of jamal khashoggi and to declare publicly who was responsible and at the same time exercise sanctions against those who are responsible but president trump has just brushed this all away his position is that this matter is now all in the past what is most important he's repeatedly said is ongoing business with saudi arabia the ongoing relationship with the crown prince and he's made very clear that he is not going to disrupt as he puts it u.s. relations with saudi arabia this latest report is unlikely to change his mind but it is likely to once again fire up a congress on this whole issue michael thank you. israeli army has raided areas in the occupied west bank after an israeli soldier was killed the military says a palestinian stab the soldier took his weapon and fired at civilians nearby and then fled the scene it happened outside the illegal israeli i rail settlement south of nablus are a force that has more now from west to roost in. the israeli military has set out

the sequence of events that it says took place in the occupied west bank on sunday morning it says at around nine forty five at the ariel interchange southwest of the city of nablus and a palestinian man approached a soldier stabbed that soldier and took his weapon before firing on nearby vehicles that soldier one thousand years old israeli army says was killed in that attack israeli civilian in one of those vehicles was also shot and seriously wounded israeli media saying he was he is a forty seven year old man a resident of one of the illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank another vehicle which was abandoned was then apparently taken by this individual he drove it southwest and fired on a bus stop where another israeli soldier was wounded that vehicle then discovered in or near the city the village of burkean palestinian village of booking further southwest that became the center of a pretty major israeli military operation as houses were searched and the focus

of this search was undertaken there were reports in the palestinian media as well that there was an exchange of gunfire at one stage there this military operation extended well beyond that village though checkpoints were set up illegal settlements were closed down for some time as were some other palestinian villages the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that the perpetrator or perpetrators of this attack will be captured in the justice will be brought to them there have been celebration events that have taken place in gaza where hamas and islamic jihad have both welcomed the news of this attack and they're also be tensions that erupted elsewhere in the occupied west bank with settlers stoning palestinian vehicles and homes currently this major military operation is still ongoing. israel's supreme court has banned the leader of a far right party from running in next month's election it says mikhail ben-ari of

the jewish power party incited racism against palestinians the decision overturned a ruling by israel's election committee the court also reinstated israeli palestinian parties which had been disqualified. ethiopia's transport minister says there are clear similarities between last weekend's ethiopian airlines plane crash and the lion air disaster in indonesia last october both involved buying seven three seven mustang to craft a mass funeral service has been held for some of the victims of last sunday's crash . going off thousands of mourners led a procession through the streets of ethiopia's capital addis ababa they accompanied seventeen empty caskets draped in the national flag relatives of the hundred fifty seven passengers and crew have been given bands of earth from the crash site and set of remains because the d.n.a. identification process could take up to six months one of the doe has more.

grieving families so some of the one hundred fifty seven victims of ethiopian airlines flight three year old to. mourn the loss of their loved ones. arriving at this field where remnants of the airline allies true not around brings it all home for them. the airline officials say they haven't found even a single body intact just body parts which would make the added process took awhile . ethiopian airlines didn't give us anything they told us to wait until thursday we waited and thursday came they are now saying they couldn't find anything i wish they told us that they found nothing in the first place this is major grief heavy we came into handed and we're going back empty handed. that buoying seven three seven eight and i went down at eight forty four am on sunday shortly after takeoff from the capital addis ababa and through tonight will be in neighboring kenya pozen just from one of them thought to countries were on board this is the time of crisis

in ethiopia the airline is a symbol of pride and they feel peons have thrown their full support behind it to paralyze smalltalk from since i was a small boy it was brilliant africa together. and that's why they have been doing for seventy five years laughter and evidence that the cross has done little to scare people away from the airline can be seen of the capitol smushed looming hotels there teeming with passengers in transit the accident happened here it's like yeah that's in that happening so when i when i would see you know s.p.c.s. not just enough to cut a globally we have those records of us interacting so as a layer of travel are and i use that if you've been in l.a. that has not affected my view or perspective. it's european airlines has expanded its fleet to one hundred eleven planes it now flies to one hundred six

international and twenty three domestic distillations beyond its almost professionals the airline also owns all forty nine percent stake in malawi lines and forty five percent stake in zambia airways what ethiopian is doing is abi trochaic corporate governance they're basically coming in to a failed business which is not failed because there was not demand there's demand that passengers want to fly out of these countries so you've got to be among the willing to pay but the issue has been the mismanagement of those airlines in countries so actually it's buying up cheap assets with strong demand and making it work i think it's a great strategy. back at the crash site walk us continue the search for debris and remain so for those who perished in the crush these a windswept filled one continued to be an international crime scene for a long time to come how it all just sita. hope you. the leaders of zimbabwe and mozambique cut short their foreign trips tropical cyclone cause death

and destruction in southern africa zimbabwe is the latest country to feel a storm's force at least thirty one people have been killed as flash floods swept away homes bridges roads dozens of people are missing and bad weather is slowing rescue efforts. dozens have died houses have been washed away people have been displaced and some of them are still missing people simply don't know where they are the extent of the damage is huge this is a made or was the main completely destroyed by the powerful water the bridge has been washed away that people that side of the bridge are stranded the concourse over to the side where they can get the help they needed so in the brave ones i've been trying to cross in a small patch of grass is dangerous to another to fall into the water but they say they simply can't stay that side because it is still dangerous everyone. in the situation on the ground here is desperate. and.

as. we discovered. when the floods came the electricity was cut off even when we are here our phones aren't working there's no way to communicate risk are under way but it is slow and difficult the army has been trying to. people who've been stranded by the rising waters but because the weather has been so bad at times it's not been easy for them to reach all the people who need help we know. what a big hotel into money money money money has. to go there to try and get help but people in need of food clothes and blankets we're told that has right now is going to try has been cut off because of the bad way that. there. in the area there.

by the rising waters hundreds and hundreds of children. safe for those choppers flying around in the sky to make matters worse had been told that it will likely. days which will likely make it even more difficult when the storm has already killed about one hundred people in malawi and mozambique tens of thousands have been forced from their homes blackouts have been widespread. but. i saw a woman being hit by debris it's not safe for people walking here the situation is very chaotic. they said was the majority of houses ninety five percent that collapsed was precariously built to pour materials flash floods and landslides of killed at least fifty eight people in the in the province of several thousand of them forced from their homes torrential rain caused damage in the provincial capital floodwaters receded leaving a trail of mud fallen trees and wrecked homes. when we come back we'll tell you

what a group of former gang members in the u.s. is doing to stop gun crime. and sport a new type of mixed martial arts fighter here with that story. hello there we're still seeing a fair amount of snow in parts of canada in the east the snow just keeps on coming and that's what we'll see if we head through the next few days further south we still got this training leg of cloud as well so it's still warm for us in miami they're still rather cool in atlanta with the top temperature just a fourteen degrees this area of cloud isn't doing a great deal they were not seeing a great deal of wet weather until we get to choose day the most it begin to pep up over parts of florida elsewhere across many parts of north america the weather's quite quiet we just have this little system is edging its way eastwards and bring

us and little bit of snow towards the south and there's that weather feature that was over the southern parts of the u.s. and you can see it's also affecting us in parts of mexico so some wet weather here but away from that it's largely fine and dry just perhaps a handful of showers as you head down through costa rica and into panama for south america though here things are a bit different we've got lots of wet weather that straight she will break through parts of paraguay and into a year ago i as well fairly wet days expected ted but a warm for one is our east twenty seven with a maximum temperature on monday it should be draw as well but then the winds change direction as we head into choose a this time coming in off the sea so nineteen degrees will just be our top temperature really will feel quite different elsewhere though and the showers will continue to rock along by. is there a war where on live t.v. and it's hot out it's to be able to be concise expressing exactly what is happening

in the moment and what it needs. or if you joined us on say israel is an apartheid state in view of the cleansing of the palestinian people this is a dialogue everyone has a voice and we want to hear from you join local obama conversation on al-jazeera be chips for democratically elected president ousted and held incommunicado since two thousand and thirteen events shrouded in secrecy so power change hands as the military seize control from its commander in chief for the first time al-jazeera reveals exclusively what happened behind closed doors directly from those who witnessed it first hand morsy the final hours.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here the south new zealand's government is set to tighten gun laws in the wake of friday's shooting at the two mosques that killed fifty people the cabinet will consider banning private ownership of semiautomatic rifles and buying back outlawed guns relatives of those killed are preparing for funerals for their loved ones the prime minister says bodies of the fifty three times are expected to be returned to their families by wednesday. and israeli army has raided areas in the occupied west bank after an israeli soldier was killed the military says a palestinian stopped the soldier for a state bank near that ariel settlement. but to our top story now and those mass shootings that two mosques in new zealand let's bring in susan the voice she was

previously new zealand's rights commission and joins us live now from melbourne australia and avoid these attacks against muslims in new zealand have shocked the country but some people point out that not the warning signs for this atrocity were everywhere what do you think the signs weren't picked up look i think from my former role as rice rationally very closely with the muslim community and you know we have seen an exponential rise not just in new zealand around the world of. of hate crimes and in particular i think we bought the tension of government in new zealand that were consumed about the increase of threats and abuse directed at them and you know they wanted to be here and they wanted me to draw to help you know build more resilient safer communities. but unfortunately it hasn't happened and he you know today dealing with the aftermath of a. a tragedy that has devastated. all new zealanders and my heart

goes out to all those who have lost loved ones in particular my muslim brothers and sisters in my country and i understand you have many friends still in the muslim community in new zealand what sort of racist hate do they face on a daily basis and why do they face this kind of abuse. unders would probably think what we want to most peaceful countries on earth and that this doesn't happen in new zealand in my two ms rice specials commission is a watch new zealand i tried really had to get new zealanders to understand it this happens in our country you know that most marginalised and vulnerable groups face abuse and discrimination every day you know and i think you know i haven't made a muslim woman new zealand who hasn't suffered some form of abuse discrimination you know and we might think that that's. it and the signs were there that it was building you know in recently is these things have increased and in the full people

in the government to actually take them seriously and i think that's what's happened is people were actually taking these threats seriously you know it also happens to our jewish community as well people seeing the rise of white supremacy you know even in new zealand. when when you were appointed race commissioner you had what's been described as a rocky start you were heavily criticized as being too slow in driving that race reforms some people were saying look you had the chance to change much of this but you didn't was that criticism thirty you think. well it's you know people can have their opinions i mean that's really up to them is not i did the best job i possibly could now we're in a situation we were really need a call to action i'm not in that role anymore and i'm not the only person who wasn't the only person responsible for us relations in new zealand this is now up to our government and i think we've seen exemplary leadership from our prime minister and she will continue to do so but this is

a court action it's not what has happened although there will be a lot of reflection and they'll be a lot of discussion on the into by the authorities but it's really a call to action now so we need to ask our government fiercely you know she's already saved that she will be in simi automatic weapons but we also need to look at our counter-terrorism mixed strategy. yeah. yeah you touched on the issue of security that susan the because i want to ask you about the new zealand police i mean do they label record hate crimes like when mosques or synagogues are defiling if they don't why isn't this taken more seriously. well we tried that i tried you know sort of myself and trying to get new zealand police to record hate crimes you know we live in a country that a few to a mosque or a synagogue that's just put down as an act of vandalism you know so how do we know the extent of the problem in our country when we don't even record it that's what

we say you know and hate crimes are directed at many many different groups you know and i think we need to understand the extent of the problem and what we're going to do that's a really good stat but then those that uphold the freedoms of speech and you know found to say a juicy of kia the in you know turn it on its head in the hole will become sort of i don't know about that with taking their liberties in the freedoms you know i think that this is a wake up call for our country you know it's a wake up call you know if you work in an environment like i did you understand the threats you understand that this is a real reality and i and i know now that new zealanders will take that seriously as i say this is a wake up call for everyone in new zealand but i do think the country needs to challenge hate and racism going forward because of hatred is being normalized in new zealand there's a big problem there. hatred is being normalized everywhere in the world and what we're seeing now is

a rise in people feeling validated to do so you know for what's happening all around the world and there has now create not crypt into our country it's been made very very very visible so this require as real real real leadership from the very top you know i have been instrumental in bringing the voice of a muslim community to the leaders of our country to those in senior officials and sadly today what we say is that those voices have been ignored so all they've asked for is for help they've asked for results is both human and financial to actually build a stronger safer communities and that's one of the pillars of countering violent extremism is at the grassroots these communities know the issues that face and that they also have the solutions it's not for us to tell them what to do it's for us to actually give them support to be able to do it it wouldn't opossum be wouldn't have prevented what has happened today but that's patent passel of what we need to do going forward it's really important that we continue to do what we did yesterday

and the day before that and the day before that is to call out white when in we we see it to be brave to actually have a saying now that this happens even peaceful or new zealand racism has happened for years ask any modern new zealand so and avoid thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us here. now us back fighters in syria say the battle to retake isis last arrow area will be longer than expected so when democratic forces say the recapture of back goes is being slowed down by landmines but of course the thousands of civilians are being held as human shields the group claimed has killed sixteen hundred fighters in the past two weeks. the first of the political prisoners pardoned by the democratic republic of congo's new president had been released from jail in that she promised about seven hundred prisoners most of whom were jailed under the previous regime would be freed during his first one hundred days in office cuts and as the polls was frank dion goes spent two and a half years in kinshasa central prison was he is one of three prominent opposition

leaders released from jail after being pardoned by democratic republic of congo's president feather's tisha katie who was elected in december the was i'm very happy to see my brother released from jail i don't know how to express all the emotion it's finally my brother is free human rights lawyer firm and young combi was also released he'd been sentenced to twenty years in prison in two thousand and nine and charges of being a threat to national security. an additional seven hundred political prisoners have also been pardoned by dishy candy most were arrested for speaking out against former president joseph kabila during his eighteen here's an office that was a part of the. it's a joy for all of us we want to think the president and ask him not to imitate the behavior of the former regime to shoot kennedy's decision to pardon political prisoners is widely seen as a move to break away from the politics of his predecessor but these attempts are

proving difficult i know where there were violent protests by the president supporters in kinshasa after his union for democracy and social progress party suffered a crushing loss on friday's elections for the national assembly joseph kabila is common front for congo coalition took more than two thirds of the seats in the senate or upper chamber and it already holds a majority in the lower chamber. now many are questioning the president's ability to govern independently on the streets it's feared there could be more violence. he said and supporters of the president claim they did not have enough senators but it's not our issue they shouldn't come and carry out these acts of vandalism in our neighborhood. but. despite the setbacks she can he says he will continue to push his agenda forward in addition to the prisoner's pardon he has pledged to bring back political opponents who fled the republican can

be with president this even though kabila still have considerable influence in the country caught c.l.o. a young al-jazeera the philippines as formally withdrawn from the international criminal court and began the process to leave last year after the hague based court launched an initial examination into president or griego detectives drugs war thousands have been killed since the crackdown started three years ago the philippines is the second country in recent years it was drawn from the i.c.c. after burundi which left in twenty seventeen catman is an international human rights lawyer he says detectives will find it difficult to untangle himself from the i.c.c. process. one of the points of being a member of the international criminal court when when you agree to sign up. to its jurisdiction if you withdraw that that withdrawal is suspended for a period of twelve months afterwards that is in effect to prevent situations just like this where

a state is accused of war crimes crimes community and they withdraw to shield the self from prosecution or the whole point is that you cannot be committed to do that so the i.c.c. will continue and will have jurisdiction over prosecuting the president and the sooner if issues that they considered to be responsible clearly there are a lot within the philippines that want to ensure that the regime is held accountable you know when one looks at the allegations that have been made there they are stark. in terms of the number of killings the brutality of the killings and the president hasn't sought to distance himself from them quite the contrary is has taken full credit for it so the evidence against him is overwhelming and of course he should stand trial and this step will not change that and hopefully the supremum court will take a strong stance to uphold the rule of law and ensure that he's held accountable

thousands of serbian opposition protestors have surrounded the presidential palace they gathered as president alexander the judge gave a defiant speech he defended his government up to three months of weekly demonstrations a day earlier protesters broke into state t.v. station demanding fair coverage. i thought isn't paris a big on a huge clear up after violent yell of this protest cause extensive damage on one of the world's most famous streets right as ransacked and set fire to shops and other businesses along the shore sillies a violence started when protesters from smoke bombs and stones at the police more than two hundred were arrested the demonstrations began four months ago opposed phil tax but. into wider protests against president. bush as well as opposition leader has begun a national tour in a new effort to oust president maduro one guy though started what's being called operation of freedom in the northern city of valencia is in a power struggle with the jury.