the process has been very emotional in highly stressful for all and you can imagine the the emotions are running high is in accordance with the islamic faith the families have will want to devote he has to be returned as soon as possible and we are ensuring that we do that is i mean she and yesterday we have ninety people from the disaster victimize ation identification team working through the night. this morning we conducted two important of lacings at the dean's every new mosque and at lynnwood mosque this placing was carried out by the time that the fans were from my to who and also with the leaders and the experience from the islamic community we have had burial expert teams in place ready to receive the bodies at

a point in time that this thing this morning gave them huge confidence that all the essential preez have been lifted at both of those places in preparation and once the investigation has been completed to reopen those mosques at a point in time we have met with their criminal investigation team and we hope to have those premises in place by the end of the week to allow our muslim community to go back and undertake pria so at this point in time i would like to ask dr n y ghani on behalf of the muslim community to speak to you about the events that will take place once the deceased have been released. today i would like to invite our president dr mostafa fargo to first give you a briefing and then i would cover the aspects with the commission has highlighted.

thank you. if it's a question i wanted. on. prisoners do to go there was benefits and the movements of all. we all. as food is what happened last friday in the city of christchurch this morning. we went to bill is the biggest most in the city where many lives while most i did member a few years ago when we have adequate here in christchurch that most house about five hundred individual us from why didn't you know me those every day and today that most schools because of what took place last friday while our community is mourning we are saddened by what took

place who are shocked but as a community where it is elian community we know we are living in a country that we i welcome that love us one of them with beautiful and most beautiful countries in the wall. so i want to show was more high tomorrow because we never want is fixed since anything like that would ever happen in this country and i think those right wing individuals who are trying to promote hatred and on the war picked our beautiful and peaceful country for descending reason that we pride ourselves when we go out on to say that we belong to one of the best countries in the won't so they want to bring friction. hatred division between our communities and that's why they picked this country and

i would like before i say anything about what's happening with oh let me shoot to give them any play musket that they have failed who flee because what they have done if anything has increased the law and the feeling we have fallen country and we have also seen that tremendous outpouring of love what we call i don't know how in new zealand it is tremendous that is no enough warts that i can bring to this franks the amount of our ohio and support that we have been receiving not only within new zealand but all over the war but of course our you can appreciate as a community our focus right now is to look after those people who enjoy it and i in the hundreds of to make sure that they get well and also to support their families we're also working hard to support the families of those who lost their

loved ones as the difficult mission i mentioned some of these borders are beginning to be released and the process of buddy al will commence and that is where we are focusing our attention and that's where we're spending most of our time took in phone community saw many people involved the first thing i would say and i from our prime minister down to the present on the street involved to help us make sure that we give these people dignified. spiritual body you know the hope we tell us. police force our own security agents we are working with very closely and everything that we need is provided to us the only thing now that remains is for these borders to be completed at least so that we can buy them. and for us

we were like on behalf of my own community to thank everybody for the support i don't ha that we are receiving and we would like to reach out right that when we go out of town as muslims we tell people that we are living in this most beautiful and peaceful country and we are as patting ourselves on womb to be the best example of muslims in the wall so that if somebody is x. wow can you find a business muslims that will score his suv that was devout that was said go and find them in new zealand that is why what happened last friday is not going to stop us from a spat into the chief when we said we are going to achieve and i want to thank you all you know for being here and i hope that this incident that took place last friday in cars george will never happen again anywhere in the war thank you thank

you thank you very much for for being here this afternoon the purpose of this meeting is really through you to communicate the masses the message of peace and love and to also update you where we are in terms of dealing with the process what has happened we in this country have had as a community had a very strong relationship with the police unlike in many other countries where we have the memorandum of understanding which was signed some fifteen years ago where we do. time for time when we are tested as a community we do we do see the support coming from the police in a most positive manner possible. and i would like to again just thank the police

new zealand police as well as the wider community. that the support which they have provided our focus as the president has iterated is to do for to look after our community and the people and our process the process of burial going forward and then sitting down as a community with all the stakeholders and looking at that how we can do things better how what areas which areas we need to strengthen and where we need to focus to build tomorrow's new zealand thank you man it's me and i have men that are him in the name of god the most compassionate the most miss four days of the post common with that muslims all around the world say

all the time they say it before we begin anything in the name of god the most compassionate the most mis for the events that took place last friday beyond comprehension and we as a local muslim community as a nation muslim community but reason community of new zealanders i reeling our role is to find out how do we bring back compassion into the scenario which was so devoid of compassion. part of the way we do this as a wider community where you've seen its expression around the country the amazing vigils that have taken place the fountains of flowers that have appeared outside mosques and islamic centers the messages of hope and love to give them this but for us as the muslim community part of the specific way in which we bring compassion to

bear in this instance is the way in which we deal with the bodies of our beloved to patents so the process that we are it now is that we will be receiving the bodies once the current to his release. and will come into the answer in the gaze of the family and then the family and community members will honor the body we believe in the eternal spirit and the spirit of these beautiful people mean women the children who lost their lives is not good it is not gone it is eternal but the body that once in case them we respect and we honor. mean wash and prepare the means bodies and women wash and prepare the women's bodies we treat the body as if it is still alive we cover it we use only warm water

and we cleanse it as we would before we were about to pray because we believe that the soul and the body are about to undertake a journey to god and this is a form of worship once we have washed the body we will read the body in pieces of white unsigned cloth the reason for doing this is that we believe in the internal life we believe in the life of the hat and that when we return to god all that we take with us is the heart. everything else that we accumulated in life we leave behind and that's what the white and certain pieces of cloth represent after this the bodies are released to the family and the beer you experience and through all of this we try to remember that what we're bringing back to this

tragedy to this horror is a sense of compassion and what has been remarkable about the local muslim community here is you know we here found incredible grief but not hate the response to so much hate has been. created thank you thank you so. right so you're watching a live press conference there coming to us from christchurch new zealand where the deputy police commissioner while he has been holding a news conference we've also heard from leading members of the muslim community dr danny i must offer for uk they are the presidents of the federation of islamic associations there just talking about. and expressing their appreciation for the support and sympathy they received from people in new zealand and right across the world in the aftermath of these shootings and they spoke about the importance of

getting the victims buried as soon as possible and the process of preparing the bodies for burial let's bring in wayne hay who joins us again live from christchurch. dr anwar ghani one of the muslim community leaders there was talking about saying that the process has been highly emotional and very stressful and the police commissioner also said that the that the process has been quite stressful because in accordance with islamic faith the bodies have to be buried as soon as possible but yet the police need to get through their investigation so those two things a causing a little bit of frustration i think. yes and i think some of what you heard there from the federation of islamic associations was perhaps an attempt to educate for want of a better word people around you zealand suing not muslims about exactly the pros cis that they go through that they have to go through once somebody dies because we have heard some frustration from some of the family members of the victims that

this process has taken too long the new zealand prime minister just said on sunday that she hoped the first of the bodies would be released from hospital to family members on sunday night i think we also heard in those comments just a few moments ago from the islamic groups that that process has not begun and that certainly something that we have heard as well from family members that none of the bodies yet have been released but that may well happen within the next few hours just a few moments ago i was talking to a son of somebody who was killed in the el nor mosque behind me and he said yes there had been some angry scenes between family members and the all thora he's saying that this process was taking too slow but he also said that some leadership some senior figures within that family support group had really stood up and said and tried to explain some of the frustration and also tried to represent the police side as well to try to explain to the family members why this had to take so long because there was so many people killed the death toll at fifteen now the scene

inside those two mosques was so horrific that it had to take that long to go through those scenes do their forensic examinations which is still going on by the way and then ultimately remove the bodies from that site which was only completed a day or so ago take them to the hospital and the post-mortem examinations only began on sunday and they're still going through the process of identifying formally identifying each of those victims so it's been a very slow process so you can understand that there has been some frustration from those family members of those who were killed on friday or right away and have been questioned when thank you. well 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 to by reaching out to museums leda and offering condolences but tom's been criticized for not explicitly condemning the attack a gunman called the u.s. leader a symbol of renewed want 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 donald trump is no more to blame for what happened in new zealand than 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 reluctant to do so. well for more on the story let's speak to unjam rahman she's the spokesman for the islamic women's council of new zealand she joins us live now from the hamilton and the new zealand government gave a press conference earlier about their response across all their agencies responding to the shootings how would you gauge and assess the support and help the muslim community has been given.

i think that the government response to the crisis have thing i think that they have being. with all the agencies all the support their community could require they're provided reprehensive the sos and i would commend our prime minister. or about public servants that are on the ground there in doing be based through the hospitals through the police through social workers. thanking them for the hard work i'm a commitment to do the beast these terrible circumstance of. these attacks against muslims in new zealand have shocked the country but some people point out that the warning signs for this atrocity were everywhere why do you think these signs were missed they weren't picked up.

i think that we as a community did feel a rise a mid level of negativity and the rise of that trio. through social media. through our experience both in real life and we did raise those concerns. i think that also watching what was happening overseas than other countries and knowing that the world is now so much more and to connected globally through social media and to me that we always had the fear that something could happen here. and your prime minister just sent out her own is talking about changing gun laws in the country but i guess this alone isn't likely to solve the problem it seems to be much more multilayered i mean are we talking about big societal changes here.

yes i think the gun more changes that absolutely necessary but they need to be part of a bigger fleet of measure of i think we as a country need to think about how we are going to challenge the right extremists we need to think about how we will work on building communities that value each other and there together we need to think about changing structures and institutions. we need to think about training or our public servants so they're with different cultures them are able to provide services that have a few barriers of possible i think that once the immediate needs of the community in christchurch meet and that will take some time yet there we need to

spin been a lot of time working on the long term solutions that are going to take a lot of commitment not just from the government from but from the people in new zealand as well and jim raman thank you very much indeed for your tough now the new york times is revealing more details about the killing of the saudi journalist. it says the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october was part of a wider campaign authorized by crown prince mohammed bin sound man report cites u.s. officials with access to classified intelligence documents michael has more now from washington d.c. . the new york times a reveals that in two thousand and seventeen a body calling itself the saudi rap that intervention group was formed now this was at about the time that the mohammed bin solomon was elevated to the position of crown prince since then says the newspaper this group has carried out

a number of operations in neighboring countries and further afield including the forcible repatriation of saudi dissidents of back to riyadh and other cities in saudi arabia now the new york times does not name the intelligence sources that use the cia itself has declined to comment however it does name some of the individuals involved in this group it says that the group is headed by sadal cult tiny a close associate of the crown prince now president trump has insisted that the whole affair of the murder of jamal khashoggi in his view is over he says that he is intent on continuing to conduct business with saudi arabia and to conduct business with the crown prince himself congress has been increasingly angry about this position demanding that president trump continue to investigate jamal khashoggi as murder and also to impose sanctions against those who are held

accountable this president trump has refused to do the latest reports it may well be brushed away by the president but will not be brushed off by congress which is likely to use this as further ammunition to continue to put pressure on the president to take some form of action for the murder of jamal khashoggi which this report indicates was not an isolated incident but part of a widespread campaign. executive director of the arab sense of washington who joins us via skype from washington d.c. tell you how significant then is this latest revelation by the new york times which says jamal khashoggi is killing was part of a broader campaign against dissidents by saudi arabia wasn't just him singularly who was targeted. i think it's a very significant revelation in the sense that it puts in context the murder of. this was not. pretended at least for

a while by saudi officials that it was totally isolated and a mistake clearly it's not isolated neither was it a mistake it was part of a covert campaign that started more than a year before the murder. and involved at least a dozen of and siddons according to this excellent report by the by the new york times different operations and different countries as your report just indicated that include that sort of valence kidnap torture or forcible repatriation to the kingdom detention illegally in other words administrative detention without charges and abuse of prisoners this is very significant information and put the basically puts the murder in historical context and that's an important point to make hay of because mom had been solemn on the crown prince says no he didn't give

the order to kill her but this article seems to contradict that saying this is all part of a much wider campaign which the new york times believes was started up when the crown prince came to power. exactly i think it's great that the article does admit if you will. this type of behavior did exist before whatever it clearly indicates there was an escalation after mom had been some men took over as crown prince decided to crackdown on dissent in saudi arabia particularly dissent outside the kingdom by saudi citizens and. that ended up contributing when you when you look at this group specifically that you would report referred to the saudi rapid intervention group as a strange name as if it's like a military battle against saudi civilian citizens of the kingdom but

still that was trusted with cracking down with pressuring with chasing these people out on different countries and bringing him home to be punished legally just a final thought from you because of so you're there in washington d.c. let's talk about president trump briefly if we can because he and his administration are saying look it's business as usual with the saudis all these latest revelations by the times like to have any political impact do you think. not on trump personally or on his immediate circle i doubt it but i think i agree with your report. continuous. basically investigation by different media whether the new york times the washington post and others international media if you will will continue to expose more facts in the future and will continue to add momentum to the investigation particularly in congress

it's still at its early stage and it will clearly generate some pressure down the road on the administration to change its very biased attitude toward this very serious crime that was committed with the murder of question. thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera that 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 he then fled the scene it happened outside the illegal israeli arielle settlement which is south of lebanon are a force that has more from western incident. 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 the 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 and 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 there are 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 and says mikhail ben-ari of the jewish power party incited racism against palestinians the decision overturns 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 head disaster in the nation last october both involved boeing's seven

three seven max eight aircraft meanwhile a mass funeral service has been held to some of the victims of last sunday's crash . thousands of mourners in ethiopia's capital addis ababa companied seventeen empty caskets draped in the national flag relatives of the one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew who died have been given bags of earth from the crash site and set of remains because the d.n.a. identification process could take up to six months of the dough as more. grieving families of some of the one hundred fifty seven victims of ethiopian airlines flight three hundred 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 to call them. airline officials say they haven't found even a single body intact just body parts which would make that id 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 max 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 must know pride and if europeans have thrown their full support behind it to paralyze small talk from since i was a small boy it was brilliant africa together. and. thus was a win win for seventy five years. and evidence that the cross has done little to

scare people away from the airline can be seen at the capital's mushrooming hotels they're teaming with passengers in transit there to didn't happen here it's like india that's in that happens with on our roads you know s.p.c.s. not just enough rica and globally we have those records of us interacting so as a lawyer traveler and i use that if you've been in l.a. that has not affected my view or perspective. if 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 pushes the airline also for the nine percent stake in malawi alliance and forty five percent stake in zambia airways what ethiopian is doing is arbitrary 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 the demand they're willing to pay but the issue has been the mismanagement of those airlines in the country 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 remains of those who perished in the crush these so windswept filled will continue to be an international crime scene for a long time to come how it all just zita both europea authorities in paris have begun a major clear up operation after violent yellow vest protests caused extensive damage on one of the world's most famous streets rioters ransacked and set fire to shops and other businesses along the shore sillies a violence started when protesters threw smoke bombs and cobble stones at the police more than two hundred were arrested the demonstrations began four months ago of a proposed fuel tax hikes but i've grown into wider protests against the president

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