and live on air and online. an unprecedented weather event that's affected one point seven million people mozambique zimbabwe and malawi declare national emergencies after cycling. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program he is a terrorist he's a criminal he's an extremist but he will when i speak to the man with new zealand's prime minister promises justice for the fifty victims of the christ church mosque attack the british prime minister is expected to request a delay to bret's it but the e.u.

has says there has to be a good reason as it would be costly and prolong the uncertainty and the boeing under more scrutiny over the safety of its seven three seven max eight jets this time from the u.s. justice department. thanks for joining us we begin with what's being described as the worst weather disaster to ever hit the southern hemisphere one point seven million people are estimated to have been affected by cyclon each day in mozambique that the storm first hit the coastal port of beta last week bringing winds of up to one hundred seventy kilometers an hour and huge sea swells which flooded the city it's thought two hundred people have died in mozambique but authorities say more than a thousand may actually have been killed cyclometer i has also the story in parts of neighboring malawi where fish was their fear at least fifty six people have died

and almost one million are affected the storm has ravaged areas in zimbabwe to the official number of dead is ninety eight and more than two hundred are missing now all three countries have declared national emergencies welcome webb has the latest now from an era in central's mozambique. the cyclamen brought ferocious winds and days of torrential rains just a few days ago this river was up above the level of what remains of this road and it swept away the entire bridge that was here to see some of the few pieces that remain of it and that is left people stranded on both sides mobile communications are down so people can't speak to their relatives they don't know if they've survived or what's happened also means essential goods and humanitarian aid campaspe since the friday. to go to. the

so i don't know begin a region declares because there is no bridge the. bridges and all of the officials from the district headquarters have come to inspect the damage but realistically there's almost nothing they can do without help from at least the central government or possibly from outside of ms mozambique there's no way that they can fix a big piece of infrastructure like this and so every day people come down here to see if there's a way if they can pass to see if the water levels low enough to get a small boat or to walk or even get a vehicle across but until that happens they're still stuck. meanwhile in isolated parts of zimbabwe those injured during the storm are struggling to get help how do what is in the eastern district of cheap money money which was completely cut off by cycling. some of the patients affected by the floods in china money are now being flown to this makeshift health center where

they are being seen by medical staff and this is one of them this patient from what we see injuries he has less aeration his face arms and legs he's complaining that he may have a broken wing that's why they're trying to fix it temporarily until he can get to a proper medical facility and get treated to properly others are going to be brought to have been brought to these tents you see here they will be seen by aid workers aid staff nurses doctors who are on the ground who traveled some of them for days because the roads were so bad to get here these are the people who managed to leave their villages when the floods came in crushed their homes they walked some of them for hours in waves and waves of water mud and sludge to rita's facility this is the first time they going to be seen by medical staff since friday when the floods actually poured in the ones who are seriously injured are told that the injuries are because when the floods came all of a sudden they crushed their homes so some were crushed underneath the rubble and

then others were pushed back several meters when the water flooded in so they're the ones who are more serious they'll be treated to as soon as possible the problem is we've been told many many people are still stuck in stranded out there where it's hard for people to access because most of the roads have been damaged have been destroyed and people can access them the only way is through helicopters it depends on the weather of course the weather software has been relatively ok some choppers have been flying back and forth bringing people in art right now there's no way of knowing how many people need help right now and of course how many people have been killed by the first flights. to new zealand now where bodies are the bodies of some victims of the christ church mosque attacks have been returned to their families earlier in her first parliamentary speech since the mass shooting the prime minister just sindar there

in a promise that justice for the fifty victims and vowed never to acknowledge the gunman by name when he has more now from christ church after friday's attack in christchurch this sitting of parliament was not about politics in a rare move the floor of the debating chamber was given over to people from outside parliament they were religious leaders who came together to offer condolences and prayers for the victims. a lot we ask you to grant patience and a halt to all the family members affected by this tragedy or lot we asked you to protect new zealand and the whole world from such calamities i mean in an emotional speech the prime minister urged new zealanders to support the muslim community of memory and she spoke of the man

alleged to have inflicted so much pain on that community but refused to speak his name he saw many things from his act of terror but one was notoriety and that is why you will never hear me mention his name he is a terrorist he is a criminal he is an extremist but he will when i speak to be nameless and to others i implore you speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them he may have sought notoriety but we and new zealand will give him nothing. the l nor mosque where the first attack took place is still cordoned off a forensic examination is coming to an end and the focus is turning to cleaning before worshipers are allowed back in there's been some frustration expressed by family members of those killed about delays in having bodies returned for burial but that process is now under way and for now the area behind the cordon remains

a crime scene but it's believed that in the next few days both mosques will reopen that will be a difficult time for people like. who came to new zealand from south africa twelve years ago he used to pray at the el nor mosque but at the moment this is as close as he can get all of the people in a mostly. welcome guest to new zealand and most of them so there's a lot of places all for us to eat. so it's. that's an emotion that will be around for a long time yet as the people here struggle to come to terms with the terror that came to this city wayne hay al jazeera christchurch and thomas joins us live now from christ church in new zealand andrew the first funeral seem to be underway right now tell us more. we're still waiting for her to arrive but

yes those people you can see gathered behind me that two hundred people are waiting for the first victim who is going to be buried as a result of the tragic events of last friday now there were fifty people killed when the police in a press conference here on wednesday explained this slow process of returning the bodies to families because there's a lot of frustration on the part of the families as not their time is taking to getting their loved ones back the police said but as of late night tuesday new zealand time twenty one of the fifty victims had been formally identified and was ready to be returned to the family were the family ready to pick them up and they said that a further six people would be formally identified by lunchtime or wednesday so natural to you for now bringing the total to twenty seven victims who can be returned to families and they hope to have the overwhelming majority of ready to be returned to families by the end of wednesday but they're saying with some victims it will take longer than that and that does tell you wolf right the state that some of the bodies the rain the injuries that some of the people to study and as they

were killed the play said what would be fun for the people would be to give the wrong body to the wrong family they want to get this right even though it's going to take a ride on the place and the press conference also changed or updated the time it took to arrest the man they suspect of carrying out friday's attacks that originally said from first emergency call to having him in custody was thirty six minutes they're now saying it was actually twenty one minutes after that very first cool that they had him pinned down on the ground under arrest it was thirty six minutes before they had him in custody for much boston than they originally said and they are also saying there was no doubt he was on his way to carry out another attack had he not been stopped just in the road and you see this prime minister is also in christchurch on wednesday she's at a school right now speaking to students and here's a little of what she's been saying there. what has happened here in christ's church this was not about christ's church. you've had

a lot happen in christchurch are very number of years it has. been incredibly hard and the recent new zealand recognises that is. but even though this was an order about the city we know that it is happened here in the impact that will have to so you have the support of all new zealand is we want to make sure that we do everything that we came to look after you during this time and just know that everyone is grieving alongside you is well on scene there and there and speaking a little earlier andrew what else did the prime minister have to say here. which is that kashmir high school and that high school lost two of its pupils in the attacks last friday another five people associated with a school in some way a parent or a former student so lots of grief at that school she was really talking to the children and she was asking them if they'd seen distressing things on social media how they felt she said social media can be

a force for good but it needs to be used in the right way don't indulge the killer by sharing the content that he created she said talk about your friends what they were like talk about their strengths really celebrate their lives don't talk about the killers or messages when it reiterating again and again and again and you said as well the politicians will working in her words very very fast to take action on gun reform very very soon that's her priority now to change the gun laws here she said to do it within ten days of the attack we're expecting an announcement on that on monday and thomas following all developments from christ church thank you. the israeli forces have showed that a palestinian suspect thought to be behind an attack in the occupied west bank a manhunt was volunteered by israeli forces following the shooting and stabbing on sunday israel says the suspect was killed on tuesday after he allegedly opened fire at the security forces that came to arrest him

a reporter neither even him joins me live now on the phone from ramallah need to thank you for joining us tell us a little bit more of what you know about developments of this so the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has congratulated the israeli intelligence agency for killing a mother who has been on that on since sunday agency itself released a statement saying that the almighty was killed in an exchange of fire in his hiding place in the village near ramallah. hide west bank now look of there say that an undercover israeli unit has rebuilt the village leading to confrontation with palestinians more reinforcements from the israeli forces arrived later to the scene said at the house and done much to surrender before they shelled it according to eyewitnesses there the first palestinian news agency said the two palestinians were arrested in the village and medics tell us that fifteen palestinians would wounded including two by live ammunition it's worth noting that that is from the

area village in the north of the west bank and israeli forces have been looking for him in his home town since the attack took place the army said it was also looking and planning to demolish the family's house in abraham with the latest from ramallah and the thank you. still to come on al-jazeera a minute's silence is held by police in the netherlands for people killed in a shooting. and we look at that time in office of kazakstan it's president was a broccoli announced his resignation after twenty nine years in the job. hello big showers off the coast of queens and once again circulation you can see it

here more or less actually new sounds for southern cuisine this is where the potential is and the far north koreans in the tropics we've got a tropical cyclone one called trevor and it's going to spend most of wednesday sitting over the fall noles of tropical queensland producing a flood for i think the third time this season to the south that looks very fine partner showers near the coast attentions are rising event thing now when adelaide up to about twenty seven twenty eight warmest still in perth with the breeze off the interior but the tried to confirm that on thursday by which time the sockeye would just be thinking about going into the gulf of carpentaria having dropped anything up to five hundred millimeters in tropical northern queensland little change the south except it looks quite warm for oblate around us thirty for you the sun is out of both the north and south island of new zealand all the action is further west is cloud coming down and also it's fed humid contains a potential for a lot of rain but it's likely to miss your thing so you've got twenty one twenty two degrees more or less where you are and that last the wednesday on thursday and

they clearly on thursday the cloud is chucking back into the far south the south island bringing at least some rain with it. in the next episode of earth rise nick clark two into groupings current on a voyage through the widdle sea to highlight the importance of protecting this fragile antarctic ecosystem against an expanding list of manmade threats beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just teeming with life the bees and the soul of the remotest masses all of the nz arctic century on al-jazeera.

hello welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera two point six million people are estimated to have been affected by cycle which has torn across mozambique malawi and zimbabwe it's been described as the worst weather disaster to ever hit the southern hemisphere the bodies of some victims of the christ church mosque attacks are being returned to their families earlier the prime minister just saying they are there and promised justice for the fifty victims and israeli forces have shot dead a palestinian suspects or to be behind an attack in the occupied west bank on sunday a manhunt was launched by israeli forces following the shooting and stabbing. the e.u.'s chief breaks in the go c.h.r. says britain will only be allowed to delay its departure from the e.u.

if it increases the chances of the withdrawal deal being ratified by parliament the british prime minister is expect that the asked the e.u. for an extension of at least three months to raise amaze the vorst deal has already been rejected by m.p.'s twice how the bellamy does more now from brussels you do sense a certain degree of frustration listen to the words of e.u. chief negotiator michele bachmann your he did see clearly that there was genuine uncertainty now hanging above everyone concerned he did say clearly that it's not because a new deal was voted against in was that it was off the tables here in brussels and then when he talked about the extension he questioned what for if it's a short extension what could possibly happen that will change and will make to reason me convinced the house of commons to ratify the current with agreement of

withdrawal and if it's a long extension we're talking. hear about an extension for up to two years what will happen during those two years will there be a change in the political process in the u.k. are we talking about a new agreement altogether so far the e.u. has not received a formal request by to reason may for this extension i think that at the summit here in brussels later this week leaders will want to hear from her what exactly she's thinking and how exactly she's planning to proceed and it's only after that that they will decide on their position whether bellamy there with the e.u. point of view will lawrence lee meanwhile has been following developments in westminster . well to reason may is right singh has written is in the process of writing to the head of the european council and just asking for an extension to our school fifty and a delay to bricks and clearly she's working on the assumption that that's going to

be granted on some level but a lot of the music now coming out of brussels is to say why should we do it you can't tell us what you'll tentative plan is and certainly the french among others are suggesting they might not grant an extension asshole now just to extrapolate that that would mean that after the e.u. summit at the end of this week there would be one week left until the supposed bricks it dates of march twenty ninth to reason may would then have to come back as a parliament here and say this is your last chance about an ideal but even if she says that the ultra hard pull bricks it says will not vote for her because they would say well known to do that because we're out with no deal at the end of this week and that's what we've always won seats so if you assume then that even if she tried to bring a vote back the third time she would lose it's then the u.k. is staring down the barrel of the no deal crushing out with all the turbulence and economic damage that would pose or to reason may having to face the choice of abandoning bricks it's an revoking fifty that would split the conservative party

the government in off and probably would collapse the government so the decision of the european union is about to make is absolutely critical for the democracy of the united kingdom the future economy of the united kingdom all these things now are absolutely at a critical moment. pope francis accepted the resignation of a french cardinal who was convicted of failing to report sexual abuse allegations phillipa barberin traveled to rome to present his resignation to the pope after being found guilty of covering up sexual abuse committed by a priest cardinal barbara is planning to appeal his conviction and the statement by the church says the pope rejected the resignation on the basis of the presumption of innocence. politicians in the netherlands of hold a minute's silence for three people killed in an attack in the city of utrecht on monday. say that they're considering terrorism as a motive after finding

a letter in the gunman's getaway car turkish born this was the tame the hours after the attack but that there has more of the story. when i was a very moving ceremony in the dodge parliament a minute's silence as i remembered the victims of the utrecht tram shooting which took place here on monday they also remember the victims of the christ church huge seeing on friday when in terms of the investigation a dutch police say they are continuing to question a man that they have identified as ten is a thirty seven year old. they say he grew up in the netherlands lived in utrecht in fact he was arrested just three kilometers from the scene of the shooting he is a man they say that was known to police a crime society has broken re in the past now in terms of the motivation for this attack it's still unclear investigators the prosecutor are saying only that it could be a family drama a dispute all they say what they called terrorism could also have been

a motivation for this attack well there's no doubt that the people here in this city and the devil is are still extremely shaken it's not a place where gun crime is common it's a city very popular with students it has be full. of to take care of people here. such a violence could happen on the doorstep the mayor of the city has said that he was named the victims because he says he wants to be respectful to the families and to their memories however he has confirmed that two men were killed and one woman. the trump says he strongly considering nato membership for brazil as he welcomed its leader to the white house jade will said i don't need the u.s. president for talks in washington d.c. on his first trip abroad since taking office in january alan fischer reports the brazilian president has quickly become donald trump's closest latin american ally not only does he praise almost everything he does the

a lot of the same treats the push many of the same policies and they're both on the same page in venezuela both supporting self declared interim president one. u.s. president again called on the country's military to abandon president but do we call on members of the venezuelan military to end their support for material who is really nothing more than a cuban puppet. both men insist all options are on the table when it comes to events across brazil's border and president both are not who wouldn't rule out using his country as a piece for a u.s. led military intervention. there are a few issues that if you speak they are no longer strategic so these issues are not going to be made public during the brief news conference in a chilly white house rose garden donald trump revealed brazil would know have the opportunity to buy u.s. weapons after being designated a major nor need to ally and he even suggested brazil might be considered for

membership of the north atlantic alliance i also intend to designate brazil as a major non nato ally or even possibly if your so i think you know about it maybe a nato ally both countries are saying bilateral deals and agreements aimed at expanding and improving trait present bolsa not all believes that he is the most pro u.s. president brazil is had in years and is a reflection of the man at the top in washington president trump believes that to alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. canada and the european union say they will seek their own guarantees of the safety of boeing's seven three seven max eight planes before they allow them to fly again it comes after an aircraft of the same model crashed to me earlier this month killing all one hundred fifty seven people on board u.s. prosecutors are looking into how the plane type was cleared by america's aviation

regulator a subpoena for information on the jet's development has been issued by a federal grand jury. more now from washington d.c. . boeing is said that they're going to be issuing a software update to a particular system within the boeing seven thirty seven max so a lot of investigators here in the u.s. are looking at why if the problem was just a software upgrade did it take so long for it to the company to realize this this is a seven thirty seven max has very big engines for the size of the planes what boeing did is they moved the engines forward on the plane just a little bit and that causes the nose of the plane to go up just a little bit and so the company inserted what's called m cas maneuvering characteristics augmentation system it's fancy words for this computer system that would then bring the nose of the plane down the working theory is that is the

system that perhaps failed at that might have led to the crash of the ethiopian airlines flight three zero two and the lion air flight six ten that is what boeing says that they are going to be issuing an update to is that particular computer system there in the flight data recorder that was taken from the ethiopian airlines plane was sent to france the french authorities downloaded the data and apparently sent it back to ethiopia where the officials there are now going through that data it's going to be key to figure out what the two pilots on the ethiopian airways. flight were saying in the moments before the plane crashed that's what investigators are going to want to know and that will be a key element in this investigation to figure out why that plane went down. a u.s. jury has found a weed killer to be a substantial factor in causing the cancer one of its consumers the jury in san francisco ruled that roundup is responsible for edwin hardiman. the product

is one of the world's most widely used killers the ruling means the trial can now move to the next phase of liability liability and that. kazakhstan's president has abruptly announced his resignation twenty nine years after taking office. has led the central asian country since its independence from the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred ninety one and as a by every is due to step down at the end of the months when forester walker has more. kazakstan. in his decision to stand down is nothing short of historic in the region where leaders tend to be pushed out. this very year because of. you today as i've always been the most important moment in the history of our state which we are building together my address today is special i made an easy decision to step down as president of the

republic of. a stone and became. a country the size of western europe with a population of just eighty million it is benefited from billions of dollars in oil revenues but that prosperity has come across while the political elite reached itself as abides government was accused of stifling political dissent elections have never been free or fair in kazakstan has no independent media. as a legacy he would be proud of it's been my honor to welcome he and respect by dismantling the country's nuclear weapons after the soviet union he also kept a lid on kazakh nationalism the country has a large number of ethnic minorities including russians. the only president many catholics of ever known by have enjoyed the nickname of papa. officially he will

remain leader of the nation whose immunity from prosecution. because it stone security council the government has not given a reason for the seventy eight year old's resignation but the movie should ensure an orderly transition of power to prove to kazakstan and the world that they can be business as usual we don't loose attendance of by robin first you will be easier. now on barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera two point six million people are estimated to have been affected by cyclon which has torn across muslim baek malawi and zimbabwe the severe storm has killed hundreds of people and national emergencies have been declared in all three countries it's being described as the worst weather disaster to ever hit the southern hemisphere

israeli forces have shot dead a palestinian suspects thought to be behind an attack in the occupied west bank a manhunt was launched by israeli forces following the shooting and stabbing on sunday israel says the suspect was killed on tuesday after he allegedly opened fire at the security forces that came to arrest him. the e.u.'s chief breaks it negotiator says britain will only be allowed to delay its the party from the e.u. if it increases the chances of the withdrawal deal being ratified by parliament the british prime minister is expect that the asked the you for an extension of at least three months three's a maze the bourse the zero has already been rejected by m.p.'s twice. if prime minister may requests such an extension before the open accounts are unserved it's really before the twenty seven reduced to assess the reason and the usefulness for an extension. your readers will need

a concrete brown for the u.k. in order to able to be able to make an informed decision and the questions will be does an extension increase the chances for direct if occasion of the reader agreement. and algerian protesters have called on the army to play its constitutional role without interfering in their movement for change them a stranger's have continued to call for the resignation of president of their lizzie's defeat with a flick a says he's not seeking a fifth term of power the protesters fear he'll extend his current rule that's it for me earthrise is next but a chance for a union after decades of separation caused by a war. one i want to use joins a mother's journey to regain not with the son she lost more than sixty years ago in the korean war on al jazeera.

i weighed all see in antarctica the size of an extraordinary bridge to create the largest protected area on a. for this special episode of earth rise we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker.