we have to stand up for. and actually show. that. this is al jazeera. news. coming up in the next sixty minutes hundreds of feet dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi off the most devastating storm in the region in twenty years. the first funerals get under way for the victims of new zealand. boeing as the u.s. transportation department called the plane. every day. would find. people in this country.

survive. welcome to the program the u.n. is describing. as one of the worst weather disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere millions of people have been affected in mozambique zimbabwe a malawi at least a thousand people may have been killed in mozambique alone aid agencies there are calling it the worst humanitarian crisis in the nation's history three days of mourning have now been declared well the storm then hit zimbabwe where tens of thousands of people have been cut off and in malawi itself million million people still need humanitarian aid but we have correspondents right across the region in a moment we'll hear the latest from zimbabwe we'll also have a report from malcolm webb in central mozambique but first the latest from mozambique sports city of. the situation here appears to be becoming increasingly difficult just behind us as you can see power lines are down in this particular

street but that is the picture across the city there's also no communication we're using a satellite phone to communicate with people here we don't have that luxury and that's what adding to a some of the difficulties that people here are facing so far the government has said that sixty eight people were killed during that cycle in the days after but it's expected that figure will rise because there is there's no communication people aren't able to call for help will determine where missing people are all just also the extent of the devastation and aid agencies is that just one of the biggest challenges apart from accessing areas especially rural areas in low lying areas where floodwaters are continuing to rise apart from having difficulty in accessing those areas they simply can't determine just how bad the devastation is an aid agencies that have been able to fly overhead say that the floodwaters are of

very high that entire villages have been swept away now here in bear away the thin true hospital is that services the city of half a million people the roof of that hospital was torn torn away during that cycle own and that hospital also is running out of medicine now the government is holding a meeting in a para at some point during the course of the day to to work out what to do with people who are also disappointed they were told to evacuate before the cycling but the question for them was where do we go and they have a number of grievances with the government and just how it's dealing with this disaster so far and what happens next given the scale of devastation among his malcolm webb respond to bear in central most beat. the cyclamen brought her first winds and days of torrential rains just a few days ago this river was up right let's take you to christchurch new zealand

prime minister jacinta arden is holding a media briefing during her second visit to question after the mushroom things that just listening to what she has to say of course i have visited on abscesses day in any game or tuning today today there are high has been an opportunity to visit kashmir high school speak with students and the school leadership here i've met with the christchurch me air leo and our c.e.o. and those who were on the scene of the christchurch mosque here at texas including st john's ambulance paramedics and because community health seem to staff i also meet for the second time with the. muslim community with muslim community leaders and i want to acknowledge again via resolve to support those who are grieving. and i can also say we are absolutely united analogy to nation to reunite

families with the loved ones want to give you a few updates on a number of measures which we have been working through both with community council and it seemed to a government level. i discussed today both with council and with community leaders. the future memorial service which means zealand is a desire and will have in order to mock the loss of life in this terrorist attack planing continues for the memorial service while it will be in christchurch we are looking at how we can involve the restavec easy on the net something called joint conjunction with christchurch city council. i appreciate there is significant interest in the service from throughout new zealand and internationally and we will continue to work closely with the local community to provide. long sithen for

planning in to ensure they have all the information they need as soon as we can. and the main time i know from many. there is a desire to show support to the muslim community as they were tuned to mosques particularly on friday there is also a desire monk's new zealanders to mark the week that has passed since the terrorist attack to acknowledge this there will be a two minute silence. on friday we will also broadcast nationally via t.v. in seed and radio new zealand the call to prayer. details will follow around the timing of h m hippie to take questions much time than it.

actually i will inflict actually on those statements that are being made by members of the muslim community and in these response overwhelmingly has been that what they seek of course is justice for family members and that will happen through our new zealand system but overwhelmingly they keep reflecting back to me that since of support they have felt from the new zealand community. compassion empathy i have not heard that language from the muslim community in new zealand i have had the complete opposite i'm not all that. my what i am focused on is the response of the muslim community in new zealand and as i say it's going completely counter to some of the other rhetoric that has that has been used internationally and. i and my concern my focus is that the group that

we need to be very all about support around and they're the ones that are only demonstrating i think. compassion for one another and gratitude from the support of new zealanders. him again i reflect back what i've heard from the muslim community a rejection of extremism violence and height no matter how we hit it comes from just another probably going to hear from you from such international lost do you think the president of united states and the free world has done enough to reflect what you want to see spread the message you know forgive me if my focus is first and foremost is on new zealand to and on the communities i represent the communities that i suv that's that's where my duty of care lies and of that it's been through. again as whether or not it's the issue of terrorism violence rices i'm always there it's the issue of climate change or other issues of

international concern and i will always speak from a new zealand perspective on behalf of new zealand is it is up to other world leaders what they into and choose to do in problem if you just move the foreign minister on for me it's of the things i say look well i don't have an exact arrival time forgive me for that i know of course he departed yesterday and that is of course as he himself has ceded opportunity to be very clear about new zealand's record our response to what has happened here this is an unprecedented event for new zealand and to demonstrate in a very forthright way the fact that the muslim community here in new zealand has the support of all new zealanders are the common lies. he would go if i wanted to. call again you know i want to acknowledge that we have for dk it's gone to kill a plea to acknowledge that we want to be a world free old war of hatred and violence and that is in our what many new

zealand is magnet program and for we again as i say always consisting consistent and messaging and again i know new zealand as well want the opportunity to be out to continue to do so i think you second term our. game. as it is he has see it he is going need to see the record stright and that is an opportunity that he should take out so we have to make sure that what is reflected isn't a cure for trial of new zealand in new zealand it is in a day devout muslim community as well and that is his intent. is that ok well see also luther rising i don't want my to mystically with each of us it have to i have to acknowledge though there are some things that we do need to confront collectively it as international as leaders internationally we cannot for instance

i think just simply. allow some of the challenges that we face for social media to be dealt with on a case by case by since there is an argument be to be made for us to take united front on what is a global issue this is not just an issue for new zealand the fact that social media platforms have been used to spread violence. material that incites violence all of us i think need to present a united front when it comes to. racism extremism violence we did mystically have judy's upon us as well. oh oh. truly. yeah and as i said god the prime minister will be confronting those directly. to keep i do want to acknowledge we had a delegation from the government arrive very soon after to bring a message of solidarity to new zealand and to those who have been affected by this

terrorist attack and what we need them to and frustrated still for the. white house of frustration that i can honestly say i shia. i have had an appetite that we have head through she. victims now approved for releases to be reunited with the families spot i know the process has been incredibly difficult and frustratingly slow from the perspective all family members but on the side of saying now is what we're getting on this proces as well and i can also knowledge that they how we can critically had to and i do think there are lessons for us to live in many of these prophecies is a by stone soup them stances that are very different to this one and so i think there are as i say that this is something that in the aftermath that i will want to reflect on and look to improve from the moment that i hoot. about

this terrorist attack and it involving thousands of muslim faith my concern around the twenty four hour burial period is being the top of my mind and sorry i do want to live in the sense from coming from reading from from a study in terms of strategy is that. your way of recruiting and what we do want to study the slums that when people. as they come to know one of us do this and with it you know we were so incredibly. we hear that that a strike will be feeling that. i have spoken many times now with scott morrison i've heard from both short and i met with your with your new high commissioner and the message i would share is is that you know yes we have acknowledged that this person was not a new zealand citizen they did not grow up with this ideology here they did come to us and bring this terrorist act with them. but we do not see that as

a reflection of our election ship with a strategy or its people and so i do draw that distinction i think new zealand a story that distinction if you're going to go over your own money. some very rare . for. your advice to your friends on and. on via the group which didn't look like. it was actually one of the things that i was told quite early on someone did. when i was being briefed on some of. the atrocious stories one of the things that was shoot with made was that a family fictive was syrian refugees and i cannot tell you have got ing it is to knowledge that a family came here for safety and for refuge. and they should have big sigh thea and you will see that you know mike's new zealand is on social media one of the. one of the images and

a coming would say it has spread the most tense being that this was the home and they should have been sent here. to have a minister yesterday beechen problem but you never thought it would be the worse for nations when i'm wondering we've seen you all used to have these news conferences with your ears your verses you present very strong as a human being as a mother you tell us maybe one moment is since friday it's just been very very difficult for you were. you if you had difficulty dealing with i i can't tell you just one because actually there have been too many. you can begin to describe those sort of these moments that are just so much your part. everyone in new zealand and internationally is reading the same stories i read and my response is no different . i have a role that i need to play you know i need to hear the grief and i feel the great but i also have

a juicy of key in it to the people involved in this so also keep going and so if. the a mom who stood at the front of the mosque and so fierce ten the loss of his. we ship is in front of ten can get going when i do finitely can run and i got everything right to do that. and if so what was it at the front rescan you rush to. see so you know who certainly if the messages of condolence is anything to go by there is absolutely. an interest amongst others in a that big now would have seemed representative so just the priest and to show the support and they solidarity for new zealand includes within. within the midst of the muslim community as well so it's about just giving the time available for people to be able to share that support we will try and give and feel warning over when that memorial will occur i don't want to give too many specifics because it's

not for me to predict human people's attendance but they certainly a lot of interest i mean if you go through all you have more details on where that stands and also to see what it reminds you. or of it. you know one thing i have to acknowledge is actually relative to other countries not not picking any one in particular we have a large number of lupo's in our all it's not many new zealanders would be standard to know that you can exceed military style seamy automatics in the way that you can here there are a range of things that need to be fixed and i guess if i was young was a blueprint for anything in some ways it's a blueprint what not to do and my hope is that going forward we will. we will demonstrate what you can do if your starting point is. similar to ours we do have a road to travel there and i'll be announcing through the details very very soon

about. how we look at this isn't this isn't a new issue this is something that has already been discussed within the g twenty twenty members obviously have some interest in it it is something that has been board up some time ago within the u.n. so this is a matter of global of global interest and global impact at least subsequent to the attack i have had some specific conversations i think i've already mentioned that i had a discussion with teresa mcabee about this very issue the u.k. i think has demonstrated particularly to select committee level some leadership in the syria again as i say i think if we are going to be successful these are global into space that will take a global response you know not everyone needs to be on board but a few friends i think will make a difference on how to rid of the committee. and i think taking

a coordinated approach is a helpful want to. use i know there is interest and for instance coming to new zealand but i can tell you one thing i'm not interested in a p.r. exercise. if you and us really. didn't do enough on this the reason. is that. now i would say that you know it is. it is a pursuing the case when when you experience something like this that you ask questions and there is great in new zealand but there is also in there in your questions to be answered now some of those of course i've gone through directly as you would expect with those agencies who aren't out front line and of course the responses that you. white supremacist right supremacy supremacist groups those who you would consider to be ultra right wing extremist groups they were all of interest in new zealand we are not free of those here either. but this

individual still had not come up on our watch list so the question we need to ask is should hear of and we will answer those questions we've already acknowledged that we will be an inquiry we can through the details the tombs of reference my job is to allow the public to have a level of assurance through an independent look into those questions and actually the agencies themselves have asked for that because they're asking questions to know you're going to be right in the bank. nar. nar nar it is it is not we had often said but actually some of the processes the work of the pathologists and the like that was done very. quite quickly. simply put the iraq into national guidelines and expectations for the perseus of

identification that is the path that has taken at experience and we've had a number of them who were can d.v.r. and then within a right from the beginning has taken a bit more time and so that is that is the element that i wish to look at is actually the expectations that a c. internationally the three shelves that need to be made it to ensure the correct identity of an individual because it is different for these scalabrine said it would be for instance for an individual homicide. they all. know that is the reason. he's. yeasts and if you live in. that we often have kelly copters up all through the night because that enables the police to respond quickly to incidents on the ground so they frequently have precaution to push their illegal helicopters in the air i

mean i know some of the speculation that it's existed i can tell you it's absolutely in creeks and yeah you know we. had look actually you know i know that particularly one town who have been incredible and the response around family something involved in billy sayings and provided any support that's being required and have just being available and we had calvin divests down here on saturday that now has had a cast in a providing a huge amount of support and linkages for the community but it's a specific question i cannot see that now but would have to be happy to go and look into that money to do it but you know the answer to. that well it's how much. you have every year since. nor you will i'm sure forgive me if my focus has been very much on new zealand. obviously was that it was going to next week i'm

guessing that it is very good or is it just the most part is that it's out i mean what do you know few months from now when it's appropriate to perhaps i think you. all i would i would i would characterize it as a postponement because actually in fact contact with a stranger is so frequent maybe it's my intention to. to be to be back over within the coming months but so you said call it a postponement but look the support that we've had from a stray in agencies has thing fantastic and that's something that i'm happy to express now slide down to the bank and. use the. lines. of what. jane hall look i just to give you a flavor even an tombs of the preparation that needed to a coup before we meet. as a cabinet these attacks this terrorist attack coud on on friday. by

monday as a result of literally policy which is working through the night we had proposals for cabinet. decisions when the ada now don't sign individuals so we can incredibly had to work through the detail of what is required to make that a reality not that i reflected. at a struggle you know when they experienced. a trade today i'm a shooting and the nine hundred ninety s. it took them twelve days we will do it but only through extraordinary if that. happens it's just that you know you know what it's you know what are they hoping for imagine. that you know. that. he will do that it's like when you. hear they have been

i do not excuse i do not exceed extent we will see the long term change in our relationship. it is so deeply entrenched and i keyed for our full and. and. how hundreds and thousands of new zealanders have made pilgrimages to that place is an acknowledgment of what ties them binds our countries and so i reject the idea that we losing that relationship will lose that relationship about finale you will appreciate that given that my d.p. prime minister is traveling the air. actually where this conversation will happen when we face to face lose you to your values for all of us that you know. and. that is due to the relationship. again i do prefer prime minister as is traveling and as he has ceded his sitting the record straight face to face one of the prime minister at the end of. the ball coming to you to be your

influence or assistance and say sharon for. you confirm it well. i haven't heard that actually but you know i think where i didn't see it from the very outset is that it's my belief that. currently the holders of. gun licenses and and guns i believe they will be with us and i've already seeing some commentary from individuals. who are gonna hold those . gun licenses that very much indicate that they absolutely can all it's something needs to change now given in our theories legitimate gun use in new zealand and we absolutely acknowledge that but. i would say almost all new zealanders except perhaps those who use them will acknowledge that there isn't and should not

be a place for military style seamy order medics traditionally. so you're watching live pictures there coming to us from christchurch in new zealand the prime minister just. giving her second press briefing since those tragic shootings last friday she said she visited the kashmir high school to meet with students and teachers she said she met with health center staff and first responders who responded to those shootings last friday said she also met with community leaders and said she's determined along with other agencies to reunite the bodies of the victims and their loved ones and she said she is planning a memorial service to remember those lost in the attack in christchurch and she also quite significant said that a two minute silence on friday as a mark of respect for the victims and then also broadcast the islamic call to prayer on national t.v. and radio has a lot of pictures that come to us from that press conference in christchurch the prime minister just talking let's bring in wayne hay he's live for us in christchurch when so the prime minister's been speaking yet at another press

conference she clearly wants to show she's leading the way in terms of the government's response to the shootings. yes absolutely and she's being ever present really since the shooting at the two mosques in christchurch took place on friday as you mentioned this is her second visit to the city every time she has spent quite a bit of time during those visits meeting with leaders in the muslim communities here also on this trip going to meet with the first responders who were there when that first emergency call came in. kashmir high school the school lost two students in the shooting so yes she is very determined to be at the forefront of this saying all the right things doing the right things as well i'm sure this will not. the last visit to christ church and as you mentioned a few minutes period of silence will be declared for friday which will mark one

week since the massacre took place and the call to prayer broadcast live right around the country on television and radio so that will certainly be a poignant moment and weighing the first funerals have been taking place with some of the victims tell us what's been happening. yes that's right it we know we've been speaking many times about the frustrations of some of the family members about the delays in having the bodies released back to them for the funerals of the prime minister spoke about that just a few moments ago again as well we know that the first funeral has taken place and that was a father and a son tragic story as all of these deaths were this was kelly and his fourteen year old son hum's they were originally from syria they came to new zealand settled in christchurch as refugees there arrived in new zealand in two thousand and eighteen just last year so they were the first to be buried just

a few hours ago the latest according to the prime minister is that the bodies have now been formally identified to the level of satisfaction required by the coroner so that means that thirty bodies are now available to be released to the family members or indeed have been remembering that the total number of deaths was fifty the prime minister initially said that she wanted all the bodies to be released by wednesday we're getting towards late wednesday afternoon now so it seems that they may well meet that deadline again the frustration has been spoken about by the police who have been directly involved in this of course through the identification process and they again reiterated early on wednesday the commissioner mike bush saying that we fully understand this but they are trying to build a criminal case here involving the murder of fifty people so they have to get it right and he did say that returning the wrong body to a family would be an unforgivable mistake so that could be an idea of the severity

of some of the injuries and wayne just quickly before you go what's the atmosphere like in christchurch now i mean how are people coming to terms with this. well still very much in shock still a lot of people down coming out to pay their respects at the two mosques where outside the lynwood mosque at the moment which was the second mosque that the tag came to they believe that this mosque will reopen some stage on wednesday at the moment clean up crews the police still working inside that building but they are hopeful it will reopen sometime on wednesday all right away hey there in christchurch wayne thank you. we'll ask about one of our top stories now the cycle own that has been battering zimbabwe rescue teams there are warning that time is running out for people cut off. one by one they arrived bruised and battered by the violent flood surge caused by cycling the survivors spent days marooned in

remote villages but damaged phone lines destroyed roads and bad weather delayed the help they needed some posing for pictures. but they always. bones because some we covered by my question or just a part of the border in some of. cuts in. turkey and on frayed for some of the patients. now in fiction so it's going to be injuries that we've seen this woman walk to this makeshift medical center she was injured when a house fell on top of her during the floods two of her children were killed her surviving baby is the sole focus of i love. my husband and uncle said the waters in the house they were trying to pull out one of my children from under the rubble he wasn't breathing and then the kitchen collapsed that's where my other child was killed. doctors say they saw at least twenty patients in one day they

hope that number increases as reports of more people needing help come in those people's rescue depends on the weather rescuing people when bad where they can be extremely difficult. can't take off and some of these people have been waiting for days to hear news about their loved ones they don't know whether they are alive but it. is the worst storm to hit some. twenty years ago some government officials say of reacted faster and learned from past natural disasters we exist in a structure. that gives. people. but the magnitude of what you've been now. in. for the priority for now is burying the dead finding the missing and treating the injured many fear time may be running out for those still believed to be alive and

trapped in remote parts of the country how did. she manage money zimbabwe well joining us now from washington d.c. is charlie senior communications officer at the world food program that has operations in all three countries affected by the cyclon let's talk first about mozambique which seems to have been hit the hardest most of challenges briefly do your teams face on the ground there given that much of the infrastructure has been destroyed by the cycle of. it is really remarkable all of the roads leading in and out of the port city of beirut are under water and that port is critical when it comes to getting supplies of all sorts into not only mozambique but into countries further inland there are people who have had to climb up on to their house the roofs of their houses or into trees and then wait there for days as the floodwaters continue rising because it's not just a matter of the rain that was dumped on mozambique by the storm itself there also once the storm moved inland it continued to rain and the waters are now coming from

inland down those river valleys and into and just in than dating the area around so we are trying to get food assistance urgently to half a million people the government estimates that at least six hundred thousand people are affected by a lost their homes they've lost livestock or crops and up to one point seven million people in mozambique might have been in the path of. china's we're hearing that flooding has destroyed one of your warehouses in mozambique but what sort of a you the people most the needles. well they need they need shelter they need food they need drinking water and it's absolutely critical there was still some food in that warehouse that we were able to salvage and we have already begun to distribute to people it's a porridge that they can cook relatively easily and we've airlifted twenty tons of high energy biscuits that people don't need to do any cooking to eat and we've

already begun those distributions but i think that the drinking water the food the shelter blankets all of that aid is en route but we're also going to have to do a tremendous amount of work to repair that infrastructure to get those roads and the ports functioning and we understand you have people on the ground working with the government in malawi just quickly what's the situation there. well in malawi you're also looking at very bad flooding and a lot of infrastructure. that's been damaged or destroyed. not just sort of a direct storm impact but also flooding so you're seeing some of the similar circumstance circumstances that you're seeing in zimbabwe and in and in most of the people who have been affected by high winds their homes have been destroyed there are roads that have been damaged there are hospitals and other infrastructure that's been destroyed there and so there are also many people in malawi who are going to need assistance and we're going to need particularly support for all of the humanitarian

community to get assistance to people through the damage infrastructure a final quick thought chalis how are you managing them to coordinate responses across all three countries mozambique malawi zimbabwe this is of course a huge area as you say much of it under water and we're talking about millions of people here. it is and it's absolutely an enormous challenge and it's very important to know that the governments in all of those countries are taking an extremely active an extremely proactive role in making sure that the needs of their people are meant so they're coordinating those responses and international organizations and local organizations are providing whatever assistance they can to people moving as quickly as possible but those governments have not wasted any time in trying to get to get assistance to people and it's absolutely critical that that . needed at local level and at national level and as well at regional level through the international community in the u.n. and we stand ready to do that madonna thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera . now kazakhstan's president has abruptly announced his resignation after twenty

nine years in the job. at the central asian countries since independence from the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one in a televised address the seventy eight year old explained that he'd made a difficult decision but didn't say why i've been forced to walk as more familiar you're going to. have led for three decades and his decision to stand down is nothing short of historic in a region where leaders tend to be pushed out you know face better here because of a much lesser you today always dong in the most important moment in the history of our state which we are building together but my address today is special i made an easy decision to step down as president of the republic of. funding as a buyer of stewed chip starnes capital a stunner became a modern metropolis a country the size of western europe with a population of just eighteen million it is benefited from billions of dollars in

oil revenues but that prosperity has come at a price while the political elite reached itself as a bides government was accused of stifling political dissent elections have never been free or fair and kazakstan has no independent media. yes no the bird has 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 cows acts of ever known as a by have enjoyed the nickname of papa. officially he will remain the leader of the nation with immunity from prosecution and pensive powers as head of kazakstan 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 without listening to him as of by robin first year water which is here well let's talk to john herbst center director at the atlantic council he joins us live via skype from washington d.c. john this resignation has come as a shock to many people why do you think the president decided to step down now. i think this was a wise on his part of all he is seventy eight years old he's been your new president. and he's done a lot of very positive things for the country one of the things he's done which is not much more is on hold for senior mergence of a solid economy through deft use of their oil and other hydrocarbon resources. but people have been worried about the transition for

several years you're seventy years old the resistor in kazakhstan of senior officials falling out with the president and winding up in exile in prison or worse . so for him to take a step which demonstrates that yes he will be leaving is a good thing for him to concentrate on the transition she can do more readily as the leader of the nation security council is it good thing and it's important that he work to have some sort of consensus i'm only over he doesn't. you don't like about us and if that was yelling at us jump in there because you talk about some of the good things he's done but the president's been accused of stifling political dissent and never holding free and fair elections are ordinary people in the country lags likely to respond to his early departure do you think are i did that make those points because you already did and that's

a fair criticism of his regime of and i think it's safe to expect of no real democracy emerging in kazakhstan as they move towards selecting the next president so just on t.v. then in terms of that that gradual transition of power what's that going to be like who's going to take over and how will countries like russia be viewing this i don't know who will take over it will be someone from elsewhere in the elite i suspect there were if if if he is smaller and he is smart i expect he will try to gauge what the different clans in ca's arctan can accept so there can be a candidate that most of the most of the influential people in the country can accept that's how i think this will play out ok now russia's role but i'm not going to go ahead with russia's role you're saying ok president putin such a very clear threat to kazakhstan in the summer of two thousand and fourteen when

he said that the country was not official one created by his genius friend or survive and that to cause our country could cause a president reaches ethnic russians in kazakhstan well who knows what would happen after his successor. and we know that putin has huge drug charges of oppression of russians to conduct aggressive wars in georgia and ukraine and we also know that they're part proximate twenty five percent of the population of kazakhstan russian they're concentrated in the north of the country along the russian border and a part of kazakhstan which has a good portion of kazakhstan's hydrocarbon well ok the russian wrong kazakhstan could be more. and those are buyers of keeping nationalism and probably control has been a very positive force for the country ok john herb's we have to leave them afraid thank you very much indeed for your time thank you josh and pleasure. now amnesty international is accusing the u.s.

military of killing civilians in somalia contradicting claims by the u.s. government the rights group analyzed satellite imagery from far from five out of more than one hundred air strikes and found that at least fourteen civilians were killed washington acknowledges that strike some of the trump administration of tripled and that hundreds of fighters have been killed but it meant pains that been zero civilian casualties well in a statement the u.s. military denied the report it said that africa goes to extraordinary lengths to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties exercising restraint as a matter of policy our assessments found that no afrikan strike resulted in any civilian casualty or injury let's bring in david stern and he's a senior policy analyst at new america that's a think tank he joins us live now from washington d.c. david stern and so we just read that u.s. military statement saying there have been no civilian casualties in their drone strikes in somalia amnesty says that's not true because they've got proof so what is the mandate under which u.s. forces operate drones in somalia or do they pretty much do what they want. so

u.s. drones are operating in somalia under united states. counterterrorism authorities under u.s. law and in partnership with somalia for with regard to the question of civilian casualties there has been a number of disputed reports and pass on civilian casualties africa as you mentioned disputes any existence of civilian casualties and somalians in recent years so sam is the report is going to be a major step forward to as such saying whether that is true and it's really questionable whether that can really hold given the vast escalation in strikes over the past couple of years yet and despite that escalation in drone strikes against al shabaab the evidence seems to suggest it's not having much effect on the armed groups because al shabaab pretty much operates with impunity on the ground doesn't it so one thing that is critical regarding the counterterrorism

campaign in somalia is that it's become in many ways a air campaign in support of somali forces and in defense of a number of u.s. advisors on the ground level it's a lot different from what the counterterrorism strikes in pakistan that became many people's vision of german strikes was where it wasn't in a ongoing conflict in the same way it was more of a targeted killing campaign of high profile al-qaeda and taliban leaders although also in that campaign there was sort of a move towards broader getting wrapped up in an existing conflict let me get a final thought from you david studham an amnesty international is calling on the u.s. government to carry out impartial and fair investigations into what they say is credible evidence that drone strikes are killing more civilians than ever before in somalia but in all reality that the americans don't investigate themselves. sume that's the open question the united states should absolutely do more oversight

particularly congress on what the u.s. is doing and the costs of a strike it is worth noting in comparison to other combatant commands or other campaigns such as a covert one in pakistan africa has been extremely forthcoming with casualty as suspects after every strike they conduct but it's simply not enough the us has conducted many strikes killed many hundreds if not thousands of people over this campaign. there really needs to be more an amnesty international laws push forward the discussion it will certainly be reviewed many of these reported incidents whether they are strong claims of civilian casualties and the next weeks or months david stockman thank you very much for talking to about zero thank you.

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a has. thank you very much well the leading scene in world cycling looks at some insane its financial domination of the sport team sky will become any os it partners with britain's richest man jim radcliffe team sky riders chris froome and grant some us of one five sort of france titles between them but it december the broadcaster

announced it would be ending its sponsorship the british seem have also faced allegations of cheating a u.k. parliament to report accuse them of crossing the ethical line over their use of medical exemptions for banned drugs our sports correspondent lee well ling says this deal should bring them more success well it was not so extraordinary period of dominance from team sky in cycling over the period of a decade that is a long time in a sport to win right after i saw a hundred twenty seven races i grant towards law there was no way they could be stopped and i do believe that this new financial import that's going to come in from britain's richest man jim rockliffe is going to type them or certainly maintain that level of success maybe even take it further because he's certainly going to pump a lot of money in and of course the expertise the mastermind hasn't changed i've browsed through at such a lympics success with britain he's still there he's still the helm and he's still

going to be making sure that what's now to many of us is going to win races i think the issue that this team has got is with their reputation of course the u.k. government said that crossed an ethical line with things like they're a pretty use exemptions in a mystery package that went to bradley wiggins in two thousand and eleven and this is clearly a manipulation of rules that exist what's going to happen now with their reputation because there's a lot of cynicism around what was team sky they going to need to make sure they manage that carefully because they will certainly have more success but will it be well received. well new zealand's sports minister says he supports discussions into changing the name of the country's most successful club rugby team a cancer be crusaders from robertson's comments following friday's mosque attacks in christ church that seem also so they're open to talking about the issue concerns the crusaders names associated with the religious wars between christians and

muslims roberson as it seems we involve cross churches muslim community in the dialogue or the crusades were founded in one thousand nine hundred ninety six and a nine time super rugby champions a conversation involving franchises for most of the southern hemisphere is replying nations that same have previously said the name reflects the region's crusading spirits and isn't a reference to the medieval religious wars but the crusaders do play up to some of that history before home games nights on horseback ride around the stadium will all come by rugby journalist ross carr believes some form of change is inevitable sticker says had been thinking about this before the tragedy and now tragedies happen it has come person and discussion about so the crusaders and oblivious to the state is very much aware and wanting to do the right thing but it's going to try to figure out exactly what the right thing is and they have to talk to the muslim community talk to the minister talk to the met talk to stakeholders in the

rugby union to figure that out to people across very very keen on the team and a lot of them don't want to lose the name of the history that got with the crusaders name because there's been so successful it's such a success were you team such a successful brand when you go across you see that you see heads you see it all here but when you look at go or some and they are knights on horseback with a christian cross on their back and they way swords and they run around hyping up the crowd is an absolute connection to the christian crusaders it's undeniable so i think that would be the first one to go even if they don't change the name i think you'll find the logo and the branding and their emotive horseback riding will be gone pretty quickly. in the united states even casual sports fans are getting cool stuff and what's not as march madness the men's and women's basketball tournament at some of the largest annual events in college athletics there's

a lot of money to be made but at the moment none of it's going to the pious john hundred reports he's trying to back up and down the plate at march madness and other college sports tournaments when fans buy tickets in jerseys bearing the faces and numbers of athletes universities reap millions the athletes make nothing none of those players on the field the ones who are. running the football kicking the soccer ball playing basketball none of them are compensated it's really it is it is a foreign concept to most people outside of this nation but here it's real and the student athletes on the one suffer even many college coaches think that's wrong it's a big big business to speak money and the reason people are in the business is to try to make money in could make it an honest case that the student athletes. are the ones that create the money but wrote really received very little of it so i think i think there will be an adjustment i don't know the magnitude of it but i

look forward to seeing some changes. now in north carolina congressman hopes to change that republican mark walker's bill would let all students men and women alike playing all n.c.a.a. sports money when their names are images used players would still get nothing when teams use their names in jersey numbers to advertise games universities would still pay only for scholarships but the change in law would allow players to collect on third party endorsements so one day soon it's just possible you might see american college players pitching sports drinks clothes and shoes ninety nine percent of college athletes will never make it as a pro they're paid in scholarships and education alone and that's fine with some coaches the vast majority of calm. please college basketball players are probably happy to have a full scholarship at the cost of attendance. leave college with a degree and a great basketball player experience there has been

a slow erosion in the status of college athletes it's similar to the rules that eventually allowed professionals to take part in the olympics earlier this month a u.s. judge ruled that the n.c.a.a. violated antitrust laws by capping the amount universities can spend on scholarships but for now college athletes will have to play for the love of the game john hendren al jazeera chicago well in the pro game for once steph curry couldn't inspire a win for the golden state warriors but he did so produce one of the moments of the season in a defeat against the sun and spurs here he is pulling off a sixty one four. three points or at the end of the first quarter. the warriors are top of the western conference and already assured of a place in the playoffs. with the spurs ninth straight win taking this one one eleven so on i five they are up to fifth in the west now world heavyweight champion deion say while the has named his next opponents i want. this to be no

rematch just yet against britain's tyson fieri after their compelling draw last december instead the w.b.c. champion will fight fellow american dominic brazil in may brazil's only korea loss can get to the man who holds all the other heavyweights hostiles that's honestly joshua. excitement because it was the fear i was more. in a more career because of the situation in the position that i was. this right here going top everything because i marked his the flamed up heart without even have to get hired. ok there is a sports looking for not more lighter andy thank you very much for that before we go you can catch up with all the news on our web site there it is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com that's it for me down for now for this news hour my colleague nic clogs up next with more news.

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