breeze from the size falls center and western part of saudi arabia temperatures in the middle thirty's here otherwise fine looking picture has led to the cloud in the sky southern africa not science saying the end of the rainy season still to come and there is more rainfall cost for central mozambique and malawi this is the next two days this is over areas already covered with extensive flooding otherwise this is a must draw a picture. of. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby. and by three million dollars on the web site. reveal secrets and connections some don't want exposed. as a. gift there will. al-jazeera investigations how to sell a massacre coming soon only rifles are so many guns sometimes even. new

zealand begins bearing the victims of two mosque attacks in christchurch that killed fifty people. and welcome to al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also ahead. of the southern african countries back. at the death toll continues to rise. amnesty international accuses the u.s. of killing civilians in somalia but the american military denies the allegations.

we are in heaven. and taking time to smell the flowers the unusual phenomena in california that's drawing tens of thousands of visitors. the first funerals for the victims of new zealand's mosque attacks have taken place a father and son who fled the war in syria were buried in christchurch where fifty people were shot dead in two mosques during friday prayers thirty bodies have now been released to families and police hope to return more by the end of wednesday let's go out or correspondent wayne hay he's joining us live from christchurch it is another painful day but one that the grieving families have been waiting for way the chance to bury their loved ones. yes elizabeth i suppose a mix of emotions for them because there has been this frustration from some

members of that community those family members who lost people in the attacks on the mosques on friday and yet this burial process did finally get underway on monday morning the first of the people to be farewell that asymmetry in christchurch was a father and son and that was. and his teenage son. arrived in new zealand they were refugees from syria they arrived just last year and settled here there was another brother of homs is also at the mosque was shot as an injured he attended the funeral so. wins the elizabeth we have had six burials that symmetry we assume that that may be the end of it for wednesday so it could well see many more the prime minister. in christchurch on wednesday and she said that thirty bodies had been cleared for release from the hospital and one

of the reasons we're hearing way that it took longer than hoped for the bodies to bring relief to families was because this is a murder investigation. are we hearing any more about the police case and the issues around the events the country's gun laws the role of social media all of which have been standard has been talking about. yes and she certainly touched on those issues again when she spoke to the media in christchurch on wednesday you write this one of the reasons one of the main reasons that this process is apparently being too slow for some of the family members is because of the sheer number of people who were killed of course so far there's only one main suspect the police have said he is the only one at the moment that they are going after they believe he was the only gunman but they've only laid one charge of murder against him he will appear in court on april the fifth so as far

as the case goes that's pretty much all we know at the moment the police commissioner mike bush said again on wednesday morning that he fully understands the concerns of the family members but he said they are trying to build a murder case here and making mistakes at this stage would be extremely disappointing and he also said that giving the wrong body back to a family would be an unforgivable mistake so that perhaps gives you an idea of the difficulties that the stars are facing inside the hospital conducting the post-mortems of the identifications and perhaps it's also an indication of the types of severe injuries that some of these people received when thank you very much for that for now that's wayne hale live in christchurch thank you were prime minister just and told al jazeera that nations must stand against the ideology that motivated the attack it. this was not a new zealand citizen this was not someone who was raised here or who picked up

their ideology here they were in a strangely and citizen who chose new zealand specifically for the effect that we are a inclusive nation a nation that. practices many faiths and speaks many languages and in this terrorist mind that made us a target however what i absolutely acknowledge is even though this terrorist act was committed by someone who was not a new zealander we cannot ignore that as many nations do that there are those in new zealand albeit small who will share the ideology of this attack and we must root it out i've been very clear on this social media cannot be a place where we see these kinds of ideas filtered out or picture waited and we have to take responsibility for creating and preserving our reputation is being a peace loving inclusive nation. let's move on to other news now the number of

people killed it i had was then because doubled and it is expected to rise further president felipe a new c confirmed that more than two hundred people have died and close to three hundred fifty thousand are at risk the un says sideline a die could be one of the worst weather related disasters to hit the southern hemisphere the destruction has made it hard for rescue crews and aid groups to reach victims in remote areas the storm has also left a trail of destruction in zimbabwe and malawi. now the city of beta and mozambique is one of the hardest hit by the cyclon ninety percent of his infrastructure has been destroyed farm with a minute as there she met victims struggling to cope with the storm's impact. traumatized but safe survivors of cyclonic die a rival bear on a port one helicopter load at a time they come from boozy one of the hardest hit areas insofar province infants

a mother and daughter this is the first dry land they've seen in days. another chopper lands filled with young children but hundreds of thousands more remain in desperate need. the united nations says cyclery die could be the worst weather related disaster known to hit the southern hemisphere one point seven billion people lay in its path in mozambique alone just was rescued three days after the cyclon struck he was found clinging to a tree almost entirely submerged in water now just sayas navigates the same water that nearly drowned him to rebuild what little is left of his flooded home now my snow broom would be were there is no more reason to go back all of our houses have been destroyed risky workers say they've moved as many people as possible in dando district but there are many more they say the situation was made worse because people refused to leave their homes ahead of the storm this is poor river its banks

person after the psycho hit some of the people who've lost their homes have come to this school to find a place to stay they may have found shelter and some water has been delivered but there's very little in the way of. a few hundred people living at the school several families a crammed into one classroom where you question arguing i have been here since the cyclon hit by days ago all the roofs are blown away when i look for help my neighbor but his house was also destroyed. the devastation is worse in rural areas at this point too far away and flooded to be reached by road we are now at the point on taking people that are there for water up their heads and and taking them by helicopter approach to places where they stranded up to their ankles. we're in the lifesaving phase where we're not even at the point where we can do medical assessments because they've been out there for many days drinking staying waters with bodies and it's only most and so the health is going to be our second most

important thing relief efforts have been hampered by poor communications phone and power lines no match against the cyclons paula the water has to recede for life to return to anything like normality but for now the rain continues let's go live to farmer the now she is in bed as to what is the situation there now fun either. well let's get everything their people the authorities here not only trying to deal with the extent of the devastation but also trying to manage just how people living in these areas are responding in many instances there are people trying to go back to the houses that were destroyed trying to save what they can but in that way putting themselves in a further danger we smoke and also to work people who are running rescue operations here who say that as the days go by it becomes clearer that the devastation is far more than the never thought it would be but to give us a good idea of exactly what is happening in there are we are speaking to travis

travel from a rescue south africa traveling you have been doing a rescue operations with your team since a day after the cyclon struck what are you seeing out there sure the devastation as vast as far as i can see is just water it's you can't see any land there small patches of land if you will those patches of land that are they all or clusters of degree that of leaning up against trees that's where these people have started to come up into trees and they've assembled this. long with in six in the snakes and all the animals and stuff we we've been on the grounds from the morning after the soccer and with the first and only rescue team on the ground up until yesterday we were asked by the minister to do to coordinate all rescue operations which we are currently doing and when we arrived the airport was leaving open cuts of seven kilometers of road trees so that we could start most of the government could start setting up places of area while we're doing that we'll call to them that had burst

and washed away our entire road so at the moment there's not even a way for us to get out when that is when that them burst there was approximately plus minus one hundred fifty people that were stuck in trees that we started to rescue it was an awkward sort of not about six o'clock not pedaling through that water and i'm seeing them in the trees was absolutely devastating the woman was throwing the babies out of trees and paddle boats. that was if you can see of the. we only managed to get two in each of them before which of course operation. unfortunately we knew went back in the morning those people were not on good day. we managed to get an air into the sky and we will sit in using the action to take people out of trees and move them to higher ground. sure to explain the devastation at this moment i don't think anybody can actually comprehend as far they say about sixty or sixty kilometers away is just it's just pure water i travel the weather conditions continue to be quite difficult it's over cost and it was impacts just

how risky operations continue in terms of flying out is the situation becoming more difficult yes it is getting becoming more difficult because those areas that we have managed to sample people with amounts of water that is coming down in the still coming down that doesn't because a very flat country so when you put them on drug on the water rises it becomes an issue again so it's it's a continuous process and. because. we're hoping. to go that we can start moving people that. we won't. have a thank you so much for your time travel with a lot of risk youths of africa we do know that relief organizations as well as the united nations will be setting up accommodation camps in some areas so far there are about thirty seven that have been set up and those are really accommodating

tens of thousands of people we also understand that the because there are small patches of dry land available there are instances where they are stadiums a jam packed full of tens of thousands of people waiting to be rescued so really time is of the essence for the people here leading these rescue operations and their father thank you very much for that for now that's fallen in the middle of the latest live in thank you. now amnesty international is accusing the u.s. military of killing civilians in somalia they group analyzed satellite images from five out of more than one hundred air strikes and found that at least fourteen civilians were killed the u.s. military acknowledges that the number of strikes have tripled under the trumpet ministration and says hundreds of fighters have been killed but it maintains that they have been no civilian casualties in a statement the u.s. military denied the report saying african goes to extraordinary lengths to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties exercising restraint as a matter of policy our assessments found that no afrikan airstrike resulted in any

civilian casualty or injury and david stern is a senior policy analyst at the think tank new america and he says u.s. drone strikes in somalia appear to be targeted less the civically that in other campaigns. so one thing that is critical regarding the counter-terrorism 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 drone strikes was where wasn't in the 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 the united states should absolutely do more oversight particularly congress on what the u.s.

is doing and the costs of its strikes it is worth noting that 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 to conduct but it's simply not enough to us us gun ducted 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 the.