start with alternative arrangements by the end of december two thousand and twenty after a lengthy discussion the council today also agreed subject to a successful vote next week that you know order to provide time for the u.k. parliament to agree and ratify a brix it deal the days of our departure will now be extended to the twenty second of may if parliament does not agree a deal next week the e.u. council would extend article fifty until the twelfth of april at this point we would either leave with no deal or put forward an alternative plan if this involves a further extension it would mean participation in the european parliamentary elections as i've said previously i believe strongly that it would be wrong to ask people in the u.k. to participate in these elections three years after voting to leave the e.u. . what the decision today underlines is the importance of the house of commons passing a break that deal next week so that we can bring an end to the uncertainty and

leave in a smooth and orderly manner tomorrow morning i will be returning to the u.k. and working hard to build support for getting the deal through. i know m.p.'s on all sides of the debate have passionate views and i respect those different positions last night i expressed my frustration and i know that m.p.'s are frustrated too they have difficult jobs to do i hope we can all agree we are now at the moment of decision and i will make every effort to ensure that we are able to leave with a deal and move our country forward. thank you. flora. of the. and thanks very much prime minister b.b.c. news doesn't this delay just in that i let my you still find yourself in what is it that makes you think you have a chance of passing your vote next week and can you confirm you will definitely

hold a third meaningful vote next week and i know you've expressed what appears to be some regret from how the remarks you made last night about m.p.'s do you think actually you should apologize for the remarks you made about what parliament has done well first of all as i said in relation to members of parliament there are a passionately held views on all sides of this argument and yes as i said last night i expressed frustration by no m.p.'s are frustrated too and i'm very grateful to those m.p.'s who have supported the deal to those who've come around to supporting the deal having not previously. and to all those m.p.'s that i've been meeting across the house and talking to about the issues that they are concerned about in relation to this deal but i think what this decision tonight does is show what the clear choice that is available. in two m.p.'s getting the deal through next week in a meaningful vote means that we can have that extension to the twenty second of may

get our legislation through to live on the referendum leave the european union and do it in an orderly manner not getting that through means that we will obviously is the council has said come back to the council before the growth of april with a plan for the way for the way forward. that if it involves a further extension would mean us candidates being stored in the european parliamentary elections i think the choice is clear for people james. problems. listed for options not before april the twelfth deal no deal extend. or revoke. we know that your first choice is deal but to help us understand your thinking could you not rank in order of preference for those other three choices is no deal your second choice. but i am working to ensure

that we can leave the european union with a deal you mentioned before the choice of revoking article fifty i do not believe that we should be revoking article fifty that is not something we should be doing for this reason we gave the choice as to whether to stay in the european union or leave the european union to the british people they voted in two thousand and sixteen they voted to leave the government at the time said we would honor and respect the decision at the last general election eighty percent of the votes were cast for members of parliament who stood on a manifesto to all of that decision respect the referendum i think the time is now to deliver for the british people the time is now to make the decision. feisal. for them. as for risk i mean can you confirm what will happen if your deal and you wanted to pass but just say it doesn't if the deal and that was the message there's a deal doesn't pass next week that you will bring forward the yes side that would

change the dates of the twelfth of april and we'll use therefore also hold to promised a sequence of indicative votes so a different plan from the house of commons will come about will be revealed when i stand by the commitments that we've made both in terms of the legislative commitment for a motion in the house of commons and obviously the commitments that the chance of the chief lancaster has made in the in the house of commons the decision being taken by the european union council and obviously to which we have agreed does mean that there is now that different age of the twelfth of april. i believe this is important it gives us the opportunity m.p.'s next week to look at the choices that clearly face them we can leave with a deal in an orderly manner have that extension to the twenty second of may or if we don't get that deal through three don't get that vote through before the trials of april we have to come forward with another plan and if that plan means a further extension it means standing in those european parliamentary elections

next term. thank you prime minister you said to the house of commons on wednesday that if your deal is not pasts and i quote the house will have to decide how to proceed can you confirm it's a house to size to proceed with a long delay or a soft abraxas or a customs union you will the night that i was very clear that we need to work with the house to decide how to proceed if we if we don't get the deal through this week but i think what tonight's decision from the council has done is very clean clearly frame for people the choices that will be available to them i continue to believe that the best route for the united kingdom is to all of the referendum result to leave the european union to do it in an orderly manner that means with a deal the deal is that the option is there for members of parliament i believe it's important that we do see that going through and that we are able to leave in

that orderly orderly way jason. thank you so that is the u.k. prime minister speaking from brussels after the e.u. agreed to a may twenty second conditional extension and she said that she is working to ensure that the u.k. leaves the e.u. a good deal laurence leamer listening in joining us from brussels what do you make of her press conference what she had to say lawrence. well you know she's just she she it's like she's incapable of answering a question you know this is this is exactly what happened this afternoon all those reports you heard over and over again saying what happens if you lose it if you lose next week for the third time what are you going to do well i think that my deal's the best thing for the british people who need to live in a little leeway and this is exactly the problem the european union and her own cabinet and everybody else has with her is she keeps losing the votes on her deal by enormous mansions and it opens up the potential of crushing out without

a deal and everybody keeps wondering over and over again is that actually what she wants is an alternative plan which she actually preferred all the instability of no deal than an extension and a different plan all those sorts of things but you heard the reporter also get listing order what she'd like your deal first published and after that no deal revoke article fifty or long extension which order try minister would you like those things in and she just refuses to say over and over again they see exactly the reason why the european union this afternoon basically took her out of play because they were asking the same questions over as well and when she wouldn't give them a straight sound so they came up with this alternative plan for her in her absence which is now fine if you get a deal through you can leave by may the twenty second but if you can't we won't let you leave next friday particularly if you won't tell us what it is that you want to do and so that now next friday is no longer breaks a day that now shifted that's because she is just incapable of telling them what

she thinks to april the twelfth so the u.k. parliament now has eight until april the twelfth to come up with an alternative plan if it comes then it's a crash out then if it can come to the alternative plan and they go policy. is being extended whatever to reason one has to say about it ok lawrence for the time being thank you john joining us now from outside the house of the parliament in westminster so the prime minister spoke still speaking right now about what she has said so far is that m.p.'s will have a chance next week to look at the choices they face or what are their choices at this point. was as lone said she's a cannot open the accepting any other than her deal which she will put to parliament once again next week and she insists as she has always insisted that she will work and continue to work for britain do exit the european union with

a deal the deal is the only deal on the table and that's the only option at this point she's prepared to compromise look she talks about. possibly allowing parliament if a deal fails to decide on next steps there's a lot of pressure on her here to allow them to have so-called indicative votes an open vote on all of the available options to see where majorities may lie for the way forward i think they'd rather more pressing question of this point hangs over trees amazed. because she's going to come back from this summit in london for the dreadful headlines outlining the humiliation she has suffered the fact that her request for a short extension was rebuffed she was unable to offer them a plan so they made a plan up for she comes here back into the storm that she left behind her often openly assaulting parliament essentially in a statement to the nation on wednesday night blaming parliament and m.p.'s for the entire mess of breaks and saying it's not my fault it's there is she doesn't have

the support of most of her cabinet it seems her own close allies are distancing themselves from her if she loses a deal for a third time after two enormous historic defeats at the first two times it's very hard to see how she doesn't end up going down that with the deal and then of course the ways open the second half of this offer by the european union the ways open for a new direction new leadership and a new extension possibly having to take in europe involvement to elections that may well be the only way as the search for consensus continues if three years it's taken to get to this point it's not going to be much improved with a matter of weeks or months this is going to take time ok john hall thank you. in other news a vigil has been held for at least one hundred people who died in iraq after the ferry they were traveling on capsized in the northern city of mosul it was carrying families who were celebrating

a ruse the iranian new year most of the victims are women and children natasha when a reports from baghdad. hundreds of iraqis were celebrating the no ruse holiday at an amusement park in mosul when tragedy struck good. images on social media reveal a distressing sea after a ferry carrying an estimated two hundred people capsized a distraught husband and father begs the police to take him to the banks of the tigris river and now i don't know if they might have work my family through the water right now my wife and my daughter and i'm asking the police to be to go to the other side but they will give me one. oh bystanders were screaming some were jumping into the river to try to rescue people and some passengers could be seen swimming furiously against the swift current. in the immediate hours after the ferry capsized the death toll kept rising the ministry of

interior noted that many of the dozens of victims were women and children the iraqi prime minister has called for an immediate investigation into the cause of the accident however iraqi civil defense says it appears it was due to the ferry carrying more passengers than the maximum capacity recommended this ferry accident appears to be unprecedented in iraq it's also yet another misery to be endured for the people of war ravaged mosul who have already lost so much natasha going to aim of baghdad. physicals are being held across new zealand to mark one week since a gunman attacked two mosques killing fifty people well since then the country's been united in grief coming together to remember the victims and offer support to the muslim community so the call to prayer is due to play out on national radio and television soon and then two minutes silence will be observed thousands of people

are expected to gather in christ church opposite the new a mosque where most of the victims were killed others will pray just a short drive away at the lynwood mosque where the second attack took place funerals are still being held for the victims which included people from afghanistan syria pakistan and india twenty eight of the wounded are still in hospital six of them in a critical condition and on thursday the prime minister just just in the ardor announced an immediate ban on semiautomatic weapons like those used in the shooting the suspect a twenty eight year old australian man has been charged with murder and he's due back in court next month we have two correspondents outside the mosque in a moment we'll speak to wayne hey first though to andrew thomas will talk us through what we're expected to see in the next couple of hours andrew. well we're just one hour short of one week on from when the gunmen attacked first

the al nor mosque which is about three or four hundred meters over there and then the lynwood mosque just a few minutes later killing fifty painful in an hour from now will be a big outdoor friday prayer session had been hoped that the alamo must be reopened by friday at present the united states and the president will have been on the in this area just behind me the pen there at my calling away and he will run through the details of that at the moment in a moment i'm just outside of that area in a public park next to if you like the virtual mosque and you can see already an hour before the events begin hundreds of people most people here not muslim despite all the headscarf they're being worn as a mark of respect by non muslims who have come down to watch from afar well as well as these events there are burials happening on friday about fifteen bodies have been buried so far of the fifty people killed on first day i was privileged to be invited to the funeral of the eldest person to have been killed in last week's

attacks there's more port. in the life policy doubt nabil loved motorbikes so his sons arranged for members of a club to lead his funeral cortege nabil was the first and at seventy one the eldest person shot and killed last friday in christchurch witnesses say he greeted the gunman at the door of the al nor mosque not realizing his intent his family is profoundly proud of his spinal words of welcome. on thursday hundreds of people came to the muslim section of christ churches memorial park cemetery to pay their last respects and reflect on his life he was the first african in new zealand anya's search to accomplish a mosque in he built the allure mosque in is the founder

so many people are being buried this week there's a marquee at the cemetery in which to conduct formalities the greeting of and grieving over nobby's body his wife died in teary youngest granddaughter his wife distraught and a friend comforting one of his sons after the funeral prayer this is nabil when he first came to new zealand a young engineer who established a business mending damaged cars he made a success of life in new zealand many friends helped carry his coffin. graveside more tears and more prayers eleven victims were buried before nabi thirty eight more to follow all on our identified after days of investigation by police and a coroner now. used to be lowered gently into the ground. after all the trauma and then the bureaucracy of the last week finally

isn't about how do you doubt not being died but rather how he lived who he was what he did and the legacy he's leaving behind that legacy includes five children and knowing grandchildren and the memory of a kind man dad had a good heart a loving father it welcomed me what it is. a good man for muslim religion. for our family a big loss. let's make. hodgy doubt navi will forever stay here but online his final words and now troubling him. so a very sad day for the knobby family and of course those are the sorts of same's that will be repeated again and again in coming days mostly here in christchurch

although some of the bodies are being repatriated to the countries where those killed originally came from the were of course so many immigrants and in many what takes is very recent immigrants to these events inside the mosque some to you some families have chosen to return bodies to their home countries ok we will cross back to you andrew thomas as and when the prayers and the vigils like events for the time being thank you wayne he is also joining us from christ church at wayne because in the wake of the attack and actually now a week on the prime minister did promise to toughen up the gun laws in the country and she's delivered on that promise. yes she certainly has daryn didn't waste any time at all really trying to change the gun laws that started with the first cabinet meeting on monday which came just a couple of days of course after the attack here in christchurch it was the first cabinet meeting that they had held since the gun attack on the friday and in that

meeting day greed unanimously of the cabinet members that the laws should change and exactly how they should change and on thursday we found out exactly what the details of those law changes were basically a complete ban on military style simulate a magic weapons ban on assault rifles so it was a fairly broad. changes of course it still has to go through the parliamentary process but i wouldn't imagine much if any opposition in parliament to these little changes we've already seen the leader of the opposition simon bridges saying he supports what the prime minister announced on thursday in the meantime she has moved to relicense those particular weapons that will be outlawed she expects in three weeks so in that interim period those guns those weapons and the pots have been relicense so if gun owners have those particular weapons they need to go to the police station right away and apply for one of these new licenses and the

message on thursday from the prime minister was done by all the these guns are effectively illegal right now and from your vantage point wayne and as we wait for the prayers and the vigils to commence just tell us what you're seeing and what the mood is like. yes we were inside the area where the friday prayer is will be held right behind me some worship is gathering already and really it's just a few minutes a few meters rather across the road from the eleanor mosque where the first attack happened on friday where most of the people were killed as andrew mentioned it had been hoped that both the mosques the eleanore mosque and the lynwood mosque just a few minutes away would be reopened in time for friday prayers that simply hasn't been possible the police seen examinations only finished as far as we understand on tuesday nights and since then it's been a process of trying to clean and repair those mosques worship is that we spoke to

say they want to be able to go back inside to continue with prayer is to go and visit the buildings where the this horrific crime took place but they also want the buildings to be repaired as much as they can be they don't want any physical reminders of what happened so friday prayers will be held just a few meters away from the alamo mosque expecting a very large crowd not just muslims worship is from those particular two mosques but from right around this city from right around you zealand and indeed from overseas many people coming from australia in particular to show solidarity with those in christ church all right thank you it's been almost four years since the saudi amorality led coalition started their military offensive against the rebels in yemen the war has taken its toll on millions of people who are on the brink of starvation priyanka group follows the journey of one girl and the efforts of her family to keep her alive. africa is

ten years old and weighs just nine kilos that's a third of what a girl of her age should weigh lack of food has taken its toll off of can no longer go to school she's too weak she's also had to fight hepatitis probably through drinking dirty water and mask and a little home in the water are too vital factors for health over the next couple of days even weeks or months often a family live in a remote mountain village and how just provinces northwest it's controlled by the who think it's after father hussein herds sheep for other people he barely makes enough to feed his family of seven the regular visits to distant hospitals are more than he can afford but for his daughter's sake he tries. to sort of that. we don't get full like before i leave the food while i'm still hungry when i find

there's little food left and the kids are still eating i leave the food to them so they're not hungry i'm able to deal with the hunger but they can't while we are still poor the u.n. says two million yemeni children need food aid to survive there is food in the markets but the price of these vegetables for instance has sold out of reach for most a lot of models we used to get five killers of rice for fifteen hundred reals before the war and now we get them for thirty five hundred rails and sugar we used to get a pack for two thousand reals and now we get it for five to five thousand five hundred and the price of wheat is going up to nine to ten thousand there are many more children like afaf in yemen today so many a man nourished making them easy prey for diseases like cholera. doctors in this and a hospital struggle to cope more than hundred suspected cases have turned up in just one day. and the lives of so many depend upon peace especially here in the

vital port at who they are eighty percent of yemen's food aid comes into the sport there is supposed to be a truce between the hooty rebels and the yemeni government forces backed by the u.a.e. and saudi arabia but fighters have not withdrawn from the city so relief for off of and the millions like her still seems a long way off priyanka could go on to zero sudan has summoned in egypt's ambassador to heart's room after egypt's government offered beds for oil and gas exploration in the red sea sudan says some of the beds are on the disputed hella of trying or the area which is controlled by egypt has been claimed by so done since the one nine hundred fifty s. making it a source of contention between the two neighbors. well the trail of death and damage and flooding is continuing to devastate southern africa one week after i die a barrel through the region mozambique zimbabwe malawi have been hit the hardest

more than one point seven million people are affected many have lost their homes spending days without food or water two hundred forty two have died in mozambique alone and that number is expected to rise the government says fifteen thousand people many of them still need to be rescued and in zimbabwe the death toll has jumped to one hundred thirty nine and the rain is continuing roads bridges have collapsed making humanitarian operations difficult the u.n. says two hundred thousand people need urgent food aid for three months and fifty six people have died in malawi eighty two thousand people are displaced and there are now fears of disease in a moment we'll hear from tony burke who have been in and around beirut in mozambique first heroine tosses in zimbabwe she's going to report from copa which isn't far from the town of to pinch but first this report from malcolm webb he's in one of mozambique's worst hit places the district.

cycling i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. so our journey from para. boat made of tree bark. then a few kilometers down the road another broken bridge. central mozambique into islands cut off the road access. who hasn't seen a husband through the storm mobile networks. made the crossing to find him. puts. his. face something that is happy. yes. people need to cross to reach loved ones for food so they find whatever ways they

can after each broken bridge we paid to ride the motor vehicles we could find most people here don't have the means to travel far like this. is when we reach low lying planes that the storm damage is worst this river burst its banks on both sides of the road total devastation homes have been destroyed crops blasted by the wind and rain field off the field of them completely destroyed. a lot of people here will be very hungry. more than three quarters of mozambicans live on less than two dollars a day many people here as subsistence farmers. left in the field with their food for the year ahead they need help. the only sign of it helicopter makes one circle then flies off possibly an aid agency taking a survey people can only hope they'll soon bring food and shelter but with

so much damage to the roads it'll have to come by air. the last broken bridge just before to morrow has been made possible with some blown down cables. and tainio after mani's trying to reach the town check on his family hundreds of died. i'm a survivor but i've suffered too much not just physically but also psychologically traumatized is the first time i've seen a cycle like this now people can travel a little families are trying to reunite many people are still missing it will take a long time for mozambique to recover from cycling it die malcolm webb al-jazeera insists and then the district. this is the primary school on the outskirts of deraa it's now home to about four hundred people forty one families and been made homeless by the cycle own their homes were ripped apart by the cycling with the

strong winds and you see around the corrugated iron roof and rips apart on thursday they got their first regular through three square meals for the first time in five days what they want out of water they are relying completely on local n.g.o.s for their food and their water but i suppose in some ways they're the lucky ones in the hinterland is a far different case three hundred sixty thousand people are at risk and the problem is getting food and clean water to those people which is proving extremely difficult now these kids are making the most what they can but people are living on roofs in the hinterland sickly around places like. the problem is that although the water line is going rescuers can't get to them they don't have sufficient means now more helicopters will come on friday and saturday more teams will come in and that will help people but still some massive operation here the death count at the moment stands at something like two hundred seventeen but the president of mozambique estimates that it's going to be far in excess of a thousand so that is

a big problem it's a massive operation here so this is not over the water is going the weather is improving but still the challenge is to help the people who are most at risk and that's a problem now is also additional cross a problem lot the bosy there soon large reza was filled to overflowing now they have to release the waters in a controlled way if they do that in the wrong way it could cause a massive surge and cause additional problems in those areas so problems are improving the problems are still there for the people of mozambique. and. in the speech. this week a lot of people stranded to see if. it's to get a chance to fix up yeah we reached. medical attention now there was a number of n.g.o.s and relief organizations present there trying to assist you as they possibly can but to monticello great that you almost concrete one of the main

features is that it is a pretty dry land all some of the toughest of the cup just that risk people and sometimes to get away you have down to your aid to. eat local fisherman and you see his goal to get across the board to use each one risking his many people. in the last day of his rescue the. people he says you need to do this because. great use of people to take his way to pull me over my sessions to assist him allow you to take people you see in many instances haven't eaten in to stranded. these rocks and boulders they never used to be here this used to be a busy bustling busy center and then cycling it happened leaving behind all this

destruction all the state of station and all the grief the water was so powerful it managed to drag parts of a bridge which was nearly a kilometer away from the area it shows you how strong the raging water was now people are trying to find out how many of their loved ones are dead and way the people who are who are missing we don't know exactly how many people are missing but what we've seen throughout the day is people coming going through these boulders walking through these parts trying to figure out was this a place where my house used to be if it was is a possible that maybe someone i think you may be missing may be buried underneath the boulders or buried underneath the mud if they know it's going to take a long time for officials to come here and.