there's the lots was happening in the country that's including all the mosques that they it's the the the they have a lot of. traffic that there's a lot of people coming in and supporting the communities they just want to make sure that we are ok and they are offering all sort of supports and they're not in one day that week other people from all different faiths that come in for a day offering all the sort of help so i was well to us. a feeling what we have at the moment is excellent that at least we passed through that stage today is the day that with their friends will take place. in christ church and after that we have to have a plan for moving forward how we want to make sure that this sort of thing will not happen again and also will make our relations better with our communities having say that the mission from last week until now it's devolved to

is stronger is much better and i think we can see we've got a bright future ahead what sort of supports has been offered to you by other communities can you give us specific examples. les say when this incident happened to me the new zealand government have to close or mosques don't call all the must have to be closed down so that instead instantly the churches come forward synagogues come for a ride all so the temples come forward and the seed if the mosque would stay close we are going to open our doors for you and we will ensure that whatever the supports you need apart from a place where the prayer will offer you and will make sure that you get through this smartly we know that as

a finale the nude mosque is still closed how do people in your in the community in the muslim community feel about going back to that church and to that mosque excuse me. i understand that and nor mosque will be opening today so that's we got a confirmation there that it's going to be opening today and there will also have and having their big prayer outside the mosque in a big park area. in as long as there's no safety or current day they're going ahead and helping the mosques similarly hold their mosques government have provided place guards there be there twenty four salmon and they also want to make sure that people don't feel any fear in any uneasiness. and that's why they have offering all the security services to us as well all right no laws we'll leave it

there we thank you very much for speaking to us from wellington. vigils been held for of these the 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 the ruse the persian new year most of the victims are women and children that's also a name reports from baghdad. hundreds of iraqis were celebrating the no rues 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 of begs the police to take him to the banks of the tigris river and now i don't know if they're my own album my family from 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. baghdad the heads on al-jazeera the human cost of war we follow one yemeni family's

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hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the european union will grant britain an extension to its break that negotiating period but only if to resolve may's deal was approved by the british parliament that vote is taking place next week days before the current deadline for the u.k.'s exit from the bloc that's on march the twenty nine vigils are being held across new zealand to mark a week since a gunman attacked two mosques killing fifty people the call to prayer is due to play out on national radio and television in just a few minutes and then two minutes silence will be observed we have two correspondents outside the mosque in a moment we'll speak to andrew thomas but first we'll speak to wayne hey we can see people. behind you wayne to commemorate the vigils as well as joined in the call to prayer just talk us through what you're seeing there.

yes there are people have been gathering here for the past couple of hours really this is in hagley park so it's a good location where the actual prayer friday prayers will take place is just a few meters is across the road from the old knoll mosque which is where the first attack happened a week ago where most people were killed so i'm going to step out a shot for a sick and let joel show you exactly what is going on and you'll see worshipers gathering here this is where the friday prayers will take place and it's being called a makeshift effectively because they cannot go inside the alamo mosque at the moment all they can all go inside the lynnwood mosque where the second attack took place just a few minutes later and you'll see beyond the fence line there are thousands of people who have come here to show solidarity really with the muslim community in christ and people not just coming from christchurch itself not even from new zealand we're seeing people coming from right around the world official delegations people just

wanting to come here to again show their support for what this community has been through and for the prime minister wayne she's encouraged as many people to use the day to pause and to reflect and we expect her to be speaking as well. i think you're going to run though. yes we do in fact we expected to arrive here in the next few minutes she will be making a very brief speech she said she didn't effectively want to make a big deal out of her presence here she was a guest is she was an invited guest so she will speak very briefly in the next few minutes before the colts a prayer it goes out before the two minute silence and remembering that call to prayer is being broadcast right around new zealand's on television and radio so we're seeing still a week later a huge outpouring of emotion and support for the muslim community in christchurch in particular see the prime minister that is has promised tougher gun laws in the wake of that attack and to these new changes take effect and what are they.

this was she certainly didn't waste any time did she we saw that first cabinet meeting take place on monday just a couple of days after the attack and she emerged from that meeting saying some very strong things saying the gun laws will change that they agreed inside that cabinet meeting unanimously what sort of changes they want to make and then we saw on thursday her announce those exact details that effectively amounts to a ban on all military style semiautomatic weapons assault rifles also pots that can be used to modify weapons to turn them into military style semiautomatic weapons which it appears is what the main suspect in this attack exactly did so the next parliament session is when we will see this law presented the lore is still being drafted right now she says that they are working effectively around the clock to draft this new legislation i don't expect they'll be much if any opposition to

it in parliament so she is saying the prime minister that this law will be enforce these new rules in three weeks but in the meantime new licenses have basically been drawn up or a relicensing so if anyone has those guns that are now banned or will be banned in three weeks on the law or effectively bans now because people have to go into the police station as of now and relicense those guns go through tough a background background checks etc the message from her was pretty loud and clear when she made that statement on thursday don't bother doing it effectively these guns are illegal as of now all right here for the time being thank you we have on to thomas who is also joining us from christchurch andrew and we also expect more funerals to be held today as well that's right well that the curfew like the virtual mosque inside highly park which is directly opposite the normals that was where you were talking to the wind from

i'm a few hundred meters further back and you can see on our the shoulder that there are people streaming into this part to take part in the two minutes. muslim people coming into this part thousands of people who come from all across church indeed from all over new zealand to pay their respects you'll see lots of people lots of women in headscarves most of them are not muslim but they're wearing the headscarf as a mark of respect for those who died eleventh going to get under way just in a few minutes time but i'm joined in the meantime by rough mangi a city council here in christchurch now you've organized this event was going on over there why did you feel it was necessary to involve not just the muslim community but the broader community across church i think one word that's come out this week is solidarity so the people of christchurch the people of new zealand want to show support for the muslim community and make sure that they could have their friday prayers and the mosque is not quite ready so we've made the space available in the park and thousands and thousands of people here and as you said

just locals coming down women wearing head scarves again in solidarity to show our support and care and compassion for a muslim community so they can actually go about their normal worship christ church is a small city the hospital is only a five minute walk away from here i've seen two or three people being pushed in wheelchairs to this event presumably people who were it in last friday's attacks this is for them isn't it the injured the families as much as it is for the broader community for some of the injured who are still in hospital they would have done anything to get out of it to come down and i saw one being well done in a wheelchair if you remember this week we should have been having a test match right here in the oval against bangladesh the bangladesh cricket team were arriving just at the mosque when the shooting happened seven days ago so to be able to do this as well as on a national basis with the two minute silence and the acknowledgement is really fabulous for bringing this community and really signing off in a week that is being quite horrendous for a lot of people now i know it was

a national government decision to have a two minute silence and the memorial day the official one is expected in coming days probably at some point next week but you as a council have organized not just this but. two more events over the weekend tell me about those yet so there are two marches one is being headlined by school children who were of the climate strike last week remember the whole city was full of school kids out protesting they're putting on a march tomorrow at ten am a park with some speeches and then there's a vigil in the park again on sunday evening so the community is is continuing to rally because it's really important for them to get out and show the support and the care and that actually this is a side is coming together even stronger than it was before last the picture thank you here in christ church but this is be a global events of course hundreds of television cameras and this is being on the world's media over the last few days because of how shocking it has been but this is also because of how many countries those who were shot were from originally a properly global event in terms of the victims and the families of the victims i

was at a funeral on thursday and the brother of the eldest person to have been shot dead last friday he lived in arizona in the united states and he had come for the funeral well i'm joined now by mohsin ansari now you are the head of the islamic circle of vice president of the islamic circle of north america you followed him from washington d.c. as i understand it to be at this event why so important to be here thank you for giving me the opportunity last friday when this happened obviously the horror while you was in the shock being dumb. and then did they have muslim organization be flooded with calls and messages that how we're all muslims can be present and go and offer their solidarity and their help to the victims of an incident so i just came down again from the airport after a long journey to attend this funeral prayer. that reason is to force. number one we want to offer. and be part of the muslim rituals and help out. the

logistics of funeral arrangements i head to helping hand usa which is one of the largest islamic charity so what a team was here for last few days helping out in all the logistics the second reason was that we wanted to have their help in this spiritual healing being a muslim and leadership of muslim organizations you want to hear they do the people who want to be an effective and thirdly very important to say thank you to new zealand thank you to the people of new zealand thank you to the leadership of the prime minister arden has taken a stance she is at this point a role model for the whole world leaders what she has done even with some minor things and some major statements she's the first one to call out this that is how she was the first one to call hate monger to it mongers she is the first one to point that it is to tout it is people in this world nor there are more that is

other than muslims so what they have done this is that we're all and we met to some of the shows this morning and we hang them to the bottom of our heart and all these thousands of people coming from all across the news and in writing had to scarfs they have shown over here for the whole world what does love me thank you very much most and i'm sorry from the islamic circle of north america well the events the official events behind me are due to begin any moment such a scene on the big screen behind me the prime minister just in the road she's expected to say a few words before the press get underway and then we'll be about two minutes silence and then the press themselves actually should follow her around her just songs for a moment and. soon be a call to prayer they are done right now. both. a sad one.

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minutes silence just now being observed in christ church and right across new zealand to honor the victims and those who were killed in the mosque attacks that took place in christ church exactly one week ago that is the live scene from just outside the mosque in christ church where those attacks took place you can hear the call to prayer being read out right now and shortly before as i'm saying there was a two minute's silence being observed and we also did hear the often new the mosque. he performed the call to prayer as well that call to prayer and this one also being broadcast nationwide in

new zealand we did see the prime minister just a dern make an appearance as well we may be expecting her to speak if she does we will cross over live and listen to what she has to say so you as you can see thousands of people have come out to mark one week since a gunman attacked two mosques killing fifty people at the time andrew thomas joining us you are right there andrew in christ church just give us a sense of what the mood is like on the ground. in those two minutes of silence it really was extremely quiet in this park there are thousands of people in this ball got come a respectful distance from where the actual funeral well i'm sorry the call to prayer is going to go on. and. that's where now

thousands of people are gathered muslims and almost ends in that there is in effect a virtual mosque outdoors because the al normal school isn't ready to have people inside the forensic work was done the place it completed their investigations but the actual cleaning of the mall schools and quite ready to have lots of people inside it on friday that's where they put it in the pocket outside and luckily the weather is the best it's been awake so lots of people inside that virtual mosque and then thousands more just outside the barriers still inside the park say there was virtual silence with one exception it was a helicopter circling a mountain that was the place they've been doing that all week just making sure that nothing is going on that shouldn't be and providing some sort of reassurance as well to the people of christchurch that being helicopters buzzing around a lot this weekend but didn't stop for the two minute silence but otherwise all was very quiet i'm joined now by alan woods now alan you're not muslim no i'm not but you are a christ church resident why have you come down here and felt it's important to be

here this friday so i can tell you that i m it was seem about twelve months ago. i was looking for you here tricia and i went to a local salon and they introduced me to two r.c.m. a man so different from myself i couldn't imagine. beautiful beate. sparkling eyes lovely personality and we got into talking as you do with your dresser and it wasn't long before we established a record every six to eight weeks i would go back and which conversation or coffee or a haircut to become a friend he became a very good friend and we shared all sorts of intimacies i told him about my plans for the season travel and he told me about just life and use even having arrived here from jordan not so many years ago and. i grew to like the man a great deal and i was shocked to discover that he and his daughter now recovering in hospital and all of this little girl at knee high. she's in the question in

the open stosh of hospital and the and he is across the cop hock in the adult hospital both of them recovering from gunshot wounds things that almost incomprehensible to new zealand society something that. you can't imagine what ever happened here and both of them very badly injured really badly injured. last facebook post from said he was right behind and on the process of recovery but still not one hundred percent know would about his daughter at all at the stateside one can only imagine that she is seriously old she was the only victim of the shootings to be airlifted to another city to walk to and which is the biggest city in serious notice of her injuries. because we have talked last hospitals here we have a burns unit here we have a skin graft unit we have all sorts of facilities here crush it. open has one step up from that obviously and he's been flying there in order to be near i believe saw

and at my spirit good seems that a father and daughter should be placed at hand in times like this so you have that personal connection but not everybody had dolls white you thinks so many people have turned out this park this lunchtime on friday i think it was just said very clearly when one part of the body suffers we all feel it and this attack on a member of ass a saudi on a portion of a society has been a tech on us and that has been the theme that's been running through this whole week just in or out on the prime minister here has had a very high price fall over the last few days he's been visiting communities muslim communities right up and down the country as an average new zealand a citizen how do you think your prime minister has handled that she has excelled her so i have no question at all about it she tried to the election. i wouldn't say she was an unknown but she wasn't on the right she came to the fore

almost by accident and and landed on her feet and it's been one thing after another and this has been the lightest of it and which has bought her to the fore in the ways that i can only come into the school has she got the tone rights i believe so i oh yes i think i think she has the tarn precisely right thank you very much i mean i think we're going to listen a little to what is going on inside the mosque behind you know. an example of love and unity we are not a broken hearted but. we all models broken we are i know you. we're out of to get on we are out of the tournament to model if you any one would divide us.

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food is the off a nude a mosque where he's been leading the friday salman and the friday call to prayer where vigils are being held in christ church and right across new zealand as you can see to mark a week since the gunmen attacked two mosques a killing fifty people one mosque which is a mosque right where that vigil in particular you're looking at right now is being held in the call to prayer was played out on national radio and television and we also observed two minutes silence to mark an honor of the

victims and those who were killed by the gunman andrew thomas is listening in to the mom he's also in christ church andrew just talk us through what you're seeing being on the ground right there. well it was very powerful very unlikely that friday prayers will ever have been heard by as many new zealanders. those ones there being broadcast as you say on the radio and on television nationwide and that's certainly people i've been speaking to all intended to today that they're not here in person and there are thousands of people here in person i'm on the other side of the park we were asked to stay a respectful distance back so that my talking wouldn't interrupt anything going on there but that is the event just across the park talking about the love and solidarity that he has felt in new zealand over the last few days he talked about

the victims and how they are now rejoicing with allah and it's all to about his thinks his right hand just. because they are ma'am is continuing his ceremony andra let's listen and i will come back to you. and against innocent muslims in the u.k. you say and other countries around the wards is there more food here israel is seth targeted complain to influence people to do human eyes and rationally fear muslims to fear what we were to fear the choice of foods we eat to fear the where you would pray and to fear the where you would practice our

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warlords. that terrorism has no callar has no race and has no religion. there i hold white supremacy and right wing extremism is a great global threat to all mankind and these must end now. i want to take this in unity to thank you my muslim and non muslim brothers and sisters for out in doing today. and i would like also. i would like also to thank our international guests who are with

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a reading verses from the koran and as well as that he did have a strong political message speaking out against lama phobia so food is the. mosque that is one of the mosques where the attack took place just one week ago in christ church in new zealand where fifty people were killed by a gunman you're looking at live pictures right now from a christ church where vigils are being held not only there but across does eland to mark a week since the gunman that attacked two mosques as i'm saying killing fifty people and you thomas is joining us as i'm saying andrew the in mum was speaking out quite strongly against islam a phobia and they need to fight islamophobia and that's been

a conversation that's been going on in new zealand since the attacks last week. that's right he was very strong it was almost a political sermon in a sense he said islamophobia is real it is deliberate and then he talks to you about the rhetoric from some politicians he didn't hold back he got a lot of applause it has to be said when he was talking about those issues and that amongst his things is thanks to the people of new zealand's to the people here in christchurch specifically who have come to this event to people worldwide who have come to this event and to people worldwide who have shown their support to the muslim community but certainly the politics there was very very strong and it will have been listened to by people up and down new zealand and indeed around the world and andrew we did see the prime minister as well sitting there do we expect her to be speaking. i must admit we did expect to

dissipate briefly before the two minute saddam's of the surprised that she didn't perhaps you'll speak immediately after the friday prize have concluded but she is here and she's certainly been in christchurch a lot over the last few days the capital of new zealand as wellington as a flight away she's been shuttling between there and here a century dealing with the politics mostly in wellington done reform foremost among about she announced the government's proposals to significantly tighten the restrictions around firearms on thursday she in effect made holding semiautomatic military style weapons illegal from now in actual fact the legislation will pass in two or three weeks time but in the meantime she's changed the registration requirements and made it impossible for somebody to get those registrations that they require so in effect weaponry that the gunman used last friday is now illegal she was dealing with all the politics in wellington and every time she's been down

to christchurch it's about showing compassion for the muslim community meeting the victims' families meeting those who are in hospital who've been shot meeting a mergence the workers as well then on made a big deal of thanking those emergency service workers not just for they did last friday but indeed for their work in protecting his community year round he made another i thought important distinction that this is not just about the most in community saying thank you for what happened last friday and for involving in solidarity the new zealand population around the one particular day but saying that year around all the time they are part of the community they're protected by the same place officers the same ambulance stuff that he said was significant because it shows just how integrated muslims have become in new zealand society and in contrast to that in a sense with the phobia that some politicians display i'm certainly sure he was not talking about his own prime minister the muslim community here doesn't feel that

she has put a foot wrong over the last seven days. but there are certainly politicians in some other places he's been criticized for whipping up is of islam and of muslims he talks about the fears that some people have encouraged politicians to fear the food that muslims eat the behavior that they do things like the friday prayer and he said none of that is to be no one should be afraid of any of these things and he criticized politicians that with pop is around those things and we can see the communal friday prayer andrew being held right now on the grounds just outside nude mosque in interesting glee. there's been social media campaigns urging non muslim women in new zealand to wear a headscarf for the day and it's so if respect for the muslim community but how have the other communities supported the muslim community and you how have they all come together. well most obviously as you go

around christchurch and indeed other new zealand cities i'm told by colleagues open to wellington particularly towns even around this country flowers you see people on every street carrying bunches of flowers to memorial sites to show their respect and their appreciation of the seriousness of what happened last friday and their determination nothing like that should ever ever happen again and the messages that have been written to lie alongside the flowers a very very powerful up in reading them all around this city so that's the most obvious visual representation as you say head scarves is another interestingly the prime minister is wearing a headscarf while listening to this and the a man made a comment about that he said thank you prime minister for that small gesture of wearing a scarf and i would say that all of the women non muslim women who've been coming into this park to stand just behind the barriers of what is in effect a virtual outdoor mosque for these friday prayers i think about half of the women i have seen walking through the gates across the park and down to where the events

are happening behind me about hoffa being wearing headscarves is not to say the others are in any way disrespecting him but the half that are wearing the headscarf the really showing their full integration their full respect for the muslim community and i stress again i'm guessing here but i think there are three or four thousand people gathered in this part listening to these friday pres most of them outside the berries of the virtual mosque and most of them are not most in there simply residents of christchurch who have come down here to show their support and among them i'm joined again by an alum woods if you could step in you came down i mean i know you're a little way back from where all this is happening to be with us but we've you know to hear it over the loudspeakers what do you make of that as a non muslim yes i was touched by it for not being moved. i think there's first integration for new zealand distance it has been a number of things come to being here i admire our prime minister she has she has

signed off on the policy. on the protocol on his people skills she has built bridges she has a community which could so easily have gone to wreck and ruin she's pulled it together i was a bit concerned by the a mob when he talked about the concept and that belief a round bottom yeah i have to say that just struck a chord of a discord if you will because when he said the victims were not just martyrs for islam they were malta's the new zealand on that point he got a big round of applause as he did however you see fit this into the globe when we see martyrdom well i won't speak for all but my knowledge of not of his obviously very limited what i see him up i see not him i see those who now take revenge or who a foot up and to carry out acts of further violence that clearly clearly most muslims

would disagree they see knowledge of them as dying in awe of islam but let me let me return now to the events going on behind me. all right andrew just stand by for a moment as we see the prime minister right now just into our journey so she's pretty in the job. right now in crisis as you can see she's wearing a headscarf. and many muslim non muslim woman that is have also been urged to wear a headscarf on this day in the shine of respect and solidarity with the muslim community so just send. seems to be leaving the grounds just outside the. mosque vigil being held outside the mosque because your mosque still remain closed

a week after the attash that took place gunmen marched into the mosque he killed fifty people at the time and one week later we are witnessing the events today where vigils are being held across new zealand as well as christ church right there you're looking at live picture from there and people have come out from different communities muslims as well muslims all coming out to mark a week since that attack took place in christ church so andrew thomas back over to you you're on the ground right there give us an idea a sense of the mood and what people have been telling you. well as you can see behind me people are now dispersing making their way back to

work or home or whatever they have planned for the rest of friday but that was very powerful there were lots of moments of applause during the amounts and not just from the muslim people gathered here but from other residents of christchurch and what people have been telling me is that they came down here is a mark of respect respect simply for the lives lost because let's be blunt they fifty people lost their lives in the most horrific way but also to show their respect and appreciation of islam as a faith to show its integration in new zealand and to prove that they are all as one with the islamic community here you heard the amman there talking about the political rhetoric in his words that is sometimes whipped up around islamophobia and the people here they want to show that they do not subscribe so that they believe that islam should be an integrated part of new zealand's culture and society not an opposing parts of it the two can co-exist and they want to prove if you like that.