it was heartbreaking quite honestly saying the coffin carried and then gently lowered into the ground very privileged to be that very honored to have been invited to that event because obviously you can imagine the emotion the raw emotion that was going on during that and that's just one of fifty victims being buried as a safe fifteen we believe so far there will be more and more funerals in coming days all the bodies have now been formally identified to the satisfaction the place on the car and it's a long slow process because you need to be absolutely sure of course of the right bodies are going to right families no easy task when some people as they were shot i don't horrific injuries that killed them in some cases to their face so identification vitally important but also exactly what killed him not enough to say they were shot they needed to have exact cause of death because of course it's going to be a big murder trial multiple murder trial and the proof required there beyond reasonable doubt meant significant and detailed autopsies at this stage before bodies were buried that has now will be completed all the bodies have been

identified and if the families are able to receive those bodies they've been returned to them so in coming days i'm sure we'll see more funerals that's certainly been at least two happening on friday in fact it's quite possible i'm not entirely sure of the timing it's quite possible that was one funeral going on even as the friday prayers were going on here and the rifles that were used in this attack will now be banned that is the announcement that was made by the prime minister talk us through these new changes to the gun laws in new zealand. you know. essential in new zealand had relatively relaxed gun laws everybody is saying that now not least the prime minister and on thursday what she announced is that her cabinet had passed agreed to formalize the banning of these military style semiautomatic weapons the sort of weapons that the gunman used last friday now to actually pass laws means them being passed through parliament and simply because

parliament is not sitting and they. the eyes haven't been put in place in the tease haven't been crossed on the exact legislation that is going to take about three weeks that will take us into april so in the meantime what she has done is she's changed the requirements that people need to legally hold guns and made them so onerous so difficult to get hold of the right license the right registration that it's almost all of these she said impossible for anybody to achieve that so although technically not illegal they are in practice illegal from the moment she made her announcement this time yesterday this time on thursday and what that means is that these military style semiautomatic weapons these rapid firing guns the sort that the gunman used on now illegal because he the gunman or the alleged gunman the suspect he got hold of his weapons legally we have not from the place on friday and they've said that as the lord stood in twenty seventeen twenty eight in fact as they stood just over a week ago now what was required was

a interview with him and then to people who knew him personally who could recommend that he was a good character the place say that all those checks were run through everything was done properly they visited him at his home they found out where he was going to store his weapons he passed all the right checks and therefore they was allowed his license which allowed him to buy first of all the guns legally and then again legally the modifications required the actual thing just on the gun to make them these military style semiautomatic weapons he also bought those components legally now what he did that was illegal was put the two together take the semiautomatic weapons add some components to them to make them even more rapid firing to make the military style semiautomatic weapons that was illegal but it's in a sense everything he did up to that point was at that stage illegal well it's not now new zealand now has that and it's done a lot. gun laws after the port arthur massacre some years ago

though in conjunction with all of this will be a buyback scheme because obviously lots of people in new zealand have these weapons there are a quarter of a million people in this country the populations of the five million a quarter of a million people who have gun licenses no one quite knows how many guns they have collectively but a lot of them will have these sorts of weapons that are now illegal well there is a buyback scheme that's going to be introduced it's going to cost well over one hundred million dollars for the government to in effect pay people compensation to hand over their weapons but they expect everybody to do so those weapons are in effect illegal and they want them handed in one hundred fast they want them off the streets and everybody here that i've spoken to is praising the prime minister for having taken such swift decisive action i haven't yet heard anybody in person. a word of criticism over this on talkback radio i'll be listening to a bit of that there are some people who say that these high powered weapons all useful in some settings for example killing wild pigs that are destroying crops or

damaging their animals chasing often he's been saying that these weapons do have their place in a rural environment but even then when pushed by presenting on radio shows they say yeah all right and a lot of what's happened it's a small price to pay for us to give up those weapons some people on twitter have been voluntarily saying how they've already given up their weapons in anticipation of this ok andrew thomas thank you sir now and bring in wayne hay he's also joining us from christ church in and andrew was just talking about the prime minister and the decision she made to change the gun laws away and we saw the prime minister make an appearance at that vigil that was being held just a few moments ago how significant is it that she showed up and she wore a headscarf. well very significant very poignant and that is something that she obviously has been very

keen to display right from the moment that this attack took place she has worked very very closely consulted very closely with muslim leaders in this city and from around the rest of the country and this is the time that she has been to christchurch since the attack took place a week ago she was always going to come to this but she said that she didn't want to make a big deal out of their presence here this friday prayers was not about her so she came into this area in hagley just a few minutes before the cole to prayer went out she gave a very very short statement the loudspeaker basically tossing from the koran and saying that new zealand mourns with you we are one so it was a speech last and probably less than a minute so very poignant and i think that you know an appearance by her here that will be very well received by the worship is the muslim worship as you came to this

pocket just a few meters from where the first of those attacks happens and on the issue off the change of the gun laws wane how much support does she have from other parties in the opposition. i think she will have almost total support we've already heard from the leader of the opposition national party simon bridges saying that he absolutely supports what the prime minister has announced those gun law changes so i think within parliament when that next parliament session starts in a couple of weeks you know when those laws that new set of legislation is presented to the members of parliament i don't think you're going to see many if any people stand up and criticize the war vote down those laws i think such as the emotion in new zealand such is the reaction to what happened a week ago it would be a very brave person to stand up and do that and i think as andrew mentioned it

seems that there is fairly widespread support for these little changes enough is enough is effectively what people are saying no we've never seen any sort of terrorist attack like this in new zealand but the availability of the weapons legally i think is shock to many new zealand is that you could go to a gun shop with the appropriate sort of licenses and background checks and witnesses and things like that that you could fairly easily get your hands on a semiautomatic weapon well that comes to an end and i think that yes there will be some opposition from lobby groups and things like that but because this process is happening so quickly so soon after the attack took place i think we're unlikely to see any significant opposition to these new laws and our turn has been speaking out swain against the rise of a right wing and nationalism and she's certainly called for a global fight according to her to root out what she describes as

a racist right wing ideology. yes she certainly hasn't been afraid to say things like that in fact very soon off the attack happened a week ago of course she had a phone conversation with many world leaders many world leaders phoning her to offer their condolences and they support among them was the united states president donald trump and he had in a previous media event said was asked whether he thought that there was an issue with an increase in white extremism in the united states and around the world and he said that he didn't think so so just done was asked by the media in new zealand where the she agreed with that statement from the u.s. president she simply answered no so she clearly thinks it's a problem and you heard just a few moments ago the mom who must be a very emotional difficult sermon to deliver on this friday it was just a week ago that he was a few meters away in the al nor mosque delivering friday prayers when the gunman

came in and that's how he opened his sermon saying that he stared into the eyes of evil but he also spoke about the issue of islamophobia he said it is real it's a campaign and he said we call on governments around the world including the new zealand government to bring an end to hate speech and the politics of fear and that statement from the mom from the eleanor mosque was certainly greeted with a round of applause by the thousands of people who gathered here in hagley to take part in this moment's silence to listen to the call to prayer and listen to friday prayers themselves are right wayne hay with an update from christ church wayne thank you so as we're saying is ill and has paid tribute to the fifty people killed in the christ church mosque shootings one week ago all more welcome on a long one thank you bonnie. along with lone lawn. the bomb. the

islamic call to prayer was shown on television right across the country thousands as you can see gathered at the site of the attack and observed two minute silence to honor the victims the new zealand prime minister just into ardor and offered words of sympathy and solidarity. the. communication and engine penny i just write minority. we need any of the bodies south as to how body feels pain you see him and mourns with you we are one well the if one of the mosques that was attacked called on the world to push back against prejudice towards muslims. yes israel is the thought of good to come pain to influence people. to do you mind.

and rationally fear muslims to fear what we will. to fear the choice of foods we eat to feel the way you would pray and to feel the way we practice our faith we call our governments around the warts including new zealand and the neighboring countries. to bring an end to hate speech and the politics of fear. or earlier more victims of the attacks were buried in christ church among them was housed there would not be his the first person shot and killed andrew thomas was at his funeral. in the

life haji daoud now be 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 church as memorial park cemetery to pay their last respects and reflect on his life he was the first african in new zealand any search to accomplish a mosque in he built the allure mosque in these they found there 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 here's why 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 doubt not be 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 she died but rather how he lived who he was what he did and the

legacy he's leaving behind that legacy includes funny children and knowing grandchildren and the memory of a kind man dad had a good heart a loving father it welcome even what it is. a good man for muslim relies on. for our finally big loss let's make. hodgy doubt navi will forever stay here but on life his final words and now troubling him. and andrea you filed that reports you were at the funeral of the would not be as you're saying he was the first person who was shot and killed during that mosque attack and we expect more people to be buried on friday.

we do we do we think there were two people buried friday morning museum time and the may well be more i'm not entirely sure to be honest on friday afternoon but all the bodies now have been formally identified and if the families already to collect them then mail being released to them for burial some of the people who were killed were very recent immigrants to these even in fact some of them were guests a temporary they were visiting family or friends and they were killed here and in some cases. to their own countries so not all the fans will have a. but you didn't see in that report there because we didn't film it frankly as a mark of respect to see other people being buried was the activity in that cemetery is just heartbreaking seeing fifty year old almost fifty because some people have now been buried in those graves but seeing dozens of new lee dug graves awaiting their occupants and again this sounds

a horrible thing to say but there's almost a routine about that cemetery as we were there we had to wait outside the gates you saw the cortez drive in were actually held outside for five minutes we were part of the cortez the the family wanted us part of it which was very generous and kind of them and we were part of that cortez waiting to go to the cemetery and we had to wait because another funeral was still going on inside and then once we were in you saw the funeral prayer happening inside that marquee there once we all moved out hundreds of people from inside that marquee to walk a couple hundred meters to the grave site at that moment another funeral policy went into the marquee and the f.-u. rule prayer was going on while our funeral party if you like was burying. nobby and then when that was concluded we weren't able to stay gravesite for all that long because that party then came graveside as. they have help sounds like a horrific thing to say but that just gives us some of the horror of the scale of

what happened last friday in a small city like this to have lost fifty people in one respect incident so fast there is only one muslim cemetery in this city and it is very very busy. and andrew a short while ago we did hear the nation why the broad the muslim call to prayer that was broadcast nationwide i should say how unprecedented is that in new zealand . but this event it is. said that she wanted to make a state. after an event like this which other community had been impacted by that was to be expected and in a sense that was for the victims the specific victims the two minute silence but the muslim call to prayer was different that was broadcast nationwide yes of course

to on of the day but also so on it is the law as a religion here in new zealand to this make distinct new zealand's government's position from the islamophobia rhetoric that you heard the imaan talking about in his sermon that was clear a way to demonstrate that the prime minister of this country the government of this country stands in absolute opposition so the political rhetoric of islamophobia then too broad cost the colts of pret nationwide in a country where only one possibly two percent of the population is most in the vast majority of people in new zealand are not and yet is being broadcast to the whole country to show that this government in this country and by extension the people of this country are at one with their religion it was very very significant as significant of course was the prime minister wearing a headscarf throughout that ceremony again she's not a muslim but she time here and wore the headscarf as a mark of respect for the religion as much as for the victims of last friday and

many of the other women here again many of them not muslim that wearing the headscarf and another note look to look to the people who came here the muslims not from christ church but from all over this country indeed all over the world i've spoken to muslims who flown in from australia not too far across what they call the ditch between the two countries australia new zealand but also people who flown in from africa stopped in africa also i spoke to somebody who leads an islamic society in washington d.c. the brother of mr nabil who i saw buried on. thursday he had flown in from arizona not there were lots and lots of muslim people here would come from various parts of the world sometimes because they knew people personally but more often simply to show support for the people and like andrew will speak to you in less than thirty minutes at the top of the hour that's the news hour on al-jazeera in less than thirty minutes as i'm saying we'll see you then thanks for watching but by new

yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that lives. i will see in antarctica the site of an extraordinary bid to create the largest protected area on earth. for this special episode of a thrice we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optic sunrise following one

of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement is ations history witnessing the spectacular biodiversity and the many threats to life and climate change to a good fishing as a team of scientists photographers and ocean experts sets out to prove these vos remote waters must become and talk to. before i settle. down south i'm going to find out a little about the journey i'm about to embark on tucked away in this maze of old london streets something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy i've been mesmerized by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early twentieth century names of polar explorers like roald amundsen and

captain scott. well this is where some of those expeditions came to get them apps it was really because of the low good to see this is a kind of treasure trove of past exploration to come out of that. turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent at the end of the world. from the fifteen eighties is the last of the classical worldview this is the world as it would be an understood the ancient greeks and romans still got this great terrill a stylist moment on called me to the unknown subtle and spin forward three centuries to the time of men like captain scott who died on his return from the south pole philip shows me a sledging match from that expedition is true. this is what actually used to place the food death has for the attempt on the pole incredible here we have been

reaching the south pole and then of course the terrible trick. back to captain scott died here just demonstrates how hot it was then just how challenging it was that a far cry from today it was this period is known as the heroic age they were truly great heroes up until the one nine hundred twenty days there were probably less than should think fifty or sixty people had actually ever stepped on to the cold lip. of course no thousands are going every year. like many of the old explorers i first had for punta arenas in southern chile but unlike them i'll be flying into antarctica to king george island at the northern tip here all join the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea with luck will reach our target the sixty fourth parallel which marks

the northern edge of the proposed asian sanctuary an internationally supported marine reserve covering one point eight million square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impact like fishing oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and if you. want to. be on the outside. there before dark. it's a cold murky arrival and surprised at how many people there are around dozens are coming in going to hear you know king george island and downscale we made it seem like that they don't.

look so remote as warm a transport. you can see lots of trailers down there taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to meet cruise ships for the holidays i also hear a lot of research stations. with the weather closing in we need to get a move on. into . the next two weeks. and you. write a. program. well we're underway immediately heading for the proposed ocean sanctuary is not a time to lose not just for the arctic sunrise winter is not far away and the ice will soon close in about its business or

a race against time to protect areas like the weddell sea before it's too late will mccallum it's a greenpeace campaign leader we're campaigning for will be the love world's largest protected area as an antarctic ocean sanction an area of the bible say to be about five times the size of germany the proposal is already on the table it's already got the backing of the. scientists are saying we need to protect a third of the world's oceans at least every one to let fish stocks recover anyone to mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change and man thought is a great place to start in just nine months time in hobart's australia a decision will be made by the antarctic ocean commission the international body responsible for the conservation of these waters and whether to accept the sentry proposal the aim of the expedition is to build the case that it needs to happen. the hours go by and the temperature drops significantly. on the bridge they're on high alert we're heading into dangerous waters tense times with skipper cool

ruzicka you have what they call bertie bits growlers and icebergs depending on the size. but they can all damage a ship when you're steaming at night key thing about ice is avoiding it but now we're going to look for the ice and we will intentionally go into some of the ice and there is room down here now i think to push our way through a bit. of our. right . to cool climbs into the crow's nest transport leads through the ice. come through the ontology sound words of advice sexy and talk to the internet but we're not on the web and see but not yet at the point at which they were protected but you get that we got to get through all this ice there's a lot of it around and we're finding these clear passages trying to we've always through the ice. everyone on board is just willing the ship to make it into the

proposed sanctuary the big problem is getting people to realize why they should care about the i will talk to you know this is lot of light that most people have never come across will never come across and so being able to tell that story relies on us getting there are lots of us getting the footage back and tell talking about the importance of marine sanctuaries so the fact that fish stocks would only recover if we put these areas of limits the fact that climate change will be not as bad if we manage suppose large areas of the ocean know that. dog has foals but there is no rest on the bridge for the captain and the night crew there is an illusion. of. floodlights on the boughs showed the ship now milage dump quietly against the ice and intentional maneuver for the remainder of the night but everyone is keyed up flying off.

the next day at la. asked the arctic sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest most diverse waters there are and was all on board who may yet be the largest protected area on the planet we were wondering could you good news very good news made it made it to this is for the sitting there now. there's someone other ships in this entire space and you just go over this side and recently start getting sort of tens of of ships both cruise liners cargo ships fishing vessels the moment you get through this sound as us another ship out there and that's it and they're all whole area that's slightly scary yet terrifying. very exciting as well but exciting how to just make the case that this is pristine this area is not develop is not go industry has never had industry sort of area that's kind of the most on touch even within and part of. our own are.

going to. be my friends and thank you for trying to run program on. what we're looking at here is faulty yes sea ice is great icebergs to be carved off the glass is sweeping off james ross island that the weddell sea spent way to just proposed the area already about just touched by human activity always scientific research is taking place it is an incredible site but deeply troubling to glances have always collapsed in carved into the antarctic ocean however with global warming they're doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat sea levels rise. this right here is humanity's problem for decades perhaps centuries

ahead. it is laundry day off at sunrise and here's the thing we were given being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that sort of thing but when you watch the. hundreds of thousands of microfiber is end up in the well the ocean is so here important it's wouldn't and not for girls. and of course plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. these are some of the america's rules of the planet there could be a ploy to do they could be blasting seriously greenpeace to conduct this is where i

was taking samples from the water to see if any micro plastics have infiltrated this environment. just simply into the sea surface like quest five is that maybe precious so that both taking something should be fully trusted more to. the. extent . bush said he doesn't find that he at this is very hopeful just the way the seas are very close try a system and there's very few local sources of micro plastic fibers should be coming from however evidence is growing around the world from studies that like the plastic before the spike stream the prisoner releases and they all be found the right reply to locations.