this is bbc world news. i'm sharanjit leyl in christchurch. new zealand police confirmed a number of dead after the attack in christchurch has risen to 50. among those paying tribute to the victims of the mass shooting, the relative of a man who died trying to stop the attacker. i saw the video on the first thing i wanted to see was the look in his eyes. i did not see an iota of fear in those eyes, that made me proud. i'm ben bland in london. also in the programme: violence on the streets of paris on another weekend of yellow vest protests. france's interior minister says they were hijacked by hardcore, "hyperviolent" groups.

hello and welcome to bbc world news. it's now known that 50 people were killed in friday's attack on two mosques in the new zealand city of christchurch. the police commissioner, mike bush, said another body had been found during a search of the buildings. he said 50 others were injured, most are still in hospital. my colleague, sharanjit leyl, is in christchurch. it's 1:00 in the afternoon here in christchurch, and it's a day of mourning and remembrance, as the people of christchurch turn out to show their rejection of the hate that inspired friday's horrific attacks.

people have essentially been turning out to reject the hate that inspired the attack. and a few hours ago, we heard the news that the number of those who died has risen to 50. hywell griffiths has this report. to show their grief, to show their love, christchurch's people are coming together as they try to comprehend a violent act of terror. some are just holding on to life. wasseim sati and his four—year—old daughter were both shot. he posted this message online from his hospital bed. under tight security, the man accused of friday's shooting was today brought to court to be charged with murder. ajudge has ruled that brenton tarrant‘s face should not be shown.

he wore a prison gown and handcuffs, made a hand gesture linked to white supremacy while in the dock. the attack brought chaos to christchurch, it took 36 minutes from the first emergency call for the suspect to be apprehended. he left behind an enormous, complicated crime scene. only now have police been able to locate all the bodies. as of last night, we were able to take all the victims from both of those scenes, and in doing so we have located a further victim. so, that brings the number of those who have died to 50. as she met some of the families who have lost their loved ones, jacinda ardern pledged to tighten new zealand's gun laws, which, unlike britain, don't include a ban on on owning semiautomatic assault weapons.

one of the issues we are facing is that the guns that were used in this case appear to have been modified. that is a challenge that police have been facing and that is a challenge that we will look to address in changing our laws. there is also a more immediate challenge, making this community feel safe and united. after all the fear and violence the city experienced on friday, this is the natural, heartfelt response, people wanting to come and stand together, grieve together and show their solidarity. they want to help those whose lives have been changed forever. it has touched a lot of hearts in christchurch for everyone, especially us, we came here to make a life,

we are muslims. a few of our family friends... they were part of it. that means making clear that every community, every culture, is welcome here. the victims were their friends, their neighbours. our hearts go out to them, they are our people as well, they are citizens of this nation. a city struck a few years ago with a natural disaster is once again bearing incalculable loss. but following the maori message and staying strong. we're expecting an update from canterbury hospital, there are still 36 people in a critical condition, and as we have been reporting as well, the number of dead has risen

to 50. we will bring you more on that press conference from christchurch hospital as it starts. but we are learning more and more about the victims who died on friday, including some acts of bravery. the brother of one man who was killed has spoken of his pride and the pain at losing his brother who had tried to tackle the gunman. daniela relph has more. so many of those killed had moved to new zealand to find peace and tranquility. but instead they were all victims of a violent attack as they prayed. naeem rashid had been living in new zealand for nine years. his family say he loved his life there. both he and his 21—year—old son, talha, were killed. originally from pakistan, the government there confirmed their death. in a video of the attack, naeem rashid was seen confronting the gunman. i saw that video and the first thing i wanted to see was the look in his eyes. i did not see an iota

of fear in those eyes. and that made me proud. what a brave man he was. i heard from people there, there were a few witnesses who said he saved a few lives there. by trying to stop that guy. the stories of those killed continue to emerge. sayyad milne was 14 and wanted to be a footballer. the police have told his father that his son died in the mosque. hosni ara was originally from bangladesh and officials there said she had been killed. she was looking for her husband in the men's section of the mosque when she was shot. khaled mustafa, a refugee from syria, moved with his family last year to the safety of new zealand. officials told his wife he was killed during friday prayers. one of his teenage sons is also missing.

daioud nabi was 71. he ran the afghan association at the mosque. relatives have described his death as an act of cowardice. the family of marriage farhaj hassan in india were told of his death today by the authorities in new zealand. the country where he and his wife are raising their two young children. nobody nobody was even emerging that in new zealand, a peace—loving country, that such a situation arises. in the coming days we will learn more about the lives lost on the anguish of the families who agree. daniela relph, bbc news. the people here have come to show solidarity with the muslim community and the families following the attack. you may be able to hear a maori chant here behind me, as people have been coming throughout the day to

express their support. earlier i spoke to two members of christchurch's interfaith society, which works to promote harmony between people of different religions. reverend andrew donaldson, a methodist minister, and surinder tandon, the group's hindu representative told me what the response of theirfaith groups had been to the shooting. it is very sad, christchurch is a small community and we know some of the victims, they are our neighbours. there were tears, and with said prayers that all the people are saying today, and heartfelt sympathy to all those hurt and killed in this tragedy. surinder tandon, you are the president of the

interfaith society here in christchurch. give us a sense of the, rhodri felt by people here. christchurch is a very multicultural city, like the whole of new zealand, where 700 ethnicities are represented. there is a feeling of harmony among all ethnic and religious communities. we celebrate various festivals and other events together, and we are very sad and end shot with the news of this heinous attack on the mosque... that was surinder tandon speaking. and of course reverend andrew donaldson as well. we are going to some of these live pictures, this is the press

conference being held by greg robertson, the head of surgery. we are expecting some discharges from the intensive care and surgical wards today. in addition to that there is the young girl in starship hospital in auckland, and her condition is still listed as critical. the hospital in christchurch has a good capacity at present and we are well start. we are prioritising those patients from the mosque attack for surgery over the mosque attack for surgery over the coming days, as well as dealing with our business as usual activity, which is as you appreciate, in a single major hospital city, that means we have to do all our work in this centre as usual. presently there are seven acute theatres operating, normally we would be running three on a day like today.

many of the patients that are being operated on from the incident require multiple surgeries as a consequence of the complexity of the nature of the injuries, and if there are questions about that i will clarify that later. this call on all of our surgical, clarify that later. this call on all of oursurgical, nursing, clarify that later. this call on all of our surgical, nursing, theatre staff, ward staff, requirement has led to us needing to postpone some of our planned activity over the next few days, and i am sure the people of canterbury would appreciate, and we thank them for their understanding. there are 38 people whose surgery will be cancelled from tomorrow and undertaken at another time. if there are any questions in relation to the process of releasing the deceased to the families, that should be

directed to the new zealand police oi’ directed to the new zealand police or ministry ofjustice, i can't make any comment, i don't know what is going on in relation to that. can you talk in a general way about the nature of the injuries? when people come into hospital in an event like this, particularly with gunshot wounds, there are things that we need to do initially in terms of saving life and saving williams, so oui’ saving life and saving williams, so our initial surgery after having the patient tree ——in triage, is trying to stop bleeding, make sure the airways are intact, and the circulation system is preserved. the abcs as you will probably remember

from your cpr days of training. once thatis from your cpr days of training. once that is done, we moved down to the next layer of severity of injury, and we deal with those problems as they go. you might imagine someone who has had a major bleeding problem, we will deal with that major leading problem, but we won't perhaps deal with the lesser injuries, and that is why they have to go back to theatre the next time around, and the less significant injuries are left for last. that is why some other people are needing to go to theatre two, three, four times. there are some situations where there may be an unrecognised complication or breathing issue that may happen subsequent to the injury. with high velocity weapons, they cause trauma, damage to the tissues, which we are trying to preserve as

much of is possible without removing tissue that might be useful for them in the long—term. so we do the minimum and come back and re— explore already do surgery on another occasion. when people are sick they become unwell and they don't clock as well as usual —— clot, so they tend to bleed. we try to pack wounds, warm them up, get them into a stable situation so they can then come back for subsequent procedures and have a better chance of doing well from that procedure. rather than spending a long time in surgery rather than spending a long time in surgery the first time around, and making them colder, running into more consequences as a consequence of their coagulation abnormalities.

so, damage control first and then the less significant injuries after that, dealing with whatever convocations or injuries that have occurred, and all the subsequent changes that occur because of the traumatic injuries have caused. and in the next lot of injuries, which are infections, which we expect a little down the line. how are the children? there are two children in hospital at present in their condition is stable. how old are they? i don't have that information at the moment. how first responder staff coping? it is challenging for people. we are all pa rt challenging for people. we are all

part of the community and we are struggling with a as much as eve ryo ne struggling with a as much as everyone else is. we do see gunshot wounds in our environment, we do see these type of injuries but a0 or 50 people in a day is more than what we should see. so our staff are doing remarkably well. part of the reason we are trying to take some of the pressure off the system through the week is to allow people to have a bit of a break. most people cope with things pretty well when you are doing things. it is when you go home and think about it, that is when issues start to come forward. they are affected issues start to come forward. they a re affected by issues start to come forward. they are affected by the horror. they are stunned. anger. those words that i have had related to me at this point. when the news broke, how many

more staff came in? how many came away from holidays? difficult to know. the hospital is a busy place at times but in the emergency department people kept arriving and thatis department people kept arriving and that is a reflection of the people. this is why people do medicine. it is why they come to a hospital. to practise and our expectation is to do the right thing for people. so as they come back to help, that is what they come back to help, that is what they do. people tell me that on friday afternoon, there were some training sessions we use of those times so people were available. people, perhaps, in other capacities we re people, perhaps, in other capacities were doing other things and they will generally come into the hospital in a mass casualty case.

physically and emotionally, how difficult are the days ahead? physically we have people who are tired. we are coping with that by cycling them through. people are having days on and days of and that is part of our way of managing the fatigue proportion of it. there will undoubtedly be, as we saw after the earthquakes a delayed mental stress response to this thing. people think about it and wonder if they could have done better, things that could have done better, things that could have been done differently. that is the way things are always in medicine. we follow what we do, we see outcomes and we wonder if there was an alternate pathway. at the risk of asking a gruesome question, do you think the earthquake had any

bearing on the way things were handled on friday and saturday? there is no doubt that the earthquake did have a bearing on it. the old adage, practice makes perfect works on a lot of things. it is part of our processes. we have trauma mass casualty event exercises every year that the ministry will run. we have had, i guess, the most significant experience of this in new zealand by virtue of the earthquake experience in 2010 and 2011. so, you know, we have been there and done that. i don't want to get better at it that the ears... quite different to the earthquake. last time there was a lot more orthopaedic trauma. this time there are abdominaland

orthopaedic trauma. this time there are abdominal and chest injuries, us are abdominal and chest injuries, us a lot of soft tissue injuries. just by virtue of the nature of the r by virtue of the nature of the weaponry that was used, would they be among the more challenging type of injuries? yes. the trauma from the earthquake caused different things. there were effects on muscles and kidney failure and that sort of thing, but that has not happened this time around. those problems have not occurred but clearly more issues with leading and wounds that a very complex with many different systems involved. how important were first responders in terms of those early minute? that is reflected in the fact that we have

had only one death in a patient that arrived at the hospital. those who got here have a chance. those who did not get here did not have a chance. we had patients who were delivered in cars and rather than ambulances. the ambulance staff arrived and then many ambulances arrived and then many ambulances arrived after that period of time. regarding the trauma that your staff go through, they are dealing with mass casualty and it is things i workload at the moment. . what other things you are finding starting to think through? what is its barking? -- think think through? what is its barking? —— think through. what is it

sparking? some people are used to seeing things. surgeons see blood and used to that. our colleagues in the emergency department see different things. different things affect people in different ways but the magnitude of this is the thing thatis the magnitude of this is the thing that is the most significant issue for people. is just comprehending the incomprehensible. that is the major concern i would have. once the patient is a physically better, what sort of mental impact could this have on them? that is a longer term thing. after the previous earthquake these victims will get compensation and support. the staff involved with

the hospital, we have a system for dealing with people if they have difficulties or concerns. that has been activated. is it harder on the staff, the fact that this is man—made casualties? staff, the fact that this is man-made casualties? yes. and that is the fact that people... they hinge around the earthquake, something we could not control. that occurred and ongoing events with that, the earthquake was notjust one earthquake, we have thousands of them. that was an ongoing sequence of events. but this is just a one off thing and thankfully that is the situation that it is. but it is the fa ct situation that it is. but it is the fact that someone has done this to our people, ourfriends, our colleagues... this isjust

unbelievable. we do have a protocol for dealing with this and we use it and we are following a three in this process. was a protocol improved by the earthquake west might did you learn things from the earthquake that? have you learn things from 2010 that may have helped you to deal with this week? yes. i think so. and as a consequence of what we see from what we learnt at this event, we can use in the future. can you tell us the male—female ratio? predominantly males in hospital at the moment. one woman in care here.

there is an additional person who has had further surgery and has come back to intensive—care unit. it is a fairly fluid situation depending on where we think the patient is best managed. it stretches our resources and if we think someone can be better managed in intensive care thatis better managed in intensive care that is where they go. the injuries are predominantly chest and abdomen and limbs. can you define the age of the child? under the age of 16? the paediatric age—group water area is under 16. a gunshot wounds more typical of a hunting rifle or a

military grade? we see fragmented ballistic responses and that sort of thing. these are not something that goes through. we have fragments and shotgun injuries. we had one of those bullet type injuries and there have been challenges associated with things that have broken up and damaged. so it is not through and through ammunition? it is not through ammunition? it is not through and through. thank you very much. that was greg robertson, the head of christchurch hospital surgery speaking there in a live rest conference to reporters. he said that there are 3a people in

hospitals still requiring treatment. 12 of them are in intensive care. he also referred to the young girl who was still in critical condition in auckland hospital as well and we know that there are seven operating theatres, that is very unusual for them at christchurch hospital, to have so many working on sunday. we know that friday night when we had the actual day of the attack, there we re the actual day of the attack, there were 12 operating theatre is happening as well. i believe there is something happening right here where we have somebody from the interface immunity speaking. you may be able to hear them. throughout the day here while we have been here there have been many floral tributes brought here and people from different communities coming to show their respect. what you can hear hear is a gentleman speaking from one of the communities, obviously trying to reassure many of the people who have gathered here, the

hundreds of people who have gathered here. let's have a look and if we can see him let thank you very much for being. i hope that god almighty can bless us all. he hasjust completed his speech. i can't tell you what he said because i was speaking while he was that there was a round of applause from the people gathered. a huge show of solidarity amongst many here in christchurch. we have been here for several hours and have seen so many people coming through with floral tributes and messages, in from various ages and community. we know that the prime minister will be laying a wreath at a mosque in wellington. that will happen soon and she will give another press conference later in the day as well to update everyone.

i will continue hearing christchurch to bring you up to date with all the very latest from that horrific attack that took place on friday. if you are hoping for some warmer, drier and less windy spring weather you may have to wait another day or so. although things are slowly improving we still have some strong wind around and some snow over the hills. this was the picture on saturday. we had a lot of heavy rain over recent days that has brought flooding issues across wales, parts of northern and western england as well. on sunday as low pressure d rifts off well. on sunday as low pressure drifts off towards the north sea we have many isoba rs drifts off towards the north sea we have many isobars on the map. weak conditions, not as word or windy ever was on saturday and sunday brings us a chilly start with some icy stretches through the morning. scattered showers and some of those showers will be falling asleep and smoke over the high ground. in scotland, northern england and northern