this is the wus live from berlin new zealand is in mourning after a deadly attack on two losses as christ church remembers the forty nine victims of friday's massacre the suspected gunman appears in court and is charged with murder . bonfires of violent clashes and looting in the streets of paris as yellow as protesters demand change in the french capital it's a crucial moment for the protests which have now taken place for eighteen consecutive weekends also coming out carrying on the long tradition of going to

love me two women in venice are doing all they can to help their family business flourish following the death of their father. thanks for joining us the man suspected of carrying out mass shootings at two mosques in new zealand has appeared in court brenton terrence was charged with murder new zealand's prime minister just into ardern is promising to tighten the country's gun laws after the attack that killed forty nine people and injured dozens more through the act of terror is new zealand's worst ever peacetime mass killing and the community of christ church is struggling to come to grips with what happened. and nation reeling a community paralyzed by shock. at christ church as botanic gardens a fence serves as the official site of morning city residents have been coming here

to pay their respects with flowers messages and prayers. disbelief and anguish too at a roadside memorial outside one of the mosques targeted by the shooter residents outspoken in their rejection of hate. i think everyone in the community is absolutely hundred percent in support of. the muslim community and. muslim families that have lost loved ones and we just we just want to say that we have no part of that we don't believe what this guy believes and we are harder to see and support if you. support echoed by the country's prime minister who arrived in the city to meet with survivors victims' families and muslim community leaders just into a durned said the victims came from across the muslim world including indonesia jordan syria and pakistan. our show of solidarity is just not there yet now.

new zealand is a crisis that we cherish. for its inclusiveness forty start to city. and are more considerate more recent mission is prime minister today seemed that at a press conference our daryn said the perpetrator had a gun license he used semiautomatic rifles and shotguns are undoubtedly new zealanders will question how someone could have come to have been in position we pins of this nature. one of the issues we fry seeing is that. the guns that were used in this case of peace who are being modified there is a challenge that police have been fighting and that's a challenge that we will look to address in changing our was a short distance from the court that saw the shooter remanded in custody the hospital where thirty nine people are being treated. for gunshot wounds he inflicted among them

a four year old girl in critical condition. for more let's cross over to claire richardson who is in christ church of the gardens where people have organized a makeshift memorial their prime minister just into art and has met with some members of the muslim community how much is that doing to reassure them. that's right the prime minister was in christ church yesterday afternoon to meet with both muslim leaders and some of the victims of the attack i saw her at a center that they have to set to offer both information to families about their loved ones and also to give psychological support to these people now as she was flanked by her foreign minister and the opposition leader to show a united front at this time of tragedy and we understand that she has promised increased police protection for muslim communities in christ church and also said that the government scheme that will be paying to help support the families who lost their breadwinners will also be helping cover the cost of funerals for the

victims. of the prime minister is also promising to tighten new zealand's gun laws is it safe to assume that now there'll be a lot of support for such a measure. that's right she came out right away with a promise saying that new zealand would get a tighter gun laws that has been endorsed today by the police association they said it's essential to act quickly to instate any sort of legislation here unless the gone gun lobby get involved in a way that it has like in the united states now in new zealand compared to the us has tighter gun control laws but compared to the rest of the western world actually fairly lax laws and after the events. after the massacres at the two mosques there is a lot more public support here to tighten those laws particularly after it became known that the gunman was legally in possession of five firearms including two semiautomatic weapons it's. here that the police but also some members of the

public intervened quite quickly during the events. that's right there is one man who's being in particular hailed as a hero a middle aged man from pakistan sadly he and his son were at the mosque and were killed in the attack one of the sick things about this attack was that the alleged shooter actually live streamed what was going on in the moments and in that footage you can see a man at the mosque what they appear is to try to disarm the man to save other worshippers from his own fate and he's being widely hailed as a hero for that action. rejoicing in christ church thank you for that. some of the other stories making news around the world. slovaks went to the polls to elect a new president today almost four and a half million people were eligible to vote if none of the thirteen candidates gets an absolute majority the top two contenders will enter a runoff vote later this month polls suggest

a strong lead for the pro western liberal activist. she could become his first female head of state. iraqi authorities and u.n. investigators have started to examine the bodies of hundreds of members of the families buried in a mass grave in the northwestern village of kut show many of the dead were killed by the so-called islamic state in two thousand and fourteen nobel peace prize winner and activist drawing international attention to the disease fate was among those who witness the opening of the mass graves. more than two thousand people in malaysia have fallen ill after toxic waste was dumped into the kim kim river in the city of joy for authorities ordered the closure of more than one hundred schools into dangerous toxic fumes many of those affected are children three men have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping. in paris police have again been

firing tear gas and deploying water cannon as yellow vests protesters ignite fires and ransacked shops there the most violent street clashes in paris since december the demonstrators accused president emanuel of forgetting ordinary people and favoring the country's elite instead. of the protest in numbers had been too in fling in recent weeks but such that i saw many more of the so-called yellow vests joining rallies in several cities across france in paris protest has called for unity. if you don't think there should have been a convergence of calls as much as early of a no so this can continue we need to merge we need everyone to wake up we need to stop expecting the riot police people to do. what i did. but despite starting out peacefully the latest paris demonstration also saw a return to some of the violence and destruction of earlier protests. police have arrested hundreds of people in the capital city alone. luxury shops were attacked

and looted and buildings were set on fire the country's interior minister cluster of cast on a accused the vandals in a tweet of being neither demonstrators nor troublemakers but rather murderers he also said he thought the movement was dead. we can see the very very violent people there in their responding to the battle cries of certain leaders who have no really long words today they want to see this movement last through violence but i've yet also. protesters reject this and say they simply want greater fiscal justice and income equality. to shed a little more light of the situation i'm joined now by journalist john laurenson in paris john why has there been this sudden upsurge of violence today haven't they you know this yellow vest protest in losing momentum they have right over the over the past few weeks but and today there was this tremendous upswing of violence and

i think it's because yesterday saw the end of this consultation process that was launched by a man you're my crown two months ago he wanted to find out what they. wanted and the french people in general and so he had this great national debate as he called it with meetings up and down the country and what did he hear from the people that are part. what they've come up with is. an extraordinary list of extraordinary wish list just a few of the things. randomly the eradication of rough sleeping so the the end of the homelessness if some visible homelessness in cities such as paris and new york. on immigration there was the wish expressed to see affective. expulsion of migrants whose asylum requests have been turned

down on fiscal policies all bunches of a whole bunch of measures for example the hike to the minimum wage but also the setting of a maximum wage so you would be able to own over a certain sum in france that sum is fifteen thousand euros so all sorts of things that the people are asking macron to act on and act on quickly and i think this is why there was this this demonstration today. is this violent age because they've been asking for these things now it's absolute democracy to provide to act and who are the protesters now are the same people as they were at the beginning of the stalin of this in november. that's a very good question because i don't think they are in last november what we see was people who'd never demonstrated before you were saying plumbers nurses people with small building businesses the people who have been committing the violence

today the people in the media and therefore concentrating on it's a small percentage of the of these you to join but the so-called black blocs these are these are people from the extreme left with the revolutionary manifesto so we seem to very different demographics two very different groups here got it ok well thank you so much for that john laurenson in paris. venice is one of italy's top tourist destinations and a gondola ride is the top attraction for many visitors the tremonton family has been making handcrafted gondolas for over a century the business has been passed down from generation to generation following the death of master gondola builder roberto tremonton last year is daughters decided to do everything they could to continue the long tradition. this is the rolls royce of venice's canal gliders massimo is especially proud of his tram one

thousand gondola all the work is done by hand. it floats in perfect balance and it's easy to steer. strived to keep gondolas from the commenting family firmly in our possession. i was happy that the elder in the family built one for me and i hope to use it for the rest of my life or to look so i'll continue to have restoration work done on it is there on the last piece. but the master gondola builder from one thousand died unexpectedly last year and his workshop stood empty until now his daughters never build gondolas before but they're keen to carry on the tram one thousand tradition so they called in mateo an experienced craftsman who worked with their father. now they're a team. mateo does the boat building the sisters elisa baker and alaina take care of sales and management. it was

a natural step for us we could never give up a family history that goes back a hundred and thirty five years we know we're an experienced but we're doing this with all our hearts and we have competent craftsman i think this is going to work out fine. because in. eight different kinds of what are used including solid oak for the sides and malleable walnut for the frame of measurements are done in venetian feet not metres finally six layers of blackshear lack the many cases dominica tremonti in found at the family business an eight hundred eighty four this is my grandfather that is a construction drawings has the fourth generation my father when people asked what does your dad do i'd say he builds gonzales. now the family secret of this special gondola can be carried on it's a win for the city of venice and it's a world renowned canals. you're watching news live from berlin world stories is

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