crossing conditions. on the way to colombia for a show that. starts march eighteenth and detail the. place. this is news live from berlin the death toll in the christ church mosque shooting rises. above play ultimate goal new zealanders mourn the victims of the country's worst ever terrorist attack while the government promises police protection from mosques and tougher gun laws the residents of christ's church struggled to come to terms with what has happened in their city. also on the program the philippines turns its back on the international criminal court today

the country will become just the second in history to withdraw from the world only to terminate war crimes tribunals. over the course of the best occasion and to prevent. war on drugs say that's left thousands of people dead and drawn international condemnation. and a dream start to the new formula one season for voluntary botha's the film gets one over his mercedes team mate lewis hamilton to win the australian grand prix. thanks for joining us i'm marion evans. the death toll in new zealand's mosque attack has risen to fifty authorities have begun returning the victims' bodies to their families for burial members of the christ church community are turning out to pay their respects in many different ways at

a makeshift memorial outside one of the mosques a biker group performs a haka a traditional morry dance to honor the victims prime minister just send to our door and join those who have been leaving flowers close to the scene she reiterated to muslim community leaders that mosques will receive police protection. new zealanders are still trying to come to terms with the country's worst ever mass shooting our correspondent in christ church spoke to some of the people mourning. tributes around the city are piling ever higher. as grief sets in new zealanders are finding ways to express their sorrow over a massacre in their muslim community. police are sweeping the area around the mosque as a team of officers elsewhere work to identify the victims.

for now it's still a crime scene. but police are picking up flowers to take closer to our mosque where dozens of people were slaughtered during their friday prayers. on the other side of the park christians have gathered to pray for their muslim neighbors. one woman has brought an art project meant to show the bond between all faiths. so this isn't a works that i did such a day for some petrik stay and i wanted to. make something for the whole community to acknowledge has saved us and sorer. and if feeling of. connection with the muslim community.

this man has found another way to show his support i had quite a few people come and have coffees and hugs it's been nice i guess it's nice to see people just showing up in showing their support and solidarity. which is i think what new zealand is all about being welcoming and loving and peaceful people the support for the victims is overwhelming most here are satisfied with the government's response to the murders but they want to know how the suspect slips through the cracks they say more needs to be done to address racism and to combat far right radicalization the way we can help people who already feel like that but we can at least try and stop the younger ones from work occasionally us if we can. the message here is clear that hate has no place in new zealand. well earlier we spoke to correspondent clare richardson who filed that report from christchurch and we asked her why the new zealand prime minister just into our turn has been doing

to support victims' relatives and to reassure. the country's muslim community she was here in christ church meeting of both victims and leading members of the muslim community she then it went on to the capital wellington where she has been to meeting muslims there as well and she is doing everything she can to put this community's mind at ease firstly she has offered continuing police protection for their mosques so that they can continue to pray at their places of worship without fear i she has also made clear that these individuals affected are eligible for a ten thousand dollars grant to cover the cost of funerals and said that immigration status will not be a factor and whether or not people can receive them she said there will be additional funding to help these people down the road available as well now the one thing that many people in the muslim community are very upset about here is the question of what to do with their dad in the muslim faith it's very important that

bodies are buried as quickly as possible but certainly within twenty four hours and obviously that mark has long passed so a lot of people are particularly distressed over this issue. that was our correspondent claire richardson speaking earlier to us while the killings in christ church are once again drawing attention to the role of social media in spreading hate the suspect live streamed his attack on facebook the company remove the video shortly after the attack but not before it had been copied and shared by others this morning facebook revealed the scale of the videos reached writing on twitter that in the first twenty four hours it had removed one point five million videos of the attack globally of which over one point two million were blocked at upload the companies said it's removing all edited versions of the video as well. all right let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a mass funeral has been held in addis ababa to mourn victims of last week's

ethiopian airlines crash the symbolic service came a day after officials began delivering bags of earth instead of victims' remains to family members because the identification process is expected to take such a long time one hundred fifty seven people died in the disaster. in the occupied west bank a palestinian has shot and killed an israeli and wounded two others one of them critically salen to reportedly grabbed a gun from a soldier at a highway junction near the settlement of arielle israel's military says troops are still searching for the gunmen. thousands of serbian anti-government protesters have rallied outside president alexander who teaches residence in belgrade the demonstration came a day after opposition supporters stormed a state run television building they've been staging weekly protests since december accusing autocratic rule and of stifling media freedom. germany's

biggest bank deutsche bank and domestic rival commercial sponsors have confirmed a plan to open talks on a possible merger to achieve banks said in a statement it was quote reviewing strategic options adding that there is no guarantee that a deal will be reached. until today only one country had withdrawn from the international criminal court now the philippines makes it to the country's president rodrigo to terra to announce plans to pull out a year ago after the court launched a preliminary investigation into possible crimes against humanity linked to do territories drug war the i.c.c. probe focuses on allegations to terror to his government was behind thousands of extrajudicial killings despite the charges the brutal campaign against drug dealers and users shows no sign of abating. another family

torn apart. mary jane can't understand why salvatore had to die shot in the head before the eyes of their four year old daughter they found drugs on him but if that was the reason for his murder . it's likely she'll never find out. the grim reality in a country where extrajudicial killings are encouraged by the president it's been almost three years since president would be going to terror to started his relentless war on drugs officially some five thousand people have been killed but human rights groups are saying that number could be as high as twenty thousand and typically it's poor communities like this one that saw for the most. part the our lives in one of those communities she remembers august thirty first two

thousand and sixteen as if it were yesterday it's the day her son was murdered for being a drug suspect. and not a day has passed since when she didn't think of him. oh. really makes me sad is that i was not with my son when he died. was the year when they killed him. just like visits me in my dreams. i want to know what happened to. what you had to suffer. as with the vast majority of drug related extrajudicial killings no one has been held accountable for her son's murder but once justice. that's why she joined dries up a church organized volunteer group assisting the victims of the drug war together

they filed a suit with the international criminal court i c c against president to terror to himself for crimes against humanity since the philippines have withdrawn from the i.c.c. to terror to claims the court has no jurisdiction over him his administration will not cooperate with any investigation. human rights advocates are calling this a test case for the i.c.c. is relevance. we cannot allow. perpetrators together we with. serious violations simply by the stroke of a pen we have been sure of very strong. example of international justice by ensuring that this mother is fully investigated and if. indictments should follow. that's also what irmo hopes for she wants to his henchmen to pay for her son's murder. motor sports now and in formula one mercedes

driver of ontario has one this season opening australian grand prix in melbourne but has upstaged teammate lewis hamilton he overtook the defending world champion at the first corner and didn't look back. another formula one season underway but the other missing piece to the fool having been edge by his teammates in qualifying battery both tass on the left wasted no time getting back at lewis hamilton. was called potash streets ahead of this behind him when left to toil daniel ricardo's renault debut didn't start well this bump along the curb tore off his front wing your straightly and eventually forced to retire in front of his home in france carlos signs fake hated his run a c. to ricardo after the frying pan into the fire and overheated engine putting the damp is on his mclaren debut. back at the front door tass was eking out more time

as he pitted later than his rivals his advantage over the rest clear for all to see hamilton there to just enough to hold off max for stop and the marauding red bull driver make this pass on sebastian fatso a disaster for ferrari with vettel questioning why his team was so slow the same certainly can be said for both tasks this in finished more than twenty seconds ahead of hamilton for just the fourth win of his career starters really get. it was that my best or as ever. i don't know what happened to us just felt so good and everything was under control. so we're different to sadie's driver at the top of the podium the trash determined to show hamilton he won't have it all his own way this season. in golf spain's john rama has a one shot lead over rory mcilroy and tommy fleetwood going into the final round of

the players' championship australia is jason day is two shots for their back a day when he'll join a small for the players to win the tournament multiple times golf biggest prize outside the four major is shot of the day at sawgrass went to seamus power. take a look at this. that was the first hole in one of his career. well today march seventeenth is st patrick's day in ireland and throughout the irish diaspora that's reason to celebrate the country's patron saint for sessions featuring plenty of traditional music and lots of the color green are the order of the day here are some impressions from new york city and chicago where they even change the color of the river in honor of st patrick and of course you don't have to be irish necessarily to join in the fun. rather one.

a quick reminder now our top story. new zealanders have been paying tribute to the fifty people killed by gunmen at two mosques in christ church on friday authorities have begun returning the bodies of the victims to their families for burial. i marry into every team in berlin thanks for watching. burke's. home. of species. go home we're saying to. you those are big changes and must start with small steps and began more than two years tell stories of could you just people and innovative projects around the world. to use the country to stop creating purchases insurance and forced entry.