this is the news live from berlin the first funerals take place in christchurch new zealand a father and son who fled syria's civil war for what they believe was the safest country in the world are buried the two died last week last shooting also coming of . age starts to get through to parts of mozambique stricken by side plonky die u.n. officials say it's one of the worst storm disasters to hit africa in decades. and the world's best selling weed killer could kill humans as well

a jury in the u.s. finds a roundup used by gardeners and farmers the world over contributed to a man's council. also on the show time to get smiling it's the international day of happiness and from beijing to london to lagos we ask people around the world what makes you happy. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us a father and son who fled the civil war in syria for a better life a new zealand have been buried in christchurch it's the first funeral for victims of the mosque shootings that shocked the nation a far right extremist has been charged in connection with the attacks which killed fifty people and injured dozens. two members of

a syrian refugee family were among the first to be laid to rest in christ church colleague mustafa and his fifteen year old son hamza came to new zealand fleeing war before they were gunned down by a white supremacist in a mosque last friday. among the mourners staffa says younger brother he suffered gunshot wounds to his leg during the a talk. heavily armed police to guard outside another reminder of the horror of what happened. the nation is grieving with its muslim community. and prime minister just cinda are down once to demonstrate that. we're is a desire to show support to the muslim community as they were tuned to mosques

particularly on friday there is also a desire months new zealanders to mock the week that has passed since the terrorist attack. to acknowledge this they will be a two minute silence. on friday we will also broadcast nationally via t.v. in seed and radio new zealand the cool to priya. and meet the outpouring of sorrow the message is clear we stand together in the face of terrorism. let's go straight to new zealand we're joined by chris a permit journalist based in auckland good morning thanks for being with us a very solemn day for new zealand. indeed brian good evening here new zealand is still in mourning but people are banding together and us the

prime minister just into our set our hearts are strong but our spiritus our hearts are heavy but our spirits a strong every day there's news about a vigil happening in one of the cities in new zealand and more vigils are planned in the coming weeks in the coming days and as twenty nine wounded victims remain in hospital with eight in critical condition including a four year old girl boys in a specialized children hospital in auckland people are still praying people are still hoping but i would say the general feeling is hopeful that these horrific attacks would only make new zealand stronger as a nation a chorus of the prime minister said the argument was hoping that all the victims of being returned to their families by today has not been the case. yes all autopsies of fifty people who died in the mosque shooting staff incomplete or however only thirteen until. today earlier in the afternoon have been released.

new zealand time and the first three gnarls happened earlier today to get off the four victims including the father and son who arrived from syria a few months ago tonight it's mild we survived by these we brother and another victim whose name is suppressed and hopefully they do need to try to release the body to the families by tonight although it's already eight pm here and the police finish their investigation at the scene yesterday night and works are currently underway for mystique al gore to reopen so the muslim community can return to pray there this friday afternoon. chris give you tell us how this is a transfer your fact of the national attitude towards gun ownership. the prime minister admitted that there were massive loopholes in new zealand last that needed to be addressed and while adding these would be addressed by the new

legislation that her cabinet and scrubby working on and the new legislation would be announced in the coming days earlier the finance minister also mentioned the possibility of gun buybacks and meanwhile new zealanders are beginning to hand in their firearms voluntarily to police and at least forty weapons have been handed in so far by a. person joining us from new zealand from auckland thanks very much for being with us. now for a look at some of the other stories making the news at this hour brazilian president airballs an r. o. has cemented his political friendship with president donald trump at the white house from said he would work to doesn't need brazil as a major ally even suggesting pushing for its membership in the nato military alliance. the u.s. state of nebraska and neighboring states of the cleared emergencies after catastrophic flooding our waters cut off road access to a nuclear power plant and inundated farmlands across the midwest as president mike

pence traveled to nebraska to assess the damage as. the head of the european commission says it is unlikely a deal to delay breck's it will be reached this week john called younger said the e.u. would go no further to meet british demand prime minister theresa may or importantly request a short extension to the march twenty ninth deadline in brussels tomorrow. was to mozambique now and aid is starting to get through to communities devastated by side clone he died six days ago heavy flooding has submerged roads and countless homes so although aid is now arriving getting it to people is still very difficult the u.n. is calling it the worst storm disaster to hit africa in decades it's being described as the worst humanitarian crisis in mozambique history heavy flooding and prolonged bouts of rain

a compounding the destruction wreaked by cycling last week the storm and flood watches not only and roads and bridges they also wiped out communications networks across the region. and many of the eight ice victims once again finding themselves in danger. this mother is one of hundreds of thousands who lost their home she's worried about her newborn as food supplies in the shelter for low. they didn't own doesn't last night i haven't eaten anything yesterday i saw that food was running out i went in asked and they told me that food was over and until now i've had none. that's because the floods and heavy rain which followed in the storm's wake a hindering efforts in some areas floodwaters and meters deep most rural areas streaming cut off from help this year aren't just critical issues the way

they're still persisting in. the bodies are being increasingly think in terms of holding your fire. rescue us also working around the clock to save lives many victims astute trapped on rooftops trees and other remote areas and the region is bracing for more heavy rain in the coming days flooding has become to biggest threat mozambique is facing right now let's bring in jamie lists or he's them urgency response manager for the red cross and birol which has been especially hard hit good morning to you jamie the u.n. is calling this the worst storm disaster to hit africa in decades what's the situation where your. well it's still raining. do that and it's going to rain for a couple days or so we are on the second disaster in a few days and it's actually going to get more stress we know the second to die hit

us directly in baida and that it continued on toward zimbabwe. and amount of water so the flood disaster is another disaster on top of the cycle and damage so we're keeping visibility on both and are so focused on the operation right now he's immediate life saving activities search and rescue making sure people get sued blankets shelter water everything they need to stay alive because this is where our focus is at the moment ok getting resources to keep people alive where are people going right now with so much of by rofl audited and uninhabitable. that we're setting up accommodation centers that have been thirty seven assists outposts in by the and the numbers expecting to freeze that's the site on affected population for those who are flood affected we're also moving them to accommodation centers to keep them set up we have rapid response team going out in helicopters this morning to support moving people from the houses from the top of their roofs

on their houses and inside the trees to put them on safe and dry land we're doing everything we can with our aerial assessments to make sure we're going to not at risk places for future flooding that are completely dry and where we can get access to them quickly this is one of the main challenges for all of us here ok is certainly sounds very challenging. jamie are you out of the area are you managing to find safe and dry areas that are going to be safe even with as you said the new rains coming on. yes for us this is non-negotiable point you have salut need to find low risk safe dry areas so we have international experts in shelter from around the world that are supporting on this the red cross is a co-leader of the shelter strategy here and helping to ensure that we're finding that dry land and setting up the places where people need to be jamie thanks very

much for coming on being with us today jamie and all the best you from urgency response with the red cross. this is deja vu news live from berlin and still to come on the show are you a happy person is something to think about on this international day of happiness from beijing to london to lay goes we ask people around the world what makes you happy. but first a jury in the united states has delivered a blistering decision on buyers weedkiller round up but found it was a substantial factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old man now this is the second time a jury has found that its main ingredient of life a state calls non-hunter lymphoma roundup is made by the u.s. for monsanto which is owned by the german chemical giant bio. a landmark verdict could affect thousands of other similar cases bio said it was disappointed with the jury's initial decision the case now goes to a second phase to determine the company's financial liability and possible

financial damages. for more i'm here with the w.'s stephen beardsley from the business desk good morning stephen morning ron this looks like a bellwether case doesn't it that if intentionally could cost triple digit figures for buyers yeah it's going to be expensive and this is actually a bellwether case that's a legal term it's often used in product liability cases like this when a company faces hundreds maybe even thousands of cases against that the judge will often pick one case and say this is the one that's where we're going to test the merits were to see how that goes and then we'll produce the others afterwards what was interesting about this case is first of all it's the second case to go to trial i think you mentioned there was another case in august of last year that was in state court in california the first federal trial the federal judge said this will be a bellwether case going forward what was interesting is it was actually separate into two phases one was evidentiary phase against roundup itself and the other is months antos sort of knowledge of whether round up the chemical in

a glass to say it was problematic and it was supposed to actually be an easier case you know months on to win and they didn't. accuse acquired months answered just over a year ago now there must have been a sense back then of the potential liabilities of roundup which is one of monsanto's best sellers right there more than eleven thousand cases in state in federal court against monsanto now buyer related to round up on claims of non hodgkins lymphoma or other cancers that were caused by this said because of this when buyer acquired monsanto last summer the c.e.o. then about one actually said at the time that the safety assessment of life is it had not changed that they were come to comfortable with it at the same time means that they couldn't really understand the full risk in front of them so you can see that there was a. there was a picture they couldn't fully gain but there was also they believe an upside to taking that risk to get a better picture they just needed to look at investor sentiment markets have been

nervous from the very beginning about this acquisition yeah absolutely i mean so after the first trial for example the stock fell thirty percent because it showed that there was such a nervousness about this legal exposure and it hasn't really come back up since the buyers stock that is at the same time you have to remember that there is an incredible upside seen two months on so and seen to the seat and it's true that it's involved in terms of global global food production which is becoming more and more relevant issue with climate change with land use things like that so the future prospects of the technology that monsanto offered were seen as such that the the risk perhaps we're taking some outside analysts have put the legal exposure for these cases to five billion dollars to settle them for a buyer it acquired months on two for sixty three billion dollars last years that gives you an idea of the scale of perhaps an outside assessment legal rest with you know what the money is at stake here to actually acquire this company as this case moves forward will know more about the exact liability numbers stephen beardsley thanks very much for the the view because well relations between germany and the

united states seem to be going from bad to worse in a lot of there with villains funding levels for the nato military alliance president trump has been pressing berlin to meet its goal of allocating two percent of g.d.p. for defense but germany's newly released budget shows defense spending still off target triggering a new round of transatlantic tensions u.s. ambassador to germany richard goodnow is continuing to raise tempers in berlin on tuesday he accused the german government of quote reducing its already unacceptable commitments to military readiness unquote calling it a worrisome signal to germany's nato allies. and fact the new budget features a small rise in both absolute military expenditures and the percentage of german g.d.p. spent on defense. but those outlays aren't enough for grinnell or his boss u.s. president donald trump germany is well sort of the two percent target agreed to at

a nato summit in two thousand and fourteen and expenditures in coming years are set to remain twenty five billion euros below what germany's own defense minister says she needs. german chancellor angela merkel defended the budget plan as being part of a slow but steady hike in military spending. this year we have one point three five percent of g.d.p. according to growth projections for nato expenditures and we've gone from one point one eight to one point three five in only a few years despite robust growth and next year we'll increase the amount to a projected one point three seven percent of g.d.p. . by the end i'm staying in the german government is annoyed at what they see as grinnell's meddling a leading member of merkel's coalition partners the social democrats shot back mr grinnell is

a complete diplomatic zero members of the opposition have even demanded that the controversial ambassador be expelled that's a near impossibility but tensions over defense spending between berlin and america's embassador are likely to continue we have some football now germany's football team kick off their twenty nine thousand campaign tonight with a friendly match against serbia now that will be followed by a crucial match against the netherlands on sunday these are germany coach york and los first game since he surprisingly cut three key players from the squad a reboot of the team suffered a spectacular failure of the twenty eighteen world cup. the new new start for germany coach. he just carried out the biggest overhaul of his tenure the emphasis is on the use ace of the current squad players would still be allowed to play for the under twenty one's team. we're not going to completely change our style of play

for that would be wrong we've had a lot of success with it for many years we have to make some adjustments now corrections even. more speed more dynamism more determination in our pleasure because attributes embodied by. the manchester city forward didn't make last year's world cup squad now the twenty three year old has a leading role. because it's not i've set myself a goal of taking more responsibility on the pitch i want to pick up where i left off in the last few games but i think there's still plenty of room for improvement and it gets to focus on he said he wrapped up his styling effets doesn't necessarily fit the mold of a leader but already players look to him for guidance like lucas cluster man one of three new faces. finn a few i'm sure you don't think being a leader has anything to do with age and when i look at leroy's development he's made a lot of good decisions. so i think that one can definitely look at him as

a role model. where the young team is jonny will take them will be revealed in the matches against serbia and the netherlands. all the french football champions parasol germaine have won a legal battle against european football's governing body usa after it tried to reopen an investigation into the club staggering transfer deals and twenty. spend a combined four hundred million euros for neymar and pay the court of arbitration for sport upheld the club's appeal saying that you a photo too long to review it's an. actual decision which cleared p.s.g. of breaking any financial fair play rules however your wafer says it will continue to track the club's finances and sponsorship deals. here in the northern hemisphere it is the first day of spring a perfect day for the un's international day of happiness did have your

correspondents asked people around the world what makes you happy. with your ship. to wake up every day next to her that's happiness for me that is you for. the way you want me to reply as well a few days less work every week that will be happiness for me. despite it all with fiends. but i will make. money. money makes you happy right. now my life the very happy life yeah happy to now there's no you need to be able to enjoy simple things the songs and the birds. making me to be the.

more people not just myself i mean i'm never happy if i don't make someone else happy my move makes me happy every day i see my mother's my my cats and my husband they're my family i love finding time with my friends. or friends a little exercise really good weather and a whole lot more. models ice cream cars toy soldiers with those i'm happy when i get enough sleep. so when my country is doing well my family is well and my life's going well. i'm frantically stalin this is my happiness people. are joking i was playing table tennis russian the ball brings me joy it's a good way to relax how he did for us what makes me happy running makes me happy. these guys every day says six months i come here and if you're in the fresh coffee

and there's just been wonderful to be so what connections that's what it's. what makes people happy in the studio to talk about that with me now psychologist. also head of the german society for positive psychology good morning thanks for coming in how do you define happiness is it even possible as we saw there as a very broad field of definition well it's very important to distinguish between pleasure and happiness. so like love and joy and contentment that all moments of pleasure are like these short emotions of happiness when we do research what we are actually interested in is like happiness the fulfilled life and their five pillars to it that you can ask yourself do you have to have it in my daily life if you want to know am i really happy the five pillars and what are there so the first one is p. positive emotions so these short moments of joy as many people just described in the

videotape and the second one is engagement is there something in your life that you're really burned for can you use your strengths then there's a serious one relationships say other people who really care about you and you have people that you really care about then there's the m meaning do you know what your tasca your life like a big life idea is what your footprint will be in this world the last one the a accomplishment do you have the feelings that you can reach the goals that you have set up for yourself ok so those are five things that people people can look at that they can do but when we look at the images like the ones we've been broadcasting today from new zealand from from from mozambique how can people in tragic and difficult situations find some level of happiness well this relates very much to these like five pillars because maybe in these like very special circumstances we

can't so much like five happiness in the moment but we can relate to others who maybe suffer in the same situation as we do or we can find meaning in you know fighting what's there and in overcoming this crisis so for many people this might not be a time of joy but a time of like severe meaning in life. you know many people strive for happiness as as the ultimate goal in their life is in a somewhat egotistical one and could actually backfire well yes it could but the question is like what kind of happiness to strive for isn't this like driving a big car or are these like small moments of happiness or is it really something bigger than yourself so there are many people who strive for happiness by helping others who have this like purpose in life of fighting what's bad i would there and to you know d. something that makes the life of normal people more fulfilling or of people who suffer better than it has been before and that actually makes you happier and helps

of us ok what remember the five dollars is well juice mangal store for us from the german society for positive psychology thanks very much for coming in thank you. if you're a minor now of one of those top stories we're following for you today a father and son who are victims of friday's attacks on two mosques the birth of christ church and museum lunch they fled syria's civil war for what they believe was the safest country in the world. this is the end of the news live from berlin still to come on the show more trouble for the german chemical giant that after a california jury decides that the weed killer roundup from this affiliate monsanto doesn't deem cause cancer hundreds of lawsuits are expected to follow. our business test we covering that and don't forget you can always find out more about these and other stories of our website. dot com you can also watch this program on you tube for now though for me brian thomas and the entire crew here in berlin

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