action story and discussion. of these eat our website the deputy comes to africa join us on facebook g.w. for god. this is the w. news line from the ball and the first funerals of victims of the christ church mosque shootings take place among them for a father and son to reflect syria's civil war all for new zealand believing it to be the safest country in the whole song on the program. starts to get through to parts of mozambique stricken by cyclists any day now u.n.

officials say it's one of the worst storm disasters to hit africa for decades. friendly handshake but frosty relations between the united states on germany washington's on boston doesn't think much of germany draft just defense budget it's not enough he says. also coming up are you a happy person will cheer up it's international day of happiness from beijing to london to lagos we asked people around the world what makes you. i'm still gail welcome to the program. the funerals of victims of the christ church shootings began today for a father and son who fled syria. what they believe to be a safer life in new zealand a suspected white supremacist has now been charged with and police say he will face more charges fifty people were killed and dozens more. that shocked the country.

two members of a syrian refugee family were among the first to be laid to rest in christ church. 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. younger brother he suffered gunshot wounds to his leg during the attack. heavily armed police took guard outside another reminder of the horror of what happened. the nation is grieving with its muslim community. prime minister just send to our

dan wants to demonstrate. here 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 zealand to mark the week that has passed since the terrorist attack. to acknowledge this there will be a two minute silence. on friday. we will also broadcast nationally via t.v. in seed and radio new zealand to cool to priya. and that the outpouring of sorrow the message is clear we stand together in the face of terrorism. we'll have more from curse upon her time as a journalist based in oakland new zealand welcome to day dublin karisma so clearly

a solemn day for the country clearly fell a new zealand is still in mourning but people are banding together and as the prime minister just in the argand said our hearts are heavy but our spirit is strong more vigils happened today in many cities and towns in new zealand and mortgages are planned in the coming weeks fund raising tributes a moment of silence are being held in schools offices and universities as a migrant myself i never imagine something harmful like this whatever happened in new zealand a kind of shock that i know is experienced by the migrant community here but i would say other than the overwhelming fear of grief and shock that people here are also hopeful hopeful that these horrific attacks would only make new zealand stronger and more united as a nation and it has been shown in the last days through the outpouring support george the muslim community so with the fifty people killed in this attack have all

of the victims not been identified and returned to their families. thirty five bodies have now officially been identified and can be released to their families new zealand's health minister earlier today assured that the majority of victims will be returned to their families by wednesday night however some of the victims are more difficult to identify and it will still be some time before they are able to be returned to their families the first you know else happened earlier today that up to six victims including father and son were right from syria less than a year ago and tonight he smiled only survived by going brother father who was visiting from fiji and indonesian men and another victim whose name remained suppressed while another victim was farewell that a short service and christchurch of years before his body was a repressed treat it to a case that the police finished their investigation at the first scene yesterday and words are currently underway for must do more to be open so the muslim

community can return to pray there this friday afternoon. in the aftermath of the shooting the government has announced that it will tighten the gun control laws how has this been received. by the prime minister did it meant that there were a large number of loopholes in new zealand's gun laws that needed to be addressed she also added that these would be addressed by the new legislation that her cabinet is fairly working on and will be announced in the coming days. new zealand's fine and remains minister also mentioned that there is a possibility of a gun buyback scheme meanwhile new zealanders are beginning to hand in their firearms voluntarily to the police at least forty semi automatic weapons have been handed in so far will the curse of punk. new zealand socks on.

we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world brazil's new president. has cemented his political friendship with the president and donald trump the visits to the white house mr trump said he would work to designate brazil as a major ally even suggesting pushing for its membership of nato. a student has been killed and another wounded in a shooting at a high school in peru local media reporting that this may have been an accident that occurred when a boy brought his father's firearms to school. u.s. state of nebraska and neighboring states have declared emergencies following catastrophic flooding our road access to a nuclear power plant has been cut off from farmlands across the midwest inundated by president mike pence has traveled to nebraska to assess the damage. there. it's been a new blow for british plans to delay the country's departure from the european union with just nine days to go until the presidents of the european commission says it

is unlikely that a deal to perspire on it will be breached this week. seen here speaking yesterday told german public radio that the e.u. would go no further to meet british demands and this comes as bush prime minister to resign my pastor about right to e.u. leaders have requested a short extension they will be discussing perhaps it's an e.u. summit in brussels on thursday and friday. so let's get more on this from d.w. correspondent max hoffmann in brussels and get mass in the london welcome both let's start with you max hoffman threesome i are looking for a short extension is the e.u. likely to grant it. well it depends with what kind of wording she does because the feeling here is that there is really no plan for an extension and that's something that leaders repeatedly said in the last weeks actually there needs to be a plan there needs to be a reason there needs to be a path for going to need to be clear that at the end we are not exactly in the same position as we are now so it even seems well like you would be

a little too much in the situation but john could your girl have to do you commission said he doesn't think that readers will be able to decide this on thursday or on friday when the e.u. summit takes place here in brussels because they have no basis for decision they haven't received a letter from london that was promised it's with the request for an extension or with you know the wording why they would like an extension and we've been working our sources on this and it seems increasingly clear that there might be a special summit next week to decide this in brussels a bug it must in london that series america has been told that she won't be able to you withdrawal plan to another vote in parliament but we're now hearing about a vote will happen next week how. well phil there are two elements to that story one is that some people here in london are actually hoping that when theresa may goes to brussels tomorrow that she will bring back some

concessions and as such change the deal that's on the table and then she would be able to bring it back so we for example had this morning on the radio one of the former cabinet minister a leader of the conservative party who said that the e.u. and i know this will bring smiles to sarcastic smiles maybe two to max's face another people in brussels the e.u. needs to learn how the british parliament works so this is the expectation that somehow there will be some concessions in london and the other element of that story is that reason may and how government are working behind the scenes in order . to change the parliamentary arithmetic so if she does bring the deal back maybe next week then she will have the support so they are working with the northern irish m.p.'s they're working with their own bricks it is in order to influence them and then hopefully what is what they want to unite people behind the reason may and

actually accept the deal odds are really last minute next week. in london not so often in brussels thank you both. starting to reach communities in mozambique devastated by cycling six days ago a getting it to people is difficult because heavy flooding submerged roads and swept some of them away foreign governments have pledged support with twelve million dollars from the european union and the united kingdom so far it's being described as to worst humanitarian crisis in mozambique history heavy flooding and prolonged bouts of rain compounding the destruction wreaked by cycling last week the storm and floodwaters not only and roads and bridges they also wiped out communications networks across the region. and many of eat 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. paid your 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 aid workers efforts in some areas floodwaters a meters deep most rural areas streaming cut off from help. bring and. rescue us also working around the clock to save lives many victims as two 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. you're watching d.w. news live from berlin still to come are you a happy person. it's something to think about on this international there happiness from beijing to london to lagos we've been asking people around the world what makes you happy. there are signs of relations between germany and america worsening with much the bad feeling centering on levels funding levels for the nato military alliance president trump has been pressing chancellor i'm going to back all to meet the nato goal of allocating two percent of g.d.p. to defense today the german cabinet approved the key points of its federal budget but newly released figures also show defense spending still well off natives target triggering a new round of tensions. u.s.

ambassador to germany richard grinnell 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's 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 the. 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 medicals 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. it's got more of this from the political correspondent simon young welcome simon let's start off with those calls for the expulsion of the u.s. ambassador to germany this seems to have brought the simmering route to

a new level. if that's right this is both going to be key the deputy leader of the f.t.p. usually one of the more one the parties more inclined to be friendly to washington here in berlin e says that the us ambassador should be declared persona non grata i think is just a measure of how you know how brutal and ugly they said to speeches become the ambassador is politicians of all parties often arms against him saying that these are outrageous provocations and intensity interference in a domestic issue namely how germany spends its money and we know that the us president donald trump has long criticize germany for what he took to cause freeloading on a u.s. military power and the television this could even get worse in the coming weeks and the coming couple of weeks time we've got the nato countries meeting to mark the

seventieth anniversary of nato ways that are happening in washington d.c. so you know it's difficult times for diplomacy and night so the question everyone's going to look at a germany house the money it's got good healthy tax revenues it has a budget surplus so why doesn't it just spend more. you know well as you saw in the reports in fact the numbers are at the moment going up but this is about predictions of where the economy is going and there are signs its contract is yesterday we have the economic wise men the sort of advisory institutes here forecasting just zero point eight percent growth for next year and we've had other sort of more cloudy for costs as well of late germany's economy is contracting a bit and that means the battle for how the money gets spent by the different

departments is getting tougher and you know that's why even defense spending may be squeezed in the years going forward. young thank you so much for the. jury in the united states has delivered a devastating decision on the weed killer round up finding that it was a substantial factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old mom this is the second time a jury has found that its main ingredient to life a site a call to norm hodgkin's lymphoma rhonda is made by the u.s. for a month. which is owned by german chemical giant a bio. verdict is likely to affect thousands of other cases that it was disappointed with the jury's initial decision case now moves to a second phase to determine damages on the company's financial liability. stephen because they from t.w. business can tell us more welcome see if this is not the first jury's decision i

guess by so why is there so much concern right seville this is the first federal jury decision against fire the last one was a california state case likewise the jury found there against monsanto what's interesting is that this was considered a bellwether case for hundreds of other federal cases against ones onto that is when you have many people saying the same thing oftentimes the court will stu's one case that it believes represents all the others so it's maybe a common complaint common evidence a common legal theory so it's sort of an average case that they take they try and see what happens and then both the plaintiffs and defendants know basically where they stand in this case obviously there's some blood in the water here now because they found against monsanto as you said buyer what's also interesting is that this trial was supposed to be two buyers advantage because it was broken into two phases one that was focused more on glyphosate and the science behind it and the other was focused on whether buyer knew about warnings around glyphosate about whether was

pushing something in a new could be dangerous a lot of people believe that was their advantage and they still lost all right so so presumably then they buy it did not realize that the scale of these problems when they took it home right when they took over monsanto last year. you know there was such a drive to acquire the company months on so seen as such a major player in the agro chemicals business and there are a lot of other mergers ongoing the same time dell chemicals with dupont for example a lot of analysts sort of now look at this and say maybe they didn't heed these risks enough it's worth pointing out that the number of cases there are more than eleven thousand u.s. cases and state and federal courts against months on so related to round up they've increased dramatically since the first trial findings so they are climbing but at the same time there was always this risk these cases have been in there since buyers took over months on so and presumably this is not doing the price much good it's doing it very very bad this is the worst day that buyers shares have had sixteen years the stock was down almost ten percent at one point right now it's

hovering around nine percent down for the day i should say so a lot of a lot of questions there so is there any upside to this i mean the this looks like this is going to be a problem for a long time for sure this is something this is why the there the share prices are down you know the legal costs can of course cut into profitability they can drain operating costs all of these things and shareholders can then basically sort of leave the door open for more active shareholders to come in and complain about the management and to then seek their own solutions to it so it really puts a lot of pressure on buyers a company to take care of this but it could be quite quite expensive steve bisley dovi business thank you. germany's national football team and germany's top comical vaults father both make mistakes the football a suffered a disastrous world cup and far more seriously the ca company has been accused of cheating vehicle emissions tests meaning that both have to rebuild their images

well now that teaming up hoping to sell will cost more football jerseys the new partnership takes to the pitch for the first time tonight in a friendly against serbia. the look has certainly changed the new outfit may be a step toward polishing up the image and that of the german football association the d.f.t. . will succeed studies show that its involvement in football so far has had a positive effect on v.w. scene which. has been sponsoring soccer teams and events for some time. but the sponsorship of the german football association with its national teams is the crown jewel in the portfolio for which it's reportedly willing to shell out as much as thirty million euros a year. because of course our goal is to sell vehicles and offer mobility to the customers and to deal with these associations and clubs but we also want to accompany the german national team in the coming years back to the heights

they once had that's the goal for the euro twenty twenty. the d.f.t. can use those millions from v.w. its coffers are less full than in the past times have changed and the d.f.t. leadership is pinning its hopes on its new sponsor. they were a real partner to soccer and i think the diesel scandal is a general issue. if it wasn't just folks who are going to it was the car industry in general and it wasn't an issue for us too much easier to. be w. in the d.f.t. both want to return to their glory days but they'll have to work hard to get their . turns a man have won a legal battle against a european football's governing body you buy for us to try to break open an investigation into the club staggering transfer deals in twenty seventy p.s.g. spent a combined of four hundred million euros for the name and. the court of arbitration

for sport club's appeal saying to you a fed did take too long to review its initial decision which cleared peers of breaking financial fair play rules i want you right for says it will continue to track the club's finances and sponsorship deals. it's the first day of spring here in the northern hemisphere so could that be a better day for the un's international day of populist they w correspondents have been asking people around the world what makes you happy. shields were just shit. to wake up every day next to her that's happiness for me. but you want me to apply as well a few days less work every week that will be happiness for me. but it all with. go nigh to why but i will make.

good money. money makes you happy right when you see. how my life the very happy double life yeah happy to know there's no you need to be able to enjoy simple things the song and the birds. deja chrome is needed is making me to be the. more people there be not just myself i never i'm never happy if i don't make someone else happy my move makes me be a bit every day i see a man where there's my my cat and my husband there might be able to buy love finding time with my friends. before friends get a little exercise really good weather and a whole lot more. mottos ice cream cars toy soldiers but good always 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 proud to play stalin this is my happiness people started to go by our jogging playing table tennis smashing the ball brings me joy it's a good way to relax when i'm out here you see it now that's what makes me happy running mates we have. these guys every day since six months i come here and live here in fresh coffee and they just be wonderful to me it's about connections that's what it is. i thought to carry through the day here's a reminder of our top stories at this hour the funerals of begun in christchurch new zealand of the victims of friday's attack on two mosques amongst the first for a father and son who fled syria's civil war for what they believed was the safest country in the world. and aid has started to reach parts of mozambique stricken by cycling each day foreign governments have some problems of promise to hate more

than three hundred people killed in the storm that struck southeast asia africa with the death toll expected to rise. i did abuse environment magazine interview that india is objects today with a special report. today with a special report i'll have more at the top of the out good.

ico india. how can a country's economy grow harmony six people. when there are doing worse look at the bigger picture india a country that faces many challenges. and those people are striving to create

a sustainable future clever projects from europe and india. mexico d w. the power of colors in business to make a statement and entice buyers. commerce represent for a good influence customers. and some cost controversy. there quiet but powerful ambassadors to help companies stay in the fight. come out or fund made in germany sixty minutes. ago just couldn't get this song out of his head. the college just began searching for the source of these captivating south. and central africa.

by their culture the state. only a promise to his son charlie was told to return to the concrete and glass jungle of new york. the result reverse culture shock. prize winning. song from the forest starts first on t.w. . hello welcome to eco we india sustainability magazine where reading to do seem to change me people like you and i well finding solutions to some of the most pressing problems in the world today i'm stunned.