but i would have only say if i caught a kilometer being funded. by mackenzie you say. this is true w.'s line from battling the first funerals of victims of the christ church mosque shootings takes place among some others of a father and son who had fled syria's civil war for new zealand believing it to be the safest country in the world also on the program page starts to reach fox mozambique stricken by cycling the day the united nations says it is one of the worst storm disasters to hit africa in decades. the friendly hot shot but frosty

relations between the united states have to germany's side germany washington's ambassador announces face some dissatisfaction with the draft defense budget. also coming up you a happy person cheer up it is the international day of happiness from beijing to london to lagos where asking people around the world what makes you happy. i'm from galle welcome to the program. the funerals of victims of the christ church shootings began today amongst the first with those of a father and son who had fled syria's civil war for what they believe would be a safer life in new zealand bringing stray misters not been charged with murder and

police say more charges will follow fifty people were killed and dozens more injured in an attack 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 mustafa younger brother he suffered gunshot wounds to his leg during the attack. 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. 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 the pool to priya. and with 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 charisma 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 more vigilance 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 imagined something harmful like this whatever happened in seal that 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 of sixty people are 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 thick gyms 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 it's happened earlier today that up to six victims including a father and son were right from syria less than a year ago and tonight he smiled only survived by a slim brother a 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 the case that the police finished their investigation at

the first scene yesterday and words are currently underway for misty eleanor to be open so the muslim community can return to pray there this friday afternoon. in the aftermath of a 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 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 bill curse upon i have no clue new zealand socks on.

now we'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. court has ruled that the weight killer roundup was a factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old man this is the second a major legal defeat for the chemicals are making money for monsanto in months and more cases are likely to follow the company was bought last year by german chemicals john baya. google has been fined one and a half billion euros by the european union's antitrust watchdog the e.u. competition commission says the internet giant abused its dominant position to stifle competition in the advertising market the fine takes google's total penalties from the e.u. to more than eight billion euros over the last two years. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or has begun a middle east tour aimed at they're building an alliance against iran in kuwait he joined his counterparts. calling for an end to it too near a rift between

a saudi led bloc and qatar saying that they all needed to unite against the threat from islamist terror. near a state of nebraska and neighboring states have declared emergencies following catastrophic flooding road access to nuclear power plants has been cut off and farmlands across the midwest inundated vice president might pegasus travel to nebraska to assess the damage. aid is starting to reach communities in mozambique devastated by psyched one day six days ago getting aid to people is difficult because heavy flooding costs of merged roads and swept some of them away foreign governments have started pledging support with twelve million euros twelve million dollars from the european union the united kingdom so far it's being described as the worst humanitarian crisis in mozambique's history. heavy flooding and prolonged pounds of rain a compounding the destruction week 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. 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 aid workers efforts in some areas floodwaters a meters deep most rural areas streaming cut off from help.

worries helping and. rescue us also working around the clock to save lives many victims as to 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. britain's plans to delay his departure from the european union have been dealt another blow with just nine days to go until bracks it's the presidents of the european commission says it is unlikely that a deal to postpone it will be reached this week john called you'll see him speaking yesterday told the german public radio that they would go no further to meet but she's demands all of this comes as prime minister theresa may pass to write to e.u. leaders to request a short extension discussed directly to the e.u. summit in brussels on thursday and friday. let's get more from correspondents much

hoffman in brussels and mass in london we'll start with you max hoffman how is the e.u. likely to be spun to teresa mayes request for an extension. as you can imagine phil that's exactly the question that the whole town is obsessing over right now at the moment but all the people we've talked to say it's very very likely that the u.k. will be granted an extension if they really request it because so far there hasn't been an official letter and no argument made something that many leaders have said in the past they need some kind of argument why are we extending this if three months later let's say we're going to be exactly in the same message because this is not here yet that's why as you just mentioned the head of the e.u. commission said that he doesn't believe that leaders will be able to decide this on thursday and friday because they have no basis for this so now everybody's talking about a possible special summit at the end of next we're weak but then again you know

maybe this is just the pressure cooker get maybe one could younger sister and a build up pressure until tomorrow on thursday and it will be decided that in any case to sum it up if the extension is demanded by the u.k. it's very likely that it would be granted. less of a demand i think one of the polite request at mass and in london series of a has been told that she won't be able to point to joel deal to another vote in parliament but we're not hearing that a vote will happen next. how. well the lies exactly and what mike's already mentioned in interviews amaze trip to brussels and it was very enlightening to listen to ian duncan smith a former leader of the conservative party in the storm's brick city a when he said well we're hoping for concessions from brussels and he even said and i think that will be mused then the brussels even said well they in brussels have to understand how we work how our palimony work so really they're hoping that there

will be some last minute concessions at the summit that might help reason may to bring the deal over the line in this that really last minute meaningful vote that we're expecting to happen next week. in london not spokesman in brussels thank you but. you're watching live from about it still to come are you a copy person source of sars or here is something people think about on this international day of happiness in beijing and london tonight we've been asking people around the world what makes you happy. to have relations between germany and america not very happy at the moment and much of the bad feeling centers on germany's defense spending president trump has been pressing the german chancellor i'm going to battle to meet the natives goal of allocating two percent of g.d.p. to defense the german capital proves the key points of its federal budget today but

the newly released figures show defense spending still well off nato studies this comes as a disappointment to some of the country's allies and has triggered more controversy 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 staying. 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 you're welcome simon let's start off with those calls for the expulsion of the u.s. ambassador to germany this seems to have brought this simmering round to a new level. if there is right this is both going to be key the deputy leader of the f.t.p. usually one of the more one of the parties more inclined to be friendly to washington here in berlin he 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 was 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 u.s. president donald trump has long criticize germany for what he took because freeloading

on a u.s. military power and the tone in 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 to 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 changes yesterday we had the economic wise men the sort of advisory institutes here for costing 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 simon thank you so much for the. first day of spring here in the northern hemisphere so could that be a better day for you hans international day of happiness do correspondents around the world have been asking people what makes you happy. with your shit we did to wake up every day next to her happiness for me. you want me to reply as well a few days less work every week that will be happiness for me. despite it all with

. the nato allies there will. be. money. money makes you happy right when he was there. oh my life the down very happy double life yeah happy to now there's no you need to be able to enjoy simple things the song and the birds. now it's just myself i mean if i don't make someone else happy my move makes me happy every day i see my mothers my my cats and my husband they're my family i love spending time with my friends. boyfriends 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's well and my life's going well. i'm frantically stalin this is my happiness people. are joking i was playing table tennis washing the ball brings me joy it's a good way to relax him how he should be proud of what makes me happy we have. these guys every day since six months i come here and if you're in hard fresh coffee and there's just been wonderful to be about connections that's what it's. so let's talk about the science of happiness with it from a science welcome so let's start with the body what is what is going on when we are so we have far basic have become a ghost are a body and our brain and they all do different things and trigger different kinds of happiness there's dopamine which flows when you want to reach

a goal and it gives you this energy boost and we have oxytocin it's that when you trust people it's triggered and it's. the bonding hormone and we have several tone in which is triggered when you feel valued and it's also stabilize our mood it's. the harmony chemical that say and then we have and our endorphin which comes up in extreme city. ations like bungee jumping for example but also when we lef so you see there's different types of happiness. and we also feel i guess we experience that when we we have this short term pleasure which is really really extreme feeling and then we have this long term contentment actually would you say then that happiness is situational or genetic or some of us more predisposed towards happiness this is gushing and signs going on at the debate some say that genes make up for fifty percent of our happiness and this recent study from yale which came

out now which suggests that there's a specific gene variation that can make couples that can make relationships happier and even if only one partner in the couple in the relationship had this gene variation it would make both happy or so it seems good for those who have it but this study was conducted with only less than two hundred couples so it's a quite small sample and we would need more research to see if this effect really shows and other relationships as well they predicted. how much then does this gene variation that you mentioned how much such influence relationships the research just say that it makes up for four percent of the happiness so so couples who have this gene variation are around four percent happier than those who don't have it. but i mean happiness is very complex and there is much more to it than only genes

as the other studies that say that when you for example win the lottery are when you got a big salary increase it doesn't make you happy not for a long time because you get adjusted to those big changes it's called the hit donek adjustment so in the end going for small changes and setting small goals will make you happy on the long run ok it would be nice to find out if that were true i'd have a nice to win the lottery and see how much happier i felt but. i thank your leisure . that's a look at some sports germany's national football team and the country's top comic of volkswagen have both made mistakes football that suffered a disastrous world cup and foremost seriously the car company has been accused of cheating vehicle emission tests meaning that both now have to rebuild their images well now they are teaming up hoping to sell more cars and more jerseys the new partnership takes 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. as can we also may well succeed in our studies show that it involvement in football so far has had a positive effect on v.w. z. image. and 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. that's the goal for the euro twenty twenty three. 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. if 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 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 . french football champions perry's argument have won a vehicle battle against a european football's governing body u.i. for after it tried to reopen an investigation into the club staggering transfer deals in twenty seventeen p.s.g. spent a combined four hundred million euros on neymar and kilian him back by the court of arbitration for sport of the club's appeal saying that your wife

a took too long to review its initial decision which cleared p.s.g. of breaking financial fair play rules however u.i. for says it will continue to track the club's finances and sponsorship deals. is a reminder of our top stories at this hour the funerals have begun in christchurch new zealand to the victims of friday's attack on two mosques a month the first for those of a father and son that fled syria civil. what they believed was the safest country in the books. a custom us to get through to pops off in most parts of mozambique a stricken by such outside turns into the foreign governments of also because of commerce eight more than three hundred people book killed in the storms across the southeast with the death toll expected to rise the first. good you can always get the w. news on the go just download drop from google play from the op was stoked up to give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as fortunately

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