>> this is france 24. these are the headlines. a shooting on a tram in the oneh city of utrecht leaves dead and several injured. the shooter is on the run. we will be going live in a few moments. as france recovers from a weekend of violent protests, top levell meetings are onon today o discuss this purity -- to

discuss the security detail as the prime minister admits they were insufficient. the prime minister of new zealand promises to change the gun laws after the terror attack on mosques there left at least 50 dead. thousands gathered to remember the victims. we start with this developing story out of the netherlands. one person has been killed and several hurt in a shooting on a tram in the residential neighborhood of the city of utrecht. stephanie vanderburg is making her way to the scene. give us details of what happened. theyewitnesses report as

tram was going through this neighborhood into the town, a man got up with a gun and started shooting around. eyewitnesses report the doors did not immediately open, so some people broke the glass and people crawled out of the tram that way. moree do not have many details except to say one person has died. three people have been taken away in an ambulance. on the run.s he fled in a red renault car. the city hasas beenn put onn lockdown. no one can come in or out. closed.ersity has bee students have to stay in the university buildings. alert all, it is a big and they are just trying to find

this man. >> the netherlands had already been on high alert ahead of this incident. >> yes. it was on level four, which was high possibility. of the immediate vicinity utrecht, it has been lifted to the highest level, which is five. we are surrounded by countries that have seen terror attacks. the netherlands had been spared for a long time. this seems it may be the first time the netherlands has this incident in the last decade. >> tell us about the city of utrecht i itself. >> it is central to the netherlands. it is a ring of cities that make up the central urban ring of the netherlands.s. it includes ham -- it includess amsterdam and the hague.

it is a university town with a lot of students. it has big neighborhoods with a lot of turkish and moroccan descent. medium-sizednt city in the netherlands, known for its university. >> thank you. we are keeping an eye on this story. what more arare you hearing? the police areng treating this as a a potenential terrorist incident. they are not saying i it is, but they are looking at the possibility. we have heard the national coordinator for terrorism and security, that is based in the capital. they are in touch with utrecht

police. there are cogs moving together in the whole plane of antiterrorism. architecture of the dutch state, areh you u are looking at, we looking at t this as a posossibe terrorism incident. we heard from the prime minister who said he is extremely worrird and that a a coalition consultation meeting was broken off. he is following these events, as you would imagine, extremely closely. level has been raised to level five in the province of utrecht, which is the highest possible. oner things we are hearing, various blogs and so forth, police are providing additional security in stations a and in mosques, which is interesting,

because that shows this might be, potentially, if security is being added at mosques, it suggests it could be seen as an anti-muslim attack of some sort or that it has the potential to become that. statements at recent by the dutch intelligence services. there are two reports. the growingout ideology.rom far right they are worried about right wing extremists in the netherlands being more vocal about encouraging violence against muslims and the government. it issued another report, when it talked about the situation regarding jihadists, that 310

people had traveled from the nenetherlands to be foreign rebl fighters in the syrian war. around 135 dutch nationals are still in that zone of syria and iraq. dutch intelligence has been jihadist about extremists and the far right. ,n terms of recent incidents the most recent was the .msterdam stabbing attack our vieiewers might r remember s was august 2018 when a man randomly stabbed people at the amsterdam central train station. very much in line with similar attacks that had been seen around europe.

somebody basically not being part of a plot, the infrastructure, the sophisticated apparatus, but just a single man with a knife. that is in line with the attacks that have been seen in france over the last years. that was the amsterdam stabbing attack in 2018. in terrorism plots, there are two worth mentioning. on the 19th of june, 2018, police arrested three in rotterdam and two other towns, suspected of planning a terrorist attack. in september of last year, police arrested seven men on evidence they were planning to create a large-scale attack at two separate locations, using a car bomb and assault rifles and

so on. reason they broke up the plot which would have been a major and sophisticated one, but we have seen the small low level attacks. seeinguthorities are this as a potential terrorist incident, but they are not saying what kind of terrorism this could be. >> thank you for that. france is recovering from another violent weekend linked to the yellow vests movement. s stores oncked saturday. emmanuel macron and his reforms have been gone for four months now. there werere not enough security measures in place. james andre joins us in paris.

what has come out of it so far? >> we have no information as to what has been decided. the meeting is over. juniorinutes ago, a minister with the interior minister have been walking into this building next to me. that does show the meeting has come to an end. we will hear what decisions have been made shortly. the president was already protestsabout banning yesterday night until 9:00 p.m. they discussed potential scenarios as to where to go next. it is a difficult situation for french authorities. they are being criticized left

and right. for him, there had been some problems in the way the situation had been handled. on the other hand, -- will have to be made. vests movement. >> the government was in a difficult place. the government already has given a lot of concessions. that begs the question, what will it take for protesters to be happy? >> it is difficult to tell.

things like raising the minimum wage by 100 euros, raising small pensions. in france, there is the price of launch thishas to in the first place. like are other problems, .he 80 kilometers the government has not been speaking about that. they have launched a national peopleto find out what were unhappy about. that is ongoing. before this weekend, before this the momentum was on the yellow vests side, suggesting there was a slight

rise after weeks and weeks of support in the french population that was basically going down has gone up slightly. we will have to see what happens after this violence that took place last weekend. the yellow vests problem is still there and it appears the government is having a tough time finding --. >> thank you. ofnew zealand, where dozens graves are being dug at a cemetery in christchurch, the final resting place for the worshipers killed in the mosque attack on friday. police say the suspect, a 28-year-old white supremacist was the only gunman. they are not ruling out he had support. he is reported to have bought

guns and ammunition online. over guniaised questions laws. the prime minister says reforms will be announced in the next 10 days. know there is grief in new zealand. there are questions that need answers, that we are looking for, as well. we need to provide assurances to the public that eveverything tht could have been done hahas been done, but whether or not more could and should have been done. inhelle harrison is chchristchurch, talking about gn reform. >> the prime minister says the country's gun laws will change following the attacks. how far will they go? a ban on semiautomatic weaponss

is o on the e table. orrently, there is no ban registry, but there is a firearm for one in every four people in nenew zealand. -- weed how people how asked people how they felt about gun control. >> unfortunate this had to happen to get it to change. >> whatever boundaries they need to cross, they should cross those boundaries and do something real. weapons, they might be farmers or hunters. they will fear some restrictions, but fathers and hunters aren't the ones who have issues. the government will need to find and allow those who use guguns responsibly to still have those. pushbackis already

amid fears of knee-jerk reforms. the question is whether newew zealand willll follow australia costs example. john howard moved to o crack don on gun ownerership. unfolds, the prime minister wants to move quickly on the issue. >> the death toll from flash floods in indonesia has gone up to 77 people dead. there is a glimmer of hope. a baby trapped under rubble afafter flooding destroyed his home has been reunited with his father after a disaster killed the rest of their family. devastating cyclone in zimbabwe and mozambique has left more than 120 dead.

local officicials say the body count is expected to rise. families held funerals with 17 empty caskets in honor of their loved ones. victims of the tragic plane crash that horrified the nation. data has coconfirmed seral similarities between the ethiopian airlines crash and the lion air crash in october. >> caskets draped in the ethiopian flag with pictures of those who perished on flight 302. coffins are empty. identifying remains may take up to six months. this, along with the slow pace of the probe and the international scope means closurure is far off.

newspaper the u.s. arealed p psecutors developing the jetliners. faa'somes amid the approval of the planes. or notentered on whether the agency used appropriate design. raisequiry is expected to further questions about how they designed the boeing 737 max 8 and what the federal aviation did to improve the model. black box data revealed similarities between the ethiopian and lion air accidents. descendeddedd a and

erratically, the pilot struggled to maintain control of the aircraft and tried in vain to return to the airport. >> a shooting on a tram in the city of utrecht leaves one dead and several injured. the shooter is on the run. from annce recovers attack, governmement leaders met to discuss security details. the prime minister of new zealand promising to change gun laws after the terror attack on two m mosques after it left 50 dead. it is time for business news. with a going to start mega bank possiblynn the works

in germany. bank deutsche babank and commerz are inin talks for a possiblble merger. ..th will l turn 150 next year bothth have been struggling sine the 2008 financial crisis. business -- two germany's two biggestst banks he kikicked off merger talks. >> it is impoportant we will ony engage in a transaction if it makes economic sense. good plan, together we will evaluate this and only when the results are there we will make a decision. >> it would create the second largest lender.

the german government has signaled support for the merger, hoping to shore up the financial sector. emerged unscathed since the financial crisis, but has struggled since. commerzbank has also struggled. a deal is far from certain. merger.ions oppose a deutsche bank's top shareholders worry about the restructuring. they a are expecteted t to decie whether fusion is possible in the comingng weeks a mixedll, itit is

picture this monday across europe. the british pound f following again. investors are expecting the u.s. federal reserve will keep rates unchanged at its policy meeting later this week. atninese shares ended the day the highest level in more than six months.. up 2.5%.composite is >> there is a lot of attention on oil prices. forpec members are meeting a ministerial meeting. they decided to cancel a planned meeting next month to decide to postpone decision-making to late june to give markets a chance to investigate the full impact. the oil market is looking oversupplied despite criticism

from donald trump aboutut the cuts. venezuela's eneney ministerer ss the oil company will open a subsidiary office next month in moscow. he made the agreement with his russian counterpart sunday, adding they would like to continue strengthening their relations with russia. they also said they increased their oil output last month despite the ongoing crisis. >> harsh comments about the hauawei.tionons o on a he made the comments at press conference after meeting with eu foreign policy chief. he did not specifically mention huawei, but he was clearly

referring to moves by the u.s. political uncertainty over brexit has been keeping many businesses on edge, including farmers rowing one of the favorite spring vegetables. . that is asparagus asparagus seasason is starting soon. growers are worrieded abobout workers. only sectorthe bracing for the worst. >> this family has been growing aspaparagus for nearly 100 year. brexit threatens to upend the business. chris has struggled to find foreign workers who typically arrive to pick the crops in late april. >> no workers means no british asparagus. there is no alternative to that.

we are really at the point where we import the workers or we import the asparagus. >> companies are growing anxious ahead of brexit. to a forecast, business investment is set to fall by 1%, regardless of how negotiations go. has haditical inaction economic conseququences with may firms hitting the brakes on investment and recruitment decisions as a result of ongoing uncertainty. some investment may never come back to the u.k. >> anxiety extends across the channel, like this brewery, worried that costs could skyrocket and cut its beer out of the british market. >> our top beer is baseded on freshness. need is to getwe stuck somewhere on the border

for three weeks. votek. parliament could tuesday on a deal to leave the european union, ahead of a summit. a quicke going to take break. we will be back in a minute with the latest from the netheherlan, where the situation is still ongoing where a gunman opened fire on a tram in the central city of utrecht. and injurede person more. investigators are surrounding an apartment block close to that seen. we will bring you more in just a moment. stay with us.

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