>> this is s france 24.4. it is time for 60 minutes live around the world. thesese are the headlines. mournings of national in mozambique after a cyclone leaves o over 2 200 dead. 350,000 people are still at risk. funerals held today for the victims of the double mosque massacre in new zealand. an australian white supremacist is accused of gunning down

worshipers in christchurch. with the brexit deadline nine days away, the prime minister is asking for a delay on the departure from the eu. brussels needs a solid reason to accept that delay after two years of talks. eu has slammed google with another fine for violating antitrust laws. this time it is for about 1.5 billion euros. it may be hard to believe where you are, but spring has sprung in the north. we will look at the buds and blossoms coming up. story live from paris. ♪ >> the death toll from a cyclone

that smashed into mozambique has risen to over 200. the president saying 350,000 people are at risk and theinal death h toll cld be hier.. south eastern hit africa four days s ago, one of e worst storms to hit mozambique and zimbabwe and malawi in decades. allison sergeant explains. >> rescue workers evacuate survivors from areas. it is a mountain town close to the border with mozambique. localsls saw their homomes destd and family members killed. strongcyclone was too and my uncle was in the hot. heavy stones.y storm system has sinceattling the land

mamarch. it may land on thursday and moved inland to zimbabwe, bringing heavy rain and landslides. rescue workers have been trying to r reach survivors who have en found stranded on treetops and roofs. hundreds have been k kled. affected,00eople possibly going up to 1.7 and cycloneillion affffected by and flooding. all of the roads have been cutt off. >> witith its long c coastline, mozambique is vulnerable to tropical stotorms. more than 62% of the possibly -- more than 60% of the population lived downstream from large rivers. this coupled with rising sea level and the extreme climatic

events is putting more and more people and infrastructure at risk. mozambiquele in depend on farming for food and livelihood. in new zealand, funerals are being held for some of the 50 victims of the double mosque massacre. a syrian refugee and his son were the first to be buried. most victims were migrants or refugees. the youngest, three years old. claire rush has more. >> the first victims laid to rest. teenage refugee and his son or buried in christchurch wednesday, and thehe first fufunerals for the 50 killed in last week's twin mosque attacks. the two victims were shot dead at the al noor mosque, the first place attacked by the white supremacist gunman.

hundreds gathered for this service, a few kilometers from the linwood mosque, the second place of worship targeted. cainda ardern visited shmere high school. ceremonialtended a war dance. reneweded her call to speak of the victims rather than the killer. >> you know some of the young people who lost their lives friday. stories we need to keep telling, it is them we need to honor. >> those who have lost loved ones have grief compounded as authorities have been slow to return bodies to families in time for a speedy burial. this is due to lengthy

procedures for vicictim identification and aopopsies. been the 50 victims have identified and are due to be released to their families. the brexit deadline looming next week, theresa may is set to ask brussels for a a short delay. that comes as her plans to hold a vote on her withdrawal deal were derailed by speaker bercow. increasingly impatient, eu leaders are pressing may to set up a concrete plan before they set up an extension. the set.ter is here on what is in this letter that theresa may has written to eu leaders? >> she has asked for a short delay in brexit.

you areive images seeing, she has just mentioned that issue. the european elections and how unacceptable it would be for her government if british mps had to be elected. it would be bad for the european union because what happens to the size and political makeup of the european parliament once the newly elected british mps have to resign. sidesy is in both interest, but there will bee skepticismsm on both sides of te channel that theresa may can achieve anything in a short delay. of course, she is going to keep hammering the same point. it is my deal, no deal, or no brexit. >> we are still in this impasse. it was 1000 days ago today the vote on brexit was held. here we are with nine days to go

before the deadline and no one knows what is going to happen. >> it is incredible. 1000 day since the referendum in which britain voted to leave the eu. nine days to go until britain is legally bound to leave. london and brussels may agree on a way to kick this can down the road a little longer, but there is no solution to the crisis theresa may faces, a divided party of parliament which cannot agree on a specific alternative to her proposal. she faces a rattled business community and the risk of losing the union if she gets this wrong. a disorderly brexit would push scotland, which voted to remain in the eu, towards a new referendum on independence. factors to of these take into account and one cannot see how she can bring these different things together. >> thank you for that.

united nations appeals judges in the hague will give a verdict to a former leader. he was found guilty of genocide and war crimes and given a 40 year prison sentence for his role in the bloody conflict that tore yugoslavia apart. the case is one of the last remaining from the war in the 1990's. bosnians and bosnian serbs remain divided over his fate. >> guilty of the following counts. inwhen he was convicted 2016, he accused judges of conducting a political trial. he was found guilty on 10 counts genocide,mes and including the four-year seizure of sarajevo. and of another city, when bosnian troops murdered 8000 men and boysenberry to them -- and buried them in mass graves.

continues to divide bosnians who lost family and the conflict and bosnian serbs who see him as a hero. >> we expectct he will get the punishment he deserves, that the court will confirm the verdict. freed and peace and dialogue in this region will be possible if that happens. his 40 yearealing sentence while prosecutors are seeking to give the 73-year-old life in prison. as well as a second genocide convention -- second genocide conviction. the case has been a tricky one. >> it is sensitive.e. it challenges the judges. it also impacts how we think about international criminal law and can it be impartial.

be able toside will appeal the verdict. butcher of bosnia is appealing a life sentence on similar charges. the former serbian president was on trial at the tribunal until his death in 2006. trump ofn dubbed the the tropics sat down with donald trump. -- bolsonaro and view ofnded over their populist politics. >> bolsonaro and trump, right-wing leaders, voiced their mutual admiration from afar. in washington, they repeated it side-by-side. always admired the united states. i admire it evenen more since yu

ve b become prpresident. >> one of the brazilian presidents announced goals of ally. brazil a nato he got support for that and more. >> i intend to designatete brazl , or major non-nato ally even possibly, if you think about it, maybe a nato ally. >> venezuela wasas a central topic. the u.u.s. and b brazil are oppd to the country's socialist leader, nicolas maduro. they have recognized juan guaido as acting president. trump called on the military to drop maduro so his government would collapse. >> maduro is nothing more than a cuban puppet. >> trump said the u.s. could toughen sanctions on caracas to increase preressure on maduro.

when asked if military intervention was an option, the president replied -- >> all options are open. endangeredass of an mammal has been found off the coast of the main island of okinawa. it belongs to the same family of the manatee. it is a national treasure in japan and its fate has been ofthe center of a debate a military base being built there. icon and national treasure in japan, it is a marine man. mermaids.d tales of akin to the manatee, it is endangered. was found dead this week. 200 kilometers off the shore of okinawa's main island. just one of three thought to live in the area.

the death has sparked national outrage. the fate is entwined with that of japan and the u.s. military alliance. the controversial plans to move a military base l located in the middle of a highly populated area to the pristine and wild shores of ththe bay. residents okinawa have been protesting the construction of the new base. lastst month, , they voted, oppg the facility. over 70% voted against it. there are fears it could wipe out the mammal by wiping out its habitat. governory, okinawa's repeated calls to shinzo abe to hold talks with rez or -- with residents. building the base will require

paving over and filling in hundreds of acres of coral and the main food source of the mammalal, seagrasass. washington and tokyo continue to press ahead with the military base. ofmarch 20 marks the start spring in the northern hemisphere. fromate varies every year march 19 to march 21. it is linked to the time when the equator is closest to the sun. to talk about spring, let's bring in ian whitaker. thank you for taking the time to speak to us on this first day of spring. there is confusion. we just assumed it was m march , but that is not the case. >> n not at all. what point of the year you are in. on grerewich mean time

and wherere you arere relative o ththat, the point of the equino, a specific time during the day varies, and because you have a leap year every four years, your earth around the sun takes 365.25 days. that adds up and you end up with a six hour delay as yoyou go around until you correct for each time. >> is that true for all of the equinoxes s or just a spriring? >> it is true for all the equinoxes and thee solsticices. your equinox, yoyour equal nigh, where you u get the same amountf daylight as sunlight during g te day, s spring and autumn, you he your solstices, which are junee and december time. thesese are where the e sun is t the highest in the skyr r the lowest in the sky depending on which hemisphere you are in. celebrationsut the

celebrated with the equinoxes. for example, stonehenge is big for the summer equinox. is there a simimilar thing f foe spring one? >> sprpring was always a c casef the sun is coming back, we e are going to have more e light perr day, that means lots of plants growing, crops, everybody happy because everyone likes the sunshine. most of the celebrations would solstice, the winter whether it has b been the longet night of the year. everything is coming bacack. .ou have the sun c coming in the equinox marks the time when you getting more sunlight for the day. stonehenge with the druiuids, ls of pagan rituals.

even today, , people celebratete equinox by saying we have more sunlight c coming in, that is great. it is linked d to clocks changn, as well, happening in about a week or so.. what about other planenets? do t they have equinoxes? >> thehey do. it i is aboutut how tililted the planetet is as it rotates. the earth, we have a 23 degrees tilt. mostst of the otheher planetstsa tilt of meme description.. marsrs does, venus, jupiter, saturn. it just takes much longer to go around the sun, or much shorter, they have a difference in days between them. all the planets have an equinox and a sololstice.e. thank you for that. ian whitaker speaking g to us fm

trent university. three days ofof national mournig in mozambique after a psych tone leaves over 200 dead. leaves overyclone 200 dead. 600,000 people are still at risk. the first funerals being held for the victims of the double mosque massacre in new zealand. a white supremacist is accused of gunning down 50 muslims at friday.hurch the british prime minister is asking for a delay on the departure from the eu. brussels needs a solid reason to accept the delay after two years of talks. time for our business update. >> hello. >> we are starting with a major find from the european union for google. >> a 1.5 billion euro penalty.

this i is for antitrust violalas related to the advertisising servicice. the ththird major find d against google over anticicompetitive practitices. the company says it has madede a dede ran of chchanges to itsts producucts. >> google is being punished for the third time since the eu opened antitrust investigations against them in 2010. >> google has engaged in illegal practices when it comes to their search advertising brokering. >> the latest decision focuses on adsense. 's comes after the block regulators imposed a recorord 43 billion euro fine on the firm

last year for using its android mobile operating system to block rivals following a fine and 2017 for using its dominant position to block others in online shopping. head of the rulingng, google ask users inns to europe if they wanted to switch to other engines or browsers. cooks we have been listening to feedback we have been getting. as a result, we will be making further updates to our products. >> there are more than 200 20 million android devices in western europe alone. the ad since case may not be the end of the antitrust woes. regulators have asked rivals if they are unfairly demoted, a move which couould leaead to a fofourth case.e.

markets have been digesting the latest moves on the brexit market. weekendseen the pound -- seen the pound weaken. >> thehere could be an end in sight for the trying to trade dispute -- for the china trade dispute. a they are aiming to close deal by mid april. u.s. has in pro -- has imposed tariffs. beijing has retaliated with tariffs of their own. washington wants them to end forced technology transfers. investors are looking ahead to the federal reserve meeting later in the day. indices are down slightly. positivee nudging into teterritory. over 12%.es were down

they are on track for theieir worst day in 1 15 years. downward is moving a major court case. was a substantial cancer of a man who used it regularly in his yard. >> a second court defeat in seven months for round up over its health risks. a jury unanimously ruled in favor of the plaintiff saying the weedkililler played a significant role in causing cancer. years insed it for 26 his garden before being didiagnose with non-hodgkin's ad foam and 2015. innon-hodgkin's lymphoma 2015.

in atatement, bayer vowed to defend the world's most popular weedkiller. >> we have sympathy, but a body of science supports the conclusion roundup was not the cause of his cancer. >> the ruling deals a fresh blow to bayer. two months later, a california man was awarded after a j jury millionn found roundup causes cancer. similarn 11,000 in thes have been fouound united states. links to cancer have launched global campaigns -- >> a quick look

at business headlines. frenchin profits for a luxury group. there is no sign demand for its products or on the wane. gloomy news for kingfisher. is on the way out after profits fall by 13%. they will also be closing 11 outlets and laying off employees in france. fedex has seen results hurt by the slowdown in global trade. they lowered their forecast after reporting a drop in revenue. it is seen as a bellwether foror the global economy.

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