for more on that i'm joined by alexander fox he's a journalist in christchurch now it sounds like today's gun buyback went smoothly has there been any resistance to this so far. well not to be not too many to be honest because most of the people were very happy to hand the weapons back to the polies and they got some money in return just because of what happened and question it's left them of so much harm or so however a council of licensed firearms owners spokesperson said that some owners were unhappy with the compensation package that was ripped out on wholesale were raids rather than retail prices but the overall response was really really good to be honest. so as we heard some 200 firearms were turned in today can you put that number into perspective for us i mean how much of a dent does this make in the number of weapons in new zealand yeah it was exactly 825 firearms and 217 pats such just munition for example that were handed back by 169 weapon owners you have to imagine that there is probably 1.21.5000000 firearms in new zealand and of these the government expects that only 13 fa

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here's peter alexander >> reporter: jon stewart unleashing a stinking rebuke on fox news. >> an abomination. >> reporter: rand paul helped delay a bipartisan bill to extend compensation funding for 9/11 first responders and victims. >> so jon stewart could read, maybe he could read the bill and say who would vote for a bill that doesn't have a dollar amount in it. >> reporter: he argues he is not blocking the legislation but was asking for an amendment to offset the cost. >> some things they have no trouble putting on the credit card somehow when it comes to the 9/11 first responders community the cops, the firefighters, the construction workers, volunteers, the survivors all of a sudden, man, we got to go through this. >> reporter: the bitter back and forth weeks after stewart, an outspoken advocate for 9/11 first responders, blasted lawmakers. >> your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity time. >> reporter: days later retired nypd detective lewis alvarez died. and today news that firefighter richard driscoll became the 200th fdny member to die from a 9/11-rel

out again as one senator is holding up the money here's nbc's peter alexander >> reporter: jon stewart unleashing a stinging rebuke on fox news >> it is an abomination. >> reporter: after republican senator rand paul helped delay a bipartisan bill to extend compensation funding for 9/11 first responders and victims >> so jon stewart could read, maybe he'd say, my god, who would vote for a bill that doesn't have a dollar amount in it >> reporter: paul argues he's not blocking the legislation, but was simply asking for a vote on an amendment to offset the cost >> there are some things they have no trouble putting on the credit card, but somehow when it comes to the 9/11 first responder community, the cops, the firefighters, the construction workers, the vowel volunteers, the survivors, all of a sudden we have to go through -- >> reporter: the bitter comes back and forth after stewart speaker for 9/11 blasted lawmakers. >> you cost men and women the most valuable commodity, time. >> reporter: days later, retired n.y.p.d. detective louis alvarez who testified alongside stewart died and news i firefighter richard driscoll bec

fox. john? reporter: can i ask you a question about -- >> peter alexander from nbc. dozens of girls were allegedly molested. why didn't you just keep investigating him? secy. acosta: so, the victims of which we were aware were part of this. under the agreement, in the southern district of florida, the investigation ceased and they had the opportunity to proceed. that does not mean that the investigation had to cease nationwide. as we see today, as we saw in new york, investigations could certainly and obviously have proceeded in other districts. reporter: a follow-up, how can you be interested to enforce human trafficking laws as secretary of labor given your history with this case? secy. acosta: i started one of the first human trafficking task forces at the department of justice. i have been aggressive prosecuting human trafficking. we stepped in in this case. we stopped a bad state plea. i understand that from today's perspective, people scratch their heads and say, why? here's the question to ask. how many other times have you seen a u.s. attorney's office interv

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agreement with fox rebels the 2016 accord ended the world's longest running armed conflict and included land reforms and programs to bring fighters back to civilian life but as alexander n.p.r. she reports from the kalka region in southwestern colombia the reforms have mostly stalled. heartbroken and helpless relatives of former 5 gravel. cry over its coffin. the 41 years old which july 9th as you went to work at its fledgling pineapple field. pieces customers our lives he believes in this process of serenity is hard to give himself to peace now close to call his life his laughter his dream to see his children progress. x. combatants from this demobilization camp in southwest colombia to be killed one of more than $140.00 nationwide since surrendering their weapons 2 years ago former combatants were promised security guarantees access to land and support for productive process is but most have only received the monthly allowance which is set to expire in august of the more than $200.00 former combatants and their families that built this the mobilization camp only $27.00 remain the rest left in search of work opportunities for fleeing serious threats. some former figh