well, let's bring in anna fifield, she is a foreign correspondent for the washington post.from christchurch and she has been covering the event all week and we are expecting to hear from the prime minister any minute now. her, iguess, from the prime minister any minute now. her, i guess, very quick action has been praised at the same time, a lot still needs to be done to change the gun laws but also to address some of the society's issues as well. yes, that's right. she has got a lot of praise of acting so swiftly. only six days after the attacks, she announced an assault weapon ban, which is a big deal in itself but the problem there is that new zealand has no gun registry, so the government does not know how many assault weapons their own new zealand, so this buyback and surrender. we'll be really reliant oi'i surrender. we'll be really reliant on people to be honest and to come forward and give up their weapons, so forward and give up their weapons, so that is going to a challenge for the golf going forward. but of course, today is all about the victims, the 50 people wh

anna fifield is an international foreign correspondent for the washington post.been covering this event all week but you are also from new zealand. how has it been to cover such tragedy chris make it felt very important for me asa make it felt very important for me as a new zealander who has been abroad for 20 years. it is such a shocking event. any terror attack is devastating but the fact that new zealand, at the bottom of the pacific ocean, isolated in many ways from the outside world and has never seen from the outside world and has never seena from the outside world and has never seen a terror attack of this sort before plus the fact that the death toll is so huge, it is harder to exaggerate the level of shock felt by new zealanders as a result of this. you have written a moving piece about how people think new cylinders are very tolerant and peaceful but this highlights something people do not realise. new zealand has changed so much in the 20 years, now one in four new zealanders have been born outside the country, 20 ethnicities representing the country.

joining me now is anna fifield, a foreign correspondent from new zealand for the washington post. you are from christchurch. it must‘ve been quite a week for you to cover such a tragedy. yes, as a journalist i have covered tragedy before but it's nothing like a covering one from home. we consider ourselves as isolated from international terror because of the simple geography and because of the simple geography and because new zealand thinks of itself as multicultural, tolerant country. the fact that it has happened here and that the death toll was so huge as really shocked the entire country and we have seen the magnitude of that shocked by the way the country has rallied, has come out and embraced parts of islam to show their solidarity. many women out there today, including police officers and journalist are wearing headscarves as a sign of solidarity. there has been a call to prayer. the prime minister greeted the parliament in arabic. a real effort to show the community that new zealand stands together with them. many people would say that new zealanders are very tolerant but,

anna fifield is the beijing bureau chief for the washington post — she's summed it up, "no sense of failurepicked up by 38 north — their managing editorjoins me now. what is your view on what that image beads? this was one of the measures that not korea offered as a unilateral confidence manager at the beginning of the talks. they started to dismantle the testing as well as the launch pad, which is used by satellite launches. that activity really stalled in august of last year. we have not seen any more activity until about mid february, and that is when we started to see activity picked up, and between needs february and march two —— mid february and march two image, this started to rebuild the pipes starting to be dismantled. this is a signal may be that the north koreans and the overall frustration in the process , and the overall frustration in the process, that is a sense that the us has not given anything yet. but also, if north korea is not getting what it wants in the process, i think this is a signal that they are billing to take back of unilateral measures as well. the fact that t