. >>> mexican president enrico neito says he will appoint a new special prosecutor to search for the's disappeared. he didn't commit to an internationally led probe which has been demanded by the families of the 43 missing students. mariana takes a look at the event that led to the students' disappearance. >> reporter: it was in late september last year that around 100 mexican teacher trainees joined protests for education reform. they had taken over a number of public buses in the city in guerrero state when local police and armed men reportedly fired on them. two students and three bystanders died, 43 students went missing. two days later mayor ho lay luis denied ordering police to stop the students from disripping a speech his wife was giving. 22 local police officers were arrested that day. within two weeks of the students' disappearance the first of many large-scale public demonstrations. the mayor and his wife were in hiding. but a few weeks later they were arrested in mexico city and charged with organized crime, kidnapping, and murder. an official investigation blamed the may

elements, those that were injured in the tack are being treat ed in hospital, the mexican president enrico peÑa neitoemned the tack on his twitter account describing it as a tragic defense. john hulman gave us the reaction from the mexican government. >> reporter: it's late sunday here, so there have been no government officials actually coming out to speak about this. but there have been statements especially on twitter the mexican president said that he was demanding a thorough investigation from egyptian authorities over what has happened here and he's also said that he is adding to the diplomatic sort of personnel in egypt to attend to the people that have been injured in them. of coursthis. of course he has to say those two things the reality is there isn't much of a diplomatic relationship between egypt and mexico what, there is is a positive trading in one trail things. so the repercussions of this, what seems to be a than i can sort of accident more than anything, don't at this stage appear to be something that's going to magnify in the coming weeks. >>> tensions are still high around the com