ministry of education, who are here with me today. police, the intelligence community, department of prime minister and cabinet, the ministry of civil defence and emergency management, the ministry of foreign affairs and trade, the department of internal affairs, the ministry of business, innovation, and employment. the defence force, new zealand customs, and our transport agencies. this is the first of what will be a series of regular stand—ups with relevant agencies who are involved in the response. i will provide you with a brief operational overview and then hand over to my colleagues, who will provide overviews of their activities. please note i will not be providing or covering any police matters, because this is best addressed by them. central government agencies with a focus on supporting communities are working together to understand and assess community complexities and needs.

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people that belies the truth japan's population is rapidly declining according to japan's ministry of internal affairs as of january twenty seven team the number of japanese fell by a record three hundred thousand to one hundred twenty five point six million the population decline is projected to continue one solution place workers with robots . another challenge japan is now considered the world's senior citizen according to the united nations its population is the oldest in the world and the strong reason is that we're going to have. seen that we need to have more by robots is that one reason why the elderly is a target population for robots the two reasons they're quite on this to and they're you know they're good for accepting the roberts so they're feeling the some sort of pressures from the normal people and the and they prefer to speak with their all was well it's difficult for me to imagine using robots in a carrying and nurturing sort of situation can you tell me a little bit about how you imagine that would happen if you look at the and there was smartphones we couldn't imagine that this kin

ministry accuses. of interfering in that as well as internal affairs after he expressed support for opposition leader quite know germany is among the countries backing why those bid to oust president nicolas maduro. only freedom says this. thanking germany his words approved by deputies in venezuela is opposition controlled national assembly with. germany backs one venezuela's legitimate leader. it seems that's one reason the government of his rival nicolas maduro has told the german ambassador to leave the country. oh yes very. this regime the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be sane by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i mean israel and. its aims the madeira regime want tolerate anyone who wants to help then it's why law. i would use with the german envoy i was among a group of diplomats he met quite at the airport on his return to caracas on monday helping him advocate arrest. so far daniel crean a is the only one of them to be expelled the government accusing him of meddli

of last week's hanoi summits. are venezuela's government has declared germany's ambassador persona non grata and is demanding that he leave the country the foreign ministry accuses daniel cleena of interfering in venezuela's internal affairs that's after he expressed support for opposition leader why don't germinate is among the country's backing why those bid to oust president nicolas maduro. lonely freedom says this lawmaker thanking germany his words applauded by deputies in venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly. germany backs one quite as venezuela's legitimate leader. it seems that's one reason the government of his rival nicolas maduro has told the german ambassador to leave the country. this regime the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be same by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. mean it seems the madeira regime won't tolerate anyone who wants to help venice why la. i wouldn't say that the german envoy was among a group of diplomats who met quite at the airport on his return to caracas on monday helping him evade arrest. so far daniel crean a is the only one of them to

ministry of business and evasion and employments visa services facilitating image and see faces families of the injured and those that have passed away in face ministry of foreign affairs and trade and communication with international partners about information regarding the attack and providing travel advice and information on accommodation and venue's with visitors can attains to pay their respects and sympathies. the footage related to the tech has been classed as objectional objectionable so it is an offense under the new zealand law to possess share and to host it i understand the department of internal affair as is planning to issue an updated media statement around digital safety so more information can be found there. public condolence books are available the palin meant and the national library of new zealand and mulls with strace in wellington the national library is banned from nine am to five pm monday to friday and nine am to one pm on saturday. the plan from here is i will take questions at the end but introduce eight each speaker and then we'll have a period for questions so i can officially hand over to actually bloomfield for the ministry of health will provide an update thank you. procure the cuts

to leave in israel within forty eight hours the country's foreign ministry accused him of interfering in the country's internal affairs that's after creedal and other foreign ambassadors went to support venezuela's opposition leader one guy in the arrived at caracas airport on monday. you know. for more on the story i'm joined by our chief political correspondent lyndal crean at our elementary students linda what more can you tell us about this move above it is very. well venezuela declared to the ambassador persona non grata on grounds that he had interfered in domestic politics and certainly the ambassador has had some pretty clear words of support for one why don't know as interim president of venezuela after some initial hesitation germany together with other e.u. member countries did acknowledge or recognize mystical ideal as interim president months ago in the beginning of february and we can hear a brief sound bite from the german ambassador after that in which he strongly expressed his support for mr goh i don't know because my daughter knows what i mean not only does nicolas maduro lack the democratic legitim

persona non grata and is demanding he leave the country the foreign ministry accuses daniel cleena of interfering in venezuela is internal affairs that's after he expressed support for opposition leader one why do germany is among the countries backing why doe's bid to oust president nicolas maduro. lonely freedom says this lawmaker thanking germany his words applauded by deputies in venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly. germany backs one quite venezuela's legitimate leader. it seems that's one reason the government of his rival nicolas maduro has told the german ambassador to leave the country. this regime the disease power has no right to declare anyone persona non-grata this is simply a threat and that's how it should be same by the free world the german ambassador and his country have helped bring in humanitarian i. think it's aims to madeira regime want tolerate anyone who wants to help venice why law. already is with the german envoy was among a group of diplomats he met quite at the airport on his return to caracas on monday helping him evade arrest. so far daniel crean a is the only one of them to be expel

country but sana non-grata on its website venezuela's foreign ministry accused dannielle krishna of interfering in the country's internal affairs he has reportedly been ordered to leave venezuela within forty eight hours . and for more on this breaking news story i'm joined now by our chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda what more do we know about the reason for this moves by venezuela. we don't know a whole lot venezuela apparently has accused the ambassador daniel cleaner of intervening in domestic politics in venezuela most likely because of the ambassador's presence at the airport when one boy i don't know returned to the country two days ago as you may remember a number of embassadors especially from the region did go to meet him along with with thousands of well wishers who were there and on this occasion the german ambassador was present and he did speak to journalists saying that he and germany very much hoped that to mr god or will be permitted to continue has his work as president of the national assembly and apparently this is now grounds for accusing the ambassador of as i say intervening in domestic

of meddling in libyan internal affairs. the warning coincides with riyadh hosting the renegade libyan warlord. the saudi foreign ministrys thating made assurances the kingdom is keen on libya's security and stability. >> there are about 10 countries meddling in libya and working closely with the secretary-general and i keep him posted of whatever information i receive. i requested him in turn to advise the security council on this issue. anchor: italy and malta say migrants have hijacked a merchant ship that rescued them off the coast of libya and it is now heading to malta. 108 migrants were picked up by a cargo ship and are said to have taken control of the vessel after discovering it was taking them back to libya. the e.u. has been criticized after it agreed to withdraw ships patrolling the mediterranean for migrants. member states recalled their rescue ships. it will still conduct air patrols. italy has refused to allow those picked up by the operation to disembark at its ports. the leader of a far right political party in australia has referred al jazeera to the country's top intelligence agency. this comes after a

including saudi arabia of meddling in libyan internal affairs the warning coincides with the riyadh hosting the renegade libyan warlord highly for have thought the saudi foreign ministry says king solomon made assurances to have tar that the kingdom is keen on the security and stability they know how i see that there are about ten countries meddling in libya and working closely with the secretary general and i keep them posted to whatever information they receive as a result of interference. i requested them in turn to advise the security council on this issue. meanwhile italy and malta say migrants have hijacked the merchant ship that rescued them off the coast of libya and it's now heading to malta under and that migrants were picked up by a cargo ship and are said to have taken control of the vessel after the scuppering it was taking them back to libya. the e.u. has been criticized by rights groups after it agreed to withdraw ships patrolling the mediterranean from migrants it took the decision after member states recalled their rescue ships though it will still conduct air patrols italy has refused to allow those picked up by the operation the besom bark at its po

least nine other countries of meddling in libyan internal affairs the warning coincides with riyadh hosting the renegade libyan warlord honey for half tar the saudi foreign ministry says king solomon made assurances the have to add that the kingdom is keen on libya's security and stability. let you know how i see that that healthy libya that are about to come through and meddling in libya and working closely with the secretary general and i keep him post to do whatever information it received as a result of interference by dostoevsky requests to them in turn to advise the security council on this issue. the european parliament has voted to push through a ban on a range of single use plastics ten products including plastic plates straws cutlery and cotton buds will be prohibited across the e.u. by twenty twenty one the e.u. will also aims for ninety percent of plastic drink bottles to be collected for recycling by twenty twenty nine and all bottles are seconds it consists of at least thirty percent recycled material by twenty thirty the european commission put forward the legislation last year after its research found that plastics made up eighty percent of europe

ministry added that the russia collusion fame has been driven solely by internal us political. let's discuss this further now of course live to i guess gregory copley editor in chief of defense and foreign affairs thank you for joining us on the program mr copley and now republicans in the senate have blocked a democrat proposal for a full public when he saw them in his report democrats have to demand that that's their political ploy they know full well that it cannot be released in total at this point because a range of legal reasons including the fact that there was a lot of evidence which was given so it's going to take a long time for a lot of the legal hurdles to be overcome for the full report to be legally released if they are almost certain that they would release it or leak it in defiance of the legal constraints on some of the other content of that reality is that we saw robert noyce issue a statement of a report which condemned or. painted the president in a bad as bad a light as he could do it because that was his objective was as a prosecutor he was there to prosecute the president and this is as bad as he couldn't he could paint a picture the reality is that it's not very badly pa