alongside the minister for civil defence, our focus is to ensure that police and the national emergency management agencyl of the resources they need. the national emergency management agency is leading the bond and an active police search and rescue operation is under way at. 80 wa nt to rescue operation is under way at. 80 want to hand over now to the director of civil defence of the national emergency agency and our deputy police commissioner to give an update on the information that we have two hand. our thoughts are affected with everyone affected by today's eruption at white island and oui’ today's eruption at white island and our immediate priority is helping those people. the new zealand police are running the search and rescue operation and can certainly speak to that, but the national emergency management agency co—ordination ce ntre management agency co—ordination centre is activated and we are working to assess the situation and co—ordinate any required government resources. the national emergency management agency is leading the response, we do not expect this event to have any significant i

well new zealand police are continuing to work with the national emergency management agency to look for search and rescue operation but currently they cannot access the island it is deemed too dangerous to do so they confirm also that there is no communication with anyone still on the island and now a no fly zone has been established were there any warnings saw a bell this before it happened any signs that this volcano was about to erupt. well and it was reported that the gas output and volcanic tremor levels on the island at the highest level since 2016 possibly suggesting that the volcano was entering a period where an option was more likely. a member of the press asked the prime minister on why there are still tourists within the area prime minister said there will be time for questions about how it was for people to be on white island on the high alert level but at this moment the focus needs to be on the search and rescue operation person thank you very much for bringing us up to date that was journalist corrosive paramita there in auckland new zealand now to some of the other

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supporting the national emergency management agency following an eruption at white island off the coast. do keep in mind this is a situation. around $100.00 people were on or around b. island at the time and some of. the counted for a number of people reportedly injured and are being transported. joins us now from auckland so rachel what else do we know how how remote is this island how difficult is it for people to get to. good action it's not very difficult at all to get to we have helicopter to with which go there and also the boats but the problem is that it is of all kind of which is a ruptured so there are issues around that with a quality being one of them and also the danger that comes with an erupting volcano so we have and the agency tames which out on their way there as we understand that nobody has managed to reach it as yet however just recently the volcano alert level has just dropped down so they site has been monitoring the volcano sensitive updated and the activity has decreased which means it's a little bit more cipher for them to access the island so we are expecting

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