Raising some concert among activists. The gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand has faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom sentencing herrings have begun for a stray and brenton tyrant prosecutors say he planned to the concert attacked carefully for years and intended to burn the 2 mosques down tired has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges and faces a life sentence without parole using my beloved microsoft sun its like feeling the pain of labor in my one again and again it is like losing a big part of me forever every time i look in the eyes of his daughter you left fatherless at the age of 2. His wife whether he says that his brother is that building you want it for it is heart written well both of you were crying it will never go out this way some. 4th inaugural through those sisters one group. No words to go describe work my heart speak as though its the spears. Of praveen men on is bureau chief ed Thomson Reuters new zealand he joins us live from wellington by skype where hes been watching the courtroom live strain. Having just tell us more about the sentencing how was tear and in court when q. Thank you for. Me. It was a very him off all session and a lot of show a lot of people came in and express their emotions terror and i was brought in. By the by the policeman and he initially and court and then he sat down and he was in prison. And for most of the time he was he was seen watching the proceedings looking at the people who were making the statements well there was little emotion to say out there so he was just basically observing how things go it about the emotions why people as you saw or heard a lot of or a lot of things to say this was their moment where they could actually feel a sense of closure d so it was it was a process for them as well to talk to the teller and well at this point for the 1st time since this incident happened. Tell us about how the attack sort of forced to new zealand to to confront things that hadnt had to before things like islamophobia or and white supremacy. Yes as you know all this these attacks on or were approached by egypt differently by news in that you know the moment this happened there was an outpouring of grief. By the Prime Minister just in order herself and that there really action from the community has been more of supporting. People who are actually lost loved ones or victims of this attack and it was a wakeup call for them for the country and the Prime Minister has said it was so that you know things are not what effect here but there is an effort now towards changing things thats all and that the countries are those 2 words racism towards islam folios with xenophobia and you know there is there is now acceptance of this. As as you say as you saw or even you know today on social media there was a lot of boring and support coming for people who were actually going to these statements for the Muslim Community themselves people coming out and showing their support in different ways so its a little of the intention of the attack was to divide 8. Actually the opposite has happened here is it. And. Finally a terran tis obviously already pleaded guilty and faces a life sentence without parole thats quite unusual for new zealand isnt it life a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Indeed indeed in new zealand such major crimes are rare until it was rerun till last year and this attack happened. A life sentence without parole has never been given any news of them before so this this will be the 1st time that a man or a course and faces life sentence without parole which is a big step but the nature of the crying and the extent of support or the impact that those courses made may force the court to lean towards it beyond oh we will know in the next coming days at some point in doing this will be talent will get an opportunity to speak conserves. There is there is a lot of restrictions on what the media can actually report from of from the courtroom so well have to see how that plays out but after a while after the victim statements are not apparent statement the judge will put everything together and take a decision on thursday ok thank you for that having men on bureau chief at Thomson Reuters new zealand thank you how is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion that large parts of the country without electricity 5 hours isabel managed to put out the blaze on the arab gas pipeline to just northeast of the capital damascus this was the scene a few hours ago there are no details yet on what may have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror the u. S. Envoy has blamed i still so hot has been monitoring the situation from beirut in neighboring lebanon. The syrian oil minister at 1st suggested that this could be a terrorist attack hours later he said after assessing the situation on the ground that this was a terrorist attack he did not provide more details there has been no claim of responsibility the area where this explosion occurred between the. Air these are in the countryside of damascus an area under the control of the Syrian Regime in fact there is no opposition presence around that area if we look further south where theres a low level insurgency thats approximately 100 kilometers away to the further east you do have pockets of i still territory in the desert but that too is quite far so its still not clear on what basis the minister is saying that this is a terrorist attack could it be if it if indeed it is then it is an indication that areas under the governments control are still not safe but since 2018 really the government has cleared the areas around the capital the opposition has the controls territory in the north of the country in the south it is under the control of the regime even though there is a low level insurgency there because there are many different security agencies who are from which are vying for influence and then you have for example live rebels socalled reconciled rebels who who are believed to carry out some attacks but in the overall picture areas under the government control you havent been seeing attacks like this they have remained relatively stable in the past 2 years. 2 explosions in the southern philippines have killed at least 10 people several others are injured in the town of harlow ensuite who province initial reports say a homemade bomb on a motorbike exploded close to military vehicles theres been no claim of responsibility. One of the biggest protest crowd seen in bellerose has packed the center of the capital minsk an estimated 200000 people repeated their demands for president alexander looking to resign despite warnings and the military being put on stand by our correspondents to boston isnt. After a week of threats coming from look at shankar this is a reply from the people of ballarat. Tens of thousands took to the streets of minsk in defiance their fear replaced by anger well armed soldiers and police were standing by families with small children shouted the president should step down mrs lowder can use some abrasion yes we have passed police several times and were not afraid anymore and our children are not afraid to you saying look at shankar now will get the message i dont think shes if hes able to get the masses but i i hope people around here will still be getting these messages more and more and believe in his team and stealing our team why are you not scared. I dont know i just are scared because you know the good people we all always it could be earlier good believes or but they will always. Put look at shankar in a detention vehicle these people are chanting meanwhile also viewed music this coming from the governments loudspeakers along with orders to stop the unofficial gathering. Ordering them to leave the square these people are not going anywhere with the military on standby this is the biggest of defiance from fleas and salaries so far since the disputed president ial vote on august 9th protesters have been in frying the authorities by gathering every day calling for an end to president took a shank us 26 year rule ahead of sundays rally the ballerinas army rolled into the central city streets a warning to. Those marching that any unrest mia monuments and statues would not be tolerated but the fear violent crackdown did not happen. When tens of thousands march towards local shank us residents on police blocked a road in what looked like a scene from a war movie was filmed flying over the city in the helicopter wearing an armed fast together with his 15 year old son in combat gear and the president emerged from the helicopter carrying a rifle. Many Thanks Police who guarded him at the palace they told him they will stay with him until the bitter and. An end that might just have come a little closer step passon aljazeera minsk. The russian doctors who 1st treated Opposition Leader alexina valley say theyre responsible for saving his life hes being treated in a german hospital after being flown to berlin in an induced coma from a siberian facility on saturday the head doctor in arms says he believes they gave the correct diagnosis and that no poison was found in his system the valley is the latest in a long line of kremlin critics to become seriously ill or die in apparent poisonings. Well dominic cain is in berlin and has more on the valleys condition. Well its quite interesting to juxtapose whats not being said by doctors here in berlin with whats being said by the doctors who treated us to the money originally in office here in berlin no updates as to the condition of missing up on the basically since saturday that he is here that a very wide battery of tests are being performed on him that once those tests have once the results of those tests have come through that the doctors will share them with mr van nice family and friends and only then will there be some form of statement contrast that with what the doctors who treated ms than of ali and saying that they are confident in their diagnosis they believe that they are the ones who saved his life that they did not find a poison they are confident they have come up with the right diagnosis and they say that their colleagues here at the shiny tails people here in berlin have thanked them for their work and say that the doctors here will have said that they will tell them when they know what is actually wrong with mr mr me but as i say theres nothing emerging from the official sources in berlin which woods confirm or deny what those people in are saying. Still ahead on aljazeera. Im pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the china virus that world save countless lives will have donald trump a starting as a major advance in the fight against covert 19. And will find out how many trillion tons of ice i mean lost this earth and other hate. How theres still a big gap between regular thunderstorms and stew late summer seasonal rain if you like and that gap is filled simply by quite nice weather to be honest but if you happen to be in sumatra or borneo column from singapore or the northern philippines its a pretty wet scene the moment theres quite discreet lined up as i say most of tolerance find you do get recurring showers work in cambodia and vietnam or 2 in java not that many and the winter storm thats just gone through australia particular south has not disappeared and is affecting new zealand nothing like a storm nor indeed is cold its left behind slowly improving weather and by a preview i mean temperatures are rising and the sky is becoming rather more something which has been the case in perth most a time anyway 21 degrees here but a cloudless sky otherwise generally far and has a better day for melbourne by a couple degrees. Fairly windy weather that new zealand i said gets the brunt of it but new zealands weather funny sees snow in the south the south island temperatures to double figures for the most part and the wind is slowly easing as a snows fits northwards and fades out you go to bed today on wednesday was temperatures in the low teens so most places about ready. From fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring Innovative Solutions to meet such demands as a Global Power Development of Investment Company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against eastern mounds we provide Business Growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound Energy Solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy. Youre watching aljazeera remind all of our top stories this hour the gunman who murdered 51 people at true mosques in new zealand has face survivors of his attacks and a call for prosecutors say he planned the crosshairs attacks carefully for years intended to burn the 2 buildings down. Power is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity firefighters managed to put out the plays on the arab gas pipeline northeast of the capital damascus. 2 explosions in the southern philippines have killed at least 10 people and injured others initial reports say a homemade bomb on a motorbike exploded close to military vehicles in the town of hollow in some new province has been no claim of responsibility. Further unrest in southern iraq is threatened after a deadline set by protesters for the resignation of the local government expired demonstrators are demanding justice for the killing of 2 prominent activists iraqs Prime Minister has visited besar to try and calm and go reports from baghdad. A deadline has come and gone but these protests are still dont have what they want. They had demanded the resignation of governor over the killing of prominent activists for now they say theyll continue to protest. On saturday Prime Minister must suffer arrived in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d. C. He met local politicians with the hopes of calming the anger on the streets but he had a warning for those looking to cause trouble either decided he couldnt would you believe this is a message to all criminals like killers this is a new government that is working to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish. Security and prevent crime id like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the governments lol they want a ski punishment on the killers will be brought to justice very soon id like to tell the criminals who are. Seen and the young female doctor that your blog will be a true for justice. 33 year old is the young female dr Prime Minister called to me refer to she was a prominent activist investor and let several womans marches she was killed on wednesday when gunmen with assault rifles riding a motorcycle opened fire on her car. Days earlier gutman had shot dead activists seen osama their deaths spoke days of protests and on rest fueled by anger protestors set fire to local government buildings in the southern iraqi city demanding those responsible be brought to justice and calling for the resignation of the provincial governor danny the recent rise in targeted killings poses a challenge for the new Prime Minister there have been nearly a dozen attempts on the lives of well known activists this month and 4 have been killed 3 of them in basra the Prime Minister dismissed the local police chief last week after osamas death in response a number of senior tribal leaders issued a statement saying the armed themselves if the government fails to protect the people this is the worst unrest the city has seen since last years protest which led to the resignation of Prime Minister of the lobdell mighty. Is known as the wealthiest province in iraq its home to most of the countrys oil reserves yet it has some of the worst facilities of public services. Years of mismanagement and corruption have led to protests on a regular basis this mural of seen osama the father of 4 who was killed in basra in august 14th quickly went up in Tahrir Square in the capital shortly after his death and that death is a constant reminder of the risks that activists and protesters face in iraq on a regular basis as the new government tries to bring some stability to an increasingly volatile region door search of aljazeera baghdad. Sabotage is being blamed for an explosion at an Iranian Nuclear facility last month wrongs Atomic Energy organization isnt saying who was responsible for the blast tons the head of the uns atomic Watchdog Agency is due in iran hoping to visit silence is suspected to be storing undeclared nuclear material. Is president of the National IranianAmerican Council he says there are several reasons why iran has chosen to release this information no. I think the timing is whats most notable as this comes with the i. A. E. A. Director headed to iran looking to result some of these outstanding issues with iran and you have the sequence of events. At the u. N. Security council last week the United States being shut down in its efforts to snap back sanctions on iran and some very tough statements from europe and others and you how do you ron actually say ok were ready to result some of these difficulties with the i. A. E. A. Result some of these questions and now as the i. A. E. A. Chief hence to iran theyre saying our facilities are being sabotaged by to me it sounds like perhaps a form of leverage or a negotiating point as they try to work with the i. A. E. A. To sort out some of these lingering issues so i think the iranians are are trying to show that look they are paranoid there are legitimate concerns that they have about the security of these facilities and so as theyre granting access to that for other facilities there is this paranoia and its need to deal with the fact that there are actors out there who do want to sabotage these facilities this also does give the iranians further incentive to bury their enrichment facilities underground which is one of the main can point of contention during the Nuclear Talks where iran agreed not to put its facilities in the in the underground the fordo facility and so for iran this is actually an sent an incentive to further hide and bury its facilities that theyre not expose these acts of sabotage. The u. S. President has hailing the authorization all that emergency peasant treatment for covert 19 as a breakthrough and he uses the plasma of recovered patients to treat fires patients theres no evidence of benefits. Is a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins center for Health Security he says the president s actions will hurt the response to the crowd a virus treatment. When people recover from the crow virus they develop antibodies and what convalescent classman does is takes their blood the portion of their blood that contains those antibodies in transfuse that into someone who has corona virus and those antibodies help to neutralize the virus help them recover quicker and this is something that has a lot of biological plausibility but we do not yet know whether this works because we dont have randomized control data to show that it is definitively beneficial i believe the president s move will hurt the medical community we were able to get convalescent plasma ive given it to every patient that i needed to give it to ive had no problems giving it to them under expanded use with the f. D. A. What the president s move does is makes it very unlikely that well get a randomized controlled trial result so we may end up in the end not knowing whether or not this worked or not and thats not how we want to do medicine we dont want politics to be injected into the f. D. A. Decisions we every time the president has intervened in this pandemic it isnt it is actually hurt the response of the pandemic so we saw this with hydroxy clark and we dont want to repeat of this this is actually something that there is a promising signal here and we want to know exactly when to give it and who to give it and the only way were going to know that is through rigorous randomized controlled trials and this is going to discourage people from enrolling in the trials because the president has now and put his finger on the scale soto speak. Hong kong is joining the global race for a coronavirus sexy voluntary mass testing is being launched next month to combat whats being seen as a 3rd wave of infections devika pollen reports hong kongs latest outbreak was the worst and most widespread prompting the government to impose its sick to social distancing measures here its proved effective for now but according to the medical community here this will not be the last wave for the city overnight and ours is a very smart virus so it is behaving more and more like in france so its likely to be staying with us for a long story and the way to combat this virus will be by vaccination dr ivan hung is a very religious treating current virus patients at one of the citys main hospitals and its working with the university of hong kong to develop a vaccine hopefully of vaccine will be able to go into phase one in the coming november and the vaccine will be inhaling vaccine its still in the early stages of development but at least 5 Chinese Companies are already in phase 3 of Clinical Trials thats the last stage of testing required for approval which means they could introduce a vaccine for public use by early next year for now hong kongs government believes mass testing is the best way to control the spread of the virus or in the past month weve been the only hong kong private lab or tree to be appointed by the whole government for Mass Community testing on the past month weve already done 200000 tests and we will continue that with the high cluster areas danny and is the c. E. O. And cofounder of primitives its one of 5 Companies Unlisted to help with mass testing set to begin next month kinetics will continue to focus on high risk clusters all the other 4 companies all subsidiaries of mainland chinese firms who spearheaded the voluntary testing dr Hong Kong Government was. To test at least 5000000 people in about 2 weeks a team of about 60 experts from Mainland China that will be leading the process that along with the fact that the majority of the companies conducting the tests links across the border its raising concern and suspicion among some on sunday activists and local politicians how the News Conference calling on people here to be wary of the free government testing offered the mass testing of Hong Kong Government is trying to get the data from hong kong people and may pass to the chinese company. Verbiage that they. Want to put on the target or even sent to the fun chinese top 40 the government has dismissed the claims saying that no samples will be sent to the mainland and the laboratories will not receive any personal information if you go pollen hong kong. Lightning is forecast in california increasing fears of sparking more wildfires 6 people have been killed nearly 700 buildings damaged large areas of learned scorched in the past week President Donald Trump has signed a major disaster declaration to give more help tour on 14000 firefighters battling the blazes. In the u. S. State of louisiana 2 storms are expected at the same time on monday hurricane marco has already been lashing islands in the caribbean its expected to make landfall in the u. S. Sometime on monday after being downgraded to a Tropical Storm another storm called laura is also on its way. Our warming planet has caused a staggering 28 trillion tons of ice to disappear and less than 30 years british Scientists Say rising sea temperatures are the main factor behind the melting polar ice sheets and higher temperatures are causing glazes to melt the researchers say nearly half of the total i sloss has added to rising sea levels and warn that millions in the in low lying areas could be forced to move by the end of the century the british study also found that the loss of ice is causing increasing Global Warming instead of solar radiation reflecting off the what i spec into space heat is being absorbed into the dark is seen soil now exposed professor will steffen from the Climate Council of australia explains what needs to be done to slow the ice melt. Stopping is going to take a long time because theres a huge momentum in these massive ice sheets but its really important that we slow it down and we can slow the rate down if we get our emissions of Greenhouse Gases down deeply and very rapidly because ultimately its the increased Greenhouse Gases which are warming the air and warming the surface waters of the ocean and use the 2 factors which are destabilizing these ice sheets when i says is on on the sea white the Arctic Sea Ice when that melts that does allow the absorption of much more sunlight which is increasing increases the warming particularly in the Northern Hemisphere yes the climate models do do that and thats one of the reasons that the mortals get better theyre actually projecting higher temperatures for the same amount of Greenhouse Gas emissions thats because they include now more of these socalled feedbacks changing climate they were losing some of habitat for example from creatures that live on the ice at least part of the year like the polar bears its making life a bit tougher for them and i think also because were seeing a lot of meat increase of crush water on top of the surface but thats changing the ocean circulation which means that there are changes in the nutrients being delivered for fish and other marine life so its a complicated food chain that is being it was but were pouring a lot more fresh water onto the surface of the ocean. This is all just there and these are the top stories a gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques in new zealand has faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom sentencing herrings have begun for straitly and brenton tyrant prosecutors say he turned the cross Church Attacks carefully for years and intended to burn the 2 mosques dome town has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges and faces a life sentence without parole he listened without displaying emotion as survivors read out their statements paul is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity firefighters managed to put out the blaze on the arab gas pipeline northeast of the capital damascus said hala has been monitoring the situation from they range in neighboring lebanon on. The syrian oil minister and 1st suggested that this could be a terrorist attack hours later he said after assessing the situation on the ground that this was a terrorist attack he did not provide more details there has been no claim of responsibility the area where this explosion occurred between the other r. And l. Do mair these are in the countryside of damascus an area under the control of the Syrian Regime in fact there is no opposition presence around that area if we look further south there are where there is a low level insurgency thats approximately 100 kilometers away 2 explosions in the southern philippines have killed at least 10 people several others injured in the town of hollow inside 2 province initial reports say a homemade bomb on a motor bike exploded close to military vehicles and see no claim of responsibility. The russian doctors who 1st treated Opposition Leader alexina valmy say they are the ones responsible for saving his life is now being treated at a german hospital after being flown to berlin in an induced coma from a siberian facility on saturday about voicings have killed or severely sickened many kremlin critics the headlines one news here on aljazeera right after witness big washed up on this edition of talk to aljazeera well take you on the journey with us to qatar as diverse wildlife well be joined by a marine by mentioning that and also a conservationist will be discussing the impact the potential Uncontrolled Development could have on these diverse wildlife species living here if im protected. d right on top of. You out differently than. You and i see over you are. Our. Video showing. Do you know. With me. Now