Finds a roundup used by gardeners and farmers the world over contributed to a mans cast. Also on the show its time to get smiling its International Day of happiness from beijing to london to lagos we ask people around the world what makes you happy. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us a father and son who fled the civil war in syria for a better life in new zealand have been buried in christchurch is the first funeral for victims of the mosque shootings that shocked the nation a far right extremist has been charged in connection with the attack that killed fifty and wounded dozens. Two members of a syrian refugee family were among the first to be laid to rest in Christ Church cleave mustafa and his fifteen year old son hamza came to new zealand fleeing war before they were gunned down by a white supremacist in a mosque last friday among the mourners mustafa says younger brother he suffered gunshot wounds to his leg during the attack. Heavily armed police to guard outside another reminder of the horror of what happened. The nation is grieving with its Muslim Community. And Prime Minister just cinda are down once to demonstrate that. Were is a desire to show support to the Muslim Community as they were tuned to mosques particularly on friday there is also a desire months New Zealanders to mock the week that has passed since the terrorist attack. To acknowledge this they will be a two minute silence. On friday we will also broadcast nationally via t. V. In seed and Radio New Zealand the core to priya. And with the outpouring of sorrow the message is clear we stand together in the face of terrorism. Lets go straight to new zealand were joined by chris a permit journalist based in auckland good morning thanks for being with us its a very solemn day for new zealand. Indeed brian good evening here new zealand is still in mourning but people are banding together and this the Prime Minister just into arguing that our hearts are strong but our spiritus our hearts are heavy but our spirits a strong every day theres news about a vigil happening in one of the cities in new zealand and more vigils are planned in the coming weeks in the coming days and s. Twenty nine wounded victims remain in hospital with eight in Critical Condition including a four Year Old Girl boys in a special are still going hospital in auckland people are still praying people are still hoping but i would say the general feeling is hopeful that these horrific attacks would only make new zealand stronger as a nation a chorus of the Prime Ministers and organ was hoping that all the victims of being returned to their families by today has not been the case. Yes all autopsies of fifty people who died in the mosque shooting staff in complete however only thirteen until. Today earlier in the afternoon have been released. New zealand time and the first three gnarls happened earlier today to get off the four victims including the father and son who arrived from syria few months ago tonight its mild we survived by these queen brother and another victim whose name is suppressed and hopefully they do the try to release the body to the families by the light although its already eight pm here and the police finished their investigation at the scene yesterday night and words are currently under way for misty al gore to reopen so the Muslim Community can return to pray there this friday afternoon. Chris give you tell us how this is a tragedy affected the National Attitude towards gun ownership. The Prime Minister admitted that there were massive loopholes in new zealands gun loss that needed to be addressed and while adding these would be addressed by the new legislation that her cabinet is currently working on and the new legislation would be announced in the coming days earlier the finance minister also mentioned the possibility of a gun buyback and meanwhile New Zealanders are beginning to hand in their firearms voluntarily to police and at least forty weapons have been handed in so far by a person joining us from new zealand from auckland thanks very much for being with us. Ill check some of the other stories making the news this hour the new brazilian president hire both an r. O. Has cemented his political friendship with President Donald Trump at the white house the president said he would work to designate brazil as a major ally even suggesting its membership in the nato military alliance and. The u. S. State of nebraska and adjacent states of the cleared an emergency after catastrophic flooding waters cut off road access to a Nuclear Power plant and inundated farmlands across the u. S. Midwest president mike pence traveled to nebraska to assess the damage. The European Unions chief negotiator has warned that a no deal brax it is still possible Michel Barnier said any delay your company cost of the e. U. And must be linked to a new political process in britain by mr friess amaze likely to request an extension to article fifty during a summit in brussels coming up on thursday. Hes. The president of kazakhstan as announce hes stepping down after three decades in power he didnt explain his decision Seventy Eight grohl has led kazakhstan since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine when it was still part of the soviet union songs due to hold a president ial election next month. Or one is to mozambique now where aid is starting to get through to communities devastated by syke loan you die six days ago heavy flooding has emerged submerged roads and countless homes so although aid is now arriving getting it to people remains difficult more than two hundred are confirmed dead at this point in mozambique but the death toll is likely to rise its being described as the worst humanitarian crisis in mozambique history. Heavy flooding and prolonged bouts of rain a compounding the destruction week by cycling last week the storm and floodwaters not only engulfed roads and bridges they also wiped out Communications Networks across the region and many of victims once again finding themselves in danger. This mother is one of hundreds of thousands who lost their home shes worried about her newborn as Food Supplies in the shelter for low. They didnt own doesnt last night i havent eaten anything yesterday i saw that food was running out i went in asked and they told me that food was over and until now ive had none. Thats because the floods and heavy rain which followed in the storms wake a hindering aid workers efforts in some areas floodwaters a meters deep most rural area streaming cut off from help. Police is the latest focus is. Already stopping and we think in terms of holding. Rescue us also working around the clock to save lives many victims as to trapped on rooftops trees and all the remote areas and the region is bracing for more heavy rain in the coming days flooding has become to pick his threat mozambique is facing right now. Bring in jamie list or his Emergency Response manager for the red cross and birol which has been especially hard hit good morning to you jamie the u. N. Is calling this the worst storm disaster to hit africa in decades whats the situation where your. Well its still raining. That and its going to rain for a couple days more so we are on the second disaster in a few days and its actually going to get more space and sleep we know that cycling to die hit us directly in by a and that the it continued on toward zimbabwe. Amount of water so the Flood Disaster is another disaster on top of the cycle and so were keeping visibility on both and our focus to the operation right now is immediate lifesaving activities search and rescue making sure people get sued blankets shelter water everything they need to stay alive because this is where our focus is at the moment ok getting resources to keep people alive where are people going right now with so much of by rofl audited and uninhabitable. That were setting up Accommodation Centers that have been thirty seven ists outposts in numbers expecting to freeze thats the site on affected population for those who are flood affected were also moving them to Accommodation Centers to keep them set up we have Rapid Response team going out in helicopters this morning to support moving people from the houses from the top of their roofs on their houses and in some the trees to put them on safe and dry land were doing everything we can with our aerial assessments to make sure were going to not at risk places for future flooding that are completely dry and where we can get access to them quickly this is one of the main challenges for all of us here ok is certainly sounds very challenging. Jamie are you out of area are you managing to find safe and dry areas that are going to be safe even with as you said the new rains coming on. Yes for us this is nonnegotiable point we absolutely need to find low risk safe dry areas so we have International Experts and shelter from around the world that are supporting on this the red cross is a coleader of the shelter strategy here and helping to ensure that were finding that dry land and setting up the places where people need to be jamie thanks very much for coming in and being with us today jamie or and all the best you from urgency response with the red cross. Well journey United States has delivered a blistering decision on bio of weed killer round up and found it was a substantial factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old man now this is the second time a jury has found that his main ingredient life is a cause non hodgkins lymphoma roundup is made by the Us Company Monsanto which is owned by the german chemical giant bio. A landmark verdict could affect thousands of other similar cases buyers it was disappointed with the jurors initial decision case now moves to a second phase to determine the countrys financial liability and potential damages. For more im here with the w. s Stephen Beardsley from the business desk good morning stephen morning run this looks like a bellwether case doesnt it that potentially could cost triple digit figures for buyers yeah its going to be expensive and this is actually a bellwether case thats a legal term its often used in Product Liability cases like this when a Company Faces hundreds maybe even thousands of cases against it the judge will often pick one case and say this is the one thats what were going to use retest the merits were to see how that goes and then well produce the others afterwards what was interesting about this case is first of all its the second case to go to trial i think you mentioned there was another case in august of last year that was in state court in california the First Federal trial the federal judge said this will be a bellwether case Going Forward what was interesting is it was actually separate into two phases one was evidentiary phase against roundup itself and the other is months antos sort of knowledge of whether round up and the chemical in a glass to say it was problematic and it was supposed to actually be an easier case you know months on to win and they they didnt. Choose a month acquired months after just over a year ago now there must have been a sense back then of the potential liabilities of round up which is one of monsantos best sellers right there more than eleven thousand cases in state and federal court against. Now by are related to round up. On claims of. Lymphoma or other cancers that were caused by this said because of this when buyer acquired monsanto last summer the c. E. O. Venerable men actually said at the time that the Safety Assessment of life is it had not changed that they were come to comfortable with it at the same time is that they couldnt really understand the full risk in front of them so you can see that there was knowledge of there was a patient they couldnt fully gain but there was also they believe an upside to taking that risk going to get a better picture they just needed to look at Investor Sentiment the markets have been nervous from the very beginning about this acquisition yeah absolutely i mean so after the first trial for example the stock fell thirty percent because it showed that there was such a nervousness about this legal exposure and it hasnt really come back up since the buyers stock that is at the same time you have to remember that there is an incredible upside seen two months on so and seen to the seat and history that its involved in in terms of Global GlobalFood Production which is becoming more and more relevant issue with Climate Change with land use things like that so the future prospects of the technology that monsanto offered were seen as such that the the risk perhaps were taking some outside analysts have put the legal exposure for these cases to five billion dollars to settle them for a buyer it acquired months on two for sixty three billion dollars last years that gives you no idea of the scale of perhaps an outside assessment of legal risk with you know what the money is at stake here to actually acquire this company as this case moves forward will learn more about the exact liability numbers even beardsley thanks very much for the diffusers as. Well diplomatic ties between germany and the United States appear to be going from bad to worse and a lot of that has to do with berlins funding levels for the nato military Alliance President trump has been pressing berlin to meet its goal of allocating two percent of g. D. P. For defense but germanys newly released budget numbers show defense spending still off target triggering a new round of tensions. U. S. Ambassador to germany Richard Grinnell is continuing to raise tempers in berlin on tuesday he accused the German Government of quote reducing its already unacceptable commitments to military readiness unquote calling it a worrisome signal to germanys nato allies and fact the new budget features a small rise in both absolute military expenditures and the percentage of german g. D. P. Spent on defense. But those outlays arent enough for grinnell or his boss u. S. President donald trump germany is well short of the two percent target agreed to at a nato summit in two thousand and fourteen and expenditures in coming years are set to remain twenty five billion euros below what germanys own defense ministers says she needs. German chancellor Angela Merkel defended the budget plan as being part of a slow but steady hike in military spending. Harmonising this year we have one point three five percent of g. D. P. According to growth projections for nato expenditures and weve gone from one point one eight to one point three five in only a few years despite robust growth. And next year well increase the amount to a projected one point three seven percent of g. D. P. By the end staying in the German Government is annoyed at what they see as grinnells meddling a leading member of merkels Coalition Partners the social democrats shot back mr grinnell is a complete diplomatic zero. Members of the opposition have even demanded that the controversial ambassador be expelled thats a near impossibility but tensions over defense spending between berlin and americas embassador are likely to continue. Well for more on these new tensions Political Correspondent simon young is with us in the studio good morning simon lets start off if we could with the calls for grinnell the u. S. Ambassador to be expelled they come from a probusiness german politician from a party committed to the transatlantic relationship are we in new political territory here thats right both could be the Deputy Deputy leader of the f. T. P. Co calling for ambassador grinnell to be declared persona non grata i think its just a measure of how ugly this dispute has gotten and the ambassador has got politicians here in germany of all parties saying that hes interference in these domestic question of germanys budget spending is completely unacceptable golding it provocation and so on and you know that even from those who support an increase in military spending as we know the president has long the key jim many of the free loading on the u. S. Military power to end the tunnel may well get even tougher in the coming weeks even in two weeks time the nato member countries a. G. T. Gather for a commemoration of the seventy. Three of the founding of nights and ways that happening washington d. C. You know these difficult times for nato diplomacy ok and you talk about tone coming from the ambassadors residence here in berlin and its not just the military budget in the past weve heard about the iran trading from ambassador goodell sharply criticized and most recently over the past few days the call for now warning that the u. S. Would scale back intelligence sharing over the five g. Network if wall way the chinese check giant was involved just this is a long laundry list that that hes tweeting on quite often hes tweeting and indeed it seems the rest of the group now wrote a letter to the German Economy minister paid out why. M