Celia Hatton

And that soldier still has to be identified properly.

So, you know, joy for one family, but there's going to be obviously grief for another one to come.

Sarah Rainsford in Kiev.

To New Zealand now, the country's deputy prime minister has been booed after saying that colonization had a positive effect on the country's indigenous people, the Maoris.

David Seymour has since said he is unfazed by the reaction to his comments, which he made in a speech on Thursday marking Waitangi Day.

It commemorates the first treaty with the Maori population.

Then, a day later, during a dawn prayer service, David Seymour was relentlessly heckled.

Bernadette Kehoe tells us more.

CHOIR SINGS

Thousands gather at events in New Zealand to celebrate the country's National Day.

It marked the first signing of New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and Maori chiefs in 1840 and is an annual gathering that also gives indigenous tribes a chance to air grievances.

The current backdrop is increased tensions as the government pursues policies considered by some to be anti-Maori.

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour, who has Maori ancestry, has been accused of trying to take back rights from the indigenous community.

This is what he said in his speech.

I'm always amazed by the myopic drone.

that colonisation and everything that's happened in our country is all bad.

The truth is that very few things are completely good or completely bad.

His comments provoked an immediate reaction.

The next day, during a dawn prayer service, when he started to address the crowd, dozens of people started booing and shouting for him to stop, with one blowing into a conch shell.

There will be so many joys up and down this country...