"Do you mind if I give you a hug?" The moment Waleed Aly met Jacinda Ardern.

When Jacinda Ardern and Waleed Aly met for an interview, in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack which killed 50 people, they greeted each other with a hug, initiated by the Prime Minister.

In a preview for the interview, which is due to air on Monday, the journalist and politician are seen greeting each other with a handshake, before Jacinda Ardern asks Aly, “Do you mind if I give you a hug?”

“Not at all,” The Project co-host responds.

“I know that might seem strange!” the New Zealand Prime Minister says as the two embrace.

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The journalist asks Ardern if becoming a mother to her daughter Neve has influenced her response to the Christchurch terrorist attack.

“Almost certainly,” the mother of one replies in the interview.

“I think it’s hard to sometimes analyse the way that you are changed by parenthood,” she continues, “but you feel it I think in your responses and your empathy.”

Aly also asks the New Zealand politician about her decision to wear a black hijab after the terror attack against the Islamic faith.

“I gave it very little thought, it was so obvious to me that would be the appropriate thing to do,” she replies.

Ardern continues: “So if in wearing the hijab as I did gave them a sense of security to continue to practice their faith then I’m very pleased I did it.”

In the preview for the interview Ardern is seen responding to one of Aly's questions, "I'm completely human in that regard". Since the twin mosque massacre in Christchurch, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been praised internationally for being a human first in her response, and a politician second - a sentiment that seems to be portrayed again in this interview.

Aly's interview with the NZ Prime Minister comes after he delivered a moving monologue on The Project just hours after the Christchurch terrorist attack occurred last Friday.

This is the second Prime Minister Waleed Aly has interviewed this week, after he sat down with Australian PM Scott Morrison for a 30-minute, commercial free chat on Thursday.

This interview will air on The Project on Monday night at 6:30pm.