Vladimir putin talks Vladimir Putin talks of restoring greatness of restoring greatness to what he calls the russian to what he calls the russian world an expansive Territory World an expansive territory which, as ukrainians know which, as ukrainians know to their cost, to their cost, stretches far beyond stretches far beyond russias current borders. Putins expansionist russias current borders. Putins Expansionist Nationalism requires military power, nationalism requires military power, but its harnessed the to February 2022. But its harnessed the cultural spiritual authority cultural spiritual authority of the russian of the russian Orthodox Church, too. Orthodox church, too. My guest, andrey kordochkin, my guest, andrey kordochkin, was a russian Orthodox Priest who spoke out against was a russian Orthodox Priest the ukraine war and the putinisation of his church. But is he swimming against but is he swimming against an unstoppable tide . An unstoppable tide . Andrey kordochkin, welco
hello to you in the uk and around the world at least 21 people are now known to have died as storms and tornados ripped through the united states leaving a trail devastation. hardest hit were tennessee, arkansas and indiana. in illinois, one person was killed when a theatre roof collapsed. these pictures have just come into us in the past hour showing the storm passing a car in arkansas and as you can see, the pictures speak for themselves. with all the latest, the bbc s sancha berg reports. dozens of storms and tornadoes left a trail of destruction, two of the fiercest touch downed in the southern state of arkansas. tearing off roofs, bringing down power lines, sweeping through homes with incredible force. the rate of pace and the the volume of itjust seemed rather intense and it was extremely dangerous. it came through a set of double doors and ploughed through my house, out of my front door which has steel bars in the front of it. several people have been kille
council. politicians in iran react to the flouting of headscarf laws by women insisting the rules must be enforced rigorously . and a critical incident is declared at the port of dover causing gridlock for travellers hoping to get away for easter. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. at least 21 people are now known to have died as storms and tornados ripped through parts of the united states leaving a trail devastation. hardest hit were tennessee, arkansas and indiana. in illinois, one person was killed when a theatre roof collapsed in chicago. these are among the latest pictures we ve received showing the storm passing a car in arkansas and as you can see, the pictures speak for themselves. with all the latest, the bbc s sancha berg reports. dozens of storms and tornadoes left a trail of destruction, two of the fiercest touched down in the southern state of arkansas. tearing off roofs, bringing down power lines, sweeping through h
theatre collapsed. one person has been killed, dozens injured. this latest destructive weather arrived just as president biden was visiting mississippi where he promised help to those were hit by another tornado last week. sancha berg, bbc news. russia has taken over the presidency of the un security council, in what ukraine says is a slap in the face to the international community, because of the on going war. the presidency is rotated among the council s 15 members every month, and the last time russia had the role in february 2022 vladimir putin launched his a full scale invasion of ukraine. our ukraine correspondent, hugo bachega is in the capital, kyiv and sent this update. there have been angry reactions after russia assumed the rotating presidency of the un security council, which is the top security body of the united nations.
over the presidency of the un security council, in what ukraine says is a slap in the face to the international community, because of the on going war. the presidency is rotated among the council s 15 members every month, and the last time russia had the role in february 2022 vladimir putin launched his invasion. ukraine s president vlodymyr zelensky said it showed the need for the institution to be reformed. there is no form of terror that russia has not already committed. and there will be no reason to do. the reform of global institutions, in particular, un security council. the reform that is obviously overdue to prevent a terrorist state and any other state that wants to be a terrorist from destroying the piece. terrorists must lose, must be held accountable for terror and not to put anywhere.