and, fancy footwear, we ll tell you about the huge convention in asia dedicated to the humble trainer. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the united states, where authorities in several us states have been assessing the damage caused by severe storms and tornadoes. at least 21 people are now known to have died, as storms ripped through the south and the midwest, 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 last few hours of the storm passing. this car in arkansas, and as you can see, the pictures speak for themselves. 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 homes with incredible force. the rate of pace and the volume of itjust seemed rather intense and it was extremely dangero
upset, angry, but not worried that s how donald trump s lawyer has described the former us president s reaction to his indictment by a new york court. he will appear there on tuesday, charged with falsifying business records. at least one felony offence is included that could result in a jail sentence. it s all linked to alleged hush money paid by mr trump to the former porn star stormy daniels. our north america correspondent gary o donoghue reports from new york. this manhattan courthouse doesn t normally look like this. but then, it s not every day a former president gets charged with a crime in fact, it s never happened before. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald trump district attorney alvin bragg, a democrat and a prosecutor in america s highly politicised legal system. but if mr bragg was saying nothing, the former president wasn t so reticent. he s called it: ..and his opponents: no one is above the law, not even a former president o
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s just bring you an update from the us state arkansas. we have been reporting on a tornado that ripped through the state. the governor, sarah huckabee sanders, says at least two people have been killed. at least 2a others have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. governor sanders has declared a state of emergency. arkansas is close to mississippi, which has just suffered its own tornado disaster. our reporter shelley phelps has more. oh, my god! it s coming our way, y all! ripping away building tops, uprooting trees and flipping over vehicles, the catastrophic tornado started moving through little rock on friday afternoon. this was the moment a weather presenter spotted it while live on air, giving warnings to locals. here it is and could be a strong tornado, ef2 or stronger. this is exactly what we didn t want to happen today. over reservoir road at this time. over reservoir road. we re gonna k
the death toll from the latest series of tornadoes that have ripped through parts of the united states is rising. at least three people have been killed in the states of arkansas and illinois. dozens have been injured and tens of thousands have lost power. the governor of arkansas, sarah huckabee sanders has declared a state of emergency. our reporter shelley phelps has more. oh, my god! ripping away building tops, downing trees and flipping over vehicles, the catastrophic tornado started moving through little rock on friday afternoon. this man told cbs news what he saw. and through our window i saw a transformer back here that kind of blew up. i saw that the lightning strike, it kind of blew up, caught me off guard, went in the bathroom, closed the door, and then all of a sudden, it was just like so much wind everywhere. it felt like kind of like the house was shaking and things were kind of like being thrown against it. and it was just something i never experienced before.
leaders promised unwavering support for ukraine and designated russia as a direct security threat. i did my to get at the james base was at the summit, military plans for the future in the coming months and years and for the next 10 years because he s also announced something called the strategic concept, which is nato s strategy plan going forward. designating rusher is that principle threat, but also interestingly saying that there are many challenges that nato potentially faces and nato nations face from china. but in terms of the immediate threat with the war in the ukraine, they are putting more forces into the eastern flank of nato. into those countries closest to russia, they re going to make some of those forces more permanent. the u. s. which is mainly based in poland. that is where it has its battle group that is going to have the largest number of any nato forces in poland. that s where they ll be more than any of the other battle groups. and that is the 1st. busy