hello and welcome to bbc world news. at least 18 people are now known to have died as storms and tornadoes ripped through the united states, leaving a trail of devastation. hardest hit were tennessee, arkansas and indiana. in illinois, one person was killed when a theatre roof collapsed. the storms came a week after a tornado devastated a town in mississippi, killing 25. 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 killed, dozens injured, in this state alone. the governor declared a state of emergency. i think the real story here is
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
biden set to lay out his budget proposal to the nation in a few hours. mj lee is following this. walk us through what we believe the president s priorities will be, particularly now since he does not control both houses of congress. reporter: we do expect the full details of this budget to come out in a matter of hours but there are major come po ne components of the budget that we know. we know the president is going to propose cutting the deficit by $3 trillion, this is notable because in recent weeks he s been talking about that figure being more like 2 trillion so this is more aggressive. we know he wants the cuts to the deficit coming in part from taxing high earners and large corporations. he has said he doesn t want to put extra taxes on people learning less than $400,000. we are talking ant tbout thingse allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices and savings there would go back to the program. and boosting federal fund for early education and child care, including m
train on the job. that s the new approach for this new shortage. airlines need to hire 610,000 new mechanics globally in total over the next 20 years. united calls the program cele celebrate, and does it by have been people apresentition in-house. there s 6,000 on top of that through traditional hiring means. this is so critical, who has not waited on a plane from the airlines because of a mechanical issue? remember, airlines got smaller over the pandemic. united sell that calibrate is thei theically, to train on your own, $50,000. if you apresentics, you maybe $24 to $52 an hour, you get paid the entire time. there s so many labor shortages, we ve been telling you about pilots. they have the avian academy, airlines are trying to tackle this issue, especially with the holidays on the horizon. we know staffing issues have created a lot of delays. pete muntean, thank you. also the top of the hour, i m bianna golodryga, victor is off today. the federal reserve is racing in