hello and welcome to bbc news. the governor of mississippi has warned there are significant risks of more severe weather after a tornado left hundreds homeless. president biden has declared a major emergency in the state. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside. and these are the latest drone pictures after the tornado struck carving a path of destruction 170 miles long. at least 25 people were killed in mississippi and one person in alabama. dozens have been injured. our north america correspondent sophie long reports from mississippi. this is rolling fork, a small, close community in mississippi. there is little left. they ve lost loved ones, their homes, everything. we get storms like bad rain or, you know, probably high winds or something. but we never experience nothing like this where it can wipe out a whole town. you know, schools, children, you know, parents, loved ones. it wiped out everyt
Lebanon: even coffee is political
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about that amazing journey. lots more as well on the bbc website if you re looking for a more in depth analysis on that story. but i want to tell you about something quite different now. 110w. when you work on an international news channel, you have folks coming in from lots of different time zones. so its safe to say we sometimes get our days mixed up. that means i ve got some sympathy with the people of lebanon. people there have been waking up in two time zones, with the country s political and religious authorities unable to agree on when the clocks should go forward. the caretaker prime minister, najeeb mikati, announced that daylight saving would begin at the end of ramadan in late april, allowing those fasting to enjoy their first meal of the day earlier. but the christian authorities insist on the change on the last sunday in march, as happens most years. they have not yet sorted that out. they have not yet sorted that out. you have been watching newsday. stay with us. i want t
the caretaker prime minister, najeeb mikati, announced that daylight saving would begin at the end of ramadan in late april, allowing those fasting to enjoy their first meal of the day earlier. but the christian authorities insisted on the change on the last sunday in march, as happens most years. wael taleb is a journalist for the lebanese newspaper l orient today in beirut. he told me what s going on. yes, it s very confusing for everyone. we have now two time zones in the same country. i don t think another country has that. what s happened is that, as you said, the caretaker prime minister and the parliament agreed on this, because it was the muslim fast, to ease their fasting because it makes their fast an hour or less. so because both of them, the caretaker prime minister and the parliament speaker, are muslims, the christians, and because it was a move made for muslims, the christians,