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
we will start in iran. politicians in iran are insisting that wearing headscarfs should be enforced rigorously they re demanding that judges enforce the law. across the country, a growing number of women are going out without hijabs in public. joining here with me is parham ghobadi from bbc persian service. just talk us through what is happening right now. why are authorities cracking down now? because of what we see is happening today in iran is that many women in big cities like tehran and other major cities, theyjust walk big cities like tehran and other major cities, they just walk around on the streets without headscarves and without hijab. without hijab, not only headscarves, for four decades iranian women had to wear to walk in the streets. now we see especially young women walking on the streets without any sort of hijab and iranian politicians and iranian dutch mic that has frustrated iranian hardliners. so the regime rigid regime is a a difficult position becaus
the murder of zara aleena, just days after he was released from prison. the chief inspector of the service says it is chronically understaffed . it is impossible to say whether the murder could have been avoided but we did find severe deficits in practice at many stages of jordan mcsweeney s supervision. nhs representatives will appear before mps on the health and social care committee to discuss the situation in a&e departments across england. let s cross live to the house of commons and listen in to the health and social care committee address the situation in a&e departments. a more nuanced question than that, demand has a bit with those figures, however, the reason we run into trouble is not the ancillary demand, the ability to deal with the demand. if we look at things like hospital admissions from an emergency department, those have remained relatively static. we have had problems with increased crowding, problems with increased crowding, problems in care in our depart