hello and welcome to bbc news. the death toll from a series of tornadoes that have ripped through parts of the united states is rising. at least three people have now 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! 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 keep it here, we re gonna follow it. certainly looks like a tornado. oh, my goodness. siren wails 2a peopleare in h
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. earlier, i spoke to bbc s parham ghobadi and asked what prompted this latest move. in big cities like in tehran and in other major cities, they just walk around on the streets without headscarf and without her job and without hijab, it s not only headscarf, it s also a kind of trench coat that for four decades, iranian women had to wear in order to walk on the streets. so now we see, especially younger women walking on the streets without any sort of hijab and iran. iranian politicians and iranian heart that has frustrated iranian hardliners. and so iranian regime is in a really difficult position because they have this tiny margin of supporters that are hard liners, and these are the people who are willing to pick up arms and defend the regime. now, they
we can t wake up in 20 years with 2 million andrew tates. teenage girls tell the bbc how they were contacted online by the influencer andew tate and his brother. and fright night on sea how southend is becoming something of a global capital for amateur horror movies. 0n the bbc news channel, britain s number one is knocked out of the australian open, beaten in the third round by a rising star. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. more than 50 countries have been meeting today to discuss sending aid, and weapons, to ukraine. there have been pledges of missiles, armour and combat vehicles, but the allies weren t able to agree on sending heavy tanks, that ukraine s government says it needs to break the deadlock in the war. russia has warned that providing tanks would mark an extremely dangerous escalation. here s our europe correspondentjessica parker. this is what kyiv wants, but can t yet have. german made leopard 2 tanks, as part of hopes for hundreds of weste