have been left homeless by a tornado. at least 25 people have died in mississippi with one person killed in alabama. the two boats carrying migrants think of the coast of tunisia causing 29 people to die. others are still missing. and the uk government announces that possessing laughing gas will become a criminal offence for the first time. you are watching bbc news now it is time for witness history. hello and welcome to witness history. i m farhana haider at the people s history museum in manchester with more remarkable moments from the past as told by people who were there. in this episode, we look back at five campaigns and protest movements led by women. coming up, we ll hear about the fight for the equal right to pray for women at the western wall injerusalem. the argentinian forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes, the anti nuclear protest that was the biggest women led movement in the uk since the suffragettes, and a watershed moment for canada s indigenous people. but
in the us state of utah. giving evidence, the oscar winning actress said she d been hit from behind by terry sanderson, who claims he was the victim. from the suburbs of paris to the cambridge university boat race crew it s been quite the journey for 21 year old noam mouelle on sunday, he ll become one of a very small number of non white oarsmen to take part in the historic annual contest on the river thames. he s been speaking to our sports reporter, james burridge. je m appelle noam mouelle, etje prepare la boat race avec cambridge. it s quite something, i would say, it s very challenging. there is a lot of pressure, obviously. i ve never been that stressed, stressed out about rowing in my entire life. noam mouelle s mum wanted him to do an outdoor sport. little did she know how far that sport would take him from the suburbs of paris to the wild and lonely great ouse, for one of rowing s biggest endeavours, the boat race. when you tell people in france, so people who do
this is bbc news, the headlines. a tornado has killed at least 23 people in the us state of mississippi. trees and power lines have been torn down and tens of thousands of power outages have been reported by residents. tensions continue in france with demonstrators clashing with police in st solene, in the west of the country, during a protest against plans for a new water reservoir. the unrest follows weeks of protests over president macron s pension reforms. vladimir putin says russia has struck a deal with neighbouring belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory. putin told state television that belarusian president, alexander lukashenko, has long been raising the issue with him. a massive asteroid is expected to pass between the earth and the moon this evening. experts say it will pass by safely and can be seen through binoculars and telescopes. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for witness history: women led movements. hello and welcome to witn
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. fbi director christopher ray says it s most likely covid 19 emerged from the chinese government controlled laboratory in wuhan. in response, china has accused the fbi politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. 0ur north america correspondent john sud worth reports. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now three years after the start of the pandemic, they have burst out into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. here, you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. from the start, many scientists believed that covid had passed naturally from animals to humans. some of th
edinburgh so no frost tonight. this is tomorrow a lot of cloud to start with, it will break up through the afternoon. are suspect to the east of the mountains in scotland and the east of the pennines and elsewhere, sunny spells possible as well. temperatures of 11 13 so just above the average point of the high pressure still close by around the near continent opened at the shape of it is still the same so that means the weather will be more or less the same. it s all to do with the wind direction. where the cloud breaks, temperatures about the same, it may be a degree lower on sunday, not that you will notice the difference. the next spell of weather or rain is expected around mid week, probably reaching western parts of the uk on wednesday and wednesday night into thursday spreading a little further to the east. that is still a bit of a question but certainly a monday and tuesday are looking to dry across the bulk of the uk, perhaps a little cloudy at times but wherever you