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
secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th
you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the travel show. this week on the travel show. we ve got the struggle of equality being queer, and we ve got the struggle of equaltiy being indigenous in this country. how pride reaches one of the world s oldest cultures. things like this make me happy because it s ensuring that things are changing. how to see the world without being able to hear it. you would see that the smell is close, but then the next smell is different. and a teetotal tipple in the land of wine. it s good actually! i don t like it. hello there from sunny paris, where later on in the show i will be finding out whether the city of love is ready to relinquish its favourite drink, but first. we re off to sydney, which is celebrating 50 years since its first gay pride week. and five since same sex couples were given the same marriage rights as everybody else. so that s made this year s pride events all the more special, as jackie wakefield has been finding out. the
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the pope has said he will take part in the mass celebrating palm sunday in the vatican. a smiling pope francis was discharged from a hospital in rome in just the last few hours where he was receiving treatment for bronchitis. our correspondent jenny hill is in rome. it s a lovely morning in rome. good news for the pope. it s a lovely morning in rome. good news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands of news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands of people - news for the pope. good news of the tens of thousands of people who - news for the pope. good news of the | tens of thousands of people who have come here to saint peters square. it s an enormous significance to catholics the world over because it s not holy week, the the most significant week in the catholic calendar. many were horrified on the idea that the pope might not be able to participate in the proceedings. he appeared very relaxed, smil