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at least 18 dead after a series of tornadoes, 10 through several us states damaging homes and bringing down a theatre roof during a concerts. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm to mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. is rainy's out in force for their saturday night protest against the government, no pacified by benjamin netanyahu. delaying his judicial overhauled. russia takes over the presidency of the un security council despite its president being wanted by the international criminal court. ukraine says it's a slap in the face and the deadline arise. so tracy uses to pay off or lose the blue tick, the verifies their accounts. ah,

hello and welcome to the program. are ascii was, have been searching for survivors off to tornado swept across 6 american states in the south and mid west. at least 18 people have been killed. dozens more, have been injured. tens of thousands without power and thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed out there is party call haine. brings us the latest now. oh, it was the warning heard across several states. take shelter. a tornado is coming. this was just one captured on video. the national weather service issued 450 tornado warnings, and as many as 65 were spotted, search and rescue operations are still under way. and the death toll is expected to rise in arkansas, alabama, indiana, mississippi,

and illinois. oh, here the roof collapsed on a few 100 people attending a heavy metal concert, killing at least one injuring dozens, some seriously. now across a vast stretch of the south and mid west. oh, the cleanup begins. but a war zone. i mean, look around the cars or when children with these cars or move they were, you know, in the park that way and just debris everywhere. scariest thing i've ever been in arab brian and i had to say like, their math when. well, that's what it is, a lot of person. it was quick less than 1520 seconds, just seconds for this much destruction. this is a part of the country that is used to tornadoes, but not usually this many at once. it costs a lot of money when you respond to disasters of this size and we have so many disasters that we are responding to. in fact, i believe i heard this morning about 16 major disasters across the united states.

so it's a very costly endeavor. power lines are down in several areas, leaving $250000.00 people without electricity and the storm that caused it all. also spark fires in the south and blizzards in the north and as they begin to rebuild, keeping their eyes on the skies. more storms are on the way. patty calhane al jazeera washington, arkansas governor sarah huckabee saunders says, federal support is on the way. i've had the opportunity for the last couple of hours to speak with the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support, anything that arkansas needs. they have assured us that those resources will be here on the ground. and b, c journalist, emily acadia has a bit more on this now from little rock, arkansas. evidence of the sheer force of these storms. just about every where you

look here in little rock, arkansas, behind me, you look at those store fronts. they are completely blown. now i actually just spoke with the gentleman who was inside one of those stores. he saw the tornado closing in with such a force. he says it blow him back by about 10 or 15 feet more evidence of those powerful, monstrous winds. take a look right here, where does this describing cars being tossed as if they were toys, this one flipping on to another, and that's the scene really across this entire parking lot. here in pulaski county, arkansas, there have been more than 50 people, hospitalized one person, according to authorities, have been, has been tragically killed looking east were more people killed in cross county, arkansas. the governor here declaring a state of emergency, a search and rescue missions continue to play out today. the other thing you'll know in the background, you might be able to hear the sound of the beeping up construction vehicles. the

buzz of chainsaws as the faces, massive clean up after an arkansas isn't alone. there were dozens of reported tornadoes across 7 states in the mississippi valley. i'm emily, come in little rock, arkansas. ah, tens of thousands of protest is of turned out for a 13th week in israel, against prime minister benjamin netanyahu supplied judicial overhaul. rallies have been held in tel aviv jerusalem hyphened all the cities. this, despite netanyahu delaying the changes by a few weeks in order to reach a compromise with the opposition, your mains define refusing to bow to international pressure after president joe biden, i should to abandon the plans altogether. oh, and in the last hour there been scuffles knitting protested in police and tele leave. as the authorities tried to clear the street organize his intelligence

estimate that 230000 people, turned out there, abandoned smith as lie frizzy that he's been reporting on. historians have been it . it looks as though pam nessa netanyahu's attempt to put an end to these protests hasn't worked. no mine hasn't the were most people been drifting home now from this one and televi vassily, few under china block a highway, but soon at least our estimates we were given close to 200000 paps similar to that at the beginning of the week. and it's been really a tumultuous week in israel. it began when benjamin netanyahu tried to fire his defense minister for suggesting that there was concern the armed forces over plans of this judicial overhaul that prompted a massive spontaneous st. demonstration. at the beginning of the week, van is general strike on monday persuading nan, yahoo said to at least hotline of consultations with opposition groups about how to go forward this legislation,

but is not shelved it. and people here tonight wanted to remind him that they want this legislation dropping completely and burden you have been speaking some of the protest as a hearing about hundreds of thousands being on the streets that i would have been telling you. remember that a lot of the protest is here from across the political spectrum. there are people who voted for netanyahu's liquid part in the people from opposition parties as well . so it's a bit large spectrum of the population that is opposed to this. what is called a judicial overall, i mean a lot of people, he really don't believe the prime minister when he says he's gonna genuinely engage in consultations. that sort of view we got from people here. there was a big march on thursday of that was also for that from the far organized by the far right. the people in favor the protests, but there are a lot less of them than there are here. now. benjamin netanyahu has his last cabinet meeting on sunday before the jewish pass over holiday. they'll have all

seen these protests, but they'll be a lot of pressure on him in that cabinet meeting from his far right coalition partners to push forward with this judicial overhaul, which will give politicians more say, in the appointment of supreme court judges. one of the people speaking here tonight said that the government has a dangerous ideology and is willing to sacrifice everything for it. i expect perhaps a bit of a sort of a passover or piece during the religious during that holiday. this will probably the last big protest before then, but they will of, i imagine pick up again after that holiday when parliament comes, there comes back for it's a session after paso. i thank you very much putting cash and kelsey fan. it's never ranked annette. when other developments are followed, today's reli media is reporting that 3 people have been injured in a rhyming attack in the occupied. why spank is up in the bait, oma israeli forces say, the suspect was shot dead at the scene. according to the paramedics,

one of the wounded is in a serious condition. and then earlier on, a palestinian man was shot dead by israeli security forces. navy alex must compound . they accused a 26 year old of grabbing and offices gone. this happened around midnight. witnesses a was trying to stop them harassing a woman on her way to the compound. the man has been named as mohammed holiday say, be from hora, a bed to an our village in southern israel. local media says that he was a doctor. incident has raised fears of that being more violence, especially at a time to height intentions in the region. there are other top story today. russia has taken over the rotating presidency of the un security council for a month, spite as president, being wanted for war crimes by the international criminal court. ukraine's foreign minister was tweeted saying that russian un security council presidency is a slap in the face to the international community. i urge a current us the members to thwart any russian attempts to abuse its presidency.

you will so called it a bad russian joke, referring to the news coming on april fools day, where ukraine wants russia removed from the council altogether. as diplomatic editor, james bass has more in this now from the un every month, the presidency of the un security council rotates among its 50 members. today, russia is assuming the presidency for the month of april. that's deeply controversial because when russia had the presidency last year was february, the month that they invaded ukraine, there are people calling for russia to be kicked off the security council or kicked out of the united nations. but if you look at the rules and you look at the un charter, those things are not possible. what we do know is that later this month, the russian foreign minister. so gay lab rockers will be here in new york, you'll be sharing a number of meetings, including one in defense of this document, the u. n's founding charter, other diplomat say that is very cynical when it's russia that is currently

breaching this charter with its ongoing war. james bays al jazeera of the united nations. oh, richard gown is the underwrite trip international crisis group. he joins me now from new york. does this deal yet another blow to the relevance and credibility of the un security council? i think we shouldn't overestimate the importance of russia having the presidency when the presidency is largely a procedural functional job. it's about convening meetings. it's about shuffling paper. i mean, i can fully understand that too many people, especially people in ukraine. it seems pretty grotesque that russia is presiding over the security council in the current situation. but i actually don't think that it gives moscow a significant platform to do much diplomatic damage to the ukrainians there just to be care about. there will be no material impact from russia taking over the

presidency. it's not something they could use to influence the agenda on ukraine to work in their favor. they do have some power over the council's agenda for the monks, but to be quite honest, i think the russians are a little nervous themselves. i think they realize that they are in the spotlight in new york now. and if they do the presidency to try and put some sort of pressure on the ukrainians, they're going to get a huge amount of blow back. the russians have actually laid out a really spin series of meetings for april, a lot of days, which are currently not going to involve any security council meeting the tool. and i think that's because russia knows that they are on the defensive in the u. n. system and if they try to use the presidency for malign purposes, it will actually do the more harm than that. of course, i guess more broadly they,

they don't really have to do anything because they're a permanent member of the security council. so any attempt to try and tackle the invasion of ukraine, or indeed, as we seen in the past, many other international conflicts name, namely, syria can be easily extinguished with a veto. but moscow has used a veto to ensure that the council has taken no meaningful action over ukraine. i think it is worth saying, though, that the russians have been quite restrained in their use of the veto. on other issues, the russians have not used that the so for example, over afghanistan or libya or, or other crises on the un agenda. i think they do value the security council as a space where they can do some residual cooperation with western countries. and they don't want to blow that up completely. and going to ask you these over here in these calls for russia to be completely removed from the care to counseling doesn't

appear to be any pathway to this within the, the un charter. and maybe you could speak a little bit to that, but also other members of permanent members of the security council also have been accused of had you monic, aggressive behavior as you well know, would it, would any attempts to move against russia on this hurt the, the body's credibility, if it's seen as something that only western american interest, i think that's right. i mean, the ukraine has made a very detailed argument that russia doesn't deserve it. seat on the security council, the tool, the ukranian argument is that russia did not properly inherit the permanency from the soviet union. at the start of the 1990 was mean and that's clearly a very good public line to take. it resonates globally. i think if you look at the, the details of ukraine's claims, sadly they don't stand up to close scrutiny. but you know, obviously for the wider public,

the fact that no russia continues to sit in the counseling continues to use it. the toe does seem rather an operation that said, i think that the u. s. in particular, understands that if you create a precedent, so it's throwing countries out of the security council, finding ways to stop the permanent members and then sitting in new york, then that would create some very dangerous precedent and would probably undermine the care of the security council altogether, richard gown, thank you for your, your analysis on this. thank you. so that for you on the program would be looking at side on friday. it's less mozambie short of food and in the grips of it was color outbreak for 2 decades will. so looking at why many south africans are suffering the same mental health problems as people in a country will oh

hello, there exceptionally high temperatures across the iberian peninsula, coupled with warm and dry conditions, with winds. haven't helped wild fires. fire fighters battling nose in the northern parts of spain, but there is some good news is going to be some relief in the form of wet and will wintry weather moving in on sunday. those northerly winds blowing down. i'm going to knock temperatures down slightly across northern and eastern areas of spain and bring a lot of that wet animal when she weather for the east and south. pretty wild weather come across central parts of the mediterranean. that is looking largely quiet across the north west for britain on the island of island war in the way of sunny spells and comma conditions, lots of sunshine coming 3 for scandinavia, with a wintry edge to western parts of russia down to ukraine,

but largely dry across northern parts of germany and into the low countries as we start the new week. but it's central parts of the mediterranean that are going to see the wild weather as we go into monday in particular for southern parts of it. moving into the balkans, it's going to knock temperatures down as it pushes its way further east. if we have a look at places like romania where the wind is set to pick up, it will be pretty rough as we go into tuesday. i'm very cold. that's your weather. ah. oh, gone time of spirituality reflection and gratitude raised the flakes all the floods every cold. oh yes i wonder is there a world well how leo hau reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chunks for the holy month. giovanni, this'll touched the hearts of all arrows. what amadon songs on al jazeera

lou ah ah, welcome back. look at the main stories of following now. at least 18 people have been killed off to severe storms and tornadoes. hit us. little rock capital of arkansas state has been particularly affected with as many as 2000 homes or businesses damaged or destroyed israelis of time down. huge numbers have 15, saturday nights in a row to protest against prime minister benjamin netanyahu proposed judicial overall. he's delayed it by only by few weeks. the protest to say this is a power lap, and this must be stopped. and russia has taken over. there were tating presidency

of the un security council for a month, despite its president, being wanted for war crimes by the international criminal court. crane is called about april, 1st, april fools, joke and a slap in the face for the international community. more than a 1000000 people in mozambique are facing a health crisis which puts them a higher risk of contracting, polio covered, and cholera. it follows a powerful cycle in the country, twice this year, damaging a $163.00 health facilities. this is led to the countries was color outbreak in 20 years with age of the 11 province as affected 12 other countries in africa. i've also seen a steep rise in color driven by conflict and natural disasters, including floods and drought. but cases have started to decline in most of these places and it's just not just the continent of africa, the well health one is ation is thank. there's an exponential rise in the number of color a crisis around the globe. but shortage of vaccines,

medicines and testing kits is forcing agencies to ration doses. in black reports cyclop freddy battered mozambique twice in a matter of days, destroying more than 130 homes and displacing an estimated 184000 people. water facilities clinics and medical centers were damaged, accelerating the spread of cholera, while the color of bricks, regularly grin was a big between october and april of every year, with more than 21000 cases. currently in 95 states, this is the largest outbreak in the last 20 years. it's not only cholera. the world health organization is also warning of a looming hunger crisis. the u. n. estimates about 3100000 people are in need of food assistance, access to safe boards and the patient is challenging. and about one 3rd of the crops have been destroyed. ah, for mozambique climate change is not

a future problem. the effects of prolonged severe weather patterns are ready, evident lena walkley al jazeera, focused on the police of arrested 8 people in the southern port city of karachi, after a deadly stampede. 12 people were killed in the crush ramadan, food and cash distribution point outside a factory. all of them are women and children. business owners often hand out cash and food during the islamic holy month, especially to the poor and needy. south africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world with nearly a 3rd of its workforce out of a job. countries also coping with high levels of crime, daily blackouts, regular protests of the cost of living and failed economic policies. we spoke to a psychologist about the impact of having on people's mental health. i'm professor sat scooper clinical psychologist based in johannesburg,

south africa. i think the situation is swan off, cravings, i, and t, and depression. it cause people feel totally helpless in a situation of crisis upon a crisis. no people, no individual can continue with a state of psychic emergency that applies in conditions like this. so in that sense, we have been experiencing the same effects of our country that may have been neck law, but effectively is it self help lines have increased with people are calling out for help and assistance. and it may not be an understanding that this is what's causing but the numbers arising and it's at the tail end of

a devastating covey. 19 pandemic as well. so all of that have all of these factors have conjoined to create this psychic emergency condition, where we simply have, if it's not one crisis to day, something else to morrow. and faith in leadership has been added to the lowest ever in our society. the psychological society or the groups like that can explain symptoms to people and this pre on line would be nice. there's help for pete persons. nobody who calls the psychology society is just turned away. yes. who may be despondent, but we have resilience. we've shown we have resilience in the past, and more recently, we have survived at tremendous cost. and we can do it again. don't lose your

sense of agency. you can change the security. it was a psychologist at their speaking about the impact of south africa as many problems and challenges on people's mental health. now, taiwan, that president is on a term to central america as she tries to hold on to dwindling allies in the region . sy, in when has been holding talks at the quite a mile and president or somalia and believes are the only nations in the region that maintain diplomatic relations with. ty was a trip, comes off to do as kat ties with type pe last month and recognize china aging. consider several taiwan parts of its territory to be taken by force if necessary. what was what tamala is a powerful ally of taiwan. and in recent years, we have continued to deepen our relations a few years ago with president take, we signed an agreement that will allow for food that di 3,

if you cation and innovation in technical cooperation between our nation was well out there is john holman, is monitoring president, size visit from mexico city, joins us now. and so john, if you could just explain to us why this visit is so important, obviously she's trying to sure out her allies in the region. but what does she seeking to achieve while she's there? i think exactly that she c king, the tie willie's president saw him when to hold on to the allies that she still go is now any 13 countries in the hold of the world that officially recognized told one, the diplomatic partners we tie one a lot of those a small states, some of them are island states. so countries even like what the mallor and the lease that perhaps of a world leaders don't treat as primarily important,

the taiwanese president is forced to do that. she needs to be able to hold onto them during these talks, you heard from her there speaking about the mutual sort of benefits of this alliance and of being diplomatic partners. really, that goes one way that's tie one, mostly feeding money into guatemala and support for it. i think later on today, she's probably going to visit a hospital in one of the zones in guatemala, that was built at least partly with taiwanese money. so that support from guatemala, the support from believe it does come at a price, but taiwan needs them. on the other hand too, it's will not be so vulnerable to have countries that efficiently recognize its right to exist. as you were saying, china's policy in china's starts is the high one is part of its territory and it's been pretty aggressive during sy in when's presidency. it's sort of wrested 9

countries who did recognise pie one away from the recognizing only china. so when she touched down on friday, really, it was important to keep that relationship going. and guatemala president come out as he has done and said that that friendship, his words is unbreakable and he, at the taiwan has the country's full support. very difficult to compete with chinese influence though, isn't it yet definitely. especially in latin america, you were mentioning just in central america, taiwan as last honduras. just in the last few days before this visit before then, nick and i will salvatore, the dominican republic, panama costa rica, all in central america had what side power was coming out for its election at the end of this month and the opposition candidate is as well saying that is going to consider moving from pie one to china. so when you are this country of a population of 23000000, very difficult to compete with the check book of china. and that struggle is just

going to continue for taiwan in this region. ok, thanks very much john hallman from mexico. so monitoring that visit, i tell wednesday i want you to die in went to the region. but frances is returned to the vatican after being discharged from the hospital. it briefly address well wishes and john listened. joke that he's still alive when they ask how he is that the roman catholic church is 86 fence 3 days and hospital in rome been treated for bronchitis is confound, you will preside over palm sunday. mass and speech is not the thoughts of the christian holy week, which ends with easter on april 9th. the deadline to pay for twitter new account verification system has arrived from april. first, individuals and companies have to pay $8.00 a month for the blue. take a symbol of account authenticity to it as long as the subscription service will reduce the number of fake accounts that many big names and organizations say they

won't pay up, including the white house. steven o'leary is the founder and managing director of ulta co company that monitors and analyzes social media. he believes, must you measure will help generate more revenue despite many people refusing to pay. if we think about revenue, i believe this will have a positive impact and, and ultimately twitter it under pressure to move away from an advertising only revenue model where we're seeing this across not just social media, but traditional media as well. our retention revenue is one source of income, but there has to be other ways to make money and must know this. and this is just one step towards trying to find additional ways to to raise money far for twitter as a platform. that a 2nd question, is it going to be better for users? that's much more complicated piece. really. the upside here isn't very clear. you know, the truth is absolutely central.