i expect our pm to. drive. us. to. the end. this is the to the news live from berlin at least twenty three people are killed in our tornado in alabama the storm has caused devastation as parts of the state emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the wreckage authorities fear the death toll will rise. also coming out i am i think are in algeria as thousands protest against the president's decision to run for a fifth term the ailing leader is offering to step down within

a year if he's reelected but will that be enough to appease the protesters. and in the bundesliga will look at a clash between both byrd and bremen it was a painful weekend for many teams including title contenders. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us at least twenty three people have been killed after a tornado tore through the u.s. state of alabama alabama the worst hit areas around the town of bureau guard in lee county now emergency workers there say the damage is catastrophic tens of thousands of homes are without power many buildings have been destroyed the death toll is expected to rise as rescuers search through the rubble. a tornado filmed from a far as it wreaks havoc in alabama and this is what it left behind.

the devastation it's all too clear to see in the small community of borough of god one of the areas west hit in lee county. here the violent twisted destroyed everything in its path. for those in the eye of the storm it was a terrifying experience. that i was watching. everywhere and we were. going to come out. as we were just trying to get out of this area right here and you mention you often get free as you were driving yes we're going up around the corner as i was making for it up there around thirty eight and therefore the area right here. is where emotion is going you know. as stage of

emergency already in place in alabama to last month's funding has been extended with many people having suffered serious injury in the storm the authorities are warning the death toll may rise. did abuse all over salat is following the story for us he sent us this update. so the area affected we're talking about is on house but on my live several miles long if you look at the pictures of the think that the area where the tornado touched down it shows the disaster you can really tell about what one power of this tornado must've had you see hundreds of trees taken down like matches houses that were devastated literally chopped into pieces and there's one area that was particularly affected that is south of the city of opelika and alabama where twelve people at least are

reportedly killed a survivor describes the situation as something he has seen in his whole life search and rescue still going on it's nighttime there in alabama right now. the rescue forces there have problems carrying on survivors are taking to the hospital some have very serious injuries reported lee people are still missing out on fatal t.'s have been identified and so is the situation in flux there but one thing use sure you know this is one of the deadliest tornadoes hitting the region in a long time. all right new anti-government demonstrations have broken out in algeria after president idolizes bouteflika announced he would run an elections next month people have been taking to the streets for the last ten days to protest the president's plans to stay on for a fifth term but it's like a says he will step down within a year if he's re-elected but it's unclear if that will appease the demonstrators.

demonstrations are officially banned here but that didn't stop thousands of people from taking to the streets these protests have been going on for almost two weeks now most of the demonstrators are young and they want an end to the beautiful making era which has lasted twenty years i actually think i'll jarius have gotten over their fear on the streets to show that we reject the system of government we're calling for freedom all kinds of freedom including freedom of the press that's why we hear that there from gulfport a lot. more here to denounce this mafia our government these criminals who have taken the people hostage she wants to make a man who is parity a life president again g m a m p a plus given for. the man the protesters are unhappy with president putin registered on sunday to run again in the upcoming

election or more to the point he had his team register for him the president himself was in a swiss hospital in geneva officially just for a routine check up he's been in a wheelchair since suffering a stroke in two thousand and thirteen and rarely makes public appearances his reaction to the demonstrations is what he's always done when things get dicey try to reassure the public he's promised to call for early elections should he get reelected whether that would be enough to calm the unrest is far from certain. the only thing that would work to get the people off the streets is if the president announces his candidacy so that could be done on medical grounds. however at the moment that doesn't look likely geria is in fact a resource rich nation with large gas and oil reserves but recent drops in the price of crude oil has hit the economy hard every day life has become a struggle for many algerians almost half of the population is under age twenty and

unemployment remains high people are frustrated and the. government seems to be paralyzed to people outraged at the president who has become more or three tyrion yet he himself has barely been up to the task of ruling and his closest allies have gotten rich over the years that people don't know whether beautifully to himself has decided to run again or someone else decided for him. across the country protesters are demanding a new better future to flee because rule may very well be coming to an end what happens afterwards raises many questions opposition parties are hopelessly splintered and powerless these are indeed decisive days in algeria. oh and we can talk to a journalist sophia and philip nasr he's covering the protests in algeria he's then the center of algiers the capital and he joins us on the line so tell us what you've been seeing what you've been witnessing while covering these protests over the last few days. right now i'm going downtown.

there's a lot of police deployed in the streets but it's quiet right now because after yesterday when the teacher campaign manager handed in the paper for the candidacy people went to the streets again at night and protests and staged protests and marches countrywide. to focus on soon since they started. impressively peaceful. from both sides actually like we have to we have protesters who are marching in all over the country and beyond your kazan what it would have been to sleep confrontations between protesters and huge huge forces when i was here's what protests are expected to dance in two thousand and one but it's a it's an impressive and cheap full atmosphere best on the market full to last friday when we've seen the children some of these women taking to the streets knowing that they can actually do it right now right and yes this is practice for you that no protest yes ok and why has the government allowed these protests which

are unprecedented as you said in the in their size in their strength why has the government allowed these to take place. this is an interesting question in cheek but what we've heard what he's getting with you know she really is a semi ultra particular gene. and all those protests were bent and are huge there was simply too many people in the street and when it comes to the ruling elite what you can with a fragment of three g. we have several fractions of a part of the routine with each and since the oil rammed this down and for sos and fourteen there's a clash of clans so there are several groups within the regime fighting against each other and it's quite likely that we have certain groups within the regime who would be quite happy to get to pick up. and explain to us how algeria got here president with a black eye he's eighty two years old he's in poor health he's rarely seen in public why is there no alternative. so i alternatives of course but it's

not known which person might be the outcome of the ongoing on the left. for dui charge went on in two thousand and fourteen acutely sound within the regime tried. to leave and substantially true mobilize political and economic power and as a him guilty tough land is the dominant attraction off the east which made it apparently quite impossible to find someone who could be wrong and get off it told the region were frankly not able to agree on a contract for crimes they didn't agree to be done and what the particular concern for now are internal stuff and philip nasser speaking to us from algiers thank you so much for your insights. for you. now to some other stories making news around the world venezuela's opposition leader says he is returning to his country despite the threat of arrest on sunday he left ecuador

after touring london or even countries for ten he called on venezuelans to join protests on monday against president nicolas maduro. while ways chief financial officer man one joe is suing canada over her arrest back in december the move could delay her extradition to the united states where she said to face charges of violating sanctions against iran her case has heightened existing economic tension between washington and beijing. the world's biggest religious festival is drawing to a close in india officials estimate as many as two hundred fifty million people have taken part in the seven week long hindu celebrations in the northern city of hindus believe bathing in the waters of the ganges at the festival brings salvation. you're watching news still to come cleaning up carnival it is known for access to decadence but now evangelical groups are hoping to use the event in rio to convert

people to christianity. but first to a deadly disease seeing a global resurgence measles the world health organization says the number of cases doubled last year to almost two hundred thirty thousand and that is just reported cases the actual number could top two million now over a third of cases reported here in europe with the biggest outbreak in ukraine this year it's had twenty thousand cases as well as eight deaths the conflict in eastern ukraine has contributed to the spike a low vaccination rate of just forty two percent is another factor a further epidemic is underway in the african nation of madagascar which also has a low vaccination rate more than nine hundred people have died there since september and additional hotspots of the philippines were more than two hundred people have died this year most of them children deaths that could have been prevented by safe effective vaccines but there as in other countries mistrust of

vaccines is rising the government has responded by launching a major immunization drive. well let's get more on the story with mohammad money or he's a viral infections and vaccine expert at lancaster university in england mohammed thank you for joining us so explain why we're seeing such a surge in measles right now well there are many reasons but the primary reason as you briefly into it is really the low vaccine coverage and that is mainly actually getting to the that the law overall vaccine complains not only even in europe but also around the globe so for instance we have massive number of new cases and ninety five percent of those cases are one which are not vaccinated so basically lack of vaccine or the vaccine coverage is the main driver for increase in the cases of the measles you touch on the anti-vaccination movement that we've seen growing here in europe for example why has that been so effective i

mean these are diseases that could be prevented with a safe effective vaccine absolutely maxine it is very effective against measles and just to highlight that the chest rate of the current vaccine is ninety nine percent in one thousand nine hundred people who are vaccinated will be protected against disease but that is not really working very well no only in europe but around the globe is mainly because of that day maxine compare compare notes and those have been very successful because of probably feel will use of the media because i would like to highlight that there is literally no credible studies that link any complication with the m.m.r. vaccine although studies that have been cut conducted before have been discredited and there is no reliable studies of the wreckage there is no link between any complication that has been reported so far and now we're seeing measles in areas that weren't even missiles free what are the consequences how serious is this uptick. disease could be even more. severe in the area where the disease has

not been there before it is because the lack of the immunization already in there so for instance people who have not been vaccinated and the disease has not been they are they do not have a cure immunity so if the disease come into those areas it will be more lethal compared to the area where the disease has been endemic so we really have to emphasize i would have tactile for human eyes ation of five to him and i didn't so we need to accident around ninety five people out of hundred you know given a community to get protection against a disease disease outbreak however that is not the case at the moment it being many e.u. countries. that twenty seven twenty out of twenty seven. states the vaccine coverage is less than ninety five percent which is the quarks what effective and efficient all right there is much to be done mohammed money or fun lancaster university in england thank you so much pleasure to be in

that it has been eight years since an earthquake and tsunami destroyed the fukushima nuclear plant in japan the disaster set radioactivity over a large area forcing tens of thousands of people to flee the government says much of the land around fukushima has since recovered but the nuclear plant itself still poses massive challenges our reporter went to look at efforts by the operator tepco to clean up the site. typical wants to persuade us that it has the situation under control. when not allowed to film everything here but at least we get a glimpse of what they think control might mean the building containing its nuclear reactors continues to emit radiation the whole way is take us into another building away from the reactor in a labyrinth of card was once flooded by the tsunami we have to change our shoes several times as a precaution against radioactive dust we get to the control room of reactors three

and four eight years ago this is where stuff desperately trying to prevent the meltdown of the reactor core. which are right that. try to. eat. two weeks ago a tepco robot for the first time reached the materials which were produced in the in a court during the meltdown. no one knows exactly where all of the estimated eight hundred eighty tons of this material. at chernobyl the material was incased in concrete but tepco wants to extract it completely. goal of thirty to forty years is not based on exact information but is instead a rough estimate in order to get a more exact time table we would have to gather even more data. is another problem is disposing of the contaminated water about one million two hundred thousand cubic

meters of contaminated cooling and runoff water stored in these tanks but time is of the essence as the tanks can only hold another two hundred thousand cubic meters . the water is not clean despite extensive attempts to decontaminate it. radiation levels are still too high fishermen and farmers in the region are worried that in the end the water will just be dumped in the sea. now thousands of dancers from brazil's elite schools are taking part in the world famous rio de janeiro carnival it is the first carnival since the election last year of rightwing president. came to power on a wave of support from conservative and evangelical groups that traditionally those groups don't approve of carnivals excesses but this year they're also joining the fray with a mission. members of one of rears evangelical churches praying ahead of

carnival. like selloff and we're also going on the street today to tell all the people that jesus loves them that he wants to enter their family's lives and that god loves them. it is indeed an unusual samba school gathered at copacabana beach that part of the charismatic ballinger never a horse no bull evangelical movement. no skimpy costumes here and also no alcohol that's to boo at this church it's minister says they want to celebrate it clean carnival. you see you can have fun without alcohol without disputes without all the things that you usually associate with carnival like having affairs or people getting killed not. everything is better with jesus they saying even jelly calls are growing force in brazil and they have powerful allies in politics some ministers evangelicals and

evangelicals strongly support the recently elected rightwing president. a short distance down the street another sound the school is getting ready yet if the name of beach rio's k. community also celebrates carnival. they're deeply concerned by the election of polls so narrow who's repeatedly expressed homophobic views even if he's got in that we're going through difficult times with all these crazies who have just come to power and presume people have to stand up to them and that's why there's accountability is the states they've got not always states. but they have nothing against evangelicals getting into the condo whole spirit. we need religious and social freedom the evangelicals don't drink and i won't either today the. this is water. salt the main thing is that everyone feels good

and happy. evangelicals at copacabana have a particular goal for carnival they want to convert nonbelievers. we want to reach those who don't yet know jesus christ who can also be happy without alcohol drugs and those kinds of things in this world we don't need them we've got jesus juice exactly the usual carnival slogan. time to talk football now the latest from the blunder sligo weekend we have f.a. howard from good use forte's with us hi anthony so there was some big news over the weekend but it's like a byron catching up to dortmund i do want to ask you about that in a moment but first let's talk about what happened on sunday the best of sometimes games was very bremen playing now both teams of great improvement this year and they are a chance to make the champions league places you might the top four you play in the champions league and you get a big big payday and that's so important competing football these days that in itself might have

a hearty topic to talk about and an interesting game to watch but there was something else bubbling but neat the surface here and its coach from the dia and the chance that he might get poached mid season to go in coach an entirely different club that being shelter so with those two reasons in mind this going in and of itself and for those to raisins had an interesting story line and attention bubbling away on the news that. bruno lab is clearly still loved by the fans of old school sporting director yucks muscular had caused a stir by describing their personal relationship as frosty during the week ahead of contract negotiations the green and white affair started off with a bang visiting goalkeeper usually puzzling collided with me america mehdi and the twelfth minute both players received treatment and were able to continue in the fifty fourth minute a moxy million arnold freekick found john anthony brooks to get votes pulled the lead is to teammates rough side but not judged to have interfered play both school could have the majority of chances on the goal stood. twenty minutes later braman

hit back up to much cruiser with his fifth of the season brilliantly set up by a cross from maximilian biggest time to make it all the match finished all square with the a clearly the more frustrated coach i suppose will drop out of the top six . disappointing result for both teams i didn't get what they want and that really the stories elsewhere in the bundesliga now yeah that's what i want to ask you about a setback for dortmund they lost to oxford on friday and then firing one of they be glad where does that leave the title race leaves us re working this narrative of the season i'm going to pitch you an elevator pitch what i need to get the death star they've won the last sixty. years and i win everything it's hard to stay excited so i'm doing my best about the bonus like once i love started they've got their own gravitational pull a bank vault full of money that attracts the players the players when the trophies this year were supposed to be different than what the new coach some of the players

are getting a little older and that left dortmund to play the role of the jet i hear that though the young up and comers the rebellion stay with me if you can bet and at christmas time this script was sold it was looking fantastic they were leading by nine points a christmas dortmund overbought and we were thinking finally we're going to get something different but as we take a look at the table with ten weeks to go we say after the results you talked. about dortmund losing by and winning a six point swing and now the two sides a label on top of the title and the story of romance suddenly looks like a horse so what's going to happen to the death star in the jet i can dortmund actually bounce back from this lake and it's going to be difficult suddenly got the sound of a negative billet into it that the young kids are struggling in the spotlight in the old the old horses the old styles a coming up for bond and they're playing better football. it's hard to believe i want to believe we're going to say something different but in my heart i think oh not to prepare for the worst we have to see how that plays out before we go i want to ask you about a social media moment mario balotelli in the top french league this was really

making the rounds on social media tell us what happens ok so if i'm going to draw you a picture of a playboy superstar striker who scores goals and have fun i'm going to draw you a picture of maria bella tell me he is the poster child for the troubled star the man with so much talent he drives a lamborghini the pocket on the pavement outside the nightclub he comes back from the summer holidays light and gloriously fat he is my hero he's and he's also playing football in my sight but why schools goals this is why he keeps collecting the paycheck so that's why we're talking about him today because he scored a goal for my site was a wonderful well that's what he did next he goes to a cameraman behind the goal takes a telephone presumably he's on an instagram lives the moment of goal celebration with his teammates to his i point two million followers it's been watch one point nine million times since and in a drab world of football was rooting cliches than dribbling on this man is

a right of sunshine mario and long may it continue i can tell you're a fan but please move don't all right anthony howard from date of use for thank you so much. ok so not too short you don't see every day the ice cross downhill championship was held in canada over the weekend it is an extreme sport in which competitors skate downhill on a wall track navigating sharp turns and high vertical drops in the women's of them amanda trends of the u.s. so she's dressed in black secured the overall title despite falling and finishing third in the final race in the men's category another american came out on top cameron was able to win the final race to seal this. reminder in our top stories at this hour a violent storms and at least one tornado and swept through the u.s. state of alabama twenty three people are confirmed dead authorities say they expect

the toll to rise as rescuers search the rubble are wrecked buildings. coming up here and you our show faith matters on religion and faith around the world will be looking at an archipelago concert that's been called thirty minutes of heaven that's coming up in just a few minutes here and. every

saturday at twelve pm a church in the heart of violence is with people. to come for the noon song. at this special service some of the city's top singers perform choral music prost oppressors. and spiritual celebrations.

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