liz let. this is due to the news live from berlin at least twenty three people are killed by a tornado in alabama the storm has caused devastation and parts of the state emergency workers are still pulling bodies from the wreckage authorities fear the death toll will rise also coming up and up.

anger in algeria as thousands protest against the president's decision to run for us fifth term the ailing leader is offering to step down within a year a free elected but will that be enough to appease the protesters. the u.n. has spent decades bringing measles under control but the number of people infected with the disease has suddenly begun to shoot up what is behind this surge in cases around the world. and going to sleep a football with ten matches left fire in your car once again favored to win it all we'll find out what happened over the weekend in germany's top leagues including the a crucial clash between relegation rivals stood guard and hannah. i'm sumi so much going to it's good to have you with us at least twenty three people

have been killed by a tornado as a tore through the u.s. state of alabama tens of thousands of homes are without power and many buildings have been destroyed the death toll is expected to rise as rescuers search through the rubble. i to nato films from the far as it wreaks havoc in alabama. and this is what it left behind. the devastation is all too clear to see in the small community of borough of god one of the areas was tate in the county. here the violent twisted destroyed everything in its path. the damage is significant i would put it in the category of catastrophic based on the destruction of the homes we saying. for those in the eye of the storm it was a terrifying experience. that i was watching this up to quell dan and everything.

everywhere and i am saying is that when we were. allowed to briefly. just watch out when the when we come outside so happened the community as we were just trying to get out of this area right here and you mention you so often debris as you were driving yes my coming up around the corner as i was making a left right up there around thirty eight and the whole area right here. is pretty much just go you know. as stage of the merge and see 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. now to algeria where new anti-government demonstrations have broken out after the president. announced he would run in

elections next month people have been taking to the streets for the last ten days to protest against the president's plans to stay on for a fifth term but just like us says he will step down within a year if he's reelected but it's unclear whether that will appease the demonstrators i don't stray sions are officially banned here but that didn't stop thousands of p. . 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 beautifully era which has lasted twenty years. you know. actually i think the jury has have gotten over their fear on the streets to show that we reject the system of government that we're calling for freedom all kinds of freedom including freedom of the press that's why we hear that they found off quite a lot. here to denounce this mafia government these criminals who have taken the people hostage she wants to make

a man who is parody alive president again g m o m p a plus even 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 announced 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 dilutive seem to people outraged with the president who has become more author atari. and yet he himself has barely been up to the task of ruling and his closest allies have gotten rich over the years the people don't know whether buttafuoco himself has decided to run again or someone else decided for him to stand up to. cross the country protesters are demanding a new better future while beautifully 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 you know and shiria. and we can talk to a journalist sophie and philip nasr he's covering the protests in algeria he says

than 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 here for a lot of police deployed in the streets because it's quiet right now because after yesterday when the teachers campaign manager handed in the papers for the candidacy people went to the streets again at night and protests and staged protests and marches and he was. the first option since they started. in preferably one. from a fight actually like we are told where protesters were marching here all over the country and your new york rangers who are what they're going to look for confrontation between cultures for and. judy fortin you know years we're closer. than two people going to one but it's another it's in a presidential hopeful atmosphere first on the march fourth or last friday when we

children families the women taking to the streets knowing that they can actually do it right now off writing years. or for her any kind of quarter 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 this to take place. this is an interesting question indeed but what we've what he's dealing with in our she really is a semi ultra critical gene. and although professor benton a huge there was simply too many people in the street and when it comes to the routing that it was getting with a fragment of previous federal traction for the part of the ruling elite and since the oil revenue is down and for those in 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 would be quite happy to get goods to come second explain to us how algeria got here

president with a black eye he is eighty two years old he's in poor health he's rarely seen in public why is there no alternative. so i answer the troops of course but it's not known which targets and might be the outcome of the ongoing on the left. to be your choice went on the two fold and forged you are going to be done within the regime tried. to leave and the family mobilized political and economic power and outlook didn't want to take up the coming attractions off the regions which made it apparently quite impossible to find someone who could draw i'm going to get him told the reason we're free not able to agree on. trying to get the treaty done what to keep out of prison for. our journalist sophie and philip nasr speaking to us from algiers thank you so much for your insight.

let's catch up now on some other stories making news around the world venezuela's opposition leader won by the says he is returning to his country despite the threat of arrest on sunday he left ecuador after touring latin american countries that support him he called on venezuelans to join protests on monday against president nicolas maduro. while waste chief financial officer men one joe is suing canada over her arrest back in december that move could delay her extradition to the united states where she is set to face charges of violating sanctions against iran her case has heightened existing economic tensions 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 male us celebrations in the northern city of. hindus believe a big thing in the waters of the ganges river at the festival brings salvation. and

keep flint trying to manage the band of a prodigy has died at the age of forty nine british police say the singer was found dead at his home in essex. they're not treating his death as suspicious flint sang lead vocals on international hits like fire starter and bring. you're watching news still to come on the program cleaning up the carnival it is known for accessing decadence but now evangelical groups are hoping to use rio's big party to convert people to christianity. but first 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 were reported right 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 now 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 an additional hotspot is the philippines where 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 trucks. tents have been erected to deal with the overflow inside the sickly and wheat worried parents watching on the philippines has been gripped by measles outbreak. early in rubeus two month old baby caught the highly infectious virus before he was old enough to be vaccinated.

my baby have a lot of rashes i thought it was because he was taking antibiotics for his cough and colds. but it turned out to be missiles. it's already painful to see your baby sick what more when you hear that many have died from the disease but you don't want that to happen to your baby was. there been more than eight thousand cases of measles in the philippines since the start of the year more than one hundred people have died mostly very young children who are i'm vaccinated the health department has declared a measles outbreak and says that it is now struggling to contain it. really a need to do a d v d's big challenge is to attain the herd immunity herd immunity means that you have enough people or vaccinate that so that those that are able to

transmit their. vitals and in fact others. i mean rates in the philippines have been dropping in the last few years a recent scare involving a dandy vaccine caused immunization rates to plummet and even further. our. resources. we have a vaccine coverage where the. even what about the forty percent. efforts to tip the scales haven't been fast enough charmaine such she'd been immunized but picked up the virus at a health center for a prenatal checkup measles can be extremely dangerous for pregnant women. i'm scared about what will happen to my baby but i'm trying to be strong.

they let us i couldn't believe my doctors said the condition shouldn't affect the baby because i'm at thirty two weeks already. but i'm scared you might have to let go. of the local authorities are working with the red cross to increase hospital beds for those affected and immunizes many people as possible to try and contain the outbreak mothers like angela are not taking any more chances. you can see what i'm going out in the news about kids dying from the dengue fever vaccination scared me so i was scared to have my children vaccinated. but now i know it's for their own safety. immunization rates are steadily rising again health authorities hope that the continued confidence in vaccines will help stem this measles outbreak. while misinformation on vaccines is dangerous

it's also rampant it's very easy to find online our reporter jonathan crane has been looking into this for us jonathan tell us how social media is being used to fuel this massive anti-vaccination movement these people posting online cynical themselves and see facts is known they basically believe that vaccinations do more harm than good and that they shouldn't be given to children even though the science doesn't bear any of this out but these groups growing on social media say misinformation is spreading which is why this is dangerous and we've done a little experiment just to show you how easy it is to find things like this so we went on to facebook and we typed in the words vaccinations there in the search bar and as you can see one of the results is fact summations cause autism now numerous scientific studies are showing this is simply not true but the claim won't go away now what happens when you just type in the word vaccine by at. there is a new true wood but you can see the very top result is facts in trieste movement we

click on that takes us to a group with seventeen thousand members that based in phoenix arizona in the us and this is a close group so we can't exactly see what they're posting but it's obviously very anti vaccine and what we can see is some of the rules and guidelines for being a member of this group we're going to show you two of them the first one. no suggesting doctors pharma see that's over the counter drugs or other poisonous substances you will be removed and any post that conveys the approval of vaccines will be deleted removed and or blocked now because this is a closed group where the members have to be approved a lot of these arguments are being made unchallenged in this is just one of many such groups all over the world what about facebook's role here this is of course a social media platform that's come under fire in the past for hosting misinformation aren't they also part of the problem by letting these messages really gained root yes that's right facebook and youtube or youtube in particular

has come under pressure to change its algorithms the videos promoting conspiracy theories and propaganda aren't allowed to be recommended obviously on you tube you have your recommended videos on the right hand side of the screen now you tube says quote the videos that misinform uses in harmful ways will be reduced facebook will say last year said it would delete misinformation that causes quote violence or physical harm it's important to know that facebook actually makes money from ads run by anti vaccination groups you tube says it will allow that i said recently rather allow that now health organizations are very worried because vaccinations rely on something called head immunity that essentially means it relies on a set percentage of the population being vaccinated to protect everyone whether they've been vaccinated or not the world health organization says this vaccine has infancy is one of the top ten risks in. well this was a very small amount of people are persuaded not to get vaccinated it can

potentially cause increase the risks of outbreaks which is why this is so problematic ok so the consequences here are very serious how does all of this misinformation on social media actually affect people's decisions whether to vaccinate or not the truthful answer is we don't actually officially know we know its contribution to the problem but because the social media companies are making the dates were available to research is we don't really know what extent it's causing a problem of course for every vaccine group on facebook there are also pro-vaccine groups and social media really is just one pos of the puzzle there are numerous websites online promoting the vaccine movement so cracking down on social media alone one source of massively solve the problem all right really interesting stuff there jonathan crane our reporter looking into the story for us thank you very much . right to sports now and like a football let's take a look at sunday's action the early match on sunday pitted stuck articles had over

a combined the two sides have conceded over one hundred goals so far this season so a lot of defense expected had more firepower. it was took up to run riot over how no for in this relegation clash mario gomez took the hosts ahead after just four minutes kind of looked lost at the back doesn't come back to more goals before half time to give to god it deserves three goal laid. a glimmer of hope a right for how to go for up to sixty eight minutes when john at us headed home to make it three one. but how close is shambolic defending went nowhere and steven super made it for one ten minutes later. a second for the swiss completed the five one morning. it was stuttgart first win in one games and perhaps a sign that they can still escape relegation. for it let's look at all the

results from the bonus league and now on friday dortmund suffered a shocking loss to oxford that allowed byron munich to join them at the top the table by beating gladbach third place like take edged out nuremberg frankfurt struck late to defeat hoffenheim just shut out shocker for now and now a look at the table by munich as we said they've caught up with dortmund at the top of the standings are realizing move into third ahead of much and while ball spurs drop out of the european places now to the lower half of the table there were very few changes but that big win for st gard moved them two points away from safety. now it might have been a glimpse at professional sports of the near future on social media mario balotelli of these french football team are say celebrated a goal with a selfie for millions of fans the controversial italian international sport against

a team in the twelfth minute he grabbed a mobile phone from a photographer and started taking a selfie video of him minutes teammate celebrating a before posting it on his instagram story. right now to a sport you don't see every day the ice cross down held championship held in canada over the weekend it's an extreme sport in which a competitor skate down a wall track navigating sharp turns and high vertical drops in the women's event amanda tran so what the u.s. you see here 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 announced was able to win the final race to seal his title.

now thousands of dancers from brazil's elite some bus schools are taking part in the world famous rio de janeiro carnival fourteen of the top schools have been parading along the main procession route each featuring as many as four thousand performers and elaborate floats it is a first carnival since the election last year of rightwing president charbel sonar he came to power on a wave of support from conservative and evangelical groups now traditionally those groups don't approve of the excesses of carnival but this year they too are joining the fray with a mission. the members of one of rears evangelical churches printing ahead of carnival. like so often 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's school gathered it could pick up on the beach there are parts of the charismatic borneo didn't have

a horse no bull evangelical movement. no skimpy costumes here and also no alcohol that's to boot this church it's minister says they want to celebrate it clean carnival. so 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. everything is better with jesus they saying even jelly calls are a growing force in brazil and they have powerful allies in politics some ministers evangelicals and evangelicals strongly support the recently elected right wing president job olsen r o a short distance down the street another sound the school is getting ready yet if the name of beach korea's gay community also celebrates carnival. they're deeply concerned by the election of polls

a narrow who's repeatedly expressed homophobic views of him if he's got in that we're going through difficult times with all these crazies who have just come to power in prison but will have to send up to them and that's why there's carnival this is stacy it kind of always stays. put i have nothing against evangelicals getting into the con of all spirit. and the way that we need religious and social freedom the evangelicals don't drink and i want you to today this is water i'm sure was also the main thing is that everyone feels good and happy was. the evangelicals at copacabana have a particular goal for konovalov they want to convert nonbelievers. they sell it because 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 that was not i just was not exactly the usual carnival slogan

. well carnival rivalries are underway in germany too with hundreds of thousands of people parading through the streets of cities like cologne to celebrate what's known as rose monday it is. the highlight of germany's a five day carnival festival that kicked off at the end of last week the slopes of the fading well known characters as well as the old sayings of the german including some political satire are greeted with cheers by the in colorful crowds ready for despite warnings of heavy rain and strong winds in little britain dampen the lives of these artists deep down schools will fund them if you're being sure to lose to school or minder not our top story here on d w violent storms and at least one tornado has swept through the u.s. state of alabama twenty three people are confirmed dead authorities say they expect the toll to rise as rescuers to search the rubble of wrecked buildings.

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