is a generation that ends it, so good. malaria must die, or millions can live ah ah, this is dw used my from berlin, china steps up, the pressure on taiwan as the taiwanese president continues her charm offensive in the americas. china wraps angrily with protest in new york and combat aircraft over the ty went straight. we'll get the latest from taipei, also in the program. at least 4 people are dead after powerful storms tear through

several us states. authorities in arkansas, declare a state of emergency. after tornadoes, touchdown leaving devastation in their wake. and donald trump's lawyers handle over the terms of his arrest, the former president's lawyer say he will not be handcuffed when he surrendered us on tuesday. security is expected to be higher for the court hearing in new york. ah hello monica jones, welcome to the program. at least 4 people have died and dozens are injured as a series of storms hid parts of the south eastern admit western united states. authorities in the state of arkansas have declared

a state of emergency in response to the wide spread to damage the destructive weather comes a week after another tornado struck the state of mississippi, killing at least 25 people. a motorist films, a menacing tornado ripping through iowa, and it appears to be accompanied by a 2nd twister to the left. my god, i thought of her out there part of several on the radar of the national weather service, mostly in arkansas and iowa. oh my god, we got it. and so now the beast of a storm left behind this footprint leaving it survivors. glad to have made it through all the way we knew the tornado was coming. the lease was whirling on the way. we know it looked like it was standing steel,

someone say run to the bank, mainly to ladies here. ran to the bank we had together with brave highlands. our man, it was, it was devastating. i say it was an aeroplane and, and i had to take, i had to say like, they're about to blow. that's what it felt like a lot of pressure. it was quick. less than 15. 20 seconds. so quick yet so destructive. more than $78000.00 people are estimated to be without paw across arkansas. and authorities describe the damage as extensive does spoken to i the leadership of hospitals, both here in central arkansas in around the state. ah, right now we have a number of injuries, but no individual hospital has been overwhelmed or is ada capacity ad that they are unable to to manage. like i said, this is an ongoing situation. we expect those numbers to increase. a search and

rescue continues. the severe weather also stroke, illinois, where the roof of a theater collapse during a concert official say around $260.00 people were in the building at the time. matthew cappuccino is a mentor ologist in washington. he told us why 2023 has been such an active year so far. so we typically see tornadoes every spring as a seasons kind of battled it out. when you have winter, beginning to retreat and warm moist air from the gulf, mexico trying to build in as summer starts to build. you obviously get to air mass kind of bumping into each other, causing tornadoes. time and time again. we see this every spring. we average about 660 tornadoes during the months of april may in june. however, we've already seen a very busy season. january was the 2nd most active on record of february, so about 55. 20 has been bearden. average is 29. so roughly twice as many as normal

. now march, very busy, part of the reason being lun nemea, which kind of finally saw its last little pulse of learning the energy. basically it's a weather pattern that starts the eastern proper pacific with cooler waters. there, the re, shuffles, how the jet stream, how several key weather systems, the northern hemisphere behave, and as result we saw many tornadoes in the year as has been off to a very busy start. i think we have another busy week to 10 days for thing, kind of simmer back a little bit. as we had towards the middle of april. oliver's material, a just massey cookie in washington. a fresh wave of army conscription gets underway in russia to day after president vladimir putin signed a decree calling up 147000 citizens for statutory military service. it comes off to $120000.00 people were recruited in november. the kremlin says, this latest recruitment is routine and has nothing to do with russia's war in ukraine. in russia, it is mandatory for men aged between $18.27,

to carry out one year of military service of a more on that to her. now john bernie w, russia analyst, constantine exit, who joins us in vilnius constantine. russia has started, it's spring draft. how does that differ from a new mobilization wells? 2 different things and a just to correct a little bit. it's not mandatory for russian males to ah, to serve one year. it is possible that you'll be called up. are bots, russian armies, half professional. so it's not like it was in the soviet union or even in the ninety's when pretty much everyone had to serve. so in this respect, the state has a selection, it can, our call are more people can call up less people. so in a sense what put in is doing he's doing what has been done before. ah, it is a twice a year that and number of people is, are called up to serve in the armed forces. not at all,

all men are but i think that the difference from mobilizations of mobilizations an extraordinary thing, extraordinary action that happens in times or war. i think personally that button will never use this word again because the panic that followed in autumn are to he announced mobilization was such that a lot of people just run away. hundreds of thousands of males run away from russia . i suppose he's not going to use this again. he's just going to resort to a regular twice a year. call up. all right, well, constantly, 1st of all, thank you very much for the clarification. i must go, of course, has also outlined it's new foreign policy. doug train calling it at cloud peaceful, open, consistent and pragmatic, which is quite in contrast with its current war against ukraine. what do you make of it? well, as an adjusted, amended, foreign policy concept of russia with much more focus on interaction with china and

india. but also there are 2 things which i noticed in the text and which were actually also stressed by foreign minister. sergei lovell 1st or the document uses the term peaceful coexistence between russia and the united states. this is a sort of a term which actually meant a balance of power and the balance of nuclear threats. it's quite a throwback to the previous, a rhetoric and our rather against the prius, more peaceful rhetoric that was, that was in this document. secondly, what is interesting, the west is proclaimed in this adjusted renewed document as an existential threat to russia. that is ominous because only according to russian military and nuclear doctrine, only an existential threat can push the russian leadership to use nuclear weapons. so it is definitely shot across the bow, across the west bow to say,

we are prepared to use nukes, right? and constantly, just very briefly. but in this context, as of today, russia takes over the un security council is rotating presidency for the coming months. how is this going to work? it's not going to work very well because definitely what russia is doing is against the un charter. it is a joke in many ways. i think we're going to see a lot of walk outs in the, in the room where the united nations security council sits in new york is going to be, i think, quite a lot of shop confrontations for the time that russia chairs, the security council, konstantin, against d, w, russia. analysts joining us from felony as constantine. thank you so much. thank you. now this conscription comes as russia fails to make any significant advances in ukraine. military analyst frank lead, which in oxford gave us his take on the situation on the grounds. the ukrainians

have been signaling a counter offensive as i think that all of yours will know for the last 6 months or so. certainly since september, the objective of which is to situate them so they can begin to retake or situate them so they can re take their land including crimea. now they the declaration sort of key ever been a bit less bullish over the last few weeks because of course, the battle of battles and other battles out of the car and other places in the south have been raging and ukrainian. so i think aren't necessarily confident they're gonna get all the equipment i need to carry that out. the bottom line isn't the takeaway, is that both sides have taken huge losses over the winter. neither has made any significant gains or waiting for the next phase, which is likely to be you creating attack within the next 6 weeks. and that was military analyst. frank led wedge and oxford. speaking to us earlier, taiwan says 18 of chinese military aircraft have crossed the unofficial line,

dividing the 2 sides since friday. the show of force from china comes as ty, once president sy, in when continues a diplomatic tour of central america on the way back. she's expected to stop over in los angeles to meet with us how speak a kevin mccarthy. china has denounced the plan and threatened to retaliate. if the meeting goes ahead, asian considers tie one a break away province and does not rule out re on if you cation by force. d w's shown year in taipei gave us her take on the increasing number of these incidence. yes, according to ty wires, defense ministries, an official announcement this morning dear. we're actually in fact eating chinese military aircraft and for vessels detected around high wind the past 24 hours and including night fighter jet and one military joined. that crust we so co media lie

of taiwan strait, but it's worth noting that, you know, this time is a bit unusual. you see that chinese aircrafts, have crusty north and central and south and medial light of tie was straight out of the same time. and that it's actually a little bit more rare for china to do so. and you can see that china is actually, you know, increase the pressure on tie one to intimidate and that was j at u j. d w correspondent in taipei. well, he is often considered to be germany's most important contemporary painter. so it was something of a sensation in the art world. 2 years ago, when you had to pay stud, donated 100 of his works to berlin. they're meant to go in the museum of the 20th century, but while that's being built, they can be seen a balance. most renowned, modern art gallery mosaics of spray painted enamel squares, abstract color fields on paper,

and over painted photographs. few contemporary artists have embraced experimentation as wholeheartedly as 91 year old gerhardt reached her. over decades, he's explored the possibilities and limitations of the medium of painting. is this, does it be unbelievable diversity of his approach to images on a painting that makes quitters work? so fascinating reached, are achieved fame with his monochrome photo paintings in the 19 sixty's when he was part of a generation struggling to deal with germany's war time passed. his uncle, rudy, in vermont uniform, alongside at mariana, killed in a nazi eugenics program. can art address the horror of the holocaust readers? answer not directly in his ear canal paintings. he projected photographs secretly taken in the ashwood spear canal death camp on to canvas than he applied layers of paint veiling the image in abstraction. yes, to the sly,

all fatal in the series toward the world. it was on display in japan, the us and many other places because it's a very strong statement to say. these are images that are unbearable to look at and can't be shown directly in the context of art. they can only be a race through color and abstraction. so on all is the relationship between reality and representation lies at the heart of reachers work. whether he drags a squeegee over layers of wet paint or designs, a digital print like the work strict on a computer. his artistic inquiry remains ambitious. the unveiling of his collection on permanent loan is set to draw crowds to berlin's noah not to na gallery from april and he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. at least 4 people have died and dozens are injured. as a series of storms hates parts of the south east and admit west and us. tornadoes swept through state the state of arkansas where officials has declared

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