secret of the house shattering the glass ceiling? women in architecture stories april 20th on the w. ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. 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. also on the program, russian president vladimir putin orders a fresh wave of army conscription. the kremlin says it's routine and has nothing to

do with its war of aggression in ukraine. and it's one of the art world's most eagerly anticipated exhibitions. 100 paintings by one of germany's most famous living artists. gearhart. go on display in berlin. ah. hello monica jones. good to have you with us. at least 4 people have died and dozens are injured. as a series of storms hid parts of the south, eastern and mid western us authorities and the state of arkansas have declared a state of emergency in response to the wide spread damage. the destructive weather comes a week after another tornadoes struck the state of mississippi, killing at least 25 people, while motorists films and, and

a sing tornado ripping through iowa. and it appears to be accompanied by a 2nd twister to the left. my garden, 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 again so now the beast of a storm left behind this footprint leaving it survivors. glad to have made it through the only 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. it was, i say it was an aeroplane and, and had to take higher at the, to the new phase like they're about to blow. that's what it felt like. it was

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 people were in the building. at the time.

massacre poochie a said meteorologist in washington. he told us why 2023 has been such an active years so far. so we typically see tornadoes every spring as a season 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 masses kind of bumping into each other, causing tornadoes. time and time again. we see this every spring. we average about $660.00 tornadoes during the month 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 an average of 29, so roughly twice as many as normal. now march, very busy, part of the reason being lun nemea, which kind of finally saw, is last little pulse of learning the energy. basically it's a weather pattern that starts in the eastern tropical pacific with cooler waters. there the re shovels, 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. and there was smith urologist massey cappuccino in washington. a fresh wave of army conscription gets under way in russia to day after president vladimir putin signed a decree calling up 147000 citizens for statutory military service. it comes after 120000 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, men aged between $18.27 that are not in reserve are eligible to conscription one year of military service. moscow has so also outlined its new foreign policy doctrine, calling it peaceful, open, consistent, and pragmatic. which seems quite in contrast with russia's current war against ukraine. so i asked dw russia analyst in vilnius constantine exit to give us his

assessment 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 level 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 i would rather against the priest 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, mad, and constantly just very briefly. but in this context, as of today, russia takes over the un security council, rotating presidency for the coming month. how is this going to work? is 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, for the time that russia chairs, the security council, konstantin, against dw russia analysts joining us from finance concert in thank you so much. thank you. this conscription comes as russia fails to make any significant advances

in ukraine. military analyst a frank lead, which and oxford gave us his take on the situation on the ground, the ukrainian just to situate them so they can begin to retake or situate them so they can re take their land including crimea. now they, the declarations are clear for been a bit less bullish over the last few weeks because of course, the battle apartments and other battles of the current other places in the south have been raging and ukrainian. so i think aren't necessarily confident. am i going to get all the equipment i need to carried out? the bottom line is, 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 a you credit attack. within the next 6 weeks, military analyst, frank led, which and oxford speaking to us earlier. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making use around the world. lawyer say for

my u. s. president donald trump will not be handcuffed when he appears in court. on tuesday, a grand jury in new york indicted him over alleged payments to an adult film actor before the 2016 presidential election. it's the 1st ever criminal case against an ex u. s. leader. pub francis says he will lead easter celebrations of the vatican. the 86 year old pontiff has left hospital after a 3 day stay. he was treated for bronchitis. while there he visited a children's council ward and baptized the baby. avalanches have killed at least 4 people in northern norway. the slides followed heavy snow storms. authorities are urging people to avoid mountains in the area they want. the terrain is still unstable. taiwan says 80 and chinese military aircraft have crossed the unofficial line, dividing the 2 sides, and the last day taiwan is president a sigh in when this on a diplomatic tour of central america,

she's expected to meet the u. s. house to speak a kevin mccarthy on her way home. china has denounced the plan and is threatening to retaliate. if the meeting goes ahead, beijing considers tiwana breakaway chinese province. school children in sweden. ah, no strangers to the great outdoors, but any branch of preschools are taking it a step further. this new type of education focuses on getting children out of the classroom and into nature to learn in a hands on way. it's a returned to nature because these swedish preschoolers on them at the new rain or shine centers, children spend most of their time outdoors. yes. oh, oh, let me see. they've recently been learning about fire informs and now it's time for the real life demonstration the teachers, the utley name, forest schools,

every say, the hands on experience provides better learning, athletic us at the end of the new year. it's much better for kids to learn in authentic environment. so if we got to teach them about dividing and counting, i'll be counting it kids. i been dividing the pancake and it said, so it's, we talk a lot about fruits now when we divide fruit. so, so that's, that's the most important thing to do to actually do it. if not to do it in theory, the to do a practical said and they can practice awesome aspects of teaching. do take place in dolls. i'm a school say that health and safety always comes 1st. oh oh, i appropriate clothing is provided to be sick of them and children a taken back to the classroom. if they wet or cold. i believe that the problem. uh huh. and when not time comes around. it's back outside and into the

sleeping bags. to catch 40 winks on the school porch. breathing in the air from the great outdoors. mm hm. when 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 gear had wished a donated 100 of his works to berlin. there meant to go in the museum of the 20th century. but while that's being built, they can be seen at villains, most renowned modern art gallery ah 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. this is

due on the on believable diversity of his approach to image as a painting that makes registers work so fascinating, richer, 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 registers answer not directly. in his bare canal paintings he projected photographs secretly taken in the auschwitz bare canal death camp on to canvass than he applied layers of paint, veiling the image in abstraction. yeah, to the sly, all faith on 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 richness, 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 now gallery from april. you're watching dw news from the lead up next world stories has a report on the collect, as in ukraine, searching for russian items left on the battlefields. that's after the break. but 1st summer, stunning footage that nasa has shared a view of the northern lights as seen from the international space ship. we can do that ah

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