ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food you buy, but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases in the home by plying the 5 keys to see for food use them. you also have a role to play. ah, this is d, w. news lie from berlin, death and destruction and storms tear through several us states. arkansas declares an emergency and calls in the national guard after multiple tornado strikes, leave a trail of devastation also on the program. finland's popular young prime minister

seeks the 2nd term in office. santa marin is facing a strong challenge from the far right. but she tell supporters, i'm in it to win it. and to women are pelted with yogurt in the wrong local authorities reportedly arrest the attacker. but also the women for not wearing a headscarf. ah, and welcome to our viewers round the world on michael. okay. we begin in the united states where at least 21 people have been killed and many more injured as storms batter the south and mid west authorities in arkansas have declared an emergency after multiple tornadoes. tor, through the state, arkansas, our residence woke up to see the full scale of the storms, destruction a government workers,

and regular citizens pitched in to make a start cleaning up right now for me is just to clean up what i can get this cleared and then try to see who else i can help. a tall order after the massive storm peeled off, roofs tossed vehicles and ripped trees out of the ground. but more help is on the way. i've had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with, but 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 and on the ground more videos emerge from residents who found themselves in the wrong place. at the moment the tornadoes touch down. ah, ah, thoughtfully,

i think the destruction was quick, but the effort to rebuild from a storm this large will take time. for more, we spoke to david nussbaum, a meteorologist in the us state of alabama, and asked him about the extraordinary frequency of strong tornadoes this year. well, this is our middle of our 2018 season here across the united states. kind of start in march ramps up in april in may. so these are common to happen and this time of year, but the storm is actually stronger. got down to about 980000000 bars, a little stronger when you get that stronger system over land. you can get pretty good strong tornadoes and we did have that from parts of the united states in iowa and oil again, arkansas. back in parts of mississippi, tennessee, even here in alabama as well too. so this time of year we can get these just have that warm, humid air coming up the golf,

mexico beating that cold air from up in canada. the class together out there get a strong front to come in and he's done a storms thrive on energy, the warm, humid air, and then d, we did have quite a few of them and unfortunately this won't be the last we'll have the spring. finland is heading to the polls to elect a new government. it's been a close res, so far between the 3 main parties. social democrat, prime minister, santa marin, is hoping to secure a 2nd term in office. but she's facing a strong challenge from the far right. finish my minister son amarion, cast her ballad early as did almost 40 percent to finish voters, a record. but it will come down to the last minute to see if mar, in social democrats can pull ahead of their 2 main rivals. the conservative coalition party and the populist fins party with nato membership in hand. the impact of neighboring russia's war on ukraine has not dominated debates. finished. voters are focused on finances. the fact that the all public finances are

embellished it's in some countries is not the nice you've, it's would move the population in. feel under these that's not going well. there's a huge service deficit i and the into, to extend that. now the amount fealand is paying on the, it's that these amounts to do some of our ministry spots, et cetera, et cetera. though, finish public debt at 72 percent of g. d. p is far lower than the eurozone average . it's uncomfortably high for finland. taking over in 2019, at santa marin, successfully navigated finland through, covet and into nato. but while she's extremely popular abroad, thanks in part to a leaked video last year of her dancing with friends, her economic moves are criticized at home debt, climbed under her watch yet. she's campaigning on continued social spending. i think the main issues that people are thinking, our economy a public, this also public services education so. so in the health care and social benefits,

i think people are thinking about their ordinary life. martin's opponents are more fiscally cautious. head of the coalition party pet that he ordered will insist state benefits must be cut to bring down the debt. and he's leading poles with that position. the fins part is anti immigrant and euro skeptic. they're sitting in 2nd place. son amarion says the social democrats would refuse to create a government coalition with them. their party platform calls for pulling finland out of the european union in brussels. fins aren't so worried about anti you sentiment. but the environment and the economy does a big maturity of fins who are for the you. so the to fins cannot to really on their own go out. i want to have those are a moderate kind of people who are thinking about also about environmental issues. and that not only about themselves and we have an aging population in general. so costs are going to go up, taxes are probably going to go up with hard financial decisions ahead analyst tommy

hutton and says, the only thing certain about the outcome is that whoever wins is going to be very unpopular. d w corresponded terry shawl to filed, that report is here to talk more about the election. terry finland is on the cusp of joining nato, but it's the economy that dominated the campaign from our vantage point. it certainly appears finland. security has taken a back seat in the campaign. that's right, michael, and that's because, as you say, the question of nato membership, which once was so divisive in this country, has been settled. in fact, we expect that finland will become a full member of nato already next week, possibly as early as tuesday. so in that sense, that question did not need to be decided in this election. and it wasn't a large part of the campaign because that was behind them. and that also meant that santa marin though couldn't use this quite so effectively in her campaign to,

to maintain her position as prime minister. and neither could bet that he auto who had been campaigning for membership for a long time. the nationalists of fins party campaigning on their immigration policy . how are voters responding to that issue? all right, now the fins party is in 2nd place though. i would say that that the race is so close right now that, that any lead is, is within the margin of error. so we really can't say that any party is, is decisively in the lead. but some of them are in social democrats are in 3rd place behind the fins party, as you mentioned, this nationalist party that campaigns on anti immigration and also on pulling finland out of the european union as i mentioned in my piece. now that also did not get a lot of attention in the campaign because while it's in the party platform, it's not a popular position among things. but as it stands now, we really can't say whether this bins party and its anti immigration, anti foreign or message is going to propel it to the lead. if you allow me,

i'm going to ask you to play the role of prognosticator. what's the likely outcome here? nobody knows michael and i wouldn't so certainly know enough to to make any prediction outside the polling as it stands now heading into election day. the coalition party of pet 30 auto is very narrowly in 1st place. the fins that the fins party is in 2nd place. and son of martin social democrats is in 3rd, but again, we're talking about just not even full percentage points that separate these through 3 parties at the moment. so anything could happen, and it's really going to come down to the last vote. you had all the candidates going out at the last minute and, and pleading with their supporters to please go out and cast your balance. because this is going to come down to every person's decision. that was d, w, corresponded terry schultz in brussels, is always many facts. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. a top cleric

from the ukranian orthodox church has been sentenced to 60 days of house arrest for alleged links to moscow. abbot metropolitan pablo is accused of glorifying the invading russian forces and stoking religious divisions. pablo denies the accusations and insists the church has broken all ties with moscow. since russia's invasion, ecuador has declared a state of emergency in area struggling to cope with drug related violence. the decree covers the nation's main port and allow security forces to conduct searches without a warrant. authorities have blamed competing drug gangs for the spike in violence. tens of thousands of his railways have again joined protests against the government . planned judicial overhaul. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has put the plans on hold, but critics say the changes would compromise the judiciary independence and want

them scrat entirely. iran has ordered the rest of 2 women allegedly attacked for not wearing a his job head covering their rest comes after a man hole hurled yogurt at the 2 women in a shop in the northeast of the country. he apparently attacked them because one woman again was not wearing a headscarf, which was compulsory in iran. authorities have reportedly also arrested the attacker. this c c t v footage of the incident have gone viral to the left to chose 2 women mother and daughter entering the shop. the daughter doesn't appear to have her hair cupboard. she is not wearing a head job. seconds later, a man in a check and showed and toes and begins to talk to her. he

then doubts as both of them with a tub of yogurt. as they stand and shock, the shopkeeper confronted the attacker. after the incident, iranian president abraham j. c stressed that wearing the head job was not optional gone. what's important is that we have a legal mandate for the jobs. if anyone for any reason, doesn't believe in them, they're still obligated to follow the law. that's what creates a lawful society on man. 3 corner a growing number of women in iran have ditched their scarves over the past year. but the government insists that a 1979 law demanding women cover their hair will not change. the yogurt incident will be unsettling. for many of these women, local authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the attacker, but they have also issued them for the to women for flouting the loan. and the shopkeeper was given a stone warning,

and his shop remained closed for several hours to football now and the buddhist lager where bind munich, coach thomas tuggle, saw his new side beat, his former club lucy durbin for 2. it was one of the biggest matches in german football for years with dorman going into the game in 1st place. but an awful goal keeping miss jake helped send byron back to the top. not since the champions league final of 2013 has a meeting between these 2 old rivals. being such a high stakes affair, torment were flying high before the fixture, but in 23 disastrous minutes were brought crushing down to earth plans opener on 13 minutes, was the result of the surreal. gold keeping blunder from dorman stuff. a cagle kobe, a long bull by dianne corner, from inside the bye, and hoff catastrophically misjudged by the keeper. it was a nightmare star for the swiss,

and worse was on its way. a simple corner saw dorman suffer their next set back. when matthias denise had out was turned home by thomas miller and 5 minutes after that mula made it 3 when a luckless kobus buildable at his feet. after diving to stop leave we st. a's long range effort. 23 minutes into his career as by a coach, thomas tofal could hardly believe his luck. while dolan's dreadful, 1st half had put their seasons work in jeopardy. the 2nd 45 brought yet more dose, starting with a full, full host, courtesy of kings me command. then following this foul on g. bellingham, in the bye and forks, m. rachel fly. it hung a spot thick to make it for one. but it was a goal, more of consolation than of consequence, much like dorman, 2nd schooled by tanya marlin in the 19th minute. the damage of course,

had long since been done. disaster for dormant as by and retake top spot in the put his legal with 8 games left to play and we will end it there. coming up next reporter takes a look at how playing sports can help slow down the effects of parkinson's disease . don't forget there's more news in our website that's d w dot com. and our social media handle is at d. w. news. a michael. okay. thanks for watching. ah ah, ah. ah, world center.