d. c. matthew, good to have you with us. perhaps you could explain 1st of all, why we have been seeing so many tornadoes in recent months. most definitely, you know, every spring we see tornadoes like clockwork. things to winter trying to retreat. you have summer time warm building in the gulf, mexico and usually april may and june is a seasonal class. so obviously it's a busy time of year and we average about $660.00 tornadoes during that time frame. what we've seen already that was been a very active start to the year we saw over $200.00 tornadoes in january. the 2nd most on record. we saw 55 in february twice as many as normal in march. we'll go down the books is obviously very busy too. now part of the reason, of course, natural variability just to randomly busy here, but also lun media is playing a role to that is the weather system. this starts with cooler waters in the eastern drop, the pacific, and then shuttles the position of the jet stream, shovels a position of keen weather systems. and in this case, made for a l

d. c. matthew, why have we been seeing so many tornadoes in recent months? and that's a great question. yeah, we tend to see tornadoes like clockwork. every spring in the united states are couple different reasons. number one, winters kind of ending right now. that cold air is retreating at the same time, the gulf of mexican moisture is trying to build northwards with the war to get past the season's over the central united states and that bruce thunderstorm, not the same time. the gesture is still it's winter time position. it's strong, it's a river wind, that's racing overhead. so the thunderstorm think, well, thank you. seasonal class, how many digits? 3, if you'll rotation and they start to spin. so we see this every april may in june, roughly 660 tornadoes on average during that interim. so far this year we've been well above average, january, about $120.00 tornadoes. march a $55.00, which is twice with normal. march will be above average as well, and there's no stop anytime soon. and can you explain for us the link between tornadoes and climate change?

that is matthew capuchin meteorologist in washington. d. c. for russia has taken over the rotating presidency of the united nations security council, sparking furious reaction in ukraine keeps foreign minister to metro qu, labor called it a quote slap in the face for the international community. ukraine had urged members to block the move, but the us says there's no mechanism for doing so. the largely ceremonial role puts moscow in charge of setting the security council's agenda use. ukraine's president would amuse the lensky condemned russia's presidency as absurd in his daily address . he said, it shows the council is a bankrupt institution named wine will. there is no form of terror. russia has not committed and there's no reason to stop the reform of global institutions. in particular, the un security council reform is clearly overdue, so that the terrorist states, or any other state that wants to be a terrorist state, cannot disrupt peace. terrorists must lose, must be held accountable for terror and not to prevail anyway. let's hear also

that is matthew caput meteorologist in washington, d. c. let's bring up the speed now with some other world news headlines. taiwan says, a number of chinese military aircraft have crossed the unofficial line, dividing the island from the mainland, ty, ones a president as high as when is on a diplomatic tour of central america. she's excited to meet the u. s. how speakers having mccarthy on her way home. china has denounced the plan. tens of thousands of his rallies have again joint protests against the government plan to judicial overhaul. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has put the plans on hold, but critics say the changes would compromise the gestures, independence, and want them scrapped entirely. and the vatican has confirmed that pope france as will lead easter celebrations in rome. he 86 year old pontiff has left hospital after being treated for bronchitis. he resumed his public duties at palm sunday mass in saint peter's square, half 2 or 3 days in the hospital. poor francis, that's well enough to crack a joke about his help in fr

matthew, how is his case being discussed in berlin right now. this been widespread outrage at mister shimaya's case at the head of the opposition c. d u party frederick met as it happened as jumps should shimaya's political sponsor. and he expressed shock at the news and called on reading authorities to quote, let mister shamar come home to germany. later today, there'll be a protest in front of a german chancellor here in the capital with supporters of mister sherman, holding on lords and power to do all the kind to home this case. matthew, more did have you political correspondence in berlin. thank you. for your current president, volota mears, the lensky spoke of the new energy in relations between ukraine and china. following his phone call with chinese president, she's in ping on wednesday. it was the 1st contact between the 2 leaders since russia embedded ukraine last year. the chinese foreign ministry says that it will send a delegation to keith to seek a political settlement to the crisis. president polanski has also appointed a new ukrainian ambassador to beijing the 1st in more than 2 years. a long awaited conversation bet