This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Saturday,

the 1st of April, these are our main stories.

Hundreds reported injured by a tornado

in the US city of Little Rock, Arkansas,

in what's been declared a mass casualty event.

No handcuffs and are not guilty plea

when Donald Trump surrenders

at a New York courthouse next week his lawyers say.

And China is a formidable competitor.

And this is something that we don't see

in adversarial terms in NATO.

We don't want to call war, we're China.

The deputy head of NATO speaks to the BBC.

Also in this podcast,

2,000 Ugandan troops enter the Democratic Republic of Congo

to start their peacekeeping duty

in the eastern part of the country.

And we now have confirmed presses

in the United States,

in the United States.

And this is the United States.

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