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Today we're in Sulawesi, in Tunisia, where the demand for minerals to fuel the electric

car revolution has locals worrying about the effects it might be having on their own

local environment.

In Finland, border town businesses are feeling the pinch from the absence of Russian tourists.

Turkey has undergone rapid modernisation in recent decades, but will the political

aftershocks of the recent earthquake hit President Erdogan's re-election chances.

And now that the isolation, testing and travel bans of the pandemic have been relegated

to the past, one correspondent writes about finally overcoming his trepidation for international

travel.

First, we're in Mississippi, where a ferocious tornado, the deadliest in a decade, raised

houses to the ground, overturned vehicles and uprooted trees last Friday night.

Twenty-five people were killed in the storm, which also tore through neighbouring Alabama.

Hundreds of people have been made homeless, and tens of thousands more were left without

power.

While local communities are still coping with the aftermath, there have been warnings

that more severe storms are to come.

Sophie Long was in rolling fork, which sustained heavy damage in the storm.

As I drove into rolling fork, I could see the exact path of destruction the tornado had

cut.

Some trees had been stripped of their branches and ripped from the ground.

Others, either side, were completely untouched.

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