Six In The Morning Monday 4 March 10 2019

Tornadoes kill at least 23 in Lee County, Alabama

At least 23 people have been killed as tornadoes struck Lee County in eastern Alabama, authorities say.

County Sheriff Jay Jones said there had been "catastrophic" damage and there were fears more bodies would be found. The number of injured is not yet known.

Rescue efforts have been halted until dawn due to the danger of searching in the dark.

The most devastating tornado struck the area around Beauregard, carving a path at least half a mile (0.8km) wide.

The National Weather Service (NWS) classified it as at least an EF-3 - meaning winds of up to 165mph (266km/h).

The caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire – Isis has nowhere left to go

Bethan McKernan and Mohammed Rasool in Baghuz, Syria

The US-led coalition is making up for lost time in the fight to drive Isis out of Baghuz, its last stronghold

There is a flash of light in the dark town as an airstrike hits an Islamic State weapons depot. A few seconds later, a ball of flame engulfs the entire neighbourhood. The sonic boom sends shockwaves through Baghuz, shaking the ground miles away, and for a second everything and everyone is stunned into silence. Then the artillery fire starts up again.

Five years after Isis swept across Syria and Iraq, all that remains of the “caliphate” that at its peak stretched across two countries and controlled 10 million people is a handful of streets in a bend of the Euphrates river running through this desert town, which will be retaken in the next few days.

Venezuela's Juan Guaido to return home, risk arrest

Venezuela's interim president is expected to return home on Monday, having left the country in defiance of a travel ban. Juan Guaido has called for protests during Monday and Tuesday's Carnival celebrations.

Venezuela's interim president, Juan Guaido, has announced his intention of returning to his homeland from Ecuador, a move that would likely result in his arrest by Venezuelan authorities for violating a court-imposed travel ban ordering him not to leave the country.

Guaido announced his departure from a naval air base in the Ecuadorian coastal town of Salinas on Twitter on Sunday, thanking Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno. He did not disclose his location and has not appeared in public since.

Modi and Imran bask after 'good' Kashmir crisis

As tempers cool after an alarming confrontation between India and Pakistan, analysts say their leaders have emerged stronger -- with Narendra Modi burnishing his nationalist credentials and Imran Khan cast as a peacemaker.

Some 400,000 people have signed petitions for Khan, the former playboy cricketer and prime minister since August, to get a Nobel prize, while Modi's political stock has also risen ahead of looming elections.

Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since 1947, and two of the Asian nations' three wars have been over the Muslim-majority mountainous territory.

Jamal Khashoggi's body likely burned in large oven at Saudi home

New documentary says Turkish investigators also found traces of Khashoggi's blood on walls of the Saudi consul's office.

The body of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggiwas likely burned in a large oven at the Saudi consulate general's residence in Istanbul, an Al Jazeera investigation revealed.

New details of the writer's murder by a Saudi assassination team were reported in a documentary by Al Jazeera Arabic that aired on Sunday night.

Ghosn's new lawyer says he is pursuing different strategy to previous legal team

The lawyer for former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Monday said his team would pursue a different legal strategy from the ousted executive's previous team in defending him against charges of financial misconduct.

At a media briefing, Junichiro Hironaka said the new team he was heading would not be limited to the strategy taken by Ghosn's previous lawyer, Motonari Otsuru, who was replaced in February.

"We are in no way limited by Otsuru's activities while he was heading Ghosn's team," Hironaka told a media briefing. "As the new legal team, we will going forward with a new legal strategy."