Obama to visit tornado-hit State

May 24, 2011, update at 13: 08 GMT Barack Obama said the people of Missouri "the American people is by your side" U.S. President Barack Obama said he will visit the State of Missouri to tornado-hit Sunday, just after returning from a tour of six days of Europe.

Huge Sunday tornado cut a path through the city of Joplin, killing at least 116 people, some six miles (10 km) in length on at least one kilometre wide.

President Obama said the tornado "devastating and heartbreaking."

He promised the Government would "do absolutely everything we can" to help victims recover and reconstruction.

During this time, the National Weather Service warned of storms more Tuesday, with the risk for severe weather increasing later in the day.

Southeast Kansas, and Missouri is configured to be battered by winds of 70 mph, "the size of baseballs" hail and tornadoes possible, said the Agency.

Rubble

Mr. Obama spoke of London before meeting Queen Elizabeth II at the beginning of his stay at the United Kingdom.

Resident Dominic Puller filmed the destruction caused by the tornado.

It is the second stop on a tour of four countries of Europe, and Mr. Obama is due back in Washington on Saturday night.

Continue reading the main story March 1925: Deadliest twister in the history of the United States as so-called Tri-State tornado kills 695 in Missouri, Southern Illinois and Southwest IndianaMarch 1932: Deep South tornado outbreak kills 332 people of Texas in South Carolina, with 270 die in Alabama aloneMay 1840: the Great Natchez tornado killed 317 people in Mississippi city, most living on flatboats on the riverApril 1974: 310 killed in 24 hours "super outbreak" of 148 tornadoes in 13 States .mai 1896 : Two weeks of storms kill 305 people Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky's "I want everyone to Joplin, everyone in Missouri, everyone in Minnesota, everyone across the Midwest to know that we are here for you.""," stated Mr. Obama.

"The American people is at your side." We will stay there until every house is repaired, until each neighbourhood is rebuilt, until all businesses are back on its feet. ?

Damage in Missouri likely Mr. Obama said, eventually exceeding the destruction of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of tornadoes in April.

Federal disasters and homeland security officials have traveled to the affected areas, said the President of the United States.

A large part of the South shore of Joplin is reported to have been launched, with churches, schools, businesses and homes to rubble.

Monday, Governor of the Missouri Jay Nixon said storms had caused damage in all of the State.

"As a State, we are deploying each agency and the resources available to keep families safe Missouri, search for missing persons, provide emergency medical care and begin to recover," he said.

He warned that the storms were not finished and urged almost to keep a close eye on the latest weather information.

Europe in a State of alert for the ashes of Icelandic volcano of clouds

REYKJAVIK  - an eruption by the most active volcano of the Iceland was created to keep closed Monday, while other European nations have watched for any impact on their routes of an imposing plume of smoke and ash from the main airport of the island.

Experts have said that they saw little chance of a repeat of the closure of six days of the year last of airspace, which also has transatlantic flights, when another Icelandic volcano erupted, although airlines were warned drift towards the new ash cloud.

So far, Iceland, particularly towns and villages to the South and is the Grimsvotn volcano, have suffered most. Day turned to night when a thick ash cloud descended on the region, stifling cars and buildings.

The cloud also began to drift on the Reykjavik capital by late Sunday evening and the civil aviation authority, said the reopening of the main international airport Monday prospects were not good.

Organization of Europe air traffic control warned on its website that the ash could extend to the South.

"Ash cloud should reach North Scotland on Tuesday, May 24." If volcanic emissions continue with the same intensity, cloud could reach west French air space and the Spain of the North on Thursday, May 26, "he said in a bulletin of traffic."

The Iceland Meteorological Office, said the plume from Grimsvotn, which exploded last in 2004, had fallen to 10 to 15 km of height of a Summit of 25 km (16 miles).

But the eruption was much stronger than that to a volcano, more to the South last year closed the European airspace and interrupted transatlantic flights, because of worries that particles could enter in aircraft engines and cause accidents. The air transport industry, said lost revenue $ 1.7 billion.

"It could lead to a disruption, but only for a very limited period and only on a very limited area," said University of Iceland Professor of Geophysics Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson.

"See us some signs that the (eruption) power decreases a little, but it is still powerful enough," he said, adding that the eruption was the most violent volcano since 1873.

LAYERS OF ASH

Gudmundsson and other volcanologists said that the impact on air travel this time would be more limited that the winds are more favourable, content of the plume was heavier, and less likely to spread, authorities had a tolerance for the levels of ash.

Some airlines complained that the authorities had been overly cautious in imposing closures of coverage of the airspace in the eruption of the last year.

Icelandair, the leading company on the island, stopped flights Sunday and said on its website that the case could continue Monday. He said 6,000 passengers were affected by the cancellations so far.

Dave Mcgarvie, a volcanologist at Open University Britain, said any ash, which reached Great Britain would be lower than last year and added that the experience acquired since the eruption of 2010 would lead within disorder.

In the comments, he said "minor diversion" should allow the aircraft to avoid areas where ash is concentrated.

Grimsvotn is located under the glacier Vatnaj?kull in the Southeast, the largest glacier in Europe Iceland.

The areas south of the glacier have been covered by thick layers of ash and the Sun was blocked for several hours.

"It was the night during the winter," said Benedikt Larusson, speaking in the town of Kirkjubaejarklaustur. "Now, it's a little better." Now, I see about 100 metres, but until it was approximately one metre.

State of the United States seeks records of the Holocaust

 survivor of the Holocaust Leo Bretholz, right, urged Governor Martin O'Malley to support Bill A US Governor signed legislation requiring a French railway company to disclose its role in the Holocaust if it wants to get state contracts.

Martin O'Malley of Maryland signed an act Keolis, a company of Paris owned by French national railway SNCF.

The company had bid for the operation of commuter trains in the State of Maryland.

Historians claim that SNCF moved to 76,000 Jews in the Nazi camps during the Holocaust. Supporters of the legislation say it forces disclosure of Archives of war.

Online availability

"We hope that this legislation can become a national model earlier than later so that the survivors of the Holocaust who are still with us know that the atrocities inflicted on their families and their inhabitants will remain in our minds"will never be forgotten and will never be repeated "Thursday, said Mr. O'Malley."

According to the Bill, the first of its kind passed to the United States, the companies who participated in the deportation of Holocaust victims who seek contracts with Maryland commuter train system would have to make the Archives of the society relating to their available online to the public role.

The records of the company must be disclosed include correspondence, receipts, invoices, checks and internal notes.

In addition, companies would have to provide an account of the property forfeited to the victims of the Holocaust and a restitution account paid.

Bill is specifically aimed at a US arm of Keolis, a company based in Paris, whose majority shareholder is French railways national society or SNCF railroad.

Keolis had submitted a bid to provide commuter rail service along two lines in Maryland.

"Need the truth."

Survivor of the Holocaust Leo Bretholz, 90, insisted on the legislation and attended the ceremony of signing of the Bill.

"It's a start," said Mr. Bretholz, escaped a car of SNCF train en route to Auschwitz concentration camp. "Other States will likely take note and perhaps do the same.". We need of contrition. We need statements. We need the truth. ?

In January, Chairman SNCF that Guillaume Pepy apologized to the victim of the Holocaust is the company.

But some French historians have said that the company, an arm of the French State, was forced to his role in the Holocaust by the force of the German occupation.

Iranian State TV carried Israeli accumulation report (Reuters)

Tehran (Reuters) - Iranian State television ran a report Monday by saying that the Israeli military aircraft have been mass to an American in Iraq air base, in a strike on the Iran.

The report appeared on the press TV's website. Israel said he had no knowledge of such a plan to strike and the Iraq, Commander of the air force denied the Iranian report.

Press TV quoted what it said was a close source of Iraqi movement of Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite clergy who oppose the US presence in Iraq and which has close ties with Iranian leaders.

Washington Israel ally accuses Tehran of using its program declared civilian nuclear reactor to conceal a plan for the development of the atomic bomb that would threaten the Jewish State. Israeli leaders have not ruled out military action against the Iran.

However, there has been no recent indication of the increase in tension and no other information Monday to corroborate the Iranian television report.

A spokesman for the Israeli army said it had no knowledge of this report and said that the military did not comment on operational matters. Personal Iraqi air force commander Lieutenant General Anwar Ahmed dismissed the report as "without foundation".

"The al-Asad base (mentioned by the press TV) exists on Iraqi territory." "We can never accept launches a military attack against the neighbouring countries, if the Iran or any other country, of Iraqi land," he told Reuters.

The United States and its Western allies suspect that iran uses its nuclear power programme as a cover to make bombs. The Iran denies the allegation, insisting he needs from nuclear to generate more electricity technologies.

The Iran has repeatedly warned that it would undermine nuclear Israeli targets if Israel attacked its nuclear activities.

The Iran does not recognize Israel, which he calls the "Zionist regime". Israel, considered the only nuclear country, in the Middle East bombed only the Iraq ruined nuclear reactor in 1981 when Saddam Hussein was in power in Baghdad.

(Reporting by Robin Pomeroy in Tehran, Ori Lewis in Jerusalem and Jim Loney Baghdad; writing by Parisa Hafezi.) (Editing by Mark Heinrich)