from buffalo, hardest hit by the blizzard of the century welcome to bbc news. italy has become the first european country to order covid tests for visitors from china, following growing alarm at the rapid rise in chinese infections. earlier, taiwan said it would introduce a similar scheme. japan and india have already ordered travellers from china to be monitored. the us could follow suit. there s concern travellers could bring new variants of the disease. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes. china s hospitals are overwhelmed, covid infections soaring. the country s abrupt decision to dismantle much of its strict covid regime apparently yielding terrifying results. wards full of desperately ill people. outside this hospital in chengdu, a queue for emergency services. government officials say the situation is under control. that s not what these pictures suggest. at the dongjiao funeral home, one of the city
to help them create cutting edge modern clothing. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states and canada. president biden has approved an emergency declaration, following federal support for new york state. the city of buffalo, in new york state, has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. it lies in the great lakes region and near the canadian border. 27 bodies have been recovered there, and more are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines, making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretc
at least 60 people have been killed in the winter storms that are sweeping across north america. the city of buffalo in new york state has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. at least 27 people have died there. president biden has approved financial support for the state. our north america correspondent nada tawfik has this update. the worst is over in buffalo but it is not over yet, they expect around 13 centimetres of snow. numerous people had said they have never experienced anything this badge, hurricane force winds, near wipe out conditions in the city and the priority at the moment is trying to dig out of the residence. vehicles have been buried, the death toll is over 20 now, emergency responders the other number could go up as they clear out the city. a driving ban is still in effect, residents can hopefully get around as they are trying to clear the roads, there is the hope that people can get basic food supplies after several days stuck inside. then there is t
live here inside the historic civic club of harrisburg where in moments we will replay some of last night s debate for our live voter panel and we ll get their reaction as we sit here 13 days from election day. also, the republican senator in this state, pat toomey, leaves that seat open for oz or fetterman. he joins us live as well. first, bryan llenas takes a look at the debate that everyone is talking about today. hi, bryan. martha, good afternoon. one of those moments that everyone is talking about is when lieutenant governor john fetterman was pressed on his stance on fracking. last night he said he has always supported fracking. but in 2018, he said he did not and never has. i absolutely support fracking. that you said i don t support fracking at all. how do you square the two? i i do support fracking. and i don t i support fracking. i stand and i do support fracking. after last night s performance, there s more questions, not less, against fetterman s hea
via, first though to david he is live at the white house with the latest, david. john good evening rick back to isolation for the commander-in-chief. this new scott many people off guard include top white house officials all the way to the president of the united states himself. the reason for that as he was going to go to wilmington, delaware to further plans in the works for is going to go to hemlock, michigan a few days later on tuesday. both of those trips have been canceled for this official letter from doctor kevin o connor, the physician to the president detailing what happened over the past few hours per know what to read part of it to our viewers. after testing negative on tuesday evening, wednesday morning, thursday morning, and friday morning, the president tested positive late saturday morning pete meeting hours ago by antigen testing for this effect represents rebound positivity the president has spring snow reemergence of symptoms and continues to feel quite w