this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the us announces it will require negative covid tests for travellers from china, as alarm grows at the rapid increase in chinese infections. tighter measures are also announced by italy, japan, taiwan and india amid concern china s case numbers aren t accurate. it s sparked an angry response from beijing. translation: the argument. you mentioned is a biased smear campaign and political manipulation with a hidden agenda, which does not stand up to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. as people flee the ukrainian city of kherson, kyiv says russia has carried out more than 30 rocket attacks in the past 2a hours alone. pope francis asks people to pray for his predecessor,
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welcome to bbc news. i m david willis. our top stories: the us announces it will require negative covid tests for travellers from china as alarm grows at the rapid increase in chinese infections. tighter measures are also announced by italy, japan, taiwan and india amid concern china s case numbers aren t accurate. it s sparked an angry response from beijing. translation: the argument. you mentioned is a biased smear campaign and political manipulation with a hidden agenda, which does not stand up to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. as people flee the ukrainian city of kherson, kyiv says russia has carried out more than 30 rocket attacks in the past 2a hours alone.
and that we have enough of them and i think this is a wake up call that china was a little flat footed after it lifted these restrictions. we must leave it there, thank you for joining us here on bbc news. ukraine says russia has stepped up mortar and artillery in the south of the country. kyiv s armed forces said in the last 2a hours 33 rockets had targeted the city. russian forces abandoned kherson last month in one of ukraine s most significant gains of the war. but it s come under renewed attack. on saturday, a russian strike on kherson killed at least ten people and wounded nearly 60. our correspondent, hugo bachega, sent this report from kyiv. tears in kherson. a final goodbye for another life lost to the war.
to ours was hit, we became scared , this woman says. the danger is not only kherson. here, in kyiv, the air raid alert sounded again this morning. on the battlefield, neither russia nor ukraine have made significant gains in recent weeks, but away from the front lines, people are being warned of the russian threat coming from the sky. hugo bachega, bbc news, kyiv. well, that s the latest on the ground. meanwhile ukraine s president vlodimir zelensky has been making his annual address to parliament. here s some of what he said. translation: ukraine hasj united the european union. now, europe is defending itself. europe is overcoming the crises despite the enormous amount of resources that russia is deploying to break our continent. everything russia has tried to do against europe has not worked.