including the strategically important city of kunduz. wildfires are continuing to burn on the greek island of evia. dozens of villages have been evacuated and ferries are on standby to bring more people to safety. the latest changes to the uk s covid travel restrictions have come into force. mexico is now on the red list, with arrivals to britain having to stay in a government approved hotel for 10 days isolation at their own expense. seven countries including germany have been added to the green list, and there are now no restrictions for travellers who ve been double jabbed, arriving from france. here s our business correspondent, katy austin. just off the eurostar from paris to london and for passengers who ve had both jabs, there s now no need to isolate. we were expecting to quarantine, so with having the kids it s a very nice surprise that we don t have to. the first time they ve seen their grandparents in france for the last 18 months.
are among the worst affected areas. ferries are helping evacuate residents and holidaymakers. our europe correspondent, bethany bell, has sent us this report from evia. exodus from evia. there are long queues at the port. people are waiting to get on ferries to the mainland. holiday makers and some locals are leaving, after villages and parts of the north of the island were evacuated. chris, who works on evia as a singer, says the wildfires are spreading and the authorities aren t doing enough. the most people see that we don t have any help until yesterday and they could save everybody and it wasn t true. the people don t know where to go. the big problem is that we feel that they let us burn.
have managed to contain the large fire. as you can see, the devastation behind me is immense. everywhere you look is charred trees. residents here are talking about the lungs of athens being destroyed. the biggest fires at the moment, as you said, on the island of evia, where we still have massive evacuations of populations. people are gathered on the beaches and are waiting to be transferred if needed. fires are burning in the pelyponnese. the firefighters are going to have a tough time today with the wind, containing these large blazes that are still burning. thanks so much, alinda labrapulu in greece. olympic champion in the pool, a master with wool. we ll speak with british diver tom daley about his time at the tokyo games.
just a few miles from here, there are bright blue skies, but here the air is full of smoke and ash and it is making it harder for people to breathe. no one knows if this village will be spared. it is now up to the gods of the winds and the weather. bethany bell, bbc news, evia. meanwhile in california three firefighters have been injured tackling a huge wildfire in the north of the state. five people are missing after the dixie fire, swept through two towns, destroying more than one hundred and eighty thousand hectares in four counties. california s fire services said only around a fifth of the fire has been contained. the world is getting dangerously close to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change. that s the warning from alok sharma, the uk minister in charge of november s climate change conference in glasgow.
a team of british firefighters are on their way to athens , to help tackle the wildfires in greece. efforts are currently focused on the island of evia. our reporter bethany bell, who s there, describes the situation. here at the port, people are queueing up on ferries to get them back to the mainland and have been receiving emergency alerts warning them to leave and one woman said she had packed up a family into their car and they had managed to get away but she was worried about whether she would be able to see her holiday him again. one other woman told me she is staying here for the moment but she is worried about the air here. it s full of smoke and bits of ash flying around and she said her mother is 80 years old and she s worried about her being able to breathe. the ferries at the moment are only taking cars back to the mainland. they are not allowing new cars to come back here to the north of the island. meanwhile, the firefighters are struggling to try and bring these blazes u