hello and welcome. italy has become the first european country to order covid tests for visitors from china, after concern 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. there s concern travellers could bring new variants of the disease now that beijing is lifting travel restrictions. 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 s biggest, more evidence
condition has worsened in recent hours. and britain is on course to record its warmest year ever, after a summer of heatwaves, wildfires and drought. we ll look at the impact it s had. welcome to bbc news. the announcement that china s borders are to be reopened next month is prompting a tough response by an increasing number of countries. italy is the latest to announce plans to enforce mandatory covid testing of passengers on flights from china after tighter measures were outlined by japan, malaysia, taiwan and india. the us and the philippines are also considering new coronavirus restrictions. american officials accuse the chinese authorities of a lack of transparency as cases of covid have been surging there. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes china s hospitals overwhelmed, covid infections soaring. the country s abrupt decision to dismantle much of its strict covid regime apparently yielding worryin
, for many. Who watch this, there is a feeling that in general this west can be dealt with completely differently, by the way, it seems to me that its forced the night, because he said that i came as a jew, yeah, and not as a secretary of state, and as a jew, i understand, no, just when this phrase was said, that is, he immediately chose a side, well, what kind of person is he after that diplomat, what kind of diplomat is he after that, and then, absolutely right, and then the question arises did you come to me as who . Yes . That is, i have to talk to you like im talking to someone . This is by the way, by the way, vladimir, where is this from, from the same place, thats where we started from putins words, yes, this is from colonial thinking, so to speak, yes, thats it, you come on, im already telling you in advance that you should be under me, i came to you, so i told you how , that is, you are not a diplomat, he did not come as a diplomat who will look for a compromise, but he came
To my level, yes to the felt command, i want everything to be like people love, soon , here i think, my personal opinion, again, these are the experts who understand this better, i think that israel will portray some kind of symbolic success. Which will not mean that he won, but somehow it will be that they will tear it down and ask questions about what happened 7. In any case, there will be a problem, because he will not be able to completely resolve this issue, so questions to he will be, no one forgave him on october 7, the last thing, so to speak, i would like say, yes, just a few words about ukraine, i mentioned here yes, that , so to speak, ukraine, unfortunately, is trying to adopt the experience of big masters, which is called, yes, brutal. Attitude towards other people as not people , in their case it is not just tragic, but in the end it will be tragicomic, this is what is happening around ukraine now, i am not creating any illusions at all, but the background for zelsky is o
Cluster munitions, houses and outbuildings were damaged, according to preliminary data, none of the residents were injured. Emergency services are now at the scene, sappers are looking for unexploded elements. Zelensky previously promised not to use cluster shells against civilian infrastructure and civilians. Meanwhile, in the special Operation Zone in the krasnoliman direction , Russian Military personnel stopped seven attacks by nationalists at once. Units disrupted our artillerymen. Enemy soldiers are well aware of the firepower of russian guns and often lay down their arms en masse and surrender. Report by pavel rybalchenko. War veterans medal, plastic, and not metal. Without weight, literally and figuratively. Several plastic medals. Flags and the order, all that remains of the Ukrainian Armed forces fighters, who tried to storm the positions of russian fighters in the southern donetsk direction of the front, advance along the forested area, or try to break through to the nearest