will spread ripples of sadness and grief right around the world. the bbc has uncovered how a culture of complicity and denial conceals the true scale of clerical sex abuse in italy. despite having the most priests of any country and the seat of the catholic church on its doorstep, italy has not documented the crime. calls are growing for it to follow france, which last year found over 200,000 cases there since the 1950s. 0ur rome correspondent mark lowen reports. hello. tell us more about what has been found. hello. tell us more about what has been found- hello. tell us more about what has been found. thank you. we are “ust riaht been found. thank you. we are “ust riuht b been found. thank you. we are “ust right by the been found. thank you. we are “ust right by the border i been found. thank you. we are “ust right by the border between i been found. thank you. we are just right by the border between italy i right by the border between italy and the vatican and that proxim
tests every day. once the results are negative, they re allowed to work across the border. so far, hong kong has been relatively lucky, with only around 200 deaths since the pandemic began. but with medical experts warning the number of daily cases could reach nearly 30,000 a day by the end of march, that luck may be running out. tim allman, bbc news. the bbc has uncovered how a culture of complicity and denial conceals the true scale of clerical sex abuse in italy. despite having the most priests of any country and the seat of the catholic church on its doorstep, italy has not documented the crime. calls are growing for it to follow france, which last yearfound over 200,000 cases there since the 1950s. 0ur rome correspondent mark lowen reports.
the uk s visa scheme for refugees fleeing the war in ukraine has been branded a shambles and totally chaotic by the government s critics. some mps say those seeking sanctuary are being held up by bureaucracy or turned away and they ve been heavily critical of the home office response to the crisis. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports from eastern poland where some ukrainian refugees are hoping to make their way to the uk. their long journey of life yields not peace but struggle, for 92 year old 0lena and her 70 year old daughter lyubov. etched on their faces, the barbarity of the elderly driven from their homes. a halting shuffle to get here, the british visa centre in eastern poland, trying tojoin family in the uk. they re safe, she knows it, but not yet at rest.
is in turmoil, with civilians being allowed safe passage to escape in some cities while, in another, a hospitalfor children and pregnant women is bombed. ukraine is having to lurch from apparent lulls in the conflict to being the target of ruthless violence, and no one knows when this is going to end. well, for now, that is all from me and the team in lviv. now it s back to huw in the studio. reeta, many thanks. and thank you to the team in ukraine. the uk s visa scheme for refugees fleeing the war in ukraine has been branded a shambles and totally chaotic by the government s critics. some mps say those seeking sanctuary are being held up by bureaucracy or turned away, and they ve been heavily critical of the home office response to the crisis. borisjohnson says almost 1,000 visas have now been approved, but there are at least 22,000 applications yet to be processed. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports
until they get a negative test result. it s thrown france s tourism industry into disarray during the christmas season. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports from the alpine resort of chamonix. up the slopes of mont blanc, hope was peeking through of a bumper christmas, a relief from covid, but then france warned of a landslide, not on its own mountains, but of covid in britain, all nonessential arrivals from the uk grinding to a halt today. travel now in disarray. a few people in different families who will probably not be able to come up now. obviously a bit gutting for certain people but we are just lucky, definitely. does it feel empty? a bit. normally it is really busy. loads of people from england and other countries coming in, but it doesn t feel that busy.