for the first time in three years china lifts quarantine rules for people arriving from abroad. and is this the sound of hidden treasure? hopeful hunters follow a map marking the spot where german soldiers are believed to have buried valuables worth millions. hello and welcome to the programme. clashes have continued in eastern ukraine throughout the day despite the russian ceasefire to mark the orthodox christmas. ukraine dismissed the pause in hostilities as a tactic to allow russian troops to regroup. russian forces are on the edge of bakhmut they ve been rying to take it since the summer, in an attempt to push further west, but the city hasn t fallen. our correspondent, james waterhouse along with producer siobhan leahy and cameraman paul francis sent this report from bahkmut, on the front line. you leave civilisation behind on the journey to bakhmut. we are heading to one of the most hostile parts of the front line. and coming into view is a city in the middle
metal detectors beep. and is this the sound of hidden treasure? hopeful hunters follow a map marking the spot where german soldiers are believed to have buried valuables worth millions. hello and welcome to bbc news. after nearly three years of covid lockdowns, china is scrapping its quarantine rules for travel from sunday. but as soon as restrictions were eased over the last few weeks, infections started to spread rapidly causing many countries to introduce compulsory covid tests for travellers from china. there are also concerns that china s borders are opening just as the country prepares to celebrate its annual lunar new year. for more on this story i m joined now by the bbc s martin yip who s at the hong kong zhuhai macau bridge checkpoint. thank you forjoining us, martin. how are people feeling about these restrictions being eased fairly quickly? we have heard travellers from china can visit abroad and now these restrictions being eased for inward visitors. restricti
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let s now speak to pouya alimagham, a historian focused on iran and revolutionary movements at the massachusetts institute of technology. he joins us live from south carolina. thank you very much forjoining us. do you think this will put off protests in iran?- off protests in iran? first, i m from off protests in iran? first, i m from southern - off protests in iran? first, l i m from southern california but yes, i do think the intention behind the expedited trials, you could call them sham trials, the whole point is to do them very quickly and to televise these. confessions and to execute them in a public manner. really to instill fear in the population and really get into the immobiliser state. there is a lot of historical precedent to it in relation to uprisings in the past. the
regime to repress opposition. the islamic republic has been handing out death sentences to political prisoners for four decades. in 1980s, thousands of protesters were executed summarily. the human rights group amnesty international says it fears at least 26 more people are at great risk of execution in connection with the protests, while politicians from around the world have widely condemned iran s actions as abhorrent. shelley phelps, bbc news. i ve been speaking to pouya alimagham, a historian focused on iran and revolutionary movements at the massachusetts institute of technology about the impact this development will have on the iran protests. the intention behind the expedited trials, if you could even call them trials, they re very sham trials, the whole point is to do them very quickly and to televise these forced confessions and to execute