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
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