so we want less quantity and more quality. we will have an experimental fee starting this summer by the booking of the visits. the entrance fee is set to be up to 10 euros, depending on the season. people staying in hotels and local residents will be exempt. and while venice contends with the volume of visitors, it also banned large cruise ships from sailing into the city s lagoon. authorities hope the tourist tax will reduce daily visits and encourage longer stays. it means tourism in venice may never be the same. emily brown, bbc news. now it s time for a look at the weather. good morning. we have started off on a sunny note for many of us and it is going to continue that way with just a few showers in the west. we have a weather front not too far away from the west, it will throw in
these are the first officially acknowledged deaths since 2020, but china has been accused of downplaying the numbers. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonell says more than 7 million people are now confined in tung shun. tung shun isjust one the many cities currently locked down. i mean, there are dozens of towns and cities locked down in china at the moment. you can imagine the impact on the economy here, and people s livelihoods, on the morale of the country. tung shun, apart from having, as you say, nearly 8 million people, is a steel city. they have been in lockdown about a month ago and they ve gone back into lockdown. again, you know, that would be very bad news for the people who live there. and in shanghai, the city of 25 million people, the authorities really are struggling to manage it still. i mean, at times, it s been completely chaotic. there are signs now that residents of that city are
venice is about to become the first city in the world to experiment a regulation system of visitor flows. day trippers will have to make a reservation for visiting the city and will soon have to pay an entry fee.. emily brown reports. the floating city of venice is a unique destination for the millions of tourists who, before the pandemic, flocked to these narrow streets and scenic squares every summer. the easter weekend was the first real sign of the tourism sector bouncing back, with more than 80% occupancy in some of the bigger hotels. but from this summer, venice will be the first city in the world to experiment a regulation system of visitor flows to tackle overcrowding. for day trippers, reservations will be compulsory and from next year, there will be an entrance fee. translation: covid 19 change feelings and perceptions of what tourism is in the world and in venice too.
surging forward on that eastern front line which is almost 300 miles long, but ukrainian say they are having some successes in defending their positions. the last ukrainian soldiers in the besieged port city of mariupol have rejected russia s demands to surrender. ukraine s government says bombs are pounding a steel plant which has become the final stronghold of resistance. 0ur correspondent in kyiv, mark lowen, has been speaking to a relative of one of the fighters inside the plant, desperately hoping for news that he s alive. distant explosions. in the fog of war, russia s ferocious firepower is unrelenting. the azovstal steel plant, still holding out against the siege of mariupol. perhaps a few hundred ukrainian troops are defending it. the commander calls it hell on earth.
0ur correspondent danjohnson is following developments from the western city of lviv. mariupol and that steel plant in the city seem to have become something of a last stand for ukrainian resistance in the south east port city. and we ve had an update from the deputy mayor of mariupol who has been speaking to the bbc in the last few minutes. he says there have been fresh assaults on that plant with russian backed fighters trying to take it over. he says he can confirm that there are some civilians sheltering there. he said there are people from nearby buildings that have been destroyed by russian shelling. some of the families of the workers at the steel plant. he said that they knew the bomb shelter there was well equipped and well protected, and that s why so many residents are actually staying in the basement of the steelworks. he said they were lacking everything that they needed. there was no water, food, medicine, and that russia was blocking any humanitarian assistance or evacua