on the city of kramatorsk. in his latest television interview, prince harry reveals that he felt guilty for being unable to show any emotion in public after the death of his mother. international travellers have been streaming into china after it fully opened its borders for the first time since the start of the covid pandemic. people arriving in the country no longer need to quarantine and chinese citizens are once again allowed to go overseas. there have been emotional reunions at airports and the mainland s border with hong kong. this latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions coincides with the country s busiest travel season marking the lunar new year. martin yip is at that border between mainland china and hong kong. china has been rapidly de escalating these covid i9 control measures, literally walking away from what used to be called zero covid policy. so if you wonder how rapid we are talking about, two things that happened today on the other side of this bridge migh
atjosef stalin, soviet citizens who fell foul of the authorities were often labelled enemies of the people. after invading ukraine, vladimir putin vowed to cleanse russia of what he called traitors, some and the fifth column. some love. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. we begin tonight with a peace deal in ethiopia s civil war, which has been raging for two years, leaving thousands dead and millions without enough to eat. a surprise ceasefire has been reached at the peace talks in south africa, and the agreement should allow aid to reach people trapped by the fighting. ethiopian government troops have been fighting forces from the tigray people s liberation front in northern ethiopia. easy to say that a disarmament plan has been agreed on and before case to be made without any. here is a clip from a report we brought you two weeks ago, from hussein mohamed at the bbc s africa eye, at a hospital in tigray struggling to treat its patients. and a w
be sent back to myanmar. and a helping hand for graduates. president biden cancels $10,000 of student debt for millions of americans. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in ukraine, where the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says a russian missile strike on a rail station has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more. mr zelensky had previously warned that russia might do something cruel to disrupt ukraine s independence day which coincidentally fell on the same day as the six month anniversary of the invasion. this is the current state of play in the country with russia controlling ukrainian territory in the south and east. the southern front, around the occupied city of kherson, is where ukraine says it is planning a counter offensive. from there, our correspondent quentin sommerville sent this report. once more into the line of fire an
they are important for christians as places of pilgrimage and devotion. but this year s ceremony is special. it s laced with the relief of a country recovering from war. translation: last year- we were in our home crying. i normally always come here for christmas but i couldn t come for the last two years. more than the pandemic, the war was scary because it was a massacre that was visible to our naked eyes. i couldn t come and celebrate it because i was afraid. not long ago, lalibela was on the front line of a brutal conflict between government forces and the tigray people s liberation front. the town changed hands four times during the fighting and miraculously the ancient churches appear to have been spared the scars of war. there is obvious relief