hello and welcome. italy has become the first european country to order covid tests for visitors from china, after concern at the rapid rise in chinese infections. earlier, taiwan said it would introduce a similar scheme. japan and india have already ordered travellers from china to be monitored. the us could follow. there s concern travellers could bring new variants of the disease now that beijing is lifting travel restrictions. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes. china s hospitals are overwhelmed, covid infections soaring. the country s abrupt decision to dismantle much of its strict covid regime apparently yielding terrifying results. wards full of desperately ill people. outside this hospital in chengdu, a queue for emergency services. government officials say the situation is under control. that s not what these pictures suggest. at the dongjiao funeral home, one of the city s biggest, more evidence
ahead of a general election expected next year. here s some of his speech: i am ending this long running saga. i am cancelling the rest of the h52 project. and in its place. applause ..and in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new transport projects in the north and the midlands, across the country. this means £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. applause ijust want to remind you exactly what hs2 actually is. it s a high speed railway which is what the hs stands for and it was touted as the uk s biggest infrastructure project, aiming to transform public transport between london, the midlands and the north. the first part, between west london and birmingham in blue is already under construction and will be completed. but the length in red, stretching further north from birmingham to manchester, has now been officially scrapped. a separate eastern leg to leeds marked
fade and under clear skies as the winds for light, we will again see some fog patches and a touch of frost. many places will get close to freezing in some places below freezing. frost and fog for some of us to start tomorrow morning. we are in a window of fine weather, low pressure clearing eastwards. more weather systems waiting in the wings but a zone of fire to dry and weather. with some fog across parts of scotland, northern england and northern ireland, could be quite slow to clear. a few showers in eastern parts but for the majority of fine looking day with lots of sunshine and the temperatures generally between seven and i2 generally between seven and 12 degrees. we will see rain approaching the south west late in the day fine and dry. moving into devon and cornwall and the channel islands late in the day. it will start to turn quite chilly later on. into remembrance sunday, frontal system start to push in from the south west. ahead of that, sunday morning could be
and johanna konta leads the way for the women. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the us president donald trump and russia s vladimir putin have met face to face for the first time shaking hands at the start of the g20 summit in germany. it follows months of speculation about their relationship and allegations of russian intervention in the us presidential election. the two men are due to hold an official meeting at the summit in hamburg later. with issues like climate change on the agenda, protestors have brought police onto the streets once again today following yesterday s violence. we can go our deputy political editorjohn pienaar, who s in hamburg. before we get substance, we get to persist with body language when we see the first handshake. it will be fascinating to watch donald trump meeting flat in putin, due to happen in the next hour or so. meeting vladimir putin. just for the body language as much as anything else. vladimir putin is seen as a quietly spok