Lets start with international travel, because with the omicron variant spreading across europe and much of the world at rapid speed its causing major disruption for the travel industry. Many have chosen to change or cancel Christmas Travel plans as more countries introduce new restrictions. One of the latest is germany, which from sunday banned most travellers from britain, denmark, and france. Anyone entering germany from these countries need a negative pcr test and is required to quarantine for m days, regardless of vaccination status. Its notjust an european problem. In the us, dr anthony fauci, who advises the white house, has warned Christmas Travel will increase the spread of the omicron variant across the country. So far the new variant accounts for 3 of cases in the us, but that number is quickly rising. Lets go live to dusseldorf and speak to axel hefer, the Chief Executive of the Travel Website trivago. Good to talk to you again. Here we are with a new variant and governments
rolled off the production line. 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 start the programme for you in the middle east where the us. secretary of state antony blinken been holding discussions to resolve the escalating crisis there. he has told israel it will endanger its long term security if it abandons efforts to resolve the conflict with the palestinians. mr blinken who was speaking after talks with israeli prime minister, bejamin netanyahu said his immediate priority was to restore calm. the visit comes in the midst of a spate of violence between israelis and palestinians. the bbc s middle east correspondent, tom bateman, has more. in tom bateman, has more. jerusalem at the wreckai spreading injerusalem at the wreckage is spreading and another generation grows up in its wake. israel s new far right police minister is vowing to step up home demolitions of palestini
report. chinese shares on a global index. we look what this could mean for investors in asia and around the world. and what are the big spenders from the aviation industry eyeing off at the paris air show? it is tuesday. good morning asia hello world, glad you could join us for asia business report. we start off with chinese stocks. after years of discussion, msci it will announce whether it will include china s a shares, the mainland shares traded in china, in its emerging markets index. this is the fourth time that msci is looking into the possibility. it could mean potentially a lot of investment going into mainland issues. our correspondent has more from a rainy day in beijing. china is chasing a globalfinancial day in beijing. china is chasing a global financial benchmark here. inclusion for its eight shares, leading shares here would mean that they attract by investors and responsible for trillions of dollars of investment. there would no doubt bea of investment. there
changed for those who serve in the armed forces. there are concerns that thousands of people could be let down when they buy a pre paid funeral plan, with many not get what they think they re paying for. i ll have more later. in sport: johanna konta is now favourite for the wimbledon women s title. she plays on court one later. she is one of four britons for the first time in 20 years heading into the final week. good first time in 20 years heading into the finalweek. good morning. yesterday we hit 32.2 celsius. today won t be as hot with highs of about 28, it should be dry in wimbledon. there is some rain and showers in the forecast and i will tell you where when we are back later in the programme. mike, carol, thanks very much. good morning. first, our main story. there were violent clashes last night in hamburg ahead of the g20 summit. police used water cannon and pepper spray on masked protestors who hurled bottles and stones. the demonstrations came ahead of the highly a