for his predecessor, benedict xvi, who he says is very ill. the vatican says benedict s condition has worsened in recent hours. and britain is on course to record its warmest year ever, after a summer of heatwaves, wildfires and drought. we ll speak to a climate change specialist. hello, welcome to the programme. we start with the fallout from the announcement that china s borders will be reopened next month. in the last hour, the us announced it would require negative covid tests for travellers from china from the 5th of january. that follows tighter measures outlined by italy, japan, malaysia, taiwan, and india. american officials accuse the chinese authorities of a lack of transparency, as cases of covid have been surging there. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports. from the world s most populous nation, alarming scenes china s hospitals overwhelmed, covid infections soaring. the country s abrupt decision to dismantle much of its strict covid regime apparently
in july, not the record breaking heat we saw injuly, more a sustained period of very hot and dry weather. that will be uncomfortable for most and of course dangerous for some. always more refreshing towards coastal areas with a sea breeze. on the south coast we recorded 29 celsius earlier on today. those temperatures not as high as we will see later in the week, but still 32 degrees out towards western areas. 26, 20 7 degrees for eastern scotland and northern ireland. always cooler and cloudier with weather fronts towards the north west of scotland through the north west of scotland through the western isles. a warmer night tonight, temperatures down to the mid teens. missed and low cloud for northern ireland perhaps through the thames valley as well. some of that cloud could continue on and off in patches through the day tomorrow, but for most, blue sky and strong sunshine. temperatures reaching 34, 30 five celsius maybe for parts of the midlands on thursday. it will always
fox news alert. president biden set to speak at any momen n set t from woodside, california, where he s just wrapped up a meetingis expec with president xi of china, is expected to take questions. so we ll cut to the president as soon as he takes the stage. but today was supposed to be gavin newsom s day after s day a romantic first date in beijing, rosie showed gavin his exquisite birdg whers, intr intertwined trees and custom to bargains. gavin thoughtw t he was a shoo in for a second date. she was flying into gavin s hometownr e. , san francisco, and when gavin found out, he grabbed the broom and climbed upd . sorry, vagrants. i have a date he waited for. mae at the airport waited marvd on him as he descended onto the tarmac t. the way gavin looked at, she was kind of like how taylor swift looks at travis kelsey. now in beijing, images of xir and gavin were plastered all over the billboards and then gavin turnedthen san francisco into chinatown g,d killing millions
Could join us, its midnight here in london and 7am in singapore and we start in berlin where it was all smiles earlier as Angela Merkel played host to le keqiang. He is the second east asian leader to receive the Red Carpet Treatment in berlin this week after indias Prime Minister on tuesday. The more positive mood, a change on last week when the g 7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the United States taking a different position to the rest on issues such as Climate Change and free trade. The bbcs joe mellor Climate Change and free trade. The bbcsjoe mellor has been following the events in berlin. Its tempting to read a lot into this, there have been two east asian leaders here and this comes after a week where tensions between the us and germany have never really been higher. Of course these visits are planned a long way in advance and its true to say Press Officers of either delegation if you take a look at the Trade Numbers between china and europe they are improving as y
Could join us, its midnight here in london and 7am in singapore and we start in berlin where it was all smiles earlier as Angela Merkel played host to le keqiang. He is the second east asian leader to receive the Red Carpet Treatment in berlin this week after indias Prime Minister on tuesday. The more positive mood, a change on last week when the g 7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the United States taking a different position to the rest on issues such as Climate Change and free trade. The bbcs joe mellor Climate Change and free trade. The bbcsjoe mellor has been following the events in berlin. Its tempting to read a lot into this, there have been two east asian leaders here and this comes after a week where tensions between the us and germany have never really been higher. Of course these visits are planned a long way in advance and its true to say Press Officers of either delegation if you take a look at the Trade Numbers between china and europe they are improving as y