this is bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i m david eades, the headlines. the bbc understands that britain will introduce covid testing for arrivals from china after a surge in cases there. six years of donald trump s tax returns that he d refused to make public are released in the us. brazil lights up in honour of pele as the first day of national mourning begins for the footballing legend. controversial online influencer andrew tate is detained in romania as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation. a coordinated call between russia and china. putin tells president xi he wants more military cooperation.
of representatives. it will give them an impetus to become more personal, as they intend to, over their investigations as they control those committees that can conduct those inquiries intojoe biden himself, perhaps his son and his business dealings. we know that is incredibly likely as well. this will be part of a general personalisation that will take place in the next few months in terms of inquiries. gary 0 donoghue reporting there from washington. president putin has called for greater military co operation between russia and china in a video call with the chinese leader, xijinping. mr putin appears determined to strengthen relations with beijing, as he continues his war in ukraine. he invited mr xi to make a state visit to moscow in the coming months. in response, the chinese leader said the two countries should continue co operation, without giving details. let s hear some of what president putin said. translation: in the context of growing geopolitical - tensions, the importanc
patients that it s having to treat them outside the building. the reports appear to contradict official government figures, which on friday recorded only 5,000 new infections nationwide. meanwhile, italy has now begun testing passengers arriving from china at rome s fiumicino airport. it s the first country to order covid antigen tests for all arrivals from china. spain and israel have become the latest countries to introduce restrictions on passengers arriving from china. both will require a negative covid test or proof that travellers have been fully vaccinated. president putin has called for greater military co operation between russia and china in a video call with the chinese leader, xijinping. mr putin appears determined to strengthen relations with beijing, as he continues his war in ukraine. he invited mr xi to make a state visit to moscow in the coming months.
russia s president putin has said he expects his chinese counterpart xi jinping to make a state visit to moscow early next year. in a joint video summit, he also called for greater military co operation between the two, at a time when western sanctions over russia s war in ukraine are making it increasingly reliant on beijing. but an official chinese readout of the video call made no mention of any state visit and stressed that china would maintain its objective and fair stance on the invasion. here s some of what mr putin had to say: translation: in the context of growing i geopolitical tensions, the importance of the russian chinese strategic partnership as a stabilising factor is growing. we have the same view of the causes, progress and logic of the transformation of the global geopolitical landscape that is now under way. despite the unfavourable external environment, illegitimate restrictions and direct blackmail by some western countries, russia and china managed to ensure