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
murder rape burglary robbery. it s considered the murder capital of the united states. the worst ghetto in all of the united states. after decades of terror in the big apple, rudy giuliani rode in like a white knight and took care of business. he made life better for his residents and cleaned up the streets. guess what? it worked. he tackled crime and laid out the big city blueprint for safety. enforce your laws, keep criminals in line. and above all, support your police. seems like an easy recipe for success, right? yet, somehow, 30 years later, every democratic big run city has screwed this up. the left has worked tirelessly to defund police and put criminals back on the streets. stupid ideas like eliminating cash bail have put us all at risk. you are officially on your own. nowhere is that more evident than lori lightfoot s chicago. the same lady who tried to cut her police budget by $50 million two years ago has seen a nearly 40% jump in crime in the last 12 months.
in these mountains, people and pumas just don t get along. this man alone has killed dozens of them. and today, he has one more in his sights. at the ends of the earth is a land of extremes. home to spectacular wildlife. for centuries, people and animals have battled for supremacy. but now, enemies are becoming allies. together, they face new chall challenges in a rapidly changing world. you are at the mercy of the elements. this is the story of what it takes to survive on the edge of the world. patagonia, one of the world s last great wildernesses. it stretches for more than a thousand miles, all the way down to the southern-most tip of south america. towering above the region are the andes, dividing chile from argentina. we re headed on an epic journey up through patagonia s wild highlands. from its foothills to its volcanic plateaus, all the way up to its high ice fields. our journey begins on the grasslands of the patagonian step. at 1,500 feet. here, one predator
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and
A hole in the ozone layer over antarctica, thats fuelled by smoke from Wildfire Events in australia, is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. Scientists from the University Of Wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. Heres our science correspondent victoria gill. The ozone layer that protects us from the suns most harmful rays is healing gradually. But in antarctica, in cold high atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer still appears every year. That Ozone Thinning or loss used to peak in september or october, when animals and plants are tucked under winter snow and marine animals are protected by sea ice. But its now lingering until december, well into the antarctic summer, when wildlife is much more vulnerable. Researchers say thats been driven in part by smoke from the australian wildfires in 2019 and 2020, which were fuelled by climate change. The researchers found evidence that antarctic plants might have to p