the vatican says benedict s condition has worsened in recent hours. and a powerful winter storm in north america has claimed more lives in new york state. we ll speak to a recovery worker in buffalo, one of the worst hit cities. for you watching in the uk, on pbs in the us and around the globe, welcome to bbc news. america has become the latest country to impose mandatory covid tests on chinese tourists, after beijing announced it would reopen its borders next week. it comes as china s covid cases surge. tighter measures have also been imposed by italy, japan, malaysia, taiwan and india. 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 yielding worrying results. wards full of desperately ill people. outside this hospital in chengdu, a queue for emergency services. government offi
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. america has become the latest country to impose mandatory covid tests on chinese tourists, after beijing announced it would reopen its borders next week. it comes as china s covid cases surge. tighter measures have also been imposed by italy, japan, malaysia, taiwan and india. 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 yielding worrying 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 this funeral home, one of the city s biggest, more evi
you impose truly draconian limits, as was don as was done successfully in australia as was done successfully in australia and as was done successfully in australia and new- as was done successfully in | australia and new zealand, as was done successfully in - australia and new zealand, having testing or other sorts of partial travel bands are really not effective. look what happened a year ago when the us imposed travel bands to south africa and other south african countries in response to the detection of omicron that did nothing to help the explosive spread of omicron in the united states because it had already spread to other parts of the world. i think the same will be true here, if there is to be a new variant that arises in china, it most likely has spread elsewhere. and because of travel to other countries and the likelihood of someone travelling from china to france could infect someone in france, then infect someone in the us without testing. us without testing. intere
that did nothing to help the explosive spread of omicron in the united states because it had already spread to other parts of the world. i think the same will be true here, if there is to be a new variant that arises in china, it most likely has already spread elsewhere. and because of travel to other countries and the likelihood of someone travelling from china to france could infect someone in france, then infect someone in the us without testing. interesting, what do you make of china and its handling in recent weeks of the epidemic there? i think that the relaxation of their very strict lockdown measures has happened a bit abruptly considering how vaccination has not been as widespread, and certainly not as effective of a vaccine as indicated in most of europe and the united states.