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the world health organization has called on china to share accurate data on coronavirus infections and deaths. it follows a sharp rise in cases after beijing abandoned its zero—covid policy. on friday, the british government announced that all passengers travelling to england from mainland china will be required to produce a negative covid test before boarding their flight. a number of other countries including the united states, india, france, spain and italy have already announced ...

president paid no tax in 2020. now on bbc news, the travel show. yeah, all checked, triple checked. metal clanking. radio: science team, | are you a go or no go? science says go. radio: rangers, go for launch. go or no go for launch? bridge is go for launch. metal clanking. there will be a time when people will go to space at much less cost and very regularly. i think the same things gonna happen going underwater. its going to get less expensive and much more accessible. radio: go for ...

and brazil lights up in honour of pele on the first of three days of national mourning for the footballing legend. the world health organization has called on china to share accurate data on coronavirus infections and deaths. it follows a sharp rise in cases after beijing abandoned its zero—covid policy. on friday, the british government announced that all passengers travelling to england from mainland china will be required to produce a negative covid test before boarding their flig...

also knighted, the artist grayson perry. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are geri scott, political reporter at the times, and broadcasterjohn stapleton. we will say hello to both in just a moment. first, though, lets take a look at those front pages. the telegraph focuses on the return of covid tests for travellers to the uk from china, amid worries over the spread of the virus. the mail calls the new controls "drastic" but s...

and brazil lights up in honour of pele on the first of three days of national mourning for the footballing legend. queen guitarist brian may is among those receiving awards in the new years honours list. hes knighted for services to music and charity. hello and welcome to those watching in the uk and around the globe. a us congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until th...

thousands of worshippers have gathered in st peters square in the vatican for the popes christmas day message. pope francis appealed for an end to the "senseless" war in ukraine. you are watching bbc news. now bbc news at 100. can you just leave me fora moment, please? i will get what i can, but theres a huge change in the running order here. stand by, vt 20. stand by, tx. a, b, cand d, in that order, from five seconds. ten, nine, eight, seven, six... run vt 20. ..five, four, three, tw...

jet ski champion turned real—life green goblin franky zapata has been zipping around our airways for a while now but four years on, im back to meet the hoverboard inventor who many have branded a daredevil. its wrong, you know? im just a dreamer that is doing everything he can to achieve his dream. and franky certainly has been dreaming, big. this is huge. whats up here, then? thanks to a deep—pocketed german investor, hes taken his business to new heights. hes got workers behind d...

last week the hard line rulers announced women were banned from attending university. now on bbc news — our world: harvesting turkeys tea. hello there. for most of us, christmas day is going to turn out to be quite a mild day with temperatures pushing into double figures. on saturday, we did manage a bit of sunshine across the midlands and north—east england but otherwise it was a lot of clout around it we will continue to feed in rather cloudy skies for chris...

Showers following to the south where it stays quite breezy and mild. now, as this rain band starts to move into the colder air in scotland, we might actually start to see it turn to snow. there is quite a bit of uncertainty about this one, but we could see some heavy snow not just affecting some of the hillier areas, but maybe also getting down to some lower levels. as i say, there is a degree of uncertainty in that kind of forecast, but stay in touch with the weather if you live in scotland and...

Of uncertainty in that kind of forecast, but stay in touch with the weather if you live in scotland and youre worried about those snowy conditions heading into new years day. new years day itself, it stays quite cold in scotland. any snow will slowly begin to fizzle in intensity. further southwards, weve got the mild air with us again. still a few showers around, but those temperatures, i2, 13 degrees celsius — thats still around 5 celsius above the december average. now, beyond that, generall...