this is bbc news, the headlines. prime minister rishi sunak says he's willing to discuss the issue of pay with the nurses�* union to settle strikes but didn't make a firm commitment to increase salaries. china has fully opened its borders for the first time since the start of the covid pandemic. international travellers will no longer need to quarantine and chinese citizens are once again allowed to go overseas. this latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions coincides with the country's busiest travel

season marking the lunar new year. at least one person has been killed as russia bombed ukrainian cities overnight — minutes after its self—imposed ceasefire ended. ukraine reportedly retaliated by attacking two thermal power plants in the russian—controlled donetsk region. military helicopters in western australia have airlifted more than 200 people cut off by devastating floods. the state's emergency services minister described the damage as a "once in a century event." prince harry has revealed that he cried only once over the death of his mother, diana, the princess of wales, in 1997. in a new interview due to be aired later, he said both he and prince william felt unable to show any emotion as they met tearful mourners in public — a fact which now causes him to feel guilty. our royal correspondent daniela ralph reports.

memories of diana princess of wales and the anguish and grief of her son at her death are at the heart of prince harry's memoir, spare. in the first of his television interviews, to be shown this evening, he describes the days after her death and, as a 12—year—old, how he viewed the public response. everyone knows where they were and what they were doing the night my mother died. i cried once, at the burial. and you know, i go into detail about how strange it was, and how actually there was some guilt that i felt, and i think william felt as well, by walking around the outside of kensington palace. there were 50,000 bouquets of flowers to our mother, and there we were shaking people's hands, smiling. i've seen the videos, right? i've looked back over it all. and the wet hands that we were shaking — we couldn't understand why their hands were wet,

but it was all the tears that they were wiping away. the television interviews were supposed to be the first time we heard some of the detail of harry's book. but when it accidentally went on sale early in spain last thursday, we got an earlier—than—planned look at spare. drugs, sex and bitterfamily fallout — there has been little holding back. but again and again he returns to the devastating death of this mother and the impact on him and prince william. everyone thought and felt like they knew our mum, and the two closest people to her, the two most loved people by her, were unable to show any emotion in that moment. buckingham palace will be watching what harry has to say in the coming days, but for now there is no official response — a position that is unlikely to change. daniela relph, bbc news.

now, conservationist michaela strachan travels to turkey to explore its vast pine forests and to meet the people helping to preserve turkey's precious bee and bear populations. i'm michaela strachan, a wildlife presenter who is passionate about conservation. my work has taken me all over the world, and in that time i have seen huge changes, many due to climate change. in extreme conservation, we meet inspirational people who have dedicated their lives to protecting the natural world. this time, i am in turkey. this country's stunning forest are facing devastating losses. but it is notjust the trees that need saving, it's also the creatures.

i'm meeting the remarkable people trying to save honeybees. you are a bee whisperer! and those building turkey's brown bears a safe place to roam. this is extreme conservation turkey. turkey is huge — a vast and varied country stretching over i,500km. turkey is surrounded by water on three sides — the mediterranean sea, the black sea and the aegean, and then in the east it is mountainous and rugged, and all that influences the climate and different ways. it's a country that is so rich in natural diversity. its sweeping pine forest are one of its key assets,

but as temperatures rise, these forests are being destroyed by wildfires, that are getting ever more intense. i start myjourney in mugla province on the western coast, a short boat ride from the coastal town of bodrum where thick pine forests stretch all the way to the beaches. like so many places around the world, summers here have got hotter and drier, and recently they have had horrendous forest fires that have completely changed the landscape. all of this used to be green forest, and now look at it. here in mugla, an area bigger than 100 football fields was wiped out in days.

and these most recent fires were more ferocious than any wildfire turkey has ever seen before. huseyn aydin is one of the many thousands of people who have lost almost everything in the fires. people rely on these forests to make a living, not from the trees themselves but from the creatures that live in them.

these trees are vital for the survival of one of the most important insects on the planet, an insect you might not immediately associate with forests — the honeybee. a stroll down a street in this port town in the region and you can see how central honey is to the economy here. this is the honey that is pretty unique to this area, it's not flower honey, it's pine honey. it's produced from pine trees and almost all the pine honey in the world comes from this little corner of turkey. i've never tried pine honey before, so i am looking forward to this. apparently it tastes very different. 0oh, that is so good! it tastes woody, almost spicy.

but pine honey is not made by a bee alone, a small grub has a big role to play — marchalina hellenica. i'm meeting yonca tokbas, a bee expert, to find out more about these intriguing insects and how they contribute to making pine honey. hello! she has dedicated herself to preserving the bee�*s way of life even running ultra marathons to raise the profile of the bee—focused cause. what a beautiful forest. this is a healthy forest. you get the smell and the sound of the forest. this is the bug. that tiny little thing there? yeah, it's taking the sap from the pine tree and creating this liquid, can you see?

and that is what the bee is taking from the pine tree. that tiny, tiny animal that you have difficulty seeing is the magic creator of the whole process. more than half of these essential grubs were wiped out by the fires. if you don't have this insect, you do not have food for bees and you don't have pine honey. with natural food sources dwindling and many hives destroyed, yonca warns that some honey producers are putting too much pressure on the remaining bees. we encourage their sicknesses, like treating them with chemicals or trying to feed them unnatural sugary stuff to produce more than they can. we are exploiting bees?

exactly, it's an abuse. alper kuyucu comes from a long line of bee farmers. to him and his family, bees are notjust a source of income but a way of life. they aren't even bothering you. they clearly know you. you are a bee whisperer! mm—hmm. he uses traditional methods to look after his 10 million bees. amazing! his way is simple, he believes the bees should be left to do what they do naturally — collect the nectar from the wild and return to the hive to make honey.

this is not the optimum production method. intensively farmed bees just come out of the hives and drink sugar water left for them, and then go back into produce what alper calls false honey. they do not travel around the ecosystem as they should, pollinating plants, including our fruit and vegetables. he says they get unhealthy and die sooner. this is a pot of alper�*s honey, naturally produced and it really, does taste delicious. it's interesting how we are all familiar with battery farming and exploiting chickens for eggs and meat, but how many of us have thought about the exploitation of bees with intense beekeeping and the damage that is doing? it seems to me that the extreme conservation for bees

is to go back to basics, go back to this — the traditional way of beekeeping. for alper, the recovery of the pine forests is crucial. until then, these bees have limited resources to survive. what are the main things people need to understand about bees for their future conservation? plant, for example, some of the flowers they love. it's a food resource for them. this is the amount of honey that a bee can produce in a lifetime. for one bee? for one bee. just in that? just in that. don't waste it. finding out a bee producesjust 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey has made me think about how much we use. for yonca, she is determined to save the bees by inspiring the next generation.

the youth is amazing. they are much more aware than we are and they're working on trying to help nature more than our generation, i would say. all sing. when we think of forests, we think of that importance to fight climate change, but they're equally important for biodiversity. so much of our wildlife lives and thrives in a forest. as we have seen with the honeybee and that tiny bug, marchalina hellenica, it wouldn't survive if it was not for all these trees, it's a precious ecosystem that desperately needs protecting. continuing myjourney

of extreme conservation, i'm in the mountains of east turkey. i've travelled 1,1i00km from the aegean coast to sarikamis, to near turkey's armenian border. in winter, this area is popularfor skiing, but it's mainly a farming region. over time, lots of forests have been felled for pastures, leaving just a patchwork of trees behind. but i'm here as this is home to turkey's majestic migrating brown bear. naturally, the bears would live in these mountains during the spring and summer, and then, when food becomes harder to find in autumn, some of them travel over 100 kilometres to the black sea region, where they fatten up and then, come back here to hibernate for winter. but this natural pattern of behaviour has now been disrupted.

researchers aysegul and emrah have been observing the bears for over a decade and dedicated their lives to protecting them. i'm joining the duo in the hope of getting a glimpse of these magnificent creatures. hello! hi, i'm michaela. hi. hi! you're listening for the bears? we are searching for the signal of one of the collared bears. if the bear is moving, we understand as the signal is moving. emrah and aysegul have been collecting detailed data on the bears to understand human activity is impacting the migration habits of the bears. the forest they live in has become fragmented, dramatically changing their behaviour. we're here before dusk to increase

our chances of seeing them. and we're in luck. this has been really exciting. we've seen seven bears come out of this forest, including two cubs, but the only reason we're seeing so many of them together is because they're on their way to this, the dump site, and they're going there to feed. the bears are here to scavenge. some of their forest have been overtaken by urban development, so they're forced to feed on our rubbish. oh, my word! look at them. there's so many of them! and the cubs are there as well! 18.

is that what you counted? just in this bit?! this is really depressing. oh, look. and you can see the cubs, even. for me, it's exciting to see bears but not like this. i mean, this is really, really sad. now here is too much food. they are not fighting. they are trying to eat leftovers but they are many times eat the plastics. the young cubs copy the adults, and so learn this scavenging behaviour. cub are learning eat in the garbage. yeah. it's walking off with a whole bag of rubbish. some bears are very fatty and very lazy because of there are not moving too much. this is a really sad sight and it's an all—too—familiar sight across the world. as habitats are being destroyed, wild animals are forced to come into built—up areas to find food.

a massive problem that needs a massive solution. the team has come up with an ambitious plan to lure the bears away from the dump. they want to create a new travel route for the bears. taking existing patches of forest, they're planting 11 million trees to fill in the gaps. this forested route will stretch over 160 kilometres, right up to the georgian border, creating turkey's first wildlife corridor. they hope it will entice the bears to migrate once again. this is perfect for bears —

it's thick, healthy forest — but then, itjust stops and there's this vast expanse of nothing. and the next forest is 1a kilometres away, so this habitat has become really fragmented. the bears have a big role to play in this ecosystem. they keep the balance amongst the animals that roam these forests — the lynx, the wolves, even the rabbits. they all have a kind of silent agreement with each other. if you take out one species, we could think about this as the health of the agreement would not exist any more. we're tracking along the bears' route, looking for any clues to show that at least some of them are still trying to make the journey. look. 0h! are they the prince?

——are they the prints? yeah, this is footprints. this is rubbing trees. oh, this is where — you can see. this is where the bears come and rub? some hairs and scratching. i can see there. yeah, like this. some bears scratch, but almost bears like this. this. oh, that must be great to see! this is the sort of information emrah and aysegul have been painstakingly collecting for ten years. this is like our eyes in the forest. they've installed around 50 of these cameras which help them document the animal's natural behaviours and their relationships with each other, and they've also collared some with gps trackers so they can map how they move around in this patchwork of forest and see where they're running into trouble.

this is the bear movement. it is recorded every hour. we have the information of their movement, their behaviour, the time they're spending in the spot. it tells us these animals need more space to move, to go further. also in their way are the pastures cleared for farming.

these are the gaps that are planned to be planted. aysegul and emrah�*s data shows some of the braver bears still move between forests, and they hope more tree cover will encourage others to migrate. the initial trees in the project were planted only a few months ago. i'm joining bulent aydin to plant one of the first saplings in this area.

hey! well, i've played a tiny part of a huge and exciting project. it's going to take years before it's finished, but wouldn't it be amazing to come back here and see this whole area forested, full of bears, full of lynx and wolves and so much other wildlife and become an incredibly precious ecosystem? only when the wildlife is roaming freely in the forests and can find food and nature can this dump be safely shut off to bears. 20 years later, i hope everywhere�*s trees, not open area like this, and bears do not eat the trash,

just eating healthy foods. and can you imagine that these large carnivores we are working with, just hanging around here and then, having the fun of being in the real wildlife. yes. yes, we hope so. we hope so, yeah. during my time here, i've met incredible individuals fighting to protect the creatures living alongside them, desperately trying to manage the delicate balance between people and nature. rewilding the forest will take time, but it also takes care and consideration of all its inhabitants, big or small. we've pushed so much of our wildlife into unsustainable pockets and we've lost whole ecosystems already. climate change and our insatiable appetite for development has destroyed so many habitats and it's up to us now to try and find ways to recreate them.

what they're doing here in turkey is ambitious but if it works, hopefully, it'll be an inspiration for other projects around the world. hello there. we're looking at a blustery day today, a day of sunshine and heavy showers, but it is a day where there are lots and lots of those showers around, so lots of downpours to come through. it's also been pretty windy — we've got an area of low pressure responsible. this lump of thicker cloud is going into wales and north west england bringing some heavier rain here.

meanwhile, earlier this morning, we've seen some very strong winds buffet the far west of scotland. we had gusts up to 76 miles an hour in south uist in the western isles, 60 mile an hour gusts in stornoway. and those winds combining with very high tides, bringing large battering waves have led to a number of flood warnings being issued by the scottish environment protection agency. there could be some debris hurled onshore by those large waves as well. meanwhile for england, wales, we also have some flood warnings out and about on account of the heavy rain we've seen over recent days, really. and some of the roads are already suffering with some large puddles in place, a lot of surface water and spray and things just getting worse as these bands of rain rattle away across the skies. now, temperatures today generally range from around 8—10 degrees celsius. that's above average for this time ofjanuary. 0vernight tonight, showers will continue to move quickly from west to east. but later in the night, the winds will start to calm down to a degree and that will allow temperatures to drop a little bit

lower than they did last night. could even have a few patches of frost in some of the deeper valleys in scotland in shelter. now, tomorrow, it is another showery day. the bulk of the showers will be coming in across parts of western scotland, northern ireland, northwest england too. elsewhere, one or two showers around, but generally a bit more in the way of sunshine to look forward to compared with the last couple of days. temperatures not really changing very much, but perhaps not feeling quite as chilly given that the winds won't be quite as strong. now for tuesday, we've got another area of low pressure set to steam in off the atlantic, another wet and windy day, but we'll see a bit of snowfall over the high ground in scotland, probably above 400 metres elevation. so pretty high up, really. the scottish ski resorts benefiting from that for a time before milder air starts to push in and much of the snow will turn back to rain, even high up. across england, wales, northern ireland, a very mild day, 1a degrees celsius for some, that's about seven degrees celsius above average. the rest of the week looking unsettled — expect more rain and more strong

winds at times.

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