sealed with ideas. so get really for the brain update. 40 to the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on d w. ah, ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the u. s. imposes new code bit 19 restrictions on visitors from china. from january travelers will need to show a negative taste before being allowed in the country. washington says badging isn't sharing enough information about searching. infection. also coming up, concerned grows over the health of former pope benedict. the 16th vatican says he

is very unwell and doctors, a monitoring his condition around the clock and north american stick out from what's been called the blizzard of the century. it helps off a year of extreme weather events that experts say being driven by climate change. ah, i'm anthony howard. welcome. the united states says it will screen all air passengers arriving from china for covey. 19 italy made a similar announcement earlier in the day. 2 nations join a growing number of countries are worried about a surgeon infections off to badge in east corona virus restrictions, including for tourism abroad. us help officials say the decision came because china isn't shearing enough information about code 19 number to either. so what will these new restrictions change?

that's what i asked a doubly correspondence stephan simons in washington. well then make it harder for people who come from china to get into the united states without, without a negative coverage s. so this is what's gonna happen now, which is going to be requested starting january 5th at 12 or one a m eastern time. so local time here, everybody traveling from china directly into the united states or via a 3rd country harp or gateway has to present a negative cobra test and has to take a test 2 days before starting this travel activity towards the united states. why did the united states do this because it couldn't wait any longer. other countries, like japan and india have already started implementing measures against china, travel, or travelers from china. why? because as we all know, on china relaxed it's measures against a cove it. and so the numbers of co infections are skyrocketing in china,

the by the administration cannot just sit there and look, they are they go, you have the measures in place right now, starting january, 5th image in japan and the us who else do we know any one else considering similar action at this point well, india has implemented some measures and i'm absolutely sure that some european or most european countries will actually follow suit when the united states, which is a very, very big travel market. and a big country of course implements measures like this. there's probably others i'm following sued soon. the chinese have already reacted in said that they're hoping the u. s. and other countries who might come to the conclusion that need to do implement similar measures work together with the chinese. the problem for the u. s . was that the chinese are not really transparent with the data. this comes on top of the increasing numbers of covered infected in china, so they go, that's what the u. s. is doing now and i'm certain others will follow suit very,

very soon. stephan sarmens in washington dc. thanks so much the vatican has confirmed that the health of former pope benedict, the 16th is deteriorating, but francis has visited his predecessor, described him as very ill. benedict is receiving a round the clock medical attention. the 95 year old former pontiff has been almost entirely out of public eye in recent years. and it was born in germany as joseph rat, singer. he stepped down as pontiff in 2013 judy declining health and was succeeded by pope francis it. we'll hear from now. we're here 20 boy napoli. i'd like to ask all of you for a special prayer for ameritas. pope benedict who in silence is sustaining the church. i remind you that he's very sick in the senior. let's ask the lord to

comfort him and support him in his testimony of love to the church to the very end . so what more do we know about the condition of the former pontiff or journalist phillip william has the details. well, a declining slowly for years now. he's 95 years old. it said he remained until very recently, perfectly lucid. i have been very frail and confined often to a wheel chair and people who visited it said, it's very difficult to understand what the saying that his voice is very weak. so there is a feeling that the candle is gradually going out. this is an image that was used about him as some years ago by his secretary. and it does seem that now that is

literally the case. it's been really a decade since he resigned. as pope remind viewers if you can of the significance of his tenure as part of well, i think it will be remembered as the 1st to resign his office in 6 centuries. that something really extraordinary, almost without precedent and inevitably, is fixed in the minds of people who follow the activities in the church. but he also was a very erudite theologian and custodian does traditional teachings of the catholic church. and since he resigned, he's become a focus or opponents of the liberalizing reforms. francis with

the impression that they've been to pay for $1.00 or 2 eggs in a convent in the data. and the other court around frances and so this would be a certain amount of tension between the 2 men, even though process it to him so that he would retire into silence and devote his life to prayer and meditation and music. of course, the early days he enjoyed playing the piano, but i think people remember it as the custodian of traditional catholic teaching. while many catholics concerned about the way the church is changing on the pope francis author and journalist philip william in wrong, thanks so much. a clean up operations are underway in parts of the united states and canada,

in the aftermath of what's been called the blizzard of the century. the winter storm has claimed over 50 lives across the u. s. with some people found frozen to death in vehicles or snow banks, buffalo in upstate new york for the brunt of the storm. snow class have been working to clear the drifts and emergency workers and volunteers have been going door to door to check on residents who are left without power to be a weather. events are becoming increasingly common. floods, fires and extreme temperatures reeked havoc around the world. in 2020 to one of the warmest years on record. this is no rowdy ski holiday. it's a research station near the south pole. and minus $11.00 degrees celsius was 40 degrees hotter than usual on march 18th. it's probably the largest temperature anomaly ever recorded. incredibly, at the same time at the north pole. some places were 30 degrees warmer than usual

mountain glaciers such as this one in the himalayas that feeds the mighty river ganges. continue to shrink as india was hit by heat waves that came earlier and were longer and or hotter than usual. pakistan also swelter hd. a few weeks later both countries were hit by massive monsoon rains. one 3rd of pakistan was flooded, creating a huge humanitarian emergency. the floods destroyed farm land killed more than 1700 people and displaced more than 33000000. in my child died in the dab called nights . we don't have anything to eat. my husband is unemployed and poor. my 2 children have died in the camps. you think gentlemen? west africa also suffered an unusually heavy rainy season with months of flooding in nigeria, displacing up to 2000000 people in east africa, the rains failed again worsening the most severe drought in recent history. the un

says 36000000 people are affected in somalia and parts of ethiopia and kenya with more than 5000000 children malnourished their sickly, most of the time they go to bed on an empty stomach about me. i just feel terrible. and madagascar, the seasonal rains also failed. i. after 4 years of drought, the south of the island is facing a food crisis. in some places, residents of had to dig into the dry river bed to find water. 2022 also saw china suffer its longest and harshest heat wave on record. with the yangtze and other rivers reduced to mere trickles and many lakes turned into dust bowls of a more, let's talk to matthew could purchase the meteorologist and an atmosphere scientist based at washington, d. c. matthew, the blizzard of the century. the mantle has stuck for the storm that struck north

america. but did this storm earn that title? i think it most definitely did, because it came in so many different parts for stars. we had something called a bomb cyclop, or a low pressure system already great lakes, that radley intensified and sucking. so here down bottom it back to the top. and as result, holding it very rigid air in the back side, temperatures down to minus 40 degrees on the centre. us then is the distant question to canada and a blizzard about great lakes. thanks the late effects. know basically all that whole airport right now. great. nice pick that was your from the route to the warm water below. does that is heavy snow with about $150.00 centimeters about low parking force. when gus for about 37 hours is down to 0 and about $24.00 to actually $36.00 people. so far, confirmed from asked on here the region is used to cold weather and get all those people died. what does this tell us about al preparedness for these extreme weather events? i think

a couple of different things. i think one of the unfortunate reality is that oftentimes people base their future preparations on past experience. and that doesn't work because of something called survivors buys. basically, none of us have ever had a conversation with someone who died in athens asked because they're no longer ra a, so we had to reinforce to one another. we needed to last. i will make it again, but that doesn't always work every store. mr. every storm has different pastors and supposed to live there for 4060 years who have written that rules before me said in work last time on the same things this time. and we try messaging that would be a different type of storm. some goes, listen, some posted speaking of mass messaging it and often heard prediction that we will get more of these extreme events. but do we actually have the data to support that argument? the things are going to get worse. so when it comes to what happened, buffalo, i don't see a very strong signal. for starters, the parent, low pressure system was what we call the middle latitude cycle,

and basically low pressure, 270 wish for over north america. every single year, the research i don't right now shows the settle down to can how many of those or annually? so that doesn't have a strong pilot. when we talk about the local level, the message can level relates and you know if we saw water temperature is that probably when they were snow and over the long term, there is a trend for slightly more snow in buffalo. but right now, water temperatures are right where they should be an ice cover is right where it should be. so i don't see a locally as well. so i think from our planet standpoint, and this is mostly just natural variability. natural weather, of course, planet does play a role in any other things that influence the buffalo area. meteorologist and atmospheric scientists, matthew poaching right, to get your input. thank ok. let's get a round up of some of the other headlines now. an ethnic serbs living in northern kosovo will dismantle road blocks, set up due to rising tensions. the announcement full is a meeting of serbia's president, alexander butch,

and with ethnic serbs rather to discuss the 19 day long parties, sparked by the unrest of a former ethnic serb policemen, caused by declared independence from serbia in 2000. and one person has died in the highway pile up involving hundreds of vehicles in central china. the mass crash happened due to poor visibility in thick fog on a road near the city of chang shao and hannah's province. pylon involved at least $200.00 vehicles. running chest play, sada cat him has taken part in an international tournament in kazakhstan without wearing a huge up the move contravene. so countries, strict frisk code for women boys enforcing mandatory head coverings have become a flash point during anti regime protests in iran. if you have been ill on says resumed plots the rebels held region of tea cry, allowing some families to re unite after some 18 months as follows. visit by the

european government delegation to the area on tuesday. it was the 1st such trips. it's a pace deal was signed last month i aimed at ending a brutal 2 year conflict with mother to see what was in still happening in the future. and that's all been used for now. i'm anthony howard in berlin. good abbey company. and wherever you're watching, have a good day and don't forget there's more to be found on have writing, use that, and on. social media handle unique. instagram and twitter is at date of lead news. i was interested in the global economy. our portfolio d w business beyond here, the closer look at the project our mission to and.