taken shape around the world and how we can all make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing. download it now, feel free. ah ah, this is the w news live from berkeley. 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 infections. also coming up, concerned grows over the health of former pope benedict. the 16th vatican says he

is very unwell and doctors 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 sharing enough information about code 19 numbers. so you, so what will these new restrictions change?

that's what i asked a doubly correspondence. stephan simons in washington. well, they make it harder for people who come from china to get into the united states without, without a negative cover. just 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 hub 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, relax, 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, you 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 of the country, of course implements measures like this, there's probably others i'm following sued soon. the chinese have already reactor in said that they're hoping the u. s. and other countries who might come to the conclusion they 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 coven infected in china. so they go, that's what the us is doing now,

and i'm certain others will follow suit very, very soon. stephan simons in washington dc. thanks so much of 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 than it was born in germany. as joseph rat singer, he stepped down as pontiff in 2013 judith declining health and was succeeded by pope francis. it will hear from now or here till the boy napoli. i'd like to ask all of you for a special prayer up and for a meritus poke benedict, who in silence is sustaining the church. i remind you that he's very sick in garcia. let's asked

a lot 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 that he remained until very recently, perfectly lucid. but you have been very frail, confined often to a wheel chair and people who visited it. it's very difficult to understand what the saying that his voice is very weak. so there is a feeling that the capital 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 erudite theologian and custodian of the dogmas 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. ringback in eggs in the convent in the african god and the on the court around frances. and so this would be a certain amount of tension between the 2 men, even though francis, it himself said he would retire into silence. i 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 phillip william and ron. thank. so much a clean up operations are underway in parts of the united states and canada and the

aftermath of what's been called the blizzard of the century. the winter storm has claimed of the 50 lives across the us. with some people found frozen to death in vehicles or snow banks. buffalo in upstate new york for the brunt of the stone 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. rate havoc around the world in 2020, to $1.00 of the warmest ease on record. this is no rowdy ski holiday. it's a research station near the south pole and minus 11.8 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 continued to shrink as india was hit by heat waves that came earlier. and we're longer and or hotter than usual. pakistan also swelter 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 farmland killed more than 1700 people and displaced more than 33000000. if my child died in the deb 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 implement? 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. in 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 it's longest and harshest heat wave on record. with the yangtze and other rivers reduced to mere trickles and many lakes turned into dust bowls. for more, let's talk to matthew could purchase the made to rather just stand in atmosphere scientist based at washington d. c. method. the blizzard of the century. the mantle has stuck for the storm that struck north america. but this storm in 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, or the great lakes that radley intensified, sucking, so here, down bottom, it back to the top and as result, very rigid air in the back side, the temperatures down to minus 40 degrees on the centre us then a sort of distant question to canada and a lizard about the great lakes. thanks you later. thanks. know, basically all that cold air or why sounds great nice. that was your, from the relatively warm water below does that is heavy snow about 150 centimeters in buffalo. hurricane or when gas for about 37 hours is down to 0. and about 24 to actually 36 people. so are confirmed for mass on here, the region is used to cold weather and yet all those people died. what does this tell us about al preparedness for these extreme weather event?

i think a couple 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 is 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 hazards and supposed to live there for 4060 years were written at school before and they said it worked last time on the same thing this time. and we tried messaging that it would be a different type of storm. somebody 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. 1 streamlined signal, for starters, the parent low pressure system was what we call the middle latitude cycle,

and basically low pressure on $270.00 wish for over north america, every single year to research. i don't right now, surely 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 measure scale 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, but of course, planet does play a role in any other things that influence the buffalo area. major ologist and atmospheric scientists, matthew poaching great to get your input. thank you. ok, let's get around us. of some of the other headlines now. an ethnic serbs living in northern kosovo will dismantle road blocks, sit 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 19th day long parties, sparked by the unrest of a former ethnic serb, policemen classified declared independence from serbia in 2000. and 8 ali on 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. paula 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, those enforcing mandatory head coverings have become a flash point during anti regime protests in iran. if you have been a lot as resumed plots, the rebels held region of tea cry, allowing some families to re unite after some 18 months as full as

a visit by the up in government delegation to the area on tuesday. it was the 1st such trip since a pe steel was signed. last month i aimed at ending a brutal 2 year conflict with mother to see what was in still happening in new york . and that's all the news 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 the date of lead use ah ah, in the monday. oh.