China's Covid policy

Germany and Sweden have become the latest European countries to require negative Covid tests from travellers coming from China. It comes as the deaths of celebrities have prompted people to question China's official Covid death toll. We have brought together people from China to discuss the sudden change of zero-Covid policy.

The funeral service of Pope Benedict has taken place with some 50,000 mourners watching the ceremony. We hear views on Benedict’s legacy by some of the people who gathered to pay their respects.

We speak to our reporter in the US where the country's House of Representatives remains paralysed after its Republican leader failed six times to secure enough support to become a speaker.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has ordered a ceasefire across the frontline in Ukraine -- from noon on Friday to midnight on Saturday when Orthodox Christians mark Christmas Day. Our correspondent in Ukraine explains.

We talk about Playstation’s first accessible controller and get reaction from the people in the disabled community.

(Patients lie on beds in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China, January 5, 2023. Credit: Staff/Reuters)