This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Wednesday,

the 28th of December, these are our main stories.

Assurge in flight bookings after China prepares to open its borders

ending three years of COVID travel restrictions.

60 people are now fear dead as climate change is widely blamed for

North America's extreme freeze and the

gangs are more powerful. The firepower is far superior to the national police.

If we don't do something with those guys, we'll take over the entire country

and then it's going to be too late.

Why Haiti could be ready for international help to defeat the brutal gang violence?

Also in this podcast, President Putin bans oil exports to any country

joining the campaign to cap the price of Russian crude.

Another Russian businessman mysteriously falls out of a window to his death

after criticizing the war in Ukraine.

And my parents put me in a Hawaiian immersion program from preschool,

which fully immerses the students in Hawaiian language,

because so much of our language was lost a couple generations ago.

After being banned for more than a century, it's now a loha to the Hawaiian language.

Chinese people are rushing to book overseas travel.

After Beijing announced it would reopen its borders next month.

There will be no need to quarantine when you enter China.

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