after what has already been that sunniest spring on record. plenty of sunshine to take us through the rest of this afternoon. clear whether and there. that's on may turn hazy at times across scotland and northern ireland. a keen easterly breeze making it feel cool for north sea coast and further west highs of 26 degrees. this evening and tonight we will continue to see clear skies. cloud could just dent from the north sea. into tomorrow, early fog should clear. there could... lots of sunshine in the forecast. temperatures highest on the western side of the uk. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines:

a fourth night of violence in the us city of minneapolis after the death of george floyd, an unarmed black man, in police custody. a former police officer is charged with murder. demonstrators clashed with security forces in several cities including new york and atlanta and la. four members of the government's scientific advisory group, sage, have raised concerns that the lockdown restrictions in england are being lifted too early, amidst fears the warm weather this weekend could lead people to ditch social distancing. calls for the uk government to do more to help hundreds of thousands of small businesses and the self—employed who aren't covered by coronavirus support programmes. brazil reports nearly 27 thousand cases of covid—i9 and more than eleven hundred deaths in 2a hours — a new daily record. us business magazine forbes removes reality tv star and entrepreneur kylie jenner

from its list of billionaires, accusing her family of inflating the value of her cosmetics business. now on bbc news, an exclusive film from inside the lodi hospital in lombardy, where doctors and nurses were on the frontline of the coronavirus outbreak in italy.

the story of italy's coronavirus outbreak starts here. on the 20th of february, there were no known cases of covid—i9 in europe. doctors were aware of what was happening in china. but no—one in lodi expected their small, provincial hospital,

and its sister clinic in codogno, 15 miles up the road, to become the epicentre of the outbreak.

doctor paglia knew his small a&e department in codogno did not have the resources to cope. so, in the middle of the night, he prepared to move the whole operation to the bigger hospital in lodi.

what doctor paglia and his colleagues did not know was that the virus had been incubating in the community for weeks. suddenly, patients began arriving in huge numbers. they all need one thing — oxygen. in the very beginning we were astonished. it was clear that that was a source of mass casualties. so, just to give you a rough idea,

this was the overcrowding situation that we had in the very beginning. these are the aisles in our emergency department. all the other rooms were already filled by patients, so this was the situation where you are deeply in crisis here and you have to cope with that. it is a sort of nightmare. i have more or less 30 years of experience, but i was personally not ready to see what i have seen, because when you have 25 patients and every patient incubated, ventilated, viralised, this is an unconventional view in european icu.

from the very beginning, the covid wards were sealed off. no family allowed. but what about patients who might not make it? doctor storti and the team decided to break with the norm. only in the most critical cases. the patient‘s wife is also dressed in full protective clothing.

doctor paglia has barely left the hospital since the outbreak began.

in the initial weeks of the outbreak, doctor stefano paglia did not go home. he was battling a virus that the rest of italy, and europe, had not yet woken up to.

stuck inside the hospital, he exchanged whatsapp videos with his family, living their lives on the outside.

stefano paglia has two homes — one with his colleagues in the hospital, the other with a wife and two teenage daughters. he has only seen them a handful of times since the outbreak began.

they laugh

look around the streets of italy today and it seems like cristiana the optimist might be right.

lombardy is trying, tentatively, to get back to some kind of normality. shops, cafe, opening up. and after so many months of death is mourned only in private, the first low—key public funerals. at the hospital, too, things are quieter. covid patients arrive individually, no longer in waves. but perhaps the medics at you at‘s hospital number one have understood this virus in a way the world

outside has not.

hello, it really is more of the same at this weekend. more dry, and very warm weather and more sunny weather after what has already been the sunniest spring on record. plentiful sunshine to take us through the rest of this afternoon, just a bit of patchy fair weather here and there. high cloud could turn that sunshine hazy at times across scotland and northern ireland. feeling a little bit cool in the north sea coast,

looking at highs of 26 degrees. this evening and overnight we will continue to see clear skies for the most pa rt continue to see clear skies for the most part but some area of low cloud and flog carew terrace fog could drift in —— cloud and fog. could keep some murky conditions at times for the eastern coast but generally it is fine, dry and lots of sunshine in the forecast and temperatures highest across the western side of the uk, 26 or 27 degrees.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a fourth night of violence in the us city of minneapolis — after the death of george floyd — a black man in police custody. a former police officer is charged with murder. anger has spread across america. a state of emergency is declared in georgia. atlanta's mayor calls for an end to rioting. you are disgracing our city. you are just you arejust raising you are just raising the life of george boyd and every other person who has been killed —— you are disgracing the life of george floyd and every other person who has been killed in this