in england from tomorrow, despite the country's covid—19 alert system indicating high levels of transmission. we are reasonably confident that the steps that we've taken and will be taking on monday are manageable, but we have to all continue to play our part in that. after 10 weeks at home, more than 2 million people in england and wales who've been shielding during lockdown are told they can go outdoors. protests in the us over the killing of george floyd spread from minneapolis to at least 30 different cities, despite a number of curfews in place — riot police use tear gas and rubber bullets. nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken have docked with, and entered, the international space station. now on bbc news, an exclusive film from inside the lodi hospital in lombardy, where doctors and nurses were on the front line 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—19 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 up 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 single patient intu bated, ventilated, 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, of 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 as if cristiana the optimist might be right. lombardy is trying, tentatively, to get back to some kind of normality. shops, cafes, opening up. and after so many months of deaths 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 europe's hospital number one have understood this virus in a way the world outside has not.

hello there. another warm day with nationwide sunshine and in wales temperatures reaching 20 celsius and clear skies nearby on that weather watch picture. 0vernight tonight we will keep that clear weather for the most part, although late at night there could be a few patches of low cloud and may be some mist and fog patches forming around the east coast of scotland, but for most a clear and starry night with temperatures 6-13d, starry night with temperatures 6—13d, potentially a bit cooler in the countryside. tomorrow is another fine and sunny day coming at the nationwide, a bit of fair weather cloud developing as we head into the afternoon, but not really spoiling the sunshine at all and it will be very warm again. temperatures in

scotla nd very warm again. temperatures in scotland reaching the mid 20s in the warmest areas, looking pretty warm to parts of the highlands, glasgow 24 to parts of the highlands, glasgow 2a degrees, and 2a degrees is well into western areas of northern ireland and across western wales againa ireland and across western wales again a favoured spot, seeing pretty high temperatures potentially 25 degrees in some parts and similar temperatures further south in bournemouth. into tuesday, we will see this weather front approaching the far north of scotland and that will bring some rain across the east and northern areas, may be around 5-10 and northern areas, may be around 5—10 millimetres of rain from that system and some wet weather and as there northerly winds work and it will start to feel cooler as well, temperatures quite a bit down in stornoway and lerwick with highs of 10-13d. stornoway and lerwick with highs of 10—13d. elsewhere, a warm and sunny day and temperatures low to mid 20s. changes on the way and as we head towards the middle part of the week we will see outbreaks of rain for

some others and it will turn progressively a bit cooler as there northerly winds push their way that bit further south with rain and more showers in the forecast for many of us. showers in the forecast for many of us. with that, the northerly winds drag in cooler air, us. with that, the northerly winds drag in coolerair, so us. with that, the northerly winds drag in cooler air, so instead of temperatures being in the mid 20s towards the end of the week we are looking temperatures generally into the high teens, perhaps generally into the just into the low 20s in warmest areas. it will vary from place to place, but at least for some there is rain on the horizon. that is your weather.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the government has defended the easing of lockdown measures in england from tomorrow, despite the country's covid—i9 alert system indicating high levels of transmission. we are reasonably confident that the steps we have ta ken we are reasonably confident that the steps we have taken and will be taking on monday are manageable, but we have to also continue to play our pa rt we have to also continue to play our part in that. after 10 weeks at home, more than two million people in england and wales who've been shielding during lockdown, are told they can go outdoors. protests in the us over the killing of george floyd spread from minneapolis to at least 30 different cities, despite a number of curfews in place — riot police use tear gas