to terms with the truth about his identity. the woman who created him now finds herself at the centre of a storm over the reality and complexity of identity in modern britain. mark easton, bbc news. for the people who survive coronavirus after being seriously ill in intensive care, the road to recovery can be long. our special correspondent ed thomas has been back to a hospital in lanarkshire to talk to one man who's just left hospital after almost two months, and has finally been reunited with his partner. he is just the love of my life. i was determined to survive. the cruelty of separation. there we are. when he looked at me in the ambulance, i was like, "will i ever see you again?" sorry... and he was like, "i hope so." the unbearable pain. you don't face death with any sort of form of feeling,

"0h, here comes death." you're frightened. the long road to recovery. how long has it been? nearly seven weeks. yes, come on. two months ago, we filmed inside wishaw hospital... that's you breathing on your own. ..at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. the staff have felt completely overwhelmed. it was their toughest day. injust hours, three people died in intensive care. every day, you think "today will be a better day." the better day never, ever comes. and this is where we first met guy. it's made me feel absolutely terrible. at times, i didn't think i would make it. on his 12th day in intensive care. i had 90% oxygen at the time, i think i lost something like 15 kilograms. i wasn't really aware that people were dying around me. i was probably only semi—conscious at the time. i was determined i wasn't going to die.

guy had asked not to be ventilated and was not to be resuscitated. his partner denise was told to prepare for the worse. the doctors phoned me and told me that there is a dnr in place and i'm thinking, "i'm never going to see guy again and he's never going to come home." she spent nearly 50 nights away from him. it's so soul—breaking. it breaks people in half when you're there and you are living with it and you see it. marching on the spot. we followed guy's journey, the physio sessions. rehab. well done. step—by—step. it's really positive for the staff as well because it does give you that wee bit of hope that we can get through this and we will. just stand up. they didn't give up on me, and i have to say i'm forever grateful to them for that. ijust want him to hurry up and come out. ijust really need him to come out so i can take him home. inside, guy's finally ready,

saying goodbye and going home. i'm so excited. together again. oh, my love. how are you? i'm fine. good. did you ever think this moment would come? i didn't but i'm glad it has, i really am. guy and denise, the lucky ones. ed thomas, bbc news, lanarkshire. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

welcome to bbc news. it's now time to take a look at the international front pages in the papers. . hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. we'rejoined by stefanie bolzen, uk correspondent at german newspaper die welt, and caroline wheeler, deputy political editor at the sunday times. welcome. just a establishing communications

with her. the guardian reports that tension over britain's attitude to racism and heritage are increasing with fears there could be clashes between a planned black lives matter protest and the far right. the telegraph leads on home secretary priti patel‘s response to labour mps who accused her of exploiting her asian heritage to challenge the use of violence at black lives matter demonstrations. the i warns on its front page that the uk's cancer backlog will kill many thousands unless urgent action is taken. the new york times reports on the increased razing of the amazon rainforest since the coronavirus struck brazil. die welt leads on a story about german airline lufthansa, who may have to cut 20 thousand jobs due to the coronavirus. and the international financial times says that deaths related to covid—i9 in india's capital have been

vastly under—reported, according to data acquired by the paper from hospitals in the city. so let's begin. up—to—date with some of tomorrow's papers. let's begin. stephanie, let's start off with the new york times and this dramatic picture of the... that's the amazon rain forest. you can see, it's been caught up in a perfectly straight line. by a legal robbers —— a legal robbers who are taking advantage of the cross —— crisis. robbers who are taking advantage of the cross -- crisis. these are u nfortu nately pictures the cross -- crisis. these are unfortunately pictures we have seen last year since president bolsonaro came to power. it has been u nfortu nately, even came to power. it has been unfortunately, even less enforcement of the protection of the amazon forest. what we are now seeing is

because police and law enforcement cannot cope because of the pandemic, there has been massive areas of the amazon that have been deforested. in the article it says it is an area of 20 times the size of manhattan, so this is really a massive area. at the appellee staggering when you put it like that. it really hit home what is happening —— absolutely staggering. they also talk about the infections surging as the world ends, —— world ends lockdown measures. when it comes to infections, the line is going the other way. yes, it looks at the new york times —— the new york times looks at developing countries such as india, mexico, pakistan and russia where the governments are

having a very hard choice because they have to choose between the economy and the public health, and because the economic situation everywhere is very difficult and very dire, they opt to open the economy again. but if you look at mexico, i think it was india, sorry. 10,000 new infections a day. russia still sees 8000 new infections a day. so this is quite a scary outlook when you have to choose between the economy and the public health. the pandemic is farfrom being under control. i'm pleased to say that caroline we are learning alsojoined us say that caroline we are learning also joined us now. say that caroline we are learning alsojoined us now. —— caroline wheeler. good to see you. just standing on that new york times story because if this balance between health and the economy when it comes to developing countries, it's just so tough for them to make that call. absolutely. we can see it even in the uk. there's been a

phenomenal struggle within government to weigh up whether or not we ease the lockdown restrictions in order to reopen the economy. and it's fairly severe warnings from scientists that any increase in contact amongst populations is likely to result in that spike or second wave. of course, in the developing world, that's largely what the new york times has focused on, on india and pakistan and some of those countries that are really struggling to both reopen their economies, which is even more significant for them, given the wealth of the population. at the same time, still have a large numberof at the same time, still have a large number of deaths being recorded every day. it's a really unenviable task for any of those governments to have to decide how they balance those two things a. also, caroline, it's a question of politics as well. the new york times picking up in russia, politics may be playing a role in the push to reopen. it talking about moscow's mayor if the

restrictions that have been put in place since march the 30th. politics as well trying to beat people happy again —— keep people happy in this process. but it's quite interesting about what keeps people happy. we've seen about what keeps people happy. we've seen the conversation in the uk which is worried the government to some extent, which is actually the population was very much in favour of lockdown and there's been some concern about trying to get the population back to work. we've all become quite used to staying at home. of course, there's always going to be politics and everything. the other date that comes into place is about local competition. both countries need to list lockdown, those that need to compete globally, and that is all developing countries as well. there's always concerned that if something lifts ahead of another country, then they will lose

that advantage. so there's lots of conscious going on. stephanie, to get your perspective, seeing that you're the uk correspondent for die welt, how does germany see what is happening in the uk, given that the uk is easing at lockdown restrictions at the moment but yet the rates when it comes to coronavirus, the uk has pretty drastic. what did the germans make of it? germany is following very closely the news from britain and the very tragic record of the highest death toll in the pandemic in europe. the german experience is that you have to be very, well a quest in terms of texting interesting —— well—equipped in terms of testing and tracing. local authorities have far more power than

in the uk. the nhs is very centralised. it has been easier and very early on, the government and the local authorities have employed contact tracing who started from the beginning to track down people and isolate them immediately so that we knew people where ill and make sure they can infect other people. i think this is now the key question for the uk. let's move onto stephanie's paper. a very visual sign of the confederate flag on die welt. the fact that in nancy pelosi is playing to have 11 statues removed from the us capital. in terms of the story that we want to really focus on, lufthansa, talk less about what your paper has found. this is a controversial story

in germany because the german government decided to pay a rescue package of 9 billion euros for luftha nsa. package of 9 billion euros for lufthansa. 0f package of 9 billion euros for lufthansa. of course that was very controversial because other companies and other businesses were saying, especially airlines, why not us? but the government was adamant that lufthansa is the main carrier for germany. it was really important to save the most important, most traditional german carrier. it took on 20% of the shares of the company. as far as it is understood, there has been not much or not enough assurance from lufthansa to save jobs. last night, after talks with the unions, lufthansa announced that they were likely to cut 20,000 jobs. that doesn't mean that people will be made redundant immediately, so what they are trying to do is cut down the staff but also by asking

people to take early retirement. 20,000 isa people to take early retirement. 20,000 is a massive number and of course, it also looks not very good for the german government, having making that decision to save jobs in. it's an absolutely huge figure. what have the —— how are the government explaining this? again, there is a big controversy around it but they said it was a systemic company for germany. we had to make sure to save it and they also say, echoing what lufthansa said, they are not making people easily redundant but they are looking at socially smooth measures to downsize the staff. staggering when it comes to the airline industry. really heavily hit by this crisis and echoes for a different company as well. yeah, exactly. it's not like we've been immune to that in the uk.

we've seen lots of talks about whether or not there will be any kind of government bailout to british airways and virgin atlantic. the issue there has been that it takes a phenomenal amount of money to bail out companies of that size and of course, at the moment, there's no sign of those traveller 's extremes being listed in the uk —— travel restrictions. we just impose measures which will be in place up to a month or more, given that's what the government said it's reviewing it. there's no end in sight for the difficulties the airline industry. ithink sight for the difficulties the airline industry. i think everyone is expecting the uk will see some sort of economic statement or budget in response to the coronavirus crisis before parliament breaks up at the end ofjuly. it will be interesting to see whether there is any kind of package within that for the british airline companies that have been affected by the crisis in the same way that the german

government has offered to lufthansa. cannot understate just how