mark lowen, who has reported on the story from the start, returns to ask what went wrong. virus gripped italy, suddenly, silently throttling it. the fire that burned through europe was lit here, exporting cases across the world from brazil to britain. we will get the latest on the situation in northern italy with our correspondent mark lowen. yes, clive, we are just outside the town of codogno, which is the italian epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. we have been driving around this exclusion zone and the streets have been completely deserted. the police told us earlier that if we went a bit further up this road towards the town we would have to go into quarantine, like the more than 50,000 people across 12 times... people across 12 towns... i covered this story from the beginning. i was in lombardy as the first victims died and towns were sealed off. now i'm back on a journey to meet those who bore witness, grieved and want answers. how was one of europe's richest regions brought to its knees? it feels like a lifetime ago that we were here last, when coronavirus first

mark lowen, bbc news lombardy. it's been a week to forget for president trump. and been embroiled in a social media storm with both facebook and twitter, and now the supreme court has ruled that he can't throw out legislation that protects child migrants from deportation. david willis reports. protesters chant. it came as a ray of light to the dreamers, and a slap in the face for the president. i'm so happy... the threat of deportation lifted, for now at least. the nation's highest court rejecting the trump administration's attempt to end protections for some 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants. i will immediately terminate president obama's illegal executive order on immigration. the decision, a major blow to a president who made immigration reform a centrepiece of his run for office, branding the supreme court's verdict horrible and politically charged. social media has also proved a battleground for donald trump on occasions, and twitter has once again added a warning label to a presidential tweet, this time one that featured a video criticising the news m

mark lowen, bbc news, lombardy.e received the images. we will be back at the top of the error with all the latest, including this change in the alert level here in the uk with all four chief scientific officer is recommending a move down from four to three. we will examine what that actually means. the daily life here in the political impact of that two. we also hope to talk to a scientific expert who has looked into the ethnicity data of people dying in the uk and found that there is a bigger risk to south asians, the whole south asian population. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. there'll be sunshine breaking through the clouds for some of you this afternoon, especially in areas such as here in devon, where we started the day with rain that we finished yesterday with. that wet weather across some southern parts, including wales, is on the shift northwards. a damp start to the afternoon through the midlands, north wales. rain breaking out across parts of nort

mark lowen, bbc news, lombardy.s: the brazilian president, jair bolsonaro, has attempted to distance himself from the arrest of a former aide to his son, flavio. fabricio kay rosh was arrested outside the home of a bolsonaro family lawyer. he's suspected of being part of a scheme to embezzle the salaries of phantom employees in the rio state assembly. flavio bolsonaro denies any wrongdoing. jean kennedy smith — the last surviving sibling of presidentjohn f kennedy, has died at the age of 92. ms smith played an important role in bringing peace to northern ireland, while serving as us ambassador to ireland in the 1990's. she was the second youngest of nine siblings, who also included us attorney general robert kennedy and senator ted kennedy. south africa has high levels of violent crime, amongst the worst in the world. more than 2,700 women were killed last year. and the government says cases have increased drastically under the coronavirus lockdown. 0ur south africa reporter, pumza fihlani looks at what is being don

mark lowen, bbc news, lombardy.1935 — as the result of a toxic culture, organisational failures and the leadership ofjeremy corbyn. the report is written by the "labour together" group — which includes different wings of the party. 0ur political correspondent iain watson reports. thank you very much... jeremy corbyn's leadership, brexit and a manifesto that did not seem credible — some of the reasons labour lost in 2019, according to a new report. the labour together group, which includes the party's former leader, ed miliband, and the shadow business minister, lucy powell, have spent nearly six months analysing the reasons for the defeat. some of it will make grim reading for labour supporters. they say that mps and activists have told them that labour's strategy was inadequate and the organisation was muddled and that factionalism, internal arguments and division affected the party's performance. but we haven't got on to the really bad news for labour yet. the reports says that a new leader will not in itself impr

mark lowen, who has reported on the story from the start, returns to ask what went wrong.

to get the very latest on the situation in northern italy, our correspondent mark lowen... a war now here. as the outbreak errupted and our coverage took us across italy, i spoke to a doctor whose hospital was overwhelmed. stefano, hi, mark from the bbc. very nice to see you again. we were late in finding the virus. we were told we had to search for a link with china but we were not able to see patients with that kind of symptoms that were coming from china. we lost time in closing the area. so, the lockdown came late. politicians past the buck over closing italy's second richest city under pressure from business groups. delayed lockdown, as other countries have seen, cost dearly. as did the decision to move some of the sick to care homes. half of the 140 patient in this one died. when angela olivella's mother developed a fever, she wasn't tested — she died a week later. we spoke to one worker who wanted her identity hidden. i had my first symptoms after helping a patient who was positive. the head of the care home wing said i should go home, but the director said no, becau

which is crucial to its economy and employs an estimated 4.2 million people. 0ur rome correspondent mark lowen britain, because in italy that is no longer the case. if you are a british national who is travelling from the uk to italy, for a holiday or planning to, you can now do so. italy from today's open for business to all those coming from european union countries, the uk, and the schengen zone. it is an attempt to salvage a tourism season that is looking very, very vulnerable indeed. 13% of italy's economy is based on tourism, it needs that business park. and i will travel within the regions of italy is going to be allowed. —— that business back. it is a moment of hope, that this country was long the centre of the global coronavirus pandemic, saw over 33,000 deaths and was the worst hit in europe until britain overtook it, it is a cautious relaxing of restrictions. if they step forward because italy has now brought down the infection level down to a manageable degree, the r number is below one. for those who want to come in italy injuly and august, if they are willing to, this could be a

the bbc‘s mark lowen is in rome, and told me this is a moment of hope for italy.a national lockdown. it is now open for business, because not only within the country, where one can travel now freely without carrying the necessary forms to justify travel, but also people coming from all european union countries, the schengen zone, and also the united kingdom, can come into and out of italy. it is an attempt to salvage a tourist season that makes up 30% of italy's economy. it is a moment of hope that the country that was for so long the worst hit country in europe until it was overtaken by britain, and has seen more than 33,000 deaths, now feels that the pandemic is now under much more manageable level and can open its borders and relax these restrictions in this way. as you say, tourism is critical to the italian economy. supporting millions of jobs. but the question is, will people come? we can't get out of our minds the images we saw months ago, the crisis across italy, people in hospitals, it was harrowing? absolutely horrific three and a half months that this c

examining whether two towns in lombardy should have been locked down earlier. 0ur correspondent mark lowenw no one seems to be taking responsibility. dan has been a real passing of the bulk of responsibility in terms of how, wayne, who could have imposed the lockdown around that town, a city in northern italy, it is a pretty‘s second richest city and it was the second major hub of kamano virus here in a pity towards the end of february. you may remember that town was the first time that was hit by the storm of kamano virus, that and the surrounding areas locked down quickly, not so much more important down quickly, not so much more im porta nt safety down quickly, not so much more important safety and where there was pressure from economic and business groups who were unwilling to see economic activity limited there. so the local officials and the wider region officials who you rightly say are under the control of the right—wing league party and the national government, there was a shifting of blame and shifting of responsibility for valuable days there at the start and two weeks on terror