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With europe at the epicentre of the pandemic, the daily death tolls are staggering but on the infection rate spain and italy say the peak is now being reached, the curve is stabilising yet the pressure on hospitals is still immense as we have seen in every country that has fallen to this virus, italy, frame —— spain, france, britain, the us. today we got access inside a spanish hospital, deluged but not defeated. hoping for a sign of life. when the disease hits, it decimates. fighting it dem...

That number was incomplete. italy still has the highest death toll with nearly 111,000 people dying since the outbreak began. 0ur europe correspondent, mark lowen is in rome. with europe the epicentre of the pandemic, the daily death tolls are indeed shocking, but spain and italy say that with the infection rate, well, that is now peaking and that the curve is stabilising, and yet still the pressure on hospitals is immense as we have seen in every country that has fallen to the virus like domino...

0ur europe correspondent mark lowen reports. hoping for a sign of life. when the disease hits, it decimates. fighting it demands precision and speed to cope with these numbers. this is one of spains biggest hospitals, in catalonia. but it could be anywhere else that the virus has struck, because this is its hallmark, to plunder a country, overwhelming its hospitals. the doctor shows just one of the patients here needing assisted ventilation. there are 200 in this intensive care unit. catalonia, ...

This is 0utside source, live from the bbc newsroom. there are now more than one million confirmed cases of covid—19 worldwide, according to johns hopkins university. the coronavirus pandemic has presented media organisations around the world with a number of new challenges and opportunities. for example, visits to newspaper websites here in the uk have surged. but publishers are seeing a drop in profits because companies are spending less on advertising. television news also faces its own chal...

This is bbc news, the headlines: the coronavirus pandemic has continued to spread rapidly, with more than 50,000 people now having died from the outbreak. there are also now more than a million people infected worldwide double the number from this time last week. the united states accounts for about a quarter of all cases. ten million us workers have lost their jobs in the last two weeks, as the countrys economy shuts down to slow the spread of the virus. the weekly figures are the highest in am...

Layla, thanks so much, layla there in westminster. spain has registered 950 coronavirus deaths in a single day, the highest daily number anywhere in the world. its the sixth day in the row that the daily death toll had risen above eight hundred. -- 800 —— 800 people. more than 10,000 people have now died in spain. frances death toll has passed 4,000. and thereve been over 13,000 deaths in italy. 0ur europe correspondent, mark lowen is in rome. hoping for a sign of life. when the disease hits...

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>> he enjoyed learning new things, discovering new things, especially if it helped people, benefitted people, if he could make money off an idea. >> reporter: hal fischel had worked with bill on an early phase of the machine. it was after fischel left the company that the money came rolling in. fischel thought his contribution to the invention deserved more than he got, so he sued bill mclaughlin, his former friend and partner. heres the thing. it was just two weeks before the murder that the co...

What are these made of, and how long it took you to come up with them. >> sure, what we created a an automated bag a mask device. the masks are ubiquitously available in hospitals around the nation and they are device that is used to mechanically but manually compress in order to provide respiratory support for patients. the problem with these masks is that there is a tex or a care provider that must be tied to this mask to compress it for hours at a time. so what weve created is a, electronic d...

Tightening the screw on people and the virus. two weeks into a nationwide lockdown, the measures are toughening again. italians now banned from leaving their town and travelling across the country. not since wartime curfews have these scenes played out. well, the limits on movement are being stepped up, with ever—more police spot checks to see if people can justify why theyre out. and yet, polls suggest that most italians would support even tighter restrictions. there is virtually no sense of ...