the men in white coats arrived. no, not to take them away, but to underline the role that first responders have played since the pandemic took hold and how to speed up vaccine distribution to the poorest nations. borisjohnson is here to shake hands, yes, but also to twist arms ahead of the climate change summit in glasgow next week. there, thousands were out on the streets today ahead of cop26 getting under way. and there were similar protests here in rome as well. the draft communiqu that has been agreed talks about the urgent need to keep global warming to 1.5 celsius, but for all the words in this draft communiqu — and there are a lot of them — it is very short on detailed commitments or concrete measures to limit carbon emissions. borisjohnson is going to have his work cut out in glasgow next week. jon sopel, bbc news, rome.