so coming up very shortly, we will have that briefing from the pentagon, live here on bbc news. we will be hearing from a number of officials, including mark milley, the general. and secretary lloyd austin, as well. there is at the officials we will be hearing from but i think now we can stay with us pictures, we can go back to that as and when the briefing starts, that we can now talk about the extreme heat around europe. we have been talking about the extreme heat and temperatures across the world, and the heatwave that is continuing across southern europe. several cities in italy are on the red list, places like rome and sardinia have passed a0 celsius. we can now cross live to martinjones, who is in lazio, he is a british citizen who has lived in italy for the past five years. how hot is it where you are? the past five years. how hot is it where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. where you are? right now it is about 40, 401 degrees. so where you are? rig