Mobile kitchen offers Italy's flood volunteers a free lunch

Volunteers in the town of Forli set up a mobile field kitchen for volunteers helping people affected by the floods in Italy's northeastern Emilia-Romagna region, described as the worst the country has seen in a century.

About 200 volunteers are expected to arrive, according to Mauro Valentini, who's managing the operation. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni shared images of the disaster with fellow G7 leaders at their summit in Japan, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron to tweet that France was "ready to provide every useful help".

Stefano Bonaccini, head of the Emilia Romagna region, called for a national plan to mitigate the impact of natural disasters, saying: "This must never happen again." Over 15,000 people have been evacuated from their homes across the region, as farmers survey the damage that Bonaccini has compared to an earthquake.