donald trump has said he sees "glimmers of hope" for america — despite a very painful week in the coronavirus pandemic. the us state of new york is on the cusp of overtaking italy for the confirmed number of covid—19 cases. the british government says the prime minister — who remains in intensive care because of covid—19 — is in a stable condition and doesn't need mechanical ventilation. boris johnson was admitted to hospital over the weekend, and moved to intensive care on monday. the number of people in france who have died from the coronavirus has now passed 10,000. paris has imposed a daytime exercise ban as part of its lockdown. and many parts of the world have seen a super moon — this is dubai. it's called a pink moon after a flower of that colour which blooms in the spring. hello again. in a few minutes, we'll be bringing

you a look at tomorrow morning's papers with our reviewers. you a look at tomorrow morning's with you a look at tomorrow morning's barbara speed a but first, let's bring you more on the treatment being offered to patients suffering the worst effects of coronavirus, like the prime minister, who are admitted to intensive care. sometimes, as the disease attacks the lungs, a ventilator is needed to take over the patient‘s breathing. downing street said today that the prime minister was being given oxygen, but had not been placed on a ventilator. 0ur health editor hugh pym looks at what kind of treatment a patient can expect in intensive care. they're the sickest patients. intensive care units in hospitals have sophisticated monitoring equipment and highly trained staff who are constantly checking those in their care. patients will normally require an oxygen supply, sometimes with devices like this known as cpap — continuous positive airway pressure.

there could be patients there who are simply on oxygen. beyond that, we sometimes apply a tight—fitting pressure mask, which if you are wearing it feels a little bit like putting your head out of a moving car window. there is additional pressure to help keep your lungs inflated and help with their work in breathing. if their condition worsens, some patients will be put on a mechanical ventilator to help them breathe. this involves a tube inserted into the airway and the patient will be sedated. ria was in hospital for an operation and then was diagnosed with covid—i9. she describes what it was like to be an intensive care patient. there was a point where i wasn't sure if i would come out of the hospital. that was the truth. sorry. it was very hard, because i didn't even have the breath to ask the questions. the nurses, the doctors were by my side. they thought of everything i needed

before even i could think of it. i owe them my life. my situation started to worsen again. faiz from bradford was another coronavirus patient who was moved to an intensive care unit and stayed there for five days. the first thing was, all the wires coming out of me. that was so scary. and having this mask go on to me for about 12 hours, i think it was. that was really scary. and it was also really weird, each time i'd call for a nurse or a nurse would want to come into the room, they have to put all this protective gear on. sometimes it takes 15 or 20 minutes to put on. but they were fantastic. the latest survey showed the average age was 60 for covid patients in intensive care. 73% are men and 27% are women. those with a bmi over 25 — defined as overweight or obese — made up 73% of the patients. and those who had to be put on a ventilator within the first 2a hours accounted for 63%.

coronavirus patients who are still very unwell after two weeks are most likely to need intensive care and that'll require at least a week in hospital. dr ron daniels, who heads the sepsis trust, is a critical care consultant. he says it can take a long time to make a full recovery. for those who have been critically unwell enough to need to be on a ventilator, particularly if it's for more than a few days, which is the majority of patients, we shouldn't expect to see them return to their full level of function for several months after the illness. this is really going to hit people hard. it all depends. patient experiences in intensive care vary a lot but they are all there because they are seriously ill. hugh pym, bbc news. in london, the nhs nightingale hospital has taken its first patients tonight. arriving by ambulance to the excel centre earlier this evening — the first people to be treated at the capital's nightingale

have been admitted. it comes as the government announced that the number of fataliities in the last 2a hours from coronavirus has risen by 786. health bosses confirmed today that manchester's temporary nightingale hopsital will accept up to 750 coronavirus patients within the next week. now it's time for our look at tomorrow's front pages in the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are barbara speed, opinion editorfor the i newspaper, and laura hughes, political and diplomatic correspondent for the financial times. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. most of the papers leading on that same story —

borisjohnson spending a second night in intensive care. the mirror leads with the wellwishes that the queen sent to the prime ministers partner carrie symonds. the sun says he stayed at work for "you," so you should stay at home and pray for him. the metro also showing solidarity with the pm, saying, "we're with you, boris." the telegraph wonders — who will make the call on lockdown? they wonder who's making those decisions while the pm is incapacitated. the times say "help us find antibody test" — they report that ministers are asking leading biotech firms to help them make that test. the ft says that the british government has admitted that germany's testing model offers "route out". so let's begin. let us talk first of all to you,

barbara. the queen sending words of comfort to boris johnson barbara. the queen sending words of comfort to borisjohnson and carrie simons. this is important, isn't it? they are in such a difficult position right now. he is desperately sick in hospital, she is heavily pregnant, and also with self isolating due to coronavirus, this will mean a lot to them. isolating due to coronavirus, this will mean a lot to themli isolating due to coronavirus, this will mean a lot to them. i think so, it's been impressive to see the well wishes from all over the world, from all walks of life. it is times like this where the queen really comes into her own, and i think herbert's development quite a lot both to boris and carrie, who is obviously unable to see her partner. she has symptoms of coronavirus or self, so i think it is very easy to empathize with her position. it is a really ha rd with her position. it is a really hard place she is in. laura, that's it, it's a difficult time for both

of them. and also, this is our prime minister, isn't it? our prime minister, isn't it? our prime minister is in intensive care. that is awful and incredible at the same time. we haven't seen a british prime minister out of action because of ill health for a number of years. and i think everyone was quite floored by the fact that this all moved very, very quickly. so on the afternoon we we re moved very, very quickly. so on the afternoon we were hearing that the prime minister was still leading the government's charged against the coronavirus battle, and then suddenly we hear that he's in hospital, but again still receiving his red box, still talking to colleagues. thenjust his red box, still talking to colleagues. then just hours his red box, still talking to colleagues. thenjust hours later, really dramatically he was moved to care. some of the papers are reporting this evening that his temperature started to go down. we know he's not on a ventilating machine, which is really crucial, he hasjust been machine, which is really crucial, he has just been given machine, which is really crucial, he hasjust been given oxygen machine, which is really crucial, he has just been given oxygen while he's been at st. thomas's hospital. ijust think that given he is the

front man of all of this, and the government and everyone is so used to see him giving press conferences every day and really taking charge of the situation — to see him suddenly out of action and in such a serious way is concerning for everyone , serious way is concerning for everyone, regardless of your political affiliations or beliefs. let's now go to the sun, because you mentioned there, regardless of your affiliations, the son talking about the nation united on the stricken pm. this really has brought about a sense of unity, hasn't it? nearly eve ryo ne sense of unity, hasn't it? nearly everyone is behind the pm and rooting for him massively. for many people this might be the first person that they know of who is in intensive care. i think everyone now would probably have a friend or family memberwho would probably have a friend or family member who has had symptoms. but this is somebody that everybody knows, the everybody recognises. and i think that is why it has united a

lot of people behind him. of course on social media there were some members of the public who are expressing their views and they weren't particularly kinder. but i think generally when you look at keir starmer, the labour leader, donald trump in america, everyone more broadly in hs workers, there is just a feeling that everyone is human at the end of the day —— nhs workers, and they want him to get better because he has a pregnant fiancee, he's a father and he is a personjust like the fiancee, he's a father and he is a person just like the rest of us. the sun — not everyone prays, obviously, but it is quite in a emotive message, isn't it? it is, and i think it speaks to the decision which perhaps some people might think it is unwise for the pm to continue with a lot of his duties remotely in the days since he first tested positive for coronavirus. i think obviously the decision was

made byjohnson and those around him that he needed to stay at the head of things for as long as he could. and it was only on sunday when he was told to go to hospital that the situation dramatically changed. now let us talk about the metro's front page. it is similar to the sun, talking about unity, underlining the fa ct talking about unity, underlining the fact that boris johnson is talking about unity, underlining the fact that borisjohnson is in hospital and the people around the country are uniting behind his recovery, and a picture here of someone delivering flowers, showing their support in this way secular i think it speaks to a real national feeling that people across the political spectrum are quite shaken by what has happened first by boris going at a hospital, then obviously the escalation of him moving to the ic you, which is framed as a precaution. but it is frightening

for the leader of the nation to be very sick. there's a precedent here in recent years where we have this 24 in recent years where we have this 2a hour news where he is expected to be seen as leading the country, and thatis be seen as leading the country, and that is a sense we won't have for as long as he is recovering. talking of that, let us talk about the daily telegraph's front page, who will make call on lockdown down? a lot of people around the world obviously wondering, when will this and? dominic raab, according to the daily telegraph, it is casting doubt on whether the lockdown will be reviewed next week because the preminger is incapacitated —— incapacitated. this at the weird thing about the british constitution, we don't really have rules for a situation like this. dominic raab has been asked to deputize for the prime minister wherever that is necessary. but at the press conference today, he was

repeatedly asked by journalists the press conference today, he was repeatedly asked byjournalists if he had the ultimate decision—making powers. because we know that a review of the lockdown measures will come up review of the lockdown measures will come up as review of the lockdown measures will come up as early as monday, because we will have done the three weeks that was initially set out by boris johnson. and really big, political decisions and political judgements will need to be made, but it is not entirely clear if dominic raab had actually been given that mandate. and there are a number of various people in the cabinet who we've all been told are responsible in some way, and dominic raab kept trying to emphasise this point of collective cabinet responsibility, which exists in normal times. but the phenomenal point here is we still don't actually know if he is in charge in the way that the prime minister would actually be in charge, and when these big decisions have to be made, it is still unclear who will be able to make them. and why is it?

why is it that it is so unclear to us? like i said, our constitution isn't in plan for this, and it is a very unique circumstance. but the telegraph has on the front page that there needs to be some decision made here on when dominic raab actually does become the de facto prime minister, notjust his deputy. but we know there are a number of people working at number ten who have been affected by coronavirus who aren't working. the head of the cabinet is in there doing the best he can, but it does feel as though it is a little murky as to who is actually running the show behind the scenes. this hasn't happened in 40—50 years that we've had a situation like this where there are no real rules, no real guidelines, no policy that the government can suddenly implement overnight. and it is a big thing to

put in unelected politician into the role of prime minister during a national crisis of this severity. barbara, it says in the article across europe and america, governments are beginning to set out plans for how and when lockdowns will be lifted. how much pressure do you think there will be on the government to actually come up with some sort of plan? we are coming up to three weeks of lockdown, people wa nt to to three weeks of lockdown, people want to know, when will this end? certainly, yes, and i think it continues —— the continued success of lockdown will be for people to understand the government's thinking on this, that it must be constantly reassessed. we are obviously several weeks behind other european countries who are now looking at their current flattening, some restrictions are being eased. i think everyone will be watching to see how light and restrictions in austria and other places play out, because that will hopefully give us

a better idea of how we can plan our own exit strategy. but obviously not having that key prime ministerial figure will make that more difficult, that is a very big decision, a huge gamble on the economy, a very big call on the idea of the cabinet collective decision—making obviously works outside of these exceptional circumstances. but i can see why people would be worried about, without a clear figure people would be worried about, without a clearfigure had people would be worried about, without a clear figure had to make that call, it will be fraught. moving on to the financial times, a good round up on the front page of everything happening with dominic raab, the number of new cases. interestingly, this point here, a new study found school closures had a relatively small impact on the spread of coronavirus. and it should be weighed up against economic and social costs, and interesting line there about school closes. maybe

some pressure on schools to open after easter if possible? there might be, yes. it is an interesting question, there's lots of questions about why younger people and children don't seem to contract the virus as much as you would expect. and i don't know if that plays into the reasoning that obviously lots of schools around the country have stayed open in a limited capacity, and if you are a key worker, you can vie for your child to go to school. but some have struggled to get their child into school. key workers like nhs workers have a cut in their pay anyway, it might be tough for them to get their children into schools. and i can see that that pressure coming off would be helpful, but i think we need more evidence about how school closures and infection rates might interact before a call like that could be made. laura, moving onto the financial times, this is an article co—written by you. the uk admits german testing model dust german testing model

admits route out. contact tracing model and testing, and how important he think that has been in germany cosmic battle against coronavirus? how can we learn from that, and have we learned from that?” how can we learn from that, and have we learned from that? i think the key difference between our approach in germany's approach is that we stopped testing people that had not needed to go to hospital. we stopped testing people with symptoms more generally in the community on 12 march, whereas germany has continued to try to test as many people as they can. we have now reached a level where we are trying to test around 15,000 people a day, the target is 100,000 people a day. germany is already on 50,000 people a day. there is a huge difference there. and what germany is doing is they're looking mass community testing as a way out of the lockdown, because it means that you can isolate, you can keep people at home and they know that they have it, and they allow those that have

had to go back to work with antibody tests, which is a different strain of testing. and we are being compared to germany because it is another european country, a close neighbour of ours. countries like south korea, singapore, taiwan have all pursued a policy of mass community testing. so we've sort of approach this differently and we've been behind the curve here. and when we realised that we needed to do more testing, everybody else in the world had woken up to that fact too, which has led to shortages in the elements that make up these important testing kits. chris whitty's comments today, the chief medical officer's advice to the government, admitted — and it is the first time we've seen public task someone first time we've seen public task someone publicly say we are looking at germany and what they're doing — whereas previously we had ministers coming out and say, "well, germany started off on a completely

different base with a much more developed diagnostics industry and pharmaceutical industry compared to the uk." pharmaceutical industry compared to the uk. " they pharmaceutical industry compared to the uk." they are at comparable situations, but we now know the government's chief scientific advisers are looking at the approach of our european neighbour is taking, and trying to learn lessons from it to see how it works and if we can start doing similar things over here. barbara and laura, it has been so good to have you both on, thank you both so much for read the company. well in the last few moments donald trump has been speaking. he said that the us have ordered thousands of ventilators he hoped not to use and britain had asked for assistance with supplies. so we have a total of 110,000

ventilators coming over a short period of time. i don't think we will need them — hopefully we won't need them. i don't think we will need them. i don't think we will need anywhere near them. but we will have them for the future, and we will also be able to help other countries that are desperate for ventilators. the uk called today and they wanted to know whether it would be possible to get 200. we need to work out, they've been great partners, the united kingdom. we need to work it out for them, so they wanted 200 and they needed them desperately. now let's go over to the bbc sport centre and catch up with the latest sports news. we start with a stark warning to the game of football, because the english football association chairman greg clarke has warned that clu bs chairman greg clarke has warned that clubs and leagues across england could vanish at their finances collapsed from the impact of coronavirus. he says that many communities could lose clubs with little chance of resurrection. clark was speaking at a meeting of the fa council on tuesday, and everybody

involved in the game should step up and share the pain. there is talks between clubs and players over wage deferrals as cuts continue for some he also admitted it may not be possible to finish the season. greg clarke speaking at the fa council meeting this morning, painting a fairly bleak picture for the game. he said over the next two years, he expected the football association to lose £150 million due to the coronavirus outbreak. and as you say, he reiterated the view of the professional game that the fusion should finish, but there is no guarantee that it would happen. there needed to be a plan in place in orderfor english there needed to be a plan in place in order for english football to prevent its decimation, i suppose, at lower levels. he said that nobody running the game had everfaced any economic challenges like this in their wildest imagination, and said,

as you say, that those very real clu bs as you say, that those very real clubs of dutch threats of clubs and lea ks clubs of dutch threats of clubs and leaks going under if a solution could not be found. and he used the opportunity in a week where we've seen this impasse between the premier league and its players overtaking cuts or deferments to wages — he urged them to get together for the wages — he urged them to get togetherfor the common wages — he urged them to get together for the common good in order to save the game. it was ace democrat as stark as that from greg clarke. simon stone there. quickly rounding up some of the day's other sport stories and staying with football, because us prosecutors say former fifa committee members took bribes in return voting for russia and qatar to host them in public world cup. they say they are closely following the investigations. the canadian formula 1 grand prix has become the ninth race of the season to be disrupted. has been postponed from 1ajune. and royal ascot has not been cancelled, but will at best

be postponed and take place behind closed doors. racing cosmic for classics of the season, including the epsom had already been postponed. two—time pa ralympic the epsom had already been postponed. two—time paralympic gold medallist katina cox has admitted the postponement of this year's game and lockdown across the uk has been tough on her mental health. she won both golds in rio in 2016 has been very open about her struggles with an eating disorder. she believes staying physically active has helped her manage her anxiety. staying physically active has helped her manage her anxietylj staying physically active has helped her manage her anxiety. i have an eating disorder, so the anxiety around the change put me in a bad place and i did fall off the wheel a little bit. but i found a positive space, to find my happy place again and get back to training, tojust enjoy training. even though it is further away, it means i've got more time to be that dutch a better version of me, so when i get to the paralympics, i will be vastly stronger. i think right now it is

about finding the little things and enjoying training a bit more. sometimes training is super—hard, but it's about being as good as i have been. now this man behind me, diego maradona, has divided opinion down the years amongst football fans. no doubt he is one of the greatest players the game has ever seen. what would he make a goal of the century shot? 0ne effort that stayed in the memory for all the wrong reasons, for many is the hand of god goal when argentina knocked england out of the mexico world cup's 3a years ago. that is one of several iconic goals week created in the back garden with two young boys and their dad. so far, 6 million people have watched eight—year—old karen and his seven—year—old brother, lucas, recreate that famous moment from the 1986, along with their dad, sean. a renowned kick from 2008 has already been acted out, along with the trademark

celebration, look at that. ryan giggs‘s cup against arsenal is in there among quite a few others. that was all it was, but obviously i chose the goals, the music is obviously the ones i was growing up with match of the day. so we just managed to pick a few goals put them all together, put the music on, which makes it for me. wejust put it out there for other people to view, really. that is all the support for now. hello. we have had clear skies across parts of north england in southern scotland. and some of our weather watchers have been taking pictures outside their windows were gardens of the super pink moon, such as this one from county durham. we have had clear skies, but cloud amounts have been increasing. and, really, through the day on wednesday, although there will be a bit of sunshine breaking through, it will feel quite warm. there will be more cloud in the skies then we've

seen in recent days. so this is how we start wednesday morning, a weather front bringing thicker clouds across parts of northern ireland, north and western scotland, some outbreaks of light rain here. and further south across england and wales, a bit more cloud than we've seen recently. probably the best of the sunshine on wednesday in northern england in the southern scotland as well. temperatures doing well, up to around 23 celsius down towards the southeast, but quite widely in the high teens, a little bit cooler for parts of scotland and northern ireland. and if you are across england and wales and you suffer from hay fever, you will notice we've got high levels of pollen out there. into wednesday evening, and overnight into thursday, this weather front in the north moves a bit further south. a few spots of drizzle but not much on it. further south, there will be a frost—free start to your thursday morning, and a bit of sunshine from the word go as well. so not a bad day on thursday, a lot of dry weather. but regardless of what the weather is doing, that doesn't change the rules on self—isolating and social distancing. stay at home and stay safe wherever you can. but in the sunnier spells in the south, we are likely to see temperatures up to 22

celsius on thursday. further north, a little cooler in scotland and northern ireland. looking ahead towards the easter weekend, it will be all change as we start to see weather fronts slowly moving in from the west, heading their way eastwards, bringing a bit of rain at times. equally, there will be some drier weather, if you're hoping to get a little bit of gardening done easter weekend. for good friday itself, we start off with dry weather, but more cloud and showers working in from the west. central and eastern england probably staying dry and pretty warm here for a good part of the day, temperatures reaching up to 2a celsius. the cloud and showers further north and west will edge their way further east through the rest of easter weekend. so a bit of a mixed picture, 1—2 showers around, equally some spells of sunshine through into the easter weekend. but you will notice that things will start to turn a bit cooler. but don't forget, we've got high levels of pollen out there. stay at home and stay safe wherever you can. bye— bye.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a second night in intensive care for borisjohnson — his condition is said to be stable. well, i'm confident he will pull through, because if there is one thing i know about this prime minister, he is a fighter. we go inside a london hospital that's been completely reconfigured to deal with the coronavirus surge. the city where covid—19 emerged — wuhan in china — ends two and a half months of total lockdown. solving america's facemask crisis — with supplies running short we meet the amateurs making them at home.