this is a big appointment with history and we cannot miss it. if europe does not rise to this challenge, with the european union risk failing itself? translation: there is this risk. if we don't seize the opportunity to put new life into the european project, the risk is real. and tonight, they seem to be listening. italy and other eu members hit by the outbreak will now receive financial aid. the european union stressing european unity. today we agreed three safety nets and a plan for the recovery to ensure we grow together and not a part. once the virus is behind us. these emergency plans will shield oui’ these emergency plans will shield our economic and social fabric as we dive into a recession. but it is behind russia, who sensed a chance to outplay europe and sway italian public opinion, sending medics and supplies here. the italian government denies it came with return favours. italy is trialling

antibody tests to see who could be allowed to return to work having built up immunity and its performing double the daily virus tests of britain. translation: first of all, let me say my sympathy to my friend borisjohnson and to tell him... in english: don't give up, boris. translation: for sure, performing tests means trying to bring the situation more under control. without testing, it would mean having to cope with it in the dark. baby steps of progress, as italy starts to turn a corner and refind that last word — hope. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. here, as easter weekend is about to begin, the message is very much stay at home. mark easton looks at the struggle for some.

what do you think they are struggling with? do you think it is similar to you? life in lockdown is hard for everyone, but when your 17—year—old daughter's anxiety spills over into tantrums, your mum is on the front line as a nurse and you're a key worker too, it can be hard to cope. people think, "oh, it's a bank holiday, i've got to do stuff, i've got to go out." yeah. sometimes, when it does get too much, you literally take yourself off into your room. i know i have taken myself off into my bedroom, literally laid on my bed, and screamed into a pillow just to get kind of all the frustration out. a survey of more than 2,000 adults across the uk last week found 15% were already finding it extremely difficult to cope. among younger people, it was close to a quarter, just 11% of 45—75—year—olds were struggling. been up all night. for teenager beth, cooped up with herfamily in hounslow, the lockdown seems endless. i normally have a bad day, which is most days while we've been in lockdown, then i get annoyed by one thing. it can be the tiniest thing, even if it's, like, we're not having something nice for dinner, and ijust break down and start crying.

normally, mum hugs me and says it'll be ok. half of those surveyed said they had felt more anxious and depressed than normal, over a third said they had trouble sleeping, and i9% were drinking more. however hard it is for people to endure life right now, the overwhelming majority accept the need for restrictions. nine out of ten people say they support the lockdown and are doing their best to follow government guidelines. this is my husband and i on our wedding day 56 years ago... when britain closed its doors on normal life, connections were cut. and at the present time, he is in a care home. 79—year—old sparky in nailsea near bristol last saw her husband the day before lockdown started, the day before their wedding anniversary. the community as a whole in the town have set up nailsea covid support group of people. you ring a telephone number and somebody will do your bidding. that is so helpful.

lockdown has revealed a deep well of community spirit. a majority of people say they've offered to help a neighbour, and 47% have received assistance from someone nearby. how are you coping? well, that'll last me a month. neighbours have found each other again. sparky and her husband write love letters to each other again. it may be that when lockdown is eventually lifted, we will find that, like a virus, our society has mutated into something stronger. mark easton, bbc news. that's it. newsnight is on bbc two shortly but we will leave you as we do on a thursday night with the sound of that applause for our carers and key workers all over britain. good night. cheering and applause.

welcome to viewers on the bbc news channel could be you havejoined us just in time however first review of tomorrow's papers. hello to viewers in the uk and around the world, and welcome to

this look at the front pages of some of the newspapers and news websites we are seeing here in the bbc news room. we are bringing the briefing from the white house when that gets under way but first need to review the pages, assistant editorfor the daily mirror and the pages, assistant editorfor the daily mirrorand and the pages, assistant editorfor the daily mirror and and isaac, journalist at the wall street journal. stick look at the stories and angles leading at the moment. to start with a look at some of the uk papers, the daily telegraph reporting that the uk prime minister borisjohnson is reporting that the uk prime minister boris johnson is out reporting that the uk prime minister borisjohnson is out of intensive ca re borisjohnson is out of intensive care and in the early phase of recovery from coronavirus. he was taken into hospital for recovery from coronavirus. he was ta ken into hospital for treatment recovery from coronavirus. he was taken into hospitalfor treatment on sunday evening and spent three nights in intensive care. at times leads in the same story reporting that some in downing street say borisjohnson may need as long as a month before he returns fully to work. while the mirror leads on a picture of nhs workers joining work. while the mirror leads on a picture of nhs workersjoining in the national nationwide copper for carers with the warning to britons

to stay—at—home this easter weekend. in the united states and your times leads in the spread of the virus across rural america with doctors warning that coronavirus could overwhelm communities that are often older and poorer. and the japan times carries a warning from the health ministry that over 700 people a day could need some sort of intensive care treatment when the pandemic reaches its peak injapan. let's begin now with talking to our guest, let's talk to you, jason, first of all. the front page of the daily telegraph my fantastic news. prime minister boris johnson daily telegraph my fantastic news. prime minister borisjohnson out of i see you as his health begins to improve. this is a personal story and a political story. it must be a great relief to his fiancee and his

family and his children, and for anybody that has a relative or friend, remember a family in hospital these are the anxious times and the fact that he was in intensive care for so long must have made it even more for them. finally they got good news and he is on a board and must‘ve been a shock to the other patients on it but he was on the ward and looked like he is going to make a recovery. the political side of this is we don't know how long that recovery would take, he talked about the time of saying it could be a month, but i think it was some kind of rule of thumb and one day in intensive care requires one week of recovery, and that means we could be without its full effect of leadership for some time. which is going to be a concern considering we are facing the biggest national prejudices we face for many years. and that's the point. we don't know how long the premise or will take to fully recover from this take it out of you

getting a virus as serious as this and spending time in intensive care. we have to remember that fatigue is often the result of any kind of infection like this and you have to ta ke infection like this and you have to take time to bring your pesach is also an issue since he was trying to work for the early stages of the illness he had already reached a certain level of fatigue as part it when he might have required hospitalization, so try to work out the stages who will be going through with the recovery everyone reacts very differently in different factors and stresses on him at this time, so it's really hard to put a finger on it the same with her to put a finger on the lockdown, lot of this has to be taken day by day assessment. what you think, in terms of decision—making over the next few weeks, was the prime minister is recovering, how are we going to get difficult and important decisions

made? i think it's an interesting we've heard reports who was theresa may defective deputy from the last person to actually stepped in and be ready to take on this role, and what it reveals is that the uk has a cabinet style of government and while the us has the designated survivor role it does not have the capability with the prime minister for a broad and is the security incident there somewhat allocated to ta ke incident there somewhat allocated to take over and that's dominic. he does have the support of cabinet and the stage of national crisis, there is no reason to believe that he cannot make decisions in a civil service machine would not swing into action to facilitate those decisions, so day—to—day governance should be able to cope with this. day—to—day governance should be able to cope? i met take a slightly different interpretation. i think

this has exposed we've drifted more towards a slight presidential system. the idea was meant to be the prime minister but the power and is amongst equals in the cabinet. but borisjohnson amongst equals in the cabinet. but boris johnson ran a amongst equals in the cabinet. but borisjohnson ran a very presidential election campaign in december. people did not vote for the foreign secretary or any other members of his cabinet, they voted for him to call him by his first name and they did it. this is expose the dangers of going too far down that route. with so much power and responsibility invested in one person it, and you know he is the key to almost all of the government working effectively in these decision making taken, the risk and for the things we are finding out now. it's a difficult time, and this

front page, boris is out, and that really is a good friday. the feeling here, instead, right now that the recovery will ta ke here, instead, right now that the recovery will take a while, but ultimately where is the government going to go? there's so much uncertainty facing them right now, we don't know how long the recovery will take over the lockdown alas, we don't have the data necessary according to the telegraph report to determine whether or not we preach this crucial peak in that after which we can then start to determine how long the rest of the lockdown may last, and what that state removal of the lockdown might take. he struggled to find a comparison here for when you last had this level of uncertainty and i do take jason posner points there when we talk about how this figurehead is so

crucial you look back to where we we re crucial you look back to where we were in terms of the discourse around politics a few months ago and talking about how boris is going to use talking about how boris is going to use this mandate in the last general election to pursue his aims including the brexit timeline and things like the brexit timeline had been thrown at you complete flux now but the impact of this virus and the economic response that we have been seen with severe recessions around the world. it's her to say for sitting run the cabinet table right how sitting run the cabinet table right now we are faced with the immediate day—to—day tasks but that agenda has pretty much gone out the window. while we are unsure about where the government is going to go on the next few days or week or so we know where we are supposed to go and that's nowhere over the easter weekend. i did not front page, make oi’ weekend. i did not front page, make or break weekend. in the daily mirror front or break weekend. in the daily mirrorfront page, it's or break weekend. in the daily mirror front page, it's all about the fact that it's going to be obviously warm weather this weekend and wejust obviously warm weather this weekend and we just need to stay and don't

we? stay at home even though it's lovely out there and easter weekend. and it's going to be easter weekend like no other. normally a time for worship and recreation, a time when families get together and if you easter egg hunts with the kids, and you take trips to the seaside for the countryside, that's not meant to happen and for obvious reasons and the vast majority of people get that, they are doing their best. you will have to walk around my local park to see people doing quite happy edging away from people. and i'm applauding them doing it. not taking it personally and it's a relief to see. there's a few people not doing it and that's the issue here. the police are warning that if you people going down to cornwall and up structure. we had greater manchester police talking about last weekend that the weather was not even going to be as good as it was this

weekend. over 600 parties they had to break up and parties including street parties and bouncy castles. not everybody has got this message andi not everybody has got this message and i could say this to go to be an anxious time for police, because we do need to keep the social distancing in place because scientists are telling us the cheap scientific officer said their site that may just be scientific officer said their site that mayjust be working. do you think a stricter locked out is necessary in that case? his difficult balance to get here and i have some sympathy with the police but i also have it with a dangerous if you create this but will which are behind most people actually abiding by the restrictions could end up falling apart. so the tone and how the police it has got to be really quite subtle and cautious at

times, but as i