and other european countries are weighing another lockdown could omicron ruin christmas and jingle bell lock, like lockdown. joining us from rome to dive deeper let's start with where you are, how is italy handling this >> good morning, italy already has had the strictest anti-covid measures in europe it really tightened the screws from unvaccinated preventing them from entering bars and restaurants. and reintroducing mandatory face masks outside and even requiring a negative test for those going to a large public event. moving north to france, the situation is not better there. it is actually worse paris had to cancel because of the spread of covid and omicron the anticipated fire works that takes place on new year's eve. thousands of protesters gathered against stricter plans like the covid pass like we have in italy to go 0 to public places further north, the situation is almost worse almost 80,000 people are testing positive many of those from the omicron variant. they say you need to tighten the screw before christmas boris johnson says it will be very unpopular and he doesn't want the

european countries are weighing a potential lockdown could omicron ruin christmas this year and jingle bell lockckdown it's shaping up to be a critical week for decisions for several european nations joining us from roam is claudio. how is italy handling this >> reporter: good morning, francis. well, italy has already some of the strictest anticovid measures in place it really tightened the screw on the unvaccinated by banning them from accessing public places like bars and restaurants. but when the government meets again on thursday, they may introduce even further measures. they may go even further by for instance reintroducing mandatory wearing of face masks outside or even requiring a negative test even to the unvaccinated when they get into public places where large events are being hosted well, now, let's move up north to france where paris cancelled the traditional and much-anticipated, of course, new year's celebration, that includes fireworks because the omicron and covid in general is spreading so fast. and in france on saturday, thousands of people protested in the streets not only in

and jingle bell lock says the sun, as borisjohnson discusses restrictions on indoor mixing ahead of theistmas break. but the times reports that at least ten ministers are questioning the latest covid modelling by the government advisory group, sage. the ft reports that restrictions are already coming into place across europe, including a lockdown in the netherlands and german entry requirements for uk citizens. they come amid rising cases of the omicron variant. and the guardian leads with this photo of the prime minister, alongside his wife and staff, as it reports some of them enjoy cheese and wine in the garden of 10 downing street, when we were in lockdown in may last year. tonight, a downing street spokesperson said "work meetings often take place in the downing street garden in the summer months." that is a little flavour of those front pages. lizzy and olivia let's begin. olivia, you will kick us off this around with the page of the guardian with the picture in number 10 get number 10's garden. another icture of 10 get number 10's garden. another picture of number _ 10 get number