particularly concerned about moria camp on the island of lesbos, which special correspondent malcolm brabant has visited many times over the past fars; and he is in touch with people there. malcolm? >> reporter: judy, tonight'm reporting from home again. i'm in the english countryside, where i have space to breathe and want for nothing. lesbos, in possibly the toughest location in europe, living conditions could not be worse. they have fled wars, persecution or economic hardship. m but ia they are stranded with no place to run, and no place to hide from covid 19. >> ( translat): nobody care about us. nobody. body care about us. we are wting how to die, sorry to tell you about that, but this is the truth. >> reporter: raid alabd is the unofficial leader of t arabic speaking refees in moria. the camp was originally intended as a transit camp for 3,000 people, when the refugee crisis began in 2015. but the influx has never stopped and the population in tents and hovels sprawling beyond the razor wire is about 20,000. the whole of greece is on lockdown and the authorities are making sure the peo

special correspondent malcolm brabant is near his home ingl marlow, d tonight. malcolm?y, the death toll in the united kingdom stands at 177. the big news tonight is that the government is proming billions to save jobs and businesses, and the prime minister has ordered alpubs and restaurants to close, to try to reduce the risk of ctagion. the prime minister has urged everyone who can, to work at home. that's why my report comes from my hometown, marlow, 30 miles west of london. >> six, seven, eight... >> reporte this class was the last chance for part-time teacher leah hars to earn before all british schools were shuttered. it was the second blow in double time.ma he dancing gig, in the show "42nd street," ended when covid-19 brought the curtainsnd down across 's theatreland. >> it's just so sudden and very, very scary.y where's the moen going to come from? producers are going to run out of money because they haven't got ticket sales going out. who knows when it's going to end? >> reporter: before closing her doors tonight, jo noel hartley, tre owner of this small th and

but as special correspondent malcolm brabant reports, for tht time being theude in britain is very much keep calm and carry on. >> reporter: ♪ god save our gracious queen, long live our noble queen ♪ no, i haven't suddenly become super patriotic because of but i'm following, to the letter, the instructio from britain's prime minister.>> he best single thing we can do is wash our hands, two verses of the national anthem or happy birthday, hot water, bar of soap.r: >> reporfter winning the general election three months ago, boris johnson's main leadership challenge was to negotiate post brexit trade deals.ie but now his prhip is being tested by war with an invisible enemy that threatens both the health and wealth of the natione >> iontinue to look out for one another. to pull together in a united anr national e i have no doubt that we can and will rise that challenge. >> reporter: currently theme governnt is trying to contain the virus, and has postponed measures such as establishzog exclusion nes to delay its spread.nt but more strinontrols are coming, says chris whitty, the government's

malcolm brabant in marlow. oce t pence's staff has tested positive for covid 19. white house says neither the president nor the vice pres ient has be close contact with the person. now, to help make sense of a t wet esn't seem real to shny of us, we turn to the analysis olds and brooks. that is syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks. and neither one of you is here with me. we are keeping you at what we think is a safe dise nce, but we glad that you're here. david, how do we make sense of this, you know, thining on that i think most of us could never have imagined?ea sorof hat split-screen rn to this. when you talk about regular people and how they're acting, i think it's been ae rmarkably good week, an uplifting week on the whole. this is 'sso smomngething th same exeriences and unergoing the same anxieties. in a weird way we had to be pulled apart to feel together. there are so manvacts i'e heard about people helping elderly in their apartment ildings, virtual cocktail parties, i feel it's a moment where socialonnection is

for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in london. >> woodruff: students of today's politics are oftenking for echoes in story that inform our present. a new book explores a chapter in american history you mayot very much about. it is the story of how ton illegitimatef an immigrant rose to become the republican party's first presidential nonee in 1856, with a lot of help from his wife. lisa desjardins hathe latest edition of "newshour bookshelf >> in the mid-1840s, the unit states was undergoing immense expansion, expanding into the unchartered west in what was characterized as america's man test destiny. a new book explores that era . through the eyes of johnee malt and his wife jessie. together they became the countrs first celebrity power couple. e book is "imperfect union: how jessie and john fremont mapped the west, invented celebrity, and helped cause the civil war" and it's by npr'se stskeep. that's quite a lot in the subtitle. >> it's a looting but they had were at the center of american history for a couple odecades that i focus on until 1940s and '50s, th period leading to th