Silvio Berlusconi addresses Forza Italia members from hospital room

The former Italian prime minister was speaking for the first time since he was hospitalised a month ago

The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has given his first address to the public since being hospitalised a month ago, delivering a video message to party members from his hospital room.

Here I am, here for you, wearing a shirt and jacket for the first time in a month," the 86-year-old billionaire media mogul said, in a pre-recorded address to a convention of his right-wing Forza Italia party.