erica need 4 more years of president donald trump in the white house then the outcome of this election will determine i believe the course of our country for generations to come live coverage of the vice presidential debate on not just see it oh. oh. in the isolation suffering mild symptoms but still working a message from the white house after the u.s. president and 1st lady test positive a coronavirus and with just a month to the election how could this impact trump's campaign events with the president of a spa and all moved on lying. low

i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program 6 days of fighting and dozens dead but now signs of compromise on mean his government says it's ready to discuss the cease fire in a car bog. and defiant protesters continue that calls for justice of the gang rape and deaths of $2.00 women in india. u.s. president donald trump and his wife melania are in isolation off to testing positive for covert 19 displaying mild symptoms how long their isolation last depends on how well they become u.s. health authorities say people myself isolate for 10 days after a positive test and even longer if they present symptoms and even after that might have to test negative twice in

a row with the test done at least 24 hours apart the crucial question how will this affect the election campaign says all pre-announced events involving the 1st family will either be perspire owned or held online it's not care either if trump will be able to attend the next presidential debate set to be held on the 15th of october is just around a month to go now until americans pick a new president in an election that's been defined by a corona virus outbreak that's killed more than 270000 people in the united states or alan fisher is of course following the story joins us live now from the white house and allan we've been talking about uncertainty and confusion there but i guess that's characteristic of what we've seen over the past few years what's known about president trump's condition at the moment. well they're trying to things in place so that the unknown doesn't become quite so scary the president is in the building behind me he's self isolating in there that is the residence of the white

house to my left is the west wing where the oval office is but that's where he is in the residence and there are plenty of rooms there and he of course we are told is walking there he is on the phone regularly with his advisers he will self isolate for at least the 14 days that he was of their recommendations joe biden well he is he's been tested in the last few hours as well he of course shared the stage with the president on tuesday he has been told that he is negative but he like many others sending his best wishes to the president and to the 1st lady wishing them a speedy recovery we're told that a lot of the events that have been planned for the president over the next 2 weeks are now going to be held virtually or canceled mike pence the vice president is continuing his campaign he has been checked by a doctor he was tested negative and as far as they're concerned he poses no risk either to spread or to his own health but there is no doubt the events of the last

14 hours have thrown a spanner in the works of the trump reelection campaign and cause real shock here as my colleague and our white house correspondent kimberly how could no reports. from the white house the chief of staff says the president is showing symptoms but what king normally i got the 5 or 6 things that he attached me to do like i do every single morning he wouldn't confirm when they knew the president was at risk after a close seato picks tested positive we discovered that right as. the marine one was taking off yesterday we actually pulled some of the people that have been traveling in close contact democratic challenger joe biden stude on the same stage as the president on tuesday he's no been tested for the virus and his negative he sent his best wishes tweeting jill and i send our thoughts to president trump and 1st lady a millennia champ for a swift recovery we will continue to pray for the health and safety of the

president and his family before his diagnosis trump phoned an american t.v. show and talked about having been exposed it's a tough kind of a situation it's a terrible bank so i just want to protest and we'll see what happens i mean who knows trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he's in his mid seventy's and overweight would have to wait for the next 2 days and you know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people don't get sick until week after and still we have to really be carefully observing the situation. the president has not worn a mask often including at his own rallies where many of his supporters reject the science behind the idea his team including family members went without masks at the debate on tuesday trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for we're going to ask as recommended by virtually all public health experts i don't wear

mesh like him every time you see him he's got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from it he shows up with the biggest mask of ever seen house speaker nancy pelosi also sent her best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learned this is tragic it's very sad but it also is something that again going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen in the taishan for something like this to happen it's sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about. no there's a question over how this impacts campaigning on both sides the president is behind nationally and in certain key swing states 2 weeks and quarantine won't help that trump joins other world leaders including brazil's president and the u.k. prime minister who can try to divide us the white house says they expect him to

make a fool recovery and so alan with just weeks to go before the election this diagnosis is bound to shake up the presidential race where do we stand on the polling data for the swing states. well it makes things a lot difficult for donald from a lot more difficult because he was basing his campaign on the fact that the coronavirus we're coming round the bend as he said we're almost in the final straight he talked about how hardly anyone catches it and here he has been impacted by it also he was saying because we're almost at the end we're seeing the economy bones back new jobs figures released in the last few hours unemployment rate is no below 8 percent which is good but they didn't add as many jobs as many independent analysts or even the white house expected and so that really hits things and makes things much more difficult also the biden campaign the democrats they've held a lot of virtual events they've had virtual tone holes and rallies and fund raising

and so to pivot if they have to to virtual fundraising and rallies is not too difficult for them for the republicans it's a lot more difficult because donald trump has wanted to get out to feed on the energy of the crowd hoping to convince people to leave from his events and going convince others to vote is what he did in 2016 he thinks it works again so a lot of things have been made much more difficult and if you look at the national polls donald trump is behind by about 8 percent and that has been fairly consistent for a number of weeks no but also in key swing states he's behind he needed the debate to try and change that narrative and then to hit the campaign trail to try and claw back some of that damage he simply won't be able to do that over the next 2 weeks so it makes things much much more difficult for him speaking to the biden campaign over night they were thinking that perhaps the republicans might put pressure on them to try and ease up on campaigning for the next 2 weeks it's clear that they're

not going to do that the biden campaign had talked about going out and doing impasse and canvassing over the next few weeks in key swing states they might still go ahead with that i think everyone is simply recalibrating. we're going to the last couple of hours and i think what's important to point out is i've been here on the white house campus a number of times over the last few weeks stretching back to before the audience see the republican national convention i can tell you in the last few hours seen a lot more people who work in that building and that building when it must have it any point in the last month or so. thanks very much allan fisher at the white house thank you and. well u.s. voters have been reacting to trump's positive diagnosis with some split some split on whether it's going to have an effect on the election i think one of his biggest sort of strategies was to make joe biden appear too weak to be president and so

that he's got coronavirus that sort of takes that factor away so i think it could potentially greatly impact the election and put things more in biden's favor surprised it didn't happen much earlier. that he is not paid attention to the rules of his encourage other people not to pay attention to the rules so i hope it's a lesson i don't really think it will impact the election that much i don't think people will change their opinion because he has it now. i do worry that you know i hope he is well and he doesn't get sick very sick i think that i've already seen on fox news today that they're saying like oh well if he's 75 and he doesn't get severely ill then maybe older people aren't as high risk as they think so i'm hoping it doesn't take the negative impact and it actually gets better. well president trump is not the 1st wild needed to be diagnose of the 19 the u.k. prime minister of course boris johnson he contract in the virus a couple of months ago back in march and like many across the world became gravely

ill from it but the brazilian president jabal sonar he appeared only to have had mild symptoms of the disease when he fell sick in july and he barbara ports now. i think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the 1st lady and i've done that this morning as you can imagine and i'm sure that they'll both stage a very strong recovery british prime minister boris johnson was one of the 1st world leaders to send a message of support on friday one that was informed no doubt by personal experience earlier this year i was at a hospital the other night where i think there are a few there are actually a few create a virus of patients like shook hands with everybody that admission in march attracted criticism for sending a dangerous message just weeks later soon after imposing a national lockdown the prime minister announced he tested positive for covered 19 and would be isolating i developed models symptoms all the coronavirus. he

carried on working appearing outside 10 downing street for the weekly applause for health workers and looking on well he extended his self isolation then 9 days after testing positive he was admitted to this london hospital his colleagues insisting he was in good spirits and leading the government but 24 hours later the shock news was he'd been taken into an intensive care units he spent 3 nights there he was never on a ventilator but after ending his state hospital he said medical started saved his life after returning to work johnson who's 56 said he'd been way overweight before contracting the virus he started a personal fitness regime and a national anti obesity initiative. his reaction stands in sharp contrast to another leader who contract coronavirus brazilian president scenario from the start of the pandemic the 65 year old consistently downplayed how dangerous the virus was covered for i think what i mean are the but this is him in march around the same time boris johnson was testing positive saying if he were infected it wouldn't

bother him as it would only feel like a slight cold in july he did test positive but even after getting the all clear weeks later he continued to show disdain for mask wearing and social distancing. this week boris johnson was asked directly whether he'd fully recovered his idiomatic response suggested he felt better than ever i'm fitter than i was before i may it may it may irritate you to know. that of the 50 the butcher's dog. thanks basically to losing weight but he also accepted that so-called long coded which has left thousands of people in the u.k. with serious problems months after contracting the virus clearly exists a reminder that truly recovering can never be taken for granted nadine barber al-jazeera. it was out there live from london much once they had got to bring you this story as well the french president a monument on outlining new plans to tackle what he described as religious separatism in front.

of. how it's shaping up to be a very wet couple of days across western parts of europe and shaping into a wet weekend actually also blustery shower was swirling away around a storm alex has brought some vodka wins in and some very heavy rain it serves a fry $54.00 millimeters in the space of only 12 hours around half a month's worth off the october average in just 12 hours i was in britain a handful to far away you saw 185 kilometer when some was staying jets so violent waves and it has inevitably caused some damage across at northwestern corner of francais will stay wet and windy those i said across a good part of western europe system remaining across a similar area whether splashing across a good parts of the british isles studying with wells scotland seeing some very

heavy rain as we go through saturday that west the weather will curl its way around the ahl and as we go on into sunday with weather diving its way across southern parts of france northern areas of italy and we'll see some showers that just around the balkans as well some of the weather also affecting scandinavia come further south into southern parts of europe here is a little quiet so we have got a few showers just around the northwest of africa but the west weather as per usual surround west africa and making its way further west still. current tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in a colonial past from eclipse point of view cannot attack non-agreement full ticals victory a new political realities on the ground are increasing the sense of uncertainty over clooney as the rhythm mild there with the need to view the other night and how the countries through which they may have pushed kind of

a defeat could topple the. struggle over the mild phone al-jazeera. the in the air. the on the on. a comeback and the headlines now u.s. president donald trump is suffering from mild symptoms off to testing positive for the coronavirus 1st lady maloney a trump was also contracted the virus in the power isolating of the white house officials are now racing to find out who else might be infected. i'm not going to get into i'm at present symptoms exactly had mild symptoms but he is hard at work we're having to slow him down a little bit he's been on the phone with senator mcconnell senator lindsey graham

but on the phone with chief of staff mark meadows talking about emergency declaration for states time as well as stimulus so he's hard at work despite the mild symptoms. or are all the headlines all of trump's previously announced election campaign events have been disposal moved on line it's also not clear if trump is going to be able to attend the next presidential debate that has been set to take place on the 15th of october and then democratic challenger joe biden is on his way to a campaign event in michigan after he and his wife tested negative for the co the 19 and worst fears he'd been exposed to the virus during the choose days presidential debate. well a u.s. panel of experts is urging the white house to opt into the world health organization that corona virus vaccine program the kovacs facility was set up to ensure equitable global distribute distribution of any potential vaccine the trouble ministration has so far refused to take pause because of the w h o's involvement but the independent panel says the u.s.

should be playing a leadership role in the program as well as committing a proportion of any u.s. vaccine to a global rollout. well moving now to other stories we're following this hour in the french president is proposing new talks to end fighting in the separatist region of new corney car back on the union and as very forces have been battling each other for the disputed area for the past 6 days killing dozens of people the territory lies in azerbaijan but it's controlled by ethnic armenian forces backed by armenia the u.s. russia and france have called for the resumption of talks and armenia says it's prepared to discuss a truce with mediators azerbaijan's president says the fighting will only end once armenia withdraws from the area. but i'll just say or is it smith reports now from nagorno-karabakh where he visited some towns and villages in the firing line of as ery forces. it's the safest place in town but everyone here is scared for 5 days the women and children of matteucci have been hiding in the town's bomb

shelters what with these guys that i've been here 6 days how should we feel my sons are on the front line sometimes we manage to talk to them we're waiting for peace and for victory and for sons to return. throughout the night or when the air raid siren goes off this is where people run for cover. above ground martini's largely abandoned the 1st mortars hit on sunday that's when fighting fled again between azerbaijan and the self-governing armenian enclave of nagorno-karabakh is the most serious confrontation since a ceasefire ended a war in 1904 that killed nearly 30000 military personnel. these rockets landed just short of matsue these art school and you can see the extent of the devastation there this is right in the center of mazzini in this town not far from the front line between us about john and armenia has been hit regularly since

sunday by as air force. one i like it so i know up there on the floor i'm lucky my head didn't blow off russ make background tells us. will hit him and shot at his shop and home as he sat down for lunch ross make is a veteran of the 1st war here which broke out when armenian majority karabakh broke away from azerbaijan during the breakup of the soviet union. we survive somehow we found some bread it's enough what are we going to do i'm staying because everything i own is in the house and i want to look after it all. towns and villages all along the border with azerbaijan there in the firing line no one was home when this cluster of 4 homes was blown apart. myrtle knows that this is our village our home or should i go my children ask me why are you walking out in the village i say if i hear the sound of the bomb it's best if it hits me i won't even

know it why should i be frightened and over this turkish animal for those waiting for news of their sons and husbands plenty to worry about. bernard smith al jazeera in a gone oh karabakh. well as a by johns president has accused international mediators of allowing armenia to occupy a ferry land for decades have told al-jazeera that un security council resolutions on a corny karabakh must be enforced. the main reason is that armenia doesn't want peace they want to keep our land on the recuperation forever they don't want to change the status quo and this is a reason why i lasted so long because otherwise if i mean it demonstrated with real and acted in compliance with the resolutions of main international organizations the conflict would have been resolved many years ago because back in 1903 when

armenia occupied part of our territories un security council adopted 4 is aleutians demanding immediate cruel and unconditional withdrawal of their troops from our territories but this is a lucius remain on paper music group which was created in order to facilitate to find a solution. already is in activity for 28 years and also without any result therefore who was the main reason this this is the position of armenia the 2nd reason is that lack of insistence from the side of the mediators and lack of pressure on armenia to start implementing resolutions of united nations security council. or you can watch that full

interview with azerbaijan's president ilham aliyev on talk to al-jazeera that's on saturday 0430 g.m.t. also going to have the armenian perspective on the story from sunday on words. well now to india where protests have broken out across the country over the alleged gang rapes of 2 women in the country's largest state both victims are from the marginalized dalat community and their deaths have reignited national outrage of a sexual violence and a discriminatory cost system sorry it's was an emergency lockdown and a ban on protests haven't stopped people from gathering at this village in india's northern states of it's a pradesh this is where a 19 year old one of 2 women from the marginalised community was gang raped recently resulting in her death was scuffles broke out between opposition politicians and the police i'm not doubt if there are valid

direct our when we were going to meet the doll it family they didn't let us go this policewoman pulled my blouse and beat one of our legislators with a baton she fell down. the 2nd victim was a 22 year old who died on her way to the hospital and she is day the same day as the 19 year old their cases have caused a national public outcry. was protesters are blaming the government police and what they say is a deeply entrenched discriminatory call system for what happened to minority women . while the suspects from an optical scheme unity are in custody the police chief on thursday ruled out rape allegations in the case of the 1st victim. here. it was clueless stated in the report of the forensic science department that the samples that were collected didn't show any trace of sperm this makes it clear that

some people used this case to try to start casting sions and the state was a claim refuted by forensic experts in the victims' families who accuse the police of destroying evidence and cremating the body of 19 year old victim without her family's permission. facing heavy criticism the government has promised to fast track the cases the semen rights activists and the opposition blame it for allowing police to use excessive force against protesters including the detention of congress party leader raul gandhi and his sister on thursday. accountability is also completely asserted me it's not in the public domain if it's happening it's happening only in the level of the department and that doesn't build public trust it would build public trust of the police reported to the public this is why we had to take the action that we take. student british marines says police in delhi mistreated him during

a protest on wednesday. police it seems you know is functioning with complete immunity there is really don't care if you file cases there really don't care if the media covers i personally feel that you know delhi is on the word of becoming another don when kashmir where you basically waste your them a critical pinion and you are welcome to the police station or the jail. sexual violence against women was at the center of widespread anger and nationwide protests in 2012 that led to changes in the rule. but 80 years later women here still face a significant risk of sexual assault according to the government's own national crime records bureau a woman is raped in india every 15 minutes or so to say that al jazeera. a russian journalist has died off to setting herself on fire a day off to police searched her apartment irina venus set herself ablaze outside

the interior ministry and there's no god on her facebook page the vena wrote i ask you to blame the russian federation for my death that was her message the generous what full press the news website advertised as having no censorship on thursday savina said investigators searched her apartment looking for materials connected to the open russia opposition group. now the french president has pledged to crack down on what he described as the islamist separatism threatening to take hold of some muslim communities in france and on announced legislation to tackle a so-called parallel society in which its own rules are superior to that of the government but critics say the plan stigmatizes muslims the reports from the middle . the french president arrived in the paris suburb of limit whore to deliver a speech on separatism emanuel mackerel said there was no place in french society

for divisions of along religious lines the biggest threat to france's values and secular law he said was radical islam took were. what we must fight is islam is separatism it's a conscious theoretical social political project it repeatedly it all has with the values of the republic and often leads to the creation of a counter society. mike ross said that islam around the world of face problems he said he wasn't stigmatizing muslims but some disagreed on some people tell me here is that rather than focusing on so-called separatism and not all michael would do better to work more on reducing unemployment and the dating poverty reality the campus people on the margins of society did this to you q josh it is a subject a hard several misery is not redecorating the facade of a building but not the inside yes there is crime but what creates it is a lack of projects or jobs for young people like an association c have no money

minorities are not helped enough and some neighborhoods are just ignored neighborhoods like this one at a charity food bank it survival not separatism that's on people's minds. and the separatism religious divisions but for some the proposed legislation is more likely to reinforce them back ross speech comes one week after an attack in paris outside the offices of the shoddy news paper 4 years ago 2 police officers from the new hole were killed by a man who claimed allegiance to eisele the new anti separatism law aims to raise religious divisions but for some the proposed legislation is more likely to reinforce them with al-jazeera. from. it's been 2 years since saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside his country's consulate in istanbul activists have held

a memorial event that demanding justice for his killing after initially denying reports of his death the kingdom eventually said the journalist was killed in a rogue operation by a team of agents sent to persuade him to return to saudi arabia turkey says it's committed to holding those responsible to account. because much more web site al jazeera dot com of course all the latest on the president transcribed in 1000 diagnosis i'll have more on that a couple of seconds and you can also watch us on life streaming there as well. u.s. president donald trump is suffering from mild symptoms after testing positive for the corona virus 1st lady melania trump is also contracted the virus and the pair are currently isolating at the white house i'm not going to get into i'm the president symptoms exactly had mild symptoms but he is.