good morning. welcome to breakfast, with naga munchetty and charli stayt. our headlines today: president trump is flown to a military hospital to be treated for coronavirus . the white house describes it as "a precaution." the president's been given an experimental drug designed to stop him from becoming seriously ill. he posted a video on twitter saying he was in good spirits. i think ithink i'm i think i'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out. the first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it, i will never forget it. new covid restrictions come into force affecting 2 million people across northern england, stopping them

from meeting up indoors. where's 007? no time to release a film — the coronavirus pandemic delays the newjames bond movie again. a big outbreak of covid—i9, at sale sharks rugby club threatens their play—off hopes. after 16 of sale‘s players tested positive, tomorrow's opponents worcester say they're not sure if the final match of the regular season can now go ahead. good morning. it is going to be a 5°99y good morning. it is going to be a soggy saturday. for some of us it will be raining continuously for the next 2a hours. the met office have issued amber weather warnings, and we are expecting some flooding issues to build in through the course of the weekend. i will have the full soggy saturday weather forecast coming up a little bit later on. it's saturday the 3rd of october. our top story: the us president, donald trump, has been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the white house said the president

was tired but in good spirits. his doctor confirmed mr trump has received an experimental antibody treatment to help speed his recovery. this morning we'll discuss what his treatment involves. also, in exactly one month, americans will go to the polls. we'll find out what this means for the presidential election campaign. here's more from our north america editorjon sopel in washington. all right, the breaking news is that president trump was hospitalised tonight for coronavirus... president trump was hospitalised tonight for coronavirus. .. hospital, where he will spend the next few days... a precautionary measure after testing positive... at the walter reed centre... an extraordinary moment in an extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. the president believes by marine one from the south lawn, destination walter reed military hospital. i think i'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out. the first lady doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciated, i will never it. thank you. but if the symptoms are mild, he having to go to hospital, particularly when the

white house has its own medical unit with a team of doctors and nurses and a well—equipped surgery? on thursday night, in what now appears to bea thursday night, in what now appears to be a grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. the worst was behind us, he said. ijust want to say that the end of the pandemic is insight into next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of the greatest years in the history of our country. but then later that evening came the bombshell statement that will reverberate around the world. the most serious health issue to effect a serving president in decades. a hint of something being wrong came earlier in the evening when it was announced that this woman, hope hicks, had contracted the virus. on wednesday she was part of the inner circle to travel with the president on the cramped marine one helicopter. none of them is wearing a mask. as donald trump seemed to dance with joy at the rally in duluth, minnesota, she had become symptomatic and was quarantined on air force one for the return journey to washington. the

ripples of concern will reach eve ryo ne ripples of concern will reach everyone who has been in close contact with the president, not leastjoe biden, who shared a debate stage with him for a shouting 90 minutes on tuesday night. a debate whether president ripped into the democratic candidate for his mask wearing. i don't wear masks like him, every time you see him he's got a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away from you, and he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. and it was noticeable that none of the trump entourage will face coverings. that actually violated the rules of the cleveland clinic, which was in charge of all the safety issues inside the hall, which weathered everybody except for the president, vice president and i we re the president, vice president and i were not supposed to wear masks, i mean, were supposed to wear masks. the president has won masks in public converse than a handful of occasions, and his ambivalence towards them is evident. can you ta ke towards them is evident. can you take it off, because i can't hear you. i willjust speak louder, take it off, because i can't hear you. iwilljust speak louder, sir. you want to be politically correct?

it isa you want to be politically correct? it is a recommendation, they recommended. i'm feeling good. and he has been holding rallies as though covid was in the rearview mirror, with thousands turning up, no attempts at social distancing, few wearing masks. messages of support have come in from around the world. this from borisjohnson who has been whether president is now.|j think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the first lady, and i am sure they were both stage a very strong recovery. and messages of support, too, from political rivals. this from joe biden, who has tested negative. my wife jill biden, who has tested negative. my wifejill and biden, who has tested negative. my wife jill and i biden, who has tested negative. my wifejill and i pray they biden, who has tested negative. my wife jill and i pray they will make a full and quick recovery. this is not a matter of politics. it is a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. but another leading democrat, the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, comes very close to saying to the president, "serves you right". this is tragic, it is very

sad. but it also was something that again, going into crowds, unmasked and all the rest, was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen. the president has now left the white house and is in the care of the medical teams at walter reed medical centre, to the north of washington. it has an unbelievable series of developments that have taken place. no—one could have imagined this. but now the president has coronavirus and he is in hospital, and who knows how the election will unfold. john sobel, bbc news, at the white house. —— jon sopel since arriving at the hospital, the president has tweeted an update on his condition. he said: our correspondent barbara plett—usher is outside the walter reed hospital for us this morning. an extraordinary day of events there, barbara? could we first of all established,

has there been any information since he went to the hospital itself? yes. his doctor has issued a statement saying that he does not need supplemental oxygen, but he has received another dose of drugs, this is remdesevir, and antiviral which is remdesevir, and antiviral which is given to people who are hospitalised with covid—i9 and has been authorised for emergency use. he has said that the president is resting comfortably. barbara, in terms of what happens over the coming days, all will depend of course on how the president responds to the treatment he has been given? it depends on that, and it depends on the course of the virus, because of course, you know, it is different with different people. but the trajectory we have often seen is that you start out with mild symptoms and then they can build is a quite severe symptoms after about four or five days. so a quite severe symptoms after about four orfive days. so he a quite severe symptoms after about four or five days. so he will be a quite severe symptoms after about four orfive days. so he will be in hospital to be monitored to see if that happens. he has not relinquished control. he is still running the country. he is still in

charge. the white house says he can do so from the hospital. he has a special presidential suite with secure communications. so that he can continue his tasks. but it all depends on his health and whether it continues to worsen, or whether, as you said, these drugs will help to prevent him from developing a severe case. barbara, i appreciate that you are reporting for us from the hospital this morning, but obviously there are a lot of questions about there are a lot of questions about the mechanics, if you like, at the white house, and the people who were around him in those days. what do we know about how the operation can work at all going forward? well, i mean, a number of them have tested positive for covid as well because he has had a busy week, packed with a lot of people. we have heard a number of them have tested positive, but it is going to be something that they are going to have to work out, between how they work with him here at the hospital and the white house

operation. of course, vice president mike pence will be around to bridge those gaps when needed. it is something they are working out in practice. in terms of the election itself, it is exactly one month away today. what are the implications for the us election. you know, it is ha rd to the us election. you know, it is hard to say. because things are changing so fast. we can say that his campaign has been put on hold, his campaign has been put on hold, his campaign has been put on hold, his campaign manager has also tested positive, so that is another blow for the campaign. they are hoping to continue with it through surrogates, like mr pencil mr trump's sons, making in—person events. —— mr pence. people do not know what is going to happen. joe biden is still campaigning, although he has withdrawn his negative adverts, saying it is a time for all americans to come together. but another blow to mr trump is that it has focused attention on the issue he wanted to move away from, wanted to change the subject from covid, he wa nted to change the subject from covid, he wanted to say the country was recovering and this was behind them,

and now the attention will be squarely focused on the coronavirus. and that isn't something that could work in his favour, most likely. barbara, for the moment, thank you very much. that was our correspondent barbara plett—usher speaking from outside the walter reed hospital. from this morning, new coronavirus restrictions mean people living in hartlepool, liverpool, midlesborough and warrington can no longer meet up indoors with people they don't live with. people are also being advised not to meet with anyone outside their household or support bubble in outdoor public spaces, such as parks or beer gardens. police are investigating the actions of mp margaret ferrier, who travelled from glasgow to london with coronavirus symptoms and then returned home after testing positive. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon says she's made it "crystal clear" to ms ferrier that she should stand down as an mp. she has already been suspended from the snp. the prime minister and the european commission president ursula von der leyen will hold a video call later to try to break the deadlock over a brexit trade deal. a ninth and final round of negotiations ended without agreement yesterday, with both sides calling on the other to compromise further.

our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins us now. next, good morning to you. where is this going? when does it end comment two weeks, if there is no deal and we revert to wto rules? good morning, naga. ithink we revert to wto rules? good morning, naga. i think it depends on whether you think the glass is half empty or half full. there has been some progress on this. in the last week of talks there has been a bit of movement on one of the big areas in which the two sides disagree, which is basically how much subsidy the uk can give to attack companies after it leaves the transition period at the end of the year. —— to big tech companies. at the same time, when it comes to some of the big sticking point is like how many european boats can come into british waters forfishing, european boats can come into british waters for fishing, there are still some really big disagreements. that said, ithink some really big disagreements. that said, i think both sides are a bit

more optimistic on this. we've got the prime minister in the daily telegraph this morning saying that he thinks a deal can be done. we have ursula von der leyen saying they are going to try right up until they are going to try right up until the last minute to make this happen. soi the last minute to make this happen. so i think today's talks are pretty important and so i think today's talks are pretty importantandi so i think today's talks are pretty important and i think they will agree to give them a bit more time. asi agree to give them a bit more time. as i say, there is a bit of optimism. both sides think a deal can be done, but i wouldn't be surprised if it goes to the last minute, because that seems to be the only way these things are done. next, thanks for taking us through that. —— nick. the latest james bond film has had its release postponed for a third time as cinemas continue to struggle in the pandemic. name? bond. james bond. so you're not dead. no time to die was due to come out in october 2019 but because of production delays it was moved to april 2020. it was pushed back again to november because of coronavirus. the producers have now confirmed the film will not be in cinemas

until april 2021, acknowledging this would be disappointing for fans. with just one month to go before voters go to the polls in the us, president donald trump's hospitalisation has cast doubt on what will happen next in the election campaign. we're joined now by the republican strategist and former trump campaign advisor bryan la nza. good morning, bryan. we werejust speaking to our correspondent outside the hospital, and maybe we will get your thoughts, the latest information is that the president does not need supplementary oxygen. one of the questions, of course, is just how much information we would get on a sort of hourly or daily basis about his condition? yes, good morning on your side over on your side of the atlantic. i think in the morning we're going to see some briefings, my understanding is they will a briefing in the morning to talk about the president's health, soi talk about the president's health,

so i suspect the next couple of days we will get briefings every couple of hours. minor briefings, no change in temperature no change in body aches, or that he has more of a synergy. i think the best thing they can do over the course of the campaign and the course of continuity of government is to have these briefings and i think they are going to happen. brian, you have worked on some campaigns in the past. —— bryan. with your knowledge of us campaigning and donald trump, how does this work going forward with the president in this situation? i think, you know, the trump campaign has reimagined campaigning at the presidential level with a month left. they are going through every part of the apparatus on what it is going to look like in the next 30 days, without the president. they have to assume he is going to be sick for a week or still be contagious for a week or still be contagious for a week after that. so the fundraising taking place will all be virtual. i

wouldn't be surprised if at the debate we have in the next few days between joe debate we have in the next few days betweenjoe biden debate we have in the next few days between joe biden and debate we have in the next few days betweenjoe biden and president trump, it will be a virtual debate over zoom or skype, type of debate. but you are going to see a major transition of every apparatus of the campaign, both the virtual along with surrogates, you know, donjr and everybody to try to make up for it. at the end of the day, it is still president trump who draws all the attention, sucks up all the oxygen, so that is going to be the challenge going forward. but we will have to wait and see. i mean, the president has to get out of hospital first. yes, it is such a perfect point. fundamentally, this is about his health. but at the same time, there will be people, when you called cynical or not, they will be thinking, how will he play? how will his campaign team play the situation? either assumption, if his campaign team play the situation? eitherassumption, if he recovers quickly, or if his condition is extended, how does that set relative to how he can carry on in any sense with an election

campaign? i think it would be good for the american psyche, a man who is overweight and 7a and doesn't have a good exercise regimen, recovers quickly, that would be a strong and powerful message to the american people that there is nothing to fear but fear itself. the vast majority of people who get covid recover, its a 95% recovery rate, that would be a good thing that would change the narrative on cable television. that has to happen in the next couple of days. he would have to be out of the hospital no later than tuesday, and feeling back to normal by wednesday for us to make that claim. anything after the draws a little bit more scrutiny and brings a tremendous amount of more concern. how highly is the thought

process about the things he said in the past and his behaviour relating to mask wearing and what he said in the past, how large is that playing in the united states, almost by way of criticism when he is hospitalised. you see it on twitter and you see it on partisans but the vast majority of americans want their residence healthy. joe biden took down his negative ads, you had some comments from the obamas and clintons, but usually the country comes together. you have the partisans, you have cable television which seeks to divide, the russians who seek to sow chaos in the use the media to do that in my experience, people are praying and people want to see their president at the particular moment. brian, thank you for chatting to us. this that is

brya n for chatting to us. this that is b rya n la nza for chatting to us. this that is bryan la nza republican for chatting to us. this that is bryan lanza republican strategist and former campaign advisor. it may not be great weather for anything where you don't like the rain. we've got a lot of it. things not looking great weatherwise. met office and weather warnings in force. eastern scotland, in the west midlands, wales and south—west england, lots of rain over the next 2a hours, 36 hours even, for some places, rainfall totals will really build in. as the slow—moving nature of this which is going to cause albums with accumulations of rain building through the weekend. western ranges of great not doing badly for a time this morning. northern ireland having some of the better weather. the rain tending to ease array from south—east england, but the most, the rain isjust going, cool, most

of us. overnight the rain gets heavier across eastern areas of scotla nd heavier across eastern areas of scotland and with the wind strengthening, pushing into the mountains across the east, we could see problems building in here through the night. more rain as well across wales, the west midlands. more rain even into sunday. the weather does slightly provide improve a bit that even here, there will be showers and it will be accompanied by strengthening wins around western and southern areas as well. we have got more rain to come and we will see some loading problems building in. time now for click.

hey, welcome to click. hope you're doing ok. hey, welcome to click. hope you are doing ok. lara's here too. how are you doing, mate? i am good thanks. this week i started talking to friends about how the winter was likely to be. would we head back to doing zoom get—togethers? what you think? there was a novelty for a couple of months in meeting friends on video chat, but then to be honest, i got fed up with them. even a antisocial geek like me realises that things are better in the flesh. so true. but the idea of heading back to video calls doesn't seem to have been missed by fashion designers. all you need to do is take a look at some of what was on show at milan and london fashion weeks, and there seems to be a bit of a theme of waist—up fashion, all about big collars and logos around the necklines. i mean, for a while now it has not seemed so important how we dress our bottom halves. dunno know what you're talking about.

but listen, this week, i have actually been out and about meeting real people! and wearing proper trousers. these people are going to do something incredible. they are trying to make the fastest sailing boat that they can, to compete in one of the toughest ocean races that there is. and for one day only, they let me in to see how they're doing it. the america's cup is like the formula i of boat racing. fast, ultra—competitive, with all of the power coming from the wind. and the boats don't so much sail as fly. relatively small foils underneath the vessels act like wings that help to lift the entire hull out of the water and massively reduce drag. i learned to sail, god, you know, 35 years ago or something. i take myself back to that eight—year—old kid thinking about the boats that we are sailing in now, doing speeds over 50 knots, 65 miles an hour.

i just think that is absolutely nuts. here in portsmouth, olympic champion sir ben ainslie's team is designing one of the five boats that will race next march. now the america's cup has a weird rule — and that is that whoever wins the event gets to decide all of the rules for the next one. now, i am notjust talking about the location and the date, or even how many heats there are — they get to dictate the type of boat that is used and the number of sailors you can have on board. so basically, every america's cup requires teams to design a new boat from scratch. in this case, the previous winners, oracle new zealand, have chosen, guess where, new zealand as the location. they have switched from two—hulled catamaran to a single hulled boat and made a host of other rule changes.

one of the big changes in this cup with regards to the rules is we're not allowed to do any physical testing. so we can't test in the wind tunnel or the tow tank. all the testing has been done in the simulated world, in computationalfluid dynamics on machines. max starr is part of the team who have tested many, many virtual boat designs, repeatedly building and rebuilding them in software to try and improve the performance in the water and in the air. so ineos team uk have a big mathematical problem to solve which is simulating all the air conditions and the hydrodynamic conditions on the yacht as it sails through the water underan insane number of different scenarios. to simulate what happens when water strikes the hull of a yacht, or when air hits the sail of a yacht, we pixelate those surfaces. we put little square pixels

all over that yacht. at each one of those pixels we do a little bit of math, we understand what the temperature pressure and forces are that are acting then we can work out what's going to happen next and then how that cascades down the line to the next pixel and the next pixel and the next pixel. and suddenly we have got an idea of what a real, living boat will look like when it is in the water in race conditions. and the more detailed your simulation is, the more pixels you can break your boat into, the more accurate your model becomes. but every single pixel is simulated by a different computer processor, which means you need a massive amount of computing. basically, you need to harness the power not of the wind but of the cloud. now the crew do get to test how the virtual designs handle. this simulator knows exactly how the current design will behave when under the control of a master sailor. so let's see how it goes with me. now i am sailing!

wow, one of the foils has gone into the water... and then, once we're round there, if you go hard right and down... a little bit slow out of the tack in the front of the foils. what is fascinating with the sport is that it's not like formula i. here, every boat can be really, really different, it is a massive unknown and there is no tried and tested formula for success. how quickly do you think you will be able to tell whether you've got it right

we'll know within the first five minutes. we have got a race in december, a christmas race, which is kind of a warm—up to the series itself, and pretty quickly we will know whether we got it right or wrong. now, as entertainment venues have been struggling to reopen safely, one company hopes to bring an experience to your kitchen table via a smartphone. this is an audio only experience, and the idea is that you close your eyes and listen to the strange things that start happening around you. and they really do sound like they are happening in 3d space because they have been recorded using binaural sound. this is something we have heard before in the programme, and it is incredible. so with no idea what to expect spencer and i put it to the test. and if you want a taster of the experience from home, you're going to need some headphones too. radio feedback. is everybody here ?

yes. now get yourself a glass and fill it with water. we are all in our different rooms. many couples in this same configuration, sitting at a table across from each other. now close your eyes. close your eyes and keep them closed. if you open your eyes before the session is complete, you might experience a tormenting mismatch or a renting of the thin membrane that separates this world from the other competing worlds next door. i so want to open my eyes! with your eyes closed, try to form an image in your mind of the person sitting opposite you. don't look. don't check if they have closed their eyes. ok, this performance is aimed at couples but ignoring that minor issue, it's all about placing yourself in the story. double is the latest show from darkfield radio. its recent sound—only productions took place in pitch black shipping containers. now, though, it is possible via an app and a pair of headphones. so when we were working with creating these experiences at home, we still wanted it to feel like a live experience. so one of the important elements of that is that it is

a timed show — something that happens at a certain time — so there is some feeling of community about it, even though people are sat in their different homes. the main reasons that i think that there is a lot more interest in binaural sound now because of vr and of this increasing interest in immersive experiences that placing at the centre of a narrative. i'm kind of on edge because i wonder whether something... something that will make us jump. chuckles. male voice: two people who have known each other for however many years sit on either

the side of a table. one of them has been replaced by a demon whose intentions are unclear and unlikely to be benign, and the other is planning a murder. planning a murder? is that you? i don't know! one of us has turned into a demon and the other is planning the murder. we both sound a bit dodgy. plate smashes. what was that? i have no idea. much like the biannual sound recordings we've seen on the show before, it's recorded using a binaural sound head, shaped like a human. in both ears are microphones. you treat this head as if it were the audience members who is going to be then listening to the performance, so every — everything that the head hears is — will be from the perspective of the future audience member listening with headphones. and one of the things that binaural recordings do better

than any real—time audio spacialisation is proximity, so we are also developing some other tech elements to include live microphones with the audio of the microphone spacialised, speech recognition and a few other things that will allow us to increase this interactivity. male continues speakingzw didn't take long for the right moment to come. clock ticks softly. because opposite me, the demon has its eyes closed. and so, i stabbed it. cutlery clangs on a plate. and now that the demonic copy is disposed of... oh god! lara laughs. ..our real partner can come back. # i love you with my heart. this is pretty freaky! # i love you with my mind. it's whispering in my ear! no! i don't like it! # i can't love you...

robotic woman's voice: thank you. you can remove your headphones. thank you. # ..anymore than i do. door closes. true. what's interesting though is because they asked the two people to face each other, they really can make things sound like they come from a specific place in the room because they can send one person a sound in their right ear and they send the other person a different feed where the sound is in their left ear, so you can both agree that the sound happened over there. really interesting concept, i have to say. now onto the great barrier reef, wonder of the world, that's if the short cut to click this week. the full—length version is available and iplayer. as ever you can keep up with the team throughout the week on social media, find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at abc click. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. i buy. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt.

the us president donald trump has been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the president's doctor said he'd been given remdesivir, a drug designed to prevent lung shutdown, but he is not currently needing oxygen. it's exactly one month until voters go to the polls in the us presidential election. before leaving the white house, the president gave an update on his condition. i want to thank everybody for the tremendous support. i'm going to walter reed hospital. i think i'm going very well. but we're going to make sure that things work out. first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciated, i will forget it. thank you. —— appreciate it. let's speak to now to the us political analyst eric ham, who joins us from washington. interesting seeing president trump there, very obviously determined to

make sure that the comment that the american people know that he is ok? yeah, that's right. that's the image that the president is giving off, but again, we also saw the image of marine le pen landing on the white house lawn to walter reed medical centre, and so clearly the president is perhaps not as well as data videos suggest, given that he is at the hospital now, with a fever and some other symptoms of the virus. there has been an update from the white house doctor saying the president does not need any supplementary oxygen. as we were just reporting, he is taking the drug remdesevir as well, but he is in good condition. white house is also said he is fatigued in good spirits. i suppose what happens now, eric, is that we just wait to see what happens? joe biden said it

himself, campaigning has effectively stopped? well, joe biden was in michigan today, in grand rapids, a key battleground state, where he was not campaigning. we do know that the biden campaign has pulled down all of their negative ads that would have run against president trump, but they are still very much engaged and campaigning. we do know that the biden campaign has also done an about—face and has decided to actually enlist its volunteers for door—to—door campaigning as well. so the race is still very much on. the debate between the vice presidential candidates is expected to go forward , candidates is expected to go forward, and of course there are still far more questions than a nswe rs still far more questions than answers that we have right now, not only concerning the president's health but also, how does this latest news impact the race for the white house? it would have helped if i had said negative campaigning had stopped, wouldn't it? thank you, eric. we also know, don't we, but

they had to heads that were scheduled, they are unlikely to happen. —— that the head—to—heads. the people concerned the election will be delayed or is itjust too soon to put that out there? it is highly unlikely and doubtful that this election will be delayed. for a delay to happen, it would require congress to actually step in and delay the election, and speaker nancy pelosi has already made clear that she has no intentions on delaying this election. as far as the debates or any other activities by president donald trump, between now and election day, so much will be determined by the president's health and his ability to ward off the virus, in which case much of which she will do, if anything, will be done virtually. again, right now, we have always been a very different place, because of the pandemic. but now that the pandemic has hit so close to home, and the

commander—in—chief has now contracted the virus, again, this throws another wrinkle into this race that has already been to psy—tu rvy race that has already been topsy—turvy from the beginning. just explain, eric, for us here in the uk to understand, what would happen if the president did become too ill to carry on? well, if the president became too ill to carry on, we do know that mike pence, who serves as his vice president, could and would step in and serve in the role, there would be a transfer of power to mike pence. we know that the white house has said that as of right now there is no transfer of power, but the president is still very much active and engaged, but they would be a tra nsfer of and engaged, but they would be a transfer of power to mike pence, who would assume the mantle, and he would assume the mantle, and he would likely continue to run as president of the united states. eric, always good to talk to you. derek kan, us political analyst joining us from washington. you take care. thank you. thank you.

time to talk to mike about the sport now. we have talked many times about how covid has affected the economy with sport, but today you have a story about individuals in a rugby tea m story about individuals in a rugby team directly affected ? story about individuals in a rugby team directly affected? yes, sale sharks, hofstetter ‘s have tested positive to greater virus. sale insists the game can go ahead. it is such a crucial one tomorrow. they could draw on theirjets team, they reserve team, to actually put a team out. sale are adamant the match can go ahead, after consulting with healthcare professionals, but there is fresh doubt again now. 16 of the sale's players have tested positive for coronavirus. despite that the club say they can still play their game at home to worcester tomorrow. if they didn't, they would have had to forefit 20—0. that's crucial, because it would all but end their semifinal hopes. sale are currently in the fourth and final spot to reach the semis, but only on points difference. worcester, though, say they're not sure the game can go ahead after such a large outbreak.

they've released a statement saying they've had no confirmation that protocols and procedures can be met for it to take place safely. clubs have been given until noon today to name their teams. then, we should know more on that decision. —— by them. now, here on breakfast we're following rugby league legend rob burrow and his life now living with motorneurone disease. well, it's a big day for the team that rob spent all of his career at, leeds rhinos. that's because it's challenge cup semifinals day and leeds are up against i9—time champions wigan warriors. former leeds player zak hardaker has rejuvenated his career with the lancashire club after being banned for a failed drugs test and being arrested for drink—driving. there has been a few occasions where

not knowing if i'm going to play, a major cup final or a super league game again. so, yeah, it is my second year into my wig and contract and, you know, and absolutely loving it here. it has been absolutely brilliant. and i have really come on asa human brilliant. and i have really come on as a human being, really. and you can watch both semifinals live on the bbc. first up, leeds rhinos take on wigan warriors at 2:30pm and then salford red devils are up against holders warrington wolves at 5:00pm. to football, and liverpool's sadio mane has tested positive for coronavirus. the forward displayed minor symptoms, but the club say he's healthy and is now self—isolating. he's the second player to test positive after new signing thiago alca nta ra. it means mane will miss sunday's premier league match against aston villa. hibs are breathing down the necks of celtic and rangers in the scottish premiership. they're just 3 points off the top now, after a 3—2 win over hamilton academicals.

kevin nisbet with two of their goals. elsewhere, there were wins for aberdeen and livingston. bournemouth are showing they have what it takes to bounce back to the premier league in their first season after relegation. they won 3—1 at coventry city, dan gosling scored twice as they maintained their unbeaten start to the season. coventry, meanwhile, who came up from league one, had gustavo hamer sent off, and have now lost two of their opening four games. a big day for clubs just below the football league. it's a huge day for clubs in the national league. they've not played since april due to the pandemic, but later a new season gets underway, after the government issued "significa nt" financial support for all 67 clubs. a £10 million grant has been secured over three months. it's after negotiations between the league, fa and government. that figure may rise if crowds continue to be shut out from games.

from munich to dortmund, from berlin to cologne, a 12—year—old lad from sussex has become a sensation in germany, after building replicas of their main football stadiums out of lego. he uses around 6,000 bricks to complete his masterpieces and he's got more invitations to take his models to bundesliga clubs once travel restrictions are lifted. this week i went to meet him. ina in a corner of crawley, one boy's vision is building. brick by brick, wall by wall, standby stand. 12—year—old joe bryant is on a mission to construct replicas of all the top german football league stadiums out of lego. he started three years ago and has already completed 13. hi, joe! great to meet you. i will be careful where i

trade, there are some stewards down there stop well, this is ridiculous, incredible! the detail, fantastic! you are in ipswich town fan, so how come the bundesliga ? you are in ipswich town fan, so how come the bundesliga? how did it all start? well, i started building stands around a subbuteo pitch, then i went on holiday and watched a lot of german football and as i was in love with german football at the timei love with german football at the time i decided to build german stadiums. the sounds are great and the stadiums are all unique and they also had amazing bratwurst. the sausages! i love about. so it was the sausages that did it. how long does it take you to build wannabes from laying the first brick? well, dortmund took me six weeks, about an hour or two hours a day. it used to ta ke hour or two hours a day. it used to take about 3000 bricks, but now they've got bigger and more, like, detailed, so now it is about 5000 to 6000 bricks per stadium. let's get this straight, these aren't built from any plan that you get of the internet, built by numbers? there is

no plan. the fans and the clubs, say, i haven't visited the stadium, they will send me pictures which is very kind of them because it always helps out for me to judge the stadiums. it is very rewarding when the finishing piece is close to the real thing. joe's years of patients we re real thing. joe's years of patients were awarded before lockdown when his family carefully transported the masterpieces to germany to present them to the relevant clubs. these moments you treasure, and these memories you will keep forever, and the great thing is as well, he goes out to germany and they treat him like a superstar. he is like a little celebrity over there, so it is really cool. the fans all want pictures with him comedy clubs are great, the players are great. i can't think the bundesliga and the players enough. it is an amazing story. i mean, what would you tell your son, if he doesn't know what to do in his spare time? obviously he became really popular because he could be a role model for all the young children. so it is a huge effort, and i think it is really, really adorable. many of the clubs

had kept their models to put on display, and help cover the cost of replacing the thousands of bricks used. it is just replacing the thousands of bricks used. it isjust amazing, because all of the fans can see it, and it stays up forever and ever and it is very gutting, though, if i have to knock it down. joe's not finished yet, with more stadiums to take to germany wants coronavirus restrictions allow. i discovered it is even more intricate and federally thanit is even more intricate and federally than it looks. you need light hands, because my dad tried to push a brick on cologne and then half the sound fell down. my mom also dropped a hoover on alice burke. i did better in my data from my room for two weeks. —— that the —— ausburg. i don't know whether it'll take me. i am very into sport, into football. i would like to become a footballer or something to do with designing stadiums. yes, i am sure he could

get a job as an engineer, butjust to reassure the people of ausburg, there stadium has been rebuilt after a hoover was dropped on it. i was using all the protocols there, i had my own little pack of lego bricks, and cleaned up the bag, which have since been washed. i only did one more, to be fair. how long did it take? need to do the wall? about ten minutes. good. i kept pressing down too hard and it slipped. but the power of sausages! that is what got him involved in german football. bratwurst, to be fair. mike, thank you very much. you are here all morning, right? i'm sorry, i am, yes! iam morning, right? i'm sorry, i am, yes! i am sure other things can be arranged. we will chat to you later on. here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. i think that pictures is everything, doesn't it, chris? it pretty much does. good morning to you at home. we have lots of heavy rain to cope with as we go through the course of

this weekend. the net offers have issued amber weather one for wales, the west midlands, south—western when london eastern areas of scotland. it is here will be most persistent. it is not raining where you are at the moment, chances are it will soon be. now, for northern ireland, you will escape with some brighter weather for ireland, you will escape with some brighter weatherfor a ireland, you will escape with some brighter weather for a time, maybe an odd shower. for a time, the western fringes of scotland, england and wales will have a bit of dry weather before the rain arrives. later in the afternoon, we may well see the rental away from south—west england but for most of us it is a cool day, temperatures around 12—14 but perhaps 16 in the south—east given a few brighter spells. overnight we have more rain to come and if anything it turns heavier across eastern scotland, with the winds strengthening here as well, pushing that rain into the mountains. we could see some issues building in across parts of aberdeenshire, grampian is going to va ry aberdeenshire, grampian is going to vary as well. more rain to come as we go through sunday with some strong winds around the north, west and the south coast of the uk.

some bright weather across central portions but are pretty soggy weekend all in all with the prospect of some localised flooding. thank you very much. this week louise spoke to sir david attenborough ahead of his new documentary and book: a life on our planet. in this world exclusive interview he talks about everything from extinction rebellion to shielding during lockdown. iam i am david attenborough. i've had the most extraordinary life. it's only now that i appreciate how extraordinary. the living world is a unique and spectacular marble. yet the way we humans live on earth is sending it into a decline. human beings have overrun the world. so

david attenborough, what an absolute pleasure to be able to speak to on bbc breakfast. where are we now, where will you assess it? since i made the first television programme, three times as many people on the planet and we have overrun it. and now we are realising what appalling damage we've done and asked them how much we are dependent upon the natural world. every breath of air we take, every mouth of food that we eat comes from the natural world. and if we damage it, we damage ourselves. when did you realise that we we re very ourselves. when did you realise that we were very possibly on the path as far as you see it? the first time i had indubitable proof was back in the 60s, i suppose, when i swam on a

coral reef in australia and saw a damaged reef and it was a terrible sight. it's like a cemetery because colourful coral, swarms of wonderful fish, had now become bleached white. they can recover but not from repeated assaults and increases in temperature. that was a sign to me that humanity is capable of exterminating whole communities, enormous communities of living creatures. i'd been making television programmes and certainly the last 20, 30 years, i started each of them by saying look, the world is in peril, we are damaging it and it is all humanity's vault and very little has happened and yet suddenly, within the last five years maybe, suddenly it's as though

people have been woken up and its young people, really, young people who have shared their confidences and not before time. hello, my name is david attenborough and i've been appearing on radio and television for the past 60 years. but this is my first time on instagram. and i making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble. congratulations, you are the fastest person to get to i million followers on instagram. i don't know if you know that.|j sought don't know if you know that.” sought in the paper this morning. why instagram and why now? well, i am so old, it's difficult to teach an old dog new tricks. i'm not a

great use of social media and i hadn't used it before but the message i'm concerned about is so important, i will use any medium to get it. if we carry on to this part we are all on, how bad will it be, what will our planet look like? one of the things that will happen is the world will get hotter and hotter and hotter, that's not news, that's been happening for a very long time. and deserts are spreading. why are people coming across from hot places to fertile places where they can grow their own food? because the world is changing. that is one thing, but we all are so clever, we are so ingenious, we can now strip

the seas in an industrial way, strip it of all the fish that are there, we are reducing it in such numbers that it will effectively destroy the population. you seem to have, and there is a particular moment in the film, where we can really get a sense of your feeling of grief, but you don't despair, do you? why not? i don't despair because what will you go and do, just go hide in the corner crying in the corner and giving up? we have a responsibility. if there is only a fragment of hope left, you have a responsibility to do something about it which is why we are here. there is one choice to make today, what choice would you like people to make mr mark don't waste. don't waste electricity. don't waste food. don't waste power.

just treat the natural world as if it's precious, which it is, and don't squander. there are bits of it we have control. in the face of huge countries like china and the united states and russia doing things, it seems irrelevant sometimes. we can't ta ke seems irrelevant sometimes. we can't take that as an excuse for doing nothing. we must do everything all of us can do and must do, and china is taking very big steps in many directions. it's a huge country with an immense population. and they are starting doing things about sorting out the climate and weather which of course has such problems so china is moving in the right direction. i agree the present administration in

america is controversial at the moment, disastrous, but there we are, that's who was elected and we have to go through it. you talk about cost because there is also personal cost and you talk about making changes to our lives. what was the thing that you changed to sort of cost you personally the most? i would like to think, for the last six months, i've hardly moved out of this house. i can't pretend that i've changed my transport. transport behaviour very much. but we are doing so, aren't we? i'm not flying away to all sorts of places. how will you describe lockdown life? i can't plead a bad time. i think when i was newly married, with a couple of kids

in a flat with just two rooms and no garden and thinking what it would be like at the thought of the oncoming autumn and winter that was going to be ahead of us, having already been locked away for six months. that seems to me a pretty tough number. i know it is inevitable. i know it has to happen. and many people are having a much worse time than i am. i am lucky. i have a garden. i have a house. and we are surviving, my daughter and i are surviving very well. but it is going to be very, very rough for a lot of people. but one does missing people, friends, walking around. you got a lot of books to read over the next few months. have you read them all? chapter 13. can we talk a little bit about extinction rebellion because you talk about lobbying mps and all of that. what about direct action? in getting a change, you have to be

careful you don't break the law, i think. i also think that we have to create the people we share our community with, with respect. thanks treat. and disturbing their lives to such an extent innocent people can't get about their own business is a serious thing to do and could disenchant serious thing to do and could disencha nt an awful lot serious thing to do and could disenchant an awful lot of people. instagram and other ways of social media, you do have a chance to reach out to a different audience, but there is a real sense, we have so many people getting in touch with questions, that the younger generation, seem to be, many of them are on board. how does that make you feel? that's the great hope. that is the most important hope, the most important place where there should be hope. it's their world and it's there tomorrow. i will not be there. they will be. it's theirs. if they

are not persuaded it's important, we are not persuaded it's important, we are wasting our time. young people should be concerned about this. we've seen videos, these little children, and they are absolutely adorable. i would like to know what your favourite bases and adorable. i would like to know what yourfavourite bases and how adorable. i would like to know what your favourite bases and how is it changed? my favourite place was a woodland in the middle of lincolnshire. and it had rock around it that were full of fossils, wonderful shells. some big ones. sometimes they were sitting there and you turned over the rocky merit was. you were the first person ever to see that. and it hadn't seen the sun for maybe 150 2 million years.

think about that. my name is elliott and i'm six years old and i have a question. what is your favourite animal? elliott, there was a huge animal? elliott, there was a huge animal bigger than that floor of the dinosaurs, bigger than aeroplane called quetzlcoatlus, no—one could work how it could get into the ground, because how do you beat the wings. it's a mystery. what is your favourite animal? there is a fish,

weaving sea dragon, lives in the seas across south australia and it looks like bits of seaweed, it spends. will there be any animals left in the world to study? there won't be as many different animals as they will be. but we need to study them and need to know what we can. we hope you do go to university and study zoology and you do help in the struggle to the nature.” and study zoology and you do help in the struggle to the nature. i am william and i'm four years old. what who do you think would win a fight with a line, and a rhinoceros.

who do you think would win a fight with a line, and a rhinocerosm they were in the river, they could be hippopotamus. i'm not sure, the hippopotamus is very big. ways much more than a line. if it rolled over and got the line underneath it, the line would not like that very much. hi david, my name is called ev and i am four years old. what's the biggest spider ever in the whole wide world, and my mummy doesn't like spiders. i can see why your mummy doesn't like spiders. there is certainly one in south america you

don't want to mess with that. it has a nasty bite. this good morning. welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: president trump is flown to a military hospital to be treated for coronavirus. the white house describes it as a precaution. his doctor says he doesn't require supplementary oxygen but he has been given an experimental antibody treatment. mr trump posted a video on twitter saying he was in good spirits. new covid restrictions come into force affecting 2 i think ithink i'm i think i'm doing very well. but we are going to make sure that things work out. the first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much. i appreciate it, i will never forget it. new covid restrictions come into force affecting 2 million people across northern england, preventing them from meeting indoors. where's 007? no time to release a film — the coronavirus pandemic delays

the newjames bond movie again. the show must go on, according to sale sharks — despite half their first team testing positive for covid—i9. but opponents worcester have thrown tomorrow's crucial match into fresh doubt. good morning. it will be a soggy saturday. for some of us it be raining continuously for the next 2a hours. the met office have issued amber weather warnings and we are expecting some flooding issues to build in through course of the weekend. i will have the full soggy saturday weather forecast coming up a little bit later on. it's saturday, the 3rd october. our top story: the us president, donald trump, has been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the president's doctor said he'd been given remdesivir, a drug designed to keep the lungs working, but he's not currently needing supplementary oxygen. he's also received an experimental antibody treatment to help speed his recovery. this morning we'll discuss what his treatment involves.

also, in exactly one month, americans will go to the polls. we'll find out what this means for the presidential election campaign. here's more from our north america editor, jon sopel, in washington. news anchor: all right, the breaking news is that president trump was hospitalised tonight for coronavirus... ..hospital, where he will spend the next few days... ..a precautionary measure after testing positive... ..at the walter reed medical centre... an extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. the president leaves by marine one from the south lawn, destination walter reed military hospital. i think i'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out. the first lady doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it, i will never forget it. thank you. but if the symptoms are mild, why is he having to go to hospital — particularly when the white house has its own medical unit with a team of doctors and nurses and a well—equipped surgery?

as you know, tonight's al smith dinner... on thursday night, in what now appears to be grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. the worst was behind us, he said. i just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country. but then later that evening came a bombshell statement that will reverberate around the world. the most serious health issue to affect a serving president in decades. a hint of something being wrong came earlier in the evening when it was announced that this woman, hope hicks, had contracted the virus. on wednesday she was part of the inner circle to travel with the president on the cramped marine one helicopter. none of them is wearing a mask. ymca by the village people plays. as donald trump seemed to dance with joy at the rally in duluth, minnesota, she'd become symptomatic and was quarantined on air force one for the return journey to washington. the ripples of concern will reach everyone who's been in close contact with the president, not leastjoe biden, who shared a debate stage with him

for a shouty 90 minutes on tuesday night. a debate where the president ripped into the democratic candidate for his mask wearing. i don't wear masks like him, every time you see him he's got a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away from you, and he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. biden chuckles. and it was noticeable that none of the trump entourage wore face coverings. that actually violated the rules of the cleveland clinic, which was in charge of all the safety issues inside the hall, which were that everybody except for the president, the vice president and i were not supposed to wear masks — i mean, were supposed to wear masks. the president has won masks in public on less than a handful of occasions, and his ambivalence towards them is evident. can you take it off? because i cannot hear you. i'll just speak louder, sir. oh, ok, good, you want to be politically correct. well, i just don't want to wear one myself.

it's a recommendation, they recommende it. i'm feeling good. and he has been holding rallies as though covid was in the rear—view mirror, with thousands turning up, no attempts at social distancing, few wearing masks. messages of support have come in from around the world. this from borisjohnson, who's been where the president is now. obviously, i think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the first lady, and i'm sure they will both stage a very strong recovery. and messages of support, too, from political rivals. this from joe biden, who's tested negative. my wifejill and i pray that they will make a full and quick recovery. this is not a matter of politics. it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. but another leading democrat, the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, comes very close to saying to the president, "serves you right."

this is tragic, it's very sad. but it also is something that again, going into crowds, unmasked and all the rest, was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen. the president has now left the white house and is in the care of the medical teams at walter reed medical centre, to the north of washington. it is an unbelievable series of developments that have taken place. no—one could have imagined this. but now the president has coronavirus and he is in hospital — and who knows how the election will unfold ? jon sopel, bbc news, at the white house. since arriving at the hospital the president has tweeted an update on his condition. he said: we're joined now by our north america correspondent, peter bowes. good morning, peter. it isjust worth talking for a moment about the latest information from the hospital itself. we are told no supplementary oxygen required, and of course we

saw the president himself before he went into hospital? yes, and he did seem to be ok, for the few seconds that we saw the president leaving the helicopter, getting into the vehicles, that took him into the hospital complex. he was walking on his own. he was dressed in a suit. he did seem to be managing the short walk quite well. but clearly that doesn't really give us an insight into his true state of health. you are right, the bulletin we have just received from his doctor is quite positive, saying the president is resting comfortably, that he is doing very, very well. but as you say, he didn't require any additional oxygen, and he has been given the antiviral drug remdesevir. this is the drug we have heard a lot about over recent months, given in the early stages of the disease. it does manage to slow down the progress and help people recover. more controversially the president is also being given an experimental drug cocktail, and

antibody cocktail, which is still in clinical trials. there has been some criticism of that here from health experts, saying it is all very well to have to use the president has a guinea pig, but the potential side effects of this drug are not known. peter, for the moment, thank you very much. new coronavirus restrictions have come into force across parts of northern england this morning. people living in hartlepool, liverpool, middlesbrough and warrington can no longer meet indoors with people they don't live with. it comes as 770 students at northumbria university have tested positive for covid—i9, as greg mckenzie reports. hi, backer! hello. a student house ina hi, backer! hello. a student house in a student street in newcastle. but the people in this room have tested positive for covid, and i know isolating. the neighbours have had it too. we thought we were a

dangerous household, we've got covid, stay away. but they were like, we've already had it. you think it is already widespread in student houses in the street? absolutely, it is widespread completely. also with everybody going back out on the nicene, or whatever is left of it. some in their second year only returned to newcastle a week ago. now 770 stu d e nts newcastle a week ago. now 770 students that have tested positive for coronavirus. it has left some questioning why they were allowed back so soon. i think that they definitely had a lot of time, the planning, i think, definitely had a lot of time, the planning, ithink, some definitely had a lot of time, the planning, i think, some precautions are not quite as good as they could have income to students coming back to the halls. they were alljust thrown back in there stop it has shot back up. i don't regret it at the moment, we're still having a good time in households and we're working through it quite well. with many of the isolating students miles away from friends and family, the universities themselves are having to step in and send out supplies. it is becoming a huge operation. we are

working with partners in the stu d e nts working with partners in the students p‘ union, and the city council, to make sure those students have supplies. young people have been increasingly blamed the spike in covid infections. these were the scenes last weekend in liverpool, as pubs and bars were forced to close at ten p.m. but as of today pubs and bars were forced to close at ten p. m. but as of today the city is one of many places facing even tougher measures. in merseyside, warrington, hartlepool and middlesborough, it is now illegal for people to mix from anyone —— with anyone from another household. also on the latest watchlist for possible new restrictions in england, rotherham has been added. sheffield has moved to a higher level of support. cheshire west and chester and cheshire east have been added, along with barrow in furnas, wakefield joins others in west yorkshire on the list. back in

newcastle comedy students have another week left in isolation ahead of them, and the hope that student can at least return to some sense of normality, whatever that is normal may look like. police are investigating the actions of mp margaret ferrier, who travelled from glasgow to london with coronavirus symptoms and then returned home after testing positive. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon says she's made it "crystal clear" to ms ferrier that she should stand down as an mp. she has already been suspended from the snp. the prime minister and the european commission president ursula von der leyen will hold a video call later to try to break the deadlock over a brexit trade deal. a ninth and final round of negotiations ended without agreement yesterday, with both sides calling on the other to compromise further. our brussels correspondent nick beake joins us now. good to see you this morning.

compromise, how likely are we to see this happen? good morning. i think here most people think it is quite a positive sign that these two people are having a phone call this afternoon, borisjohnson are having a phone call this afternoon, boris johnson and are having a phone call this afternoon, borisjohnson and ursula von der leyen, the president of the european commission. they have had six months of the thoughts behind the scenes, and it was always the thinking that at some point they we re thinking that at some point they were neither politicians to step in and inject a bit more energy into us. “— and inject a bit more energy into us. —— into this. largely because there is controversial topics they are talking about. we know that the stumbling blocks at this point stopping them from getting a deal a fishing, the extent to which in the future eu boats can go into british waters and fish, and also state aid, thatis waters and fish, and also state aid, that is to say, subsidies that governments could give to businesses in their respective countries. the hope is today, on many sides, despite what they may say in public, but we will have a few more rounds of negotiating. they will be more and the plan is but by the middle of

this month they will be some sort of plan put together so that the likes of angela merkel and macron of france and germany can say, yes, this will work, borisjohnson will be happy with it and we will get a deal. next, thank you for taking us through that. the latest james bond film has had its release postponed for a third time as cinemas continue to struggle in the pandemic. name? bond. james bond. so you're not dead? no time to die was due to come out in october 2019 but because of production delays it was moved to april 2020. it was pushed back again to november because of coronavirus. the producers have now confirmed the film will not be in cinemas until april 2021, acknowledging this would be disappointing for fans. that was on my list. films to see?

it will happen in the end. just a delay, that's all. president trump is being treated in hospital with a drug called remdesevir, which is designed to help keep the lungs working. he was also given a type of antibody treatment which is similar to a trial currently taking place here in the uk. our science correspondent rebecca morelle explains the thinking behind it. how does this work? when a person is infected with coronavirus, these produce antibodies. these attached to the virus, and we make hundreds of different types of antibodies so scientists sifted through them to make them when a person is infected with coronavirus, they produce antibodies. these attach to this spike of the virus, blocking it from entering our cells. we make hundreds of different types of antibodies, so scientists sifted

through them to find the best at sticking to the virus. they chose two because they both attach to slightly different parts of the spike, so if the virus mutates and the structure changes, at least one will still work. both antibodies are then multiplied in the lab and produced in huge quantities. they are then mixed together and given to the patient, immediately boosting their own immune response. we're joined now by dr maria sundaram, an infectious disease epidemiologist from the ices research institute in toronto. in terms of the treatments the president is having, the update we have this morning, not having any supplementary oxygen. there are two treatments we know about beyond that. there is one treatment which is by this country named regeneron. both of these medications, that an

remdesivir, in general, they meant to shorten a person's illness and make it less severe. it's not yet clear whether the antibody has enough evidence behind it to really, but with remdesivir, the picture is mixed. in other studies, but with remdesivir, the picture is mixed. in otherstudies, it but with remdesivir, the picture is mixed. in other studies, it seems it may reduce severity for people having a really severe illness. really, the picture is mick. in other trials seems not to have an effect at all. polyclonal antibodies which is one treatment you mention, it's experimental. what does that mean in medical terms? does it mean it's not improvement, it's been through trials? yes, it's currently in several different clinical trials. they are currently testing this antibody against other treat a nts this antibody against other treat ants and placebos. normally the way

we do it is to see if there is a benefit before it gets licensed for use. i won't ask you to second-guess his immediate positions and treatment, but why would he or they choose to use an experimental drug in these circumstances? in some circumstances, such as these very unusual ones, we may look at an individual clinical course for a patient and think, maybe this particular drug is showing some early promise and early clinical trials, it might be less risk than benefit. to give this to the patient. another thing there may be thinking of is how quickly can we get this person to recover. as you mentioned earlier, it's one month until the us election and a lot is riding ona until the us election and a lot is riding on a very quick recovery if thatis riding on a very quick recovery if

that is possible. of course what we know, and you know better than anyone, with this would disease, it is no respecter of anyone personally, their circumstances, that has no bearing on anything. anecdotally, people suggest there are different timelines attached to certain ages and risk factors, people say anecdotally that five daysinis people say anecdotally that five days in is a crucial point. between five and ten days in getting a positive test is a crucial point. the medical evidence behind those markers where someone has tested positive, what are they? certainly. a couple of different timeframes. the team when you are exposed and test positive, it's about three hours in between when you test positive and symptoms, it could be 5- positive and symptoms, it could be 5— six days and we know that from epidemiological studies. we know people have been exposed and can identify them at the time they are exposed and wait until they develop

illness that's usually exposed and wait until they develop illness that‘s usually 5— exposed and wait until they develop illness that's usually 5— six days. more than 95% of people if they do develop symptoms, it's within 11! days after they are exposed. the people who go on to develop severe disease, they usually develop that severe disease within 11! days after their illness onset. usually the first week is not terribly bad and if it does get severe the next week, it's pretty severe. we know a little bit about who president trump was near two. and it was his advisor, hope hicks who first tested positive, and then the president was in quarantine. have you looked at some kind of timeline around what he was doing and whose company he was m, was doing and whose company he was in, and what can we tell about that? it's very hard for us to tell right now hope hicks exposed the president or it was someone else or different people. it appears the event in the

rose garden that announced the new supreme courtjustice nominee may have been a super spreader event, there were a lot of different people at that event to now testing positive. and certainly now know that it's led to someone testing positive. in addition to that, there is the presidential debate. that really constitutes a large—scale exposure to a lot of different people, especially since a large proportion of the people in the room we re proportion of the people in the room were not wearing masks. an additional explosion on air force one and other events. doctor, thank you for your time. it's really interesting hearing the science, behind this. thank you for your help explaining some of that this morning. what, even though six months interlock down, and us learning new phrases, coronavirus,

covid, there are so many dings to learn about how this disease behaves. medics say every time they treat someone, they learn someone new and every case is individual. let's talk about the weather. saturday, not exactly great. can probably say the same for sunday. it's just probably say the same for sunday. it'sjust going to probably say the same for sunday. it's just going to be one of those weekends. good morning. spells of heavy rain, transport disruption quite likely. some flooding around in strong wind as well. storm alex brought strong wind to france and some nasty flooding across south—east france. we are getting these rain bands coming in from europe and you can see the rain has been arriving over recent hours across a good chunk of england and wales. pa rt of across a good chunk of england and wales. part of scotland as well. just running you through the whole of saturday quickly, into saturday night and sunday. you can see the problem is this band of rain, when it's moved in, itjust doesn't budge. we've got met office amber

weather warnings. 25—50 millimetres. over the high ground, as much as 120 millimetres, a lot of rain. similar kinds of figures the eastern scotland, the mountains, looking at 120 millimetres. likely to see some flooding building and through the weekend. through the forecast, you can see northern ireland not doing too badly. bright spells here, maybe the odd shower, patchy cloud building through the day. when strengthening across wales. the main story the rain is going to be falling across scotland, england and wales. averages 12—14. falling across scotland, england and wales. averages 12411. not feeling particularly warm that wet weather. overnight, the rain turns heavier across eastern scotland. easterly wind pushing the rain into the mountains. aberdeenshire and grampian could be picking up some securely wet weather with a risk of loving developing overnight. we've still got more rain to come across

wales. the rain than reaching northern ireland. sunday's forecast, spiralling around the centre of low pressure. in the centre of the low, something a bit righter, sunshine but also heavy showers. still not the greatest of days and we are likely to see further flooding issues through sunday. next week? this is causing trouble. sunday night into monday, you can see the low pressure has moved. you can see as we go through tuesday and wednesday. the greatest kind of forecast. one thing i would say, the rain band becoming a larger space. a bit more dry weather and sunshine as we go to the next couple of days but there is more rain in the forecast, monday tuesday and wednesday, temperatures staying on the cool side. we could see some flooding problems with weather warnings in place. chris, thank you, we will

chat to you later on. new coronavirus restrictions have come into force across parts of northern england this morning. it comes as 770 students at northumbria university have melissa and caitlin join us now. good morning to you both. i've got to ask you, melissa, how are you? i'm all right, i'm a bit bored. but you don't have any symptoms. you did test positive though five days ago?” symptoms. you did test positive though five days ago? i got no symptoms whatsoever. being stuck inside without anything going on, it's a strange feeling. no—one else gets the virus but obviously had spread quite a lot. you of all

people will know how it can impact families. back in april, a lot of my dad ‘s side of the family, had coronavirus, it was hard to deal with it to time. particularly when we we re with it to time. particularly when we were all in lock down. and only a few of us could attend the funeral. a really difficult time for you and yourfamily. you're a really difficult time for you and your family. you're first year psychology student, caitlin. let's do the condition check. how are you? i feel fine. do the condition check. how are you? ifeelfine. i'm do the condition check. how are you? i feel fine. i'm sort of the same. now ijust feel fine. can you tell isa now ijust feel fine. can you tell is a bit about the circumstances? who else is there and what proportion of your fellow students are also positive like you? only two

of us have had a test and both of us tested positive. and obviously by law they have to isolate anyway. what is it like? day to day, what is happening? are you going out at all? can you give us a sense of how it's working? we're not allowed to leave the building but we share a kitchen, we can get food deliveries and the university provides good food as well so it's not been too bad. caitlin, you said to out of four of you took the test. have any of you been told that you can take the test orare been told that you can take the test or are you taking the test of your own volition? the two of us who took the test, we had symptoms. they recommend you do take the test.

that's why they were already isolated. i understand. melissa, as a fourth—year student, you are a bit more fortunate than caitlin in the sense that you experienced university life in the old—fashioned way, shall we say stop and now you are dealing with itjust the way caitlin is coming through as a first year. our people coping? you started the interview saying you are bored but how people coping? so i am at a massive design school and with design, its contact, you have to use machines, everything like that, and last year ‘s yell. i'm doing my best to make it as smooth as possible so we can get as much done as possible. but it's hard for all the students.

in fashion design, designing a final collection. it's what essentially gets us a job. it's reallyjust trying to make the most out of a bad situation really. caitlin, can i get a couple of thoughts from you. on the personal side, do you think it was the right thing for all of you to come back to university? given the situation you are in now, was the situation you are in now, was the right thing? and yourfamily must be worried about you. how is that. i said must be worried about you. how is that. isaid been must be worried about you. how is that. i said been a lot of concern emotionally and psychologically and how it will affect people? long i think so. when everyone has re cove red, think so. when everyone has recovered, as they say, will be able to go to some sort of face—to—face teaching and get some sort of experience of unity but on the psychological side, people are living on their own, it can make them feel isolated and because i'm

feeling 0k, my family is not too worried. but the university have been good in that kind of way. melissa, you spoke about the impact you know it has on people but what about those around you? you are younger, you are fit, and those around you. our people concerned about having the virus or other treating it like a cold?” about having the virus or other treating it like a cold? i wouldn't say so. everyone i know, everyone is being as careful as possible because at the end of the possible day it's the vulnerable you want to protect but we are more likely to be ok from it. i know now first—hand because, no symptoms whatsoever but i think eve ryo ne no symptoms whatsoever but i think everyone is pretty much following the rules and accommodations and the university is helping with that, helping with us make sure the rules are set in place, ijust suppose

that there is a bad misconception about us going out and partying which i don't think we do. it has been really good catch i feel i have got to say the obvious, eat well. make sure you eat well. you've got to keep on top of the basic things, make sure you eat well. drink lots of fluids, keep hydrated. yes. yes! listen to charlie. lovely catching up with you, and good luck over the next few days. you will get back to your studies, it will improve, committee situation. thank you. really good to hear from students saying, this needs to be done, we wa nt to saying, this needs to be done, we want to protect the vulnerable, we are absolutely buying into this, it will be over soon stop coming up, to mark what would have been john lennon's 80th birthday, his son sean is celebrating the musician's legacy with a special programme on radio two. that's coming up injust a moment. had lines coming up, see you

shortly. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty.

the us president, donald trump, has been flown to a military hospital less tha n been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the president's doctor said he had been given remdesevir, a drug designed to keep the lungs working, but he is not currently needing supplementary oxygen. in one month, voters will go to the polls in the us presidential election. new coronavirus restrictions from this morning mean that people in hartlepool and other towns will not be able to meet with people from other households. they are being warned not to meet with anybody from outside the support bubble even in outdoor spaces such as parks and beer gardens. police are investigating the actions of scottish mp margaret ferrier who travelled from london to scotland with coronavirus symptoms, after testing positive. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon says she has made it crystal clear that ms ferrier should stand down as an mp.

she has already been suspended from the snp. the conservative party conference begins today. it comes as the prime minister prepares to enter crunch talks with the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen. the pair will try to break the deadlock over a brexit trade deal after the final round of negotiations ended without agreement. we're joined now by foreign office ministerjames cleverly. so, conference today, in a very different format. what should delegates, those who are attending, joining online, i assume, expect? as you say, it's a very different type of conference. i know how much work has gone into this by the team under amanda milling and belly at city ho. actually, much of what people really wa nt actually, much of what people really want from a conference, the ability to interact with ministers, to learn about what is going on, to hear about what is going on, to hear about the government's build back better agenda, these things will

still be possible. the catching up with old friends and that kind of socialising element will be a bit harder. the ability to exchange ideas and to learn about government's agenda will still be there digitally, virtually, in a very exciting virtual space. but it is going to be different. it will have to be a pr exercise, i suppose? selling boris johnson have to be a pr exercise, i suppose? selling borisjohnson and selling the conservative party is a party in control? i am looking at the latest approval ratings from you go. boris johnson, do you think he is doing well or badly as prime minister, in april, bad was 26%, 26% of those surveyed thought he was doing badly, now 47%. do you think keir starmer is doing well or badly as leader of the labor party, bad, 23% in april, it has gone up, bad, as well, in september, but good is also much higher than boris johnson. so september, but good is also much higher than borisjohnson. so 35% of those polled think borisjohnson is doing well, in september, 46% think

keir starmer is doing well. so there isa keir starmer is doing well. so there is a difference there that needs to be clarified? well, the party conference is always an opportunity for a party to show its plans, when you are the party of government, to demonstrate what we are doing. and what we see through this party conference is a reminder that despite this unprecedented set of circumstances with coronavirus, we have still got that list of a0 hospitals, like we promised we would, and that hospital building plan, we are talking about connectivity across all parts of the uk, like we said we would. we will remind people that we are ahead of target in recruiting police officers, like we said we would. we are ahead on the recruitment of nurses, like we said we would not make so why do you think 57% of people polled believe borisjohnson is doing badly as prime minister, if you are doing so much good? well, the point is that we are dealing

with, he had the whole of government are dealing with a totally unprecedented set of circumstances, and of course that is concerning, worrying, completely understandable. but what we're going to demonstrate through the party conference and beyond is that in addition to dealing with these unprecedented circumstances we are still getting on with the things we said we would do. building the infrastructure to connect all the parts of the uk and all the regions within england, levelling up, building back better, those hospitals, recruiting those public servants, investing in education both in schools and life, things we said we would do to repair, to repair the country we inherited from labour. let's pick up on things you have said you can do. in the conservative party manifesto, borisjohnson said with a new parliament and a sensible majority government, you have got a significant majority government, we can get that brexit deal three in days. it is oven ready. and all of the conservative mps who have

elected to vote for it immediately, he spoke about a deal that is oven ready. ready to go. put it in, give it 20 minutes, bob ‘s your uncle. these are his words. so why are we talking about fractious relationships between the negotiators negotiating this deal now with eu leaders, and where is the oven ready deal? you are completing two completely different things. the deal we were talking about, the deal you are quoting the prime minister about, was the withdrawal agreement act, the deal that every single conservative candidate at the general election said they would support. we got a majority, they supported it, it went through and we left the eu. what we are now negotiating is our future relationship. i very much hope that we are able to thrash out that future relationship, that ongoing relationship with the european

union, and if they demonstrate pragmatism and flexibility i think a deal can absolutely be done, as long as they recognise that having left the european union, that the uk is now an independent sovereign state, and all we're asking, or we are asking is that we are treated as an independent sovereign states just like the treats its other partners around the world. the internal market bill breaks international law. that is the discussion that is carrying on at the moment. no, it doesn't. no, it doesn't. the legislation, called the internal market bill, doesn't correspond with international law. no, again, you are repeating something that is wrong. what the internal market bill does is, it protects the integrity of the united kingdom. it gives us the ability, in extremis, if not make so just to clarify, just to clarify this, the eu's legal threat is incorrect, is it? no, what, the

point is, the internal market bill gives us the ability to protect the integrity of the united kingdom. that may mean, that may mean that we have to diverged from some of the elements in the, in the withdrawal agreement that was agreed at that point with the european union. but we have made it clear that everything, everything, is focused about protecting the integrity of the european, sorry, of the united kingdom, that is absolutely the firstjob of any government and we're not going shy away from that. but ultimately, if we can see the pragmatism that we know as possible, thenit pragmatism that we know as possible, then it becomes a completely moot point. when we talk about coronavirus and what is happening now, we are seeing the r number moving further, the measure of how many people are being infected with the virus. it has risen to between

1.3 and 1.6. borisjohnson suggests the recent spike in cases is a result of people's discipline fraying over the summer. there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not the message has been clear and a potential new 3—tier system coming into place. what do you think is contributing to this bike? well, we know, we know that human behaviour, when we have restrictions, when you are limited in your ability to go out and meet people, that is very hard to maintain overan people, that is very hard to maintain over an extended period of time. so it was inevitable that over the summer, as people go back to work, as children go back to school and the students go back to university, they would be more social mixing. we know that is a contributory element to the spread of this disease. that is why these local lockdowns, these local measures, are being put in place. they will be different depending on

different circumstances and be r number you discussed is different in different parts of the uk. that is why we are saying that people should go to the uk government website to check on what restrictions are in place in their local areas. we want society and the economy to be as open as possible, but with mb effo rts open as possible, but with mb efforts to limit the spread of this disease. so it is not that people's discipline has frayed, it is just that there are changes and because schools are back and more people are mixing, it is not people's? well, i don't think it is about applying fault. this is a natural human instinct, it is incredibly difficult to maintain of an extended period of time the kind of restrictions that we rightly put in place to protect against the virus at its peak. that is inevitable. that is why it is incredibly important not to bring things into early and not to have

them longer needs be. and we always said, the government always said that we would release restrictions when we were able to, but potentially reimpose restrictions when we need to. and that is exactly what is happening. james cleverly, thank you for talking to us on list this morning. thank you. so, mike, what we know about professional sport is that they have made so much effort across all sports to try to get the game back m, sports to try to get the game back in, which is about safety, obviously for crowds, those professional sportsmen and women as well? so sale sharks have a real problem on their hands? i went there at the start of season just to see how it was all working, temperature checks as you arrive, the cleaning and disinfecting of balls every couple of minutes, lots of checks in place, but now harper team has tested positive and there is a real dilemma about what this really important game can go ahead at sale sharks tomorrow. in the end ‘s premiership by tomorrow. in the end ‘s premiership rugby that will the final decision on whether the sale game can go

ahead, and play the end of season, the last regular—season tomorrow, despite half the team testing positive for covid—19. the club insist that after consulting healthcare officials, the game at home to worcester tomorrow will be safe to play despite the 16 positive tests. they could use some of the reserve team players. if they don't play, sale have to forefit the match 20—0. that's crucial, because it would all but end their semi finalhopes. sale are currently in the fourth and final spot to reach the semis, but only on points difference. worcester, though, say they're not sure the game can go ahead after such a large outbreak. they've released a statement saying they've had no confirmation that protocols and procedures can be met for it to take place safely, and discussions are on going with premiership rugby and public health officials. clubs have been given until noon today to name their teams. rugby league's challenge cup final will be unique and iconic this year, because of the lack of crowds.

that's according to former winner, jamie jones—buchanan. it's semifinals weekend, and his leeds rhinos team that he now helps coach are up against 19—time champions wigan warriors today. that's followed by salford against warrington. it'll set up a final in an empty wembley stadium later this month, and another rhinos star is seeing the positives in such a one—off occasion. it's always going to be one of those surreal ones where if you do make it to wembley and play, it will end up being magical in itself, because obviously the difference, you will a lwa ys obviously the difference, you will always the back. building quite nicely over the last couple of yea rs. nicely over the last couple of years. would put ourselves into the transport finals. we are going up against some tough opponents in wigan. and you can watch both semifinals live on the bbc. first up, leeds rhinos take on wigan warriors at 2:30pm and then salford red devils are up against holders warrington wolves at 5:00pm.

to football, and liverpool's sadio mane has tested positive for coronavirus. the forward displayed minor symptoms, but the club say he's healthy and is now self—isolating. he's the second player to test positive after new signing thiago alca nta ra. it means marney will miss sunday's premier league match against aston villa. hibs are breathing down the necks of celtic and rangers in the scottish premiership. they're just three points off the top now after a 3—2 win over hamilton academicals. kevin nisbet with 2 of their goals. elsewhere, there were wins for aberdeen and livingston. world number one novak djokovic and british doubles pair jamie murray and neal skupski are amongst the players in action at the french open later, and they'll all be hoping for similar results like rafael nadal‘s. the 12—time champion dropped just five games against italian stefano travaglia

to ease into the last 16. it was his third consecutive straight sets win at roland garos. the third round of golf scottish open is getting under way. that is one shot of the leading brit, and the leader, the australian, lucas herbert. there we are, back again after eight o'clock. looking forward to it. let's look at your weekend weather. looking pretty grim through the weekend. heavy rain on the way. affecting east scotland, the midlands in south—west england. likely to see flooding building and through the course of the weekend is the slow—moving band of rain edges its way and server scotland, england and wales, raining for a full chunk of the day. the rain band never

really reaches northern ireland, when the brightest spots in the uk. some cloud and a few light showers. bridges around 12— 1a celsius. some fairly strong wind as well. the winds pick up across eastern scotland. particularly heavy here. we could be picking up some localised flooding. that is how we start sunday. the rain easing off a time across central portions of the uk but even here, showers and further rain to come. we could see some flooding issues as we go through the course of this weekend through the course of this weekend through the course of this weekend through the persistent nature of the rain. we'll be back with the headlines at 8. time now for newswatch. hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. coming up... with protests and conspiracy theories abounding from coronavirus to qanon, how to separate

truth from fiction. we talk to mike wendling from the bbc news anti—disinformation unit. first, the frequently changing restrictions now in place to halt the rise in coronavirus cases differ between the four nations of the united kingdom, and between those areas under local lockdown and the rest of us. if you add to that the fact that some measures are mandatory, some advisory, it's unsurprising that not everyone is across all the detail. on tuesday's today programme, the education minister gillian keegan was unable to clarify the rules on meeting in pub gardens, and a few hours later, the prime minister came unstuck on the same question of how many people could meet where.

in the northeast or in other areas where extra tight measures have been brought in, you should follow the guidance of local authorities. but its six in a home or six in hospitality, but as i understand, not six outside. that, though, was not what the new rule said, as borisjohnson swiftly acknowledged with an apology for misspeaking. his error and gillian keegan's earlier inability to clarify the issue were reported prominently on bbc news, which elicited this response from peter partington. and doctor saijal sent us this video on the same theme. i think it's high time the bbc

stops trying to trip up government ministers by asking them to clarify a particular covid guidance, and when they can't answer, they ridicule them later in the programme. i think the whole process is distracting, it serves no public interest purpose and i think it's harmful as well, because it makes people less trusting of the government guidance, and therefore less likely to follow it. well, we put those points to bbc news, and they told us...

before friday's news that president trump and his wife had contracted coronavirus, keen followers of american politics were up late on tuesday night watching the first debate between the president and joe biden ahead of next month's presidential election. it was a raucous affair. the radical left... will you shut up, man? listen. 0h, give me a break. you know what? there's nothing smart about you. well, it's hard to get any word in with this clown. excuse me, this person. crosstalk it was clearly a rancorous and argumentative evening, but was that all there was to it? not for brian watson, who wrote...

well, we asked bbc news for their response to that, and they told us... last weekend saw the latest in a series of protests against mass vaccination, the compulsory wearing of facemasks, lockdowns and other coronavirus restrictions. crowds in london were addressed by david ike and piers corbyn, but pauline pauley watching saturday's bbc one bulletin

was prompted to ask... the protest was covered elsewhere on the bbc, including on the news channel, but events like it have prompted similar complaints in recent weeks. demonstrations across the country have seen claims that coronavirus does not exist or is not fatal, and also posters promoting qanon, a bizarre theory that president trump is waging a secret war against elite paedophiles. bbc trending has been looking at the role of social media in news for some years, but earlier this year, the bbc set up an anti—disinformation unit specifically to examine conspiracy theories and the propaganda being spread on online forums such as facebook. its establishment concerned joanne dean, who tweeted...

and neil h also dismissed what he called the "soviet style, pravda" disinformation unit. well, one of the editors of that unit, mike wendling, joins me now. and mike, you wrote a book about the online rise of the alt—right in the run up to the election of donald trump and had been reporting on conspiracy theories, as editor of bbc trending as well, so, thanks for coming on. why did the bbc feel the need to set up this separate unit? because basically, in the world of social media, we find that conspiracy theories, disinformation, misinformation, often from individuals, groups, even nations spreads faster and farther than ever before. it's systematic and thus we need a systematic way to look at this and report on it, and to help people sift fact from fiction. one of the correspondence that you mentioned said that we are wrong to police what people think. that's not true at all. we don't want to make people think a particular way. we want to give them the facts, we want to equip them with the facts so that they

know what they think. coronavirus has obviously sparked a lot of conspiracy theories. we saw it in that protest in london last week. what sorts of work has the unit done on that issue? the world health organisation called what happened in the wake of the pandemic an infodemic. basically, a flood of information. not all of it was accurate, in fact, a lot of it was not accurate or unproven or scientifically unsound. what we've been doing is we've been trying to help listeners and viewers and readers navigate some of this stuff, and to find out who is driving a lot of the viral misinformation, as well as the disinformation that's been sparked by individuals or groups, and we've even traced it back to some governments. people have died because they have gotten bad information, they've gotten wrong information about the virus.

they've taken drugs that were fatal, they've taken treatments that didn't work, they've sought treatment because they heard things online about the virus that were untrue, and a whole range of things have happened to people with negative consequences because of things that they read online. with something like the qanon conspiracy theory, is there a danger of giving that the very attention it craves? absolutely, and we always think carefully before we amplify any particular conspiracy theory or any particular influencer who's pushing a conspiracy theory. we have a pretty simple task, and one of the things that is involved in that task is whether it meets a certain sort of threshold. is it going viral across platforms, or not hundreds, but maybe thousands, tens of thousands, millions of people seeing it? once it gets to a particular level where it's that widespread, and also

when it's causing real—world harm, because we know that people linked to the qanon movement and with qanon beliefs have been either accused or convicted of violent acts. when it reaches that sort of level where there is actual harm involved, it's kind of our duty to take a look and do some responsible reporting around that. take a recent example, there were all kinds of slanderous conspiracies being spread around ahead of the presidential debate particularly aboutjoe biden. what did the unit do about those? well, yeah, that's very interesting. i mean, the specific rumour that we're talking about is thatjoe biden

was wearing an earpiece and somehow being fed what was being said in his ear. we broke that down, we looked at the claims. we consider that actually, the earpiece conspiracy theory has been leveled at presidential candidates from both us political parties for the last 20 years. we found no basis in facts for this when we reported on it. we reported it on bbc online and on our tv and radio outlets. we look at things from a variety of perspectives. it's not as if we're only knocking down the things that might look atjoe biden, might makejoe biden look bad. obviously, the president has been diagnosed with coronavirus just in the last few hours. we have seen an explosion online of conspiracy theories and unfounded rumours related to that, and we're busy reporting on that right now. mike wendling, thanks so much.

thank you. finally, some good news. last year, the bbc announced it was getting rid of its red button tv text service to save money, but after a campaign on behalf of the elderly and those without online access, as featured on newswatch, this week, it suspended the plan. basic key news services will stay on the red button after all, though some elements like the lottery results and some sport stories will no longer appear there. this phone call from a viewer called wendy summed up the response of many. thank you, bbc, for reversing the decision to keep the red button service. this will certainly be welcomed by people who do not have access to the internet or those with poor sight or those with learning difficulties. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage again next week. goodbye.

good morning welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today... president trump is flown to a military hospital to be treated for coronavirus — the white house describes it as a precaution. his doctor says he doesn't require supplementary oxygen but he has been given an experimental antibody treatment. mr trump posted a video on twitter saying he was in good spirits i think i'm doing very well, but we are going to make sure that things work out. the first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it, i will never forget it. new covid restrictions come into force affecting two million people across northern england, preventing them from meeting indoors. no time to release a film — the coronavirus pandemic delays the newjames bond movie — again.

a big outbreak of covid 19, at sale sharks, rugby club, could threaten, their play off hopes. despite half their first team testing positive for covid—19, they say the game can go ahead, but opponents worcester want more reassurances, and premiership rugby will decide today. good morning. it is going to be a soggy saturday. for some of us, it is going to be raining continuously for the next 2a hours. the met office have issued amber weather warnings and we are expecting some flood issues to build in over the course of the weekend. i will have the full soggy saturday weather forecast coming up a little bit later on. it's saturday the 3rd october our top story. the us president donald trump has been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the president's doctor said he'd been given remdesivir, a drug designed to keep the lungs working — but he is not currently needing supplementary oxygen. he has also received an experimental antibody treatment to help speed his recovery. this morning we'll discuss what his treatment involves. also, in exactly one month, americans will go to the polls, we'll find out what this means for the presidential

election campaign. here's more from our north america editor, jon sopel, in washington. news anchor: all right, the breaking news is that president trump was hospitalised tonight for coronavirus... ..hospital, where he will spend the next few days... ..a precautionary measure after testing positive... ..at the walter reed medical centre... an extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. the president leaves by marine one from the south lawn, destination walter reed military hospital. i think i'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out. the first lady doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate

it, i will never forget it. thank you. but if the symptoms are mild, why is he having to go to hospital — particularly when the white house has its own medical unit with a team of doctors and nurses and a well—equipped surgery? as you know, tonight's al smith dinner... on thursday night, in what now appears to be grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. the worst was behind us, he said. i just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country. but then later that evening came a bombshell statement that will reverberate around the world. the most serious health issue to affect a serving president in decades. a hint of something being wrong came earlier in the evening when it was announced that this woman, hope hicks, had contracted the virus. on wednesday she was part of the inner circle to travel with the president on the cramped marine one helicopter. none of them is wearing a mask. ymca by the village people plays. as donald trump seemed to dance with joy at the rally in duluth, minnesota, she'd become symptomatic and was quarantined on air force one for the return journey

to washington. the ripples of concern will reach everyone who's been in close contact with the president, not leastjoe biden, who shared a debate stage with him for a shouty 90 minutes on tuesday night. a debate where the president ripped into the democratic candidate for his mask wearing. i don't wear masks like him, every time you see him he's got a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away from you, and he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. biden chuckles. and it was noticeable that none of the trump entourage wore face coverings. that actually violated the rules of the cleveland clinic, which was in charge of all the safety issues inside the hall, which were that everybody except for the president, the vice president and i were not supposed to wear masks — i mean, were supposed to wear masks. the president has worn masks in public on less than a handful of occasions, and his ambivalence towards them is evident. can you take it off? because i cannot hear you. i'll just speak louder, sir. oh, ok, good, you want to be politically correct. well, i just don't want to wear one myself. it's a recommendation, they recommend it.

i'm feeling good. and he has been holding rallies as though covid was in the rear—view mirror, with thousands turning up, no attempts at social distancing, few wearing masks. messages of support have come in from around the world. this from borisjohnson, who's been where the president is now. obviously, i think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the first lady, and i'm sure they will both stage a very strong recovery. and messages of support, too, from political rivals. this from joe biden, who's tested negative. my wifejill and i pray that they will make a full and quick recovery. this is not a matter of politics. it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. but another leading democrat, the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, comes very close to saying to the president, "serves you right." this is tragic, it's very sad. but it also is something that again, going into crowds, unmasked and all the rest, was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen.

the president has now left the white house and is in the care of the medical teams at walter reed medical centre, to the north of washington. it is an unbelievable series of developments that have taken place. no—one could have imagined this. but now the president has coronavirus and he is in hospital — and who knows how the election will unfold ? jon sopel, bbc news, at the white house. since arriving at the hospital, the president has tweeted an update on his condition. he said... we're joined now by our north america correspondent peter bowes. just heard the president's analysis of how he is. we also have some updates from his doctors, including the line this morning which the

phrase was, he's not requiring supplementary oxygen so they are giving us some information about the treatment receiving today. yeah, it does seem to be a positive report from his doctor saying the president is doing very well, is resting positively that met co mforta bly resting positively that met comfortably in hospital and he is not needed any extra oxygen. these also been giving the antiviral drug design to help the lungs recover and rather more controversially, has been given an experimental drug, and antibody that is still in clinical trials and there's been some criticism here from observers of this questioning why the president would be given something that is experimental when perhaps potential side—effects are not known at stage. other news from overnight, not so positive, a number of senior republicans have also ported that they, too, have to step positive for

coronavirus. kellyanne conway perhaps the best known as one of the president's closest advisers in recent yea rs, recently president's closest advisers in recent years, recently deciding to leave the white house. two republican senators also testing positive and a common theme, they we re positive and a common theme, they were all in the rose garden at the white house exactly a week ago, last saturday, for the event the president held to announce his nominee for the vacant seat on the supreme court. of course this pandemic has no respect for timelines but it is a fact that in exactly timelines but it is a fact that in exa ctly o ne timelines but it is a fact that in exactly one month, the us election will be taking place so where does this leave the next month? we are in an unprecedented area. as far asjoe biden is concerned for the democrats, he is continuing with this campaign. he has removed those negative ads, the attack ads that

they are called sometimes and is focusing on his policies and what he says we will do if elected president but clearly the central issue is still going to be the coronavirus and you'll still hear criticism on how president trump and his administration have dealt with the pandemic of the past month and the big question is over how the president and his team will move forward over the next month with theircampaign and forward over the next month with their campaign and what you're hearing overnight is that some of his closest people go with the members of his family, like his two sons, may well be used as a surrogate, stand ins for the president at some of his planned events, so those typical rallies the president has, we might see president's sons, donald junior or eric trump, or even mike pence, the vice president standing in. thank you very much. from this morning new coronavirus restrictions mean people living in hartlepool, liverpool, middlesborough and warrington can no longer meet indoors with people they don't live with.

people are also being advised not to meet with anyone outside their household or support bubble in outdoor public spaces, such as parks or beer gardens. police are investigating the actions of mp margaret ferrier, who travelled from glasgow to london with coronavirus symptoms and then returned home after testing positive. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon says she's made it "crystal clea r" that ms ferrier should resign. our reporter alexandra mackenzie is in glasgow. this was spoken a lot about yesterday. alexandra, what we do know about the police investigation? well, margaret ferrier reported herself to police scotland when she came back from london on the train. we know she was tested for coronavirus last saturday what she travelled to london on monday without waiting for the result. she got a positive covid—19 test result on monday evening. after speaking in

the house of commons. instead of self isolating as she should have done, she made the decision to travel back to scotland on the train on tuesday knowing that she did have coronavirus. in a statement last night, the metropolitan police said that an investigation was under way into a reported breaches of legislation and guidance relating to covid—19. they are consulting with police scotland and with the british transport police. margaret ferrier has been suspended from the snp but there are calls for her to resign as an mp and, as you said, nicola sturgeon, the first minister, is calling for her to stand down as an mp. thanks very much. the prime minister and the european commission president ursula von der leyen will hold a video call later to try to break the deadlock over a brexit trade deal. a ninth and final round of negotiations ended

without agreement yesterday, with both sides calling on the other to compromise further. our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins us now. good morning. we really are at a very late stage in this situation. both sides using the language and terminology of compromise with what does that actually look like? terminology of compromise with what does that actually look like ?m depends whether an optimist or a pessimist really because there's been some progress on both sides are saying, the vast majority of things, they agree and can get a deal but there are still sticking points and some of them have been there for a while, so i think this call between borisjohnson while, so i think this call between boris johnson and ursula while, so i think this call between borisjohnson and ursula von der leyen from the european commission todayis leyen from the european commission today is about trying to figure out if there is room for compromise and secondly how you figure out what that is. it's basically to give this a bit of momentum and more time to come up with a deal. there is a bit more optimism on both sides that one

is possible but like we learned last year when it came to the brexit negotiations, these things often go to the very last minute. it's also worth remembering there was a bit more tension between the sites now as well. the european union is preparing to take the uk to court every piece of legislation introduced domestically which would give british ministers the power to override some of the things they agreed with the eu in that with drawl agreement. it was really interesting... —— that with drawl agreement. about weather breaks international law. have a listen to what he said. the internal market will breaks international law. that's the discussion that is carrying on at the moment. you'll make now, it isn't. no, it doesn't. it doesn't. the legislation called the internal market will doesn't correspond with international law.

again, you're repeating something thatis again, you're repeating something that is wrong. what the internal market will does it protect the integrity of the united kingdom. it gives us the ability... just to clarify this, the eu's legal threat is incorrect, is it? no. what the point is, the internal market will gives us the ability to protect the integrity of the united kingdom. that may mean... that may mean we have to diverge from some of the element in the withdrawal agreement. that last bit is really important because some of those divergences would break the law. it was admitted that it breaks international law and a bunch of conservatives are really unhappy, some people in government resigned over it, so i think the government as may be trying to slightly reframe the debate there.

but there are certainly some elements of this which can and would break international law. for the moment, thank you. 8:15am is the time, good morning. the latest james bond film has had its release postponed for a third time as cinemas continue to struggle in the pandemic. name? bond. james vaughan. —— james bond. no time to die was due to come out in october 2019 but because of production delays it was moved to april 2020. it was pushed back again to november because of coronavirus. the producers have now confirmed the film will not be in cinemas until april 2021, acknowledging this would be disappointing for fans. the time now is 8:16am. back to our main story this morning... a month today, americans will go to the polls to vote in this year's us election.

but with president donald trump in hospital the campaign has been turned on its head. we'rejoined now by inge kjemtrup, chair of the organisation, democrats abroad, and also sarah elliot, from republicans overseas. if we can start with you, sir, we have had an update, no supplementary oxygen is hired is what the doctors are saying. on one hand, this is personally very difficult time for donald trump and of course the first lady. we had that clip of him just before he went into hospital. what do you make of what you saw?” before he went into hospital. what do you make of what you saw? i think he is someone who is putting his best face forward and is making sure he is getting the best medical care thatis he is getting the best medical care that is possible to prevent the disease from further progressing. sorry, people will inevitably be

wanting more information all the time. we have, very quickly, and update from his medic in respect of his condition. is it plausible he can carry on as was for the next month in the run—up to the election? yes... not in the same capacity in terms of going to events and being with people for the next two weeks, ten days— two weeks. but i think you'll be able to manage the affairs of the white house and the up to date on everything, and should he not be able to, he has the vice president the fact it seems like he has all his faculties and will be able to stay up to date and stay on top of things. the chair of democrats aboard the uk, joe biden has made clear negative campaigning will be withdrawn. the tone of campaigning is changing but very

much so on the democrat side, it continues. is that what the electorate needs now? nothing will be changing only democratic end. biden and the other democrats who are campaigning are being very careful on the campaign trail, wearing masks, practising social distancing and being careful about the number of people together so i don't see that aspect of a changing and you're right to underscore that biden has expressed wishes for a swift recovery of the president with this terrible coronavirus. it something that is very unpredictable and it's unfortunate that, for so long, it has not been taken seriously so we hope for a swift recovery and it's also very good he is getting to take advantage of some drugs, i think you mentioned the experimental drug, the antibody drug, that he can take. there's been a lot of developments since this first started in science has really

stepped up in an extraordinary way is he seeing the benefits of that in his own treatment. interestingly tone of campaigning and how this is going to change and how it will have to change. do you think it will be reflected on both sides?” to change. do you think it will be reflected on both sides? i certainly hope so. i know trump thrives on these large rallies which will not be as easy now as we know some of the public events that occurred recently may be, we don't know, the reason for the rapid spread among trump and his team. it's concerning that may have also happened during the debate on wednesday but i think one of the key things people see in joe biden in addition to his extraordinary compassion is the fact that he takes science seriously. he is serious about this. he has a gentle side as well but he understands that what is important here is to push forward with real

science and real concerns about this. our economy is in a mess, the pandemic is the number one issue with americans as they go voting. another thing to mention is the voting is under way. people have already cast their violets —— make millions of people have cast their ballot via postal voting, i have as an international american and i'm sure many others have as well. it is under way, it is happening and we are at the one month mark but you'll see very are at the one month mark but you'll see very shortly how it comes up seriously. white make even the people who do not agree with all trump politically, when they found out about the test, a lot of people saying they wished him well but, in the same breath, were saying there was something inevitable about this. his scorn at times as he's been out for those people adhering to mask wearing, his family turning up to the debate did not wear masks. what

do you make of those comments as people look at that his behaviour over time in relation to covid at the situation he is in? i'm disappointed by them and they are misleading because if you ask the head doctor of the coronavirus task force, doctor fouci, he said he couldn't be more impressed than the president couldn't have done more than he did. he did nearly coronavirus task force meetings, press conferences, leading the way in speeding up on the vaccine and providing ppe and ventilation equipment for hospitals. he has taken this extremely seriously. what he has done is put itself at risk by going out at a meeting with people and being the face of the nation, and being the face of the nation, and by doing so, he has caught this. he could have cut long time ago as well. it's a virus you cannot predict and it spreads extremely quickly but i think the president

has been on this from day one, he closed the borders to china where he was called a xenophobe by the left who said keep going out into big gatherings in places like chinatown as of march. i'm sorry, i don't agree with the criticism here. he wears a mask for he finds it necessary but his staff is tested regularly as well for covid. we should get some response to that because one of the things you heard in seropositive presentation of how mrtrump has in seropositive presentation of how mr trump has behaved as there has been miniclip played about his scorn to those wearing masks. you can look back as far back as last week for the week before where he was making fun ofjoe biden for wearing mass. trump has not taken this virus seriously. easy to demolish that when you look at his tweets over

time and the statements made in public saying it will just go time and the statements made in public saying it willjust go away magically. there is a real desire on his part to not grapple with this seriously and i think is very u nfortu nate seriously and i think is very unfortunate that the republicans are now trying to recast history. he never took it seriously. he attended things only reluctantly, the briefings, and this core of the matter is he has been saying it's not a serious case. even as 200,000 americans, we are 5% of the role population and we have 20% of the cases. that's not something to be proud of. thank you very much for your time. the chair of democrats abroad. and thank you to the chair of republicans overseas uk. 2a minutes past eight. here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. idid not like i did not like that map i saw which

was the whole of uk covered in blue. just remember, it's not my fault. lots of heavy rain to come over the course of the weekend with a real risk of seeing some transport disruption and localised flooding building and with strong winds at times, too. which is all down to an area of high pressure. the storm brought storms to france and severe flooding. we get some cloud coming in from europe at the moment in the rain spreading its way in wisely across england, wales and scotland. northern ireland gets a few showers with see the dryer weather. the problem is the rain band once it moves and does not budge as we go through today, tonight and into tomorrow as well, so they will really mount up. then we have met office weather warnings enforced. south—west england, ever the high ground, as many as 120 millimetres of rain and a similar amount forecast across the high ground of eastern scotland, so these are the

most concerning areas for scenes of flooding building in through the weekend. weather—wise, the rain extends in, northern ireland thing largely dry for most of the day, if few showers, bit of cloud and rain band may well move in through south—east england but for most, a day, come a wet day, temperatures 12-1a c day, come a wet day, temperatures 12—1a cfor day, come a wet day, temperatures 12—1a c for perhaps 16 celsius in the brighter moments in the south—east. there is the weather. 26 minutes past eight is the time. police are investigating the mp margaret ferrier, after she travelled from glasgow to london with coronavirus symptoms, and then returned home by train after testing positive. first minister nicola sturgeon says she's made it ‘crystal clear‘ ms ferrier should stand down from her seat. she has also been suspended from the snp. let's take a look at what happened. on saturday margaret ferrier took a test after showing symptoms of coronavirus. she then travelled by train from glasgow to london on monday morning. on monday evening she received her positive test result. and on tuesday, she took

a train back to scotland — despite knowing she had coronavirus. it wasn't until wednesday that she informed the snp chief whip who immediately told the parliamentary authorities. here's how some of her constituents in rutherglen and hamilton west have reacted. yeah, i think she should have known better. yeah, definitely. you know? after all, all the kids back at school know the rules. and she should know the rules. well, i think she moaned about that other guy, dominic cummings, and he was in his car. she came up on the public transport. i think it is a bit rich. you know? we are all doing our bit. i don't see why she's not. my wife works up in the hospital, as a nurse, and she is dealing with covid patients and i think it is a bit hypocritical for people to tell us what to do when people like my wife are getting the stress levels they are getting through, is... obviously, dealing with these people, do you know what i mean?

we're joined now by lesley riddoch. a columnist for the national, a pro—independence newspaper. thank you for talking to us this morning, interestingly sequence of events since the details of miss ferrier‘s journey have been released. yes. it must now be the best known journey that anyone is taken for many, many months and the only upside you can see out of it is perversely a lot of people are more aware about what self isolation means but there is nobody on any pa rt means but there is nobody on any part of the political spectrum, including your own party, who is trying to defend this decision at all, so she is completely isolated today, which is a very difficult case to be but it's in an inexplicable action of her own. what happens when nicola sturgeon, the first minister, says you need to go, you need to resign and it still

hasn't happened ? you need to resign and it still hasn't happened? how do you interpret that? it is pretty weird. an angry nicola sturgeon isn't something many of us are familiar with in scotland wouldn't like to encounter on a phone call or anything else and there's been extraordinarily some keen discipline within the snp, who have been in power your for 13 years and relatively few scandals to date. it is extraordinary, really, that she hasn't moved but you would have to say the same thing kind of arose with the chief medical officer who it was taken one and a half days by nicola to sack her there which seemed interminable at the time but it was over and done with after it was done, so it's up to margaret ferrier to do the right thing. what are you interpreting in terms of why she hasn't resigned now despite all this is the pressure? it's really ha rd to

this is the pressure? it's really hard to know. you would hate to think it was as simple as hanging on to try to keep claiming the income. you might think she's feeling quite isolated, i don't know what to whom background is. you'd have to say she's already made a catastrophically bad error of judgment in doing all that travel so she's continuing in the same vein at the moment and seems to have gone com pletely the moment and seems to have gone completely to ground, no newspapers with any news stories, contacts or interviews with her say nobody seems to have gotten close to her. what would happen with the seat? she is representing people in a constituency, she was voted or. what would happen in terms of if she didn't resign? how would that impact the snp? it's hard to know. i think many people are seeing a distinction between the snp, the party, particularly because of the swift action by nicola sturgeon to suspend

her as a member of the party, and margaret herself as an mp. the seat has swung backwards and forwards over the last five years between labour, which it always was a labour seat, and the snp, but many of the predictions and support for the snp suggest a new candidate would wind it. tell me about the state of the snp at the moment. in terms of scandals, not as many comparatively, you could say, three kicked out of the party, finance secretary forced to quit on the day of the budget, the x first minister alex salmond is suing the government. how has this left the image of the snp and nicola sturgeon's position? it's an odd situation because it feels like there is more to come certainly, alex salmond, who was acquitted on all charges, said there is more to come in terms of his evidence which is stuck at the moment because of a lack of evidence in terms of the

investigating committee in holyrood and a lot of people would just like to see the scottish government supply what's been asked for. nicola sturgeon has said she has not even been asked to give evidence but i would imagine those members of that committee would like to see written evidence before they have her in front of them so really that should happen. as far as dominic mackay is concerned, he resigned in february before covid over text to a 16—year—old boy. there's been an outbreak of rescan the one that because it transpired he claimed expenses for a period injuly despite not having turned up at the scottish parliament since that date in february but when you look at the snp domination of the political scene at every level, they've got 80% of all mp5, half of all scottish members of the parliament and what is it here? one third of all councillors? in a sense, you could have expected a lot more outbreaks

of indiscipline over that happening to date. thank you very much for talking to us this morning. let's speak now to leader of the scottish labour party, richard leonard. i , just ask, where are we now in this discussion about her position? well, there have been calls cross—party for her to resign. there has been a clear intervention by the leader of her party calling on her to resign and as things stand she is hanging on, but! and as things stand she is hanging on, but i hope that she will take some time over this weekend to make your mind up that her position is com pletely your mind up that her position is completely untenable. i mean, the constituency that margaret ferrier represents in parliament has got the fourth highest number of people on the furlough scheme in scotland, so

you have got thousands of people over the course of this weekend contemplating theirjobs over the course of this weekend contemplating their jobs because they know that at the end of this month thatjob retention scheme support is going to be removed. it is the constituents that have had a high incidence of care home death. it isa high incidence of care home death. it is a constituency where people are waiting for hospital appointments and treatment, including cancer treatment, which they haven't been able to get because of the sacrifices that eve ryo ne everyone has made, and so people are rightly angry about it, that she is accused of hypocrisy. she did put something on social media in the last couple of days in which she has apologised for travelling, without even mentioning the fact that she got the train down to london, having displayed symptoms of covid—19... yeah, we have explained the sequence of events. i just yeah, we have explained the sequence of events. ijust didn't yeah, we have explained the sequence of events. i just didn't want to repeat what we had already established. i just wonder given that her constituents have the

ability, if they so wish, by voting, by asking through a petition, for her to stand down, isn't it right that... if they don't do that, then the people in her constituency still wa nt the people in her constituency still want her as their the people in her constituency still want heras theirmp? the people in her constituency still want her as their mp? if that doesn't happen, does she not have a right to represent those people, no matter what you might think of what she has done? no, i mean the recall of mps act 2015 sets out certain conditions where people are entitled to call a petition and if they get 10% of the whole electorate in that constituency to sign it then there would be a by—election in force, but there are certain hurdles but need to be overcome in parliamentary terms she either needs to be served with a custodial sentence, which i don't think anybody believes there has got to be an expenses scandal, which this is not about. or else a parliamentary standards commissioner and then the standards committee

would suspend her for and then the standards committee would suspend herfor ten and then the standards committee would suspend her for ten sitting days and if they do that the circumstances then do allow for a public petition to be called, and we have certainly said that we would be doing exactly that. i make this call this morning to nicola sturgeon, if margaret ferrier will not listen to nicola sturgeon's call for her to resign, iam nicola sturgeon's call for her to resign, i am calling on nicola sturgeon to work with me to get a public petition in that constituency to put the pressure on, so that margaret ferrier does step down. richard leonard, thank you for your time this morning. thank you. the time this morning. thank you. the time now is 8:36am. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. the us president donald trump has been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the president's doctor said he'd been given remdesivir, a drug designed to prevent lung shutdown, but he is not currently needing oxygen. he has also received an experimental antibody treatment to help speed his recovery. before leaving the white house, the president gave an update on his condition.

i want to thank everybody for the tremendous support. i'm going to walter reed hospital. i think i'm doing very well, but we are going to make sure that things work out. the first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it, i will never forget it, thank you. let's talk more about this now, as well as some of the issues around this morning. dr amir khan is a gp with us today. good morning to you. good morning, thank you for having me. lovely to have you, one of the things lots of people are trying to get in the head because we are still learning, aren't we? we know that the president was tested earlier in the president was tested earlier in the week will stop it is assumed because one of his advisers contracted it that he was in contact with her and got it from her, ate few days then how does this virus play out? what we know from what we have learned or what the medical profession has learnt over the past

six months? so the incubation period of the virus is around 1a days. that is the time in which you can get the virus and not display any symptoms. however, on average studies have shown most people display symptoms within five days of actually getting the virus, so he is now said to have had mild symptoms, which is why he is going into hospital and he is now getting the treatment with remdesivir, which is an antiviral drug. it is not a magic bullet, it does reduce the length of the actual course of the illness in studies so farand he is course of the illness in studies so far and he is also receiving, by the sounds of things, antibodies from someone who may have already had the virus, developed antibodies to it and they are now being given to the president of the united states. dr amir khan, there is lots of discussion about mask wearing and whether it intensifies the risk of contracting the virus. there are

lots of people who will be going to the workplace, there has been lots of criticism levied towards donald trump and his surrounding team for not wearing masks. is there any situation in this world that we are now in where not wearing masks in the workplace is ok? well, what we know about masks is that they certainly do prevent the transmission of the virus. we know looking at studies countries who have favoured what mask wearing for the very beginning of this pandemic have much lower death rates than those ones that were slow on the uptake. we should all be wearing masks. there is increasing evidence that they actually protect the wearer as well as those people around them as well, so you're wearing them for your own benefit as well. there are exceptional circumstances, medical circumstances where people aren't able to wear masks and we should still respect that and not judge masks and we should still respect that and notjudge those, but if you are able to wear a mask you should a lwa ys are able to wear a mask you should always in the workplace, in a public area you should really be wearing

masks. you know, you may never know who you infect. you may never know if that person infect someone else, who ends up in a tu and sadly dies, but there will be a family there somewhere —— right in itu. there will be a family somewhere com pletely will be a family somewhere completely heartbroken because of someone who may not have worn a mask. interestingly enough, earlier we spoke to a student, melissa, who isa we spoke to a student, melissa, who is a full view fashion student at northumbria university, while you will be aware 77 cases have been diagnosed and they are in isolation at this moment. unfortunately, melissa's grandmother died earlier this year with coronavirus. what are you seeing in terms of how people are reacting to these local doctors, particularly young people, who perhaps are becoming more aware or being more vocal about being more aware of the impact this has on those who are older? yes, i think local lock downs are important because it focuses people's minds in areas where there is high prevalence

of the disease, so when they may not have been thinking about washing their hands as much as they were doing back in march and april, they are now doing it and that i think is are now doing it and that i think is a good thing in terms of local lockdown. the messaging is tricky, it is hard to follow exactly know what to do. i think that is the difficult thing about local lockdown is. but it is great to see young people, you know, really acknowledging this. i think they have had a really rough time, both would be a and then being blamed for increased rates of the virus, but —— with the a—levels. but they are really struggling, i feel really sorry for them that they have had a really tough time. we have had some good advice, keep hydrated and eat well. there are so many issues being brought up now with coronavirus and looking at donald trump one of the things spoken about was his age, he has 7a, and also he is clinically obese and the fact that people are perhaps not managing their nutritional intake well enough and

when you think about students, who have been isolated and relying on supermarket deliveries, picking the right food, it sounds so simple, but it is so important. yes. we know about hand washing, mask wearing and social distancing, but the other thing that can help keep you healthy and put you in the best position, should you get the illness, is a really good, well balanced diet and good sleep. they can't exercise as much because they are stuck indoors, but getting a good night's sleep and getting a well—balanced diet and being a healthy weight is really good for your overall health, which we know people who are overweight, donald trump, for example, is at high risk of developing complications of the disease for a number of reasons. obesity puts your immune system at risk, it dampens down your immune response, it causes sonic inflammation, high insulin levels, which puts you at risk of something called a cytokine storm, where your immune system can

actually over respond to the virus can cause your liver or other organs to fail, so it is really important that people try to maintain a healthy weight and full students, a healthy weight and full students, a healthy diet and a healthy night's sleep is not only really good for your physical health, but mental health at these difficult times as well. not just health at these difficult times as well. notjust students. all of us. thank you for talking to us, dr amir khan. the time is 8:a3am. and we have been talking about universities, but sport is not immune to this. i know you have got experience of this because we are talking about sale sharks and there has been an outbreak there. you have been looking at what they're doing to try to keep people safe. yes because rugby union was one of the last sports to come back, we will have a look at those things they have a look at those things they have in place now. sale sharks are adamant that tomorrow's crucial premiership game against worcester will go

ahead, despite 16 individuals at sharks testing positive for covid—19. before the season restarted i went to see the safety measures in place at sale's training ground, as full contact resumed. the temperature checks, the disinfecting of the balls, and i stress these are pictures from them and we don't know which first team players have tested positive. sale insist that after consulting health care officials, this final game of the regular season can go ahead safely. and could use some of the reserve team players. they hope to avoid having to forfeit the game — triggering a 20—0 loss — and potentially losing out on a top—four spot. they're fourth at the moment on points difference only, but opponents worcester aren't so sure. they've released a statement, saying they've had no confirmation that protocols and procedures can be met, for it to take place safely. and discussions are still ongoing with premiership rugby and public health officials, so that casts some doubt on the match. they hope it will go ahead. clubs have been given until noon today to name their teams. premiership rugby will make the final call. it's challenge cup semi—finals day

and you can watch both semi—finals live on the bbc. first up on bbc one at 2.30 leeds are up against 19—time champions wigan warriors. former leeds player zak hardaker, has rejuvenated his career with warriors, after being banned for a failed drugs test and being arrested for drink—driving. there's been a few occasions where i've not known if i'm going to play a major cup final or a super league game again. so, yeah, it's my second year into my wigan contract and, you know, i'm absolutely loving it here. it's been brilliant. and i've really come on as a human being, really. and you can watch both semi—finals live on the bbc. first up, leeds rhinos take on wigan warriors at 2.30 and then salford red devils are up against holders warrington wolves at 5.00. there have been 10 positive coronavirus cases in the latest round of tests in the premier league, the most to date.

and liverpool's sadio marney is among those. the forward displayed minor symptoms, but the club say he's healthy and is now self isolating. he's the second player to test positive, after new signing thiago alcantara. it means marney will miss sunday's premier league match against aston villa. hibs are breathing down the necks of celtic and rangers in the scottish premiership. they're just 3 points off the top now, after a 3—2 win over hamilton academicals. kevin nisbet with two of their goals. elsewhere, there were wins for aberdeen and livingston. let's get more on all the football, with dan, in his football focus hat. there he is! any need a hat. yes, you should get a hat with ff on. another thing in football is that the national league finally starts, six months on from when they last played, thanks to the financial rescue package from the government. good morning everybody. if people haven't been following it this week, the national league has been in suspension, really, and waiting to see what they could do to try to make some of that money up they are losing through

gate receipts and the money government has said we don't know that how much money, but it is thought to be between 2— £3 million a month is going to help them this weekend. we've been to dagenham and redbridge just to see really how they have been dealing with the uncertainty of not knowing what is going to happen, which i think has been affecting all of us. also it is a really clear indication that many of these clubs are right at the heart of their local community and it is really important to keep that community going as well, so that is good news for the national league at that money has come down from the government. we will look at the foot ball government. we will look at the football focus today and the premier league this is the final weekend before we had the international break. manchester united against spurs is one of the biggest games this weekend. eric tao has been in the news a lot over the past few days, he's a footballer who had to go run to the toilet during a cup game against spurs this week and was also involved in a controversial handball last weekend and he has been speaking to us about all sorts

of things, including the big news of the his vegetable patch. in lockdown i pass the time by? gardening! i do a lot of gardening. yes, i have been building a vegetable garden during lockdown and i was at my parents house, and i built one there with my brother and my mum bolsters around, telling us what to do and now it is quite nice, i get vegetables every now and again from my mum. oh, really? yes. are we talking basic tomatoes or... loads of things, tomatoes, courgettes, carrots. you're getting your five a day in. for sure. this is brilliant, i love it. i'll be coming to you if there isa it. i'll be coming to you if there is a second lockdown at the supermarkets empty. my mum wouldn't be too pleased. they go, eric on vegetables. more on that later. manchester city have had a mixed start to the season so we'll

be speaking to some manchester city fans about what they think to the start of the season. the sheffield united manager will also be on the programme. three games so far, three losses for them after such a great season last time and we will also be hearing from their new signing, rhian brewster. there are young in a 20s, highly rated, and another big name on the show as well, pierre from arsenal whojoined name on the show as well, pierre from arsenal who joined in name on the show as well, pierre from arsenal whojoined in recent weeks. she is delighted that he signed his new deal, are person speaking to him. we have alex on a programme today, along with mark lawrenson, lots to cram in and i'm very sorry i've not got a football focus hat. i will try to sort it out. i am loving the golf top. there is no iron. i like to wear a proper shirt on this programme, mike, but there is no iron in the hotel this morning, so i have to find an iron, so therefore i am wearing this

instead! lovely. mr dan walker, if you are more organised, my dear you know there is an iron in one of the rooms where we can get changed. someone has told me that, but i'm not entirely sure where that is. someone has told me that, but i'm not entirely sure where that ism has been here for a good five years, andi has been here for a good five years, and i will draw you a map, i? thank you very much. any ironing based information will be very handy! i'm more interested in the vegetable patch. i have been having great chilis. have you? yeah because you can grow those in window boxes. you know there are naga chilis?” can grow those in window boxes. you know there are naga chilis? i have had nag a chilis. thank you mike. he isa mine had nag a chilis. thank you mike. he is a mine of information. we are all checking our shirts now, how crisp is your shirt iron today? it looks pretty good, actually. that is not bad. my wife has a ban on doing shirt ironing. we kind of swapjobs around, but that is me that does

this, so they probably a few down there, but i digress. looking at the weather, we have got a lot of rain to come this weekend and it is likely to cause some problems, big problems and puddles on roads. disruption for many of us and some others will see problems with flooding as well. this is storm alex, which brought strong winds to france and severe flooding across the south—east of france. we are now getting the rain coming in and the picture shows the rain developing right over the top of us and you can see the rain really thinning in that is the way of things as we go on through the rest of today, tonight and tomorrow with this very slow moving weather front right over the top of the uk, bringing for some of usa top of the uk, bringing for some of us a lot of rain. the areas that will see the wettest weather have met office amber weather warnings in place, so places like wales, south—east england —— south—west england and also the east of scotland. we could see lots of millimetres of rain and that will be

running down to river catchment and we could see some flooding going on. soa we could see some flooding going on. so a lot of rain over the course of this weekend. the rain has already read so many others across scotland and wales and parts of england, northern ireland not doing too badly today, should stay bright for most of the day with just the risk of a passing shower. temperature 12—1a with cloud remaining for most of us, but perhaps the rain easing off later on with the south—east, a few bright spells, 15 degrees here. turning window across west wales and south—west england and then overnight the wind strengthening in scotla nd overnight the wind strengthening in scotland and those easterly winds will be slamming the rain into those mountains, the grampians in aberdeenshire and we are likely to see some flooding building and for these areas as we go overnight. at these areas as we go overnight. at the same time the rain will be moving to northern ireland and then for the second half of the weekend the low pressure is parked right over the uk. closest to the centre of the low we might see a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers with the main rain band draped around western and southern parts of the country.

it will also turn windy, with gales around, there's temperature is still struggling somewhat, highs of 12-15 . this struggling somewhat, highs of 12—15. this is the area of low pressure than responsible for this weekend's persistent rain and i have to say through monday, tuesday and evening to wednesday the low pressure isn't going to budge very far very fast, so we have got more rain to come. for monday probably slightly bigger gaps between the rain band, so a bit more ugly way of sunshine coming through, but there will be heavy pauses between the heavier couples coming down, so lots of rain coming through this weekend and for some of us we could see an episode of flooding building for the weekend. charlie and nag, back to you. a newjohn lennon documentary — presented by his youngest son sean — airs this weekend on bbc radio 2 to mark what would have been the musician's upcoming 80th birthday. it will bring together archive, classic performances, and interviews with some of the star's close family and friends. here's a clip from the programme with sir paul mccartney.

lets say i wrote yesterday or something like that, john would write to strawberry fields. so you are writing separately and then you would bring it togetherfor the record. so you would then get some collaboration to finish up the song, to bring it into the studio and then you collaborate in the studio. but the interesting thing is that ever since the beatles broke up, we didn't write together or even record together. i think each one of us referenced the others when we are writing stuff. i often do it, you know? i'm writing something and i 90, know? i'm writing something and i go, oh, god, this is awful! and i think, what would john say? he would 90, think, what would john say? he would go, yeah, you're right, it is awful, you have got to change it. and so i will change it. and i know from reports that he did similar things to that. you know, if i had a record

out he would go, got to go in the studio, got to go and try and do better than paul. we can speak now to bbc radio 2 presenter bob harris, who interviewed john lennon in 1975. lovely to talk to you, a couple of things spring to mind, one is how lovely it is to hear paul talking just about their working relationship. the other is where i want you to start is lots of people will be deeply envious of you because you got to meetjohn lennon. can you just tell us a bit about the circumstances and what he was like west, charlie, iwas circumstances and what he was like west, charlie, i was so thrilled to meet him. he was a great hero of mine anyway and we were very fortu nate mine anyway and we were very fortunate that we were just two people that got on great. i liked him very much. we spent two or three days together. he was in a very, very happy frame of mind because he and yoko had just discovered that she was pregnant with sean, so you

can imagine he was absolutely over the moon. the meeting had been set up the moon. the meeting had been set up by the moon. the meeting had been set up by elton john the moon. the meeting had been set up by eltonjohn because i bumped into elton just up by eltonjohn because i bumped into eltonjust prior to him leaving for america for the big american tour that he was doing at the time, which included a run of nights at madison square garden and he said to me don't tell anybody but i think john lennon is going tojoin us on stage and of course he did for the very famous performance of whatever gets you through the night, so i said when you speak to him if you could just have a word, tell him how much we would like to do something on with him on the old great whistle test. so a few days later i was there at the television centre with my producer, michael appleton and the phone rang and mike picked it up andi the phone rang and mike picked it up and i heard this voice at the other end of the line go, is bob their pleas? and it wasjohn lennon and he said, just come over, i have got a rock and roll album coming out and we can spend a few days together, so

having completed the interview he then went off and recorded a couple of songs specially for the show. stand by me was one of them. i was particularly pleased that he did stand by me because it is my all—time favourite song. so it was a wonderful experience.” all—time favourite song. so it was a wonderful experience. i will let you get away with your shameless name dropping there. ijust bumped into eltonjohn! how do you bump into eltonjohn! how do you bump into eltonjohn? eltonjohn! how do you bump into elton john? but they eltonjohn! how do you bump into eltonjohn? but they go. so what we all know is there as an eternal fascination with. .. you all know is there as an eternal fascination with... you would have been 80 this year and i think a lot of people think to themselves, what would it have been like? where he still with us now? i suppose in a way part of this documentary is about talking about what he was like, but by those who knew him best. yes. it is difficult to say, isn't it? i personally think that being john lennon would have given him a laminate to go anywhere, do anything, record with anyone. you know, you are john

anything, record with anyone. you know, you arejohn lennon, you can make things happen for yourself and i truly believe he would have taken advantage of that. we could have seen some incredible collaborations between himself and established or up—and—coming artists. i mean, elton himself is really good at supporting young artists and i thinkjohn would have been the same. i also think you would probably have been pretty much an activist still, politically. i think you would have found it very difficult to sit on his hands with the situation as it is in the world right now, so that would have been, iimagine, the right now, so that would have been, i imagine, the profile in my head, anyway, of him still being a really amazing creative force, but still having a voice in the political forum as well. and i notice in the programme, sean, his son and his older brother, julian, they talk about that, they talk about their own reflections on their father. they do, and one of the reasons that john was so keen at the time to do the interview with us for the

whistle test was the fact that he was desperate to send a postcard as he put it tojulian. he and julian hadn't seen each other for a while and he was stuck in america and it was the sense that it was the nixon regime at the time who refused him a green card, so he knew that if he left new york and america he wouldn't be able to get back in again. consequently, he and julian had been separated on regular occasions through a period of time and he wanted to send... it must have been so difficult forjulian to see his dad so famous, but 3500 miles away and so really seeing him, sojohn saw miles away and so really seeing him, so john saw this miles away and so really seeing him, sojohn saw this as an opportunity to send a postcard tojulian and at one point he is literally waving to julian in the middle of stand by me as they perform the song. wonderful stories, a lovely chat to you today and a reminder the documentary film

thatis and a reminder the documentary film that is on bbc radio 2 tomorrow at 9pm. we'll be back shortly with the headlines. good morning, welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today... president trump is flown to a military hospital to be treated for coronavirus — the white house describes it as a precaution.

his doctor says he doesn't require supplementary oxygen but he has been given an experimental antibody treatment. mr trump posted a video on twitter saying he was in good spirits i think i'm doing very well, but we are going to make sure that things work out. the first lady is doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it, i will never forget it. new covid restrictions come into force affecting two million people across northern england, preventing them from meeting indoors. no time to release a film — the coronavirus pandemic delays the newjames bond movie — again a big outbreak of covid 19, at sale sharks, rugby club, could threaten, their play off hopes. despite half their first team testing positive for covid 19, they say the game can go ahead, but opponents worcester want more reassurances, and premiership rugby will decide today. good morning. it is going to be a soggy saturday. for some of us, it is going to be raining continuously for the next 2a hours. the met office have issued amber weather warnings and we are expecting some flood

issues to build in over the course of the weekend. i will have the full soggy saturday weather forecast coming up a little bit later on. it's saturday the 3rd october our top story. the us president donald trump has been flown to a military hospital less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. the president's doctor said he'd been given remdesivir, a drug designed to keep the lungs working — but he is not currently needing supplementary oxygen. he has also received an experimental antibody treatment to help speed his recovery. this morning we'll discuss what his treatment involves. also, in exactly one month, americans will go to the polls, we'll find out what this means for the presidential election campaign. here's more from our north america editor, jon sopel, in washington. news anchor: all right, the breaking news is that president trump was hospitalised tonight for coronavirus... ..hospital, where he will spend the next few days... ..a precautionary measure after testing positive... ..at the walter reed

medical centre... an extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. the president leaves by marine one from the south lawn, destination walter reed military hospital. i think i'm doing very well, but we're going to make sure that things work out. the first lady doing very well. so thank you very much, i appreciate it, i will never forget it. thank you. but if the symptoms are mild, why is he having to go to hospital — particularly when the white house has its own medical unit with a team of doctors and nurses and a well—equipped surgery? as you know, tonight's al smith dinner... on thursday night, in what now appears to be grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. the worst was behind us, he said. i just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country. but then later that evening came a bombshell statement that will reverberate around the world.

the ripples of concern will reach everyone who's been in close contact with the president, not leastjoe biden, who shared a debate stage with him for a shouty 90 minutes on tuesday night. a debate where the president ripped into the democratic candidate for his mask wearing. i don't wear masks like him, every time you see him he's got a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away from you, and he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. biden chuckles. and it was noticeable that none of the trump entourage wore face coverings. that actually violated the rules of the cleveland clinic, which was in charge of all the safety issues inside the hall, which were that everybody except for the president, the vice president and i were not supposed to wear masks — i mean, were supposed to wear masks. messages of support have come in from around the world. this from borisjohnson, who's been where the president is now. obviously, i think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the first lady,

and i'm sure they will both stage a very strong recovery. wishing him well. we've seen several world leaders affected and i stand with others in wishing all the best because this is obviously a virus that has had a globally devastating impact. and messages of support, too, from political rivals. this from joe biden, who's tested negative. my wifejill and i pray that they will make a full and quick recovery. this is not a matter of politics. it's a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. but another leading democrat, the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, comes very close to saying to the president, "serves you right." this is tragic, it's very sad. but it also is something that again, going into crowds, unmasked and all the rest, was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen.

the president has now left the white house and is in the care of the medical teams at walter reed medical centre, to the north of washington. it is an unbelievable series of developments that have taken place. no—one could have imagined this. but now the president has coronavirus and he is in hospital — and who knows how the election will unfold? jon sopel, bbc news, at the white house. since arriving at the hospital the president has tweeted an update on his condition. he said... our correspondent barbara plett—usher was outside the walter reed hospital in washington, where the president is receiving treatment. this doctor has issued a statement saying it does not need supplemental oxygen but he has received another dose of drugs and this is an anti viral which is given to people who are hospitalised with covid and has been authorised for emergency use and he said the president is resting

co mforta bly. and he said the president is resting comfortably. the trajectory we've often seen as you start out with mild symptoms and those built to quite severe symptoms after a—5 days and so you will be in hospital to be monitored to see if that happens. he has not relinquished control. he is still running the country and are still running the country and are still in charge, the white house says he can do so from the hospital. he has a special presidential suite with secure communication so in theory he can continue his tasks but it all depends on his health and whether it continues to worsen. it will be something they will have to work out between how they work with them here and in the hospital, the white house operation. vice president pens will be around to bridge those gaps were needed but it is something being worked out in practice. we can say the campaign has been put on hold. the campaign manager has tested in which it is another blow to us that they want to continue through surrogate to make

in—person events but people do not know what will happen. joe biden as still campaigning but he has withdrawn his negative adverts and he said it's a time for all americans to come together but for president trump, another boy because it was meant to focus the attention on something he wanted to revive from, you wanted to change the subject and say the country was recovering and this was behind them, and now the attention will be squarely focused on the coronavirus, which is not something that could work in his favour most likely. the time now is eight minutes past nine. news this morning... from this morning new coronavirus restrictions mean people living in hartlepool, liverpool, middlesborough and warrington can no longer meet indoors with people they don't live with. people are also being advised not to meet with anyone outside their household or support bubble in outdoor public spaces, such as parks or beer gardens. police are investigating the actions

of mp margaret ferrier, who travelled from london to glasgow knowing that she had tested positive for coronavirus. scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon says she's made it "crystal clea r" that ms ferrier should resign. our reporter alexandra mackenzie is in glasgow. alexandra — what we do know about the police investigation? bring out right up to date. where does that leave her situation? that's right. margaret ferrier is placing a police investigation and growing calls for her to stand down as an mp. when she travelled back to scotland, after she got your name she had coronavirus, she reported herself to police scotland. the metropolitan police put out a statement last night saying an investigation is under way into reported breaches of legislation and

guidance concerning covert 19 —— covid—19. nicola sturgeon is furious about this. she says she is a friend and colleague of margaret ferrier but cannot support her in this and is calling on her to stand down as an mp. for the moment, thank you. the prime minister and the european commission president ursula von der leyen will hold a video call later to try to break the deadlock over a brexit trade deal. a ninth and final round of negotiations ended without agreement yesterday, with both sides calling on the other to compromise further. our political correspondent nick eardleyjoins us now. where are we in terms of who has the upper hand here? the element good question. i'm not quite sure either side has the upper hand. i think we are at that point where there is agreement on most things, some things are continuing to divide the

two sides and today is about working out whether there will be time and will to basically come to some sort of compromise. today does matter because the head of the european talks, it's always a row with which will give impetus to the top, move it on will give impetus to the top, move itona will give impetus to the top, move it on a bit to try and break some of the deadlock. i do not think we all be saying by the end of the day, your salary deal will be done but i think they will have to leave a bit more space for it to happen so i would guess by the end of today, they will probably create more talks, talks about top, but it matters because time is running out and there are things to be ironed out, and the big question is whether the two sides can figure out an area for compromise. thank you, we will be following with interest. 11

minutes past nine. back to the main story. what we know... president trump is being treated in hospital with a drug called remdesivir, which is designed to help keep the lungs working. he was also given a type of antibody treatment which is similar to a trial currently taking place here in the uk. our science correspondent rebecca morelle explains the thinking behind it. how does this work? when a person is infected with coronavirus, they produce antibodies. these attached to the spike of the virus, blocking it from entering ourselves. we make hundreds of different types of antibodies so scientists sifted through them to find the best at sticking to the virus. they chose to because they both attach to slightly different parts of the spike, so if the environment mutates and the structural changes, one will still work. both antibodies are then multiplied and the alarm and producing huge quantities. they are

then mixed together and given to the patient, immediately boosting their own immune response. we're joined now by professor martin landray from the university of oxford, who is co—leading a uk trial of this antibody treatment. very good morning to you. delighted you're here because you can explain to us exactly what this is. can we establish something? you leading a uk trial. as at the same as the treatment, the experimental treatment, the experimental treatment being given to president trump? i'm only reading reports like eve ryo ne trump? i'm only reading reports like everyone else on what he is getting but i believe so. this drug contains two antibodies. it puts them into different places and a belt and braces approach and it stops the virus getting into cells where it could otherwise multiply and do its

damage. that is the drug we are now studying as part of the recovery trial across all the nhs hospitals here in the uk was that white make the phrase being attached to it as we report its use is experimental. what does that mean? might make this as an unlicensed treatment? it has been developed over the course of the last six months, used previously to develop similar sorts of drugs against a bowler as an example and was effective in that disease but this is a new virus, a new version of the drug, it's being trialled in a few hundred patients and shown promising results like reducing the amount of viruses patients then carry. what we do not know yet is whether that strong signal, strong effect on the virus translates into benefits for the patients and, for

example, does it reduce the time needed for being in hospital, being ona needed for being in hospital, being on a mechanical ventilator or for survival? those are unknowns and thatis survival? those are unknowns and that is why we are doing the recovery trial of thousands of patients of exactly this drug. when you're in the trial period, i guess there is no gathering of substantial data that means this can now be said, right, it's data that means this can now be said, right, its effective. in what situation would someone, as important as the president of the united states is, why is it deemed ok that key can be part of this trial or have the drug given to him if it is experimental? let separate out to things. there are designed, randomised clinical trials like the one here in the uk, that is the one that uncovered that deck steroid was

good for people who are on delta —— ventilator is what it actually only improve survival. when someone gets the usual standard care from the nhs or it plus this drug, then you monitor and see what happens to those patients, so that is what the clinical trials look like, that is what you're doing in the uk in thousands of patients. as far as i'm aware, the president is not doing a clinical trial. doctors, with his agreement, deciding they would use this drug regardless based on what we know about it so far. that is an individual decision which i cannot really comment on but it is very specific to the situation in the us and possibly even to individual patients but here in the uk, we take a much more rigorous approach, we give them the treatment plus usual ca re give them the treatment plus usual care for 2000 and then do that for

the nhs and see if giving this drug leads to real benefits. how big the benefits are andy and inhuman does it work best. we need treatments not just for one person were to hundreds of thousands of people to save hundreds of thousands of lives and, to do that, we need to know, does the treatment work, how well and anything could be use it to have the biggest impact? can i ask you one other thing? given the profile of the president the fact that he is, as he explained, not in a test situation but he is taking have in this treatment, there are lots of unknown is your, we don't know how we will be over the coming days but we re we will be over the coming days but were he to recover, would then be plausible for he or his team, i know politics has a part to play in this, soiam politics has a part to play in this, so i am not going to invite you to

play your part in that. would you think it works because the president has got better? not at all. the thing about this disease is that most people do get better, which is good, but some people do not and whatever happens to this president, andi whatever happens to this president, and i hope he does well, whatever happens to him or any other patient, you never know whether what you did resulted in then improving or getting better or was just by the by. did he get better because of the treatment or in spite of it? when we do this approach one by one, you never know. you never know how to treat the next patient which is why they have been so important in the uk, finding hydroxychloroquine does not work in these sorts of patients and dexamethasone, £5 for a course of treatment, definitely does in

studying among other things the general antibody drug which is extremely promising but promising is not enough when you need to know whether it works and how well, and inhuman it is most effective. that is how we do the trials, so we don't just know how to treat this patient but others as well. if someone has the resources and the means like this president does, and they say they know the trial is going on, it's not proven yet, but they have the means to have access to this, are you allowed to do that in this country, to you something still being trialled and use the antibody, for example. the problem would be getting hold of it because this is manufactured by one country who have given 2000 courses for trial but

there is not an alternative supplier, so the first challenge is getting hold of the drug, the second is not having emergency source for this drug in uk so i would never say never but broadly speaking, the a nswer never but broadly speaking, the answer is that the route to access to this drug in this country, is through the trial and there is very good reasons for that, which is because we not only need to know how to treat the patient in front of us but every patient and at the moment, we don't know. it is really interesting, a really exciting drug with huge potential but that could all be hope and speculation, which it is, and we need to know whether it is, and we need to know whether it translates into real benefits we can give everybody. the disease has killed a million people worldwide, every of them is an individual with afamily every of them is an individual with a family story and a family tragedy, and we need to understand how to

treat everyone. thank you, wish you well with the trial of course. thank you for explaining all that to us. professor martin landry from the university of oxford, and his co—leading that recovery trial. we are seeing rain over the place, is the picture? here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. good morning, this is easy nice on their way into work, massive models covering the road, amber weather warnings in place, likely to see flooding. across wales, the west with villains and eastern areas of scotland, and rain all over the place sums up the weather but northern ireland not having a bad day, just a few light showers. it will stay put, across parts of south—east england, tending to ease through the afternoon. 16 celsius. for most, the cloud and rain, it will get increasingly cloudy with

gales developing. running you through saturday night and on into sunday, you can see a band of rain slowly edging towards ireland but it is going nowhere too far, too fast. the rain continues to pour down into sunday, brighter core central areas with showers and turning windier with showers and turning windier with gales becoming more widespread as we go through tomorrow. unsettled weekend. flooding with rain mounting up weekend. flooding with rain mounting up this weekend. back to you, team. thank you. 9:22am right now. the a0th london marathon kicks off tomorrow — but this year's event will be very different. instead of winding through the streets of the capital, it's being limited tojust elite athletes only. but other keen runners from around the world can take part virtually. and some of them have even been helped out by former england cricket captain, michael vaughan, as andy swiss reports. # don't stop thinking about tomorrow # don't stop thinking ...# pick up

your artichokes and your chickpeas or whatever it is you have got. stepping up to a unique challenge. this is leila and this is her seniors fitness class. she started it during lockdown and it has become an online community. mainly in their70s, theyjoin herfrom around the world with canned vegetables instead of weights. and to mark the marathon, this week, wherever they are, they have been set a collective challenge. together our community is going to walk a0 marathons before sunday. wow, that is a lot of marathons! it is. a0th london marathon this year, so a0 marathons for us and i think it will be about 3 million steps in total. we have had step counts on the beach, pictures with the angel of the north, dog walks getting the steps up. we are one big happy family, we sing happy birthday on each other‘s birthdays. they know all my children's names, i know their grandchildren's names. they join us live for quiz nights, you know, we know so much about each other and it is amazing how you can

create an online community. normally, of course, the london marathon is open to thousands of runners. not this year. but inventive ideas like this are involving people in a whole new way. i always try and do 10,000 steps a day, but now it is a real push, no, it has to be more because i think we all want to do it. and what have you been doing to help boost up the step count? we have got a garden that needs some attention, so we have done some gardening. cleaning. just doing bits of exercise while i'm getting the tea ready. we have got a very special guest here. if you move a little bit in. michael has got his tin cans, what have you got here, michael? hula hoops. and the class have the backing of a former england cricket captain, no less. a man who certainly knows all about the power

of sport. activity over the course at the last six months has been so important for everybody. a lot of senior people out there are locked away, and have not really been able to get outdoors and this is one way of them kind of participating in an event that maybe they wouldn't have done in the past. the challenge is also for charity, for the christie hospital in manchester. it is the class raising funds, as well as making friends. oh, it is so nice to see you all! andy swiss, bbc news. sarah will be running the marathon and will be joined for the last two miles by her six—year—old daughter isabelle, who was born with a heart defect. we can speak to them both now. cani can ijust can i just say, can ijust say, first of can i just say, first of all, can ijust say, first of all, i love the matching outfits. you've dressed up. and

there is your darling daughter waiting to grab your hand and pull you through the last couple of miles. it can be pretty emotional. yeah, i can't wait and miles. it can be pretty emotional. yeah, i can't waitand i can't miles. it can be pretty emotional. yeah, i can't wait and i can't way to run, holding her hand at something i never thought i would be able to do when she is in her hospital bed and not a well, so she isa hospital bed and not a well, so she is a miracle and definitely my reason for doing it. can i just ask you, is the plan because you know money is going to be quite tired and when you see her at that stage is the plan that you are going to pull her along because you are going to hold hands, do you think you're going to have to give her a

the more people cheering, the better, running around bicester there are going to be lots of people out there in the pouring rain, i hear, so as much support as possible for anyone running around bicester and around the country, brilliant. sarah, can we get a big wave? fabulous. that is not bad, lovely to see you both this morning, good luck tomorrow and there will be people turning out to watch. bear in mind, every time we say this, all social

distancing rules apply and anyone who is running has been doing that and knows the situation, but yes, good luck to everyone who is going to run, regardless. shall we talk to matt, who is talking to us —— like taking over from us matt, who is talking to us —— like taking overfrom us at 10am matt, who is talking to us —— like taking over from us at 10am with saturday kitchen. you have got that face, you'rejust saturday kitchen. you have got that face, you're just not quite sure, are you? i don't know where it is going to go. where would you like it to go? have you run a marathon?” knew you're going to say that and no, i haven't. does it surprise you, really? no, no! my attention span, i couldn't even speu attention span, i couldn't even spell it, let alone run one, to be honest. however, this week i did a wing walk. that's something you should try that fabulous. what you're that for? i've been doing it for the royal air force association. my for the royal air force association. my mistake, but isn't wing walking basically standing still? yes, it is wing standing. but the people who do

it properly, these two fabulous girls do it properly, they get up at the seat mid air, 1a0 miles an hour, it is incredible to watch. i literally just stood there it is incredible to watch. i literallyjust stood there but it was still truly exhilarating.” could go on. you arejust technically telling us where you just stood for a bit. yes, it was quite dangerous, quite exciting, though. i hope your programme is more exciting. what, then our chat's know, the new standing still telling us all about it, crack on! well, it is, because our special guest today is, because our special guest today is the fabulous actor peter davidson. lovely to have you with us. you we're going to talk about my lifelong obsession in just us. you we're going to talk about my lifelong obsession injust a bit, but for now let's talk about our obsession, food heaven and food health. food heaven for you?l obsession, food heaven and food health. food heaven for you? a nice bit of gammon, with leeks, carrots, just lovely. simple tastes. what about hell? rice pudding. that came with some gravitas! i don't know why

it is, ijust can't bear a rice pudding. never could. i hate it. cyrus is here with two blockbuster dishes, what are you making?‘ cyrus is here with two blockbuster dishes, what are you making? a very simple caroline currie. it is national curry week next week,.m is curry week and the egg has lots of protein and we have lots of in a guinness one, so yes, an egg curry. and then again to support our marine coastline and all the seafood, in the second but we are doing fresh haddock with mussels and clams and is slightly spiced sauce filled with fennel and leeks. very, very nice. peggy mitchell is at home polishing her glasses. again! how are you? very well, sorry, ijust noticed the state of them! another big night, was it? still doing the washing up!

i like the lip gloss today, though. i will be producing a tasty beef dish ata i will be producing a tasty beef dish at a pizza is well and don't forget to go to our website to vote forget to go to our website to vote for what pizza we eat in the finale. we will see you at 10am. you have now inspired me. i haven't eaten a curry for so long i'm going to cook an egg curry this weekend. love an 999 an egg curry this weekend. love an egg curry! thank you, have a brilliant programme. 9:33am is the time. it's been nearly a year since the 25th james bond film was first scheduled for release, but thanks to production delays and the global pandemic it has been postponed for a third time. no time to die, which was due to come out next month, will now be in cinemas in april 2021. let's speak now to entertainment journalist, caroline frost. caroline, how surprised are you by this? iam caroline, how surprised are you by this? i am just because the trailers we re this? i am just because the trailers were in the cinemas and we were flagging up the trail are not so long ago. oh, yes. there were has been so much hype attached to this project. unfortunately it has still

failed to happen. originally scheduled for the summer earlier and that was a big decision just to bump into october is now to it once again back to spring 2021. i don't think any of the team behind this enormous project are going to breathe properly and easily until they are sitting in the cinema and that james bond theme tune has once again begun. what we know about the reasons? why the delay? well, the budget on this is enormous, it is the 25th bond outing, the fifth and a p pa re ntly the 25th bond outing, the fifth and apparently final outing for daniel craig as james bond. they want him to go out with a bang, not a whimper, so obviously they must feel like this film has been cursed. we have had a script changes, changing director, we have even had the leading man being injured and then of course the pandemic, so the reasons are that with so much money involved they cannot afford to just play this out onto lesser platforms. this is a big budget, big—screen exercise and i think that they are

just sitting tight and hoping that that day will come. realistically, they can't recoup anything like that money, which is the £250 million budget, until it is in the big screens and people are munching on the popcorn and injuring in what we now see as a very the popcorn and injuring in what we now see as a very old—fashioned and taken for granted now see as a very old—fashioned and ta ken for granted style. now see as a very old—fashioned and taken for granted style. it is all about the money at the end of the day in terms of the film production company, but then you think about the other side of it at the cinemas he would love to have people back in. how much would they have liked to have a big film like this, may be is the thing that makes them think, you know what? i will go to the cinema. but now they don't have it. this is what we saw in the summer and of course huge amounts of goodwill for christopher nolan and his big film, but i think people are very loyal and very behind it, but u nfortu nately very loyal and very behind it, but unfortunately this is an even bigger film than that and the thing to say about james bond as this isn't about daniel craig's next swimming pool. he can afford to take this massive hit. there is massive thousands of

credits you see at the end of every blockbuster like this, those are not much to daniel craig and a part of the huge ecosystem to the british film industry and they are just crossing their fingers are waiting for the next gig and until that film comes back into cinemas and studios they can't green light those next projects that are just lifelines for this people, so it really is important. karen, thank you very much. the time now is 9:36am. time to talk to mike, good morning. so, from the film industry being hit by a coronavirus to all businesses but we talk to, retailers, all the lives of course and sport notwithstanding. especially so this weekend, a big call, a big decision to make in by. we are expecting to hear later this morning from premiership rugby about whether sale sharks can play their crucial end of regular season match tomorrow, despite half their first team testing positive for coronavirus. i went to see sale in training back in august, as contact rugby resumed — with lots of safety measures in place.

these are pictures from then and we don't know the identities of the 16 players who tested positive. sale insist that after consulting health care officials, their match against worcester can go ahead safely, using some reserve team players. if the game doesn't happen, they would forfeit the match, 20—0. that could cost them a play—off place, as they're in the top four, on points difference only. however, opponents worcester aren't so sure. they've released a statement, saying they've had no confirmation that protocols and procedures can be met, for it to take place safely. and discussions are still ongoing with premiership rugby and public health officials. clubs have been given until noon today to name their teams. premiership rugby will make the final call. the big prize in rugby league this season is even more unique this season, according to some of the leeds rhinos. both challenge cup semi—finals are live on the bbc today — leeds against 19—time champions wigan warriors. that's followed by salford against warrington on bbc two. the first match on bbc one.

it'll set up a final in an empty wembley stadium later this month, and one rhinos star says his teamates are seeing the positives, in such a one—off occasion. it is almost going to be one of those surreal ones that if you do make it to wembley and play in front of no crowd, it will probably end up being magical in itself because of obviously the difference, we will a lwa ys obviously the difference, we will always look back and go, remember 2020 when we had no fans. we had bulls building up quite nicely over the last few years, so we are in good stead, going up against some pretty top opponents. liverpool have 2 players now self—isolating, after positive coronavirus tests. the striker marney was one of ten cases in the latest round of tests, the most to date. the forward displayed minor symptoms, but the club say he's healthy and is now self—isolating. he's the second player to test positive, after new signing thiago alcantara. thiago alcantara tested positive early in the week.

it means marney will miss sunday's premier league match against aston villa. the third round of golf‘s scottish open is just getting under way and ian poulter is one of three english players in the hunt for the lead. he'll tee off this afternoon alongside fellow englishman lee westwood. they're both on 9 under par. that's one shot off the leading brit robert rock and two behind the leader, australia's lucas herbert. and georgia hall and mel reid, are very much in contention at the halfway stage of the shop—rite lp. ga classic in newjersey. reid in the pictures here, fired a round—of—the—day 6a to get within a shot of the lead. after missing out on the tour de france, gareint thomas sets out today on a three—week long challenge, to win the giro d'italia, the race he crashed out of three years ago. it could be a real battle of britain — simon yates, of the, mitchelton scott team, could be his main rival out on the road. he is obviously one of the key guys, he has won the bolter in the past

and knows how to win a three—week race and he certainly going to be up there, but there are certainly a lot of other guys as well. it is a strong field, but of course i will be watching him, but there are a few other guys as well that will get their way up the road. sausages, lego and german football. . . . not words you normally put together, but a 12—year—old lad from sussex has become a sensation in germany, after building replicas of their main football stadiums... out of lego. he uses around 6000 bricks to complete his masterpieces — and he's got more invitations to take his models to bundesliga clubs, once travel restrictions are lifted. this week i went to meet him. and as for the sausages? in a corner of crawley, one boy's vision is building. brick by brick, wall by wall, stand by stand. 12—year—old joe bryant is on a mission to construct replicas of all the top german football league stadiums out of lego. he started three years

ago and has already completed 13. hi,joe! great to meet you. i'll be careful where i tread, there are some stewards down there. wow, this is ridiculous, incredible! the detail, fantastic! you're an ipswich town fan, so how come the bundesliga? how did it all start? well, i started building stands around a subbuteo pitch, then when i went on holiday i watched a lot of german football and as i was in love with german football at the time, i decided to build german stadiums. the fans are great and the stadiums are all unique and they also have amazing bratwurst. the sausages! i love that, so it was the sausages that did it. how long does it take you to build one of these from laying the first brick? well, dortmund took me six weeks, about an hour or two hours a day. it used to take about 3,000 bricks, but now

they've got bigger and more, like, detailed, so now it's about 5,000-6,000 bricks per stadium. let's get this straight, these aren't built from any plan that you get off the internet, built by numbers? there's no plan. the fans and the clubs, say i haven't visited the stadium, they will send me pictures which is very kind of them because it always helps out for me to judge the stadiums. it's very rewarding when the finishing piece is close to the real thing. joe's years of patience were rewarded before lockdown when his family carefully transported the masterpieces to germany to present them to the relevant clubs. these moments you treasure, and these memories you will keep forever. and the great thing is as well, he goes out to germany and they treat him like a superstar. he's like a little celebrity over there, so it's really cool. the fans all want pictures with him, the clubs are great, the players are great. i can't think the bundesliga and the clubs enough. it's an amazing story. i mean, what would you tell your

son, if he doesn't know what to do in his spare time? obviously he became really popular because he could be a role model for all the young children. so it's a huge effort, and i think it's really, really adorable. many of the clubs have kept their models to put on display, and help cover the cost of replacing the thousands of bricks used. it's just amazing, because all of the fans can see it, and it stays up forever and ever and it's very gutting, though, if i have to knock it down. joe's not finished yet, with more stadiums to take to germany once coronavirus restrictions allow. i discovered it's even more intricate and fiddly than it looks. you need light hands, because my dad tried to push a brick on cologne and then half the stand fell down. my mum also dropped a hoover on augsburg. i did ban my dad from my room for two weeks. i genuinely don't know where this will take me. i am very into sport, into football.

i would like to become a footballer or something to do with designing stadiums. i'm sure stadium developers would bite his hand off to get involved! hisjust got a bite his hand off to get involved! his just got a unique mind bite his hand off to get involved! hisjust got a unique mind to be able to visualise first putting those bricked down and then visualising how it takes shape from just pictures! yes, the camera when it is low like that inside the grounds look terrific. the real thing, like full size. yeah, grounds look terrific. the real thing, like fullsize. yeah, i grounds look terrific. the real thing, like full size. yeah, i love the idea that his mum dropped the hoover on augsburg, which thankfully has been rebuilt. yes, i thought it was quite brave to have you anywhere near something like that. a bit cack—handed. with your propensity for... that is why i only did the first of all and that was that after that. it could have gone badly wrong. i wasn't going to do the final piece! no one but you anywhere near dominoes when you built the domino tracks todayknow, but i do

know a cameraman who is going to film that an mistakenly knocked down a whole lot. oh! thank you very much. let's have a look at the weather for the weekend, would much. let's have a look at the weatherfor the weekend, would have the chris has got all the details. you might not like it though. no, indeed. whatever you're doing the chances are it is going to be raining and for some of us is that there is a lot of weight rain on the way. met office weather warnings in force across the west midlands, wales, south—west england and eastern areas of scotland, where over the high ground we could see as much as 20 millimetres of rain, an awful lot of rain and it could cause problems with flooding. once this rain band has moved and it really just doesn't shift much for most of us through the day. that said, northern ireland is not looking too bad and there will be some brighter weather here, maybe the odd shower. the rain does tend to drift away from south—east england for the afternoon, but otherwise expensive rain and becoming quite windy across wales and south—west england with gales developing as more rain

overnight. as these easterly wind strength and across eastern scotland, we could see some real problems with the rain really been shoved into the mountains of aberdeenshire and the grampians could well see some flooding issues building an overnight here. more rain to come tomorrow from the same slow—moving area of low pressure. central areas will be a bit brighter, but with a risk of showers and generally windier conditions across many areas with gales developing. the rain the main story this weekend, i could see some flooding problems filling in due to the accumulation of that range to the accumulation of that range to the course of that weekend. back to you too. have a great weekend! it is just gone 9:a5am. he's trekked the globe, and led expeditions through rainforests and deserts — but earlier this year, 8a—year—old explorer robin hanbury—tenison faced one of the toughest challenges of his life. in march he was diagnosed with coronavirus, and was given a slim chance of survival. but after five weeks in intensive care, he's now back at home and doing what he does best... let's take a look at

robin's remarkable story. i have been an explorer all my life and over the last 60 plus years have travelled in most of the rainforests and deserts of the world, and visited over 100 different tribes and started the whole rainforest movement by leading a major scientific expedition borneo with 130 scientists, who worked out why rainforests really matter. the team at derriford were flawless and we can't thank them all or be prouder of them. for five weeks my father was sedated. coronavirus was too severe. he had multiple organ donation failure, he was on full ventilation, full dialysis and had secondary infections and we were told we weren't going to be able to come and say goodbye, but to make our peace with it because he was going to die. the moment when i actually woke up and knew that i was going to live was the moment when i was wheeled out by four nurses in a big bed with

tubes coming out of everywhere and i arrived in the healing garden they have got at derriford, i think the first in any hospital in england. and i opened my eyes, saw the sunshine, saw the flowers and that was the moment when my life was saved, by the healing power of nature. robinjoins us live from bodmin in cornwall. good to see you. you talk about the healing power of nature. i know it is not the best of days in terms of it is windy and rainy, but it is glorious behind you and that is what it is all about, isn't it? absolutely. what a weather forecast! we arejust heading absolutely. what a weather forecast! we are just heading off to climb round here and it is going to be quite a day! my purpose is to raise as much money as possible for other healing gardens because cornwall doesn't have one ash tree list. we have got a site for it and a funding

page and we are going to raise as much money as we can for healing gardens everywhere because they work. robin, it isjust worth explaining to people bejourney work. robin, it isjust worth explaining to people be journey you have been on as at one point we just heard on that piece, real question marks about whether you would be with us at all now. you were that ill, and yet today you're going to climb the highest hill in cornwall, isn't it? it is. it is co-op's highest mountain and exactly five months to the day to day that i was let out of hospital finally and i was told that it would take a month for every week that i was in intensive care and this is five months to the day, so i should be able to do it. i have been doing lots of physio, lots of walking, getting fit and were heading off into storm alex. well, despite storm alex how long do you think it will ta ke alex how long do you think it will take on how far is it? let's give people the idea of the kind of challenge ahead of you today. well, it will take an hour or so to climb

the mountain. i am starting from the foot of the hill at a remote farm and then i'm hoping to get there by about 12:30pm, spent a bit of time of there having a picnic and then i'm able to walk back the long way to jamaica i'm able to walk back the long way tojamaica inn,, i'm able to walk back the long way to jamaica inn,, which i'm able to walk back the long way tojamaica inn,, which is i'm able to walk back the long way to jamaica inn,, which is where we we re to jamaica inn,, which is where we were going to originally start before the rule of six men we would have to travel in our little bubble. that is about 3.5 miles and will ta ke that is about 3.5 miles and will take a couple of hours at the rate we will be going through the heavy rain. you were in intensive care and we heard that. we have been talking a lot about and it's something we're all really interested in, how you are recovering city have been in hospital and how the has affected you. i have been incredibly lucky because what happens with coronavirus is that people of my age normally die did back in march stopped i was one of the few who slipped through. there is a thing called long covid—19, which i seem

to have escaped. a lot of young people are suffering horrible after effects with palpitations and all sorts of things. i was very weak when i came out of hospital, i could barely walk five yards with a zimmer frame. but i have worked on it and i have very little after—effects left. iam have very little after—effects left. i am slightly short of breath, i feel a bit tired sometimes, but i'm incredibly lucky and thanks to those amazing doctors and nurses who really saw me through that difficult time at derriford hospital, i am pretty much all right again now and i think pretty much all right again now and ithink i'm pretty much all right again now and i think i'm going to make it up to the top of the mountain. it is wonderful to hear that. you will correct me if i'm wrong, but you strike me as a kind of slightly stiff upper lip person and i don't know this before because we haven't met, but when you were in the dark days when you were in hospital and yourfamily are days when you were in hospital and your family are outside, you days when you were in hospital and yourfamily are outside, you clearly had some very difficult moments when they are trying to contend with the thought that they are being told you may well not survive. and then a

moment in time when you knew, don't know how, but instinctively that you would and then you had a zoom call. can you tell us a little bit about going from the one place to then knowing somehow it was going to be ok? knowing somehow it was going to be 0k? well, it knowing somehow it was going to be ok? well, it was extraordinary. i was hallucinating a lot, which you do with coronavirus. i was coming in and out of consciousness, the wonders of modern technology with facetime i was able to talk to my family. they were able to keep me in touch with reality by taking me round the garden, showing the plants and making me name them. because i was talking rubbish most of the time. but there were moments of lucidity and the great one, the great breakthrough, which is what all this is based on, is that moment when i was wheeled out into a healing garden and i knew i was going to live. it sounds wacky, but it is true. the power of nature really kicked in and i think everybody should benefit from that, including the staff, who need to get away into a peaceful area in those

dreadful, also hard work of being in an intensive care unit. so for everybody‘s sake, we should have healing gardens in every hospital. that is my ambition. well, it is a wonderfulfort and that is my ambition. well, it is a wonderful fort and i that is my ambition. well, it is a wonderfulfort and i am so glad you're well. good luck today in your climb and! you're well. good luck today in your climb and i think i can speak on behalf of everyone. for us, a little look at that just behind you beautiful surroundings there and i think we have all got a little bit of what you're talking about that you have given us this morning, so thank you. thank you very much. good luck. look at that, beautiful! just stunning, it doesn't matter what the weather is like, it is just so lovely. our next guest. we're going to let our next guest introduce himself as his voice has got to be one of the most recognised on british television. and now, live from bbc breakfast... ..from west london... ..it‘s peter dickson! applause

that is one of the best introductions we have ever done for anyone on bbc breakfast. you know how to deliver a big line! thank you very much. i know you are thinking, you are thinking what is a good—looking man like him been doing hiding behind the scenes all these yea rs ? hiding behind the scenes all these years? it is anybody‘s yes, i don't know why either! do some basics for us, peter, first of all we see a lot of people on these calls in their home environments. what is this? is this your living room or kitchen's what are we in? no, this is a padded cell. it is an airtight padded cell, in which no one can hear me scream, which is probably just in which no one can hear me scream, which is probablyjust as well because i do a lot of that. this is my bunker, i call it my bunker or my studio, where i spend most of my days recording and doing life worked as a voice artist, so this is my office. do you know, i think some people might be a bit confused just hearing your normal voice, so i think we should show them a little bit of the work you have done on some of the programme

is your best known for and then we'll chat and a second. announcer: tonight... ..for the first time... ..the x factor final is live... ..from wembley arena! it's time... ..to face... ..the music! applause live. . .from london... ..it‘s the final of britain's got talent! and now, please welcome your hosts, ant and dec! it is such fun hearing that. first of all, can i ask you you have got a book out talking about your life and everything you have learnt over the voice—overs. is

there some rule that we are not allowed to see you when you're doing the big voice? what i'm asking is can you just prove to people that if the person we can see there does that big voice we just heard on the voice? and we hear it and see you at the same time? of course you can, there is no problem with that at all. it is time... to face me... on bbc breakfast! they gum go, we have seen it, it is true! it is true. i would have thought she would use hands and need to be standing and it would all be a bit more theatrical. well, of course when i'm doing it for real if i'm doing a proper session i like to use my physicality, my hands, absolutely right, so it can get quite energetic at times and because these sessions can go on for quite some time it can get quite hot in the booth, so i end up get quite hot in the booth, so i end up at the end of an x factor session usually having to host me down with towels and things in cold water. yes, it can get quite tiring. the

list of the show is endless, price is right, family fortunes, all the shows now with those big voices we have just heard. can shows now with those big voices we havejust heard. can ijust ask shows now with those big voices we have just heard. can ijust ask as the director ever said to you, peter, can you give me a bit more? it isa peter, can you give me a bit more? it is a bit low—key, i needed bigger, peter? oralternatively have you had occasions where they have gone, you need to calm down, frankly? turn it down a bit? actually, both, but on x factor for insta nce actually, both, but on x factor for instance if you go back to series one on x factor if you listen to me then you're probably agree was a bit low— key then you're probably agree was a bit low—key and every year for the last 15 years i had simon cowell say to me, can you make it bigger and louder? and at the end i was sounding like a bond villain, screaming those lines out to!” started reading your book and it just made me chuckle when i think you are in a voice—over booth and there was someone telling you to be more like a dog, was it? you must

have had some absurd jobs! where you probably would just be sitting there just thinking, why? how on earth did i get here? well, that particular commercial was for dog food and have me barking for about an hour in a booth, pretending i was a dog, and i began to think to myself, how did milos ever come to this? it really is an extraordinaryjob and as you say very varied. from one minute i am doing a corporate video for a big blue—chip company and the next minute barking like a dog on a pet food commercial. it is a ridiculous job, but it is one that i have loved and the book i wrote is because i wa nted and the book i wrote is because i wanted to write a love story to the profession i have loved and also to act as a beacon of light to those who come behind me, to warn them of the perils and dangers and pitfalls that will be waiting for the unwary. peter, i know the book is called voice—over man, it is the extraordinary story of the professional actor. we have one

request. ten seconds, peter, can you say goodbye in five seconds to our audience this morning? well, that's it from me and that is it from bbc brea kfast! it from me and that is it from bbc breakfast! goodbye! logo, peter dickson! have a lovely weekend.

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