this is bbc world news, the headlines... in a video message from hospital, president trump says he's doing well — but that the next few days will be crucial as he continues his treatment for coronavirus. i'm starting to feel good. you don't know — over the next period of a few days, i guess that's the real test, so we'll be seeing what happens over the next couple of days. the uk government blames a technical error after the daily number of new confirmed coronavirus cases nearly doubles from the day before — to almost 13,000. and runners from all over the world are taking part in the first ever virtual london marathon. the paper review coming up very

shortly. more now on our top story — donald trump's doctor has said the president has made ‘substantial progress‘ since his coronavirus diagnosis — but that he's "not yet out of the woods‘. mr trump himself recorded a video message from hospital, saying that the next few days would be the real test, but that he was ‘starting to feel good‘ and would be back at work soon. icame i came here, wasn‘t feeling so well. feel much better now. we‘re working hard to get me all the way back. i have to be back, because we still have to make america great again. we‘ve done an awfully good job of that, but we still have steps to go, and we have to finish thatjob. and i‘ll be back — i think i‘ll be back soon. and i look forward to finishing up the campaign the way it was started and way we‘ve been doing, and the kind of numbers that we‘ve been doing.

we‘ve been so proud of it. but this was something that happened, and it‘s happened to millions of people all over the world, and i‘m fighting for them, notjust in the us. i‘m fighting for them all over the world. we‘re going to beat this coronavirus, or whatever you want to call it, and we‘re going to beat it soundly. so many things have happened. if you look at the therapeutics which i‘m taking right now, some of them, and others are coming out soon that‘re looking like, frankly, they‘re miracles, if you want to know the truth. they‘re miracles. people criticise me when i say that, but we have things happening that look like they‘re miracles, coming down from god. so ijust want to tell you that i‘m starting to feel good. you don‘t know — over the next period of a few days, i guess that‘s the real test, so we‘ll be seeing what happens over the next couple of days. i just want to be so thankful for all of the support i‘ve seen, whether it‘s on television or reading about it. i most of all appreciate what‘s been said by the american people, by almost a bipartisan

consensus of american people. it‘s a beautiful thing to see, and i very much appreciate it, and i won‘t forget it — i promise you that. i also want to thank the leaders of the world for their condolences. they know what we are going through. they know, as your leader, what i have to go through. but i had no choice, because i just didn‘t want to stay in the white house. i was given that alternative — stay in the white house, lock yourself in, don‘t ever leave, don‘t even go to the oval office. just stay upstairs and enjoy it. don‘t see people, don‘t talk to people and just be done with it. and i can‘t do that. i had to be out front. and this is america, this is the united states, this is the greatest country in the world, this is the most powerful country in the world. i can‘t be locked up in a room upstairs and totally safe and just say, "hey, whatever happens happens" — i can‘t do that.

we have to confront problems. as a leader you have to confront problems. there‘s never been a great leader that would have done that. so, that‘s where it is. i‘m doing well. i want to thank everybody. our first lady is doing very well. melania asked me to say something as to the respect that she has for our country, the love that she has for our country. and we‘re both doing well. melania is really handling it very nicely. as you‘ve probably read, she‘s slightly younger than me — just a little, tiny bit — and therefore, just, we know the disease, we know the situation with age versus younger people, and melania‘s handling it statistically like it‘s supposed to be handled, and that makes me very happy and it makes the country very happy. but i am also doing well, and i think we‘re going to have a very good result. sir christopher meyer a former uk ambassador to the united states — hejoins me now from south london. he is already the beneficiary of that because people revere the institution of presidency as well as the person occupying the job and you‘ll benefit significantly on this particularly if he recovers. if after ten days, two weeks, whatever,

we discover he is getting back to normal, then i think you will be riding a wave of sympathy which we will be able to exploit in the election. you think that wave of sympathy could swing the election for him? it might. might not. i don‘t know. there are two things we don‘t know. there are two things we don‘t know. there are two things we don‘t know at the moment which you really do need to know. one is how sick is he? we don‘t know, there are convicting —— conflicting signals. the other thing we don‘t know is, among the electors, those who still have not cast their vote, how will this cut? which way will it go? we don‘t know that and all i‘m saying to you as a hypothesis and said it is thatjoe biden is not a shoe in asa is thatjoe biden is not a shoe in as a result of this. trump could come back on a wave of sympathy and ican come back on a wave of sympathy and i can see him in some stadium somewhere saying, i confronted

coronavirus and i won. that‘s the american spirit. that could take a long way. of course, by the end of the week, he may be dead but we just need not to jump to too many conclusions at the moment about what all this means. how does joe biden play this? galaxy is doing it exactly as he should. he‘s gone in as the straight man, decent man, voice of the common people, someone who will restore order and respect to the united states. he‘s not fla m boya nt to the united states. he‘s not flamboyant in terms of being a contenderfor flamboyant in terms of being a contender for the presidency. flamboyant in terms of being a contenderfor the presidency. he is calm and quiet on the way he has reacted so far, sending a message of sympathy to donald trump and milani at trump, is exactly the right way to do it. —— donald trump and melania trump. will americans want to punish donald trump for being careless in terms of

his personal precautions against the virus, not taking precautions and so on? but also people not very well socially distancing or wearing masks? is that an embodiment of the coronavirus problems the country has had? and coronavirus problems the country has had ? and therefore coronavirus problems the country has had? and therefore will he be punished at the polls for that? you might be. one of the things we don‘t know at the moment is how this is going to cut with the american voters. we know from twitter and social media there are millions of people, hundreds of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people out there saying to trump, serves you right. we have been careless with our lives, careless with covid and now you‘re being careless with yourself and your wife and you will pay the penalty. people will be convinced if they were not before biden is the man to vote for but all i‘m saying is it won‘t necessarily work out that way and we have to have that in our minds. quite right great to talk to you as

ever. “— quite right great to talk to you as ever. -- great to talk to you as ever. now on bbc news, it‘s time for the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the property and personal finance commentator, anne ashworth and the features writer at the independent, james rampton. let‘s take a look at the front pages, starting with... many of them are leading with president trump is my condition in hospital. sunday times saying he is entrusting his recovery to an experimental drug, describing him as a human guinea pig. the sunday telegraph saying he was given oxygen on friday night is as vital signs

are said to be very concerning. the 0bserver saying confusion over the true state of his health has raised doubts over transparency at the white house and in other news, the star has a photograph of boris johnson was my father sitting in an airport is not covering his face with a mask. the paper claims it‘s the second time in a week in pictures without wearing a mask properly. and hello, david attenborough, that is the sunday express outline. just on princess george adley, princess charlotte putting your questions about their favourite animals to the 94—year—old broadcaster. james, kickers off. trump gambling on radical new drug to be virus but saying he could walk out today. we‘ve seen this video message of him since the papers went to press in which he shown quite a

lot of fighting spirit. he is put to use a phrase from him, it‘s hard to divide what is fake news here. —— define what is fake news. we had sean connolly giving a very positive diagnosis, saying he seems well and could walk out of your today, and then mark meadows, the chief of staff, briefly pressed to say some of the vital signs had been very concerning and he wasn‘t out of the woods yet, so it‘s an extremely confused picture. the waters are muddied and, as always with trump, he, the people around him, seem to be sowing confusion and i don‘t think that will help him, i think in this position, clarity is needed and that does not seem to be forthcoming which is worrying for all of us. in the sunday telegraph have him being given oxygen as the vital signs are

concerning which sounds dramatic but then you see him doing the video message and working in hospital, you think, well, maybe it‘s not that bad. i think it's quite interesting as he obviously had oxygen in order to be able to leave the white house and climb on the helicopter to go to the hospital to present this image of invincibility that he likes to portray. anybody listening to the former ambassador to the us said we do not know how sick he is. these are the days and covid—19 when you can see perfectly well that might seem perfectly well but you may well turn a corner and grow much worse. what is quite interesting as the progress being made on the drugs for this virus. we see the president is going to be getting a drug that was invented for ebola but also this new

court tale from another company which, as the sunday times so tells us which, as the sunday times so tells us further down the story, will start being as ministers to some patients in the north of england in areas where coronavirus is most rife. the sunday mirror have got a different take, they are saying, trump, willi different take, they are saying, trump, will i die? in hospital, he was, it‘s claimed, was asking if he was, it‘s claimed, was asking if he was going out like stan shearer, a long—time friend who died at the age of 77 from the virus in april. again, the sort of front pages seem a bit out of date when you see him doing a long video message from the hospital. guess. but i echo whatl answered. the crunch point of this infection often only comes after 7-10 infection often only comes after 7—10 days so we are not doctors so i don‘t think we should be leaping to

diagnose him from one video but i do think the mirror headline is really good because whatever your political persuasion, it underlines that this isa human persuasion, it underlines that this is a human being in a very frightening situation and it‘s a very human reaction. many people, myself included, even eyes them in the past but we have to remember he isa human the past but we have to remember he is a human being in the midst of a terrifying situation and he has given a response many of us would have done in his position.|j given a response many of us would have done in his position. i suppose the huge question, we were talking to the former british ambassador to washington about this, is how does it affect the election? there a question of health, everyone is concerned about herself but politically you cannot escape the crucial question, does this help or hinder in the election? it depends what happens in the next few days but i think it‘s possible this could garner him some support. we heard

about the reverence people have for the presidency and incumbent presidents and they may gather around him feeling that he may have made mistakes in the past but he has been punished for those errors in dealing with coronavirus and he may be the man to take them forward, and two or three weeks ago, we thought joe biden was a shoe in. that may no longer be so but you cannot say enough, we do not know what lies ahead for donald trump despite the extraordinary medical care he is receiving because he is a man who is overweight and of a certain age. we will leave trump and his coronavirus for now. let talk about the pandemic you‘re in the uk because in the 0bserver, they have a headline from sir kier starmer, labour leader,

saying he has lost control. boris johnson,. and he has been quite supportive so far but this is a pretty strong criticism. while you‘re on the subject of the 0bserver, as a journalist, i love this, they picked out possibly world‘s best headline to go back to trump from the air advertising turnberry hotel yea posts positive for coronavirus. turning to kier starmer, you‘re right, very supportive up until now. some peer pressure from the labour party ouster boris structure, whom of incompetence, saying his lefty british people confused and angry, andi british people confused and angry, and i cannot help but agree with that. he is someone who told his sister when he was a child that he wa nts to sister when he was a child that he wants to be world king but now he

looks like the king of chaos, such a shambolic response and it embarrasses me that this country, the fifth biggest economy in the roles, has responded so badly to a pandemic. so many elements where we‘ve gone wrong and i think starmer, this is the moment it‘s absolutely right to point out in the government response and say they‘ve got to be better. white might be telegraph has an interesting story about testing rules possibly being revamped because this is common for a lot of criticism, they need to quarantine for 14 days not perhaps necessary. there is talking in the wrappings in germany. you know

within six minutes, to the quarantine times. i think we need to see this within the context of the need to save the airline industry because whatever you think about the factory have flown too much on the impact on the environment, a healthy democracy and economy needs to be donein democracy and economy needs to be done in the tory party conference would be... ifeel like the messaging has been woeful. if you... the message changes, nobody is clear, one wonderful idea is unveiled, then it‘s quite clear it cannot be achieved, the two get clear on what they need to say and

maybe try to over execute on their plans rather than woefully letting us plans rather than woefully letting us down the whole time. one of the consequences economically is the cinema and a front—page story on that in the times which follows the postponement yet again of the latest james bond film and cinema odds, which is a huge chain of cinemas, talking about closing all their cinemas, which up catastrophic. 5500 jobs are at risk. the producers of the new james bond jobs are at risk. the producers of the newjames bond movie, a time to die, have been spooked by the lack of response to the christopher nolan blockbuster tenet which performed very low expectations wise. so they have postponed the release until april at so many cinema chains were hanging all their hopes on 007

saving the world once again but u nfortu nately saving the world once again but unfortunately the consequences will be cataclysmic for the cinema industry because everything was hinging on that one movie and now it is not coming out until next april sadly it looks like many cinema as we‘ll see another emphasis of how devastating this crisis has been both to our health and economy. the star have another fine mess. stanley johnson, the prime minister was my father, again not wearing a mask properly. he has it around his chin while reading a book. that is a p pa re ntly while reading a book. that is apparently called the chin diaper in america, which is the phrase for it, but not a good look. it is not. i think it looks more like a hammock for a double chin. why do so many people feel like the mask is effective when swung under the chin?

0ur prime minister‘s father sporting this look and it‘s big in supermarkets everywhere, i‘ve begun to challenge people on this and say, could you pull your mascot, please because indeed that‘s what we need, face coverings are required, whether you like it or not, and i really do think stanley could give his son a break and try to behave a bit better. had thrown at people setting examples. isn‘t it? we‘ve many examples. isn‘t it? we‘ve many examples. margaret ferrier allegedly travelling from london to scotland this week having tested positive. white might not allegedly. she has confirmed she did actually do that. she has but so far refused to resign and so setting a dress for example

the and refusing to take the encouragement of our party leader and give up her seat. the father of the prime minister setting a woeful example. this is the second time this week. picture in a shop earlier this week. picture in a shop earlier this week. picture in a shop earlier this week without a mask on. boris johnson hardly needs people to make his position worse let alone his own father but that's what stanley... and what a great headline, is doing to his son this week. we are all starting to think about christmas and whether that will be any fun at all. interesting story from the sunday times about how turkey farmers are thinking of downsizing the size of turkeys because with a row six, you don‘t need a big turkey on the table for one thing i would say as i read these size turkeys have to be and i started to get quite hungry for christmas food but

it seems as though if the rule of six that we can be in no gathering of six, we will not need later the size of an ostrich, we will need a petite bird and turkey farmers are preparing for this but hasn‘t it been sort of intimated that the rule of six may be circumvented or suspended for christmas? again, another example of messaging on which there is no clarity. but if you had thought that christmas was cancelled, evidently not, we will still be eating turkey and it will not be the kind of bridge or struggle to get into the oven which ta kes struggle to get into the oven which takes hours to cook. james, i can imagine you are diving into the turkey. how can you say that? but you‘re right. i‘m intrigued that farmers say they will put their turkey on a diet. i think that is a

good example to follow but mixed messages. first on the government saying students will not allowed home for christmas which i think is a appalling idea, then saying they might not cancel christmas and we might not cancel christmas and we might be able to have six full or —— more than six people. what on earth is going on? the government seem to be the last who know. it‘s a total shambles. finally to the sunday telegraph on a cooking theme, a royal grilling for sir david attenborough and the lovely royal children, very cute, as they ask questions to sir david about animals, wildlife and so on. and with your princely talk which, in the documentary, he asks david attenborough what his favourite animal is. isn‘t it great that one newspaper has given us a story that makes us smile? charming children getting ready for the public role

but very interestingly, how the duke and duchess of cambridge are positioning the children to be a voice within the environment, which is obviously seeming as if it will be prince william‘s because in the yea rs be prince william‘s because in the years ahead. i think this is very good because an lot of our children, the environment, climate change are the environment, climate change are the biggest challenges facing our country and i think it really wise and rather good messaging, an example of it, to put the royal children in the forefront of that whole debate. i love how they all say david attenborough. i remember talking to schoolchildren and they said, ben brown, how long have you beenin said, ben brown, how long have you been in the world? to which the a nswer been in the world? to which the answer was a long time. but that is right that it‘s a lovely story on some very dark front pages. absolute. i‘m not a fan of the royal family but these children are

adorable and it‘s a good news we needed at the moment to cheer us up. i think all new channels should put this on a loop for 2h hours a day, just play again and again. —— read all news channels. we need good news with all the disasters going on, the terrible news about president trump and the spread of coronavirus in this country, just put them on all the time and everyone will feel good. white may call the alternative is we rerun this paper review on a loop. that would horrify people. not such a good idea. as ever, many thanks for being with us. we will be back at half past eleven for another look at the papers. goodbye for now. headline coming soon. stay tuned for that. hello there. we‘ve already seen a lot of rainfall this weekend and there is more wet weather to come through the day to day for a number

of areas and those rainfall totals have been really mounting up over the past three days with gloucestershire having well over 11 month worth of rain and more than a month worth of rain and more than a month rather than part of aberdeenshire and parts of hampshire. and berkshire as well. the weather has been particularly wet and it‘s all down to the slow—moving area of low pressure with a slack weather front over the top of the british isles which has been bringing the rain for many of us been bringing the rain for many of us through saturday, overnight and still raining at the moment as well. that said, seeing some improvement across eastern areas but with the met office and the weather warning, enforce rights of the middle part of the day, across wales, the west midlands, seeing some further issues building in and as well as this persistent band of rain, quite windy and coastal areas with the rain pivoting away from south and east and scotland, and we should see some sunshine for northern england across parts of the midlands, and we will

also see some sunny skies. the rain mounting up as well with accumulations. and forth across parts of england and once you factor in today‘s rain, we could see the number of warnings for a increase time. if you like tonight, the rain will tend to clear it from most areas with the exception of south—west england where it will continue to range much of the night. 0therwise, clear skies, continue to range much of the night. 0therwise, clearskies, heavy showers particularly for parts of northern england and scotland as well. low pressure, and that is still in the chancery monday as well. the slow—moving area of low pressure and weather—wise, meaning we are staying on the unsettled night but earning less room for some of us were scotland, england and wales, brighter skies, sunshine but heavy, potentially thundery downpours across eastern areas of outbreaks of persistent rain returning to northern ireland through the day. tuesday, another showery day but this time the

showers across england and wales could merge together to bring some longer spells of rain for a time and will see further spells for a time through northern ireland and scotland. temperatures continue to be below par but the rain a cause for concern with the possibility of further flooding today.

this is bbc world news. i‘m ben brown. our top stories: in a video message from hospital, president trump says he‘s doing well — but that the next few days will be crucial as he continues his treatment for coronavirus. i‘m starting to feel good. you don‘t know — over the next period of a few days, i guess that‘s the real test, so we‘ll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days. the uk prime minister calls on the public to "act fearlessly", adding there has to be a "balance" between saving lives and protecting the economy. what we want people to do is to behave fearlessly but with common sense, fearlessly but with common

sense, fearlessly but with common sense, to follow the guidance whether