this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 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,

to follow the guidance, whether national or local, and get the virus down but allow us as a country to continue with our priorities. it comes after the daily number of new confirmed coronavirus cases nearly doubles from the day before, to almost 13,000. the uk government blames a technical error. and defending champion and world record—holder brigid kosgei wins the women's race in the first ever virtual london marathon. she described conditions on the mall asa she described conditions on the mall as a free thinker. meanwhile, the men's elite race featuring the world's fastest marathon runner, eliud kipchoge, is on the course at the moment at the moment and 16,000 other runners gci’oss the moment at the moment and 16,000 other runners across the country and the world are taking part in their virtual london marathon.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. 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. there's still confusion, though, over exactly when the president was diagnosed with coronavirus, and whether he attended official events after receiving it. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has the latest. donald trump's first full day in hospital, a day of confusion and concern over the president's health with mixed messages coming from his doctors and the white house. and then, late in the day, a tweet from the president and another video, an update

from mr trump on his condition. i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now. we are working hard to get me all the way back. i have to be back. when he addressed reporters outside walter reed medical center earlier, the president's personal physician said mr trump's symptoms, a mild cough, nasal congestion and fatigue, were now resolving and improving. but he was vague on whether the president had needed oxygen at any point. has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? right now he is not on oxygen. you keep saying right now but should we read into the fact that he had been previously? yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. he has not been on it during his covid treatment? he's not on oxygen right now. it later emerged that mr trump had received oxygen at the white house before he was admitted to hospital. there was further confusion when the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, indicated to reporters at the hospital that the president was still not on a clear

path to a full recovery. there is a consensus that the next few days will be crucial. donald trump has been given two experimental drugs which it's hoped will speed up his recovery from covid—i9. 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. mr trump also sought to explain his decision not to shelter at home from the virus. i had no choice because ijust 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. with the president in hospital, there is growing concern that more members of his inner circle are also testing positive for the virus. many of them attended what has been described as a super spreader event at the white house last weekend, when mr trump named his nominee

for the vacant seat on the supreme court. they include the former governor of newjersey chris christie who has checked himself into hospital with a slight fever. this is a crisis that has engulfed the trump administration less than a month before the election. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. donald trump's rival for the presidency, the democratic party candidate joe biden, has temporarily suspended some campaign activities because of the president's illness. but he is continuing to push for votes. this is what he had to say when asked to compare his policies to those of mr trump. i'm ina i'm in a little bit of a spot here because i don't want to be attacking the president and the first lady now because they are... they are now, they have contracted coronavirus. this isn't about politics. more than

200,000 americans have died from covid. 7.3 million have been infected. 30 million have lost paycheques, ours or theirjobs entirely. professor james chalmers is a professor of respiratory research at the university of dundee and a consultant respiratory physician. thank you for being with us. talk to us thank you for being with us. talk to us about what you think the doctors looking after that donald trump will be doing at this stage.|j looking after that donald trump will be doing at this stage. i think you heard a number of times in the report that the next few days will be crucial and i think that is right because we have seen with this virus that it comes into macro stages. we have an initial state where the virus itself causes a lot of symptoms and patients are often not too unwelcome as appears to be the case with the president. but there was a second stage that some patients experience which is a kind of inflammatory stage where the

lungs become more unwell and patients often require oxygen and experience complications. i think the doctors will be watching him very carefully for the next few days to see if he develops some of those complications. and speaking of oxygen, we know he was given oxygen on friday, not currently now he is in the hospital but what is the significance of that?|j in the hospital but what is the significance of that? i think that isa significance of that? i think that is a good sign. we would usually expect that a that require oxygen, it suggests the virus is causing problems in the lungs. if they come off oxygen, it normally a sign the final symptoms are at resolving and competitions are not happening so i would take that as promising but again, we usually see this second stage of the disease between five and ten days after symptoms start and ten days after symptoms start and president trump is not in that area as yet so i think that is why the doctors will be watching him quite carefully over the next three

oi’ quite carefully over the next three orfour quite carefully over the next three or four days. and the experimental drugs he is being given, including remdesivir, how widely are those used and what do they actually achieve? i think it's important to say that remdesivir is not an experimental drug any longer. it has had randomised control trials which shows it cuts the duration of illness with people with covid so it is one of the two drugs we have that have proven effectiveness against coronavirus. but there have been some other experimental drugs that the white house have said president trump is receiving, one is an antibody cocktail, another is drugs like vitamin d and zinc which have no proven effectiveness as yet in the covid so if he had been admitted toa uk the covid so if he had been admitted to a uk hospitalfor example, he might have received remdesivir but not those other drugs because we don't know if they work or not. there has been a lot of talk about his risk factors, his age, his weight from his last medical check showed he was clinically obese. what

you make of those as factors, giving a prognosis now as to how long he might be in hospital? absolutely, we have learned a lot in the last six months about the risk factors for running into complications with covid and overwhelmingly, the strongest risk factor is age and he is over 70 so it would be at higher risk. men are at higher risk than women, those who are obese are at higher risk than those who are of normal weight and having underlined conditions like high blood pressure and heart problems are also practice put on the face of it, he has a number of risk factors for complications which is another reason why i would imagine the doctors will want to watch him carefully over the next few days. professor, thank you very much indeed forjoining us and giving us your expert analysis. i'm joined now byjohn scardino from democrats abroad. john was also media director for the commission on presidential debates

in 1996 and 2000. thank you for being with us. everybody is asking and the big question is what impact this will have on the campaign. i know it is ha rd to have on the campaign. i know it is hard to say because we don't know how long the president will be in hospital. know, there are a lot of unknowns. i think it will have an ongoing impact. voting has already started for americans living abroad like myself. we have received our ballots a nd like myself. we have received our ballots and there was a lot of early voting going on in the state in a variety of methods. the voting has actually started but obviously there are still millions of americans that are still millions of americans that are still millions of americans that are still to vote. we have a debate coming up between the vice presidential candidates on tuesday and hopefully two more debates between mr trump and mr biden in the weeks to follow. i wouldn't wish this illness on anybody but having said that, with great respect, i do

think that there is a pattern of mismanagement with mr trump and those around him, either in the way they have mismanaged the virus, the way it has infected the white house, infected americans, or in other exa m ples of infected americans, or in other examples of his mismanagement when you look at his taxes and poor investment and mishandling of his businesses. i think this will be an ongoing issue. we were talking to the former british ambassador to washington, sir christopher meyer, who said that he thinks a lot of americans will feel, whatever their politics, real sympathy for the president and that could help him substantially in the election. you never know. it is quite possible. i think there was some sympathy here in the uk for the prime minister when he was hospitalised. i don't know how long that lasted and i

think that's a very unpredictable... i don't think you can tell people to be sympathetic. as i said at the beginning, i would wish this illness on anybody, not only because the current symptoms you might develop, and obviously the risk of fatality from this, but the thing that scares me the most is the neurological effects which in many people are very unpredictable. they can be immediate or developed over the long term and it is comparable to, say, having a stroke i think you are familiar with some of the effects that can have on someone. that is not something i would wish on anybody. i wish him and the democratic party wishes him a speedy recovery. having said that about the possible long—term effects, does that make the vice presidential race even more important? we have two meant fighting this election, both in their70s, meant fighting this election, both in their 70s, one of whom is in

hospital with coronavirus —— to men. is there an added importance to the vice presidency now?|j is there an added importance to the vice presidency now? i do think that makes the vice presidential debate on tuesday one that will draw a lot more attention than it might normally. these events, the debate at this stage in the election, have a lwa ys at this stage in the election, have always drawn millions of viewers in america, sometimes as many as 80 million. i think this event on tuesday will draw something like that because of the heightened importance of the role of the vice president as you say. thank you so much for your time, john scardino from democrats abroad. the uk prime minister has said britons should behave "fearlessly" but act with "common sense" to defeat coronavirus, but said the battle against the virus will continue until christmas, and possibly beyond. speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr, boris johnson acknowledged the fatigue being felt by many areas of northern england currently under increased lockdown restrictions. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley said ministers are attempting to balance keeping the spread of the virus

until control without doing any further damage to the uk economy. the government is reluctant to put in big national measures, instead focusing on local ones in different parts of the country. i think we got a slightly mixed message from boris johnson this morning. as you said, he was saying people should be fearless as long as they used common sense but he was also really cautious about what the next few months might look like. 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 national or local. get the

virus down but allow us, as a country, to continue with our priorities. continue to keep kids in education, continue to keep our economy moving. and as far as we possibly can. and what i hope is that, andl possibly can. and what i hope is that, and i believe very strongly, that, and i believe very strongly, that in the course of the next few weeks and months of the scientific equation will change and we will start to see progress, whether it is on vaccines or testing, that will enable us to take a different approach. but for the moment, that is the balance that people have to adopt. that was boris johnson and his strategy but the question is what that strategy leads towards. there has been a lot of discussion over whether there will be a normal christmas in the uk given that potentially the virus could get worse over the winter months put that this is what he had to say on

that. the fatigue that people are experiencing... people are exhausted. but we have to work together, follow the guidance and get the virus down whilst keeping the economy moving, that is the balance. i know people are furious with me and the government got they are. buti with me and the government got they are. but i have to tell you in all candour, it will continue to be bumpy through to christmas and may even be bumpy beyond. but this is the only way to do it. bumpy until christmas, i think that will probably raise some questions within his own party. we know many of his mps are frustrated at some of the actions of the government has been taking. his message to them this morning was, i agree with you, he said he was a freedom loving tory, but you also heard him say that he just doesn't think there is another

viable option. it suggests that the next few weeks and months in the uk are going to look very similar to the last few weeks and months where we have seen areas going in and out of increased restrictions, with some seeing some quite draconian steps, like being told they cannot visit friends in houses or go to the pub with them, and that will continue well into the winter. and what have the labour party said? we heard from sir keir starmer in the papers claiming that it wasjohnson has lost control of the virus, a pretty strong attack. it was interesting because we often have these discussions about what the labour party is saying, asking questions rather than being overtly critical i think that is starting to change. we have seen the labour leader really go for the government on this, saying they have lost control of the virus, that they need to get a grip and come up with a new strategy. 0ne of the things in particular labour is worried about is that many of the areas represented by labour

politicians by the way are in those increased local restrictions don't really seem to know how to get out of them. this was the shadow health secretary, jon ashworth. we support local restrictions but what people wa nt local restrictions but what people want is clarity. the rules seem to chop and change. borisjohnson did the regional news interviews and couldn't even explain all the local restrictions were because they chop and change almost everyday but that we need clarity on why an area goes into restrictions, on how they get out of restrictions but this is the key, if a area, any area that is in restrictions, any area across the country, the local authorities should have control over the testing syste m should have control over the testing system and the tracing system. the circo call centre is simply not working. that was jonathan ashworth. going back to borisjohnson, he talked about his own experience of coronavirus, being overweight and so on, and also talked about president trump and the good wishes he had sent to him. that's right. they have

been rumours over borisjohnson's health at westminster for some time and he sought to put them to bed by saying he does not have long covid, basically that he was fat when he had the disease, his words not mine, and he is working on that, and warning the country that it could be a wake—up call to lose some weight. nick eardley. hundreds of muslims are being welcomed back into saudi arabia's great mosque in mecca to perform the pilgrimage of umrah, after a seven month pause because of coronavirus restrictions. at first, only 6000 saudi nationals and foreign residents will be allowed to perform the ritual, which can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the hajj, which has specific dates according to the islamic calendar. dr carool kersten is a reader of islam at king's college london, he lived in saudi arabia for ten years and has been closely following the pilgrimage processes this year during the coronavirus pandemic. thank you for being with us. how it

has coronavirus hit worship in saudi arabia? it has hit it very severely of course and the saudi government in the spring did not shy away from putting in very stringent measures. the two main site of islamic worship, in mecca and medina, were basically close to the public. gradually there was some access again restored but there are very strict cleansing measures and thermal cameras installed in the mosque. and throughout the summer the saudis have not been able to host the hajj in its full glory, and also the closing feast after ramadan we re also the closing feast after ramadan were equally hit by the pandemic measures. now there is a slight relaxation but umrah normally a tt ra cts relaxation but umrah normally attracts millions of people? yes, it

isa attracts millions of people? yes, it is a relatively simple performance, it takes only a few hours until it can be performed throughout the year this one important event and ritual to attain merit and of course managing an event that can be performed at any given time is even a bigger challenge than organising events that are fixed in the calendar. but the saudis are of course very eager calendar. but the saudis are of course very eager to have calendar. but the saudis are of course very eager to have maybe some sense of normalcy restored and there isa sense of normalcy restored and there is a prestige dimension attached to this as well, that they want to demonstrate to the wider muslim world that the measures have worked and the matter is a sort of being controlled and measured and that it is now time to enable muslims again to practice their religion to its full extent. and all the restrictions we have seen that have limited worship, what has been the reaction generally of muslims? has

there been a degree of frustration and anger with them? there was full understanding in the beginning that indeed large crowds are the biggest risk factors. there was some frustration in the spring when the saudi government kept postponing whether the hajj would go ahead at all. many muslim countries like indonesia, for example, took their own measures and forbade their citizens to go on hajj and eventually the saudi government took the measure of having a symbolic hajj with a thousand selected people who all were resident in the kingdom already to perform it. now with this new relaxation there is going to be a staged reopening of the mosque in mecca and also the grand mosque in medina where the profit is buried and for the next two weeks there will be limited numbers of people allowed gradually opening the grand

mosque —— the prophet. it will open to 30% capacity, increasing to 75 gradually and by november they anticipate, barring any unexpected developments of course, that the first foreign visitors will be admitted again and enabled to perform umrah. thank you very much indeed. more than 40,000 people from all over the world are taking part in the first ever virtual london marathon. only the elite athletes are running together. the defending champion and world record holder, brigid kosgei from kenya, won the women's elite race. the men's race is under way, with the pace being set by the british olympic gold medallist sir mo farah. katherines downes is at stjames's park this morning where the elite runners are running the 26.2 miles around a specially constructed covid—secu re route. i know it is pretty chilly, you might rather be running than standing there talking to me!|j don't know! it never has running a

marathon looked less appealing than today! especially the women's race which started at 7:15am. really chilly and gusty conditions, heavy rain as the women set out on the course. that is the elite men's leading group going pastjust a couple of moments ago here on the mall and the man on the middle in the cap is eliud kipchoge, the world record holder and the fastest ever marathon runner, the first person, you might remember last year, to run under two hours for the marathon wearing those special shoes. here he is defending the title he won on the streets of london last year. u nfortu nately for streets of london last year. unfortunately for the organisers, his closest rival, kenenisa bekele, pulled out yesterday. everybody was hoping to see these two fastest men in the history a marathon running going head—to—head at this london marathon but kenenisa bekele pulled

out yesterday so it is just eliud kipchoge who is representing really the best hopes. although there are some athletes in that field who could really push him today. you mentioned bridget kosgei, the kenyan who won the women's race. she was pushed all the way by world champion ruth chepngetich. and here i would say about three laps from the finish, then there will champion ruth chepngetich was overtaken by american sara hall who had a great finish to come through with a lifetime best and take second place. it isa lifetime best and take second place. it is a very different london marathon. 19 laps of a 2.5 kilometre course around st james' marathon. 19 laps of a 2.5 kilometre course around stjames' park marathon. 19 laps of a 2.5 kilometre course around st james' park rather than taking in all those landmarks we are used to at the london marathon, cutty sark, tower bridge, embankment but they are finishing here on the mall and spare a thought

for the 115,000 runners taking part or the way around the country and the world. having a great time, don't worry! you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello there. it's only the 11th of october but already some areas of the uk have had more than a month's worth of rain. the trouble maker — this area of cloud, particularly slow—moving area of low pressure that will continue to bring further rain through the day today. a met office amber weather warning remains in force until midday across wales, the west midlands and south—west england, with further accumulations of rain. we could see as much as 120 over the high ground but there will be some modest improvements in the weather across southern and eastern scotland, northern england, parts of north wales and parts of the north midlands, with brighter skies working in for a time this afternoon but with some heavy showers around as well. the most persistent rain in an arc stretching across northern ireland into southern wales and southern england and perhaps arc is the right word because that rain could cause some flooding issues as well.

0vernight, the rain is reluctant to clear away from south—west england but otherwise, the rain easing to showers but those showers will be heavy across eastern areas, and more showers around as well on monday.

hello, this is bbc 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. iam i am starting to feel good. you don't know over the next period of 80 days, that is the real test. we will be seeing what will happen over the next few 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. we wa nt we want people to behave fearlessly but with common sense, to follow the guidance, whether national or local, get a virus down but allow us, as a country, to continue with our priorities. it comes after the daily number of new confirmed coronavirus cases nearly doubles from the day before — to almost 13,000. the uk government blames a technical error. and, defending champion and world

record—holder brigid kosgei wins the women's race, in the first ever virtual london marathon. now on bbc news, it's dateline london. welcome to dateline london. 2020 will surely go down in the history books as one of the most dramatic any of us have lived through. the news of president trump's covid diagnosis was greeted around the world with shock, and in some cases disbelief. withjoe biden ahead in the polls donald trump needed to do something to change the narrative in the 2020 election. someone on twitter initially asked, "was this diagnosis a hoax?" well, once the facts were established the narrative