this is bbc world news. our top story. remarkable scenes outside the walter reed medical centre, as president trump takes a short ride to greet his supporters. and the convoy comes back in this direction about six feet away from me. the president is waving. mr trump is being treated for coronavirus, earlier, doctors said they were pleased with his progress. if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow, to the white house where he can continue his treatment course. i'm martine croxall in london. also in the headlines.

nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus have not been added to the uk daily to total over the last week, says public health england. armenian and azerbaijani forces exchange heavy rocket and artillery fire as fighting intensifies over nagorno—karabakh. russia calls for an immediate ceasefire. hello and welcome to bbc world news. in the past 30 minutes we've seen extraordinary scenes outside the military hospital in maryland where president trump is being treated for coronavirus. mr trump temporarily left the hospital in a presidential convoy and waved at supporters who had gathered outside. the bbc‘s north america editor, jon sopel, was right

there and witnessed the moment. i'm thinking, who would you clear the highway four, the first lady? and then we see the convoy that is familiar if you live in washington, it's the president's convoy driving incredibly slow they come up first on the other side of the road and then you can suddenly see all these people going mad. it's obvious that it's the president and then he goes down about half a mile. does a u—turn and then the convoy comes backin u—turn and then the convoy comes back in this direction and about six feet away from me the president is waving. and again. and coast on the line very slowly and it was the most unbelievable thing i've seen.

everyone in all the cars were wearing masks, but the president who was diagnosed positive with coronavirus 36 hours ago has done a drive past. who would have thought that? quite extraordinary. president trump is now back in hospital after that brief drive to salute supporters. in new video message posted on twitter, he spoke from the walter reed national military medical centre. mr trump said he ‘learned a lot about covid' by ‘really going to school. let's have a listen. it's been a very interesting journey, i've learned a lot about covid, either to buy really going to school. this is the real school, this is not let's read the book school, and i get it, and i understand it. and it's very interesting thing, i'm going to be letting you know about it. in the meantime we love the usa and we love what's happening. thank you. earlier, doctors treating the president trump said

he could leave hospital for the white house as early as tomorrow. they also gave more details about his treatment, revealing that he is on the steroid dexa—metha—sone and a five day course of the anti viral drug rem—desi—vir. after confusion yesterday about the president's condition — the doctors also said that he had twice required supplemental oxygen. here'sjon sopel again, with the full story. i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now. donald trump has always believed that his best communications director is himself. and after a day of evasion, contradiction, muddle and corrections, the president last night, from his suite at the walter reed hospital, decided he'd better take charge. we're going to beat this coronavirus, whatever you want to call it, and we're going to beat it soundly. the president — still infectious but not wearing a mask — sounded hoarse and looked pale. this is a president who's always equated sickness with weakness. but his usual bullishness

was replaced last night with a little more hesitancy about his own health. 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 those next couple of days. with his supporters forming a noisy makeshift vigil outside the hospital, the president said he had a choice. he could have hidden away, or carried on meeting the public. 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. another day, another medical bulletin, an attempt to clear up the misinformation mess from yesterday. so, why did dr conley say what he did? i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, through his course of illness, has had.

i didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of the illness in another direction. and, in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasn't necessarily true. it wasn't necessarily true? those sound like the words of a spin doctor, not a real doctor. today, he revealed there had been a couple of alarming drops in his blood oxygen levels, but another of the medics insisted that the president is improving, and could soon be going home. if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow, to the white house, where he can continue his treatment course. hello, hello. joe biden is still on the virtual road campaigning. polling day is less than a month away. all elections feel uncertain. but there's never been a president hospitalised in the final stages of a campaign in the midst of a pandemic. if anyone tells you they know what's going to happen next, don't believe them. jon sopel, bbc news, washington.

over the weekend there's been contradictory information from the white house and doctors about how the president is doing. today, doctors confirmed his oxygen levels twice dipped to levels that caused additional oxygen to be given. drjeremy faust is an emergency medicine physician from cambridge massachussets. let's start with what just let's start with whatjust happened. president trump, in a car with the secret service, at least two people in the same car driving to greet his supporters. as a medical professional what did you make that and what is at risk here was that of the secret service has signed up for this, and they are taking a huge risk there. masks are really important, but they are not perfect. so we can only hope that there is a test to show that he is not contagious, we are not told that. we know nothing. i'm glad he did not get close to his supporters outside,

that would've been extremely unwise. as you say, the president is very wrapped up in appearances and he wa nts to wrapped up in appearances and he wants to project that he's doing well. it's a good sign that he could go out and do this for the moment but does not have any prognostic value. he could do this today and tomorrow he could be better or worse. it means he was well enough of this period of time to do this pr stu nt. of this period of time to do this pr stunt. what about the rich of the other people in the car with him? i went to a covid layer a few months ago and had to wear three layers of ppe because i was coming into contact with people infected, shouldn't that be the same with him? i would be very worried. i would not ta ke i would be very worried. i would not take it is wise to the president to be in take it is wise to the president to beina take it is wise to the president to be in a enclosed space with any one of the steps of the necessary, so the president feels that it's necessary to make such an appearance but obviously it's not truly necessary. the people know that we see the videos and hit the reports from medical staff at walter reed

and his physicians have been actually difficult to parse that we have enough information to know that the president is awake and talking and communicate with us. so there's no need for this and it displaces them at unnecessary risk and can put this message out that the risk is not so bad. the average person does not so bad. the average person does not think they ought to be concerned about their own risks in a similar situation. and the risk is not too bad because that's exactly what he wa nts to bad because that's exactly what he wants to convey. we had another press c0 nfe re nce wants to convey. we had another press conference from his medical tea m press conference from his medical team that raised more questions than a nswe i’s. team that raised more questions than answers. we spoke yesterday with you, so within 2a hours, what we learned today and what are your new thoughts? the first thing i thought was externally striking was that there's actually contradictory information one day to the next. and one could cite to his physician could say i cannot tell you this detail or answer that question out of respect for privacy, that's a

perfectly ethical, moral and correct answer. what i do not think is correct is to do what essentially was implied here which was to mislead the press and the public about his condition in order to be upbeat. that's highly inappropriate, that's misleading. the people deserved another truth. in the president has a rough course and recovers , president has a rough course and recovers, wonderful, but if he doesn't? what are we going to say? i don't see the upset of talking nxt about things will not make things nice. his oxygen saturation dropped in sucha nice. his oxygen saturation dropped in such a way that he can be in a risk category that could be far more severe than initially told. we had to get a high fever not a mild fever in x—rays or cat scans depending on what they did were expected, which is not normal, expected for covid—i9. they are not pleasant. we're looking at things were not as rosy as we're looking at things were not as i’osy as we were we're looking at things were not as rosy as we were told. and i don't see the upside of that. why notjust say the truth or that i can't tell you? those are perfectly good

options. thank you so much for helping us understand this. really puzzling to a lot of people. and also considered this. three republican senators three republican senators have recently tested positive for covid—i9. that means the confirmation of amy coney barrett to the supreme court might not be easy — at least before the presidential election. jonathan turley is a law specialist at george washington university. the key to remember is that the majority leader has zero margin for error, he cannot lose a senator to a convalescent period. so we don't know how serious the illness is for these senators, what is clear, is that the republicans are going to go forward, and if they have to take these senators into the floor on a gurney, my ex penge tasting they would do it if they consented. and the democrat also do everything in their power to stall and delay and block this, the coronavirus seems like a good excuse for them to

bring that into play? it is not going to be successful. this falls into the category of holding my breath until you give him. him. mcconnell would let them hold their breath. he can change the rule, he can even allow for virtual voting, if they push through those changes, and the thing is, even though time is short before the election, it is not that short. he can actually get this confirmation through, in this period, and he will also make changes if he has to, so he has a little time to play w assuming these two senators are on the mend, they did apparently get it early which is a good sign. so you think there is still time, one to change the vote, to a virtual one is necessary, and two, to stick to this time line, that makes sure that this confirmation happens before november 3rd which is election day? yes, i mean there is a possibility that they could push through this nomination

during the lame duck period, but what is clear is that the senate is all hands on deck, they are moving heaven and earth to get this confirmation across the finish line. they have a number of week, and i think they are hoping that that is enough for these senators to recover. so, i think that on capitol hill they are still pretty bullish about getting this threw. the most of the democrats can do is really attack along the edges, making small delay, an hour, maybe even a day, but it will take something really horrific, like a serious illness of one of the two of these senator, to derail the strategy. and joe biden at the debate dodged the question of whether or not he is open to expanding the number of people in the court, so if this does go ahead and judge barrett is confirmed, the democrats need to make sure it is ideologically

in their corner? he did. the president's performance at points was truly appalling, but it was equally shocking to see joe biden again refusing to answer this question of whether he will pack the court. many people will not vote for candidate who is opening to packing the supreme court. he continues to refuse to answer that, even though his running mate kamala harris is one of the democrats that raised this issue. this isn't coming from the republican side. i don't know how long he will be able to continue this, this is a major issue, in the view of some of us, packing the supreme court with six new members to get a majority, would destroy that institution. it is an odd way to honour ruth bader ginsburg to destroy the court she loved so much. thank you so much for telling us what you make of all this.

ina in a bizarre day in washington made even more bizarre by the president's photo op to waving his supporters. back to our london studio, our director had a about why this is necessary , director had a about why this is necessary, i went to a covid unit and had to wear three layers of ppe just to be anywhere close to anyone thatis just to be anywhere close to anyone that is infected. we have pictures of the president and his suv greeting his supporters, and i wait, what? he's doing what? he's in hospital. we should be use to unusual choreography but i suppose this really does show that the president knows his audience and what they will respond to. that's exactly the word, choreography. he is from reality television. he likes a good stunt and his supporters appreciated. this was for maximum effect. they have been out there and they finally feel seen. is that when anyone else is complaining about,

the wrist to secret service, they had a great day. how many people have to quarantine after that? we don't know. good to see you, thank you very much. bars in the french capital paris will be closed from tuesday as part of new restrictions to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. the prime minister's office said the city and its region would be placed on maximum alert level for fifteen days from next week. french media are reporting that restaurants will be able to stay open but will have to introduce further safety measures and that universities will have to halve the number of students present on campus at any point. further measures will be announced on monday. in the uk public health england have admitted that nearly 16 thousand cases of coronavirus — between the 25th of september and the 2nd of october — were not included in daily figures for that period — and not transferred to the contact tracing system. some of them were included in the figures published yesterday — and today. the latest daily figure shows 22,961 new confirmed uk cases. 33 deaths were also recorded — that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—i9 test.

which takes the total number, across the uk, to 42,350 our health editor hugh pym has been giving us more details. announcement late this evening. nearly 16,000 of these positive tests were not put into the system. by a quick calculation, it looks as if what we thought were around 7000 daily reported cases of the end of last week, where actually more than 11,000, compared with about 7000 a week earlier. now, public health england have said it didn't affect anybody getting their test result. they were all told in the normal way. but something seems to have broken down between the lab is carrying out the tests and then the data are being put into the test and trace system. it means the contacts of these people who tested positive were not actually approached, because the test and trace system did not have their details.

so, up to a week was lost in not following up those contacts. so, that is quite a serious situation. now, we're assured that this it problem has now been contained, that all the extra cases have been added in for yesterday and today, and they should revert back to something akin to what we've been seen before. we should also say there are other bits of data that show that there could be a levelling off in cases. but it comes at a very awkward moment for the government. they are trying to get confidence in test and trace and work out how the virus is spreading, and then this error comes along. the spanish capital madrid has been put back under partial lockdown because of an increase in the number of coronavirus cases. spain has the highest infection rate of any country in europe — but the re—imposition of the controls is proving controversial. damian grammaticas is in madrid. in spain's capital, what every government, what every scientist has feared — covid—19 surging again. 10,000 new infections every day,

a second wave breaking over an already battered country. so what's the reason for this resurgence? it seems spain may have been too hasty to lift the original lockdown that brought the first wave of the virus under control, too quick to let people back into bars and restaurants, and too slow to build an effective system to test, identify and isolate new cases. intensive care units are overflowing, extra icu beds again being used. the warning signals are everywhere. psychologically, it's the worst thing. because all the people are afraid the tsunami will come again. spain, like many countries, has been trying to target infection hotspots with local controls. but it's not been working. like this part of madrid, home to 200,000 people who already had a fortnight restricted to essential movements only. this wave is not as bad as the height of the pandemic, but one in four tests for covid—19

in madrid has been coming back positive. in recent weeks spain, like the uk, brought in its own rule of six, limiting gatherings to six people, told bars and restaurants to stop serving at 10pm. now the restrictions are being expanded to many other areas. expanded to many more areas. translation: we all went back to work, crammed into trains, metro and buses. the infections are back because they didn't control it. miguel hernan advised spain on its first lockdown and says the new measures may be too little, too late. what we have seen in spain over

the summer is a serious warning that we cannot relax, that there is the possibility of a serious second wave all over the world. a warning to london, to new york and other cities? right. so is this what might come to madrid's rescue? trials of a new rapid test for covid which costs less than $5 and takes just 15 minutes to get a result. "we needed those tests sooner," says carlos. "this neighbourhood's been abandoned."