this is bbc news: i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. remarkable scenes outside the walter reed medical center, as president trump takes a short ride to greet his supporters. the convoy comes back in this direction and about six feet away from me, the president is waving. if he continues if doctors said they were pleased with his progress. to look as well as he does today, he can be discharged tomorrow. armenian and azerbaijani forces exchange heavy rocket and artillery fire as fighting intensifies over nagorno—karabakh — russia calls

for an immediate ceasefire. and it could be the end of the big screen for the world's second largest cinema chain, cineworld, as it becomes a casualty of the coronavirus. hello and welcome. there have been been extraordinary scenes outside the military hospital in maryland in the united states 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. he was leaving the hospital but i don't think he's going back to the white house. it was the most extraordinary scene and you can hear the noise now. they have closed the road. police suddenly found out in

clear this huge highway behind us. clear this huge highway behind us. i'm thinking, who would you clear the highway for. there is the president plasma convoy driving incredibly slowly. it's obvious it's the president and then he goes down about half a mile, does a u—turn, and the convoy, six feet away from me, the president is waving. and waving again. and goes down the line very slowly. it was the most unbelievable thing i've seen. ron and 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, quite the most unbelievable thing. it has now been confirmed that president trump is back

in hospital after that brief drive to salute supporters. in a new video message posted on twitter, he spoke from the walter reed national military medical center. 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 learned a lot about covid, i learned it by really going to school, this is the real school, this isn't the real school, this isn't the real read the book school and i get it and i understand it and it's a very interesting thing and 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. so how much of a risk did people travelling in the motorcade with the president take? drjeremy faust is an emergency medicine physician from cambridge massachussets. masks are really important that they are not perfect. we can only hope that it is not

contagious. it would be extremely unwise. it's a good sign that he can go out and do this for the moment. it doesn't have any prognostic value. tomorrow it could be better or worse. doctors treating president trump for coronavirus say he is continuing to improve and could leave hospital for continued treatment at the white house as early as monday. they also gave more details about that treatment, revealing that he is on the steroid dexa—metha—sone and a five day course of the anti viral drug remdesivir. with the developments over the past day, here's the bbc‘s north america editor, jon sopel, again. i came here, i 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, i just want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. you don't know, over the next period away 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. as yesterday's news another day, another medical bulletin, and 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. let's go live to to our north america correspondent david willis. what reaction has there been? well, it was extraordinary. the president actually signalling that he was intending to do it ina that he was intending to do it in a video that he posted on twitter, basically saying they'd been out there a long time, referring to is very noisy band of supporters that gathered at the walter reed medical centre in the last few days. they got trump flags, they love our country, i'm

about to pay them a surprise visit whereupon the presidential motorcade left the walter reed medical centre and mrtrump in the walter reed medical centre and mr trump in the presidential limo known as the east, he had a cloth mask over his face, the secret service agents were wearing and 95 respirators and he waved to the crowd, many of whom were not wearing a facemask in the motorcade travel about half a mile down the road before circling back and going back to the walter reed medical centre. the point has been made by an attending physician at walter reed, doctorjames philip ‘s, that the presidential suv is hermetically sealed against the possibility of a chemically attacked and thus the risk of covid— infection within it is as high as it gets, according to doctor phillips, and he said the irresponsibility of this as far as the secret service

agents in attendance was concerned is astonishing. since mr trump's first tweet announcing he had covid early on friday, we've had all written statements, one with clarification, to on camera briefings, three videos, one drive—by, anonymous quotes but no definitive uncontested a nswer to no definitive uncontested answer to a simple question, when was the first diagnosed? why not? you had been busy, haven't you? it's a very good question, all we know the president is doing well, according to the happy dance that his personal physician has been putting out over the last couple of days. we haven't made any corrections or qualifications today, despite everything going so well, there have been a couple of alarming drops in the blood oxygen levels of the president over the last couple of days. he

refused to be drawn on whether there was any sign of damage in there was any sign of damage in the lung scans undertaken. they can portend covert i9 the lung scans undertaken. they can portend covert 19 symptoms before a patient actually begins to suffer them. he also talked about administration of dexymethozone which is usually used the people seriously affected with covid. why is the president getting such a treatment if he is on the road to recovery? a lot of u na nswered to recovery? a lot of unanswered questions, we may not know until symptoms start to appear. secretary of state mike pompeo has shortened his scheduled trip to asia after president trump tested positive for covid—i9. mr pompeo's visit to east asia, his first to the region in over a year, comes at a time when us. ties with beijing are at their worst in decades. speaking just before he departed he said the us was ready if any adversary

planned to take advantage of the president being in hospital. the message i've gotten around the world, i've talked more than half a dozen world leaders over the last few days. tell the president and first lady to get well. we know there are rogue actors, there are malign actors around the world. the united states is prepared, the diplomats were with general miller this afternoon, everyone is ready. and it's notjust the president's illness that's making the headlines. two republican members of the senatejudiciary committee have also tested positive for the coronavirus, raising questions about the timing of supreme court confirmation hearings forjudge amy coney barrett and whether additional senators may have been exposed.the republicans say the senate judiciary committee will convene in a week's time to begin the hearings. the democrats have complained, saying that the decision to go ahead with the confirmation hearings threatened everybody‘s health in congress.

there's been a new surge in fighting between azerbaijan and armenia over the disputed territory of nagorno karabakh, a week after the long running conflict re—ignited. russia has called for a ceasefire. azerbaijan has threatened to destroy military targets inside armenia, in retaliation for a missile attack on its second city, ganja which it says killed a civilian. until now most of the conflict has been between azerbaijan and nagorno karabakh itself, an area internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan, but where the majority of the population is ethnic armenian. our south caucasus correspondent rayhan demytrie has been following the latest developments from the region. explosion. azerbaijan's second largest city, ganja, was struck by a rocket, killing at least one civilian, the authorities said. this marks an escalation in the week long

war because fighting is spreading beyond the conflict zone. but the mood in ganja appears defiant. translation: we have no fear. everyone is at home. victory is with us, we will go forward, we have never been afraid of the armenians. we, the people of azerbaijan, have always been tolerant and strong. in stepanakert, the capital of the disputed nagorno karabakh region, many civilian buildings have been damaged by the bombardment. local residents have been forced to seek shelter underground. just today, azerbaijan started heavily attacking the capital city stepa na kert. targeting vital civilian infrastructures and civilian buildings with heavy missiles and aviation bombs. including with cluster bombs and cluster missiles, a result of which we have civilian many casualties.

turkey continues to back azerbaijan in its campaign to recapture nagorno karabakh. crowds in his temple gather to show their support for the war. translation: my condolences to our martyrs and their families. but their blood will not remain on the ground. we are conducting military exercises on our own lands. we want armenians to leave, kara bakh is ours and it will stay hours. i am really sad. god willing, everything will go much better. in yerevan, armenians that consider karabakh, which they call artsakh, a part of their homeland have called for international community to recognise the territory's independence. we decided to do the flash mob in solidarity with our government, with our soldiers, and with the call that the foreign ministry would recognise artsakh as a kind of solution for this war.

despite international calls for cease—fire, the latest attacks on civilian areas from both sides signal a dangerous new phase in this conflict. rayhan demetrie, bbc news, tbilisi. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: how the world's second biggest cinema chain could be closing its doors across the world. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything is going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more as it used to be. the dalai llama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet has won this year's nobel peace prize. two grenades exploded and a group of soldiersjumped from a military truck and ran towards the president, firing

kalashnikov automatic rifles. after 437 years, the skeletal ruins of the warship were removed. but even as she was pulled up, that there was another heart stopping drama. pulled up, that there was another heart stopping dramalj wa nt another heart stopping drama.” wa nt to another heart stopping drama.” want to be the people's governor, i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: president trump has taken a short car trip to wave at supporters gathered outside the hospital where he is being treated for covid—i9. there's been a new surge in fighting between azerbaijan and armenia over the disputed territory of nagorno—kara bakh, a week after the long running conflict re—ignited. let's have more on our main story now. joining me now is drjesse o'shea, an infectious disease expert who has decided to track

the spread of virus at a number of events attended by last week by president trump, before he was hospitalised. i have had a look at your comprehensive website, what have you found out so far? well, first, the spreading of covid-i9 we well, first, the spreading of covid—i9 we are seeing within the administration and now outside is alarming. there have been at least 18 positive cases and over 270 contacts that need to be traced to. this is a big deal. america is witnessing firsthand the ingenuity and brutality of covid—19 and this will be a wake—up call for the white house and their precautions. why are you doing this and where do you get the information? the tracker was created by me and two colleagues, and it is a tracking dashboard using all available public information we can gather, whether that be

publicly posted flat manifests, news articles, geo— tracking, people's twitters and instagram, and the reason why we are doing it as one, to have transparent with what is going on in the current outbreak and two, possible exposures and save lives. presumably, there isa save lives. presumably, there is a parallel, official contact tracing process which must be doing much the same thing. you would hope so. is there one? i have not heard of any get. we talk a lot about the rose garden event on the 26th of september, and i know that you featured that in your website trying to track everyone attending, working out whether they tested positive or negative and the pictures we normally show that the event was outside but there was a significant indoor portion to that event, as well. right. there were at least two other more private indoor event with people who have tested positive and those were in closely confined spaces. so that could

also have been one of the bigger risk factors for some of those people versus being outside. so you have looked at four events, that rose garden event, the white house event and then several other events during the week. what kind of conclusions are you now able to draw with the information that you have? it is tough to really make conclusions in terms of whether this all started because we don't have all of the data from the white house. we know that there was a person that was positive, a staffer that was positive, a staffer that was positive as early as last week, that could have sparked some of the chain of this but we really haven't quite figured out where this has started, but we can definitively say that it is going to continue spreading. the fact that we are currently tracing over 270 people, or rather tracking 270 people is remarkable. you focused on, i think, the four orfive remarkable. you focused on, i think, the four or five day period, are you planning to expand that period of the president goes back to the white house and continue to press his events or not? yes.

we plan on trying to capture everything that we possibly can to get to the bottom of this. thank you so much. thank you for having me, james. let's get some of the day's other news. protests in belarus against president alexander lu kashenko's disputed election victory have taken place across the country for the eighth sunday in a row. tens of thousands of people in the capital minsk again defied the security forces deployed around rallying points. at one point, protesters wrenched open the side panel of a water cannon truck as it sprayed demonstrators, forcing it to retreat. the japanese designer, kenzo takada, has died in paris, reportedly from complications after contracting coronavirus. kenzo was the first designer from japan to make it in the competitive world of french fashion. he founded his fashion label in the 1970s and became known for his colourful graphic and floral prints. a top flight italian football game between juventus and napoli descended into chaos on sunday when napoli failed to turn up. after two team members tested positive this week for coronavirus, napoli say they were ordered not to travel

by their local health authority. however, the football league refused to call the game off. bars in the french capital paris will be closed from tuesday as part of new restrictions to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. restaurants will be able to stay open but will have to introduce further safety measures. universities must halve their number of students. public health england have admitted that nearly 16,000 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 on saturday and then sunday. 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—19 test. that takes the total number, across the uk, to 42,350 our health editor hugh

pym has this update. extraordinary announcement late this evening that 16,000 tests weren't put into the system and it looks like what we thought we re it looks like what we thought were around 7000 daily reported cases that the end of last week we re cases that the end of last week were 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 labs carrying out the tests and then the data being put into the test and trace system. so it means that the contacts of these people who had tested positive were not actually approached because the test and trace system didn't have the details. so up to one week was lost in not following up those contacts, so thatis following up those contacts, so that is quite a serious situation. we are assured that this it problem has now been contained, that all the extra cases have been added in

yesterday and today and they should revert back to something akin to what we have been seeing before, and we should also say that there are other bits of data that show that there could be a levelling off in cases when 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 error comes along. pope francis has laid

out his vision of a post—covid world, in an extended letter to catholic clergy. it is entitled fratelli tutti, or brothers all, and calls for a better kind of politics removed from populism. cineworld, the world's second biggest cinema chain, has confirmed it's considering temporarily closing all its sites in the us, the uk and ireland, a casualty of the pandemic. the company said a final decision had not been taken. the statement came after the release date for the newjames bond film was again pushed back from november until next april. here's our business correspondent katy austin. most cinemas have now reopened, but social distancing is limiting capacity and many big budget films have been postponed. james bond... struggling cinemas, or those who still haven't yet opened, were hanging their hopes on the newjames bond film. on friday, its release was delayed for a second time, from november until next april. cineworld, which lost £1.3 billion in the first six months of this year amid the pandemic, is writing to the government saying the industry has become unviable. it is expected to announce that it will close its uk sites, potentially putting more than 5000 jobs at risk.

this afternoon, cineworld confirmed it was considering the temporary closure of its uk cinemas and those in the us. but it said a final decision had not yet been reached. 0ne cinema industry analysts told me he expects other chains to hibernate their sites. if they remain open, they have to demonstrate they have got content to play. so, perhaps some arthouse or independents have got a different stream of content. but for the mainstream multiplexes, globally, they have to make a sensible decision. without many big movies remaining in this year's schedule, experts are concerned that when delayed movies finally open, there'll be fewer places to show them. katie austin, bbc news. to recap our main story, president trump is now beginning his third evening and night at hospital at walter reed after an afternoon drive by to see his supporters. there

is more on our website, please do stay with bbc world news. hello there. the weekend was pretty much a wash out for many of us. we saw a vigorous area of low pressure parked across the uk bringing huge amounts of rain, over months worth of rain falling in many areas that led to localised flooding and transport disruption. plenty of flood warnings remain in force if you're concerned about where you live, then head onto the bbc weather website to check all the details. but as we head into this new week, it does look like things will be a little bit quieter, still u nsettled because low—pressure nearby, further showers at times but sunny spells, too. for monday morning,

we have our area of low pressure still with us but it is a weaker feature. fewer isobars on the chart so it will not be quite as windy through today. temperatures starting off at around 8 or 9 degrees for many of us but we have more cloud out west then around ten or 11 degrees. this weather front and our weather front will reinvigorate and push back into north and ireland, wales, the south west of england through today to produce a wet day here but elsewhere across the country, it is sunny spells and scattered showers which could turn heavy and even thundery. a warmer day for many of us across the south—east given some sunshine, we could see 16 or 17 degrees. it's showery through monday night, milder spells of rain pushing from west to east mainly across northern and western areas, there will be clear spells and spells will

dip into single figures. 0ur area of low pressure still into to say drifting northwards parking itself across scotland. it means we will see more of a gradient and more isobars developing across england, wales and northern ireland through the day. a breezier day across the south driving showers into many southwestern areas. some could turn heavy and thundery anywhere but also that there will be good spells of sunshine in between. does temperatures reaching highs from 14 to around 15 or maybe 16 degrees across the south—east. similar story as we head on into wednesday as well, further showers at times and then as we head on into thursday, signs of another area of low pressure moving through to bring wet and windy weather.

this is bbc news, the headlines: president trump has taken a short trip from hospital where he's due to spend a third night being treated for coronavirus. he appeared in the back of his armoured car wearing a face mask to wave at supporters. doctors treating the president say he's continuing to recover well. there's been a new surge in fighting between azerbaijan and armenia over the disputed territory of nagorno karabakh, a week after the long running conflict re—ignited. russia has called for a ceasefire. azerbaijan has threatened to destroy military targets inside armenia. public health england says nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus have not been added to the uk daily total over the last week due to a computer glitch. some of the unreported cases have been added to sunday's figure of 22,961. now on bbc news,