president trump is leaving hospital tonight — his medical team say he's still not out of the woods — but they're cautiously optimistic. 2a hours after his impromptu drive by — the president says he's feeling really good and told people not to be afraid of covid or let it dominate their lives. if we can get through to monday with him the same or improving better yet, then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. i will be live at the white house where the president is going to touch down in about 90 minutes. uncharted territory — that's what the president's doctors

have called the aggressive treatments he has been given. we'll be looking at what they are. also tonight... a technical error with test and trace means those who came into contact with around 16,000 people with covid have yet to be told. this incident should never have happened, but the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact. now it is critical that we work together to put this right and to make sure that it never happens again. cineworld confims it's closing all its cinemas in the uk and us until next year. more than 1,000 people in intensive care in france as paris prepares to shut down its bars for a fortnight. bless her mind. and we speak to the welsh star and british first time director of st maud — the new psychological thriller that's receiving rave reviews. and coming up on bbc news... not long left in this transfer window, we'll have the latest, including theo walcott‘s potential return to southampton where he started his career.

good evening. president trump is due to leave hospital in just over an hour's time after his medical team said he could return to the white house where he'll continue treatment. donald trump's personal physician said he wasn't entirely out of the woods yet but they were cautiously optimistic. just before doctors gave their update, donald trump took to twitter to tell people that he was feeling great — better than he did 20 years ago. and he said people shouldn't be afraid of coronavirus. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is at the white houe for us. he is at the white houe for us. also said don't let it dt your he also said don't let it dominate your lives despite 210,000 americans having died from the disease. he has also had the most expensive and experimental drugs treatment available. it would simply not be there for most ordinary americans. he arrives back in 90 minutes after three nights in hospital, a stay

that was not without controversy. it's being dubbed the covid joyride. last night, the president, who is still infectious, decided he wanted to wave to his supporters outside the walter reed hospital. the six lane highway was cleared, secret service guards found out, and then the unmistakable sight of the presidential motorcade moving towards where we were standing. this is quite an unbelievable scene. the president, who's being treated for coronavirus, part of his convoy has just come down this busy road. all traffic has been cleared and the president is waving at his supporters to say thank you for coming out to back him while he is meant to be in the hospital. and you can see all the vehicles of a presidential convoy accompanying the president. donald trump, probably the world's most impatient patient, even released a video. 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 let's read the book

school, and i get it, and i understand it. the former reality tv star always has an eye for the visual, but the drive—by brought ferocious criticism from one of the covid physicians at the hospital. doctorjames phillips tweeted... you will see him shortly. he is black. the —— he is back. -- he is back. the president is returning to the white house but his doctors say he is not out of the woods yet. we are in uncharted territory when it comes to a patient who received the therapies he has so

early in the course. he is still on powerful steroids but this morning it seemed as if his twitter feed was on amphetamines. he went full caps lock on a number of issues. his rivaljoe biden was speaking to reporters today, although he was maintaining social distancing. i'm not an expert on it but i have thought all along we should be cautious and i will continue to listen to the science. meanwhile the president has announced his press secretary has tested positive for coronavirus. she has been criticised over the weekend before taking off her mask over the weekend, following his diagnosis. astonishingly, the white house itself has become the epicentre of a major covid outbreak.

asjon was saying the president has been given aggressive covid treatments that doctors are calling ‘uncharted territory'. they include a cocktail of antibodies, the anti viral drug remdesivir — which he'll continue to get at the white house — and the steroid dexa—methasone which is normally used when patients become seriously ill. here's our medical editor fergus walsh. it seems the president's doctors have thrown everything they can at his infection, but getting an exact picture of his state of health hasn't been easy. the white house says president trump and the first lady tested positive for coronavirus on thursday evening. his doctor said as a precautionary measure, he was given a one—off infusion, a cocktail monoclonal antibodies. this is an experimental treatment by biotech firm, regeneron, designed to reduce viral load. it's promising, but there's no proof it works. clinical trials arejust starting in the uk.

by late friday morning, mr trump had a high fever and his oxygen saturation levels had dipped to 93%, just below the normal lower limit of 95%, and he was given oxygen for about an hour. in my experience, from looking after patients who typically present to hospital after being unwell at home for about 5—7 days, it's around that sort of time that they start to need oxygen, so it's entirely possible that donald trump may have been unwell or had an infection in the background for a few days before he tested positive and before coming into hospital. later on friday, president trump was flown to walter reed military hospital. there he was given a second drug, remdesivir — this is an antiviral, which was approved in may as a covid—19 therapy. a five—day treatment, it has been shown to speed up recovery and is used widely in the us. on saturday, the president

was started on the steroid, dexamethasone. this works by dampening the body's immune system, which can go haywire with covid—19, and it reduces inflammation in the body. it's been shown to help the sickest covid patients, those in hospital, on oxygen or a ventilator, but it's not recommended for patients with mild symptoms. if you wanted to divide these things with a straight line down the middle you would say, on oxygen or on a ventilator, give dexamethasone. not on oxygen or a ventilator, don't give dexamethasone. but that's rather more black and white than the subtlety of a one—on—one clinical conversation and decision. covid patients who appear to be getting better can sometimes take a turn for the worse several days after the infection, so the president's doctors won't relax until he is fully recovered. fergus walsh, bbc news. tens of thousands of people in england may still be unaware that

they've been in close contact with someone who has covid. a technical issue in transferring positive results from laboratories led to almost 16,000 missing cases. all those who tested positive were informed. but their close contacts were not — and thousands still haven't been traced. many of the cases are in parts of northern england already under local lockdown. the health secretary matt hancock told parliament the problems still haven't been resolved and the incident should never have happened. the shadow health secretaryjonathan ashworth said the missing results were "putting lives at risk". here's our health editor hugh pym. testing and tracing continues today, but there are yet more questions about whether the whole system in england is working properly, with thousands of cases not recorded, so contacts of those testing positive were not followed up. the health secretary had to come to the commons to explain what went wrong. this incident should never have happened, but the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact and now

it is critical that we work together to put this right and to make sure that it never happens again. labour highlighted the failure to follow up contacts. thousands of people, blissfully unaware they've been exposed to covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing and we're in the second wave. this isn'tjust a shambles, it's so much worse than that. here is what we were told at the time about the number of daily reported cases up until friday. reaching around 7,000 by the end of the week. but now that the extra cases have been added in, here's what it looks like now, above 11,000. all the new data relates to england, with striking increases in some regions. in the north west of england for example, there were more than 8,000 extra cases reported — an increase of 93%. in the yorkshire and humber region, it was more than 4,000 extra cases — an increase of 113%

on what we were originally told. civic leaders affected by restrictions in the north west say policy must be reconsidered. somebody should be checking this. this is a national government implementing the system and making decisions that are predicated on that evidence and the evidence, now we find, has been faulty. so how does the system work? tests of hospital staff and patients are analysed at nhs and public health laboratories. these seem to be working well. testing for the public and most care homes at drive through centres or with kits is partly done by private companies. they then send the swabs to the big lighthouse labs to analyse tests. these were set up by the government and are run by private companies and universities. they then pass on results to public health england, to be fed into the test and trace system for contacts to be followed up. this is where the it problems have occurred. phe says the issue has now

been resolved, but wider challenges for people using the testing network remain. a surge in demand caused delays last month and these are still happening. jarrod was tested on friday and still hasn't had a result. he and his flatmates, who are key workers, are having to isolate and stay off work. things should be in place by now, really. so, it makes it difficult for people trying to do the right thing, so i can certainly understand the frustration, anxiety and stress it produces in other people who may not be as lucky to have people delivering food and, you know, support them through a challenging time, really. the challenge for the government remains — bolstering confidence in a testing system, which in recent weeks has fallen short of where it should be. hugh pym, bbc news. let's talk to our correspondent danny savage in leeds. there's plenty of concern about the

error there? yes, there is an extra 2177 new cases which have been added to the total of this recount following the error. the north of england is suffering a double whammy, it already has the highest infection rates but it had a higher proportion of the under reported cases in this part of the country. there were potentially thousands of people getting on with their daily lives when they should have been at home isolating when they were that close contacts of those cases that did not have test and trace acted upon them. they potentially helped spread the virus in areas which already have high numbers of cases. 0ne already have high numbers of cases. one other thought tonight, there have been sharp rises in cities such as newcastle, leeds and sheffield and all of those are student cities. manchester now has the highest total of infections in the uk at a95 cases

per 100,000 people. but the head of public health in manchester has looked at the student population in the city and reckons the infection rate there is astonishing. 3000 cases per 100,000, just in the student population alone. the story going forward and the events over the next few days, we will have to watch closely what those figures are like in student populations across the country in areas with high numbers. thank you, danny savage. the welsh government is considering imposing quarantine restrictions on people who travel into wales from coronavirus hotspots in the rest of the uk. the welsh health minister is looking at the options after borisjohnson said he did not want to stop people living in parts of england that are under local lockdown going on holiday in wales. after a sharp spike over the weekend in new infections — because of the computer glitch — the latest data shows the number of new cases has fallen to 12,59a that were recorded in the latest 2a—hour period —

though still significantly more than were being recorded last week. it means the average number of new cases reported per day last week, is 10,937. and as new cases have climbed — so have daily hospital admissions — with a08 people being admitted on average each day over the past week. this number doesn't include scotland. 19 deaths were reported — that's people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. that means on average in the past week, 53 deaths were announced every day, which takes the total number of deaths so far across the uk to a2,369. hugh pym is with me. do we have any idea how many people could be affected by this? labour think it could be as many as 50,000 people who don't know they might have come into contact with

somebody who tested positive. the government says the contact tracing process started early on saturday morning with extra resources and actually quite a new cases —— a lot of the new cases might have been towards the end of last week so there might not be too much of a delay. a lot of questions will be asked about this it error. it seems it was an old format used to put data into templates, to then be uploaded into the central system and the template didn't have the capacity to take on some of the extra new cases. the fact nobody seems to have realised this for a week, there were no it alarm bells ringing, ithink week, there were no it alarm bells ringing, i think is another big question over the whole thing. where are we with covid—19 now? matt hancock says his assessment and health officials have not changed and the decisions made on restrictions would not have been any different in the light of this. but 110w different in the light of this. but now we know cases were going up in the uk throughout last week and they are higher today without any added

data suggests this will be watched pretty closely in the days ahead. hugh pym, thank you. the chancellor rishi sunak has promised to "always balance the books" despite increased spending in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. speaking to the conservative party conference — which is being held online this year — he warned that hard choices will have to be made, as the government deals with the fall—out from the crisis. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. hi, i'm rishi. may he introduce himself. there is still something of the newcomer about rishi sunak, propelled to the top of a government trying to manage what is a genuine crisis. the chancellor of the exchequer, rishi sunak. taking the lecturn on his own as chancellor in front of the virtual party faithful, keen to start with deliberate praise for his boss next door. yes, it's been difficult, challenges are part of the job, but on the big calls, in the big moments, borisjohnson has got it right and that is the leadership that we need.

hard to whip up a crowd when there is no one in the room. but the toughest task for him is to stop a slide into mass unemployment. however much the chancellor may empathise, enormous government support for the economy is being scaled back. i can't protect every job and every business. the pain of knowing it only grows with each passing day. even if it feels like there is no hope, i am telling you there is, and that the overwhelming might of the british state will be placed at your service. but can that be a comfort to alex vissaridis, a graphic designer who lost his job at the end ofjuly? he is making ends meet with projects here and there, but that's not enough. it's been a bit of a shell—shock really, to go from knowing when my next pay packet‘s going to come, to having no security at all, really. there are jobs out there but there are even more people looking forjobs at the same time. sunak‘s treasury spent months

and tens and tens of billions paying the wages of millions of people, including workers at this nottinghamshire factory that stopped making car parts in the lockdown. now open again, finding opportunity in this crisis, the production lines are churning out ppe. but for the boss, jim, business feels precarious still. i think the one thing i would say to him is if you are going to make announcements to help us, make it happen now, not many, many months later, because now is the problem, not the middle of next year. mr sunak still has an eye on the future and sticking to tory ideals. we have a sacred responsibility to future generations to leave the public finances strong, and through careful management of our economy this conservative government will always balance the books. balance the books? rishi sunak‘s time in number 11 has been all about getting money out of the door to stop an economic crisis becoming a real catastrophe.

and he can promise that huge spending and borrowing will come to an end but there is not a whisper of when, let alone how. ..placed in us. with a pandemic at party conference there is no applause, no normal and months still of trouble for the economy to come. wise, perhaps, to button up. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. cineworld has confirmed that it's closing all of its 127 cinemas in the uk — until at least next spring — putting 5,500 posts at risk. the 0deon chain has also announced some of its cinemas will only open at the weekends for the time being. it comes after the release of the newjames bond film was delayed again. here's our business correspondent emma simpson wolverhampton's main cinema, 1a screens, about to be mothballed like the rest of the cineworld chain — a move which will mean more than 5,000 job losses across the uk.

i think i speakfor a lot of the staff when i say that we feel like we have been treated poorly and deserved more notice. a lot of us do not know what to do from here on in and three days' notice before we close really doesn't feel fair to any of us. james bond... it was hoped he would come to the rescue, the biggest movie of the year, to lure audiences back, but it now won't be shown until april. cineworld says its business is not viable without blockbusters. bond was maybe the last straw. we are like a grocery shop now. we do not have no milk, no dairy, no vegetables, no food. you cannot run a business in this way. we would never have closed the cinema if we had any other alternative. the only alternative here to protect the company and to protect our team, because our team will be suffering a lot from this closure. if you survive, do you promise to

give your workers theirjobs back? if we will go back to the way we were, or almost the way we were, for sure, anyone that would want to come back will be taken care of and we will give the jobs back. it#s a bit of a chicken and egg situation for this it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation for this industry right now. cinema owners need big movies for income, but the hollywood studios who make these blockbusters also need to make sure big enough audiences will turn up. it doesn't seem somewhere that you'd go in the pandemic. you've got to wear a mask. it's not a bother but it's not the same experience. want to eat your sweets, have your popcorn. it's been a long time. we mostly watch netflix and stuff now. difficult times, but experts say cineworld was vulnerable before the pandemic. expansion drove a very big rise in debt and it's been burning cash for months. 0deon says a quarter of its cinemas will now be shut monday to thursday. too many empty seats here, too.

cinemas are usually a big draw. these closures could have ripple effects for the town centres and retail parks they're in and it's not clear when they'll reopen. emma simpson, bbc news. the uk car industry suffered its worst sales for the month of september in more than 20 years, according to figures from the society for motor manufacturers and traders. just 328,000 new cars were registered, a fall of a.a% compared to the same period a year ago. police have made ten arrests after four young people — including three university students — died in suspected drug incidents involving ketamine and mdma in the north east of england over the weekend. 18—year—old jeni larmour from county armagh was studying architecture at newcastle university and was found dead in student accommodation where another female student also died. a 21—year—old male student also died

in newcastle and another 18 year—old man died in washington. in france, the number of people in intensive care has reached more than 1a00 for the first time since the end of may. paris is being placed on maximum alert tomorrow, meaning bars will be forced to close for two weeks. lucy williamson is in paris for us. after days of negotiation the government had decided only bars have to close. the vast majority of places in paris, cafes, bistros and this place behind me fall between those two definitions and they are having to reorganise their staffing and menus in order to stay open. i have been speaking to the owner of this place who says he expects to break even at best and he thinks

people are already starting to regroup in studios and flats rather than coming out to the bars. i know there will be many owners tonight sitting down with a calculator and working out whether it is worth their while opening tomorrow at all. lucy, thank you. at least seven people have died after heavy rain caused flash floods in south—east france and north west italy. up to 18 people are missing. storm alex saw a year's rainfall in just 12 hours at the weekend and caused landslips which destroyed dozens of homes and washed away roads in the mountainous region. football — and after ten weeks of rumour and speculation this summer's transfer window will officially close at 11:00pm. the effects of the coronavirus pandemic has limited the spending powers of many clubs, but premier league sides have still been able to splash out on big—money signings. our sports editor dan roan has been looking at the sport's growing financial divide. why do premier league clubs spend so much in the transfer window? look no further than 0llie watkins. aston villa's record

signing with a hat—trick against in yesterday's staggering 7—2 thrashing of champions liverpool. commentator: this is really quite unbelievable! the youngster, just one deal in a billion pound summer signing spree that saw clubs defy an unprecedented financial crisis. the loss of gate receipts has not stopped chelsea. £71 million kai havertz is part of a £225 million outlay. £63 million defender ruben dias amongst those recruited by the next biggest spenders manchester city. but it's notjust the big six. leeds united have also invested heavily in a bid to stay in the top flight and early leaders everton are benefiting from some astute business. the amount of money that they spend in the premier league isjust incredible and itjust shows you how powerful the premier league is. ifeel a little bit sorry for the teams in the lower leagues, obviously, they are struggling financially and it is so hard to see. but deadline day comes with the premier league under mounting pressure to use

of its broadcast billions to bail out the football league bereft of crucial day revenue. huddersfield were relegated to the championship two seasons ago and want more help. we have now moved to almost a doomsday scenario which is we are budgeting based on having no fans at all. we hope the premier league and the government can get their heads together and come up with a sensible financial package that can just keep these pyramid going, because as we mentioned earlier there are clubs creaking at the edges now. this window has also seen some of the most lucrative loan deals in premier league history. gareth bale returning to spurs on a reported reported a £600,000 per week, and uruguay international edinson cavani a late target for manchester united... commentator: another special from edinson cavani! ..set to earn £10 million this season. premier league club say they have financial issues of their own and are being asked to help out potential rivals in a way that doesn't apply to any other industry but given the scale of fees and wages paid by the top clubs this summer that is an argument that many will find hard to accept. manchester united's 6—1 defeat

to spurs yesterday, another reminder of the importance of results. the richest clubs are expected to invest but also now to help save the entire sport. what they decide will be a defining moment in the premier league era. dan roan, bbc news. a british scientist who helped discover the hepatitis c virus has been awarded the 2020 nobel prize for medicine. michael houghton, who holds a phd from kings college london, shared the prize with american researchers harvey alter and charles rice. there aren't many new films being released at the moment but there is one that has caught the eye of the critics. it's called st maud, a psychological horror film, written and directed by the up and coming british director rose glass. her debut stars morfydd clark — a welsh actress in her first lead role, who's also been singled out for praise. 0ur arts editor will gompertz has been speaking to them both.

maud, as she likes to be called, is a nurse, a carer who perhaps caresjust a little bit too much. it takes nothing special to mop up after the decrepit and the dying. she doesn't want to simply save lives, anyone can do that, she wants to save a soul. bless amanda's body. and bless her mind. it stars the 30—year—old welsh actress, morfydd clark, in herfirst major lead role. the challenges for me was dealing with a lot of subject matter that i feel quite passionately about, which is the nhs and how we treat workers there. and also, kind of, just struggling in loneliness and it was kind of thinking about that every day with trying not to obsess about that every day. the film was written and directed by 31—year—old bafta rising star, rose glass. we kind of saw this film as a weird, messed up, fun character study that naturallyjust ended up veering into horror and i think it's a territory where you can sort

of talk about quite interesting themes, but dressed up in quite a fun, crazy way. i've got more important things on my mind. i didn't have the characters on social media a lot. the relationship that she has with god, and in a way the audience of the film, is, in my mind anyway, quite similar to the relationship i see some people have with social media and the constant feeling that somebody else is watching and sort of wanting approval. and the sort of ability to be, on the one hand, incredibly lonely, like by herself in a room, as a lot of us have been particularly recently. but then to also feel incredibly connected to the rest of the world. a lot of those things are quite anxiety inducing. gender is obviously a big issue, it's a big issue in the movies, how did you find the experience as a first—time female director? i mean, i'm very aware that i'm coming up right at a time when the industry and audiences are wanting more diverse voices in their storytellers. and i'm definitely benefiting from people who have done a lot of important work before me to make that the case. but now that i'm here, i'm only interested in making films and telling stories just like as a person, not

sort of as a woman. am i indecent?