this is news coming to you live from berlin with one month to go until he faces reelection u.s. president donald trump has been infected by the coronavirus trump confirmed on twitter that both he and the 1st lady melania trump have tested positive for coverage 19 and will enter quarantine together trump who's 74 years old placing him in a high risk for the deadly disease the. e.u. leaders agreed to impose sanctions on officials accused of election fraud also on the agenda at their 2 days foreign affairs summit tense relations between turkey

greece and cyprus plus. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us with just 4 weeks until election day u.s. president all trump and 1st lady melania trump have tested positive for cope at 19 the president made the announcement on twitter shortly after the news that his top aide hope picks a contract at the virus hicks traveled with the president several times this week trump tweeted that he and his wife would quarantine immediately but his doctor said the president would continue to carry out his duties in the white house quote without disruption of time. well the for very latest now it's talk to our washington bureau chief in this poll as in the final weeks of the election campaign

president trump is tested positive for the coronavirus what more can you tell us. well indeed if you just read it out in certain areas you just said mr trump received the test results just after one of his closest advisors got sick and she was traveling with him so what do we know we know that the president's assistant says that mr trump was well but we don't know whether he is experiencing symptoms. what we know is that donald trump is 74 years old and he belongs to the age category which is most vulnerable to the why was so everybody is discussing now what will happen is exactly that really seriously sick. and that's probably interesting to note for our viewers is that another 25th amendment. a medically incapacitated president has the option to transfer his power is with the vice president and that bush being vice president mike pence. thank you very much for

now that was our washington correspondent is paul. well our reporter katie stephens here in berlin is also following this story for us kitty what impact could this hurt of on the election well terry the 1st a most obvious impact is on campaigning trump has already canceled a rally scheduled for friday in florida a key swing state so that will be a blow he also had more rallies scheduled in the coming days and weeks for wisconsin are zona among others also important states for him to win in this election the centers for disease control guidelines say that anybody who test positive for the coronavirus even if they are showing symptoms need to south isolate for at least 10 days and it's could be longer if he does develop symptoms so that also throws into question what about the next presidential debate scheduled

for october 15th in miami beyond that another impact is that this could really do you rail trumps efforts to focus attention away from the coronavirus pandemic and on to other issues so we had his nomination to the supreme court that was something that could be seen as working in trump's favor he was also trying to talk about mail in ballots saying that that might be something that could potentially invalidate the election result if it didn't go the way that he wanted but now with this positive coronavirus diagnosis for the president himself it's really going to focus attention back on the pandemic which let's not forget is still having a huge impact on many many people across the united states. of course this is the middle of the night on the east coast of the united states where washington is but this is waking people up everywhere what reactions are you seeing so for well and that in fact not just in the u.s. but all around the world so there's already been a few high profile comments on this the indian prime minister narendra modi has

tweeted that he is wishing my friend a quick recovery and a good house and tons of official reaction from the united states we're going to have to wait a little bit longer to get some of those significantly joe biden the presidential rival hasn't officially tweeted yet but a few hours before donald trump's positive test result the last tweet that he put out was donald trump would do everything he can to distract from the fact that because of his failed covert 1000 response of 820-0000 americans have died 26000000 are on an unemployment and one in 6 more businesses risk permanent closure so i think that gives us an idea of what joe biden strategy will be going ahead but as we've said it's really unclear high this presidential campaign is going to play at that it's going to be very difficult for trump because he's the lying on big rallies public appearance is he not i won't be able to do those at least he shouldn't be doing those we'll have to wait and see and then there's also the question of his health his doctors have said that he's ok at the moment but let's

not forget as you mentioned earlier he is 74 years old he is in a high risk group were he to develop symptoms later on becomes of a neo that could even raise questions if he should be on the ballot a tool many many questions now a big question mark hanging over the u.s. election kitty stevens thank you so much let's see if there's any reaction from brussels at this point was bring in our brussels correspondent barbara basler who's standing there saying by there while the e.u. summit is underway barbara any reactions from europe to the news about president roh testing positive for the crowbars. so far nothing to be seen here but i'm sure they will come any minute now of course the usual wishes for a speedy recovery but if you try to be a mind reader what will be going through european leaders heads is a certain fear of the american election campaign that has already been very chaotic

descending further into chaos and that might try fear into their hearts and then also there is of course another level the unspeakable one looking at donald trump having appeared with face mask a lot of holding public rallies with people without masks on and then comparing this to this super hygiene is socially distance mass. summit here in brussels where leaders are really trying everything to show to their people that you may have to behave sensibly there might also other sorts going through their minds that i would not want to speculate on. stay with us barbara while we take a look at what transpired on day one of that e.u. summit which will continue today your leaders agreed yesterday to impose sanctions on dozens of belorussian officials linked to the widely disputed reelection of xander lucas shanker in the recent presidential vote cyprus dropped its veto

against the move after securing e.u. support in its gas dispute with turkey the sanctions include travel bans and asset freezes. a breakthrough in brussels after weeks of deadlock e.u. leaders presented a united front on belly roofs slapping sanctions on 14 members of president alexander lukashenko his regime. they were accused of falsifying the oldest election results which is led to weeks of unrest across the country to block stop short of sanctioning lucas shankly though despite rejecting the bellary seen leaders claim. to the presidency the people of the have the right to determine what's the own future it's also our intention to continue to develop a foot in order to support the important use such as the freedom of the press freedom the freedom of speech and decision of society they had been broad support

for the sanctions but discussions here to snag when cyprus vetoed the move but there is a huge requiring a unanimous decision all eyes were on the cypriot president who wanted to 1st secure a few support in his country's dispute with turkey. turkey has been carrying out exploratory drilling for gas in what cyprus in greasy is their sovereign washes something anchorage disputes the 2 issues and directly related but cyprus used its vote as leverage amid growing tensions in the mediterranean in a compromise the e.u. warned turkey could face consequences if it persists with its project it is now tricky that has to prove that it wants to go that constructive role with us and this is the offer to light but we are very clear that in the opposite case we

have all necessary tools at our disposal. for previous warnings and sanctions on those involved in the drilling have done little to deter and correct are. the a you has promised to reassess the situation before the end of the year since $930.00 and barbara hazel is with us from brussels let's start with those sanctions on batteries barbara how significant are they. this impolitic of course terry but it is had been felt is such a shame that the european union could not even do this because everybody knows that they are largely powerless towards the developments in belarus they support mentally and psychologically morally the protesters there but they can't interfere this much is clear at least that much should be done to show the world that they really try to sort of go with and support the protest movement and to send

a very clear message. that he is not wanted anymore by the european union neither but it took so long and it was such a difficult process to the point that he is not himself on the sanctions list was explained that. it was probably still need at the a still hoping for some sort of international mediation effort so that he might want to travel have to travel all receive people from international delegations so that is the official explanation for that how much sense that makes everybody can decide for themselves indeed if there is was difficult to get these sanctions moving these sanctions on batteries for only possible because cyprus stopped blocking them in return for e.u. support for its territorial dispute with turkey what's the deal there. the deal was it was weird to watch last night because what mark of the german chancellor has been leading these nuclear stations because she has the presidency at the moment in

the e.u. if she went in with a sort of reverse negotiating strategy she came in and talked about a positive agenda was turkey and everybody was sort of wiping their eyes and thinking what a positive agenda turkey has been sort of the critics criticism for the really activities for months almost came to a military standoff in the region turkey is now interfering in azerbaijan and that so what else could turkey possibly have to do to be sort of in the bad book of the european union but then greece and cyprus started pushing and everybody sort of went along as far as they thought they could now this threat with sanctions doesn't mention the word sanctions but it measures implies that the e.u. is ready to impose them and those would not be symbolic sanctions like against that it was about economic sanctions turkey is totally dependent on the european union

for its trade and it's come to me if the e.u. would turn off those connections and cut them turkey would be really severely hit so there is a real threat there it's implied it's not spoken and everybody hopes now that this carrot and stick approach might be enough to rein in president it is not sure though robert thank you very much our brussels correspondent barbara. so you look at some of the other stories making headlines today hundreds of independent supporters have taken to the streets of barcelona to mark the 3rd anniversary of their region's failed attempt to break away from spain 27000 referendum on independence was declared illegal by spain's constitutional court and triggered a national crisis. protesters in the mongolian capital have demanded the release of ethnic mongolians arrested in neighboring china for criticizing a new bilingual education oversee the curriculum changes that replaces mongolian

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1st lady melania trump have tested positive for covert 19 and. team together is 74 years old placing him in a high risk. in washington. to stay with this check out what we've got for you to give you dot com i'm terry market. going up today don't miss our highlights. program on line. dot com highlights. this is some the story of a stubborn rice farmer from thailand. his problem is. he's created no chemicals. and he's trying to. step.