ok 2. you can use a line from donald trump sends a message of thanks to well wishers as he begins treatment for covert 19. the u.s. president has been transferred to a military hospital after showing symptoms of the disease also coming up germany marks the 30th anniversary of reunification 3 decades have thought a lot of progress but divisions between east and west remain.

a michael welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump is being treated at a military hospital after testing positive for covert 19 he's expected to remain at walter reed medical center for several days trump's doctor says he is taking the antiviral drugs of the year earlier white house officials said the hospitalization was only a precautionary measure and trump would continue his presidential duties. the 1st glimpses of the u.s. president since he shocked the world with his confidant tain diagnosis. donald trump is being transferred to hospital with officials insisting it's only a precautionary measure. the white house said he was pretty good but include

spirits and experiencing mild symptoms before takeoff the president assured his supporters he was doing ok i. think everybody for the tremendous support. every hospital are they going to. make sure things were the 1st lady is doing. so thank you very much appreciate it i will never forget. the white house had been on high alert after news that a top aide was diagnosed with the virus on thursday her pics seen here in the brown coach often travels with the president now the race is on to trace and test the people who might have come into contact with him and the potential pool of people is huge with an election to win trump has been on the road addressing voters and he hasn't always want to face mask all followed social distancing guidelines.

with the president out of action all of his events have been suspended a month before the election this is throwing the campaign into uncharted territory if donald trump hopes to make america great again he's going to have to be the coronavirus 1st. joining me now our washington correspondent. what do we know right now about the president's condition and the treatment that he's receiving. well as we've heard his symptoms were at 1st described as just my old and then later in the day said oh they're actually moderates and according to the doctors that are tending to him he's taking pretty well to the cocktail of antibiotics that they have him on the 1st lady in the meantime has also been tested positive has quote a mild cough and headache the white house is really trying to project an image that

you know he's still with it there's nothing to worry about he's working he's in good spirits he's energetic but at the end of the day we have media reports that he's actually pretty feverish and there's been no official briefings from any doctors we only have the word of the white house communications team to go on this white house has been very non-communicative very untransparent about what the story is they've been that way really about his medical history in general throughout his term when it came out that he was moving to the hospital congressional leaders came forward and said they had received no briefings as to his situation you know this is a white house that has spent the last known 9 months now of this pandemic gaslighting the public as to the severity of this disease and now with so little information out there there's a lot of misinformation that's been spreading. how serious is this situation. yeah it's been quite a blast radius shall we say i think we're up to 8 people at least who have come

forward and said that they have also tested positive going to look at my list to make sure i get this right we have former new jersey governor chris christie his former aide kellyanne conway his truck his campaign manager these are all people who are very close to the present at least 2 senators also it's spreading among the top d.c. politicos but it's not just of them in the past week trump has traveled to 7 different states for various big rallies and fundraisers last saturday he was in pennsylvania for a big rally thousands of people attended and now the state health authority has come forward and said people who attended that rally need to get tested so it's not just people in his close circle it's potentially thousands of people across the country that former governor of new jersey chris christie you just mentioned just the other day said that he was helping the president prepare for his debate and nobody in the room was wearing masks it's a very interesting development there. so the president's been hospitalized we know

he'll be out of commission for at least the next several days what does this mean for the election. this is another destabilizing moment in what has been an enormous shattering campaign season we know that he's canceled or postponed all of his big rallies and the thing is these rallies are they are his campaign they are his hallmark his base loves them it's where he gets his energy and if you believe the polls he is trailing rather badly in the polls behind his opponent joe biden so this is not a good development for his campaign now in terms of biden biden has to balance not looking too crass or overly political about this illness that's spreading in washington when making a closing statement about his candidacy in the last 30 days that we now have before the election so you can bet that he's going to be hammering home his health care plan his pandemic carvery plan his economic recovery plan and trying to just draw

a bright line between what he has and the trump approach which has been shall we say much more cavalier maya schwager with the latest on what's been an extraordinary political season in the united states to say the least thank you. earlier we spoke with you i rosenberg associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the university of albanian asked him how hard it's going to be to trace the president's contacts over the past few days for better or worse the president is one of the most watched people in the world and i think you know in order to attend his events people have to go through security to register and so forth so i think being a lists and following up with people will be a possible task it's going to be some doable and i think we know there are there are lots of contacts racers and states and counties that can provide assistance to this so i think it's possible to oust but it will be obvious that i will go back some days and requires contacting reaching out to quite

a large number of people but i think it's a doable tells. epidemiologist. from the very beginnings of the pandemic trump has been accused of not taking coronavirus seriously enough or the precautions his own experts recommended to avoid it with that in mind here's a look back at how he's responded to the greatest public health challenge in decades from initial optimism in february looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away that's true. about face in march. today i am officially declaring a national emergency u.s. president donald trump has gone to extremes in his public attitude the coronavirus he's always saw a silver lining even as the death toll skyrocketed america will again and soon be open for business. we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself we're

not going to let the cure be worse than the problem in the start seeing. the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful. very very painful 2 weeks that trump soon turned a medical problem into a political issue forcing the public to choose between him and the experts when government scientists recommended wearing masks he scoffed at the idea is over we're in myself it's a recommendation they recommend it. i don't see it for myself i just i just maybe i'll change my mind he didn't change his mind but as the pandemic refused to go away miraculously he mused in public about rather unorthodox treatments supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful like what i said supposing it were the light inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way right and then i see the disinfectant it knocks it

out in a minute. by june as testing ramped up along with case numbers he seemed exasperated if you don't test you don't have any cases that we stepped right now would have very few cases if any. and he started mocking the virus making racist jokes and blaming the pandemic on china it's it's a disease without question has more names than any disease an issue. i can name. comes lou i can do. 90 different versions of day. with the election looming he doubled down on mocking masks even during the presidential debate i don't have i don't wear masks like him every time you see he's got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from him he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen that attitude held up until the last minute at this rally in

minnesota on wednesday trump threw souvenirs barehanded into a packed audience where few wore masks it remains to be seen how seriously trump's diehard supporters will now take the virus that has put their hero into quarantine and we'll tell you highlighting some other stories now making news around the world at this hour madrid has entered a new partial lockdown amid a surge in drone of virus cases millions in the spanish capital and 9 nearby towns are only allowed to leave their districts for essential activities such as work or medical care is currently europe's worst infection hotspot as cases rise across the continent. hundreds have turned out for fresh protests in the indian capital delhi after no alleged gang rape victim died of her injuries this week her family say she was cremated without their consent in the middle of the night protesters accuse authorities of trying to hush up the crime. early voting has begun in new

zealand's general election prime minister disinter dern was among the 1st to cast her ballot in the lead up to election day on october 17th the labor party leader is expected to win a 2nd term thanks to her handling of the krona virus pandemic and other crises. well germany is marking the 30th anniversary of reunification and event many thought would never happen east germans were hoping for a better life many found new opportunities and improve their standard of living but others found themselves in the midst of upheaval and were left behind even now 30 years later divisions remain between east and west. there was no master plan no example worldwide for this is turning event gemma freezing she cation. not even a year before the belling wall had come down after months of peaceful protest and

the from the east. give us u.k. france and the soviet union gave the green light paving the way to unify the 2 germany. those from the east had to adapt to many things new money and the economic system and a new lifestyle soon the disillusionment kicked in. what we're missing. it's because you know. it can only financial called. the social medical costs. are not. replied the economic. mess unemployment nobody mentioned before. as many as 4000000 workers and the east saw their jobs disappear countless others had to take on work that was below their qualifications many. and educated people left to look

for a better life some areas feel the neglect to this day. there are rural areas where there's a lot of poverty and rip people feel left out of that turning towards what they have which is often their national identity or even their racial identities and the last national elections the center right and center left parties were more popular in the west than germany the far left and extreme right in eastern germany. the celebration nevertheless takes place every year with good reason we have had 30 years of peace and prosperity for a lot of people we think of germany as such a stable and secure country i think it's amazing when you look back at german history over 100 years germany went through from a monarchy to

a failed democracy to a dictatorship to a communists system to a successful democracy and then through unification is a reinvention as the real headline for german history regardless of the differences really unified germany is often seen as an example of a stable and democratic country. i'm joined now by florentine schmidt man a historian from the likeness center for contemporary history in pots them germany she's a specialist on communist east germany as well it's nice to have you here on the set and let me start by asking you this what significance does you we unification have for younger germans today. i think that the younger generation.