this is d.w. news live from berlin and donald trump's personal physician makes an announcement about the president's condition saying donald trump is doing very well the u.s. leader is being treated at a military hospital after testing positive for coated 19 also coming out germany's celebrate 30 years of reunification german president from baltar steinmeyer speaks of the official ceremony calling the past 30 years a triumph of democracy over oppression and he issues a warning against populism and extremism.

i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us the doctor treating us president donald trump for his corona virus infection has given an upbeat assessment of his patients progress white house physician dr sean conley said trump symptoms were improving but he also warned that the critical phase of a cove in $1000.00 infection would come in a few days. as reported yesterday consultation with this group are recommended we bring the president up to walter reed the precautionary measure measure. to provide state of the art monitoring and any care that he may need. just 72 hours into the diagnosis now the 1st week of covert and in particular do some time of the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness. at

this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. there is a he had a mild cough and some nasal congestion fatigue all of which are now resulting in improving. all right let's get more on all this from washington d.c. and for that we're joined by our correspondent stefan seaman's hello to you stefan so trumps dr sounding very optimistic but his statement was rather thin on details what did you make of it you know you nailed it it was it was. it was painted as. now we're given your information finally because that's what we're waiting for here in washington and probably internationally really some facts some information about how. the president is doing how he was doing and what is the course of action forward is that or is that . he came out

a big team of doctors there are 3 pointing out 3 pulmonary care experts in the bank . that's a solid amount of experts in terms of lungs ventilation oxygen and so on just pointing this out here however if you believe doctors are called in then it is all pretty much hunky dorey of course not to be i'm not going to make fun of it but it is to be taken serious but the president is doing fine and the medicine he was giving is doing what it's supposed to be doing and they're optimistic in terms of how this is all going to work out for the president however and we heard this in the sound bite there 72 hours into this diagnosis that's what the doctor said and with that he threw a big wrench in anything else he said because that's what we reported surge 72 hours that really doesn't make sense the time that doesn't add up.