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as president trumps a press secretary becomes the latest style high level republican to test positive for corona virus the president himself is going back to the white house despite this he is still infectious and isolating as is his campaign manager so with less than a month to election day who's actually running the campaign i'm still go in then and this is the day. where he may not entirely be able woods yet the team and i agree that all are a valuation and most importantly his clinical studies support the president's safe return we all remain cautiously optimistic. and on guard we have worked very closely with the walter reed team to ensure that we are looking very closely at

infection control prevention strategies and the right posture so that the president can safely return to his residence we try to get patients home to the hospital. as quickly as you say anything reasonable every day a patient stays in the hospital unnecessarily is a risk to themselves he has never once pushed to do anything that was beyond safe and reasonable practice that we all 1st of. all so on the day by opposition leader took on a sky out visits germinates of meat with chants of i'm going to makeover what is she looking for a bird led to broker talks with alexander lukashenko. now we need. help in mediation negotiations with authorities and rethink that. and that is it is going to be extremely helpful in this situation. welcome to the day president trump has heading home to the white house the doctors

say he is fit to do so although they also say he's not out of the woods and needs to be closely monitored despite still being infectious the president tweeted that he feels better than he has done for 20 years and urge people not to be afraid of a coronavirus he was helicoptered into the walter reed medical center in maryland 3 days ago after testing positive and showing symptoms of covered 19 doctors explained why they're so confident that he could be discharged. we sent patients home with medications all the time. in fact yesterday afternoon you probably met most of his discharge requirements safely from the hospital and he's returning to the facility the white house medical unit and staff 247 top notch physicians nurses p.a.'s logisticians and the unit here the team here behind me is going to continue to support us in that nature we all remain cautiously optimistic and on guard

because we're in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received the therapy she has so early in the course so we're looking to this weekend if we can get through to monday with him remaining the same or improving better yet then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. but as i said 247 world class medical care surrounding him down there we're not going to miss anything that we were caught of here all right let's catch up with a senate without shockley now alabama who writes for the washington post and has that power up newsletter welcome to you this has all the makings of a truck miracle he's out of hospital we don't know quite how ill he is but apparently fit enough to return to the white house is expected to go back to work. that's exactly what his doctor dr connelly said although he declined to answer

several pretty important questions again during this press conference the 3rd of the press conferences that he's held where he's declined to disclose important information such as the status of the president's lums just how many times he is needed and to be administered oxygen but as you just saw he gave a pretty sunny review of how the president's doing and says that he's going to be taking care of the best doctors in the world he's currently under on several say several therapeutics and returning to the white house tonight you've mentioned what a weird thing about this the president of the united states in hospital but the doctors have been surprisingly vague about what's wrong with him they've talked to but he's gone from having mild symptoms to needing oxygen to being treated with that some methods which is no movies of the serious cases to now being released while still sick does this matter to people that. you know

it should matter to people there is a long well documented history of presidents being really private and you know shrouding their the status of their health conditions with secrecy but that being said this is a matter of public knowledge this is something that they should be communicating to the public and keeping americans up to iran and being fully transparent specially as we're under 30 days away from the election and the president is you know infected with a highly contagious disease virus that has effects killed 200000 americans but dr connelly citing hipaa regulations which is a law in the united states that prevents patients that prevents doctors from disclosing information that patients do not want released he said that you know due to these have the regulations that he couldn't tell us any more specific medications that the president might be on or what his long scans look like so again he continued to say you know withhold some very important information that

you know could give us a serious and better picture of what the president's current health status actually is anybody's that is out of hospital so i suppose we should be thankful for that meanwhile the latest of his inner circle to be confirmed with cobbett is press secretary to caylee kennedy hours after being told about her positive test as she issued this statement on twitter here's just a part of it after testing that that have consistently including every day since thursday i tested positive for comment 19 on monday morning want to experience it no symptoms moreover i definitively had no knowledge of hope hicks's diagnosis runs a holding a white house press briefing on thursday so what is the story here why is she protesting so much. that is an excellent question and kerry magnan is response and handling of this situation is really emblematic of the way the white house has viewed and treated the virus and flouted centers for disease control

guidelines throughout this entire ordeal mcenaney did in fact we now know hicks's diagnosis and this is why the c.d.c. has these guidelines meccan that any statement you know fundamentally represents an misunderstanding of the guidelines what the c.d.c. says that is that you can test negative several times even if you have the virus especially if you've been exposed to it and as we know mcewan has been around the president hope it's an enclosed proximity with several other people who have tested positive yet she continued to return to the workplace brief reporters did not wear a mask and in danger others around her even though the c.d.c. guidelines recommends that people who have been exposed to the virus stay at home in quarantine for 14 days even just to take precautions even if you do not test positive for myra's in those 14 to protect others around you so yes again saying that i answered this question before we ask a again we have a white house we have a president we have some white house staffers who appear to be acting. particularly

what so what recklessly we have people not wearing masks we have people not isolating sensible people say that is not a sensible thing to do to people really care though the so many high level republicans seem to have acted in such a reckless mullet. people are starting to care you're hearing senior republican senators on capitol hill start to worry that the republican party is looking like the stoop that is what we at the washington post reported over the weekend especially since there are a handful of vulnerable senate republican senators who are up for reelection and if they lose that means that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will lose his majority and if the president wins reelection that means that it will be much harder to govern with a democratic led senate you know we did see the president's polls tank over the weekend and that polling was conducted after the debate and not and before his

diagnosis of it became public so it remains to be seen just how much more his stance in the polls will drop you know once there is another round of polling conducted and people are responding in real time to his diagnosis this infection has also made the president's campaign come crying to a halt to her president does rely on these rallies in person several of them about the president because we have a president now coming out of hospital but his campaign manager bill stepien has also tested positive for covet so who is running the company and indeed is there much of a trump campaign at the moment. so there is in fact a you know a robust strong campaign i do speak with several trump campaign sources who are on the ground who are organizing these are talented operatives that being said the president has always been the one who has run his campaign that's why he cites for so many campaign manager so many chief of staff this is his management style it's

why there's been so much turnover in the white house and his campaign he dictates the message and largely his campaign strategy relies on his personality and these rallies that he holds that draws in so many people good talking to thank you so much for joining us such a claim the alimony from the washington post thanks for having me. meanwhile the british government is investigating how nearly 16000 new coronavirus infections went unreported because of what they say was a technical glitch health minister not hancock says it was critical to ensure the mistake doesn't happen again the 15841 virus cases from september the 25th to the 2nd of october were not added to official figures prime minister barak's jobson's seemed quite delighted about the era the the incidents that we're

seeing in the cases really sort of corresponds to pretty much where we thought. we were and to be frank i think that the slightly lower numbers that we'd seen. didn't really reflect where we thought that the disease was likely to go so i think it's in these numbers a realistic. so let's take a closer look at this with paul hunter he's professor of medicine at the university of east anglia england welcome to day w. professor is paris johnson writes big quite so relaxed about failing to count nearly 16000 coronavirus cases. i think there is a serious issue here and that is that if you are going to be running a test track and trace system that will actually stop transmission ongoing transmission in your community then you have to be really timely in your response you have to identify cases soon as possible and then identify that contact and

advise the contacts just to help isolate and test if it's necessary or any delay that reduces the effectiveness of the system so that if we are having to wait a week to tell potential contacts then the chances are if they are even if those contacts are infected they will have developed their infection they were potentially encrypted other people and may well actually be already getting to the point where they're already less infectious as they were a few days earlier so yes it is a serious. mission that we haven't been able to follow up as many as many as. 30000 contacts that really should have been followed a more timely than we have managed ok so that the 3 elements you mentioned that are of a good track and trace system a timely intervention identify the cases and identify contacts putting those

$60000.00 cases aside how does britain's track and trace a system match up again so strict criteria. well i think. it has been difficult and it remains difficult i think they. are not forgive me for interrupting when you say it has been difficult you mean it's not been going well. i think so yes they the we have not been i don't contacting as many cases as we would have liked in the past and certainly the evidence is that many people who've been contacted haven't actually been responding appropriately haven't been self isolating and to address that the u.k. recently introduced. new laws that made it actually a criminal offense to not to self isolate when advised by the test track and traces them compare having said that compared to many other countries we certainly not one

of the worst countries in europe in terms of our response to 19 but. could certainly do better u.k. also seems to be having a problem with the thousands of students having to be locked down in new universities in manchester edinburgh and glasgow amongst others and not to be wise after the event but it does seem predictable but you take tens of thousands of 18 year olds living away from home for the 1st time they're going to have little time for social distancing this could have been avoided couldn't it well certainly i think it's predictable whether it's avoidable or not is that it is a different issue and i think that the issue is whether or not you will you can balance the loss that they get cation that would come with closing our universities at this stage with the. the harm would be done to

students from both from the virus and from not attending education so certainly it was predictable and i think many people were expecting there to be a fairly substantial number of cases the most universities we've seen that already both in america and elsewhere where in countries where universities went back for the u.k. . what is the alternative the alternative closed not open the universities against again this. damaging many. young people's education. i wonder what sort of what people make of the political what you make of the political leadership on here because you have said it's important to be timely in identifying the cases and identifying contacts and acting quickly but we have the u.k. has a health secretary matthau kark who says this mistake losing nearly 16000 cases has not substantially changed the government's assessment of coverage 1000 impact and

has a not impact the basis on which decisions about local action were taken last week so. what you say what he says the political leader seems to be at odds. no i don't think so well certainly a heck i don't certainly don't agree with everything that our health minister said but in this industry gart the u.k. tends to make decisions on on a weapon city. and when you look at this when both cases of being lost many of the most and most of them would actually not as already not would have not come to the attention of the system by wednesday evening anyway so i don't think it's actually made that much difference to right decisions on local lock downs this week most of the cases that we're seeing most of the big increase that we've seen in the last week would would even if it were probably would only really have come

to the discussion points in the next wednesday's. command meeting where they decide on these things ok so briefly what what sort of pandemic do you think they'd be u.k. is having clearly these are unprecedented times but how well is there is it being controlled. well i just got to look at the figures it is it is has increased pretty dramatically over the last few weeks. compared to other countries we were better than many not as good as some and it's easy to point to other countries where that have had a much more severe increase in in recent weeks than we have. we are still having said that a long way to go it will always always was going to be a very tough autumn this year in terms of infections. provide if we

can't and and i think the decision is that we can't go back to the intense lockdown that we had in april things are better now than they were earlier in the year the availability of p.t. is better we we were better at treating severely ill patients now than we were but still it's going to be a tough autumn thank you for joining us they are climbing about so clearly a professor of paul hunter from the university of east anglia thank. my father. i'm going to receive opposition leaders spent learning how to come a skier is here in berlin to ask for german help in solving the crisis in her country as she herself was forced into exile after losing all this presidential election 2 months standing before tearing leave and xander shanker has been meeting the 2 of us weekly mass protests in her country continue human rights organizations

say more than 10000 people have been detained in baton rouge since the election and she reached german chancellor angela merkel on tuesday ahead of that mystical sky told e.w. why germany might play such an important role. and this moment of. the recent political crisis. support of any country reign around is important for us but germany is. the most powerful country in the war is extremely important because we need. help in mediation of power in the authorities and we think that germany and that is really just going to be extremely helpful in this situation. that's catch up with the developed political correspondent simon young welcome simon so when svetlana. asks. for help and mediate the with the better what sort of answer do you think she's going to get. well phil

i think it's pretty clear where the sympathies lie in the chancellor ie angela merkel spokesman was saying today that she sees. as a key figure in the belarus opposition movement that she's looking forward to their meeting very much on tuesday and this has got huge admiration for the peaceful demonstrators in belarus and the german government is at the same time repeating its calls on the regime to end violence to release political prisoners and to hold very transparent elections or i think you can see the direction in which the thinking is going to can all scar will get a good reception having said that it will he will have to wait and see what she asked for and whether berlin can become more directly involved in mediation it's worth pointing out back in august and other medical agreed with glad you may have putin that neither germany nor russia would get more directly involved in internal

affairs in belarus some would say putin has gone back on that already with his demonstrations of backing for. but it's also worth saying to herself has said again today in that d.w. interview that in the end only the people of bella reuss can solve this crisis yet so we've had these calls from from europe for for a peaceful resolution of this we've had calls from from germany is not only that there doesn't seem to be any indication that is listening whether it comes from whether the call comes from until or merkel or anyone else. well maybe there doesn't perhaps behind the scenes more is going on the we know about i think germany's position in all this is a sort of conduit for diplomatic pressure from the e.u. and that's particularly true at the moment during the last 6 months of this year when germany holds the e.u. presidency and i think the e.u.

pressure at the moment is coming in the form of statements of support and backing of this type for the for the opposition there's also a certain amount perhaps that could be done in the way of material support with legal medical support or indeed offering refuge to activists who fear for their safety and want to leave belarus but so far it doesn't go beyond that i think it's about adding to the pressure also demonstrating to russia that really there's not much advantage for them in backing look. where is the german geo political interest in this why what what what does germany get out of. being seen with. and potentially being in opposition to putin over this. well i think it's about you know supporting peaceful

protest and democratic rights also germany i think would like to see the end of europe's longest dictatorship as many have called it that would send a message into the post serviette space that the era of the autocrats is coming to an end and that democracy continues its advance i think that is the sort of broad perspective that people in berlin would look for having said that there's a need of course to tread carefully because russia tends to be nervous about this type of development and just all not points we have better results position leader here in berlin to converse with the mac on tuesday at the same time as we have a prominent russian opposition leader alexei novelli who's still here in berlin after being poisoned everybody thinks it's by the russians this germany of a particular attraction for dissidents from the former soviet union. well phil it

seems to and i think lane in particular again and again we've seen these kind of figures popping up in news headlines here in germany one thinks of the chechen dissident who was a man actually who had a georgian passport he was mooted in berlin in august 2019 actually just a short distance from chancellor merkel's office right in the center of berlin german prosecutors say that was a killing carried out by russian agents to put a stop to him we've also seen protests here outside the russian embassy organized by russian citizens among them for instance a cousin of boris nemtsov the murdered russian politician protesting against what they called putin's tara so again and again we see opposition figures cropping up in germany. political correspondent simon young thank you.

the nobel assembly at carolyn schemes to toot it has today decided to award the 2020 nobel prize in physiology or medicine jointly to harvey jay alter michael horton and charles am rice for the discovery of hepatitis c. virus but as that of this year's nobel peace prize for medicine in their announcement they in about price committee said when his discoveries and saved millions of lives. now i hardly outset discovered the appetites the same virus in $1809.00 michael horton isolated its d.n.a. and charles reiss prove the virus cause liver diseases such as cancer so it's thanks to their work that most have otitis see patients around the world countries successfully treated for the virus today. to end on a bit of good news that was the day as ever the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter at the w used for the day. after

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