Tragic news but the going into crowds on mosques is an invitation to. The white house is rushing to find those who might have been infected by the u. S. President donald trump the 1st lady or a senior aide all of whom have tested positive for covert 19 the trumps are in isolation and a month out from election day theres new uncertainty over the campaign the president confirmed the result in a late night tweet 8 whole picks has traveled with the president several times in the last few days including on tuesday to the debates in Cleveland Ohio the next day they flew together to a Campaign Rally in minnesota all shortly were going to cross to our correspondents alan fischer and Kimberly Khalid in washington d. C. 1st heres rob reynolds. The news came in a late night tweet from the white house President Donald Trump wrote tonight the 1st lady and i tested positive for covert 19 we will begin our quarantine and Recovery Process immediately we will get through this together it is not known how despite elaborate precautions and constant testing of white house officials the White House Press corps and others in contact with trump the president contracted the virus but earlier one of trumps top aides hope hicks was confirmed to have tested positive hicks accompanied the president to the debate in Cleveland Ohio on tuesday trump phoned in to a Fox Television program earlier on thursday and talked about hicks having been exposed its a tough kind of a situation its a terrible thing so i just want to protest and well see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the White House Medical Team will maintain a vigilant watch lonnie a trump later tweeted we are feeling good trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventys and overweight would have to wait for the next few days. You know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people dont get sick until week after and still we have the reading be carefully observing the situation trump has declined to wear a mask on many occasions of clothing at rallies where many of his supporters also refused to wear a mask. His entourage including family members went masculists at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all Public Health experts i dont wear mess like him every time you see him hes got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from many shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen if trump were to become seriously ill and unable to carry out his duties the constitution provides for a Vice President mike pence to take over temporarily pence said he is praying for trumps recovery there can be no spin you can be you know harbor ups there has to be clear understanding of what is going on with this person this president United States because otherwise if hes not going past the to take care of the business he will have to be by the 25th amendment transition has to occur. But a glaring question now is how the news will affect trumps Reelection Campaign already trailing nationally and in certain important swing states it would seem that trump can ill afford to stay out of commission for a quarantine period of 2 weeks trump joins other World Leaders including brazils president gyre balsa naro and the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson who have contracted the virus worldwide the death toll from cova done teen has exceeded 1000000 rob reynolds aljazeera. Well White House CorrespondentKelly Holcomb is joining us live from washington d. C. Kimberly i think its about just a few minutes off to 10 am there i would imagine the lights have been burning in the white house since this result came out of. Absolutely this is a white house that is clearly in crisis mode trying to not only deal with the business of government at hand but also the president s reelection efforts the president did have a packed schedule for friday that included a rally friday evening in sanford florida that has been scrapped the only major sort of Campaign Type government type of event the president will be doing is midday when he will speak to seniors about covert 19 now that of course including himself with this positive test result now in the midst of all of this the concern has been the continuity of government if the u. S. President should fall seriously ill it would be the Vice President to would then step in to take over those duties he has tested negative as of friday morning along with his wife we should also point out the well the president s wife 1st lady malani a truck has tested positive their son barron has not asked for as well the president s daughter a violent car also testing negative so watching very carefully through all of this to to see what develops further. And kimberly the current course where we cant lose sight of the fact that we are in the election and this is clearly going to have an impact on the nature of the debates if theyre held a toll plus possibly election itself i know that the election date is kind of fixed but the stuff around it is going to have to change is not. Yeah theres no question that this is going to affect the president s reelection message particularly when it comes to covert night. What we know is that the president is trying to put a positive spin on all of this the fact that. He has been trying to convey the message that things are back to normal that the economy is bouncing back and thats why weve seen kind of a 2016 Campaign Style message but the same time the president will not be able to do that moving forward given the fact that he himself has tested positive Company Thanks very much indeed thats commonly held at our White House Correspondent talking to us from there lets go to him for sure who for sure of whos in washington d. C. The democrats are going to have to judge their reactions to this very very carefully on their. Well it took a while for the Biden Campaign to put out a statement thats very unusual the Biden Campaign has a Rapid Response unit and normally within minutes we have a reaction to things that donald trump has said or statements that come out of the white house in fact it was just more than an hour ago that we finally got a statement on twitter from joe biden and his wife saying that they wish to donald trump a quick recovery and said that he and the 1st lady would be in their prayers. I understand that there is going to be a test carried out on joe biden at some point this morning quite simply because he was so close to the president on tuesday what was interesting about the statement was that it simply stuck to the facts didnt make any political gain on that im told that the thinking was to quote the president well it is what it is and people will understand but that hasnt stopped people related to the Campaign Going on the attack the attack nancy pelosi has been speaking in the last hour she says that she has been tested she hasnt got her results yet but she said the wars to quote a learning experience for the president that he had been brazenly going to Campaign Rallies without a mask and suggesting that this was perhaps a consequence of that and she said that hopefully this will bring a sane approach no to the white houses covert testing regime and said this just reemphasizes the point to everyone across america that they should wear a mask number of tests have been carried out what might be key is that rumor mcdaniel no there is a name you probably dont know but she is the chairwoman of the r a n c the Republican Party she tested positive for covered on wednesday has been around the president all weekend and people may well know be doing Contact Tracing. But this may not start with hope picks it may go back farther than that alan this is of course wider than just the white house isnt it there are going to be political ramifications with the election but in congress as well just talk us through what you think the impact is going to be like there. Well youve got to think about the fact that there will be people on the hill who will have been explored jim jordan whos a congressman from ohio hes a republican he went to the debate on tuesday he is back on capitol hill im told this morning he is not self isolating although he should be because he was near force one or own the president people are also saying that hes not wearing a mask therefore there is the possibility that while hes working away on capitol hill that he is exposing people to the virus the statement ocean who is the treasury secretary hes been in and around the white house as well we are told he tested negative this morning but hes been speaking to nancy pelosi about a stimulus deal on the back of the corporate crisis and then theres a me call me about it who is of course the Supreme Court nominee this. Has been on capitol hill over the last couple of days talking to senators trying to secure her nomination to the court she was with the president in the oval office on saturday so theres a lot of Contact Tracing to go on what is interesting of course is that there were people suggesting that the president would remain. Symptomatic the white house confirming in the last hour or so that he has mild symptoms he was at a fundraiser at his home in bedminster in new jersey on thursday night saw unmasked as well where there was around 100. 00 there people saying he was a bit less seemed a lacking in energy we know nor why we also know that in american politics they tend to say that there is always an october surprise who knew this year would come on october the 1st and who knew it would be the president a note saying that he had covered alan thanks very much indeed alan fischer talking to us from washington d. C. Well donald trump is not the 1st world leader to contract the virus brazils president just to bolster not 0 tested positive back in july the british Prime Minister bought his johnson was moved to an intensive care unit in april after contracting is johnson has tweeted to wish President Trump and his wife a speedy recovery that he has more from london. Boris johnson has been one of the 1st world d leaders to put out a message of support for President Trump and his wife in the last few hours based not just on that close friendship that they verse struck up but based on Boris Johnsons own personal experience of being in a hospital with covered 193 nights of his hospital stay being in intensive care leading to dark days in which in his words things could have gone either way lets have a listen to what he said just a few hours ago well obviously i think we all want to send best wishes to the president and the 1st lady and ive done that this morning as you can imagine and im sure that theyll both stage a very strong recovery where Boris Johnson is to some extent and a changed man after his experience when he came out of hospital he paid tribute to medical workers who he said had saved his life and then started a fitness regime including daily runs and he has lost weight and just this week in fact reporters asked him whether he had fully recovered from coverage 19 he said that he was far healthier than he had been previously due mainly to losing weight and in the last few months hes actually trying to start an initiative to fight the big problem here in the u. K. Of obesity at the same time initially what he went through seems to actually increase his personal popularity ratings into april but then theyve actually started to go down following controversies over the way the government handled things like testing for coronavirus things like protective equipment for frontline workers and other issues so i think there was a lot of public sympathy for Boris Johnson as well its not clear exactly how his experience will compare to the u. S. President s but certainly Boris Johnson has taken the whole danger the whole fate of coronavirus more seriously one can say van for example president also noro in brazil. Still ahead on aljazeera were going to have an update on the worst clashes between armenia and azerbaijan since the war over a small mountainous region ended in the 1990 s. And. Now its got i learned in northern thailand home to more than a dozen ethnic hill tribes and even after living here for generations many are still fighting for thai citizenship a battle made even more difficult because of the pandemic. Hello weve got some wet weather with the full cost of central parts of china with them i mean see this area cloud just diving in cross the northern and central pass it links all way back through the Korean Peninsula to the final face to china and to that eastern side of a russia so some rain on this heavy rain is probably going to be around that eastern side of china pushing across into a russia but you can follow it down across the far north of japan some lovely showers into hokkaido for a time and then we come down toward shanghai tools will hand flooding rain so the possibility some disruptions certainly likely we are going to see dry weather down towards the fossella the temperatures in hong kong around 31. 00 celsius and feeling on the humid side as for japan the showers do become a little more evidence as we go on through sunday heavier showers thats north of honshu and on into her car the general fun a dry cell with a temperature of around 22 degrees 40 dry across a good part of india and now the monsoon rains starting to retore quite nicely but we have got still some rather lively downpours across the northeast of in the western parts of myanmar pushing up into the funnel the stuff into some states right across bangladesh the possibility of flooding and that is further showers for the west and gets. 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Democratic House Speaker nancy pelosi says plans for continuing government are in place and that though its tragic trunks habit of going into crowds without a mosque was a brazen invitation for something to happen. U. S. Media is reporting a small group of white house officials knew about a top aids positive results the trans sehgal on thursday remained unchanged peter drawback is director of the Schools Center for social entrepreneurship at oakford university he said the announcement seen delayed. Its obviously a real concern as are reports that you know that she tested positive at least yesterday morning if not the evening before and yet the president who had been in contact with her continued on a busy public schedule including traveling to other events so both of those are real breaches of. The white house as in the u. S. Governments own guidelines certainly someone with symptoms requiring a test should be self isolating until they get the results of that test and new and of course that she was positive all this needed to be shut down much sooner all this tit was increase exposure and risk to others and thats going to make this more difficult to contain when we knew of course that it danced ages associated with risk of more severe course of illness and a higher risk of death and there are various medical comorbidities that can also increase that risk in this case the president s weight in his most recent visit was classified as a piece so those 2 things probably to increase the risk that the president s infection could take a more severe course its really difficult to predict exactly what this means for any individual based on population studies but were of course very concerned well we presume that were very early in the course of this infection presuming that the president has been tested regularly we dont know whether hes been having symptoms or not yet the white house released a carefully worded statement saying he was doing well but didnt say whether hes having symptoms that could have all that i think the course could range from no symptoms at all to something quite severe typically however those who face a more severe course for example require hospitalization often take that turn as they enter the 2nd week of illness so it may be that we start with a relatively mild course but we wont really know for sure whether hes making a recovery and avoiding that risk until perhaps a week out thats what we saw here for example with the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson who was infected back in may the 1st several days will report as relatively mild but in the 2nd week of his illness of course he became quite ill and did require hospitalization and other news on many as has this ready to work with mediators to reinstall. The ceasefire in the back armenia and Azerbaijan Forces have been fighting over the disputed region and its continued into a 6th day the u. S. Russia and france of called for the resumption of talks they cochair the minsk group set up to find a peaceful resolution to the decades old conflict. More forms to particles in the back. Were going to care about defense minister says overnight there was intensive fighting along the line of contact all along the line of contact thats the border between the goanna karabakh and azerbaijan it runs along the eastern side of the go on a car back from north to south and he says that in the last 2 days theres been a further 54. 00 of their soldiers killed bringing that total to more now than 140. 00 since fighting broke out on sunday most tense period of fighting of contact between the 2 sides since 2016 the defense minister also says that if there is a desire to exchange the bodies of dead soldiers between both sides between are between nagornokarabakh and the azerbaijan side then there needs to be at least temporary ceasefire that he says at the moment there is no intention or there is no plan to have one meaning as Prime Minister nicole he says that he told the white house recently that before there is any cease fire they need to get rid of the what he calls mercenaries and terrorists that are in this region and he needs to get them out of here before theres any cease fire hes referring to the allegation to send a response syria to fight alongside Azerbaijani Forces allegations turkey denies. As of irans president is accusing International Mediators of allowing armenia to occupy as the lands for decades in an interview with al jazeera says its about time the u. N. Security councils resolutions undergone a cutback are implemented. The main reason is that armenia doesnt want peace they want to keep our lands on the patient forever they dont want to change status quo and this is a reason why i lasted so long because otherwise if i mean it demonstrated with real and acted in compliance with the resolutions of Main International organizations the conflict would have been resolved many years ago because back in 1903 when armenia occupied part of our territories Un Security Council adopted fortys aleutians demanding immediate cruel and unconditional withdrawal of their troops from our territories but this is a lucias remain on paper means a group which was created in order to facilitate to find a solution. Already is in activity for 28 years and also without any result therefore who was the main reason this they said the position of armenia the 2nd reason is that leg off instead of from the side of the mediators and lack of pressure on armenia to start implementing it solutions of United NationsSecurity Council you can watch the full interview with azerbaijans president ulama yoav on talk to all jazeera on saturday at 430 g. M. T. And well have the armenian perspective from sunday. Its been 2 years since saudi journalism all his shows he was murdered inside his countrys consulate in istanbul activists have held a memorial event there after initially denying reports of his death the kingdom said the journalist was killed in a rogue operation by a team of agents sent to persuade him to return to saudi arabia turkey says its committed to hold to account those responsible for the killing jamal asael has more from istanbul. Despite it being one of the most notorious crimes in recent history 2 years have gone by and still justice has not been served in the murder case where Jamal Khashoggi 24 months on the focus on the saudi journalist who entered his countrys consulate in istanbul never to be seen again may have died down but the outrage remains herschel g had been writing for the Washington Post the 1st anniversary of his murder was marked in a high profile vigil attended by the posts owner and the worlds richest man jeff bezos a monument was placed just yards from the saudi consulate store a place for people to pay their respects for the slain journalist who was not afforded even the rights for a proper burial a saudi official still refused to disclose the whereabouts of his body or his remains. This years anniversary is being marked with the launch of the organization which will she was setting up before he was killed dawn or democracy in the arab world now it was this type of work his advocacy for freedom and pluralism that earned him the wrath of Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin. Was perhaps the arab worlds most famous political exile saudi arabia try to silence. We will give a voice to thousands like him struggled for change in their countries. While his friends and colleagues have succeeded in continuing his legacy through the launch of dawn theres been little success in their fight for justice after initially denying they killed him saudi arabia then pushed the narrative that the journalist was murdered by what they described as a team of rogue agents us document their managers a video it took months before any form of Court Proceedings began and even then they lacked any form of integrity or transparency in december 2019 a saudi Court Sentenced 5 unnamed people to death and 3 others to prison for the murder but those sentences were commuted 3 weeks ago in what the United Nations special envoy an extra judicial killings described as the antithesis of justice meanwhile turkey says its committed to holding those responsible for the murder to account on thursday the Prosecutors Office said it was indicting 6 more saudi citizens in their ongoing case the latest names include true consulate staff crown Prince Mohammed bin sun man who is believed to have ordered the murder appears to have weathered the fall out hes still very much in power and World Leaders continue to do business with him but even in his death Jamal Khashoggi remains a thorn in his side and one that could prove to be even more damaging still. Aljazeera is stumble hill tribes in northern thailand have spent decades fighting for citizenship tourism was one of the few ways that many of them like the current tribe and their livelihood but thats dried up because of the pandemic and its forcing some to consider heading back across the border to me in law and the homes they fled scott hyla reports from a tank in thailand. Like mob prey has for the last 3 decades since fleeing her home in myanmars chaos state she readies for her day of selling handwoven fabrics to tourists after her parents died and with no work nor land to cultivate she left for a better life in thailand but that living has been brought to a halt because of coded 19. She lives in a village with others from the korean hill tribe made famous by brass rings the women wear around their necks giving them the nickname the long necks they make their livelihood in tourist villages posing for photos and selling crafts while most of the men work with elephants at nearby camps. Tourist hill tribe villages in elephant camps are viewed by many human and Animal Rights groups as exploitive but its one of the few ways the hill tribes people can make a living like the other ethnic hill tribes in thailand generations of korean have been fighting for thai citizenship my prey has been waiting 15 years im really concerned about are you a definite nobody is helping me i want to get citizenship i tried so many times but they say im too old the ethnic hill tribes are some of the most marginalized people in thailand theyre decades long battle for citizenship now coupled with Economic Hardship because of the pandemic their meager earnings from tourists have been decimated not teach also fighting for citizenship realizes the pandemic has slowed the process shes willing to cut her losses but can. I think of leaving if the borders reopen but they arent open now are happening and on jai fled fighting between armed groups and the Government Forces in myanmar shan state in the 1980 s. Hes also seeking citizenship and is part of a group helping others to do so. Since they are not making money its tough for them to pay for expenses like travel this means they are unable to pursue their citizenship local immigration Officials Say that even in the best of times its a slow process to investigate cases due to understaffing many who cross over dont have passports or birth certificates in the current bill or just district normally 500. 00 cases will be processed monthly because of covert 1000. 00 at most 20 per month are completed. So the korean long next hope and wait for more people to come and see them at least giving them the chance to earn some money while they wait to get higher aljazeera may turn thailand. And you can find much more on our websites the address for that is w w w dot aljazeera dot com. Dot aljazeera dot com. This is all dizzy with these at the top stories the white house is rushing to find those who might have been infected by the u. S. President donald trump the 1st lady or a senior aide all of whom have tested positive for covert 19 the time 7 isolation and a month out from election day theres new uncertainty over the campaign White House CorrespondentKelly Wallace has more yeah theres no question that this is going to affect the president s reelection message particularly when it comes to cope with 19 what we know is that