Civilians who fled fighting in the go to have taken refuge in public buildings in azerbaijan including schools as fighting between the armenian and militaries is under way is the 7th day of the conflict both sides are accusing the other of targeting residential areas but a smith is in nagornokarabakh. The panic darkened considerably in the last 12 hours or so or not because overnight friday saturday this main city of a going to care about. By large artillery shells some buildings a resort in the city center were hit by artillery and the 1st time this city since the end of the 1990 and there was shelling today. Shelling going on in the distance. So dunns Transitional Government and various rebel groups have signed a Peace Agreement the final ceremony was hosted in juba and south sudan increment aims to end 17 years of fighting across different regions. A car bomb explosion in afghanistan has killed at least 15 people with more fatalities expected a government building in the town of gonna kill in one province is the suspected target a spokesman for the local government says at least 30 people. No one has claimed responsibility. And disgraced hollywood film jesus Harvey Weinstein has been charged with 6 more counts of rape and sexual assaults the latest charges are in a Los Angeles Court or relate to instance from more than a decade ago when a scene was already convicted of sex crimes in new york earlier this year and sentenced to 23 years in jail those are your headlines stay with us inside story is next. Just a month before the u. S. Election President Donald Trump and his wife melania have tested positive for coated 19 so i will that all affect the most Divisive Campaign in recent American History this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im pete adult observers of american actions often talk about an october surprise the unexpected event all revelation that reshapes the campaign into its final days but few would could have predicted the announcement that came early on friday President Donald Trump and trump have both tested positive for covert 19 that followed news that trumps top aide hope hicks had contracted the virus the day before will bring and i guessed in a moment but 1st this report from 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 Bank so i just want to test it 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 so 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 and he 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 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 covert done teen has exceeded 1000000 rob reynolds aljazeera. Ok lets introduce the panel today here on inside story in philadelphia weve got Claire Finkelstein professor of law and philosophy at the university of Pennsylvania Law School in knoxville tennessee weve got jason emmett professor of International Law at Lincoln Memorial university is also a former chairman of the Young Republican National federation and from essex in the u. K. Weve got natasha lynn stat professor of u. S. Government at the university of essex welcome to you all clear if i can come to you 1st how important is totally see through transparency on the part of the white house moving forward. As very very important because the white house needs to show that theyre under control that they are taking this seriously that they care about the people who the president and the 1st lady and hope picks may have infective their rhetoric is badly undercut unfortunately the president s refusal to take precautions his ridiculing as your lead in mentioned of joe biden for taking precautions his attacks throughout this pandemic on governors who put stay at home orders in place the attack on wearing mask the rallying his base particularly far right supporters to rebel against these precautions just recently we had the attorney general saying that the requirement to wear a mask was the greatest interference with civil rights since slavery so weve had a lot of rhetoric that is attacking the need to take precautions and this is absolutely critical now for that for the white house but also for the campaign to figure out how theyre going to situate themselves relative to this to these attacks because they are a position has now been very badly undercut jason have we got a snapshot or an open window here as well on to a white house in chaos the news of the covert 19 test or having the test before the test result came back positive was a leak in effect and it was caused by or we got that information because journalists were drilling into hang on whats going on with hope picks the president is so close to her it wasnt a press release it wasnt a tweet from the Vice President it wasnt even the press secretary doing an on shuttle news briefing. Well after all i like to say everything the claims of the director and government are all about marine one the administration what every administration has and im and newt mr big and its not going to be able to be covered up. We have a particularly chaotic white house you know where. And i think this will grow in a little bit more chaos lets say the least because i dont think its the end of who runs the that we know whos been the problem and the track and run errands and i just like to say to my my problem prayers are with our family and with an ugly atmosphere every a because its good for the nation and its good. And coming natasha in culture so that this idea that hope picks had it she was tested she was tested positive and then she got on to air force one and she traveled with the president and thats crucially important for them clearly but also for americans when it comes to absorbing the general you know antique ovid 19 Health Message because they have a very close very intimate relationship were told shes almost like a an adopted daughter to him they really get each other in another life they would be friends. Right i mean im actually surprised that trump didnt contract the virus sooner with the raid that he was following the rules and never wearing a mask now its been reported that there were there was constant testing going on of people that are around him but he was exposed to a lot of people that have the virus with the secret Service Staff or his sons girlfriend there are many people that contracted the virus and would have been reported was that he and the people that surround him were being more lax about things werent Wearing Masks werent he protective measures and so obviously hes going to contract it at some point but this present a problem for him because hes been trying to downplay the virus to the American Public he said many times this is going to go away its just like the flu this is no big deal and as the report already mentioned he was making fun of joe biden programming a mask so hes going to have to really work out what kind of messages you want to send to the American Public about this now hes trying to project an image of strength of course and he doesnt want the campaign to be about the virus this really puts a wrench in his can be because he wants it to be about law and order and that is writing where elected to total chaos instead all were focusing on is the virus and this doesnt bode well for him to take only because 40 percent of americans or only 40 percent american see that hes handling the crisis well jason how does he go forward with the Election Campaign if this is the best Case Scenario and 2 weeks from now he comes out of locked isolation quarantine he looks a bit peaky hes lost some weight hes a bit pale but hes able to go to one of his rallies he lives eats and sleeps that kind of politics thats his Natural Environment of course it is but what if he cant do that how does the Election Campaign move forward. You know i think thats a great question and i think the supporters need the long route i mean the president needs to be around those orders 1st these 2 weeks are going to be going to be difficult i think for the campaign i think its the Joe Biden Campaign and it will be a Virtual Campaign whereas the Trump Campaign has not really adjusted as well into the Virtual Campaigning world but once he gets back on the campaign trail in 2 weeks. I just buying them are really dumb from all that i know run a virus and how to fix the body and obviously im not a doctor but. Days of the 90 minute speeches on his route really longwinded the law when the diatribes i believe are over and thats what i think youll see most of us this order so its going to be a much different with paint and its going to be a much different feeling rally i think theyre back home and. Lets go back to what you were talking about at the top of the show you what kind of discussing the optics of the next immediate week or so in theory would days away from Vice President pence squaring off against us how can that happen or if it does happen how can that happen with both candidates not being mosques up. Right well there are 2 halves of this one is the campaign half and the other is whats going on in the white house in the background on the campaign half im guessing that the Vice President ial debates are now debate is now going to be much more important and i am even wondering whether or not the 2nd president ial debate will end up 2nd Vice President ial debate so that if the primary candidates cannot debate it maybe the parties decide to substitute another Vice President ial debate so i think it will shift the attention to some extent from the president ial candidates to the Vice President ial candidates but what youve got going on in the background is a white house that will be in complete and utter disarray 1st of all we dont know how far this virus is going to spread so there have been images playing since this was announced last night of hope it all the various people hope it has been with including jared cushion or so yvonne and jarratt could well end up testing positive we know that pence has tested negative but how far will this thread it throws into relief all of the things that democratic governors in particular have been stressing such as the need for testing the need for Contact Tracing the need for Wearing Masks the need for staying 6 feet apart not gathering in crowds all things that this administration has been flouting and when you add to that the stories that have come out about jarrett cush nurtures commission that he put together to fight the virus which came up with plans that were later scrapped because they decided it would only affect democratic states or democratic areas it really starts to look as though this campaign is going to fall. Natasha we know in a sense in real time seeing a kind of an adopted stance on the part of the wider Republican Party when it comes to dealing with covert changing i. E. Do they have to accept let the science prevail weve got to now see surely every president ial candidate every Vice President ial candidate every congressman every senator wearing a mask theyve got to allow the science to prevail because theyve got to get that message out there that if youre an oil 3 and somebody sneezes nille 2 you can pick it up if youre in an in an enclosed space what comes out of my nose could get you 26 feet away from where im standing. Well i think you have 2 things here you have politicians in the Republican Party who have been mostly Wearing Masks and hearing to guidelines but they have been very vocal about it and thats been one of the problems and i think your question is illustrating the you have the Republican Base and those that are supporting trump and trump has not encouraged people to wear masks and you had attorney general bar as it already going to mention acting like this was a huge violation of our civil rights and we have to be Wearing Masks in the light so republicans may need to up their communication on the importance of wearing mask that this is not a violation of our civil rights it is actually something we do for the better of the community to prevent the spread this is the one big thing that we can do to just mitigate this crisis and then we may see more republican stepping up to do so they just dont want to go against prop they are so incredibly loyal to him and terms big messages this is no big deal its going to go away lets not take it that seriously but weve seen with the you know the tapes that bob woodward has reported he didnt know it was serious he didnt know it was a problem but hes very afraid of doing anything that would go against what his base which is on so well see i think most likely going to have more republicans coming out in support of massacring him like jason do you think mr trump will get a sympathy to just to push their case and you think youll get a sympathy between now and the election the reason i ask you that is this Boris Johnson the u. K. Prime minister he came out of i. C. U. Came out of recovery and he got a distinct sympathy pounds but he at that point was 3 and a half years from a general election if your guy gets a sympathy bones and goes back on the campaign trail hes days away from a u. S. Election or might it backfire against him because people might say well you dont protect yourself and hello you havent protected the 200000 plus people who are dead in this country so get gone were going to miss a bite. Well let me 1st just say that i believe republican governors republican governor my state not only has had a month Long Campaign on the importance of learning math in the years gone so far as cutting commercial lets play multiple times a day with him and other various leaders from across the political spectrum out Wearing Masks and really being an issue as a public face so we can get our physical back open and operating in the new normal so you know you sort of point out there are hundreds and well thats that the governor as well the governor here in tennessee and. As most certainly been pushing back women on the end i met there. To the end of a stint of the mountain for president chop. I just i dont think he has really engender much goodwill. Over his time in office that any opinion of him are going to change his or her thinking based based and there he will come out and ordering not do think that he risks losing more and thats. In the actually again i just i dont see it as mean at an incredibly into character for the American People inside there i see that. Clint looking forward to november the 3rd and also i guess the inauguration not correct me if im wrong here in theory an act of congress can delay a u. S. General election bops the president having to be eva the incumbent again all replaced that is set in stone whatever happens in january its either more mr trump or its the new guy mr biden in the oval office but the election itself could in theory be shunted forward. It could be but i do not think this is going to happen the debates can be moved a lot of things can be moved but this general election is not going to be moved i think no matter what happens you know think about the fact that theres already early voting going on all over the u. S. So voting is already taking place we are simply too close to the election to deal lay it. You know if President Trump god forbid is deathly ill at that time i still believe especially given the fact that it appears that Vice President pence has tested negative so there is no continuity of government problem at the moment i do think that voting would still take place and even if its understood that if you vote for President Trump there could be a chance that it will go to Vice President pence but there is continuity of government there i think theres every reason to think that the election will take place as scheduled and that it must take place as scheduled the chaos that the country would be thrown into well will it will already i think be a great deal of us were dealing with a situation in which we have one contested aspect of this election after another from the post office to Supreme Court decisions about. Scuse me wisconsin Supreme Court decisions on the mail in ballots and absentee ballots constant debate about how the election should take place worries about securities and security and foreign influence there as there are so many pressures on this election add to that a pandemic add to that a Supreme Court fight. You know barely a month before the election and now add to that the president with covert to delay the election would simply throw the country into an intolerable level of chaos natasha coming back to you given that mr trump is properly sick given that his wife is properly sick there are so many variables here but i guess there is if we flip that around one certainty mr trump now is not going to talk about turning the corner itll be a beautiful thing itll just go away he will never poke fun at anyone for wearing a mask ever again he will never turn to a scientific advisor and say i think we can shine a light through the body i think that gets rid of it or you know that perception there was that perception right about march april where he basically said to people the perception was drink bleach some people did some people were hospitalized so i guess thats one certainty that conversation will that conversation is dead and buried. Yeah i mean i think this is really gravy difficult for trump on a number of fronts of course its difficult because hes personally you know hes contracted the virus and hes going to have to tikrit care himself and try to recover and it really may change his words and what he says about the virus but i think as it already mentioned this is really going to affect his ability to campaign and thats something that he loves doing he cries when hes on that he need trail and hes coming from behind its not like hes coasting ahead and sort of assume that most people were going to vote for him and he was going to win he really needed to add numbers he needed to gain support in some key swing states particularly in the state of florida where its very tight he absolutely has to win that state this is a state with a good percentage of older voters and hes really losing them where he had won in 2016 by double digits or nearly. With florida older voters and now hes neck and neck with joe biden this year the coronavirus and how he says handled it is not going to help their so i think its going to be very difficult for him moving forward because he really needs to add momentum to that campy turn the Campaign Around that he has any chance of actually pulling out a victory last word on the program to jason jason not wishing to put words into your mouth that 2 main takeaways here one where a mosque even if youre that guy that loses it in walmart and you end up on twitter going crazy at the woman standing at the front door who wants to set the mosque off where a mosque and the other takeaway is were into a period of several weeks of us politics going completely nuts. d well 1st of all i were mad everywhere when im out in public and id peter the master arm im like the glass of biden with my skin so i believe in the normal math i see following her anyone watching to wear a mask everything i mean look at what they eat and its the only way were not likely if we get her back into some sort of normal secondly american politics is crazy already. I biggest concern out of our National Security apparatus and how to really ensure that we are protecting the homeland and appeared at all or will the cyber attack escalation around the world happening and right now really lets in. My book by my biggest concern are in there are any are there. Is a broader view or implication that the president having. Jason Clare Natasha we must leave it there thanks to our guests they were clear Finkelstein Jason emma and the tunnel instant and thank you too for watching you can see the show again via the website aljazeera dot com and for further discussion goes well Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. G. Inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter at a. J. It inside story or tweet me ill tweet about amount to w one from the future theyll be on the team thanks for watching for the moment but. I. Well im not happy with when the president of the United States speaks out the rest of the world takes notice. 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