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Fight you are going to occur. Polls have closed and could stand but the election has been overshadowed by allegations of vote by. Protests against Police Brutality in chile after one officer was accused of throwing a teenage boy from the ridge. And far as well have all the things sports including a shock win at the London Marathon if you will be a shark attack attack claims victory and sprint finish. So we begin in the United States where supporters of the president to gathered outside the hospital where hes being treated for corona virus take a look at the scene this is at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center in maryland and that is where donald trump was taken on friday and where he still is of course his National Security adviser has just said the trunk feels very well but on saturday there were conflicting accounts about how he was doing and it was a video from said he was feeling much better that the next few days would be the real test. I came here wasnt feeling so well i feel much better now working hard to get me all the way back i have to be back you dont know over the next period of a few days i guess thats the real test so well be seeing what happens over the next couple of days well earlier his chief of staff had said that the president symptoms had been very concerned again that he wasnt yet on a clear path to recovery trumps doctors though they offered an upbeat assessment about 24 hours ago while refusing to shake he details on his health and your state might pump a he says hes cutting his asia trip short out of an abundance of caution did test negative after trumps positive diagnosis on friday all right lets bring to my kind is outside the hospital where the president is being treated so michael do we have any more clarity on the president s condition. Make no theres been no official statement in the course of the morning we are waiting to hear whether his personal physician will shed to let now the News Conference that he did dep to roughly 1130 yesterday will process on a soon as we get details about that we have heard from the National Security adviser up there brian who says that he spoke to President Trumps chief of staff mark meadows in the course of the morning he reports that the president is very well he wants to go home but says the National Security adviser and it is so it could still hear it in the time that the president be suspended hospitals so but that is what he said what the links on that is is not exactly clear but that office obviously is related to president trance condition we know that he is on ongoing costs a friend does appear this is a therapeutic which. Data shows reduces the time thats the average coronavirus patient spends in hospital it is on an emergency use basis only and has been approved by the f. D. A. Only for. Emergency room at this particular stage it was a drug developed for the fight against a boat now being applied to a different cause so were waiting to hear news about any potential briefing from President Trumps doctors within the next hour or so all right one as you say well look at that as soon as we see any sign of them appearing now the viruses struck right at the top of the u. S. Administration and the fingers pointing at the rose Garden Events yesterday. The Supreme Court nominee was being announced but tracing has to go well beyond just an event and you wonder whos organizing it is making. Well weve got an answer to that but not whether its actually being done the doctors said saturday that the white house was in overall supervision off the Contact Tracing for people and elements that may have come close to the president they say that this is being done in conjunction with the centers for Disease Control the c. D. C. The see now that being said off to that meeting at the rose garden last saturday President Trump also traveled to a number of then you see had a debate on tuesday night he traveled to various states including new jersey on thursday now authorities in those states that he visited insistent that they have not yet been contacted by the white house in terms of Contact Tracing meshes they are being left on their own to try and sort it out on their own basis the new jersey governor for example has launched a tracing process for that event that President Trump held on thursday at the time that he was clearly in fact to be tested positive according to his doctors few hours later so certainly this is a huge problem because the white house says its in charge of all Contact Tracing relating to the president s movements but according to everybody that we have spoken to including some of those. People who are attending the rose garden have not been contacted by the white house to follow up the context process and i must add one point as well make which is very important is that some of those who declared themselves infected in recent days including and another senator senator were not at that Rose Garden Party they believe that they contracted the virus somewhere in d. C. So the point of this is that theres every possibility that its emanating out from that particular event that this is indeed becoming a super spread a dish which is spreading out beyond the confines of the white house and is inflicting those within the capitol itself for this reason it would have the senate has been closed for the next 2 weeks although once again to add a writer they will need to virtually to discuss the nomination for the next Supreme Court justice. Of uncertainty my could preach a thats my kind of. Well the majority of americans think the president could have avoided getting sick if hed taken the virus more seriously a Reuters Ipsos poll suggests that 65 percent hold that opinion that includes many in his own party hoffa republicans agreed but only about a 3rd of those surveyed thought that trump has been telling the truth about covert 19 the president has repeatedly dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic and just last week he made fun of his democratic president ial challenger joe biden for wearing a mask lets hear now from eric hamm whos a political analyst and author of the go civil war and he says it will be difficult for trump to continue the narrative he had been pushing. We have seen the president continue to act in a blatant disregard towards the virus and now that it has actually come to the president s doorstep many believe that this could be a way to shape the white house to shape this administration to finally act to try to aggressively combat the virus this is been a signature problem that has dogged the president since the virus exploded President Donald Trump has always been a master at shaping the narrative to fit his agenda and now that that we see so many millions of americans have been tracking the virus so many thousands have died from the virus and now the president who has said that this is a virus it was a hoax it is going away the United States is turning the corner now that he himself has contracted the virus as long as as well as with any of his key supporters governor Chris Christie Kellyanne Conway and others that changes or that actually makes it difficult for the president continue to push this narrative that the president gets better hes still going to be off the trail for at least 14 days and doctors have already said its 7. 10 days are perhaps the most crucial so clearly the president is not out of the woods yet the last. Memories that Many Americans will happen to the president is that the debate performance which many believe was perhaps the most abysmal debate the country has ever seen and that will be the final take away the final selling point of President Donald Trump which is not a good look given that the president is down by as many as 10 points nationally and by all accounts is losing an overwhelming majority of the key battleground states that he needs in order to secure reelection. That was very calm this is the scene at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center and we will talk with michael bell about that statement coming from the doctors who are treating dont trump well we all apparently according to the white house going to get that statement at 1130 local which is 1530 g. M. T. Which is in just over 20 minutes time so not a lot of action there now but when there is when the doctors come out we shall cross to that now as about john and media are accusing each other of targeting civilians in the conflict over the disputed region of new gone or car back these pictures is said to be of the city of. A reporter says there have been regular explosions by john meanwhile says that 2nd biggest city has been targeted lets speak now to see of course the only whos in azerbaijan right now tell us more about whats happening what you harry. Well today again just city who was hit by our mannion rockets according to the hour 0 fish was one of the top officials who is the assistant to the president said today that together was hit by heavy weapons artillery and also iranian side said that they hit against a ford but so far we have no reports of casualties or damage to the airports and all of his shows we have spoken to and all the locals including media said that there is Nothing Happened with the airport and they suspect that was our main your claims to have fired must the hit this residential area this morning today was seismic accusing each other for hitting the if were firing they are civilian areas nic actually the war has kind of the same rhetoric on both sides both are many and as are big john who are the 2 sides of the conflict for armenians they say john shouldnt be involved in the go in a car or a bar and other this is that there are many and forces have orkut bite but there are there is the office will say that according to un risa lucian are going to kauravas is a azerbaijan territory under Ethnic Armenians control so they and according to the un resul lucians the Armenian Forces Must Withdraw of from those territories really have ever been in we have we have been listening to the azerbaijan officials while we were this week including the president and the other top officials they said that the fire mania hits as arbet john territory from our menus soil the locations that fired would be the straw this is what they have been saying and today theyre claiming that their main yeah hit their 2nd largest city. Again just in a region with 350000 population and now everybody is curious whether azhar bijani is going to retaliate as soon. As i heard this i spoke to some sources in the Foreign Ministry also i spoke to some prominent analysts in azerbaijan they are saying that our mania is trying to drag us our bridge on into conflict because if john retaliates to these attacks from our many and soil the ones that are perpetrated from inside are many and so then as a member of the collective Security Treaty Organization our main yell would be able to collect some security support from the other member countries including Russia Belarus kazakhstan cause like a stand this is why our mania is trying to transform the horn of conflict into and out of many as our bridge on the war this is what they are saying this is what i have been this the name from the officers and from the Academic Circles in azerbaijan while im here nick a citizen thanks very much indeed for that update this new consumer thank you well its enough from Bernard Smith whos in goras which is in armenia and he has more on todays fighting. This has been a very difficult day for the people to panic at the main city and nagornokarabakh air raid sirens wailing throughout sunday morning in the afternoon whilst we were there on the walls of of incoming missiles the targets seems to be mainly infrastructure in stop anika on the go no power about an electricity substation that we were near to was one of the targets was hit or temps were made to hit it earlier in the morning they misstated a nearby building that caught fire and then it seems later in the day they finally hit the target sending large clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky and leaving stepped on a cat in the darkness very difficult conditions now for people whove been spending most of that time in bunkers for the last 8 days of course the weaponry being used now is much more sophisticated than when these 2 sides are not going to talk about the last 40 at such an intense level more than 20 years ago now these areas have Turkish Military backing and it seems persuasion guided weapons and. Drones which the armenians having trouble countering this in are from lawrence bros whos the caucuses Program Director at the london based conciliation resources he says the conflict could trigger for the tensions in the region. Cities have been struck in azerbaijan ganja the 2nd city of the country and there are continuing reports of missile strikes on standard and other Population Centers in the going to karbala now if azerbaijan were to reciprocate and there were to be missile strikes on targets in armenia that would activate russias security guarantees to armenia and would force it to act and whats i think very dangerous here is that russia and i mean you are of course members of the collective Security Treaty Organization and turkey is a member of nato so we see a risk of these 2 geopolitical blocs coming into conflict with one another in a very dangerous situation there have been speculation that russia might take advantage of the situation to impose a variance of the minsk a group a peace plan on armenia if i mean is weakened over the course of a week to 10 days russia could come in and impose that theres speculation that perhaps russia wants to. Enforce peace by having boots on the ground introducing peacekeeping forces into the combat zone but i think whats whats significant is that with this escalation today there is actually i think reason for moscow and ankara to join the wider International Voices calling for deescalation and to exert leverage to bring europe on a back to back to the negotiating table and organize a ceasefire. Well plenty more still ahead here in the news are including food for thought well look at how coronaviruses impacted the distribution of aid to thousands. And giving out their American Dream hundreds of migrants stopped in guatemala they decided to return home. And this 445th the preakness stakes ends in a photo finish the day with. Government protests of broken outs once again in the bellary scene Capitol Police used water cannon to disperse the crowds and meant demanding the release of political protesters the president s resignation and new elections the president Alexander Lukashenko was given a 6 term in august but activists say the outcome was raked polls have closed and stands parliamentary election which has been soured by widespread allegations of vote buying competitive democratic elections are rare in the region which is mostly made up of all 4 Terence States stratford has more from the capital bishkek. Whats become evident in the runup to the elections is the kind of message that parties seemingly progovernment and opposition are using to to do as well as they can in this election and there are widespread allegations of vote buying and Election Fraud at the polling station that we spent the majority of our day at which was one on the outskirts of bishkek we had a number of people that came up to us. One man in particular who was very angry these were people who lived in that community and they were keen on telling the media look the people you can see in these queues and there are lots of them they say we dont recognize any of them where have they come from an indication that that new poll the form to may well have been exploited there we also we actually spoke to a man who freely admitted that he had been bussed in to come and passed his ballot at that station he refused to tell us whether he had been offered money by a progovernment party in his case but he did admit he had come to vote in support of the boat people we also social media that have been videos circulating that we in no way can confirm videos taken of people who had taken photographs of their ballot paper after having voted and the series of the rumors that are circulating is that these photographs are used by that voter to prove to the party that they did in deed vote for them in order to receive some sort of payment so the allegations like this that are being made and evidence like this that hes surfacing that dont bode well were expecting preliminary results in the next hour or so and youve got to ask the question just how these results will go down with the people with an electorate that have so often protested after elections in the past. Erica marriage is an associate professor at the National Defense university and shes been monitoring those allegations of vote buying. I wouldnt say that democracy and senior what we see in kyrgyzstan over the past decade since the last regime change is that there is a certain sophistication and political campaigning for new political leaders in parties like any formal reform have emerged but at the same time because the Political Landscape is so competitive and noisy at times we see that progovernment Political Parties and in this case. And maybe also make an incredible stand. They are trying to improve their ways of prosecution as well so we see that ways to falsify and to pressure voters to vote certain way have also. Expanded and there are there are more and more tools used by progovernment parties know to make sure that they d prevail at elections but overall this is a very competitive Political Landscape and the population in kurdistan is really politicized but hopefully yes. The consciousness increases and Political Landscape continues to sophisticate then we will see cleaner elections hopefully. Voters in the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia have narrowly rejected independence from france turnout was higher than in the last referendum on the issue 2 years ago the french president a mental background says he is grateful for the result has been long running tension between the indigenous can access he wanted dependants and descendants of colonial settlers who remain loyal to power. Shifted it out as head of state i welcome this expression of confidence in the republic with a deep recognition i also welcome its results with humility and i do hear the voice of those who want independence and want them to know it is with you it is only together they will build tomorrows New Caledonia in the gulf or france is deployed the military to search for at least 8 people missing after a devastating floods almost a years worth of rain fell in 12 hours around the city of nice cutting off villages and washing away roads and houses 2 of those missing are firefighters whose vehicle was carried away by water when the road collapsed during a rescue operation or rescuers are also looking for a number of people in neighboring north west and its only. The latest caravan of migrants from honduras who were aiming to walk all the way to the United States had their hopes theft Security Forces in guatemala have turned many back but others say that determined to press on towards the border with mexico despite the deployment of troops that stopped the men or public as this report was hundreds of 100 migrants on the bottom all in boulder awaiting their return home brought them all in Security Forces acting under orders from president and a 100 john mccain have been sending back members of a Migrant Caravan that crossed into guatemala on thursday. By the weekend immigration authorities said some of the original group of about 2000 migrants had agreed to return to honduras voluntarily leave the management and we made the decision to return because the situation of crossing the border between quite amal and mexico is very complicated. This latest Migrant Caravan is the 1st of this size since the start of the corona virus pandemic the rumors of a new caravan had been circulating on 100 and social media for weeks what im always president has ordered what he calls a state of prevention in several states for a period of 15 days and called for the detention of migrants who pushed through border gates between honduras and guatemala on thursday still some migrants have vowed to push ahead saying their goal is to reach the United States. In spite of what the president said we are going to continue for. Those who are continuing on or now heading toward guatemalas border with mexico which poses even greater challenges to. The Migration Institute to promote orderly safe irregular immigration in order to guarantee humanism and human rights with any entry into the country thats that reason we have met today for an orderly and coordinated activity with the armed forces the corona Virus Outbreak has meant borders remain under tight restrictions and the Mexican Government says immigration laws. Will be strictly enforced mourning that those who knowingly put Public Health at risk could face prosecution. When lit up a little aljazeera. Video of a policeman in chile apparently throwing a teenager off a bridge has infuriated protesters that Police Commanders its annoying social media reports of brutality the incident is adding to a long running antigovernment tiger so to heart as more. Voices calling for change in chile are growing now and. Hundreds of antigovernment protesters rallies in the capsaicin infuriated by this video that went viral on friday it shows a Riot Police Officer chasing a teenager whos then thrown from a bridge and nuns in a shadow can now face down and nation he survived and is in a stable condition in hospital bought the pictures are being shared widely with Public Schools and by a position politicians from sun segas chief of police to resign police deny an officer push the youngster off the bridge and say much of whats being said on social media is incorrect were going to meet you we want to clarify the untrue story but this person was held of the bridge by his feet or pushed over the edge by the water cannon and some on social media claim they witnessed fortunately there is a video that shows this unfortunate accident happening during an intense situation with a group of people causing disorder now the prosecutors must evaluate based on the evidence. Following fridays incident red dye was thrown into the canal water symbolizing blood highlighting what protesters say has become the systematic government crackdown since last year youll see a look at when im going to see the police a violent we cant bear it anymore theyve rape tortured run people over blinded others and now theyre throwing people in the river. No kidding kind of movement the government doesnt want us to protest it doesnt want us to get it together but they dont care that we gather in the subway and on buses like sardines. To go back the government issued a statement saying its condemns any form of violence adding that the officer in question has been removed from his post want an investigation is under way the un release that its 8 page invested report condemning the governments response to mass protests to give a guide against increasing public transport costs and social inequality was during the unrest 31 people were killed and many injured and 130000 were detained hundreds of them reportedly being tortured and sexually abused thats prompted cheney and prosecutors to investigate thousands of Human Rights Violations equal to be convicted by Security Forces during the protests. Since last october a series of Cabinet Reshuffle has resulted in 3 men successfully being put in charge of the interior ministry. Box the leadership changes dont seem to have calmed protesters the constitutional referendum is the 25th all to cave in 19 restrictions since march has prevented demonstrations pools are increasing for further protests soon so to hide out and just you know. What were joined from santiago by boris fun to speculate at the church of chile today about a spec welcome to the program whatever did happen these images of the boy falling from the bridge will do nothing to calm the protests will. Now of course the protesters theyve been waiting for months to get out there because of course during the pandemic it was impossible for all these people to protest and october is a very important as we heard in the segment the full referendum will take place within 3 weeks and everyone is out there not only protesting for a new constitution or against it also against this Police Violence against a response from the government which of course is Excessive Force during these times so this referendum is coming up on october 25th and that think this the idea is that it will pave the way for the constitution to be rewritten is this going to create more momentum as the date gets closer and why is it such a trigger well of course these protests they are for a new constitution and everything there are trying to get out of its probably the new constitution will get written because at this moment the group of supporters for a new constitution is a lot bigger but at the moment that the police immediately with every protest out there repressing the crowd in such a brutal form because of course the footage doesnt lie they pushed someone off a bridge and its pretty odd. This shows that the police will go lengths to stop these marches and heading towards a referendum which of course is an expression of democracy its something more of all for something historic should be going in a way called the form but at this moment it looks like its going to be a lot of protest with a lot more violence yeah and all this of course coming at a very difficult time with coronavirus around anyway what impact is that having. Well it gives the authorities here the next accuse to repress and to oppress these marches because theres still a state of emergency in chile because of the pen to make which means the military forces are there which means Police Forces basically allowed to do more for example in their excuse when the truth this boy of a bridge was that they d the protesters were breaking cemetery regulations and that the Police Forces had to do something to stop them so you see it is not only in china but also across latin america that governments are using the pandemic as an excuse to oppress the basic human right to protest so what now in your view should be done by the administration by the authorities to try and calm things down to ease tensions well the opposition in chile right now is saying that general of the got to be nettles mariota also should resign and there is of course after such a brutal for decision of course also after the Human Rights Violations of last year there are still waiting for people to step down because weve seen hundreds if not thousands of Human Rights Violations and so far only 10. Police forces were policemen were forced to left the office so at this moment what the government should do is open dialogue with the opposition with everyone putting them together and say ok we should stop this violence to make sure that this referendum will become a peaceful like i said expression of the more prosy. Trying to spike a good to get your perspective on this process of earth under specs and its our children today and. Still ahead here in our desert its back to the beaches in brazil in defiance of corona virus to people weve even latest rich generic. Were in the city once known as the pearl of the organ for a look at the campaign thats underway to revitalize it. And weve got sports coming up shock exit from the world number 2 the french open far will be here with that. Has been something of a wet week around the caucuses and we will see further showers as we go through the next couple of days you can see there larry a clash between black sea between the caspian sea thats sinking further south with some showers becoming rather intense at times possibility of a little bit of localized flooding into sliding down towards northern parts of iran elsewhere across the Arabian Peninsula it is generally try and find lots of sunshine coming through temperatures foldaway here in doha to around 35 celsius on cheese day still plenty warm enough im sure youd agree into the fortys once again into kuwait but starting to see the heat just dip below the 40 degree mark there for baghdad might just catch one of 2 showers around the southern end of the red sea plenty of shower as across Central Africa the showers doing really quite nicely now you can see how they make their way into a good part of angola as they drift over towards capone swards the gulf of guinea and more of the same as we go on through monday further south still well little rashes showers starting to show up now you could catch a shower too into southern parts of zimbabwe into a botswana some shot was a possibility that see to that eastern side of south africa and then making the way inland job outlook wet by tuesday. Up toba on out using was only a months left until election day candidates are warming up for the big day with a series of debates with a diverse range of stories from across the aljazeera correspondent take some of us known to the stories that have impacted our journalists with britain seemingly heading for a no deal drugs can a last minute deal be struck between london and brussels aljazeera is Emmy Award Winning program for clients returns for the series on the u. S. Communities most impacted by kind of at 19 as the incumbent president seeks a 3rd term and the opposition has formed an alliance against what course will the country take struggles with often violent protests october on aljazeera a face can tell a story without uttering a single one that the unconventionality of life is what inspires us. To witness documentaries on aljazeera. How do you know what you had 0 remind of our top stories this hour and swear expecting a briefing on the condition of u. S. President donald trump this is the scene outside the hospital in maryland where hes being treated for coronavirus to doctors due to arrive at that podium and that due to speak any time from now. As a by john and media are accusing each other of targeting civilians in the conflict over the disputed region have been going to come back at these pictures is said to be the scene in the city of the panic at a reporter says there have been regular explosions. Polls have closed in kurdistans parliamentary elections which has been a sound by widespread allegations of vote buying competitive democratic elections are rare in the region which is mostly made up of before Terence States. More now on our top story and how the white house has become acquainted 1000 hot spot the nomination of amy candy bar it was meant to be a day of political triumph and now seems it may have been a current of our a super spreader event reynolds has this. Few people who attended the rose garden event on september 26th wore man 6 and the chairs were space close together President Trump was announcing the nomination of Amy Cody Barrett to the Supreme Court but as the guests mingled and chatted amongst themselves the corona virus was silently creeping through the air it is for all intents and purposes a super spreader event we have multiple people that are affected there now were seeing blossoming chains of transmission that probably emanate from there so this will be something that will be recognized as a super spreader when the story of 1000 at least 8 people who were there have now tested positive for covert 19 besides trump and 1st lady maloney a trump they include utah republican senator mike lee who was seen hugging and interacting with other people North Carolina republican senator tom tillis trip advisor Kellyanne Conway and an unidentified reporter covering the event the latest to announce testing positive is Republican Former new jersey governor Chris Christie who also helped trump prepare for tuesdays debate Notre Dame University president reverend john jenkins who also tested positive said guests were told they didnt need to wear masks because everyone in attendance had been tested sometimes that testing is not going to be ironclad the virus can find holes and thats got to be clearly people were instructed to take off their face coverings once their test came back not realizing that tests have operating characteristics and there is some rate of false negatives they can occur when you when you are testing like Public Health experts are hopeful that the outbreak in trumps inner circle could change the minds of people who still dont take the virus seriously i do think that this is a turning point for many people to see the most protected man in the world be infected by this virus despite the persians at the white house had put in place the testing so this. Just something that. Really should make people who doubt the virulence of this pandemic and this virus to take a step back with covert 19 spreading at the highest levels of Washington Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is delaying most Senate Business for 2 weeks but even though 2 republicans on the Judiciary Committee were apparently sickened in the rose garden mcconnell says he will push ahead with confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee barrett on october 12th robert oulds al jazeera. Just a follow up to that remind our were expecting a briefing on the condition of u. S. President donald trump his doctors just speak outside the hospital in maryland and in time from now well cross to that just as soon as they pitch up now the death toll in brazil is fast approaching 150000 the 2nd highest in the world after the United States and despite rising fraction rates the mayor of rio janeiro is easing restrictions by opening schools cinema halls and theaters and many have been ignoring the regulations anyway want to yannick have as its report. There were a few men there when her son are going to the movies for the 1st time in almost 7 months with an added bonus the new safety rules allow them to take off their masks to eat popcorn and curling for a moment the better we came because its extremely hot outside and this is the 1st day cinemas and thirtys have opened so theyre still empty im not sure its a good idea to be in a close space but for now it seems safer than the beach in fact they are the only ones here a sharp contrast to the world outside taking a dip in the water and exercising outdoors are allowed crowds of people without masks are not sunbathing is still forbidding but this is one more rule that people have decided to ignore as spring temperatures have risen to a record 40 degrees celsius and brazils Unemployment Rate has reached 14 percent beach vendors have decided to defy rios mayor theyre renting chairs and parasols risking a 200. 00 fines them especially. While working illegally all of us here but if we dont do this we cant pay the rent or buy food we stayed away from the beach for 6 months and cant continue to survive on government handouts which have just been reduced to half the relaxed atmosphere on the plane as beach does not reflect the stark reality brazil is the worlds 2nd largest covert in 1000 hotspot in terms of fatalities more than 145000 people died and almost 5000000 have been infected that bell silva says hes aware that brazil may witness a 2nd wave before the 1st one is over but hes willing to take the risk. The rules say we can only be in the water not on the sand but we are paying we arent fish besides why should we trust the government rios governor is being impeached on corruption charges the mayor is being investigated and the president never took the pandemic seriously. Besides Rio De Janeiro 6 other state capitals have seen as well but steady rise in cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome largely related to covert 19 according to a study just released by the field produce institute something that we must be extremely careful and extremely vigilant in the next 3 weeks because if new cases were going up even before those kind of a. So lets cross to the will to read National Military Medical Center in maryland you can see the feelings of white coats coming out to inform the world about the condition of the president of the United States of america at the helm there is not to sean connery calmly when he was the white house physician lets have a listen since we spoke last president has continued to improve as with any illness there are frequent ups and downs over the course particularly when a patients being so closely watched 24 hours a day we review and debate every finding compared to existing science and literature weighing the risks and benefits of every intervention its timing is any as well as any potential impact the delay may have over the course of his illness the president has experienced 2 episodes a transient drops in his oxygen saturation we debated the reasons for this and whether wed even intervene is a determination of the team based predominantly on the timeline from the initial diagnosis that we initiate xom at the center id like to take this opportunity now given some speculation over the course of the illness the last couple days. Updates you in the course of his his own illness thursday night into friday morning when i left the bedside the president was doing well but only mild symptoms and his oxygen was in the high ninetys. Late friday morning when i returned to the bedside president had a high fever and his oxygen oxygen saturation was transiently dipping below 94 percent given these 2 developments i was concerned for possible rabbit progression of the illness i recommended the president we try some supplemental oxygen see how hed respond he was fairly adamant that he didnt need it he was not short of breath he was tired had the fever that was about it and after about a minute on only 2 leaders he said ration levels were back over 40 over 95 percent. Stayed on that for about an hour maybe it was off and gone later that day by the time the team here was at the bedside president had been up out of bed moving about the residence with only mild symptoms despite this they want to grade the best course of action was to move to walter reed for more thorough evaluation monitoring now id like to invite up dr dooley discuss current plan. Thank you dr connelly. Before i begin a brief clinical update on the president s condition i do want to reiterate my comments from yesterday regarding the how proud i am to be a part of this multidisciplinary multi Institutional Team of Clinical Professionals behind me and what an honor it is to care for the president here at Walter Reed National military Medical Center regarding his clinical status the patient continues to improve he has remained without fever since friday morning his vital signs are stable from a pulmonary standpoint he remains on remember this morning and is not complaining of shortness of breath or other significant respiratory symptoms is a malay doing himself Walking Around the white house medical unit without limitation or disability our continued monitoring of his. Cardiac liver and kidney function demonstrates continued normal findings or improving findings. And ill now turn it over to the doctor about all the from Johns Hopkins to talk about our therapeutics and again our plan for the day. Thank you dr Julian Assange one of the again reiterate what an honor and a privilege it is to take care of the president but to be part of such a talented and Multidisciplinary Team here at walter reed the president yesterday evening completed a 2nd dose of ramdass severe hes tolerated that infusion while weve been monitoring for any potential side effects and he has had none that we can tell his liver and kidney function of remain normal and we continue to plan to use a 5 day course of ramdass of air in response to trans in low oxygen levels as dr calmly as discussed we did initiate dexa methods on therapy and he received his 1st dose of that yesterday and our plan is to continue not for the time being today he feels well hes been up and around our plan for today is to have him to eat and drink. Out of bed as much as possible to be mobile and if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow so the white house where he can continue his treatment course thank you very much and ill turn over dr kali for any questions just a moment please. President wanted me to share how proud he is of the group what an honor it is for him to be receiving his care here Walter Reed Center surrounded by such incredible talent academic Leaders Department chairs internationally renowned researchers and clinicians building the support of dr from Johns Hopkins. Like to reiterate how pleased we all are but the president recovery. And with that ill take a question for you there were a few instances where you had drops in oxygen can you walk us through the 2nd one and often not a question for the lung specialist after what youre yeah yeah yesterday there was another episode where drop down about 93 percent is an ever feel short of breath and watched it and it returned back up. As i said we evaluate all of these and given the timeline where he is in the course of illness you know we really are trying to maximize everything that we could do for him and we debated whether wed even start it the facts about the zone and we decided that in this case the potential benefits early on the course probably outweighed any risks at this time to give him a 2nd round of supplemental oxygen yesterday. Id have to have to check with the nursing staff. I dont think that if he did it was very very limited but it was not an oxygen and the only oxygen that i ordered that we provided was that friday morning and initially just. Yesterday what was yesterday was the 2nd instance seconds incidents but it was over the course of the day yesterday morning dr tell me that its good president s for an. Oxygen level thats my 1st question to you dr connelly 98 percent and look at the x. Rays and c. T. Scans show are there signs of know are there signs of long involved or any damage to the lock yet so were tracking all of that theres some expected findings but nothing of any major clinical concern was that i was certain i mean i dont want to get oxygen never ever dipped below 90. We dont have any recordings here of that thats right but i never heard of it other than that like yeah right here what it was here at 90 development but no it was below 94 percent it was in. It wasnt done to lower wages or anything you want to remember here on your right thats where you told us that the president wasnt great shape shaping peeper feet for the previous 24 hours minutes after your press Conference White House chief of staff mark meadows told reporters at the president s final 4 very concerning over the past 20. Simple question for the not all those statements about the president S Health Care the phone so the chief and i work side by side and i think his statement was misconstrued what he meant was that 24 hours ago when he and i were are checking on the president that there was that momentary episode of the high fever and that temporary drop in the saturation which prompted us to act expediently to move him up here fortunately that was really a very transient limited episode a couple hours later he was back up mild again you know hes not going to speculate what that limited episode was about so early in the course but hes doing well i mean for a long time why does the president not want to have that in the media right now really well the president wears a mask any time hes hes around us and were all wearing our and 95 full p p. Hes hes the patient and when we can move out into the public we move him about out and around other people that arent in full p. P. As long as hes still under my care will talk about him wearing a mask there pressure around the room is no no no im not going to get into specifics of his care not just for yourself out of my mind that i have in my right eye. On him but you. Want to share that like every patient we perform long in spirometry on him and hes maxing it out we told him she what you can do and its over 2500000000. 00 each time. Hes doing great yeah i got everything going on here. I got he really was a lot older than you until the day. That the president had been administered oxygen. Its a good question so. I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team the president of course of illness has had. Didnt want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction and in doing so you know came off that were trying to hide something it was initially true. And i have here have it he is the fact of the matter is is that hes doing really well there he is he is responding and as a team said if everything continues to go well were going to start to discharge planning back to the white house. Thank you very much. So that is the physician to the president United States talk to sean conley saying that the president continues to improve to the extent that maybe he could be discharged from the hospital early as tomorrow there were 2 episodes of drops in oxygen saturation methods has been administered in those usually understand usurpations receiving response support but i think the use of it in an abundance of caution and generally the bottom line is that he is doing hes continuing to improve and lets bring in mike hanna is outside the hospital where the president is being treated judy we got any more clarity it seems as if they were pains to give more information this time. Its a tad more information than was given yesterday including for the 1st time confirming that President Trump on friday did receive a supplemental oxygen off the oxygen level in his bloodstream dropped and his fever rose thats whats not confirmed in the course of the previous News Conference so many more details continuing to be. A rosy prognosis they are saying that the president continues to at the well they say that he is Walking Around his suite in the Walter Reed Center that hes in communication with others and they are basically talking about an improvement and as you mentioned as well one of his attending physicians dr Brian Garibaldi saying that the president could be back in the white house as soon as monday certainly make this was say if theres a little bit more detail than we had in the previous News Conference the tickly that issue of clarity about the fact that yes he did appear to be in a rather unstable condition friday this bearing out the comments made by his chief of staff a mom meadows who said that his. Stats were truly disturbing on friday and once again that mark meadows as well saying that its the next 2 days that are crucial this appears to be quite hot by the doctors theyre saying the improvement is steady that they are predicting a discharge within a matter of days but once again weve got an issue here nic with the timeline we do know from all the data from previous cases that there is a timeline in the virus as it goes and it tends to peak some 7 days after the patient has tested positive now this is why its important to establish exactly when President Trump was tested positive not necessarily diagnosed positive theres a bit of a change and a difference in those 2 lines the white house says he was diagnosed positive on thursday evening and that was after a invasive p. C. R. Test but we do not know whether he perhaps tested positive with the anti gen test a very quick test at the white house protocol dictates that anybody who comes into contact with him should take so still some Unanswered Questions there but generally the bottom line as you say is that his medical team saying that hes continuing to show improvement and certainly that does by their account appear to be a great deal of improvement from the condition in which we now know the president was on friday before admission to the walter reed hospital. My thanks for that but you later my kind of their input. So a bit more clarity but says still a few questions as mike was saying so lets try and answer some of them we can bring in dr errol fielding whos from washington d. C. Is an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american scientists dr welcome to the program its a lot of criticism yesterday about the briefing that the done to his gave on the president s state of health about the lack of transparency and so forth. A human was more satisfied today well i think im not satisfied i wasnt satisfied just because when the memo walked back the 72 hour diagnosis which would have put it on wednesday diagnosis it didnt show our weight the other comment that he was tested again on thursday afternoon which was much earlier than that there is that you can diagnosis the other why is clane so theres a lot of contradictory evidence and. Mark meadows the chief of staff saying that he had a very very severe outcome shows that this is really worse and now hearing that he had his oxygen saturation drop below 90 percent several times and received oxygen. Its its very worrisome yeah dont recall he was saying that not met is was misconstrued but they were really it was saying when they you know well theres a credibility issue here because clearly there is a walk back if if even misspoke 72 hours you would have corrected on the spot look were now we its clear trump was on oxygen and on oxygen several times. And yet austin dropped sometimes and whats most worrying is actually the new revelation that hes on dexamethasone so its about snow its proving a close look trials for. To reduce mortality but in his underdog job got less use forests of deer in critical i. C. U. Patients to fat they eat not just use ramdass or beer and other previous antibody therapy but when someone took some of the stone which is the last line critical severe case drug shows this by definition they were very very were in this is much more severe that theyre ok than theyre letting on and you could jump in there one at a time just the given all of that and then the fact that dr connie says that the president could even be discharged tomorrow i think we ought to do he said that could even be discharged tomorrow monday when you think about that is that something you would advice its its its potential criminal sure but obviously to try to press or what a discharge from whats your read and sent back to the white house is very different because white house does have basically a full circle suite if necessary and im pretty sure the doctors will be on standby in the normal sense as you would not be discharged in any way any still concerning a 5 daybreak just your course so he is definitely still not out of the woods all right the difficulty we do appreciate your time your brevity that thanks a lot is good to get your expertise thanks very much indeed for that plenty more on this story coming up in next couple of minutes for the news hour that is it from a new clock and as i say ill be back with another half hour of news in 3 minutes to the. 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