This this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. President trump is criticised after taking a ride in a motercade to greet supporters outside the medical centre where hes being treated for coronavirus. In a video posted from hospital, he says he now understands the virus. I learned a lot about the covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isnt the lets read the book school. And i get it and i understand it. Questions over how and why 16,000 coronavirus cases were missed out of the official figures last week. It has been picked up and it is being dealt with. I dont think theres anything we can change about history, we can only change how we make sure these sort of errors do not happen again in the future. Does that affect your trust in the test and trace system . Do lead us now. test and trace system . Do lead us now. Do lead us now. Rescue operations are stepped up in france and italy, after storm alex brings torrential rain and flash floods. Bars in the french capital paris will be closed from tuesday, as part of new restrictions to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Our top story doctor at the hospital treating donald trump for coronavirus has criticised the president saying, the irresponsibility is outstanding, after he left the hospital briefly to drive past supporters outside. The sudden appearance, which mr trump described on twitter as a surprise for patriots, came amid speculation his condition could be worse than admitted. His doctors say he could be allowed back to the white house today. But other medical professionals have warned its much too early for him to be discharged. Heres david willis. The us governments medical experts have advised coronavirus patients to stay in their room and only venture out if its medically necessary. Not this patient. Accompanied by secret Service Agents in protective gear, President Trump embarked on a slow drive around the Walter Reed Medical Center to wave to supporters whove maintained a vigil there since he was admitted three days ago. Great patriots, in his words, and whilst the president himself was wearing a face mask, few of them were doing the same. I love the job were doing. He teased the trip on twitter after paying tribute to those whove been treating him. So, its been a very interesting journey. I learnt a lot about covid. I learnt it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isnt the lets read the book school. And i get it. And i understand it. But some think he
hasnt learnt enough. An attending physician at walter reed, drjames phillips, described the drive by as an active political theatre that could cost the secret agents involved their lives, that the irresponsibility is astounding. Following several days of confusion and contradiction surrounding the president s condition, further details have emerged. Despite saying his condition continues to improve, his medical team confirmed that his blood oxygen level dropped twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically recommended only for the very sick. Pressed about how their information had conflicted with that from the white house, the president s personal physician acknowledged he painted a deliberately rose tinted picture of his patients condition. I was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president that his course of illness has had. I didnt want to give any information that might steer the course of illness
in another direction. And in doing so, you know, it came off that we were trying to hide something, which wasnt necessarily true. What is true is that the president is being aggressively treated with a cocktail of drugs. These include dexamethasone, a steroid tested in the uk, it works by calming the immune system but is rarely used on patients who are experiencing only mild symptoms of covid i9. And despite being on a five day course of remdesivir, the president s doctors say he could be leaving hospital later today. With the president grounded, his democratic rival remains on the Virtual Campaign trail. Five days after spending 90 minutes on a debate stage with President Trump, joe biden has tested negative for the coronavirus. Senior democrats say they hope the president s diagnosis will change his attitude towards the coronavirus, but that remains to be seen. Davis willis, bbc news, los angeles. So how risky was that decision of donald trump to take a drive by in his motorcade . New york city Epidemiologist Dr syra madad gave this warning. He is absolutely still infectious. He is still early in his clinical course of the disease. Its very mind boggling that he is not even following his own institutions Public Health advice of actually isolating and not exposing additional individuals. He is obviously in a close quarter vehicle, windows are up, with other individuals within the car, so he is potentially exposing others. It is a reckless type of behaviour. Not only does it have health implications, it has epidemiological, clinical and overall Public Health implications, certainly it was a bad idea. It was more of a political stunt than anything, to just really show that he is well. But he isjeopardising the health of many others. This really is a very alarming situation. And while his Clinical Care team says he is doing well, he is clearly not out of the woods. We know that with covid i9, from the symptom onset to icu, it is about ten to 12 days, so he still has some time to see if he is actually out of the woods. Based on the treatment, while there is a lot of ambiguity about his clinical course and what date he is in, based on the current treatments that he is being given, it seems as if he does have a more severe state of the illness. We can speak now to the cbs news correspondent, naomi ruchim, outside mr trumps hospital. So we have heard some reaction. Tell us so we have heard some reaction. Tell us more . Well, we know the president could return back to the white house as soon as today, that is what his doctor said yesterday during a press conference. Whether that will happen, we should find out later
this morning. They usually have some sort of announcement sometime in the morning, in the next couple of hours. We have learned more about the treatment of the president has been receiving. That includes some severity of his symptoms as well. The white house doctor has confirmed the president has experienced two drops in oxygen since the start of his illness, and also he was running a fever earlier but he is now fever free, it seems. He was on an antiviral drug. He has also been on supplemental oxygen at least once, although that was before he got to the hospital. The question now is whether he will return to the white house today. But you have to keep in mind he is not returning home like any of us would return home. The white house has a lot of Medical Equipment available, he will have an entire team there. Just because he is returning home doesnt mean his fight against this virus is over. And of course the election is early
next month. Before he got this virus the polls suggest that his opponent, joe biden, was ahead of him. What are the opinion polls suggesting now since he has been diagnosed . Well, the polls are still showing that biden is ahead of President Trump at this point. But again if you think about four years ago at this point, the polls also showed that Hillary Clinton was ahead of President Trump. The still plenty of time to go in this campaign. The president has been trying to show his strength. He has these massive rallies that his supporters really thrive on. That is why we saw him yesterday doing a bit a little wave to supporters, although it was quite controversial. Thank you. Join us later on the bbc news channel where we will be answering your questions on President Trumps health, and how it might impact the us election. Well bejoined by dr thomas gift, associate professor of Political Scienceat University College london, and martin landray, professor of medicine at oxford university, at 11. 30 this morning. You can send in your questions by emailing yourquestions bbc. Co. Uk or tweet us using the hash tag bbc your questions. The number of people with coronavirus in england is nearly 16,000 higher than was previously reported, because of a Technical Glitch. Public Health England say the cases were not entered into the National Computer system. They were added over the weekend, leading to a dramatic spike in the numbers, as Frankie Mccamley reports. The test and trace system has come under intense scrutiny, as ministers try to assess the rate of spread of the virus. This wasnt helped when the government announced a technical issue that meant some cases last week were not recorded at the time. Last monday, just over 4000 uk cases were confirmed. That rose to a then high ofjust over 7000 on tuesday. The following days the daily total remained stable,
varying between just under 7000 to just over. Then over the weekend, Public Health england confirmed nearly 16,000 cases of covid 19 in england had been missed last week. Labour has criticised the government. The Shadow Health secretary wrote, this is shambolic. People across the country will be understandably alarmed. He has called for the Health Secretary matt hancock to come to the house of commons later, to explain what happened. Health officials have said of the it problem has been contained and the issue did not affect people receiving their test results. But it does mean people in contact with those testing positive were not approached when they should have been. The error comes at a tricky time for the government. It wants people to have confidence in track and trace, but this may hamper that. Frankie mccamley, bbc news. Lets talk to our Political Correspondent nick eardley. Is the Health Secretary going to go to the house of commons and explain what is going on . The answer is yes. He will be there at 3 30pm. I suspect he will get a pretty hard time. There are two key things to ta ke time. There are two key things to take away. One is the fact that the figures we have been looking out over the past few days are not necessarily correct. That undermines confidence in them. But it also means that when we look at where the disease is worst, we might not be getting the full picture. Because we think that a number of the tests that have not been added to these figures are from the north west. It will be really interesting to see my once they are added, whether it changes the areas which are seen those extra restrictions, how badly or well they might be doing. The second thing is there are practical implications. As well as not adding those figures to the overall numbers, although people who tested positive were told their contacts
werent necessarily traced, and that creates an issue because some people who could potentially be carrying the virus, or should be self isolating, have not been told to do so. Now this morning, the work and pensions secretary, therese coffey, was asked about this. Here is what he said. For the number of people who have not been through the process of deciding whether they need to be contacted to isolate or not, recognise what you are saying. The error has been picked up and it is being dealt with. I dont think theres anything we can change about history, can only change how we make sure that the sort of errors do not happen again in the future. Later in the morning she did say that she now thinks the majority of people who needed to be traced have been. But it does, as i say, it creates this question over all the stats we are seeing and the government will have a bit ofa seeing and the government will have a bit of a job this afternoon, i think, trying to persuade us all it is on top of this. Yeah. Her saying
later on the majority of people who needed to be traced have been, the point is you have to do it within 2a hours, really, which is when it is most effective . Yeah, that is the key thing. The fact this is potentially be left for a number of days may mean the government and Health Officials are not in total control of this. It was really interesting watching the Prime Minister yesterday on the bbc admitting test and trace wasnt as good as it could be, but if you cast your mind back a few weeks, this was a key pa rt your mind back a few weeks, this was a key part of the governments strategy, this so called world beating test and trace system in england, which they hoped would help the government and Health Officials keep on top of it and really make sure that everybody who potentially could be spreading it was been told to stay at home. This is another example where that is not happening. So asi example where that is not happening. So as i say, when it comes to persuading us all that system is working and the government can get on top of it again, although they are saying they fixed this glitch, i think people will want to know more
about what they are going to do about what they are going to do about avoiding again. Thank you. The headlines on bbc news. Questions over how and why 16,000 coronavirus cases were missed out of the official figures last week. President trump is criticised after taking a ride in a motercade to greet supporters outside the medical centre where hes being treated for coronavirus. In a video posted from hospital, he says he now bars and cafes in paris will be closed for at least 15 days from tomorrow, as the french authorities try to combat a rise in covid 19 cases. Restaurants will be allowed to stay open by introducing further safety measures, while universities in the capital have been told to halve the number of students. The city of marseille closed bars and restaurants last week. David chazan is a reporter based in paris and told me more about the new measures. These new measures are being triggered because paris is now considered to be what the french authorities call in
the maximum alert zone. Thats because the number of cases is more than 250 per 100,000 inhabitants. Over the weekend, we saw that france reported nearly 17,000 new cases on saturday alone, which is the highest its been since mass testing began in july after the lockdown. So theres considerable worry about what could happen over the next few weeks if the number of infections continues to increase. The purpose of these restrictions, really, is to avoid a national shutdown, which the government says france simply cant afford. France has ploughed colossal sums of money into keeping the economy afloat during the lockdown and now trying to revive it. So economically, it would be catastrophic to enforce another lockdown. So the french authorities are trying to find other ways of, as president macron puts it, living with the virus. Yesterday, we saw the interior minister saying that he realised that closing bars and cafes in a city like paris would be a considerable hardship because, as he put it, the french are a people who love to drink and go out and kiss and socialise, but its absolutely necessary if the authorities are to succeed in avoiding shutting down the economy again. The president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, has confirmed she is self isolating after coming in to contact with someone whos tested positive for coronavirus. In a tweet, ms von der leyen said
rescue teams in france and italy are continuing to search for survivors from the flash floods caused by storm alex. At least four people have died and up to 20 are still missing, including a group of eight people who were seen being swept away. Paul hawkins reports. This was the picturesque town of Breil Sur Roya in the french alps. But four months of rain in just one day meant devastating landslides have cut off the town. Translation all i worry about is my kids down the valley. I cant reach them. I have medicine, i have everything i need to but it is stress, it is anguish. Rescue efforts are concentrated here with roughly 1,000 firefighters backed by helicopters and the army, the french government declaring the wider region a National Disaster zone. Two hours drive from here is the village
of saint martin vesubie, population 1,400 or at least, it was. It is also now cut off by the aftermath of storm alex, so many are leaving. Translation i left with this, a nightgown, and there you go. This is what i have left. What i have on me is not mine. I dont have a car any more. We have anything any more, like half the village. Translation i was on the top floor of the hotel next to the river. I realised it had doubled in volume and then it spread out across the entire width of the hotel. It was scary. We could hear the creaking noises, the shaking because of the rocks hitting the walls, which were falling down, and being in the dark was even worse because we didnt know what was going on. Many are being evacuated by helicopter here to the city of nice, 55km south, where aid is being packed and sent out of villages across the region. Meanwhile, a ito minute drive from here along the coast of italy, the city of ventimiglia is also cleaning up. With shops and restaurants destroyed by the water, many are asking the government to declare a state of emergency. Translation look, its quite a disaster. I had a lot of goods to throw away and for the whole market it is the same. It is a disaster. Translation this is the first time. I have never seen this before. Im 45 years old and i have never seen that. 25 years ive been in the market and i have never seen that. With both france and italys economies hit badly by the pandemic already, this is the last thing they needed. Paul hawkins, bbc news. All 127 of the cineworld and picturehouse venues in the uk will close, temporarily, from thursday. Also closing are the companys 536 us regal cinemas. It comes after another delay
this weekend to the release of the nextjames bond movie, no time to die. The company says itjust doesnt have enough films to show pote