within the past hour president trump has left the walter reed military hospital in washington where he was being treated for coronavirus and has returned to the white house. wearing a mask, he walked unaided down the hospital steps before boarding the presidential helicopter for the short flight home. moments after returning to the white house, donald trump climbed the stairs to the balcony, took off his mask and posed for photographs. he wrote on twitter before leaving that he would soon be back on the election campaign trail. he appeared to downplay his infection, posting the words "don't be afraid of covid. don't let it dominate your life". 0ur correspondent lebo diseko has spent much of the day outside the walter reed hospital where mr trump was being treated butjoins me now from our washington studio. talk now from our washington studio. us through what happening. talk us through what has been happening. donald trump certainly knows how to make an exit and certainly knows how to make an exitand an certainly knows how to make an exit and an entrance. watching him leave on marine 0ne exit and an entrance. watching him leave on marine one was quite something. a lot of his supporters were out there to see him take off and then he arrived at the white house, walked up the stairs to a balcony. he was wearing a mask then. he looked almost defined then. he looked almost defined then taking it off and giving then taking it off and giving the thumbs up signal to the waiting press and to people watching. whether you are a physician or not, the president is for certain still infection and you have to worry about his health but also so many people around him. it was really interesting. 0n around him. it was really interesting. on my way back i was ina interesting. on my way back i was in a car talking to the cab driver and she was saying she is not concerned about things like that. she feels donald trump is really taking a risk on behalf of the american people. of course, that is not the way a lot of people who do not support donald trump see things. asked about whether he would be isolating at the white house, his doctors were not clear. there were a lot of things that were not clear about and a lot of questions about and a lot of questions about how he may begin to campaign again and what his ca re campaign again and what his care will be. even in its milder form, care will be. even in its milderform, coronavirus care will be. even in its milder form, coronavirus can bring trouble later in the illness so that could be more difficult days to come. absolutely. what i found interesting empathy briefings donald trump israel medical tea m donald trump israel medical team gave, questions asked and how they are answered. that has been asked repeatedly but not really a nswered been asked repeatedly but not really answered at all. we will have to wait and see how things unfold. it is worth noting that donald trump does have medical ca re donald trump does have medical care on hand 20 47 at the white house. "24 — seven. even his medical team did say he is not out of the woods yet and we will have to wait and see what the next few days hold for him. thank you very much. the president has been given aggressive covid treatments that doctors are calling "uncharted territory". they include a cocktail of antibodies, the antiviral drug, remdesivir — which he'll continue to get at the white house — and the steroid dexamethasone, which is normally used when patients become seriously ill. here's our medical editor fergus walsh. it seems the president's doctors have thrown everything they can at his infection, but getting an exact picture of his state of health hasn't been easy. the white house says president trump and the first lady tested positive for coronavirus on thursday evening. his doctor said as a precautionary measure, he was given a one—off infusion, a cocktail monoclonal antibodies. this is an experimental treatment by biotech firm, regeneron, designed to reduce viral load. it's promising, but there's no proof it works. clinical trials arejust starting in the uk. by late friday morning, mr trump had a high fever and his oxygen saturation levels had dipped to 93%, just below the normal lower limit of 95%, and he was given oxygen for about an hour. in my experience, from looking after patients who typically present to hospital after being unwell at home for about 5—7 days, it's around that sort of time that they start to need oxygen, so it's entirely possible that donald trump may have been unwell or had an infection in the background for a few days before he tested positive and before coming into hospital. later on friday, president trump was flown to walter reed military hospital. there he was given a second drug, remdesivir — this is an antiviral, which was approved in may as a covid—i9 therapy. a five—day treatment, it has been shown to speed up recovery and is used widely in the us. on saturday, the president was started on the steroid, dexamethasone. this works by dampening the body's immune system, which can go haywire with covid—i9, and it reduces inflammation in the body. it's been shown to help the sickest covid patients, those in hospital, on oxygen or a ventilator, but it's not recommended for patients with mild symptoms. if you wanted to divide these things with a straight line down the middle you would say, on oxygen or on a ventilator, give dexamethasone. not on oxygen or a ventilator, don't give dexamethasone. but that's rather more black and white than the subtlety of a one—on—one clinical conversation and decision. covid patients who appear to be getting better can sometimes take a turn for the worse several days after the infection, so the president's doctors won't relax until he is fully recovered. fergus walsh, bbc news. joining me now is drjosh barocas, an infectious disease physician at boston medical center and assistant professor of medicine at the boston university school of medicine. mrtrump has mr trump has just put out a new video urging americans to get out there, be careful, we have the best medicines in the world. as you have been watching the pictures of him in the limousine and also coming out of walter reed army medical centre and now without a mask at the white house. as a physician, what are you thinking? we have tried over the last eight months to put out a consistent message with the most up—to—date data that we can and, throughout that period of time, there have been hiccups along the road but we have consistently tried to say that this is a dangerous and deadly virus, a message of masks and social distancing and hand hygiene, and if the stance, if you are to call them that, fly in the face of everything in medicine and public health and really trying to put out the over this deadly pandemic. as a physician, it is deflating. as someone who has don't personal protective equipment, reused ppe, set at bedside, it saddens me and it is insulting to the millions of people who have suffered. there isa people who have suffered. there is a concern for the president, obviously, but also for the many, obviously, but also for the any obviously, but also for the many, many people around him. absolutely. if we divide that up. the patient, the president in this case, appears to be doing fairly well. i think we can doing fairly well. i think we ca n safely doing fairly well. i think we can safely call him having had moderate to severe covert bag based on his use of oxygen and for him, i am glad he feels better and, for everyone around him, we have to remember, he's still infectious and should still infectious and should still be practising social distancing and he should actually be in the residency by himself or with the first lady simply because she also is infected. all of the people that worked in the white house, all of the service staff and the rest of the white house in the rest of the white house in the west wing are protected as well, and that includes doing contact tracing from the event the president had visited over the president had visited over the last week and a half. some of the drug treatment he is on are described as experimental and that when you are on them do not realise how ill you are, they are like a sugar rush but they are like a sugar rush but they are like a sugar rush but they are temporary. absolutely we know that people receive steroids, which are not experimental at this point, but people who do receive steroids, it isa people who do receive steroids, it is a great way of explaining it is a great way of explaining it stop it is like a sugar rush. the others, of course, if they are doing theirjob then you should feel better. regeneron it is neutralising the infection and the remdesivir is also hopefully doing itsjob. i do not think we can say that he's out of woods yet and he's certainly not out of the infectious period. really interesting to talk to you. thank you so much. my talk to you. thank you so much. my pleasure. the press secretary for the white house has become the latest high profile figure in the trump administration to test positive for covid—i9. kayleigh mcenany said she wasn't experiencing symptoms but would quarantine. two other members of the white house media team, and some reporters, have also tested positive. joe biden is on the campaign trail in florida and is holding a town hall in miami. florida is seen as a must—win for mr trump's re—election campaign. mr biden‘s visit to little havana represented an effort to make headway among cuban americans, a group that is seen as largely republican. in his speech, mr biden attacked the president for downplaying the seriousness of the disease even after contracting it. i was glad to see the president speaking, recording videos over the weekend. now i would ask him to do this, listen to the scientists, support masks, support a mask mandate nationwide, require masks in interstate travelling and inside buildings. we know it saves lives. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the cineworld chain confims it is closing all its cinemas in the uk and us until next year. this was a celebration by people who were relishing their freedom. they believe everything's going to be different from now on. they think their country will be respected in the world once more, as it used to be, before slobodan milosevic took power. the dalai lama, the exiled spiritual leader of tibet, has won this year's nobel peace prize. as the parade was reaching its climax, two grenades exploded and a group of soldiersjumped from a military truck taking part in the parade, and ran towards the president, firing from kalashnikov automatic rifles. after 437 years, the skeletal ribs of henry viii's tragic warship emerged. but even as divers worked to buoy her up, the mary rose went through another heart—stopping drama. i want to be the people's governor. i want to represent everybody. i believe in the people of california. this is bbc news. the latest headline: donald trump returns to the white house three days after being hospitalised with coronavirus. within minutes he had removed his protective mask. also in the past few minutes, he has put out a new video on here it is. ijust left walter reed medical centre and it is really something special. the doctors, nurses, the first responders, and i learned so much about coronavirus. and thing that is for certain, don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you are going to beat it. we have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines, all developed recently. and you are going to beat it. i didn't feel so going to beat it. i didn't feel so good, and two days ago, i could have left two days ago. two days ago i felt great, better than i have in a long time. i said just recently, better than 20 years ago. don't let it dominate, don't let it ta ke let it dominate, don't let it take over your lives. don't let that happen. we are the greatest country in the world. we are going back, we're going back to work. we are going to be out front. as your leader, i had to do that. i knew there was danger to it, but i had to do it. i stood out front, i led. nobody that is a leader would not do what i did. and i know there is a risk, there is a danger, but that's ok. and now i am better, and maybe i am immune. i don't know, but don't let it dominate your lives. get out there. be careful. we have the best medicines in the world, and it all happened very shortly, and they are all getting approved. and the vaccines are coming momentarily. thank you very much, and walter reed, what a group of people. thank you very much. president trump in a video posted on twitter in the last few minutes or so. tens of thousands of people in england may still be unaware that they have been in close contact with someone who has covid. a technical issue in transferring positive results from laboratories led to almost 16,000 missing cases. all those who tested positive were informed, but their close contacts were not and thousands still haven't been traced. many of the cases are in parts of northern england already under local lockdown. the health secretary, matt hancock, told parliament the problems still havent been resolved and the incident should never have happened. the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth, said the missing results were putting lives at risk. here is our health editor hugh pym. testing and tracing continues today. but there are yet more questions about whether the whole system in england is working properly, with thousands of cases not recorded, so contacts of those testing positive were not followed up. the health secretary had to come to the commons to explain what went wrong. this incident should never have happened. but the team have acted swiftly to minimise its impact, and now it is critical that we work together to put this right and to make sure that it never happens again. labour highlighted the failure to follow up contacts. thousands of people, blissfully unaware they've been exposed to covid, potentially spreading this deadly virus at a time when hospital admissions are increasing and we're in the second wave. this isn'tjust a shambles. it's so much worse than that. here is what we were told at the time about the number of daily reported cases up until friday. reaching around 7,000 by the end of the week. but now that the extra cases have been added in, here is what it looks like now — above 11,000. all the new data relates to england, with striking increases in some regions. in the north—west of england, for example, there were more than 8,000 extra cases reported — an increase of 93%. in the yorkshire and humber region, it was more than 4,000 extra cases — an increase of 113% on what we were originally told. civic leaders affected by restrictions in the north—west say policy must be reconsidered. somebody should be checking this. this is a national government implementing the system, and making decisions that are predicated on that evidence. and the evidence, now we find, has been faulty. so how does the system work? tests of hospital staff and patients are analysed at nhs and public health laboratories. these seem to be working well. testing for the public and most care homes at drive through centres or with kits is partly done by private companies. they then send the swabs to the big lighthouse labs to analyse tests. these were set up by the government and are run by private companies and universities. they then pass on results to public health england to be fed into the test and trace system for contacts to be followed up. this is where the it problems have occurred. phe says the issue has now been resolved, but wider challenges for people using the testing network remain. a surge in demand caused delays last month and these are still happening. jarrod was tested on friday and still hasn't had a result. he and his flatmates, who are key workers, are having to isolate and stay off work. things should be in place by now, really. so it makes it difficult for people trying to do the right thing, so i can certainly understand the frustration, anxiety and stress it produces in other people who may not be as lucky to have people delivering food and, you know, support them through a challenging time, really. the challenge for the government remains — bolstering confidence in a testing system which in recent weeks has fallen short of where it should be. hugh pym, bbc news. in france, the number of people in intensive care has reached more than 1,400 for the first time since the end of may. paris is being placed on maximum alert on tuesday, meaning bars will be forced to close for two weeks. bars in paris have continued to draw large crowds, often flouting physical distancing and mask—wearing guidelines. lucy williamson is in paris. well, after days of negotiations, the government has decided that only bars have to close. restaurants can stay open as long as they follow strict new social distancing rules. the trouble is that the vast majority of places in paris, cafes, bistros, this place behind me, fall between those two definitions. so they are having to completely reorganise their staffing and menus in order to stay open. i have just been speaking to the owner of this place who says he expects just to break even at best, and that he thinks people are already starting to regroup in studios and flats rather than coming out to the bars. and i know there will be many owners tonight sitting down with a calculator and simply working out whether it is worth their while to reopen tomorrow at all. let's get some of the day's other news: international flights have resumed in peru after nearly seven months of restrictions which were introduced to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus. the government has allowed flights of up to four hours to and from the capital, lima, as part of a gradual reopening plan. terrestrial borders remain closed. ireland is reintroducing stricter nationwide coronavirus restrictions after a surge in infections. from midnight on tuesday, people will be asked to stay in their county of residence and organised indoor events will be cancelled. restaurants and pubs will be barred from serving customers indoors, employees encouraged to attend workplaces only if absolutely necessary, and religious services will be moved online. the clean—up continues in france and italy after heavy rains caused significant flash—flooding, killing at least seven people. the storm destroyed homes and washed away roads while coastal areas areas on the french riviera were also devastated. rescue workers have stepped up their search efforts amid fears up to 20 people are missing. the president of the uk's highest court says the lack of any ethnic—minority judges among its 12 members is a situation that cannot be allowed to continue. in his first interview since taking up the post, lord reed told the bbc the situation shouldn't persist to a point where it became shameful. the supreme court is the final court of appeal in the uk for civil and criminal cases in england, wales and northern ireland. the world's second—biggest cinema chain, cineworld, has blamed a lack of new films for the temporary closure of all its screens in the us and the uk. about 45,000 jobs are at risk. the 0deon chain in the uk has also announced some of its cinemas will only open at the weekends for the time being. it comes after the release of the new james bond film was delayed again. here is our business correspondent emma simpson. wolverhampton's main cinema, 14 screens, about to be mothballed like the rest of the cineworld chain — a move which will mean more than 5,000 job losses across the uk. i think i speakfor a lot of the staff when i say that we feel like we've been treated poorly and deserved more notice. a lot of us don't know what to do from here on in, and three days' notice before we close really doesn't feel fair to any of us. james bond... it was hoped he would come to the rescue, the biggest movie of the year, to lure audiences back. but it now won't be shown until april. cineworld says its business is not viable without blockbusters. bond was maybe the last straw. we are like a grocery shop now that do not have no milk, no dairy, no vegetables, no food. you cannot run a business in this way. we would have never closed the cinema if we had any other alternative. and the only alternative here to protect the company and to protect our team, because our team will be suffering a lot from this closure. if you survive, do you promise to give your workers theirjobs back? if we will go back to the way we were, or almost the way we were, for sure, anyone that would want to come back will be taken care of and we'll give the jobs back. it is a bit ofa chicken—and—egg situation for this industry right now. cinema owners need big movies for income, but the hollywood studios who make these blockbusters also need to make sure big enough audiences will turn up. it doesn't seem somewhere that you'd go in the pandemic. and you've got to wear a mask. it's not a bother, but it's not the same experience where you eat your sweets, have your popcorn. it's been a long time. we mostly watch netflix and stuff now. difficult times, but experts say cineworld was vulnerable before the pandemic. expansion drove a very big rise in debt, and it's been burning cash for months. 0deon says a quarter of its cinemas will now be shut monday to thursday. too many empty seats here, too. cinemas are usually a big draw. these closures could have ripple effects for the town centres and retail parks they're in, and it's not clear when they'll reopen. emma simpson, bbc news. the final possible legal challenge to led zeppelin's ownership of stairway to heaven has been defeated. the band was sued for copyright in 2014 over claims it had stolen the song's opening riff from the song taurus by us band spirit. led zeppelin won the case in 2016, with a court of appeals upholding the original verdict earlier this year. now the us supreme court has declined to hear the case, putting an end to the dispute. that's it for now. much more anytime on the bbc website and on our twitter feeds. thank you for watching. hello there. i thought i'd start with a reminder ofjust how grim a start to the month we've had. across a swathe of southern england and parts of eastern scotland too, over recent days, we've seen more rainfall than we'd expect to see in the whole of the month of 0ctober. and we're only in the first week, of course. winchcombe is in gloucestershire — 118 mm here over recent days compared with the october average of 81. now, we've got a bit more rain to come over the next couple of days, but i'm going to zoom out into the western atlantic, because this is a developing area of low pressure. and it could bring some really heavy rain across those areas that have already seen a lot of rainfall this month, so more on that in just a moment. for the time being, we do have rain around right now, we've got some patches working across from northern ireland, pushing eastwards across wales and england, and another line of rain from an occlusion that's bringing some wet weather at the moment to south—west scotland and the far north of england. temperatures to start the day about 8—11 degrees. now, we are going to see some further patches of rain pushing eastwards across wales and england through the day. i suspect they could become quite lengthy patches of rain, quite persistent rain for a time, across north wales, merseyside and greater manchester. further showers for west scotland and northern ireland, becoming windier in the south—west over the afternoon, where we could get gusts of wind of 50—odd mph. the best of the sunshine for eastern scotland, but for many of us, it will be quite cloudy with just a few sunny intervals coming and going. now, for wednesday, probably overall a little bit more in the way of sunshine. but again we've got showers around. those showers particularly affecting northern and western scotland. given that wind direction, we might see a few sneaking down the irish sea into north wales and north—west england as well. temperatures coming down a degree or so, highs for most between 13 and 15 degrees. now, on into thursday's forecast, these weather fronts that had been forecast to bring the majority of rain across england and wales are actually going to push a little bit further northwards now on the latest model runs. and that sees rain potentially coming as far north as the central belt of scotland, maybe even north scotland for a time. now, further southwards, we will see some rain at a time moving across england and wales. but it's this trailing front that could cause some issues, not just through thursday but actually thursday night and into friday, because that front could become aligned to give some lengthy outbreaks of rain across parts of england and wales. and some of those parts where we've already seen a lot of rainfall so far. so we could see some further localised flooding towards the end of the week. this is bbc news, the headlines: donald trump has returned to the white house, after being hospitalised with coronavirus. his doctors say he's "not yet out of the woods" but within minutes he had removed his protective mask. he's also issued a video message urging americans to "get out there" and not be afraid of the virus. earlier the president left the walter reed military hospital in washington where he had been treated for coronaviorus for three days. he walked unaided down the steps of the hospital to a motorcade that took him to the nearby presidential helicopter for the short flight home. the british government says an investigation has begun into why nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported last week. ministers have blamed a technical glitch, which is now said to have been resolved. more than 12500 new cases of the virus have been recorded in the latest 24—hour period.

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