The murder of saudi journalist some of the shows activists say theres still no real justice were live in istanbul. And the same with your supporters rafa nadal tries to reach round 4 of the french open and a blow for formula one is engine supplier and the old says it is to leave the school to. The u. S. President is in isolation after testing positive for covert 19 and a month out from election day theres new on the certainty over the campaign the president confirmed the results in a late night tweet hours after a top aide was confirmed to have the virus its just gone 9 oclock in the morning in washington d. C. Where the president remains in the white house aide hope pigs had traveled with the times several times in the past few days including on tuesday to the debate in Cleveland Ohio the next day they flew together to a Campaign Rally in minnesota. Were across all the fallout from this alan fisher is in washington d. C. And hes watching the Biden Campaign and keeping an eye on the New York Stock Exchange is kristen salumi that he is in london for us dominic cain is in the german capital and our White House Correspondent is at the white house in washington d. C. But 1st rob reynolds begins our coverage the news came in a late night tweet from the white house President Donald Trump wrote tonight the 1st lady and i tested positive for covert 19 we will begin our quarantine and Recovery Process immediately we will get through this together it is not known how despite elaborate precautions and constant testing of white house officials the White House Press corps and others in contact with trump the president contracted the virus but earlier one of trumps top aides hope hicks was confirmed to have tested positive hicks accompanied the president to the debate in Cleveland Ohio on tuesday trump phoned in to a Fox Television program earlier on thursday and talked about hicks having been exposed its a tough kind of a situation its a terrible thing so i just want to protest and well see what happens i mean who knows the white house physician sean conley said trump and the 1st lady are both well at this time and that the White House Medical Team will maintain a vigilant watch and loni a trump later tweeted we are feeling good. Trump has several risk factors that put him in danger of complications from covert 19 he is in his bid seventys and overweight would have to wait for the next few days and you know for some people get really sick within hours but you know some people dont get sick until week after and so we have to really be carefully observing the situation trump has declined to wear a mask on many occasions of clothing at rallies where many of his supporters also refused to wear a mask. His entourage including family members went masculists at the tuesday debate trump even ridiculed democratic candidate joe biden for wearing a mask as recommended by virtually all Public Health experts i dont wear mess like him every time you see hes got a mask he could be speaking 200 feet away from and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen if trump were to become seriously ill and unable to carry out his duties the constitution provides for a Vice President mike pence to take over temporarily pence said he is praying for trumps recovery there can be no spin you can be you know harbor ups there has to be clear understanding of what is going on with this person this president United States because otherwise if hes not going past the to take care of the business he will have to be by the 25th amendment transition has to occur. But a glaring question now is how the news will affect trumps Reelection Campaign already trailing nationally and in certain important swing states it would seem that trump can ill afford to stay out of commission for a quarantine period of 2 weeks trump joins other World Leaders including brazils president gyre balsa naro and the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson who have contracted the virus worldwide the death toll from covert done teen has exceeded 1000000 rob reynolds aljazeera ok our White House CorrespondentKimberly Hawkins joining us from washington d. C. Kimberly in the early parts of this when it was breaking initially the white house was issuing tweets and saying everything was fine and everything was under control things would carry on as normal do we have any more statements from the white house about this. We have no official statements the only a statement that we have so far from the White House Press office is that right now there are no updates in terms of briefings that are scheduled now that could be subject to change but there is some reporting here in the United States that potentially what is being discussed is the possibility of the president giving some sort of National Address or reassurance to the public that none of this is being confirmed it likely is still being worked out given the fact that it is so early in the morning still here in washington having said that theres also some reporting that the president may have been at a fundraiser the night before. Pardon me my voice is a little bit hoarse from the hours of coverage. What i was about to say is that the president also had been exhibiting some hoarseness at a fundraiser just the night before and as a result some of the attendees had reported that he had been appearing somewhat so far jack so. Pardon me there is some concern about the president s condition whether or not the white house will have to provide an update it certainly is unclear at this moment but. Again there is some reporting is speculation that well the white house has downplayed the president s condition saying that hes feeling fine that they are not perhaps revealing the entire story kimberly thanks very much indeed of course as this story develops were going to be coming back to you but for now thats our White House CorrespondentKimberly Holcomb thank you very much but weve also heard from the 1st lady who tweeted to say she and President Trump are in quarantine at home Melania Trump says theyre both feeling good that all up her upcoming engagements of being postponed shes also encouraged everyone to stay safe. Well alan fischer is in washington d. C. For us alan lets talk about the impact on the joe Biden Campaign because of course we saw that debate with the president and joe biden were quite a distance apart when they were on the stage but it was a very heated debate so there is going to be questions about whether or not joe biden may well have been affected by this. Im actually surprised its taken the Biden Campaign so long to respond they have a Rapid Response unit and we got nothing from them even though we were told they would be a statement around 2 hours ago in fact in the last 1520 minutes or so joe biden has tweeted something very brief saying that the thoughts are for the swift recovery of the president and the 1st lady and their continued to plea for the health and safety of the president and the 1st lady i understand that there was some debate in the Biden Campaign about whether or not there should be some sort of political message to attach to that in the end it was decided by Senior Advisers to use one of the president s own phrases it is what it is and people will see exactly what has happened so there is no need for the Biden Campaign to continue to hammer the point here there will be a question over how they continue to Campaign Donald trump has pushed ahead with n. Paris and rallies and weve seen the consequence of that with people getting sick at some of them meanwhile the democrats very airlie pivoted to the idea of virtual tone holes in virtual rallies and virtual fundraisers they will continue to do that just over the last 24 hours they said that they were going to go in person canvassing and at least 4 key states that is no under review although theres no reason why it should be but certainly there are Big Questions about Joe Biden Health he was as you say rob very close to the president during that debate and saw given that he is 77 he keeps himself in remarkable condition doesnt carry a lot of extra weight they will still want to get him tested very quickly to make sure that he also is negative at this point and the implications arent just for the campaigns that are the allen were talking about the shot where hes rippling out across congress as well just talk us through what the impact might be of that. Youve got to look at the Contact Tracing operation there is no underway because although perhaps tested positive on thursday she could have been carrying the symptoms since saturday or sunday and that means if she was in close contact with the president so could he so who does that include well youve got to think about steve miniature news the treasury secretary at the moment is to go shooting in a corporate relief package with nancy pelosi he has been in new york all office with donald trump we suspect they were Wearing Masks hes been there with mark meadows mark meadows the chief of staff and steve mission have been on capitol hill talking to nancy pelosi and then there is the new Supreme Court nominee in equally violet now she has been working at the white house for the last week just in the last couple of days has started going round meeting various senators talking about her nomination this through is and so many questions as well and of course a person huge question mark over the next debate 1st of all the Vice President ial debate on wednesday mike pence were told tested negative this morning just in the last couple of hours so it seems that he might be able to go ahead with that but of course the president and joe biden are due to meet head to head at a town hall in miami in just about a couple of weeks that is that the end of the period that the president will be in self isolation so does that debate go ahead will there be an audience or will it be virtual well the president be fit enough to stand for an hour and a half on stage and answer questions a huge amount of questions being asked and i dont think were going to be close to answers for a few hours yet here and what is a very frenetic friday in washington were always told that october provides an election surprised who would have thought on the fasti of october it would be the president who has largely derided the idea that people can catch Corporate Court covert and is no self isolating and it does sound as though were beginning to get. A raft of people who are getting themselves tested in the wake of this we understand the statement which and has said that hes tested negative and also saying that the u. S. Health and Human Services secretary alex has said that he too has tested negative clearly were going to get a raft of these in the next few hours but alan for now thanks very much indeed the u. S. Secretary of state has spoken to reporters as he was traveling from italy to croatia early on friday night pump a it was tested on board his plane and he came back negative. Actually have not been with the president since the Abraham Accords and there. Have been traveling i cant remember 10 the last of the last 17 days Something Like that. 17 so ive been a lot somebody with me and i think the american like were praying for the president and the 1st lady to have a speedy recovery and so just make up a little bit of a speedy recovery i spoke to the Vice President s up at this morning as well were taking this obviously very seriously and will do everything we can to keep everyone safe including you all you have the results here in your view as a native. All trumps infection marks a devastating blow to his reelection bid u. S. Health Authorities Say people must self isolate for 10 days after a positive test and that brings us up to uphold with the 11th but before that in 5 days is Vice President mike pence is set to debate his democratic rival kamel horace now while tense as tested negative its unclear whether he will also self isolate if President Trump develop symptoms that could get in the way of a 2nd president ial debate in about 13 days and his 3rd face off with joe biden a week later on october the 22nd now we are of course just 32 days out from the big day the election on november the 3rd. Or in a shop as a republican strategist and consultant shes joining us on skype from washington d. C. How do you think both sides of the equation the political equation are going to be intemperate in targeting whats happening at the moment id like to start by saying how very sorry i am to hear this news i had 2 relatives very close to me had to be 19 this summer and both have recovered its a very nasty virus i saw the impact on them and our families and it has been truly unconscionable and so id like to say that i do wish that the president the 1st lady of very speedy recovery because i dont wish this virus on anyone however you know hes acted medically invincible for months and months on and hes spoken and acted that way continuing to hold in person events and so this really serves as a somber reminder that this virus is still very much plaguing our country and while its difficult to understand how it this point we know from science that his age and his obesity is great have made him of course part of a greater risk so this is really shocking news because for many of us we cannot believe it made it to the white house we could understand staff having it but after seeing other World Leaders get this we figured most of us americans when i say we figured theres no way it can get to the president at this point in time given the fact that the president has taken a significant stand against the use of mosques although he would of course lots of things say differently that he does use mosques when he believes its necessary do you think that he is going to change his approach to the wearing of mosques in the way for example that Boris Johnson the u. K. Prime minister did when he called coronaviruses suddenly came out of it he survived he took it incredibly seriously and decided to change policies as a result of that. Right that would be the prudent thing to do is to change policy based on ones experience and knowing science however this president has routinely flouted his own experts his own scientific advisors about recommendations and so one would lead one to be led is made to think that conventional wisdom would get this president and he would change a policy he would perhaps look for a federal mandate states like new york have made it the law its not just an option public in new york state for example Governor Cuomo has said it is the law to be wearing a mask but look this president is a republican and conservatives limited government spokes do not like federal mandates so it remains yet to be seen what he will do when he comes out of the quarantine but just 2 weeks ago we know that in ohio it is own rally he was saying things like this virus quote unquote virtually affects no one except for the elderly so that you know these these these very hypocritical oxymoronic statements by the president lead us to wonder how you will handle himself during quarantine after quarantine and really what impact this could have on how he moves forward regarding debates in his campaign against joe biden who he also made fun of this past week for wearing a mask during the debate so lets talk about the run up to the election of course we have the debates coming up there is a debate there is there are questions over whether or not those debates are going to be held and if so in what fashion how do you think in the immediate term donald trump is going to react to this because one would suggest that it is vitally important for the republican counting for the Trump Campaign to get donald trump back on television in front of americans as fast as possible. Well there are 2 things here number one lets not forget that this president speaks to the American People through twitter unlike any other past president he is on twitter incessantly we can expect more of that probably as he quarantines he watches television consumes cable news in a way that we dont know any other modern president to have done so i believe hell continue taking his message to the American People i dont think quarantine or having this virus unless it incapacitates him meaning he had we would have to be admitted to a hospital and be intubated for example i believe thats the only thing that would stop this president from continuing to take to twitter to speak directly to the American People about what he believes is right how he campaigns his Campaign Style is very very different than Joe Biden Joe biden is steady on those very you know normal what we expect doesnt give us a fuselage