This years nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to 3. Harvey alter michael hart and Charles Reiss were honored for discovering the hepatitis c. Virus a major cause of Liver Disease the prestigious award it carries shared a prize money of a 1000000. 00. Bars and restaurants in paris have been serving customers for the last time before having to close their doors for 2 weeks in restrictions are being imposed in the french capital following a surge in corona virus infections the government had previously lifted a nationwide lockdown. This is g. W. News hour from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website w dot com. Oh. Well. As President Trumps a press secretary becomes the latest style high level republican to test positive for corona virus the president himself is going back to the white house despite base he is still infectious and isolating as is his Campaign Manager so with less than a month to election day who is actually running the campaign im still getting in and this is the day. Where he may not entirely be out of the woods yet the team and i agree that all are about where she lives and most importantly his clinical status support the president safe return home we all remain cautiously optimistic. And on guard we have worked very closely with the walter reed team to ensure that we are looking very closely at Infection ControlPrevention Strategies and the right posture so that the president can safely return to his residence we try to get patients home out of the hospital. As quickly as is safe and reasonable every day patient stays in the hospital unnecessarily is a risk to themselves he has never once pushed us to do anything that was beyond safe and reasonable practice that we all 1st of. All saw on the day but Opposition Leader took on a sky of visits judgment each of meet with chants of im going to match what is she looking for a bulletin to broker talks with Alexander Lukashenko. Now we need. Help in mediation negotiations with authorities and rethink that. It is going to be extremely helpful in this situation. Welcome to the day President Trump has heading home to the white house the doctors say he is fit to do so although they also say hes not out of the woods and needs to be closely monitored despite still being infectious the president tweeted that he feels better than he has done for 20 years and urge people not to be afraid of the coronavirus he was helicoptered into the Walter Reed Medical Center in maryland 3 days ago after testing positive and showing symptoms of covered 19 years doctors explained why theyre so confident that he could be discharged. We sent patients home with medications all the time. In fact yesterday afternoon you probably met most of his discharge requirements safely from the hospital and hes returning to the facility the white house medical unit and staff 247 top notch physicians nurses p. A. s logisticians and the unit here the team here behind me is going to continue to support us in that nature we all remain cautiously optimistic and on guard because were in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received the therapy she has so early in the course so were looking to this weekend if we can get through to monday with him remaining the same or improving better yet then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. But as i said 247 world class medical care surrounding him down there were not going to miss anything that we were caught up here all right lets catch up with this senate with jack lean who writes for the Washington Post and has that power up newsletter welcome to you this has all the makings of a truck miracle hes out of hospital we dont know quite how ill he is but apparently fix enough to return to the white house is expected to go back to work. Thats exactly what his doctor dr connelly said although he declined to answer several pretty important questions again during this press conference the 3rd of the press conferences that hes held where hes declined to disclose Important Information such as the status of the president s lums just how many times he is needed and to be administered oxygen but as you just saw he gave a producer any review of how the president s doing and says that hes going to be taking care of the best doctors in the world hes currently under on several several therapeutics and returning to the white house tonight you you you you mentioned what a weird thing about this the president of the United States in hospital but the doctors have been surprisingly vague about whats wrong with him theyve talked to hes gone from having mild symptoms to needing oxygen to being treated with dex a method which is normally reserved to serious cases to now being released while still sick does this matter to people that. You know it should matter to people because there is a long well documented history of president s being really private and you know shrouding there on the status of their Health Conditions with secrecy but that being said this is a matter of Public Knowledge this is something that they should be communicating to the public and keeping americans up to iran and being fully transparent about specially as were under 30 days away from the election and the president is you know infected with a highly contagious disease virus that has effects killed 200000 americans but dr connelly citing hipaa regulations which is a law in the United States that prevents patients it prevents doctors from disclosing information that patients do not want released he said that you know due to these have a regulation is that he couldnt tell us any more specific medications that the president might be on or what his long scans look like so again he continued to say you know withhold some very Important Information that you know could give us a serious and better picture of what the president s Current Health status actually is anybody is out of hospital so i suppose we should be thankful for that meanwhile the latest of his inner circle to be confirmed with cobbett is press secretary. Kennedy hours after being told about a positive test as she issued this statement on twitter heres just a part of it after testing that it have consistently including every day since thursday i tested positive for comment 19 on monday morning want to experiencing no symptoms moreover i definitively have no knowledge of hope hickss diagnosis brides are holding a White House Press briefing on thursday so what is the story here why is she protesting so much. That is an excellent question and kelli magnan is response and handling of this situation is really emblematic of the way the white house has viewed and treated the virus and flouted centers for Disease Control guidelines throughout this entire ordeal mcenaney did in fact we now know of hexes diagnosis and this is why the c. D. C. Has these guidelines meccan that in any statement you know fundamentally represents a misunderstanding of the guidelines what the c. D. C. Says that is that you can test negative several times even if you have the virus especially if youve been exposed to it and as we know mcewan has been around the president hope its an enclosed proximity with several other people who have tested positive that she continued to return to the workplace brief reporters did not wear a mask and endanger others around her even though the c. D. C. Guidelines recommends that people who have been exposed to the virus stay at home in quarantine for 14 days even just to take precautions even if you do not test positive for myras in those 14 to protect others around you so yes again some good and i answer yes to this question because we asked a again we have a white house we have a president we have white house staffers who appear to be acting. Particularly whats the what reckless we have people not Wearing Masks we have people not isolating sensible people say that is not a sensible thing to do to people really care though the so many high level republicans seem to have acted in such a reckless mullet. People are starting to care youre hearing senior republican senators on capitol hill start to worry that the Republican Party is looking like the party of stupid is what we at the Washington Post reported over the weekend especially since there are a handful of Vulnerable Senate republican senators who are up for reelection and if they lose that means that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell will lose his majority and if the president wins reelection that means that it will be much harder to govern with a democratic led senate you know we did see the president s polls tank over the weekend and that polling was conducted after the debate and not and the or his diagnosis of that it became public so it remains to be seen just how much more his stance in the polls will drop you know once there is another round of polling conducted and people are responding in real time to his diagnosis this infection has also made the president s Campaign Come crying to a halt at this point it hurts president does rely on these rallies in person several of them about the president because we have a president now coming out of hospital but his Campaign Manager bill stepien has also tested positive for covet so who is running the company and indeed is there much of a Trump Campaign at the moment. So there is in fact a you know a robust Strong Campaign i do speak with several Time Campaign sources who are on the ground who are organizing these are talented operatives that being said the president has always been the one who has run his campaign thats why he cites for so many Campaign Manager so many chief of staff this is his management style its why theres been so much turnover in the white house and in his campaign he dictates the message and largely his Campaign Strategy relies on his personality and these rallies that he holds that draws in so many people good talking to thank you so much for joining us such a clean alimony from the Washington Post thanks for having me. Meanwhile the British Government is investigating how daily 16000 new Coronavirus Infections went unreported because of what they say was a Technical GlitchHealth Minister matter how cox says it was critical to ensure a mistake it doesnt happen again the 15841 virus cases from september the 25th to the 2nd of october were not added to official figures Prime Minister baraks johnson seemed quite the last about the era the incidents that were seeing in the cases really sort of corresponds to pretty much where we thought. We were and to be frank i think that the slightly lower numbers that wed seen. Didnt really reflect where we thought that the disease was likely to go so i think its these numbers are realistic. So lets take a closer look at this with paul hunter hes professor of medicine at the university of east anglia england welcome to day doubly professor is paris johnson right to be quite so relaxed about failing to count nearly 16000 coronavirus cases. I think there is a serious issue here and that is that if you are going to be running a test track and trace system that will actually stop transmission ongoing transmission in your community then you have to be really timely in your response you have to identify cases as soon as possible and then identify that contact and advise the contacts just to help isolate and test if its necessary or any delay that reduces the effectiveness of the system so if we are having to wait a week to tell potential contacts then the chances are if they are even if those contacts are infected they will have developed their infection they were potentially incorrect about the people and may well actually be already getting to the point where theyre already less infectious as they were a few days earlier so yes it is a serious. Mission that we havent been able to follow up as many as many as. 30000 contacts that really should have been followed a more timely than we have managed ok so that the 3 elements you mentioned that are of a good track and trace system a timely intervention identify the cases and identify contacts putting those 16000. 00 cases aside how does britains track and trace a system match up against so strict criteria. Well i think. It has been difficult and it remains difficult i think they. Are not forgive me for interrupting when you say it has been difficult you mean its not been going well. I think so yes they the we have not been i dont contacting as many cases as we would have liked in the past and certainly the evidence is that many people whove been contacted havent actually been responding appropriately havent been self isolating and to address that the u. K. Recently introduced. New laws that made it actually a criminal offense to not to self isolate when advised by the test track and traces them compare having said that compared to many other countries we certainly not one of the worst countries in europe in terms of our response to 19 but. Could certainly do better you can also seem to be having a problem with the thousands of students having to be locked down in new universities in Manchester Edinburgh and glasgow amongst others and not to be wise after the event but it does seem predictable that you take tens of thousands of 18 year olds living away from home for the 1st time theyre going to have little time for social distancing this could have been avoided couldnt it well certainly i think its predictable whether its avoidable or not is that it is a different issue and i think that the issue is whether or not you will you can balance the loss that they get cation that would come with closing our universities at this stage with the. The harm would be done to students from both from the virus and from not attending education so certainly it was predictable and i think many people were expecting there to be a fairly substantial number of cases amongst universities weve seen that already both in america and elsewhere where in countries where universities went back for the u. K. What is the alternative the alternative closed not open the universities against the game this. Damaging many. Young peoples education. I wonder what sort of what people make of the political what you make of the Political Leadership on here because you have said its important to be timely in identifying the cases and identifying contacts and acting quickly but we have the u. K. Has a Health Secretary matthau kark who says this mistake losing nearly 16000 cases has not substantially changed the governments assessment of coverage 1000 impact and has a not impact the basis on which decisions about local action were taken last week so. What you say what he says the political leader seems to be at odds. No i dont think so well certainly a heck i dont certainly dont agree with everything that our Health Minister said but in this in this regard the u. K. Tends to make decisions on on a weapon the city. And when you look at this when both cases of being lot many of the most most of them would actually not as already not would have not come to the attention of the system by wednesday evening anyway so i dont think its actually made that much difference to right decisions on local lock downs this week most of the cases that were seeing most of the big increase that weve seen in the last week would would even if it were probably would only really have come to the discussion points in the next wednesdays. Command meeting where they decide on these things ok so briefly what what sort of pandemic do you think theyd be u. K. Is having clearly these are unprecedented times but how well is there is it being controlled. Well i just gotta look at the figures it is it is has increased pretty dramatically over the last few weeks. Compared to other countries we were better than many not as good as some and its easy to point to other countries where that have had a much more severe increase in in recent weeks than we have. We are still having said that a long way to go it will always always was going to be a very tough autumn this year in terms of infections. Provide if we cant and i think the decision is if we cant go back to the intense lockdown that we had in april things are better now than they were earlier in the year the availability of p. P. S. Better we we were better at treating severely ill patients now than we were but still its going to be a tough autumn thank you for joining us the climbing about so clearly a professor of poor hunter from the university of east anglia thank. My father. Im going to receive Opposition Leaders spent lanark to come a skier is here in berlin to ask for german help in solving the crisis in her country as she herself was forced into exile after losing all this president ial election to long standing before a terrible either Alexander Lukashenko has been beating her leaders weekly mass protests in her country continue human rights organizations say more than 10000 people have been detained in belarus since the election and she leads german chancellor Angela Merkel on tuesday ahead of that was to cover sky told e. W. Why germany might play such an important role. And this moment of. The recent political crisis in. Support of any country rain around i