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Trump moving to hospital

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President Trump is being moved to hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus, out of an "abundance of caution" according to the White House. We speak to Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post's National Political Correspondent. Meanwhile, the rate of unemployment in the US has fallen to 7.9%. But the jobless rate in the world's biggest economy is much higher than it was before the pandemic struck. We speak to Loretta Mester chair of the Cleveland Federal Reserve and member of the Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets interest rates in the US. And Chris Low of FTN Financial in New York gives us the market reaction to today's news. Also in the programme, from 2024 onwards, contenders for best picture at the Oscars will have to meet new rules designed to broaden the backgrounds of the people who worked on it, on both sides of the lens. Clayton Davis is film awards editor of the US entertainment website Variety, and discusses whether loopholes in the new rules may mean very little changes as a result. Maggie Hennenfeld is associate professor of film and media at the University of Minnesota and offers her suggestions on how to boost diversity in the movie industry. Malika James is a black makeup artist working in Los Angeles, and describes her experience of discrimination in Hollywood. And Star Trek First Frontier actress April Billingsley explains why she welcomes the new Oscar diversity rules.

(Picture: Donald Trump boards Air Force One on October 1st. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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27 minutes

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Fri 2 Oct 2020 21:32GMT

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  • Fri 2 Oct 2020 21:32GMT