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A state of emergency standards but thats little comfort for those still living among the rubble after last weeks blast in beirut. And im leah harding with sports tennis world number one Novak Djokovic confirms hill play at the u. S. Open next month and paris danger man celebrate a return to the Champions League semifinals for the 1st time in 25 years after a stunning comeback when. I begin tonight with breaking news u. S. President donald trump has Just Announced that israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalize diplomatic relations the white house says that its part of a deal to halt the annexation of Palestinian Land i can also tell you that the peace deal was apparently sealed in a foreign call on thursday between u. S. President donald trump israels netanyahu. And crown Prince Mohammed bin desired. As part of the deal as we said israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the west bank that it had been discussing an exciting this is a Major Development we will be working to get our correspondents up well be live to herefore so a little later in the program from west jerusalem. Also we will be looking to get him obviously will be expecting reaction from the palestinians as well were going elbow to bella roups where Security Forces have stepped up their crackdown on dissent after sundays disputed election another 700 people have been arrested after a 4th night of protests they join that 6000. 00 already in custody some foreign journalists are also being detained in their hotels and in just the last few hours theres been a new wave of peaceful protests people have been forming human chains in the capital minsk and a demonstration against the crackdown and detentions. We came here because our men were beaten to death by riot police theyre in prison now theyve been beaten so badly this girls a broken they are dead we ask everyone to stop it we want our husbands and children to come back home thats why we are here please everyone here us and supporters we stand only for peace now the unrest was triggered by president Alexander Lukashenko is landslide win in sundays election which the opposition says was rigged the Un Human Rights Office has condemned his governments response and called for the release of detainees. We do have reports that people were ill treated during the process of the us while they were being arrested but also in detention and we do underscore that there is an absolute prohibition in the treatment and torture with very concerned the moral political is that those that may have been on lawfully detained should be released immediately as i understand why theres been such anger toward the government in bellerose sense take a closer look at its human rights record the reeses the only country in europe which still uses the Death Penalty according to Human Rights Watch authorities dont even inform families of an execution date or even burial places organize protests are rarely given approval activists are often subjected to arrest and protesters have disappeared for days while in detention with some saying they were beaten. Theres also a constant crackdown on freedom of expression Human Rights Watch has recorded numerous instances of journalists being blocked from covering official events and bloggers being convicted for their online posts. And i said myron is a u. N. Special repertory she joins us by skype from the polish capital warsaw thanks for your time what are your Major Concerns about whats happening right now in belarus. Of course now concerning the fear the will of the people has not been respected condition in the election which was obviously a crude you learned or its not the 1st time but this time the garson people themselves are protesting against a. Special doctor restriction of human rights in burma some concern about the extent of the repression which seems to me as indiscriminate. Disproportional. And in many respects extremely brutal and low shore from what i could see. Excuse me you were expressing concern even before the election was this all what were seeing now was it inevitable. Im afraid so thats what we raised that we try to raise the awareness some situation with other special proceedings mandate holders already a couple of months ago because their rights are candidates to run has been hampered and in general the situation with the fundamental freedoms and right to freedom of expression or freedom of Peaceful Assembly in belarus extremely restricted in that terms and. Tense period such as an electoral year has proven that the authorities tend to react youll see me harshly to any kind of contest and this is what we have seen happening for the past 3 quarter days are ready other than express concern what can the International Community actually do. Well its. An independent experts cast with the Human Rights Council to monitor the situation and i will report to of course the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly these events i look forward to the Human Rights Council taking a strong decision on the station in belarus examining the. Examining ballot assert its next session maybe an extraordinary intersession meeting and of course i trust that the europeans are ready. Dr a strong message to signify to us to look at it that this is not acceptable we really appreciate your time thank you so much for that thank you. Lets head back to that breaking news now they have started deal brokered by the u. S. To normalize relations between the u. A. E. And israel her force that is live for us now in western bruce then harry how major a development is that. Its a Huge Development this is something that Benjamin Netanyahu has been talking about and working towards for much of his political career the idea of normalizing relations between israel and its important. Muslim neighbors in the region and this is the 1st such agreement in full he has been working on various levels trying to get better ties and has celebrated various minor victories in terms of minor improvements with various neighbors but this according to the joint Statement Released by the United States by israel and by the u. A. E. Amounts to a full normalization and the development of full time between the 2 countries the statement says that sir the delegations from both countries will meet in the coming weeks to sign these agreements that there will be normalization of diplomatic ties of economic medical technological Telecommunications Cooperation direct flights between israel and the u. A. E. Tourist flights as well as business flights and importantly it also says that as a result of what the statements calls a historic breakthrough israel will suspend its efforts to annex parts of the occupied west bank the parts of the west bank that would designate itd to be israeli territory under the trump jerrod cushion or peace plan which had created such a great deal of heat and noise in recent months with Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to just move ahead with u. S. Support and start an exceeding well ahead of any potential agreement with the palestinians now that is suspended in its entirety and instead the statement says israel will work on expanding its relations with other muslim arab countries in the region. I havent seen any reaction yet from the palestinian side from ramallah but i think the reaction would be that. Israel appears to be being rewarded for not doing something rather than having any Real Progress in terms of the the Peace Process between israel and the palestinians of course under the Arab Peace Initiative there should come 1st a settlement to the Israeli Palestinian conflict before any normalization so this is a major upset in terms of what had been the sort of explicit thinking and policy of arab states up until this point i think that well leave it there for now harry for that live for us from west to receive them ellen fisher joins us now live from washington d. C. For us reaction alan i mean this is brokered by the u. S. Is going to be seen as a huge win said donald trump. Well certainly it came from donald trump just in new york office not far from where im standing just a few minutes ago he was surrounded by a Senior Advisors well get the tape of that announcement very shortly probably within the next few minutes he said that the announcement had been made that the United Arab Emirates and israel were normalizing relations that they were going to sign some sort of treaty and that other arab countries would follow he said there are things happening that he couldnt talk about at this point though clearly this is something that will please trumpet ministration it is a big Foreign Policy when he was saying there has been the creation of peace plan for the middle east which is still going absolutely nowhere that was revealed several months ago and has absolutely done nothing since that point and so there will be questions though about why the United Arab Emirates and israel if there was something as significant and as fundamental as a peace deal to be announced between these 2 countries why the leaders themselves wouldnt say why they would allow donald trump to do that from the oval office is this perhaps a sign that both countries would like to Donald Trumps reelection effort in some way we know that israel are very close is very close to donald trump they believe that he has been a huge supporter during his time in the oval office from moving the embassy to jerusalem to recognizing israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights there was some concern to that the white house would give the go ahead to a low israel to an expanse of the west Bank Although that was stopped at run into the mud over the last few weeks or so and we know that the United Arab Emirates enjoy a Good Relationship with donald trump as does so dia arabia and so there will be political questions about this but certainly as far as donald trump and the white house is concerned this is a major diplomatic victory and allan as i mentioned there the u. S. Ad recently sort of taken the foot off the gas in terms of their support for those and it thanks ssion plans hadnt they had they had this been sort of you know where there are signs that this might be on the way. Well there was no indication in fact i got a phone call probably about 510 minutes before the United States was made to tell me there was a big announcement coming and it involved israel and the United Arab Emirates i then started making several calls myself to try and establish it and then we have that donald trump was making the announcement in the oval office himself its an interesting state of affairs because we know that donald trump tried to get a peace deal with north korea thats essentially lying in tatters at the moment we know that theyve exercised the campaign of mark simone pressure on iran to try and bring them to the negotiating table that had failed and we saw the failure of that personify than the fact that brian who is the main negotiated the point man on all talks with iran. Left his post just the other week and we know that Kellyanne Conway stood on the driveway that you see behind me in the white house saying that she expected in a nice man from the president about an exception and we thought that that meant he was going to give the ok for that and that was several weeks ago and then Nothing Happened there were technical points to be discussed so whether or not the whole discussion between israel and the United Arab Emirates gained momentum at that point i think will become clear when people start to write their books about this moment in history but clearly the white house was looking for a Foreign Policy victory because the precious few of them up to this point and so to be able to sit down in the oval office and as the president of the United States unknowns that there was going to be a peace deal between the u. S. And israel unusual though that is it certainly signifies a big win for donald trump and something that he needed given that the past 48 hours has been dominated by joe biden and his pick for vice president. Thank you so much for that live in washington d. C. Plenty more ahead on the news our including. Another senior Muslim Brotherhood leader dies a nana gyptian jailed well look at the legacy left by some. Green shoots of economic recovery or false hope well dig into the latest u. S. Job figures. And Major League Soccer leaves its bible and let some fans back in to watch games will be here with the details in scores. Several countries across europe are reporting a surge of corona virus infections france is seeing its highest number of cases since restrictions were eased in may in spain the government says there are 675 active outbreaks of germany has its highest increase of cases in 3 months don king joins me now live from berlin dominic what measures are being taken in like have been new cases. Suddenly in germany you have the very clear sense of the government is very concerned indeed about the number of cases that are coming up every day in the 1000 range going back now many days indeed and the clear fear is that 2nd wave which would be so big as to force each state in this country back into some form of lock down thats what theyre trying to avoid the interesting thing is that from the german perspective at least theyve been much emphasis placed on the role of people who come back from holiday from a high risk area elsewhere in europe as being super spreaders as it were coming back from risk areas unwittingly bringing the coronavirus back with them thats why in the course of the last week or so 2 weeks the government has insisted upon tests for everybody returning to germany whether by rail sea or air at the point of entry now the interesting thing is the districts in so far as that is concerned suggests that more than half of all the cases that are happening every day in germany are actually people becoming infected inside germany and so you have whats playing out right now is what do they do next different states are approaching the problem in different ways so you have at some level in some states for example in berlin the city state that im broadcasting from right now schools have reopened this week but a mask requirement is in place which is difficult to enforce some schools have reported outbreaks of corona in the past few days so you have that here whereas elsewhere you have different requirements in place and so were waiting actually for the Health Minister by a leading conservative member of anger merkels cabinet to make a statement at some point whether thats going to be this evening or perhaps tomorrow about what steps the government wants to do next but remember also that its not just in germany you have this viking cases in france or than double the amount. Cases reported per day than has been the case here in germany and in paris we know that a mosque requirement is now backing in place and indeed on a different level culturally the french the organizers of the paris marathon which would normally attract tens of thousands of entrants thats not meant to happen until november and already the organizers said no that cant go one final thought is of course in spain also spain which saw many many tens of thousands of of cases cases of deaths as well coming through hundreds of thousands of people in fact who will again there are also a spike in cases so clearly the german level but also the spanish and french level theres a real concern amongst the seen him in a serious circles of what they do next ok dominic we have been expecting a World Health Organization up day so we expect that they will have to address these this russian vaccine but that vaccine has been very controversial hasnt it. Well certainly from the german perspective theres a great deal of skepticism about what exactly this vaccine is how exactly it works and whether it can be be marketed at the mass levels so that many tens of millions hundreds of millions perhaps billions of doses of this vaccine will eventually be available the Health Minister the foreign who i refer to previously well he has already in the course of the last 36 hours also said that he needs to see a great deal more detail about the question will be whether the World Health Organization is prepared to go into more detail about its detail is the key thing here the German Government says it hasnt seen anywhere near enough detail to be able to say whether its something that it could indorse or not and so clearly a Security System is there dominick we are going to have to go live now to the oval office for a little dull trying to speaking about that breaking news israel and the u. A. E. Sorry its not live this is just happened moments ago. Breaking news that israel and the u. A. E. Have decided to normalize relations and as part of that israel agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the west bank lets listen in very simple margins. For unity among all these 3 groups. Which will give america. So why did you wait the more they did to be told the that old j drop of the people. Had nothing the president was that. They didnt do that and. Of a shit if you were thank you mr president its been the honor of my life in your administration and i think this really reaffirms here commitment to israel to stability in the region. Its just a story of accomplishment and its its peace peace the beautiful thing and its something that everybody in the country should celebrate oh and im just so on and preparing the serpent well you know the great. Gerrard has done a fantastic job people dont. Really understand the things that hes able to do hes done a fantastic job of this union team nobody else could have done it i dont think anybody else could have done a job say if you are thank you mr president i would like to say that i want to thank the president for his leadership on this historic peace effort the president like with all things urged us to take an untraditional approach you cant solve problems that have gotten solved by doing it the same way that people before you have tried and failed the president takes on traditional approaches he does things in different ways but he uses common sense and he tries to unite people by focusing on common interests as opposed to allowing them to focus on their common grievances and what happened was here is we were able to achieve results that others were not able to achieve and this will advance the region and this will advance the whole world i would like to say to the people of the region muslims Jews Christians that this does give hope that the problems of the past do not condemn you to a future with conflict there is a lot of hope and a lot of potential and this will benefit you and this will also benefit people here in america because in america we used to have a big dependency on middle east for gas and for oil. Well thanks to your leadership america is now Energy Independent and we no longer have that by a lot of american soldiers have fought for securing our allies in that region and im grateful more peace there are lessons our need as a country to have as many soldiers in that region and lessons our need to have as many conflicts in that region and obviously radical extremism which we see is a cancer that has infected so many areas in the world a lot of extremists have used these conflicts to to to recruit people and to say that the mosque is under attack and that muslims dont have access to the mosque and now this one able people to take flights from dubai and abu dhabi directly to tel aviv muslims will be welcome in israel and this will create a better interfaith exchange so this is a tremendous step forward for peace in the world for for america for her for israel for abu dhabi and all would not impossible that you leadership so i just want to thank you what a great job and what gerry said is we dont have to be there anymore we dont need oil we dont need anything there except friendship we have some great friends these are 2 countries that have been great friends and weve been great friends to them but we no longer have to be there it started off when we had to be there but as of a few years ago we dont have to be there we dont have to be patrolling the straits were doing things that. Other countries wouldnt do but we put ourselves over the last few years in a position where we no longer have to be in areas that and one point were vital and thats a big statement but we are there for our friends and we always will be there for our friends robert would you say a few words mr president thank you one i want to risk reza unitarian the middle east that was a mess when you came to office and this is one more historic step in and bringing peace to the middle east 1st of all there was a caliphate that was raging and isis caliphate and that physical caliphate was destroyed upright just a stab at. How did you reassure our friends in israel who suffered at the end of the last administration with the Un Resolution of the capitol to her church was slim erectness the Golan Heights in the broader region you had a very difficult situation afghanistan where we were soldiers or american soldiers were coming home bought injured wounded sadly and in some cases that you brought in youve got a Peace Agreement now with the taliban im going to have less than half the number of troops in afghanistan that were there when you started your term of office and now you brought about a store a peace deal between the u. A. E. And israel this is the 1st time in 2625 years that israel an arab country have normalized diplomatic relations and entered into a peace deal and of the 2 most capable countries in the middle east who very capable very skilled very innovative allies of the United States so its great for israel its great for the u. A. E. But its also great for the american the American People so you came in you came into office with a region that was that was really aflame and you brought peace to that region and theres more to come and fight so its an honor to partner teams present to serve under your leadership we do have a lot more to come in the middle east a lot of very positive things happening and youll be seeing that taking place but we can get a leader like you and me to have the band and get along with israel thats a big thats a very big step. Would you please if you lose your limb such event is thank you mr President Trump Administration Made History Today its been an honor to be a part of this team that year it has led peace between the arabs and the israelis is iran. That is the oval office where we have been hearing from u. S. President donald trump and his Senior Advisor son in law jared regarding the normalization of diplomatic relations between israel and the United Arab Emirates which has apparently been brokered by the u. S. And apparently part of a deal to halt the antics a shin of Palestinian Land so this is a Major Development on both of those fronts lets bring in Marwan Bashara our senior political analyst who is standing by for us mala just explain to our viewers how Major Development is this. Well frankly its not a Major Development. In a sense that this has been going on now for a number of years not just under the sun for misfortune even before that the United Arab Emirates has tried to know what lies relations with israel mostly covertly there has been intelligence cooperation between israel and the u. A. E. There has been exchange on that occasion whose israeli is i mean it would be preceded by. And the u. A. E. Has utilized the palestinians on number 5 times under the pretext of a descent. We end on just a bit of the which has not been before and so so who are we even see image israeli ministers in by war so this is going to go on and whats important in terms of are finding all there is of course as we heard in our probers a poll on his face is that this is being you just as an addiction hearing. Acids if you will portray him claiming the compensation has succeeded in bringing arabs and israelis closer when in fact the arabs and israelis have never been one person or one meaning aside from the countries whove done deals with misery in the past. Weve seen over the last 4 years basically an American Assault on passing rights and hustle International Law moving the embassy against the will of the bluster from he to do so and i recognize in jerusalem and i just again against International Law in violation of International Law as is maybe 33 days so for the last 40 years its been really thought of well up in terms of u. S. Policy none of this i guess jetted and spotted oh have weighed in on me more than speak well its not implicit but. Explicit. Mission operations where is normal im saying they can publicly and thats important for you here a month or so before the elections again as we heard this is not peace in the mideast well let me tell you why this is not a piece of this is one do you need us not want there is for you he is not going to sleep a war with israel now you really must not have a very poor you know or national cleans weirder it is the kind of stimulus there is with the server and they usually buy 5 passenger things d against their hosts in the wake of the normal honest relations with mr big basically gone against the i dont and i was in the other opinion in order to do something what is totally expedient which is please the company ministration you want but the elections and build the important if you want to stick to juke. Triangle so if you hear and you only know the one hand there is only other on the auspices of the not the states against iran so this is not so much an use threats who are for peace this is war or what it used to who are who works were confrontation and perhaps war if they usually end is her get their way against iran. Ok ma and how are the palestinians and likely to react do you think given that as part of this deal that announce that theyre not going to press ahead with plans for an extension. What we ought to be no because it has been. Tried before and weve heard this theory before and i was always been against the trade off with their own rights so the idea was not really were israel or something it shouldnt be doing because it is why i mention written martial law i am violation of past agreements your word who or what it what it is doing 2 words peace who are expressing your hearts who are separate mission or a constant state who works. Mission has got a. Future since that and so on and so who are so we already get hurt even when the United Arab Emirates and plane. And april soar to gaza that the person has rejected that and who knows mission his or even meet the aid if it was not her through whom i was so ok you really think that clark cant who are asked to do so and understand us as not worked up over the last several months its not going to work out to date it was up to the Top Administration to make sure there is or is not an export that is not up to the. It was that trump and assertion that it is the green lights to annex their duties and it would be up to them i want my apologies we have to leave it there were going back now to the. Lengths that listen back and. Russia all of them would like to see more than have trouble be defeated when they can deal with joe biden because that would be like a dream and this was something that was very exciting we thought this would be the 1st countries a great leader mohamed to great leader and were very happy that he was the 1st country i went to and you can see many other things happening in the middle east over a fairly short period of time but this is the 1st time in more than 25 years. And you are he is big stuff you are very. Very strong you know has one of the Strongest Military its big stuff you know with your own can be very soon. I guess theyll be setting up the meetings you have an. Xmas present and we expect that there will be a meeting here at the white house with the there will be an official signing at the white house over the next few weeks and the 530. 00 or so will talk well actually one of the questions ok. Of course u. S. President donald trump talking about the breaking news weve been reporting here on aljazeera that the israelis have decided to normalize relations of peace deal apparently sealed in a phone call on thursday between trying netanyahu and the crown prince of the u. A. E. And as part of the steel israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the west bank agreed to suspend plans to annex a sham lets bring in now across wanted abraham who joins us now on the phone from bethlehem in the occupied west bank need to have we had any reaction yet from the palestinians. Not from the palestinian residence or place or the Palestinian Government but with the lets we from the prominent well of Union Leaders used p. L. O. Executive Committee Member and on our side 9 and she accused the u. A. E. Open war on the live thing with israel we have been meeting over the past few weeks we are seeing in fishel to see what the king of the hall and the should issue are the Small Business of relations between some of the arab countries and some of these officials told us that they are worried it is really going to be using our is the fact that it will not igloos who are we. Its an extension to be you do want to live something and for posting in they see that this is preserving the stuff the school was giving israel a prize for doing so if you ask many 1000 you know fishel they tell you that they they want policy means they want the arab countries to normalize of israel but only if they and their israel and the patient which has been stated in the Arab Peace Initiative and theyve always been saying that they fear that the d peace initiatives will be implemented from that to a d that being said normalization of relations with does that the primary issue for them which is ending that is radio evasion of the palestinian a territory now if you talk to palestinians in the street they do this do not really have any faith in the arab either and they feel that theyve been left alone by the current agree g. But they feel like they have a lot of support from the arab nations from the people of the other countries but this is the main issue that there has been a fear. There because of the Health Unions between officials that there is a clue snits of relations between israel and that a fun tree that is not taking into consideration that other scene is a home that also has a spiritual for an independent state an ending and particularly occupation ok thank you for that update the neda ever happened there live from bethlehem and the uk pub west bank lets take a listen now to trump son elephant of this breakthrough deal from the oval office. Thank you very much this is very important this is a big event and i want to just congratulate all of the people standing behind me because they have done an incredible this is something that hasnt been done in more than 25 years. Just a few moments ago i listed a very special call with 2 friends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of israel and crown Prince Mohammed bin. Of the United Arab Emirates where they agreed to finalize a historical Peace Agreement. Everybody said this would be impossible. And as you know mohamed is one of the great leaders of the middle east after 49 years israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations they will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation across the border and on a broad range of areas including Tourism Education health care trade and security. This is a truly historic moment not since the israel jordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago d as much progress being made towards peace in the middle east by uniting 2 of americas closest and most capable partners in the region something which said could not be done this still is a significant step towards building a more peaceful secure and prosperous middle east. Now that the ice has been broken i expect more arab and muslim countries will follow the United Arab Emirates lead and i want to just thank them for being its not surprising and so while its not surprising they are in that lead position and normalize relations with israel we are already discussing this with other nations very powerful very good nations and people that want to see peace in the middle east so you will probably see others of these but this is the 1st one in more than 25 years this deal will allow much greater access to muslims from throughout the world to visit the many as turks sites of israel which the muslims want to see very deadly and have wanted to see for many many decades and to peacefully pray at the. Mosque which is a very special place for them. My 1st trip as president was to saudi arabia in may of 2017 and my speech to the assembled leaders of 54. 00 islam countries every single one once by their leader their number one leader it was an amazing really an incredible event very important event i made clear that the problems of the middle east can only be solved when people of all faiths come together. To fight islamic extremism and pursue Economic Opportunity for people of all faiths and when you look at whats happening youre seeing a lot of progress is being made that nobody thought could possibly be manned. And things are happening that i cant talk about but theyre extremely positive i want to thank the leaders of israel and the u. A. E. For their courage and for the here leadership to forge this tremendous agreement it will be known as the accord and id like to ask. David friedman to please. Explain why were doing and calling it the abraham accord. Lets go back now to alan fischer who is standing by for us in washington d. C. Alan so unsurprisingly trump is really presenting this as a huge win but we should Pay Attention to the timing shouldnt we. Exactly right it is incredibly unusual that the leaders of 2 independent countries would come forward and alone the president of a 3rd country to announce a peace deal now we know its going to be called the abraham accord donald trump joked that maybe it should be called the donald trump accord that was a joke but with donald trump youre never entirely sure if it was certainly the advisors in the room or saying that this is a big victory for donald trump he himself said that hed started discussions particularly with the u. A. E. About a year ago had led a lot of those discussions we know that he has got a close relationship with both the Saudi Crown Prince and also mohammed bin in the United Arab Emirates he said that this proves that the people of the middle east didnt have to be constrained by the problems of the past they gave them optimism and said this made people in america safer and also made the middle east safer as we had from donald trump the intention is that the leaders of both countries will come here to the white house in the run up to the president ial election and there they will sign this what he described as a historical peace accord but as weve been reporting israel are saying that for the moment they are only putting on hold the possibility of an extension but its certainly. Telling that donald trump when he was making fun of the remarks which i dont think we cut it he talked about how many people didnt want joe biden to win because he wasnt sure that he could deliver this sort of deal this while being healed is a Foreign Policy victory for the United States is being very much seen as a political victory for donald trump in the run up to the election on november the 3rd and please correct me if im wrong that was an adaptation part of the middle east peace plan that was hailed by jared questionnaire and donald trump not so long ago and now thats at least for the time being off the table. Well i dont think its off the table as far as the United States is concerned but what theyre seeing is that this peace deal its almost kind of morphed into rather than one all encompassing deal in the middle east that theyre looking at smaller deals which perhaps may put pressure on the palestinians if they see people who in the past have backed them both politically and financially start to make deals with people that the palestinians regard as occupiers and so the over all over arching middle east peace deal is certainly run into the mud and we were told that the u. S. Was very much in favor of the idea all of the israelis and exciting parts of the way spike there wasnt going to be any objection from the white house and so this is a different tact a different strategy donald trump as he said began conversations really about a year ago it would take that long for this sort of thing to be negotiated but we know that israel regards donald trump very much as a friend because as we mentioned earlier relocating the embassy to jerusalem many people who have run for the office of president has said they were going to do that donald trump actually delivered when the israelis said that they were going to exercice over and over the occupied Golan Heights donald trump said that that was ok he has been very forgiving of a lot of things that the israelis have done that also is political as well he believes that being nice to israel helps him with the evangelical christian base which very much support stone will trump and therefore will help him become the reelection so all of these things factor in it is the old cliche but always forever true that all politics are local and while donald trump is looking at whats going on in the middle east he understands how this might impact the voting here in the run up to november ok thank you so much for that bad live from washington d. C. Just to recap that breaking news here on aljazeera. U. S. President has announced that israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to normalize diplomatic relations that will include the exchange of embassies this is what he says a u. S. Brokered deal apparently sealed in a phone call on thursday between donald trump israels Binyamin Netanyahu and crown Prince Mohammed bin zayed and the white house says that is part of this deal there will be a delay at least a suspension of plans to annex parts of Palestinian Land parts of the occupied west bank. Moving on to other news now and police in ethiopia have arrested more than 9000 people during the recent unrest that followed the killing of a popular musician. Who was also an activist for the ethnic or more peoples struggle for equal rights if you abuse Human Rights Commission says the latest surge of violence has killed more than 178. 00 people critics worry the recent arrests could signal a return to the more repressive policies of the past. Government is. Going back to. Their parents just made threats. To detain people for but investigation yet out of a protracted pleated added to the league cup and soit has more now from nairobi. One of those people the report is talking about is an activist who was pulled out of bed on july the 8th at midnight by Security Forces while he slept. Beside his pregnant wife we also know that jour muhammad another very popular political activist and Opposition Leader is also in custody hes appeared in hes appeared in court several times and hes in custody alongside thousands of other protesters a political activists and journalists as well and this report is primarily focused on the incidents that happened last month waling the death of this very popular musician whose music also had political messages he was shot in addis ababa and then thousands of people took to the streets to protest they wanted him to be buried in the capital addis the government said no because of security reasons and that he should be buried in his own village in the or roomier in the army a region and people are very upset with that these protests went out of hand. More than a 100 people what killed buildings and businesses were destroyed in addis and origami a region as well and weve also i had in the last few weeks from other human rights organizations Like Amnesty International who like the. Human Rights Commission officials of ominous international are also saying the very worried about this trend thats being in ethiopia now it seems that the government of Prime Minister of the on that is taking the country back to those days of repression with Security Forces using very high handed tactics to deal with dissent and also especially coming after you know the Prime Minister are the promised in 2018 that hes going to lead a democratic country and hes going to respect the human rights and freedoms of the people of the field. Forces them to i still have taken control of a port town in northern mozambique its the 3rd time this year that muslim board the prior has been seized the town is an important part of the 23000000000 dollar natural gas project about 60 kilometers away Security Forces say theyve killed 59 members of an armed group whove been trying to occupy the area of the past week amid a bit of has more now from johannesburg. There is a muslim beacon military presence in that area but this is also an army that is under funded doesnt always have enough resources at hand and so when this attack took place it carried on over a number of days and this is also when the muslim beacon army said that they killed at least 59. 00 of these fighters but ultimately the the army was pushed back and the fighters linked to isis to control of the town we do know that the muslim beacon government has used private Security Companies to try and assist in trying to keep these fighters outside of this territory it hasnt always been effective in this particular case the private company mercenaries even had dropped ammunition but too far from this particular site to assist the muslim beacon of soldiers a quick you know ultimately the area was lost to these fighters linked to iceland of course it continues to be of great concern because it seems as if these attacks are escalating theyve been going on since 2017 and this year alone according to the United Nations theyve been at least 28 attacks and i was it just at the beginning of the year and now it appears as if these fighters are gaining more territory in in an area that is of importance to the mozambique government given the massive gas reserves offshore that amount to at least 60000000000. 00. The thing a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has died in egypt or tory a scorpion president kyra of the age of 66 and some aryan was a doctor an m. P. And a Founding Member of the Egyptian Organization for human rights he was arrested in 24 or tame after the revolution and remained in jail until his death. A school in gaza run by the uns Refugee Agency has been damaged in Israeli Military strikes the Palestinian Education ministry has condemned the attack came of 3rd consecutive day of bombardment the school was empty at the time and theres been no reports of casualties israel says its been targeting hamas facilities in response to the group launching balloons laden with incendiary material turkeys president says talks are the only way to resolve an oil and gas dispute in the Eastern Mediterranean athens and ankara locked in a tense standoff of a turkeys Energy Exploration escalated this week with the arrival of a Turkish Research vessel accompanied by was ships greece claims part of the area is over its Continental Shelf and says turkeys action is illegal turkey has dismissed the objections saying they have no equal basis france has sent 2 fighter jets and a navy frigate to the area has tensions rise meanwhile both greece and turkey are calling for the issue to be raised in an e. U. Meeting on friday although it is not forgiving of the human to scuttle the risk of an accident lurks when so many military assets are gathered in such a contained area the responsibility lies with the one who gives rise to do circumstances will remain firm in our commitment to International Legality and the power of diplomacy to resolve even the most complex issues we will never be the one who is going to situation yet selfrestraint is only one aspect of our policy no provocation will go on and so that we have demonstrated that we will respond if necessary and we will do so again if it is required. What then is the truth. The past 1st solution in the Eastern Mediterranean is dialogue and negotiation a formula based on a win win solution the pretext of rights of all can be found if we act with common sense and reason busy jews in greeces attitude in the aging and the mediterranean is malicious. Still ahead on aljazeera and spoke with a. O. L. Have possible action including 45 points from one of the n. B. A. s biggest stars. Of the. Time to support his family thank you kim well it start with tennis and world number one Novak Djokovic has confirmed he will play at next months u. S. Open in new york the 2800 champion will travel to the u. S. On saturday and will begin his preparation with the tournament in cincinnati at the end of the month several Top Players Including defending champion rafael in the doll have pulled out because of covert 19 years of covert 1000. 00 rather 20 time grand slam winner Roger Federer is also out after need surgery djokovic has already had coronavirus and has recovered well Major League Soccer has left only playing at disney world in Orlando Florida to start its regular season up to 5000 fans are allowed to watch if they agree not to sue if they catch coronavirus but there were awkward scenes in texas as some dallas fans booed their own players 1000000 for the national anthem. The dallas and National Teams were showing support for the fight against social injustice dallas defender reggie cannon was shocked by what he heard. I think it was absolutely disgusting you got fans booing you for people taking a stand for what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause and weve discussed with every team and the league were going to do and we dont fans blowing us in our own stadium how disgraceful is that. On the pitch it was a welcome return for both teams who were unable to play in the m. L. S. And is back tournaments at disney because of code in 1000 outbreaks in their squads nashville 11 nil with a goal from going and forward david a come they meet again on sunday. M. L. S. Is following Major League Baseball and playing games outside of a bubble of the action continues despite outbreaks among some of the teams clint fraser had 3 hits for the new york yankees including this home run as they beat the Atlanta Braves new you are new york are now unbeaten and theyre opening 6 games at the stadium n. B. A. Basketball however is still only playing at disney james harden had a great game for the Houston Rockets with 45 points but they still lost to the Indiana Pacers by 4 points the pacers secure a top 5 seeding in the east and face the miami heat and a 1st round series next week the rockets will play Oklahoma City thunder paris and german are through to the semifinals of footballs Champions League for the 1st time in 25 years and it was quite a fight to get there the french club scored 2 late goals in a superb comeback win over us a lotta stoppage time strikes from marc you know its an error. Cancel out an earlier goal from mario postulate for the italians the 21 win is the one legged corner final means that will play either rb lipstick or Athletico Madrid in the last 4. She drizzle rupert was very happy because even if it goes came very late we deserved to win we never stopped believing we never stopped attacking it was a great display with a nice mentality the guys who came on had a great impact and that was the mix of players we needed to turn this game around former formula one champion Fernando Alonso is back in the hunt for an elusive win at the indianapolis 500 the spaniard failed to qualify for the race last year but got around the track in tuesdays practice without any concerns he finished the day 5th fastest alonzo is making a 3rd attempt at winning the final leg of motor sports triple crown hes already won the other 2 events the Monaco Grand Prix and the amount 24 hours. Englands veteran pace bowler has struck twice at the start of the 2nd cricket test against pakistan in southampton Jimmy Anderson snaring 1st test century maker sean must suit and then captain us are ali before rain briefly stopped play practice and now struggling at 124 or 5. Well thats all youre worth now he directed thanks fred leah just reminding you now on our breaking news this hour u. S. President donald trump has announced the full normalization of ties between the u. S. And israel as part of the deal israel will suspend plans to annex palestinian territory the u. A. E. Has confirmed the deal and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a News Conference and less than an hour as time. Palestinians were not consulted about the deal officials are flagging it as normalization for illegal occupation hamas is accusing the u. A. E. Of stabbing palestinians in the back egypts president has expressed appreciation for the deal ill have more news than just a few minutes time stay with us. And. A Global Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. It began as a dream holiday then turned into a Public Health disaster one o one east investigates how a cruise ship became the source of one of a strain is largest covert 19 outbreaks on al jazeera these men are survivors of covert 1946 year old is a limousine driver is the only one here who needed to go to hospital when he became ill in early march it will be it will go. Through some balance board in november so deep it is a 34 year old driver for kotori family and he tested positive for my body is that it will be small but what you want to give the Health Officials say the rate of new infections slowed the goal here is to conduct a broad serving to better understand transmission and asymptomatic cases which in turn could help policy decisions in the future so it would be easy for us to inform the Decision Making on what to do next the goal now is to increase testing and contact recently. The government provides free testing and medical treatment for those who need it while campaigns to raise awareness continue. This deal is a significant step towards building a more peaceful secure and prosperous middle east. Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize relations and a deal brokered by u. S. President donald trump. Under the deal israel has agreed to suspend the planned attics ation of Palestinian Lands. That elvis is algis there are live from doha also coming up another Police Crackdown and bell routes the protesters risk