Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty kay in washington. This is bbc world news america. History at the white house as israel signed a peace deal with two arab countries. Its an important victory for President Trump. Pres. Trump these agreements prove that the regions of the nation are breaking free from the failed approaches of the past. Todays signing sets history on a new course. Katty india passes a grim milestone. It now has 5 million cases of the coronavirus. We are live on the ground in mumbai. A u. N. Report warns the world has failed to meet a series of goals to halt loss of habitats and wildlife. Picking up wifi in the parking lot when school is out, this is the only way that some kids in america can get online to carry on learning. Welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. At the white house today, President Trump presided over the signing of a Historic Deal that normalizes relations between israel, the uae, and bahrain. It paves the way for diplomatic, economic, and travel links between the countries. Its a big win for President Trump and Prime Minister netanyahu. Our north america editor has sent us this report. Since the founding of the state of israel in 1948, only two arab countries have made peace with israel. Today at the white house, that number doubled as the uae and bahrain were brought together by donald trump to sign an agreement to normalize relations with the country. The signatures on the page took only a few seconds, but it had taken decades to get here. [applause] and for donald trump, with one eye on the forthcoming president ial election and another on his place in history, this was a sweet moment, a significant foreignpolicy victory. Pres. Trump we are here this afternoon to change the course of history. After decades of division and conflict, we marked the dawn of a new middle east thanks to the great courage of the leaders of these three countries. We take a major stride toward a future in which people of all faiths and backgrounds live together in peace and prosperity. [applause] for benjamin netanyahu, the israeli Prime Minister, whose political fortunes have gone through similar gyrations as donald trumps, this was a welcome relief from the domestic pressures of scandal and covid. To all of israels friends in the middle east, those who are with us today and those who will join us tomorrow, i say [speak ing arabic], peace unto thee, shalom. There is no cheering for the deal in the gaza strip and west bank, where many palestinians feel betrayed by these two gulf nations, signing a deal with israel before any agreement is reached on the future of the palestinian people. No apology for making peace from the uae or the bahrainis today. The declaration supporting peace between the kingdom of bahrain and the state of israel is an historic step on the road to genuine and lasting peace, security, and prosperity across the region, and for all who live there. There are still many questions about how these new relationships will develop, but the reality is that these gulf nations have already been dealing with israel through back channels for some time. This formalizes a new relationship, though todays signing is no less important for that. Katty jon sopel joins us from the white house. President trump, famous for ripping up the rulebook, seems to have done it again. The old model once you dealt with the palestinian and israeli issue first. He has reversed the model. He has done his own way, as donald trump has done with virtually Everything Else in this presidency. I thought the most important words that donald trump uttered today were more will follow. In other words, this wasnt just a one off where theyve got bahrain and United Arab Emirates into the fold. The notable one would be saudi arabia. I think there is confidence in the white house that could happen. Then what you get is an incipient middle east peace process. At the moment, weve had to countries making peace with israel today but had two countries making peace with israel today, but could this become the template for other countries to follow suit . The oldest saying in diplomacy is my enemys enemy is my friend. I think that there will be satisfaction that iran has become more isolated and more pressure is being put on them as a result of the peace accord that has been agreed to today. Donald trump, if you go back to the start of his presidency, started talking about how it was going to be the deal of the century. Its not that, but it does look like a pretty fundamental requesting recasting of the middle east that he saw when he came to office 3 1 2 years ago. Katty jon sopel, thank you very much. India has now crossed the unfortunate milestone of having recorded 5 million cases of coronavirus. It is the second worst hit country in the world, behind the united states. Although fewer people have died in india, the virus is spreading much faster than it is here in america. The bbcs india correspondent is in mumbai for us now. The numbers are extraordinary, 5 million, and it seems to be spreading fast still. Thats right. If you look at the fresh, sort of t new daily coronavirus cases we are reporting here in india, over the past week or 10 days,here have been almost three times as many as you are seeing in the u. S. , so that is the pace at which it is spreading here, faster than anywhere else in the world. If it continues down that path, it could overtake the u. S. In the coming weeks. Since the third week of august, india has ramped up testing massively, so it is testing more than one million swabs a day. That is actually more than the u. S. At the moment. The government says its because with testing more, thats why we are discovering more cases. But even at 1 million a day, only a small fraction of indias 1. 3 billion people have so far been screened. That, along with the fact that the system of counting deaths in india is not very watertight even numbers we are seeing are underreported. What does this mean on the ground here in cities like mumbai and delhi . Cities hospitals are running out of intensive care beds. Hospitals from the outskirts of mumbai have who said they ght run out of oxygen supplies. The virus has also spread to smaller areas, rural parts of e country, where medical facilities can also bjust a building and beds, with no doctors or equipment. Six months into the pandemic, covid is having devastating effects, but its also having a knock on impact on people who were suffering from other illnesses and also on the livelihoods of people from some of indias poorest communities. They werent infected by covid, but they have suffered because of it. Last month, ramishs twoyearold son died of nerve damage in his brain. The family was turned away three times by a Public Hospital. Doctors told them they were overburdened because of the covid crisis. If it wasnt for coronirus, my son couldve been saved. Government doctors told me to take him to a private hospital, but i didnt have money for at, he says. Debts like these deaths like these are going unnoticed as covidumbers continue to stack up and bring indias already inadequate medical infrastructure to its knees. Doctors at Public Hospital in mumbai are now being allowed to isolate for just one day between their duties in covid and other wards, which puts patients at risk. When the doctor is the source of infection, it is not good. We are overworked, overstressed. We are working tirelessly. Many are questioning why restrictions connue to be eased, including reopening metrorail systems across the country, even as the Health Crisis is getting worse. Imposing on another lockdowno curb the spread of covid19 is an extremely difficult option, because the closures we have seen over the past several months have already had a devastating impact on the lives of some of indias poorest citizens. This family has been working for generationin the Northern City of agra. During the stringent lockdown, they once went hungry for four straight days. [speaking a foreign language] s mother says they have struggled for every morsel of food and that shes never seen such days in her life. Even with restrictionsasing, theres only been a trickle of work. I dont know how we will get by in the coming days. If the situation remains like this, we will have no option but to kill ourselves, she says. Ourselves, she says. Over the past decade, india has managed to pull millions out of poverty, hardfought achievements that are now at risk of coming undone. Katty i want to look at your numbers. 5 million cases of infections in india, but only i say only, obviously a huge number, 80,000 deaths, which is much lower in terms of the ath rate in america. Whats going on . Are the numbers off, or have they managed to find some way of making people who are infected not get so critical they might die from covid . I think all the Health Experts ive spoken to over the past several months agree that there is underreporting of deaths. Weve spoken to frontline doctors who say that sometimes only the corbidity a person is suffering from is written on the discharge certificate they get from the hospital, instead of saying covid19. There are other places where people who are brought in dead with covid like symptoms are not tested at all, so they dont get counted. But even sort of if you factor in that underreporting, Health Experts ive spoken to say they agree with the governments assessment that the number of deaths in india, compared to the size of its population, is so far, we do not have specific scientific reasons for it. Or reasons that have been proven. Iveeard from doctors saying india has a young population. Some believe its because poor communities in india that are more at risk of covid19, because they live in more densely packed areas, are less likely to have conditions that could make covid19 worse, like obesity, for example. Its something we will probably find out when we know more about this infection, but right now, it is sort of that silver lining. I might add, even with a low death rate, if it continues to spread, that still means hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk here in india. Katty ok. Thank you so much for staying up for us. We really do appreciate it. Great to have you on the program. That issue, by the way, of knock on effects and costs of bringing people out of poverty and getting people well from other diseases global Health Experts are very worried about that. Theres a whole load of other knock on effects that could be catastrophic for many countries. Humanity is at a crossroads, and we have to take action now to make space for nature to recover. Thats according to a rert just published. It sets out what it calls for urgent transitions that could be implemented to slow nature ongoing decline. Our science and environment correspondent has more. It is plant, forest, agriculture, ocean, pollution. Time is running out to prepare repair the damage we are doing to the natural world. Thats the message from the u. N. s convention on biological diversity. Its latest report calls for urgent action to slow and eventually stop what it describes as natures accelerating decline. Covid19 has taught us clearly that the relationship between human action and nature, so we need to change our production patterns, consumption patterns. Human encroachment into the wildlife, into the forests. The picture this report paints is of an unsustainable relationship between humans and nature. But there are some notes of optimism. Conservation in the last decade has prevented some species from dying out, and action on a global scale could still turn the tide. Theres a lot that has to be done, but it can be done. Next year, in china, we will have the u. N. Biodiversity conference, where governments are expected to adopt global commitments to put in nature on a path to recovery by 2030. This will mean that every country will need to make commitments to protect habitat, to produce food more sustainably, and eat a more sustainable diet. They will have to reduce pollution, so that we and wildlife can have clean air and clean water. And well have to make more space for greenery and nature, even in our most urban environments. There used to be a main road that went through this park. Lots of cars, pollution. We have turned it into a new green space. A green space softens places, mas it much nicer to live, improves the air quality. We need to connect people back to nature, so that people really value it function. In t years ahead, countries will set out to repair the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but without making nature as we rebuild, the u. N. Says we risk leaving a damaged planet for future generations. Katty heartbreaking images there. Quick look at other news. The family of breonna taylor, a blk woman who was kd by police in louisville, kentucky, ha agreed to a multimillion dollar settlement. Taylor was shot eight times when officers burst into her home during an investigation involving her exboyfriend. The city of louisville has also made police reforms. Of the three officers involved in her shooting, one has been fired. A spokesman for Alexey Navalny says the Opposition Leader will return to russia after he has recovered. He posted the first pictures of himself on social media. He is being treated in germany after being poisoned while campaigning. The kremlin has again denied poisoning him. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, 80 years on, we remember the raf pilots who took to the skies in the battle of britain. An estimated 730,000 british jobs have been lost since lockdown, and many of those affected our young people. The bbc has more. Michael was a senior retail buyer for a big fashion brand. He was furloughed in march and then made redundant in july. You begin to question yourself. Ive got a lot of passion for what i do, a lot of experience, but do i need to retrain . Am i in the wrong industry . Like many young people, isabella is struggling to find a job in hospitality as hours are cut. I was applying for two to three jobs per day, just to hospitality websites. I might hear back from one or two of them. Even then, they still cant guarantee the hours. Theres nothing really there. Since march, nearly 700,000 jobs have been cut. As the furlough scheme ones down, coming to an end winds down, coming to an end in september, more companies are putting out there plans for redundancy. Their plans for redundancy. Katty we have done a lot of stories about students around the world as they go back to school, but for children across america who are not returning to e classroom and are taking their Classes Online instead, a stable Internet Connection isnt always an option. Many families in rural and low income areas cant afford wifi, and that can severely disrupt the students ability to learn from home. We have this report from san antonio, texas. It is currently 8 25. We do have to get started. Make sure you are muted. Im going to go over a few announcements. If you have questions, just put it in the chat box. And go. 20 seconds. This is a usual monday for the gold family. And good luck. They have driven out to an abandoned Church Parking lot to access wifi from the school bus because they cant afford internet at home. Out here in the country, its a hassle, and we are in an area where a lot of families on a very low income cant afford the internet to be able to do your assignments. That can be a problem when school continues to be taught over the internet in the majority of the united states. Its been very difficult to deal with, because its an issue about educating our students. On the flipside, making sure that they are safe and secure. Thats why the south Side Independent School District has distributed laptops to more than 80 of its students and deployed more than a dozen of these wifi buses into neighborhoods. The first couplys of school, it was very embarrassing, but then as you got to know everybody, it wasnt too embarrassing at all. Do you want to move up here so i can help you with this . As a parent, trying to make the kids be able to do the schoolwork, you have to do what you have to do. If it means coming to sit by a school bus and waste gas all day long so the kids are not dying of heat out here, thats all we have to do. We dont really like the cars going by. It actually makes background sounds that actually interfere with our teacher when they are talking. I got a kid back here who has had to go to the bathroom for at least the last 30 minutes, if not longer. Id rather be at home or somewhere where its actually comfortable. While the gold family just to this new reality adjusts to this new reality, the classrooms where joseph and christina should be our empty. Im going to choose joseph. Do you have anything you want to share . Joseph loves perfect attendance, which i noticed. He has shown up every single day, even through technological difficulties. Joseph . All right. Im going to come back to you, joseph. I know we are probably having technical difficulties, but its ok, we will move on. Maybe zoom crashed. Zoom wont work for her either. Im like not so happy rightow now because the internet is not working right noweven though we are because by the bus. I get is frustrated because i see my kids struggling i get equally as frustrated because i see my kids struggling. Its real hard. That piece is so heartbreaking. America lags behind other developed countries whent comes to broadband connection, but also those kids should be in school. They are in the schools in u. K. , germany, south korea, singapore. Amer is falling behind. Many of them cant get access to get online. Its a terrible situation for so many families. Its exactly 80 years today since the u. K. s Royal Air Force managed to repel two massive attacks by germany during world war ii. Part of their victory became known as the battle of britain. The victory was seen as a turning point in the war. Sarah campbell reports now from one of the main fighter stations that protected london. It was really something to see all those aircraft, realizing that people were going to get killed. [airplane engines] a 17yearold george watched from the ground ashe battle of britain raged above him. He went on to join command. In these commemorations, the now 97yearold veteran pilot was invited to watch a flypast. The thing all young men some of them only had five or six weeks of training. It was really something, knong how important it was for the country. In september 1940, britain was under sustained attack from the luftwaffe. The british people were fighting for their lives. On september 15, 1940, the first two squadrons of spitfires took off from here. They flew to canterbury, engaged in incredibly dangerous fights high in the sky, and they came back to roof youll the planes to refuel the planes. Then they were right back out again. Their bravery and ultimately their success is remembered today. People forget just how pivotal that day was, that we are now celebrating. It literally could have gone either way. To be able to me here today, flying alongside the legendary airplanes that took part in that battle 80 years ago, is a huge honor. The battle against covid meant for the 80th anniversary, the celebrations had to be curtailed, but the sacrifices have not been forgotten. 22 was the average age. They gave their lives to what people have got today, and i hope they dont forget that. Katty remembering the battle of britain. Before we go, a lot of people have turned to gardening during this pandemic. Some have had help from spouses and kids. Im not sure many have assistants quite like this. A flock of some 10,000 ducks have been devouring past in the rice fields pests in the rice fields of thailand. The ducks once released are drawn there without any guidance from the farmers. A winwin situation. Farmers get rid of pests. Ducks get rid of food. We get unbelievable photographs of ducks on the move. Love narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected need d by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Nat the height of the conflict. Into vietnam he became a single parent of two young children. We moved a lot. We slept in rest areas. We slept in our car. I didnt realize that we were actually homeless. It makes your world really small. If we happened to stay in a motel that happened to have a tv, it was really special. We loved nova. Especially when it would be about space. We would talk for hours about the universe. Watching nova, i felt big, like, my mind was big, my ideas were big. The trajectory of my life changed. I could see a world outside of our poverty and i felt like things were going to get better. Pbs opened up a world i didnt know existed. Judy good evening. Im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, a middle east deal. Israel, bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates sit down at the white house. I talk with the president s soninlaw and senior advisor, jared kushner. Then, hurricane sally. The gulf coast faces a slow moving, but potentially torrential storm. Plus, back to school. We trek across the globe to discover how other countries are handling education. Charlotte wesley im excited to come back because ive missed being here and ill be able to catch up on extra work and ill be able to see my friends, and teachers, but obviously its nervous coming back because obviously theres rules and everything