The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; americas neglected needs. 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 ntth two arab ces. Its an important victory for President Trump. Pres. Trump tse agreements prove that the regions ofon the na are breaking free from the failed approaches of the past. A new course. Ng sets history on 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. Rort warns the world has failed to meet a series of goals to halt loss of habitats and wildlife. G up wifi in the parkin lot when school is out, this is the only way that some kids in america c get online to carry on learning. On pbs and around the globe. President trump presided over the signing of a Historic Deal that normalizes relaons between israel, the uae, and bahrain. Avit the way for diplomatic, economic, and travel links between the countries. Its a big win for President Trump and Prime Minister netanyahu. Sent us this report. Itor has sincehe founding of the state of israel in 1948, onlun two arab coies have made peace with israel. Today at the white house, that number doubled as the uae and webahrai brought together by donald trump to sign an agreement to normalize r cations with tntry. The signaturesn the page took only a few ieconds, butt had taken decades to get here. [applause] and for donald trump, with one eye on the forthcoming president ial eler ion and anot his place in history, this was a sweet momenfo a significanignpolicy victory. Pres. Trump we are here this afternoon to change the cour of history. After decades of division and a new middle east thanks c to te grearage of the leaders of these three countries. We take a major stride toward a future in which people of al faiths and backgrounds live together in peace and prosperity. [applause] for benjamin ratanyahu, the i Prime Minister, whose political fortunesave gone through similar gyrations as donald tmps, 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 withs today and those who will join us tomorrow, i say [speak ing arabic], pce unto thee, there is no cheering for the deal in the gaza sip and west bank, where many palestinians feel betrayed by these two gulf nations, signing a deal with reached on the fof theement is palestinian people. Orno apologyaking 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 stepn 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 theseulf nations have already been dealing with israel through back channels for some time. This formalizes a new trelationship, thouays signing is no less important for that. Katty jon sopel joins us from the white house. President trump, famous for ripping up theulook, seems to have done it again. The old model once you dealtwi the palestinian and israeli issue first. Asheeversed the model. He has done his own, w 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 follo in other words, this wasnt just a ote off where theyve bahrain and United Arab Emirates into the fold. Table one would be saudi arabia. I think there is confidenceusn the white that could happen. Then what you get is an cipient middle east peac process. At the moment, weve had to israel today but had two countries making peace with israel today, but could this become the template for other countries to follow suit . The dest saying in diplomacy is my enemys enemy is my friend. I think that there willti be satisf that iran has become more isolated and more pressure ibeing 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 ta going to be the deal of the century. Its not that, but it doesre lok like ay 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. Dia has now crossed the unfortunate milestone of having frecorded 5 million cases coronavirus. It is the second worst hit although fewer people have diede innd, 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 thats right. Till. 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 reading here, faster than anywhere else in the world. It could overtake u. S. Inpath, the coming weeks. Since the third week ofin augus, a has ramped up testing massively, so it is testing more than one million swabs a day. That is actually more than the enu. S. At the m 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 oindias 1. 3 billion people have so far been screened. That, alongith the fact that the system of counting deaths in india is not very watertight even numbers we are seeing are underreported. Dwhs this mean on the ground here in cities like mumbai and delhi . Cities un hospitals areng out of intensive care beds. Hospitals from t outskirtsf mumbai have who said they might run out of oxygen supplies. The virus has also spread to smaller areas, rural parts of the country, where medical facilitiesan 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 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 twoyearoldonied of nerve damage in his brain. The family was turned away thrli times by a p hospital. Doctors told them they were overburdened because of the covid crisis. If it wast for coronirus, my son couldve been saved. Government doctors told me toiv take him to a e hospital, but i didnt have money for at, he says. Debts like these deaths like e these going unnoticed as covid19umbers continue to stack up and bring indias already inadequate medical infrastructure to s knees. Doctors at Public Hospital in mumbai are now being allowed to isolate for just one day between their duties 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 eased, including reopening metrorail systems across the country, even as the Health Crisis is getting worse. Imposingo on another lockdown t 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 devastatingon impache lives of some of indias poorest citizens. This fily has been working for generations the Northern City of agra. During the stringent oockdown, theye went hungry for four straight days. [speaking a foreign language] mother says they have struggled for every morsel of food and that shes never seen such days in her life. Even with restrictions easing, theres only been a trickle of work. I dont know how we will get by in the coming 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 manal d to pllions out of poverty, hardfought achievements that are now at risk of coming undone. Katty i want toook 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 death rate in america. Whats going o are the numbers off, orey have managed to find some way of making people who are infected not get so critical theyight die from covid . I tnkll 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 somimes only the comorbidity aso p is suffering from is written on the discharge certificate they get from the hospital, insteov of saying c19. 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 uerreporting, Health Experts ive spoken to say they agree with the gernments assessment that the number of deaths in india, cozeared to the f its population, is so far, we do not have specific scientific reasons for it. Or reasons that have been proven. Ivem eard fctors saying india has a young population. Some believe itsse bec 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 rightow it is sort of that silver lining. I might add, even with a low death rate, if it continues to spread, that still meansre hu 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 ofg bring people out of poverty and getting people well from other diseases global he lth experts ry worried about that. Theres a whole load of other knock onffts 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 incover. Thats acco 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 an environment correspondent has more. It is t,pl forest, agriculture,an o pollution. Time is running out to prepare repair the damage we are doing to the natural world. Omats the message frhe u. Ios conveon biological diversity. Its latest report calls for urgent action to slow and eventually stop what it describes a naturs accelerating decline. Covid19 has taught u clearly that the rationship between human action and nature, so we need to change ou production patterns, consumption patterns. Human encroachment into the wildlife, into the forests. The picture this report pain 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 scaleould still turn the tide. Theres a lot that has to be done, t it can be don next year, in china, we will have the u. N. Biodiversity conference, where governments are expected to adopt global a path to recovery by 2030. E on his will mean that every country will need to make commitments to protectat hab to produce food more sustainably, and eat a more sustainable diet. They will have to redu pollution, so that we and wildlife can have clean air and clean water. And wellke have to 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 a green space softens places, mast ch nicer to live, improves the air quality. We need to connect people back to nature, so that people really value its 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,he u. N. Says we risk leaving a damaged planet for future generations. Katty heartbrking images there. Quick look at other news. The family of breonna taylor, a black woman who was kild by police in louisville, kentucky, ha agreed to a multimillarn doettlement. Taylor was shot eight times when officers burdu into her home ng an investigation involving her exboyfriend. Ilthe city of loui 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 poisonedg. Hile campaign the kremlin has again denied poisoningim. 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 experienc but do i need to retrain . Am i in the wrong industry . Like many young people, isabella is struggling to find a cut. Tality as hours are 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 dona lot of stories about students around the world as they go back to school, but for children across america who are not returning to the classroom and are taking their Classes Online instead, ae stnternet connection isnt always an option. Many families inowural and income areas cant afford wifi, and that can severely disrupt the students ability to learn from home. H e this report from san antonio, texas. Its currently 8 25. We do have to get started. Make sure you are muted. Im going to go over a few announcements. P you have questions, ju it in the chat box. And go. 20 seconds. This is a usual monday for and good luck. Ou they have driveto an abandoned Church Parking lot to access wifi from the school bus because they cant afford internet at home. Out here in the couary, its hassle, and we are in an area where a lot of families om a very low i cant affd the internet to be able to do your assignments. That n be a problem when over the internet in theaught majority of the united states. Deal with, because its an issue on the flipside, making sure that they are fe and secure. Thats why the south side independent schooistrict has distributed laptops to more than 80 of its students and deployed more than a dozen of these wifi buses into neighds. The first couple ys of embarrassing, but then as you sntto know everybody, it 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 tsit by a school bus and waste gas all day long so the kids are not dying of heat out here, thatvs all we o do. We dont really like the cars going by. Ckit actually makes ound sounds that actually interfereea with ourer when they are talking. I got a kid back here who has had to go to the bathroom for at least the st 30 minutes, if not longer. Id rather be at home or comfortable. Lye while the gold familyo just this new reality adjusts to this n reality, the classrooms where joseph and christina should be our empty. Im going to choose joseph. Do you have anything you want to share . Pjoseph lovfect 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 tenicalifficulties, but its ok, we will move on. Maybe zoom crashed. Zoom wont work for her either. Iow like not so happy right im like not so happy right now because the internet is not working right now, even 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 realard. That piece is so heartbreaking. America lags behind other developed countries when it comes to broadband connection, butds also those hould be in school. They are in the schools in u. K. , germany, south korea, singapore. Americs lling behind. Many of them cant get access to get online. Its a terrible situation for so many families. Sit 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 britain. The victory was seen as a turning point in the w 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 peopl gwere going to killed. [airplane engines] ar a 17yeld george watched from the ground ashe battle of britain raged above him. Heent 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, knowing 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 scess 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 come here today, flying alongside the legendary airplanes that took part in that battle 80 years ago, is a huge honor. The battle against covi meant for the 80th anniversary, the celebrations had to be curtailed, but the sacrifices have not been forgott. 22 was the average age. People have got today, and it hope they dont forget that. Katty e remembering the bat britain. Before we go, a lot of people have turned to gardening during this pandemic. So have had help from spouses and kids. Im not sure many have asstants quite like this. A flock of some 10,000 ducks have been devouring past s the rice fie 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. G unbelievable photographs of ducks on the move. Love narrator funding for this presentation of thisam is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. By judy anr blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected need d by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Nic the height of the conflted into vietnam he became a single parent of two ung children. We moved a lot. We slept in rest areas. We slept in our car. I didnt realize that we were actually homeless. It maksm your world really l. If we happened to stay in a motel that happened to have a tv, it was really special. We loved nova. Ci esly 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. Ts i could see a world e of our poverty and i felt like things were going to get better. S opened up a world i didnt know existed. Captioninsored by newshour productions, llc woodruff good evening, im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, a mideast deal israel, bahrain and the United Arab Emirates sit down at the white house. I talk with the president s son inedaw and senior advisor, j kushner. Then, Hurricane Sally the a lf coast faceow moving, but ially torrential storm. Plus, back to school. We trek across the globe to discover how oer countries are handling education. Im excited to come bac because ive missed being here and ill be ab extra work and ill be able to see my friends, and teachers, but obviously its nervous coming back, because obviously theres rules and everything. T woodruff at and more on tonights pbs newshour