Back down and their rejection of sundays disputed president ial election. Several e. U. Countries see a steep rise in corona virus infections prompting fears of new knockdowns and stricter quarantine measures. And im lee harding with sports tennis world number one Novak Djokovic confirms hell play at the u. S. Open next month and paris and her mom celebrate a return to the Champions League semifinals for the 1st time in 25 years after a stunning comeback when. U. S. President donald trump has announced the formalization of ties between the u. A. E. And israel as part of the deal israel will suspend plans to addicks palestinian territory donald trump says the u. S. Helped broker the deal which will see the u. A. E. And Israel Exchange embassies and ambassador the 2 nations are expected to meet in the coming weeks to sign agreements. This is a truly historic moment not just the israel jordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago as so much progress being made towards peace in the middle east. But you know i think americas closest and most capable partners in the region something which could not be done this deal is a significant step towards building a more peaceful secure and prosperous middle east israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says the deal marks a new era with the arab world he also made clear he is not giving up on plans to annex occupied Palestinian Land but he has put on hold at the request of the u. S. President trying to put the annexation into east peace plan those who criticize me should know i said time and again that an exaggeration only be made in accordance with the United States without that it is worthless and it will damage the settlements President Trump who is one of israels greatest friends as israel to temporarily hold the an exaggeration in order to conduct peace with the u. A. E. And i have not given up the an exemption yet and i will bring an exaggeration just as i have with this peace deal and i will never give up israels rights to this country. Hamas says accuse the u. A. E. Of stabbing palestinians in the back by agreeing to a deal with israel the Palestinian Group based in gaza says the deal effectively rewards israel for its occupational crimes. And weve got our own fishes standing by in washington d. C. But 1st lets go to harry forsett who is in western russo them harry so how is netanyahu presenting all of this. Well hes presenting this as a major victory of one of the key planks long term planks of his Foreign Policy endeavors which has been the normalization of relations with major arab states theres been a lot going on in recent years behind the scenes not least of course with the u. A. E. But with other arab states as well but this is the 1st time that there has been a public agreement of a normalization taking place and as you heard from trump and netanyahu they are talking about full diplomatic relations and you know put this in the context of the 1979 deal with egypt 994 deal with jordan and now this one in 2020 under his leadership but i think what you played there from him in the question answer session that took place after his speech is very significant that he says that he is not. Giving up on an exception this is despite the fact that the americans are saying that he has submitted to the the need to put that aside despite what they said was public pressure has to be said public pressure pressure that was really engineered by netanyahu self he was a main cheerleader for this whole plan of an extension and of course the u. A. E. As well they have said that this is. A way that they have stopped taking place and this is the big win for them from this entire deal that was the tweet that came out from mohammed bin zayed the day facto leader when he said that they had stopped annexation of those work to work on a road map towards bilateral relationship with israel there was a slightly more positive turn on that from a minister of state in the. Leadership in which he said that they had done a ticking timebomb of annexation but that things would move more. Quickly than perhaps the leader was suggesting in terms of full domanick relations so despite all of that netanyahu is still talking about his at his ambitions to an x. In the longer term you might say thats for his domestic audience in that he would say that wouldnt he well yes but at the same time its a bit of a slap in the face for the 2 countries who are in the other. Thats constituent parts of this deal that was my next question harry. Is under a lot of pressure at home domestically is n. T. How might this play with his more conservative supporters. Well i think for the far right especially settler supporters of netanyahu this will be seen as something of a betrayal indeed there is language like that be used in ready one mayor of an illegal settlement in occupied west bank saying that another man. More and more netanyahu alarmed there is saying that this is a price worth paying both to engineer this agreement with the u. A. E. And also to show the world that settlements in and of themselves are not an obstacle to peace indeed i think one of the other really significant things that and you know said was that this is an expression of peace for peace by allusion there i think to the term of land for peace which is the one thats been used for so long israel has had to give up no land no anything really for this apart from a plan which was already running into the ground to annex and formalize at least large parts of its occupation of the west bank thanks to their hair a force that they live from west to receive them well alan fischer joins me now from washington d. C. Alan and surprisingly this is being presented as and has started when by donald trump is it. What weve just heard from Jerry Krishna who is of course the president s son in law but his special advisor the man who came out with the middle east peace plan back in january which has largely run into the mud as far as we can tell hes been given some insight into what happened he said that the United Arab Emirates did not want israel to take a provocative action clearly referring to the idea of an extension that is why they wanted to make a deal but there is a disconnect is had he was seeing between whats coming out of the white house and israel and what is being said by the United Arab Emirates both the white house and israel are saying normalization exchange of ambassadors creation of embassies and capitals but what the United Arab Emirates is saying is that this is a route towards normalization what we also heard from jerry he was asked about the palestinian criticism that essentially they had been stabbed in the back he said that this was a predictable response and he said that loss of people are not waiting for palestinian leadership in the region he said that there were other muslim and arab countries who wanted to be involved in this process but the United Arab Emirates wanted to be fast which is why the once this and he said we cant let the conflicts hold us back and suggested that this was going to create a lot of opportunity for business and certainly we saw that in the middle east peace plan that gerry cush there framed a lot of what he saw as progress through the prism of how it could Impact Business and how it could perhaps generate jobs we also heard from Robert Obrien the National Security advisor its not often that he takes a turn the podium in the the White House Briefing room his contribution was really to say that this was indeed a historic moment and said that donald trump could be nominated for a peace prize for helping to bring this about its interesting that he would say that because we know. Donald trump is maybe not obsessed but is certainly aware of the fact that barack obama won a Nobel Peace Prize and has tried several times to be nominated for what in fact he was by the japanese Prime Minister over his work in north korea but of course that all came to nothing this time he wore have a ceremony here at the white house in the coming weeks when the 2 leaders and a number of other princes from the United Arab Emirates will be here donald trump will be center stage and they will sign what has become know and as the abraham a court thank you there live for us in washington d. C. Well stuff about booty is the leader of the Palestinian National initiative and a member of the Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization he joins us now live via skype from ramallah thanks for your time sir whats your reaction to this this news. Well you know the course of the deal of the century the has become modern the deceit of the century and instead of peace now were going to have sowed the seeds of peace. Theyre emitted and in that the relations already took over there was never a struggle between them or a fight between them sorry i do need to call this peace and that the only thing is that the problem here is with the palestinians with the Palestinian People problem is with the patient palestinian than the problem is with there is an elite land and excision of palestinian that which not only are there concerns one more time to do that is gross he did great the problem is that this is demonstrates that mans apartheid the land its the size of these people so in my opinion ringback this by. Israel is nothing but. In the back of the Palestinian People learn to manage some audition addict. But it will not change much in the al if you didnt have political move maybe to some but i think to move elections. And the whole. Corruption. The only thing this will not change anything in the middle east but that was all you can tell you did some out of governments really abiding by the narrative and. Changing to support their brothers about. How to pick up on something you even 10 then we talk about the suspension of an exception. For at least the time being but as you said a pointed out and i think we should remind our International Audience an exception is already happening has already happened theres a reality on the ground. An exception has happened and excision is happening now to do the cleanup that is because he did. Contact only part was set by family and iraqi officials the plan is canceled today. He didnt call it that he would never give up that land and excision is there a lot of jerusalem illegally and then called her diction was International Law is there not in the leg next to the syrian Golan Heights the United States has already confirmed and thats what to do that it approves and supports israeli plans to impose a very little on Palestinian Land and that was. Practically than excision is happening with the big dig of new israeli leaders happen thats on the ground. Especially the most recent the closure that theyre planning 1000 settlements colonial units in there youre causing which is nothing but at the beginning of my next interview he or 6 percent. Reality this declination today. In my opinion the buzz here of course of the potential its not something that would have been in the new. Finally they knew what he is painting this says their attempt to salvage a 2 state solution for the palestinians is this really about the palestinians for the u. A. E. In your opinion no that is not 2 state solution and not in my opinion that solution has already been called by israel. Really and it will continue to be killed as long as they want does not impose sanctions. What they mean is not 2 state solution they mean a system of apartheid where the state of palestine would be nothing but a group thats awesome. And live and maybe. Less than maybe 11 percent. And it will be fragmented where palestinians are subjected to a continuous is the man policy of discrimination much bigger racial discrimination. Would. Part thats why these declarations are. Hard to come out of the reality of whats happening which is that minutes are normalized. Relations. Discrimination against people thanks so much for your time your perspective my stuff about 30 there leader of the Palestinian National initiative thank. A school in gaza run by the Un Refugee Agency has been damaged in Israeli Military strikes the Palestinian Education ministry has condemned the attack which came on the 3rd consecutive day of bombardment the school was empty at the time of there being no reports of casualties israel says its been targeting hamas facility in response to the group launching balloons are laden with incendiary material. But more ahead on the news our including evidence of urges about the staggering scale of the crackdown against the opposition in ethiopia. The mozambican port town that is at the center of a battle between the military and i so when i see it. And in a case a case is double trouble its hardest on struggle on the opening day of the 2nd test details that later one of the. Security checks. Were going out to bella bruce 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 6000 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 protest 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 skulls 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 support us we stand only for peace. The arrest was triggered by president alexander look at the 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 rest while they were being arrested but also in detention and we do underscore that there is an absolute prohibition on the treatment and torture were very concerned the moral calling for is that those that may have been on lawfully detained should be released immediately and i admire and that is the special repertory in the situation of human rights in belarus for the United Nations she hopes action will soon be taken by the un and europe. My concern is that the fear the will of the people has not been respected in this election which was obvious you didnt or its not the 1st time but this time there are some people themselves are protesting against this and as a special turn station of human rights in belarus course im concerned about the extent of repression which seems to me as indiscriminate. Disproportionate. And in many respects extremely brutal and unlawful their rights are candidates to run has been hampered and in general the situation where the fundamental freedoms and rights of freedom of expression freedom of Peaceful Assembly envelops extremely restricted in that state terms and previous. Tense period such as an electoral year have proven that the authorities tend to reacting extremely harshly to any kind of contest and this is what we have seen happening for the past 34 days the ready im an independent expert tasked with the Human Rights Council to to monitor the situation and i will report to of course the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly to these events i look forward to the Human Rights Council taking a strong decision on the straight shooting ballot was examining the. Examining ballots at its next session maybe an extraordinary intersession meeting and of course i trust thats the europeans maurer ready would adopt a strong message to signify to us to a question group that this is not acceptable. Police in ethiopia have arrested more than 9000 people during the recent unrest that followed the killing of a popular musician a teller who. There was also an activist for the ethnic overall more People Struggle for equal rights here because 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 cysts mate thats. Still detaining people these are proper investigation theyre out of a protracted pleated adaptation is up to me. Catherine so i has more 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 th