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Hello, welcome. We start in washington, where a ceremony to mark the signing of a peace deal between israel, the United Arab Emirates and bahrain, has taken place at the white house. President trump said it was the dawn of a new middle east. The gulf states are just the third and fourth arab countries to recognise israel, but the palestinians have urged other arab states not to follow suit, while their conflict remains unsolved. Our north america editor jon sopel has the story. 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 normalise relations with the country. The signatures on the page took only a few seconds but it had taken decades to get here. And for donald trump, with one eye on the forthcoming president ial election and another on h ....
Well have more on those testing problems, and how the prioritising is meant to work. Also tonight. Unemployment on the rise, as 700,000 people come off the payrolls since march, with more to come. At the white house, a landmark deal to normalise relations between israel, the United Arab Emirates, and bahrain. And a plea for the worlds nations to unite to save the planet. Experts say humanity is at a crossroads, with nature in decline. And in sport on bbc news. We will have all the latest reports, results, interviews and features from the bbc sport centre. Good evening. We start with the growing row over the shortage of tests for coronavirus, especially in some of the uks worst affected areas. Seniorfigures in the nhs are warning that operations are being cancelled because of the testing shortages. Matt hancock, the Health Secretary, for england admits the system is fa ....