hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. an historic agreement for the middle east, signed at the white house. the united arab emirates and bahrain agree to normalise relations with israel. donald trump says it's a new dawn for the region. these agreements prove that the nations of the region are breaking free from the failed approaches of the past. today's signing sets history on a new course. in gaza, palestinians say the deal‘s a "betrayal" — a breach in the arab front against israeli occupation. we'll have analysis, from every perspective. also coming up in the programme... breonna taylor was shot by police in march, when they entered her apartment. her family has just accepted a multi—million dollar settlement, from the us city of louisville.

and scientists have put spurn producing cells from male farm animals into other male far and dashed farm animals, allowing them to act as surrogate dads. let's start in washington — where the united arab emirates and bahrain have signed a deal to normalise relations with israel at a ceremony at the white house. all three along with the us are calling this historic — though other countries have different words for it. donald trump invited 1,000 people to the event. and he spoke earlier. for generations, the people of the middle east have been held back by old conflicts, hostilities, lies, treacheries, so many things held them back.

actually, lies that the jews and arabs were enemies and that al—aqsa mosque was under attack constantly. they would say it was under attack. these lies passed down from generation to generation fuelled a vicious cycle of terror and violence that spread across the region and all over the world. these agreements prove that the nations of the region are breaking free from the failed approaches of the past. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu also spoke. to all of israel's friends in the middle east, those who are with us today and those who willjoin us tomorrow, i say peace unto thee. shalom. here's the uae foreign minister speaking through a translator. this new vision, which is beginning to take place as we meet today for

the future of the region, full of youthful energy, is not a slogan that we raise for political gain, as everyone looks forward to creating a more stable, prosperous, and secure future. the deal ends a decades—long economic boycott of israel. and the ft reports new trade and investment deals in technology, agriculture and transporation will be worth "billions of dollars for each side". it highlights a quote from an israeli minister saying this is a chance to "build a new middle east". as well as those trade deals, direct flights between israel and uae will commence for the first time. and diplomatic offices are expected to open by the end of the year. the uae is also looking to build itself further as a military power. we think it'll now have access to advanced us fighterjets and other weaponry as part of this deal. the uae has justified the deal by arguing that israel has agreed to stop annexing large parts of the west bank. however, we're told benjamin netanyahu has only agreed

to delaying or suspending it. palestinian leaders have called it a betrayal. this was gaza earlier. fatah and hamas have both condemned the deal — and argue it breaks years of arab solidarity against israeli occupation and undermines their efforts to achieve a palestinian state. the bbc‘s security correspondent frank gardner put those concerns to the uae‘s minister of state, dr anwar gargash. this was his response. we are used to this rhetoric. this rhetoric was applied to the president many years ago, and we know that today... and he got assassinated. he is very much celebrated in the arab world as a successful politician. a visionary. having said that, we don't speak on behalf of the palestinians.

they will have to make their deal with the israelis. 0ur role as many arab countries is to support them. that narrative is also to be found in state media in the uae. gulf news is calling it a "new era" for the middle east which could end the "current impasse that prevails in the region". let's get more analysis from the region — this time from the bbc‘s sameer hashmi in dubai. i think one thing is very clear. unlike israel, where we see that the press and the politicians are more upbeat about this deal, you don't see that here in the uae. yes, they have been trying to sell this is a deal to make sure israel doesn't go ahead with its plans to annex parts of the west plan. —— west bank. they also see this as a practical move which is needed, given that how the geopolitics of the region have changed. we also don't expect things to change overnight, because they see this

will take some time. trust will take some time to build. israel's isolation in the middle east is why this deal is being hailed. four arab countries recognise israel as a state. first was egypt in 1974, then jordan in 1994. then the uae last month — with bahrain following suit. the economist in this article argues that the uae has beaten a path that others can now follow. 0man might be next. we're told it had a delegation at the signing ceremony. further afield — sudan and morocco are possibilities. and mauritania, which for a period had relations with israel, may restore them. this is bloomberg looking at qatar and ruling out it making such a move. it is an outspoken supporter of palestinian statehood. for a raft of reasons, it's doubtful if lebanon and syria would seek diplomatic ties with israel either. saudi arabia doesn't have diplomatic relations with israel, and it's been silent on this deal. it's long supported the

palestinians, and often uses sermons to deliver that message. but this broadcast two weeks ago was interesting. this is a leading cleric calling for muslims to avoid "passionate emotions and fiery enthusiasm" towards dues — that was seen as a shift in tone. the timing of this is being criticised in israel. on friday, it heads into a second nationwide lockdown. and prime minister benjamin netanyahu continues to face pressure over corruption charges. this article in haaretz earlier this month called the deal a publicity stunt and a distraction from domestic issues. here's more on this from the bbc‘s yolande knell in jerusalem. he is there very much wanting to look like a great hero at the moment. but people are very much

focused on the fact that a national lockdown is coming — the second one for israel — in just a couple days' time. people are preparing for that. it will actually coincide with thejewish holiday, so that's proving to be something that's very sensitive. the other thing that's commented on is that really very little has been revealed about the content of these agreements. even mr netanyahu himself signalled that they were, in some ways, works still in progress. the agreement was only reached at the end of last week. that's the domestic context in israel, but what about the us? the new york times says... and donald trump believes it's a diplomatic win. here's an example. this official ad campaign on facebook claimed he'd achieve peace in the middle east — and that he'd been nominated for a nobel peace prize. there's isn't peace in the middle east, and it's quite easy for people to be nominated

for a nobel peace prize. winning it is a lot harder. what is certainly true is donald trump is popular in the region. the new york times also points out that gulf countries "want trump to stay in power. that's relevant to how trump can present himself at home. let's look at this through the prism of us politics. here's gary 0'donoghue in washington. in terms of the american voters, i think there'll be a lot of positive feeling amongst the evangelicals, who are big supporters of mr trump here. they will like that israel is being supported strongly. they will also like the fact that he seems to be getting some results. for him, this is a very good day. iran is also relevant to the deal. here's security correspondent frank gardner on why.

iran doesn't like the deal, nor does turkey. iran has criticised it, referring to it as aggressive policies and a betrayal of the palestinians — reviews echoed by many palestinians themselves. but one of the reasons, even though this was officially denied by the uae, one of the reasons behind this deal isa one of the reasons behind this deal is a neutral mistrust of iran by israel and the uae. it is their giant neighbour in the region, it's got a huge battery of missiles, it's got a huge battery of missiles, it's got vast home—grown military technology, swarms of drones along boats and so on, and it has a nuclear programme in which it insists in civil. so that's one of the reasons. and of course, if this deal works, the uae and israel will become very successful many superpowers in the region, particularly when it comes to technology, health, and so on. frank, we heard in the minister you did with the senior master from the

uae, it feels israel is giving a lot in return. what is your reading of that claim? how much of the israelis given to find this common ground? very little, actually, because the israeli prime minister has only agreed to delay or suspend the annexation of the west bank. now we don't know whether he meant to do it, whether this was a political ploy to gain support at home. but the threat of annexing the west bank, which is very unpopular in the white house as well as the arab world — that was taken quite seriously. so this deal has pushed that further down the road, but he hasn't said that he won't do it. mr netanyahu hasn't said that he won't do it. mr neta nyahu has said hasn't said that he won't do it. mr netanyahu has said he will delay or suspend it. on the surface of it, you can see why palestinians are angry about this, because they view this as a betrayal, with many of them saying this has taken away a huge bit of leverage on the israeli

government. it is rewarding issued to mike or israel with recognition without intern giving them an independent state. to the uk now — and the covid testing system in england is under severe pressure. hospital bosses are warning that a lack of tests for nhs staff is leading to staff absences which in turn is putting services at risk. staff are having to self—isolate because they cannot get tests for themselves or family members and then, if they're negative, get back to work. this clip illustrates the concern. we're absolutely at full pelt in the nhs at the moment, trying to recover the services where treatment was understandably but unfortunately delayed because of covid a few months ago, we are trying to get through those cases as quickly as possible and we simply can't spare members of staff waiting for tests. of course, while nhs staff are a priority — many many others are being affected by a lack of testing capacity. yesterday, there were no tests available in some of the worst affected areas. this is one man in in 0ldham,

in the north west of england who can't get a test and so can't get his child back to school. he's had a high temperature, he is supposed to be in school. what do you want me to do? just leave them out of school for and definitely? i've been trying for the last two days. —— indefinitely. i've got a message that says the system is currently unavailable, that's the last two days. the opposition labour party is accusing the government of having lost control of testing. this is the health secretary's response. we are doing more testing per head of population than almost any other major nation. and i can update the house that we have now carried out over 20 million tests for coronavirus in this country. as we expand capacity further, we are working round—the—clock to make sure everyone who needs a test can get a test. the vast majority of people who use our testing service gets a test that is close to home, and the average distance travelled to a test site is nowjust 5.8 miles

— down from 6.4 miles last week. but the whole house knows that there are operational challenges and we are working hard to fix them. and as if to prove the point further, it's been confired that the labour leader, sir keir starmer, will miss prime minister's questions tomorrow. he's been isolating since monday morning after one of his family members showed symptoms of coronavirus, but, as our political editor laura kuensberg pointed out on twitter, his relative is still waiting for the results of a test — a test that's meant to take no more than 24 hours. he'll be replaced by deputy leader angela rayner. so, exactly what is going on? why is england struggling to deliver the tests that are needed? here's the bbc‘s health editor, hugh pym on one of the reasons. the demand for tests has grown a lot faster than the government expected and a lot faster than the capacity, that's the labs, the ability to analyse the swabs a lot faster than that's been able to grow.

the most number of daily tests that can be done each day is over 243,000. the latest daily total of processed tests is 227,000. so close but not all the way. here's hugh pym on those figures. in july, the message from the government was that basically anyone who felt unwell might as well go and get a test because they had quite a gap between the amount of tests being processed and capacity. well, that gap is quite close to being closed. there's a bit of headroom, but not a great deal. stay with us on 0utside source. still to come: in australia, humpback whales have been found miles inland up a river which is home to crocodiles.

he's posted a picture on instagram from a german hospital bears he's recovering from another truck poisoning. damien mcginnis in berlin has more on this. doctors have said here in berlin that they can't rule out longer—term effects of this poisoning because any another truck type chemical is incredibly lethal potentially. so that's why a lot of his supporters will be overjoyed that he's done micromanaged had not only survive, but it looks like he's doing really well. he said in his first communication with the public since being poisoned, that although he can't do very much on his own — in fact, now able to breathe without mechanical ventilation. that's a remarkable step, given thatjust a few days ago, he was in a medically induced coma and could only breathe thanks to ventilation. so he's made remarkable process. —— progress.

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is... representatives of the united arab emirates, bahrain, and israel have signed an historic diplomatic agreement at the white house. important development in the police killing of an african—american woman breonna taylor. herfamily has reached a $12 million settlement with the city of louisville in kentucky. this is breonna taylor. she was a 26—year—old emergency medical technician — and in march she was shot eight times after police entered her home in the middle of the night under what's called a "no—knock" warrant. her boyfriend is a licenced gun owner — and he exchanged fire with the officers, thinking they were burglars. in fact, they were on a drug raid and were looking for a suspect who didn't live at the house. no drugs were found at the property. subsequently, one of the officers was fired and two others were placed on leave. none were charged with any crimes.

here's the louisville mayor. breonna was loved and i cannot begin to imagine ms palmer's pain, and i am deeply, deeply sorry for breonna's death. while we await a decision from attorney general daniel cameron on whether or not charges will be filed in this case, my administration is not waiting to move ahead with needed reforms to prevent a tragedy like this from ever happening again. a series of police reforms will also be part of the settlement — a commanding officer will now have will now have to approve search warrants before they go to a judge. here's a lawyer for ms taylor's estate. the comprehensive reform that the louisville metro council put forth is equally important. because this

is equally important. because this is about setting a precedent. breonna taylor's killing gained global attention following the death of george floyd in police custody in may. her picture was used on the front of magazines — and murals of her sprang up all over the country. her mother also spoke at the press conference — here's what she had to say. as significant as today is, it's only the beginning of getting fulljustice for breonna. we must not lose focus on what the realjob is, and with that being said, it is time to move forward with the criminal charges because she deserves that and much more. her beautiful spirit and personality is working through all of us on the ground. so, please continue to say her name. so there is much more to come in this case. larry madowo in washington explains. it is important to note that this is a settlement in a case brought on by the family,

however, there still is an investigation being carried out by the kentucky attorney general in this case, and he may in fact, refer the charges against the officers that are criminally being investigated and we understand that the grand jury has not been set up to look into those charges and that an announcement might be imminent. at the same time, the fbi civil rights division is also investigating this, if breonna possible civil rights were violated in this case. —— breonna's. so, this isjust one part of the much larger case. and larry, having met the family last week, do you think this settlement as an interim agreement will satisfy their expectations? it is hard to tell, it is a complicated case because they lost a family member, she was 26 years old, she had dreams of becoming a nurse, she was much loved by her family and the friends that knew her. and bianca austin told me that we feel that we are being lied to, we feel like there is a lot of cover—up happening here. it began with when this first

happened, the police narrative focused on an officer who was injured in college at a police—involved shooting and then they centred this narrative about this officer that was injured and not breonna taylor who was killed. and when an incident report was released, it didn't list any injuries of breonna taylor, if there is none, the rest of it was blank and the family has raised concern with that. they have been upset with how long this is taken and they have been under a lot of pressure to make sure that the family feels like something is being done, but also, trying to do with the follow from this which is affected the entire community. —— fallout from this. now to australia — and a story of whales ending up further inland than they've ever been. the story's from the kakadu national park in the northern territory. more specifically, the east alligator river. confusingly — as you can see from these pictures — it's full of crocodiles. well, now for the first time ever, humpback whales have been spotted there. it's the first known instance of a whale being found so far

inland in australia. they were spotted by a local marine ecologist who was out fishing with friends. and he's spoken to abc news. i noticed a big spout, a big blow on the horizon. i thought, "that's a big dolphin!" i was completely blown away to see this. i never, ever expected to find anything like this up a river in kakadu. itjust floored me. unfortunately these animals are in danger. if they become stranded in shallow water, the crocodiles may attack. a team of experts are now trying to work out how to shepherd the whales back to the ocean. henry zwartz from the abc is covering the story. they're currently about 20 km and, so they're quite a ways in and they're just sort of circling around, feeding. —— 20km in. they seem to be having an ok time, but unlike dolphins, humpbacks do not have echolocation, so they're relying on vision most likely. and the problem with that is this river is incredibly murky. visibility is very, very poor. so, really, the challenges facing scientists right now,

what are they going to do to try and coax these humpbacks out of this river system? and they're currently looking at two different options. the first option is that they use essentiallyjust metal rods and bang them against the side of the boat, or use other loud noises to try and sort of shepherd those whales back out. 0r alternatively, they're also looking at using killer whale calls to scare those whales back out as well, and that has shown to be effective in keeping humpbacks out of certain estuaries and so on in the past as a deterrent, but it hasn't been used in this circumstance to actually shepherd whales. fingers crossed that works, we will keep you updated on that. scientists have put sperm—producing cells from male farm animals into other male farm animals, allowing them to act as "surrogate dads". the way they did it was to take

embryos and use gene—editing to delete a key fertility gene. when those animals were born, they were sterile. these are some goats. they also made pigs and cows. the scientists then injected them with sperm—producing cells from other males of the same species. and they weren't sterile any longer. this was the result. sperm swimming as vigorously as anyone could wish. this is from a male pig. crucially the spurn contains the genetic information of the donor animal — not the pig which received those cells and then produced the sperm. if that donor was a particularly prized specimen which farmers might want their females to breed with — you can see how potentially valuable this technique could be. here's helen briggs with more on the story. so from the scientists who brought us so from the scientists who brought us dolly the sheep, working with three us at domenico universities, a new development — these are gene edited livestock. so pigs, goats,

cattle and also some mice. now scientists are claiming that these surrogate sires, as they're calling them, super dads, could follow a new generation of elite animals that could be useful for feeding the growing human population. the scientists say this is a way you could use surrogate animals, surrogate sires to father lots of new farm animals. and you could put in certain genetic characteristics — could have healthier you meat or you could have healthier you meat or you could possibly produce animals that we re could possibly produce animals that were resistant to certain diseases, or animals that might be able to copein or animals that might be able to cope ina or animals that might be able to cope in a hotter climate. now there isa cope in a hotter climate. now there is a lot of opposition to this work, there ethical concerns, animal welfare concerns, and concerns about food safety. so at the moment, these animals cannot go into the food chain. there's a lot more work to do. think you very much for watching,

will be back tomorrow at the regular time. goodbye. good afternoon. it's been another day of beautiful september sunshine right across the country. we have seen some glorious weather watcher pictures. i'm showing you one of sissinghurst, kent, because kent had the highest values today with temperatures peaking at 31 celsius. but the warmth was fairly widespread across the country. you can see we have 30 degrees in london, but that warmth extended its way further north and west — mid to high 20s quite widely. now, it does look as though the high pressure that's been responsible for this is continuing to slip its way eastwards. that southerly flow will gradually be cut off that we have seen just recently. high—pressure is starting to move in from the atlantic, but the wind direction will change, and that's going to bring a marked change to the story over the next few days. we have got some weak weather fronts around at the moment, that's going to enhance some cloud

and a few scattered showers across northern scotland and perhaps drifting their way through england through the evening and overnight — a few isolated showers here. it stays relatively mild in the southeast with overnight lows of around 17 degrees. but starting to get a little bit cooler into the north. and the reason being is that area of high pressure as it starts to anchor itself into the far north of scotland will bring a change of wind direction, more of a northeasterly flow and a cooler source down through that north sea. so, yes, we will have some sunshine around on wednesday. the best of the sunshine perhaps across central wales, the midlands and south of that. further north, we keep some cloud and that northeasterly breeze — making it feel notably cooler along that east coast. so, top temperatures in the north likely to peak between 12—18 degrees. further south, we could see the mid 20s on wednesday, but that is probably the last day of the significant warmth. now, as we move into thursday and towards the weekend,

we keep the dry story, but it will turn notably cooler right across the country, with temperatures falling back to where they should be, really, for this time of year. there's still going to be a lot of sunshine around on thursday, a very nice day, dry, settled with highs of 12—21 degrees. so down in some places, a good eight, nine, possibly even ten degrees. heading towards the weekend, the dry theme continues, the fresher feel continues. but as i say, these are the kind of temperatures we should have for this time of year.

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thousands of people across the uk are struggling to get tests and results after a sharp rise in demand. it's been very stressful, very frustrating. we are still waiting on the results, still self—isolating, not able to go to school, not able to go to work. the pinch point is the laboratories under huge pressure — now the government's looking to prioritise those most in need. over the summer, when demand was low, we were able to meet all requirements for testing, whether priorities or not. but, as demand has risen, so we are having to prioritise once again. members of the irish cabinet have been told to limit their movement after the country's health minister reported feeling unwell. the uk's unemployment rate has risen for the first time since lockdown in march — with young people particularly hard hit. and a dire warning from the united nations — humanity is at a crossroads and action is needed now