hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. lamine diack — the man who ran world the prime minister says he will do athletics for 16 years is convicted ‘everything in his power for bribes to cover up positive doping tests. to avoid a second lockdown‘ and that testing was a problem covidi9 is now spreading faster the government was working on in india than anywhere else. we'll look at whether narendra modi is being blamed for the thousands of new cases. before people run down the uk‘s also, the uk's foreign secretary effort, it is worth bearing in mind dominic raab is in washington that we are testing adam more but he's still talking brexit. population than france and germany the uk action here is defensive, in relation to what the eu is doing, it is precautionary — and conducted more tests than any other european country. we haven't done any of this — and it is proportionate. but there are warnings that the coronavirus testing system is in crisis, but the government's now announced even where infection rates a climbdown on that plan to override are highest there are now complaints the brexit withdrawal bill — of confusion and delays giving mps the power to veto the use of it. and some celebrities are boycotting facebook i cannot understand why it is going and instagram — for 2h hours. they want more action on so i cannot understand why it is going

on so long. like, people cannot get a test. it is extremely stressful on hate speech. and we are already dealing with the none upsetting time, and people are being treated poorly. they‘ve onlyjust gone back to class a french court has ruled that but already hundreds of pupils are sent home over covid lamine diack, the man who ran fears — teachers want world athletics for 16 years, is corrupt. he's been given a four year prison sentence. here he is entering court today in paris. and he was found guilty of accepting bribes from russian athletes who were suspected of doping. he took money to help cover up positive test results, allowing the athletes to keep competing. and this the guy in charge of the whole sport remember. here's our sports reporter alex capstick. imean, i mean, this man was a powerful figure in global sports notjust in athletics where he was president between 199090 2015. but also in the ioc between 199090 2015. but also in the 10c where he was a senior member. people looked up to he led

athletics, some would say it was a golden era because it continue same boat who now retired from the sport. and underneath there was a stench of corruption and as was found in a french court today. because he was accepting money from russian athletes who be competing. lamine diack says he will appeal. he's admitted to covering up doping, but insists he was doing it to protect the image of the sport, not to make money. the french court disagreed. it found he took payments totalling almost 3.5 million euros — that's around 4 million us dollars. in return he agreed to stop or slow—down the sanctioning of russian athletes. that allowed 23 drug cheats to compete in the 2012 london olympics and the world athletics champions in moscow the following year. and think of the impact of that — hundreds of athletes losing out to people who shouldn't have been there. this was one of those rival athletes outside court today. translation: you can't see the smile on my face with the mask i'm wearing, but i'm very happy to been recognised as a victim of the corruption by the leaders,

and i'm also happy for all the athletes who were. when you continue to fight against doping and to have been recognised is important for us. five co—defendants were also convicted in paris today. that included this man papa massata diack lamine diack‘s son, he was sentenced to five years jailfor corruption. although he was tried in absentia after senegal refused to extradite him. also worth remembering that while the top man in the sport was accepting bribes, russia was also carrying out a state—sponsored doping program that covered the ‘vast majority‘ of olympics sports. russia is currently serving a four—year ban from the olympics and the football world cup because of that.the times sports writer rick broadbent writer summed up the feelings of many with this tweet. capstick again with more on the reaction.

not a great day for this board. and worth athletics up which is now run by sebastian kerr they've been trying to pick up the pieces for this. they have been awarded damages of $16 million to be paid by all six defendants. that is a combined amount. 5 million from each. the rest divided between the other four. they been trying to rebuild the reputation of olympics. because of that scandal, because of the court case and the allegations they lost big—time sponsors. they lost money. and that's why they've been struggling since then. they made some of the back but of course covid—19 has and help them. that's why they were so interested in this case and that's why they got the $60 million without which they said they're going to do their best to recover. help me understand the scale of this conspiracy. we have the manna top involved in it but what degree did it involve others in the organisation? yes, he was he figured that but also mentioning his

son who was also a marketing executive. not only was he getting money from russian athletes but he was also creating millions of dollars are contracts, deals he was doing was sponsors and other interested parties. but the other men that were found guilty in this case, all senior athletic officials. dolly who is it the head of anti—doping under the act. in a couple of russians, one was the head of russian athletics. he was also the treasurer of the iw. he was involved in taking the money from the athletes and giving it to dx. at leading russian athletic coach, he was also involved in taking money from those athletes. i should say they have been banned for life from athletics. important developments on brexit today. first, the uk government has reached a deal with rebels

within its own party over that controversial bill that seeks to override part of the brexit withdrawal deal. here's laura kuenssberg: "i understand a deal here's the bbc‘s iain watson with the details. by by far is the most controversial pa rt of by far is the most controversial part of the bill of those sections that would allow the government to ignore parts of the brexit deal which borisjohnson reach with brussels to bring brexit about last year. in particular in relation to northern island. and where the government go ahead and legislate for this and do exactly what the bill says it would be breaching international law. it would allow the government to do supplier, as it calls it, in other words i ignored the agreement they reached on state aid and also excellent declarations with goods leaving northern island for the rest of the united kingdom. so the government would ineffective daily be breaking some of the commitments it made to the european

union. as you know hasn't gone well they are. equally even amongst jump borisjohnson's they are. equally even amongst jump boris johnson's conservative mps many of them were expressing this consent. 0n the prize minister expressing discontent and former law office rs expressing discontent and former law officers as well was up a prospect officers as well was up a prospect of rebellion in those specific parts of rebellion in those specific parts of the rebellion due to be discussed here in houston, next week. the government has tried to reach a compromise with some of those who are rebelling. 0thers eight uterine to try to repress the size of that rebellion. are the suggestions that the governments calculations are correct? that the prospects of a rebellion will go down a great deal? i think we should be clear that this compromise being reached doesn't stop the government from breaching international law. what they've agreed is that mps, members of parliament rather than government ministers will get a specific vote oi'i ministers will get a specific vote on whether to go ahead with the measures which would put britain out of step with international law. a parliamentary law, this is as they

say, another layer of reassurance which the government can then say to brussels, this really is going to be the last resort. and tonight in a statement jointly by downing street, by which borisjohnson's statement jointly by downing street, by which boris johnson's office and by which boris johnson's office and by the leading former loyal they have said there is no near unanimous agreement in the conservative parliamentary party full stops on people holding out against us. a couple of people voting against legislation earlier this week. but quite frankly, the idea of a serious rebellion has now been surprised. that's the perspective from west minister. have a look at the suite. —— tweet. this issue has caused considerable upset inside the legal profession. the government's most senior lawyer

resigned over this last week. and today this man lord keen followed. he's the goverment‘s top legal adviser for scotland — the advocate general. and he's resigned. his resignation letter says: "0ver the past week i have found it so that's two of the most senior legalfigures in the uk — both gone because of this bill. well borisjohnson has been quizzed by mps on this issue today. here's some of what he had to say about the eu's negotiating approach. perhaps they will prove my suspicions wrong. perhaps they will agree in the joint committee to withdraw some of the extreme suggestions that i've heard and all will be well.

but until such time, i prefer to have protections guaranteeing the integrity of this country and protect against the potential rupture of the united kingdom. meanwhile, ursula von der leyen, president of european commission, turned to brexit in her state of the union speech. and they union and that you jointly agreed ensuring it was the best way to ensure peace in ireland. and we will never backtrack on that. in this agreement has been ratified. by this agreement has been ratified. by this house and by the house of commons. it can not be unilaterally changed, disregarded or dis— applied. this is eight matter of law and trust in good faith. she also says the hopes for a trade deal between the uk and the eu are fading — maybe but the darkest hour is just

before dawn as they say. we'll see. from brussels to washington — uk's foreign secretary, dominic raab, is there — and will have known a number of members of congress are unhappy with this new bill from the uk government. four released a statement saying the government's move "could have there was quite a different tone from us secretary of state mike pompeo. yes, we trust the united kingdom. i am confident they will get it right. we've made clear our view of the importance of the good friday agreement, we know the complexity of the situation, we have done what we can to provide assistance where we can. in the end, this will be a set of decisions with respect to this that the united kingdom makes

an ivory confidence that they will get this right in a way that treats everyone fairly and gets a good outcome for what it was the people of the united kingdom voted for his part, foreign secretary raab blamed issue the eu for the uk seeking to change a deal it signed. the uk action here is defensive, in relation to what the eu is doing, it is precautionary, we have not done any of this, and it is proportionate. but we cannot have, this is contrary to the northern ireland protocol, the eu erecting a regulatory border down the irish sea between the island of ireland and britain. i've had really good conversations andi i've had really good conversations and i think it's helpful to be able to explain the point of view. so why does it matter what the us congress thinks of the brexit deal? gary 0'donoghue explains. when it comes to treaties like this, two thirds of the senate have to vote for this,

so you need both parties on board in significant number to make that happen, so while mike pompeo may sound reasonably relaxed about the position vis—a—vis the british government in deep eu, the democrats are not relaxed. for members of congress, including three democratic chairs of various powerful committees on capitol hill, wrote to borisjohnson yesterday, saying, in terms, that they would oppose any uk deal if it was a threat to the good friday agreement. since the internal marketing was published, the irish government and the irish embassy in washington has been lobbing very hard, there are people on capitol hill who are very receptive to the irish lobby, notably because of the historical links between many of the east coast and ireland, and they've been working hard to say that there's going to be a threat, a reasonable threat there could be a hard border northern ireland and the south.

that is what dominic raab is here, trying to reassure the americans that that won't happen, even if they do take these powers themselves as the british government. thanks to gary. every day outside source we distilled the biggest stories around the world. covid19 — and the fastest spreading outbreak in the world is in india. at the moment, there are around 90,000 new cases a day. (tx 00v)this chart shows how fast the virus has spread. initially india appeared to be doing reasonably well — a strict lockdown was brought in and numbers stayed low. but as india opened up, those numbers moved — and by august there had been over two million. if those are the cases, india's death toll is currently the third highest in the world at more than 80,000. that though should be seen in the context with its huge population — in per capita terms, the virus has killed about 60 people in every million— whereas in brazil and the us, the per—capita rate is nearly 10 times as high. none the less, there are questions

for prime minister narendra modi though he appears to be avoiding the blame. divya arya is in delhi. this is a very popular government, headed by a very popular prime minister. and the way the government has talked about the pandemic from the first day, in the various addresses of the prime minister and his ministers, is that it is a global pandemic, which kind of shielded government partly by saying the whole world is in this together. and the people i have met over the course of my reporting in the past months have also said that, that the government is doing what it can because, after all, everybody is suffering. but it seems that now, there is some skepticism also creeping into that, because now people are starting to question was the lockdown and the way it was imposed a sound economic move, as well as a sound move to protect their health, because we've got one million covid cases coming injust11 days. so, the numbers are increasing

and increasing at a faster pace every day, while our economy is in very bad shape — we've got the worst figures globally, growth that is —23% in the last quarter — so people are saying, "you're asking us to move out, you're asking us to have trust in you, but then our health is going to be at risk," so there is some skepticism about what the government has been able to do and is promising to do. divya arya mentioned there it took india just 11 days to add another one million cases of coronavirus. and the growth of its outbreak has outpaced the united states, brazil and russia. each row in this graphic shows how many days it took to add another one million cases, you can see india — in red — took 168 days to get to its first million. after that, as you go down, india gets to the next one million in the shortest number of days, each time — compared to brazil in yellow, and the united states in black. bhramar mukherjee shared

that chart on twitter. she's an epidemiologist from the university of michigan. and here's what she told me earlier about the situation in india. initial lockdown really bought us time to scale up our testing, contact tracing and health care infrastructure. but a return from the lockdown had to be much more cautious and modulated. i feel like there is a general sense of giving up and surrendering to destiny. i do not no whether it is habituation, desensitization, adaptation, just public fatigue or sheer denial. it is all an interaction of all of these, which is leading to this recent growth and the lifting of the lockdown, there is a lot more mobility and i feel people are getting tired of adhering to social distancing and mask wearing is going down.

so, causing thewse spikes. india is a very heterogeneous system, so some of the states coming down, but other states are rising to boil. it is very hard to distinguish the national peaks because it is really a consolence of various speak or a cascade or wave of peaks. isn't the primary issue here though bombs on pakistan ——one by the prime minister there said that look, we could do a further lockdown but economically, this is not viable. they're too many people living in poverty at the moment. isn't it the same calculation in india? i think the same considerations apply to indian it seems like we have worst of all, one of the biggest economic shrinkage is, plus the largest number of cases. and i think the one reason why the implementation of the lockdown without a proper planning led to the spread of the virus from the north and the west part of the country. now it is to the east and south as well. so, i think it is very hard to control the virus in india

unless every state comes to a state of containment now that the lockdown is over. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come. there's been violence in gaza a day after israel established diplomatic relations with the uae and bahrain. we'll have the latest from bbc arabic. borisjohnson has defended the uk government's coronavirus testing system which he says is trying to meet a colossal spike in demand. there's been growing criticism and concern about the difficulty in obtaining a test, including having to travel long distances. here's our health editor, hugh pym. laboratory capacity to handle the test that was going to come on stream in late september and october to get to their target of half a million tests a day by the end of next month. but it's all come to a head right now. with this mismatch between supply

and demand and only a certain amount of tests available for the next few weeks. as we heard, a prioritisation with the nhs and social care getting the first batch available each day and leaving some for people. hence the enormous frustration that we've been hearing from people who waited to get test. the government line is if you haven't got symptoms, you should not try and get a test. that is absolutely clear. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is... lamine diack — the man who ran world athletics for 16 years — is convicted for bribes to cover up positive doping tests. a day after israel and bahrain and uae held a ceremony at the white house to normalise their relations, there's been an exchange of fire between israel and palestinians in gaza.

two rockets were fired towards israel and were intercepted by israel's anti—missile system — which you can see here. it can detects and intercepts shorter—range targets like rockets and mortars. a second rocket fired into israel struck the coastal city of ashdod. this is the aftermath — and two men were wounded. another 13 rockets were launched before dawn on wednesday. this is how israel retaliated — it bombed sites in gaza that it says belong to the palestinian group hamas. the deal was signed at a ceremony at the white house last night. it ends a decades—long economic boycott of israel. 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. well as that ceremony was under way, this was happening in jerusalem. the flags of the united arab emirates, bahrain, israel and the united states were projected onto the old city walls.

well — unsurprisingly — the palestinian press today has denounced the washington agreement. (00v)this is an editorial of in newspaper, al—hayat al—jadidah which is based in the west bank and owned by the palestinian authorit — we've translated it. it says: those who are normalising relations with israel did not err against us only but also against their own peoples, despite our harsh life, we do not despair... there will be no peace without palestine. arabs are also express their anger on social media. the arabic hashtags "normalisation is treason" and "charter of palestine" were trending in several arab countries and have 0ne user writes: "since when did israel become peace? " palestinian youtuber belal abel aal tweeted: "palestine will remain dignified... and will not be shaken by conspiracies or betrayal." and you can see that's accompanied by an image of the leaders the uae and bahrainjoin egypt and jordan as the only arab countries to formally recognise israel — and the other two did

so in the 70s and 90s respectively — so this development has been a long time coming. let's get the analysis of issam ikirmawi from bbc arabic. government and by rain emirates have been using social media to put forward the point of view that there isa forward the point of view that there is a new reality in the middle east. and therefore they have to deal with this reality. they think that they will have some leverage on israel in the future. and they think that by having relationship with israel will soften its stance vis—a—vis the palestinians. this is the official line from these two governments. 0n grassroot level, especially in bahrain, there is a great deal of hostility and objection to the signing, the normalisation treaty. most iranians been watching and watching social media are against this kind of deal. and they think that they aren't letting the palestinians down and they shouldn't have done it before the palestinians

will able to establish their own independent state with jerusalem as its.... dozens of celebrities are freezing their facebook and instagram accounts for 2h hours. they say the social media sites aren't doing enough to tackle hate speech. leonardo dicaprio is among them. this is his post on instagram. kim kardashian is another. one example, during the protests recently in the us city of kenosha, a group calling itself the kenosha guard used facebook to encourage armed citizens to take to the streets. someone who did that, then got into an altercation with black lives matter protestors, and shot two of them dead. that facebook group later got taken down. with social media posts that can incite violence, it's relatively clear cut — but facebook says it's not always

earlier this month facebook ceo said he was "very sensitive" about his company being "...the ultimate deciders here's disinformation reporter — marianna spring. many others as you point out are quick to highlight how facebook don't act quickly enough. and in fa ct, don't act quickly enough. and in fact, a failure to shut down groups and pages were a diffs information and pages were a diffs information andi and pages were a diffs information and i hate speech dives not only results in that hate speech and disinformation spilling into local groups, parent chats and other spaces but also in real—world violence. the example of kenosha is a very compelling one where as a consequence of an event on facebook where threats were being made. it looks as though that could have been linked to are at least encouraged violence on the streets. if you don't follow mari it's worth looking herup on don't follow mari it's worth looking her up on twitter. she is waving through a lot of misinformation with the covid and the us elections. thanks for watching. we will see you

tomorrow at the usual time. bye—bye. the heat of the last few days has well and truly gone now. the biggest drop in temperatures was across northern parts of the uk today. tomorrow, it's going to be pleasantly warm across the uk, but best of all, light winds and lots of sunshine on the way. really a fabulous day on the way. this is what it looks like on the weather map, high pressure centred across scotland, and this cool front here is responsible for bringing fresher conditions from the north. you can see where the winds blowing from, from straight out of norway there across the north sea, and you can see the cool front here moving across denmark and just grazing the east coast of england, so it has been a little

more cloudy here. and hence, those temperatures have been quite a bit lower too. in the south, still pretty warm, the evening's been fairly warm and the night's going to stay fairly mild as well, particularly across the south and the south west of the uk. here, despite clear spells, temperatures will probably hold around the mid—teens. so, early on thursday morning, i suspect around 15, 16 degrees, for example, plymouth and also the channel islands. to the north east, it's going to be quite a bit fresher. in the highlands, around single figures, and the north east of england as well. so, tomorrow morning might start off cloudy in one or two places, but the sun will be out. it really is going to be a beautiful day right across the uk, with the exception of the extreme northwest here. maybe a bit more cloud, but i think in the lowlands of scotland, through lancashire, the midlands, down towards the south coast of england, it's mostly sunny skies and temperatures around normal for the time of the year. here's friday's forecast. again, much of the same, a lot of fine weather across the uk, but the breeze is going to be picking upjust a bit across the south of the country. in fact, it might take the edge of the temperatures closer

to the north sea coasts, and that's because low—pressure is forming just to the south of us, around the bay of biscay. high pressure still in charge of the weather across the bulk of the country, but notice there is a weather front hugging the south coast of england and there's just the possibility of some showers. now, the blue here indicates showers and showers can be very hit—and—miss, so the chances are, for any one location in the south, pretty low to catch a shower, so that's why we've got predominately dry weather here in our forecast. but overall, i'm sure you'll agree, it's not looking bad 00:28:31,303 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 at all for most of us.