Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The deadly conflict between Israeli Forces and palestinians has continued well into the night, with Palestinian Militants firing waves of rockets into israeli cities. Us Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken has called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and condemned the Rocket Attacks and reiterated the need for tensions to be de escalated a point similarly made in a call between President Joe Biden and israeli Prime Minister benjamin netunyahu. 67 palestinians and seven israelis have been killed since the latest flare up in violence began on monday. Our middle east correspondent tom bateman begins our coverage. You may find some scenes in his report disturbing. The worlds asking if the region is on the brink of war. People who woke to this feel its already here. Palestinians in gaza faced the fiercest Israeli Bombardment since the last all out conflict. Israel says its going after militant leaders. Some were killed in their homes. But civilians died in this strike, say Palestinian Health officials. In gaza, a territory under blockade, grief quickly turns to anger. Dozens have now died since the violence erupted on monday. And they are still counting their dead. Rocket fire from gaza has continued deep into israel, and the sirens are near non stop in towns close by. Ok, thats an interception lets get in. As weve heard air strikes pound the gaza strip just a couple of miles away throughout the course of this morning and into the afternoon, more retaliation, more fire, from gaza. Underfire, asha and his son ran for the safe room. But their neighbour, an 89 year old woman, didnt make it. She is seriously injured. Her carer died in the strike. There are growing International Calls for restraint, but for now it seems that no one here is listening. It is the intensity of these attacks that has led both sides to say they will step up their strikes in retaliation. A descent into much further violence seems inevitable. More rockets are shot down in israels skies, and the streets are burning too. Tonight in a mixed jewish arab town i saw how fear and chaos are spreading. Violence betweenjewish people and arabs inside israel is the fear is spiralling. Spiralling. Here, jewish extremists attacked an ambulance and then check a car to see if arabs orjews are inside. Along the coast, a Popular Arab Restaurant comes under attack. In another mixed town, a jewish man is beaten by Arab Israelis. A synagogue has also been torched. Israels leader calls it anarchy. A wave of anger that began injerusalem has spilled out to the occupied territories and into israel itself. The country is engulfed in multiple flashpoints. It may be too late to contain it now. Tom bateman, bbc news, lod in central israel. Dr Sara Yael Hirschhorn is a professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University she says that the biden administrations expectation and hope that the violence would end soon, is overly optimistic. I am not sure that the act of his of the Us Administration will be helpful in this regard. The United States is no longer seen as an honest broker in the conflict and it may be perceived by the palestinians as interference in this latest spate of violence. It may actually escalate the situation. But as we saw today, in the reporting just heard from the correspondent, the violence has spread from the occupied territories into territorial israel and it is essentially Mob Violence Betweenjews and arabs in major cities. So it seems that violence is continuing, ratherthan continuing, rather than abating. How worrying is the escalation within those towns where Arab Israelis are . I think this is a very worrying trend. We have seen in several clashes over the last few years, rocket fire and retaliation by the Israeli Defence forces and protests in jerusalem. But the violence has moved into territorial israel which is essentially civilians and with arabs and jews beating each other in the streets is a dramatic explosion of tensions we have not seen before and hearkens back to the i948 original war for existence. Why is it so tense . What is different this time . This time what is different is one year of covid i9 where many of the concerns over the conflict have been swept under the rug due to the containment of the pandemic. Coinciding of two religious festivals that became a powder keg to start a cycle of violence across the country and the interference of extremists on both sides who have reasons to escalate the situation now and to press the issue further. Two very respected think tanks have released a joint report and their report basically says that the way out of this is equal rights and equal security for both palestinians and israelis. How likely is it that that will happen or do you think that is a way out . The carnegie report and other documents you mentioned from well respected institutions are advocating for a switch from a two State Solution to a binational state arrangement. And while i think these are better outcomes, what were seeing today is the visualisation of the violence in real time that may be required to get there so i dont know if right now either side is prepared to undertake the diplomatic process. That may be possible in future generations but i think what we see now suggest that the kind of violence that may be necessary if we were to create an entirely different political paradigm and move away from a two State Solution which has been the understanding of the resolution of the conflict. It may not be the right time for that and violence required to get there will be truly staggering. Lets get some of the days other news. The Colonial Pipeline in the United States has restarted operations after being forced to shut down following a cyber attack last friday. Petrol stations have been running out of fuel following the attack. Colonial pipeline, which supplies 45 of the east coasts supply, says the resumption of normal service will take take take several days. Republicans in the us House Of Representatives have sacked liz cheney, a vocal critic of donald trump, from the partys third highest position. Ms cheney had been chair of the House Republican conference, but her vote to impeach the former president and her continuing criticism over mr trumps false claims unpopular in the party. She has vowed to do everything to ensure the former president never gets back into the white house. The electric car company, tesla, has announced it will no longer accept bitcoin in payment for vehicles. In a tweet, tesla ceo, elon musk, said they were concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin Mining and transactions. The cryptocurrency� s price has fallen on the news. Ellen degeneres has announced she is ending her us talk show next year after 19 years on air, saying the show is just not a challenge anymore. The ellen show is a household name, but a few months ago faced accusations of being a toxic place to work. At least 27 people have been killed in colombia, where thousands of demonstrators clashed with police over the past two weeks. The protests, initially against a proposed tax reform, soon morphed into broader Anti Government rallies made worse by the pandemic. Our correspondent daniel pardo travelled to the city of cali, in the southwest of colombia, which has seen the worst of the violence. He sent this report. Police grappling with protesters in colombia. For two weeks now the country has seen the worst outbreak of protests and violence in its recent history. They kill him, they kill him, people shout. They curse at the policemen who has just gunned down two protesters. This is how it starts with a massive protest of students, Indigenous People and workers. Then the police come, and it takes over this area, they start shooting. They are investigating at least 1000 cases of police brutality. This is also the most violent wave of protests in recent history in colombia. It all started because the government tried to introduce a tax reform which caused outrage among many colombians who say they are already struggling to feed theirfamilies during the pandemic and find jobs. The government quickly withdrew the tax proposal but it was too late. The protests had intensified. No longer against tax reforms but against police brutality, inequality, and the lack of opportunity in a country lacerated by decades of Armed Conflict and drug trafficking. In response, the government has sent the army to the streets. People are enraged at the actions of riot police who are using live ammunition to disperse protesters. Dozens of people have died. Amidst all this violence and division, colombians are turning against each other. Here the people dressed in white who live in this Exclusive Residential Complex say they were being attacked by Indigenous People. Here you can see one of those same people in white shooting fire guns. Against a backdrop of violence, the colombian president says the police have a right to defend themselves. People say they will continue to protest even if it puts their life in danger. Because for them, colombia needs a fundamental change. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come what goes up must come down. 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God bless america this is bbc world news. The latest headlines heavy israeli airstrikes and Palestinian Rocket Fire continues through the night. Joe biden says he hopes the violence will end soon. Israels President Appeals For Dues and Arab Israelis to avoid descending into what he called a senseless civil war. New zealands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the government is exploring opportunities for quarantine free travel as she tries to formulate the reopening of the country. Recently a Travel Bubble Reopened with australia its biggest market but before the pandemic the country used to receive around four million visitors a year. And while its likely to be many months before it gets back to that level some say its the Perfect Moment to rethink how tourism can be made more environmentally responsible. From queenstown new zealand, the bbc� s Shaimaa Khalil reports. Yelling. Its the kind of high octane Adventure New Zealand is famous for a mix of dramatic scenery, adrenaline rush, and a whole lot of cold water. Yeah its fairly busy here today because of School Holidays which is a Welcome Change but still, nothing like it was before covid i9 hit. Pre pandemic, operators ran eight boat rides an hour. This past year, it was down to only one. Dont start sticking your arms out the side of the boat, its not good. In this tourist town, some operators have gone out of business since the country closed its borders. 0thers got by, relying on locals. We went from a business that was very accustomed to taking 1,200 people a day, having a lot of people on the ground to do that, to suddenly having to really enjoy the fact that we might have 200 in a day. Before the pandemic, there were worries new zealand was getting too popular, risking the pristine environment which so many came to see. Now, there are calls to use this lull as a chance to curb tourisms heavy carbon footprint. Proposals presented to the government include limiting Visitor Numbers and a Departure Tax to help offset tourisms climate impact. Its a difficult prospect for an industry that has suffered so badly. It does feel a little bit like the dogs already down and were having somebody step on our throats. But Everybody Needs to look at themselves environmentally, because this is the product that we purvey. When you do compare it to the other Major Industries in the country, which are categorically larger carbon producers, is tourism really the appropriate thing to be looking at right now . Theres never a right time to make change. Yes, theres a short term crisis to be managed, but long term, we need an industry which is more sustainable. Asking travellers to contribute a small amount as they leave our shores is the most constructive thing we can do. People are starting to say ive got choices. Where can i go, to a place which is responsible and takes this seriously . Polluting Jet Boat Operators know they have to adapt. Here, theyre planning to use electric engines to cut Carbon Emissions and noise. Worldwide, new zealand is seen as a Success Story for how it handled covid i9. And despite its reliance on tourism, it remains reluctant to open its borders beyond the travel bubble with australia. With more visitors eventually returning, they will find a country taking a fresh look at how to protect the natural wonders that millions have come to enjoy. Shaimaa khalil, bbc news, queenstown. Scientists at Stanford University in the us have found a way to help a paralysed man write on a computer by using chips implanted into his brain that converts his thoughts into words. The man was asked to imagine that he was using a pen and paper to write sentences, which the chips decoded. The system has reached an average texting speed with 94 accuracy farfaster and more precise than previous methods. Frank willett is the lead author of this study he told me more about how it works. These sensors are very small, 4x4 millimetres, arrays of tiny electrodes that are placed on the outer layer of the brain, and they are interfacing with actionable single neurons, so we are listening to the electrical impulses, single nerve cells in the brain. What is new about this particular research . What is new about it is the idea of so previous Brain Computer Interfaces work by allowing people to move a Computer Cursor on the screen using their thoughts, using their Brain Activity, and to type things they would click on keys one at a time, but we found it is actually much faster to have them, instead of doing that, to try to handwrite each letter they want to write, so they are paralysed, so the hand is not moving, but as they try to make their handwrite these different letters, it evokes these patterns of Brain Activity that we are able to translate into text on the screen and this can achieve speeds that are almost as high as normal handwriting. So is it actual normal handwriting when it is written out eventually . No, this isjust translating it into text, so you can type on the computer, or maybe you can use it to type on your phone, to send texts, this is about restoring someone who is severely paralysed, were talking about people who are locked and cannot speak and have no other way of writing an e mail or expressing their thoughts, so this is about allowing them to type something on a computer. Were not looking necessarily at reconstructing the motion of a pen and allowing them to make an image of a letter, actually looked at reconstructing those shapes, but thats not how the device works. Is it working by reading someone� s mind, or is it more to do with the Brainwave Activity . Its not reading their mind in the sense that it is reading their inner thoughts, all it is doing is listening to the Brain Activity that tells the system what you are trying to move, what movements you are making, so it is listening to that activity that is saying i want to move my fingers in this way and i want to try and make my imaginary pen do this kind of stroke or that kind of stroke what the letter is and allowing you to type it. This is really exciting and will help a lot of people eventually. What are the next steps in terms of commercialising this . This right now is just a research demonstration, a proof of concept that this is an exciting method that could in theory be really useful for someone who is locked in and severely paralysed, but to translate it you would need to do a few things, you would need to make these brain chips, these sensors, fully implantable and wireless, and you would also need to make this system really easy to use. So right now, it takes a while to actually train the computer how to recognise each of these different letters and decode from the Brain Activity, so in a real product you would want to streamline that so the user does not have to train the system for very long. People All Around The World have been taking a moment to honour the caring profession on what is International Nurses day. Here in madrid, a concert was held at a Vaccination Centre to pay tribute to the nurses on duty. Similar events have taken place in various countries. In the uk, a service was held at Westminster Abbey honouring the contribution and sacrifices of nurses and midwives during the pandemic. Rhiannan iffland has made her Careerfrom Jumping off things. Four times she has won the cliff diving world series, but last years championship was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. So rhiannan went looking for a new venue for her daring adventures, and this one was full of hot air, as the bbc� s tim allman explains. As the mists roll through new south wales� hunter valley, Rhiannan Iffland prepares herself for the days events. A little bit of history, making up for a year of obstacles and setbacks. It was really disappointing last year to not have any events and not have anything to push for. Thats why this project has been so special to me, because, its really been something that ive been focusing on, an idea that we came up with at the start of last year that seemed a little bit, uh, you know, out of the ordinary. Rhiannan is planning to become the first woman to dive from a moving hot air balloon. The attempt has to be made under strict conditions, with the wind speed of no more than five kilometres per hour. As it reached the exact diving spot, the balloon descends down to a height of 18 metres. Then rhiannan does her thing. Three, two, one splash. Woohoo a fairly graceful descent into the dam below. A world first, an exhilarating experience. What a special feeling. It all happened so fast, and i cant wait to settle down and relive the moment and think about what actually just happened. I had a little bit of tunnel vision, to be honest, this morning. Oh, it was just so exciting rhiannan isnt planning on making this a permanent fixture more of a hot air experiment. All being wellm the normal World Championships will resume next month. Tim allman, bbc news. And before we go, brazilian pianistjoao Carlos Martins has been unable to play for decades, after his hand was broken during a mugging. But now, thats changed. With the help of these special bionic gloves, martins has been able to play again. The gloves work by using a series of rods to help his fingers spring back into place. So now the 80 year old maestro has returned to the bench and the music is playing again. You can reach me on twitter im bbcmaryam. What a wonderful story. Thank you so much for watching, goodbye. Hello there. The weather is in a very unsettled mood, notjust for the next few days, even as we head on into the weekend and into next week. Thats because weve got low pressure nearby. For the next few days, it looks like it will stay showery, some heavy downpour in places with some hail and thunder, but also some warm sunshine around, too. Now, low pressure sitting on top of the country this Weather Front bringing some wet weather to start the day for wales, up to the midlands, into the south and south west of england. But it will tend to clear away through the day. Away from the north and east of scotland, which will be rather grey through the day today, northern ireland, Southern Scotland and the rest of northern and Eastern England will see some sunshine. But then the showers will get going again into the afternoon. And like the last few days, some will be heavy with a mix of hail and thunder in places. Temperatures reaching 111 15 celsius for most, but rather cool again across the far northeast of scotland. Now, as we head through thursday night, it looks like the showers will tend to fade away from most areas, and that Weather Front will clear away completely. So, many places will be turning dry, but we will start to see some Cloud Rolling into northern and eastern areas, so that should stop temperatures from falling much below 6 7 celsius, so another frost free night for most. As we head on into friday, we are in between weather systems, low pressure to the east, a new area of low pressure slowly encroaching in off the atlantic. And you will also notice the blue colours across the north of the uk. This colder air tries to get into the north east of the country but doesnt get too far, but it will bring enough chill to the north and east of scotland, and in northeast england it will be quite noticeable there. But a rather grey, cloudy day for most, away from northern ireland, wales, the West Midlands and the south west where we will see some sunny spells. And that will set off a few showers again here, again, some of them will be on the heavy side. Temperatures in the sunny spells 111 15 celsius, but noticeably cooler, like i mentioned, across the north east. Then as we move into the weekend, we see this a band of rain, and then our new area of low pressure starts to push across the uk for the rest of saturday and into sunday. So its back to square one with sunshine and showers once again. Now, some of the showers again over the weekend will be heavy, there will be the risk of hail and thunder, and there will be some sunshine in between these showers. And the sun, of course, this time of year is strong, so it will feel fairly warm. Low pressure, though, wants to hold on into next week too, so unfortunately, its looking pretty unsettled for much of the country, further showers at times. Those temperatures below the seasonal average. This is bbc news. The headlines heavy israeli airstrikes and Palestinian Rocket Fire have continued through the night. The Israeli Military said its targets in gaza included intelligence buildings, a bank, and a hamas naval squad. Palestinian militants have launched waves of rockets towards israeli cities. Israels Security Cabinet has approved plans to escalate the bombardment. Tens of thousands of colombians have taken to the streets again in Anti Government protests in the Capital Bogota and several other cities. It is the 15th day of marches, blockades and strikes which were initially fuelled by anger about a tax reform plan, which has now been withdrawn. A new development has helped a paralysed man write on a computer using Brain Implants that converted his thoughts into words. Neuroscientists at Stanford University placed two Computer Chips into the mans brain and asked him to imagine that he was using a pen and paper to write sentences