Also in the programme, the new variant of coronavirus, is taking a terrible toll in india. More than 4,000 deaths recorded, for another day. Indias new variant has also been detected in a0 other countries. This is not an immune problem, whats happening here could affect the worlds ability to recover from the worlds ability to recover from the pandemic. The worlds ability to recover from the pandemic the worlds ability to recover from the andemic. , w. , the pandemic. Elon musk decided that usin hue the pandemic. Elon musk decided that using huge amounts the pandemic. Elon musk decided that using huge amounts of the pandemic. Elon musk decided that using huge amounts of energy the pandemic. Elon musk decided that using huge amounts of energy to the pandemic. Elon musk decided that| using huge amounts of energy to make dicks claims on computers will no longer be permitted as i waited by his environmentally friendly tesla electric cars. The violence between israelis and palestinians is worsening. Hamas has launched another barrage of rockets deep into israel while israeli air strikes are raining down in gaza. Let me show you live pictures from gaza city. More buildings have been struck. At least 83 palestinians have reportedly died while 7 killed in israel. Paul adams is injerusalem. The conflict has taken night has fallen but asking the fighting has not stopped . I have not had any reports of Rocket Attacks into israel for a little while. I dont think there have been any casualties from Rocket Attacks into israel today. Although there were salvos earlier in the day. Happy most of those were intercepted by israels defence system. Air strikes have continued at various times during the day in gaza. With the israelis talking about having a wide array of hamas targets that they want to get. I think there is a concerted feeling in the Israeli Military that they want to inflict as much damage as they can on hamas before this conflict is over. And you mentioned in your introduction and the possibility of a ground operation. We have seen some signs of troops and icing on the border. That could mark the prelude to Something Like a ground operation. If it does happen, then it could be a rerun of what we saw in 2014 when it was notjust a rerun of what we saw in 2014 when it was not just score of a rerun of what we saw in 2014 when it was notjust score of people who are killed by thousands of people who were killed. I think that is something that the israelis are going to think pretty seriously about before putting the trigger on an operation of that kind. I5 about before putting the trigger on an operation of that kind. Is anyone on either side an operation of that kind. Is anyone on either side doing an operation of that kind. Is anyone on either side doing anything an operation of that kind. Is anyone on either side doing anything to an operation of that kind. Is anyone on either side doing anything to try| on either side doing anything to try and de escalate this . Hat on either side doing anything to try and deescalate this . Not obviously. No. There and deescalate this . Not obviously. Ne there is and deescalate this . Not obviously. Ne there is a and deescalate this . Not obviously. No. There is a bit and deescalate this . Not obviously. No. There is a bit of and deescalate this . Not obviously. No. There is a bit of diplomacy and deescalate this . Not obviously. No. There is a bit of diplomacy and l no. There is a bit of diplomacy and the wind. Joe biden is sending a mideast envoy to come and discuss the situation. We know that our efforts going on behind the scenes which we are not privy to involving egypt and qatar and the kinds of prayers who often do get involved in negotiations that the israel and hamas. We do not know what progress, if any they are making. But all the rhetoric at the moment suggests that both sides are in this for if not the long haul then certainly in it for some time yet. The Long Haulthen certainly in it for some time yet. The Long Haulthen certainly in it for some time yet. Thank you very much for being for some time yet. Thank you very much for being right for some time yet. Thank you very much for being right with for some time yet. Thank you very much for being right with us for some time yet. Thank you very much for being right with us from | much for being right with us from jerusalem. This conflict has taken another dangerous turn. Violence has broken out between dues and arabs in some of the worst conflict he seen in years. Videos are being widely shared. When attack was caught on tv. Before we see it, a warning that this is shocking. We are seeing Jewish Israelis are packing a driver which is a coastal city south of tel aviv. According to local media, the first attack arab owned property before turning on the driver. These next pictures of the incident are also distressing. This is before the group attacked and as you can see that driver is reversing from crowds. He is stopped by another car and he drives towards them and stops and he drives towards them and stops and then is pulled from his car and be thin. The crowd says the man was trying to ram them but that is disputed. Then we have these pictures from the town. This is really restaurants was destroyed in riots between arabs and dues. 0ne jewish manager pointed me in serious condition after being attacked with sticks and rocks. Israels president describes the outbreak as centreleft civil war. Describes the outbreak as centreleft civilwar. It describes the outbreak as centreleft civil war. It is israels Prime Minister. Civil war. It is israels Prime Minister civil war. It is israels Prime Minister. ,. , minister. This is anarchy. Nothing can usti minister. This is anarchy. Nothing can justify it minister. This is anarchy. Nothing can justify it i minister. This is anarchy. Nothing canjustify it. Iwill minister. This is anarchy. Nothing canjustify it. Iwilltell minister. This is anarchy. Nothing can justify it. I will tell you minister. This is anarchy. Nothing canjustify it. I will tell you more. Can justify it. I will tell you more than that. Nothing canjustify can justify it. I will tell you more than that. Nothing can justify a lynching ofjewish people by arabs and Nothing Canjustify a lynching of Arabs Byjewish people. We will not accept this. This is not us. Not a silence, not for savagery. We will bring back the reins to israels cities everywhere, in all cities. Aha, cities everywhere, in all cities. A Member Of Parliament had different words to describe whats happening. They told the bbc that he is stoking violence for personal reasons. Have a listen. ,. Violence for personal reasons. Have alisten. A listen. There is a political intention a listen. There is a political intention by a listen. There is a political intention by their a listen. There is a political intention by their prime a listen. There is a political intention by their Prime Minister netanyahu and his ministers to escalate the situation more and more. If the debate in israel and that discussion and attention was between the camp and the other camp they wanted to divert it into a kind of war. A citizen mark between jewish people and arabs. If those organised groups with weapons are still going to continue like this and are so afraid that we can lose control on the situation and it can become something really bad. Irate control on the situation and it can become something really bad. We have seen violence become something really bad. We have seen violence in become something really bad. We have seen violence in the become something really bad. We have seen violence in the centre become something really bad. We have seen violence in the centre of become something really bad. We have seen violence in the centre of the seen violence in the centre of the city of god there a State Of Emergency is in place. Mi city of god there a State Of Emergency is in place. All around the town yet emergency is in place. All around the town yet but emergency is in place. All around the town yet but Scenes Emergency is in place. All around the town yet but scenes like emergency is in place. All around the town yet but scenes like this. It looks like a wise zone. You have got burnt out cars, curb stones are being ripped up in all the rioting taking place and they are scorched buildings just along the street here a Jewish School was set on fire next to the synagogue. And now, there is a lot of police all around on the street corners, residents are very nervous. I spoke to onejewish mother. She told me she had always known there were tensions here. She felt they were under the surface and under control. We spoke to some of the arab residents and palestinian citizens of israel. They say they have known there was this anger under the surface ready to erupt at any time. They have long felt like there was discrimination against them and they were second class citizens in israel. At the same time as all of this is playing out locally we had reminders of the conflict still going on within israel and militants in gaza with the rocket fire from the gaza strip and thatjust made loud explosions over our heads. Over our heads. During the wire surrounding over our heads. During the wire surrounding the over our heads. During the wire surrounding the creation over our heads. During the wire surrounding the creation of over our heads. During the wire i surrounding the creation of israel in 1948, Hundreds Of Thousands of arabs were forced from or fled their homes. Those who stayed in what became israel and their ancestors have been granted Israeli Citizenship and are known as israel arabs. Currently there are close to 2 million Israeli Arabs, 80 of them are muslim and the rest identified as either a question or dues. Most Israeli Arabs identify strongly with palestinians in gaza and in the occupied west bank and call themselves palestinian citizens of israel. We spoke to the ceo of the abraham initiatives. Its a Group Promoting Equality Forjewish and arab citizens. These are his concerns. Arab citizens. These are his concerns arab citizens. These are his concerns. ,. , concerns. The bottom line is that we are extremely concerns. The bottom line is that we are extremely worried. Concerns. The bottom line is that we are extremely worried. All concerns. The bottom line is that we are extremely worried. All of concerns. The bottom line is that we are extremely worried. All of those l are extremely worried. All of those who are worried about the integrity of israel passed by society and coexistence between the jewish majority and palestinian minority within israel. There are 20 Israeli Citizens who are palestinians and everything seems to fall apart. There are thousands and thousands of points between jewish there are thousands and thousands of points betweenjewish people and arabs within israel, and universities and colleges and Shopping Centres and workplaces, government ministries, and those Contact Points are becoming very dangerous stuff there are confrontations, hostilities, coming from one community to another and this is very stressful. That feeling is that we are deteriorating into a situation that reminds us all of the balkans years ago. Its very troubling. Theres been no let up in the conflict in gaza. Israel has intensified its bombardments its now hitting hamas intelligence buildings and civilian banks. This air strike struck this morning on the first day of eid the Muslim Festival that marks the end of ramadan. Massive devastation. Meanwhile hamas is continuing to fire rockets deep into israel. Its also using drones. This is said to show hamas militants preparing a Suicide Drone Attack towards israel. This is unverified flakes released by the hamas war office. Unverified footage. No let up in fighting. And no let up in rhetoric. Heres Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The defensive actions of batteries. Ave the defensive actions of batteries gave us the defensive actions of batteries gave us face the defensive actions of batteries gave us face amount the defensive actions of batteries gave us face amount of the defensive actions of batteries gave us face amount of attacks. L gave us face amount of attacks. Theyve gave us face amount of attacks. 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Everyone has chosen one way a hamas spokesperson. Everyone has chosen one way to a hamas spokesperson. Everyone has chosen one way to resist a hamas spokesperson. Everyone has chosen one way to resist but a hamas spokesperson. Everyone has chosen one way to resist but we a hamas spokesperson. Everyone has chosen one way to resist but we have | chosen one way to resist but we have always resisted this and again the key is simple, to move their forces and to stop ethnic cleansing. Thats it. Israel has moved troops towards the gaza border as it prepare for all eventualities and an escalation. 0ur correspondent Rushdi Abu Aloaf is in gaza with this update. Today in the morning there was a little bit of a brief calm. We saw some people out and about in the streets. I saw some people going to stock up for the night but very quickly the sound of rockets and the sound of air will push people again to go back to their homes. They were shocked by the destruction and the scale of the fire both from israel and from the Militancy Group here and from the Militancy Group here and they remind the people of the Air Force Team and this is really very worrying. The conflict has been going on for four days straight. Weve been hearing from residents living in both gaza and in israel. This is amit aaron son. Hes injaffa and has been showing the bbc how he is keeping safe. This is the entrance to our apartment safe unit. There is one door which is steel and its blast proof. You can it slides open and there is another actual door. The room as you can see he has an Air Filtration System in case we need to see in it and then there is normal looking window. You can see that blue beautiful skyline of tel aviv but you can close they shutter and theres another shutter made from steel which is splash proof and you have to close it and close the window. We have a triple layer of protection inside the apartment protection inside the apartment protection and the apartment safe room. And this is ihab sulaiman in northern gaza. This area right now what i am talking to you i can hear heavy bombings nearby and around. Its terrifying attacks. Their light sounds of death february. We cannot have a blink of an eye. We pressed many speaking i am up at 7am in the morning and this is what i could do. For my children things are horrible. Children and kids can never bear this heavy bombing everywhere. We just had to calm them down, this is all we could do. They seek is supposed to be valued and we could say the best location for them instead of having a beautiful time and keeping them as memories. Whats happening right now in gaza is more bombing and missiles everywhere. This creates a sense of horror inside every child in gaza. Gaza is a strip of land bordering egypt, israel and the meditarranean. Its only 360 kilometres square and much poorer and smaller than the west bank. The territory is one of the most densely Populated Areas of the world. 1. 9 Million People live here. 1. 4 million are registered as refugees. Hamas reinforced its power in gaza in 2007 after ousting its palestinian rival, fatah. Since then israeli sanctions on the strip have tightened. There are restrictions on peoples movement, goods and fishing. Theres no dispute that israel is the far greater power here. Heres Foreign Affairs analyst, jonathan marcus, on that. This is a tool to the asymmetric and imbalanced struggle. Israel is a Regional Military power. It has technology in many senses equivalent of that of the United States and other highly developed countries. We see them using their airpower, largely fixed wing aircraft and helicopters as well, i dont know. It obviously has a very sophisticated intelligence gathering capabilities. Its a bit of a remarkable archive of intelligence on the gaza strip. And the fact that a number of senior hamas commanders have been killed. It believes its destroying Weapons Stories and Weapons Factories and so on. In terms of a balance of power, there simply is no balance. Israel is overwhelmingly the more powerful after here and while palestinian rockets can clearly cause deaths, damage, and casualties inside israel, the longer the struggle goes on, its going to get much worse. The imbalance of casualties, we see that in balance of casualties already. On that point the disproportionate number of palestinian deaths was put to israels defence spokesman. This was his response. Hamas purposely embeds its Military Infrastructure within the civilian population creating an almost impossible situation where they are using Palestinian Civilians as their Human Shields while the fire rockets at i civilians. Let me reiterate, we are careful and mindful of civilian casualties in gaza and we are going out of our way to minimise them. We understand the situation and we dont want to hurt other people. But, when it all comes down, we have to defend ourselves. We have to defend our civilians and we simply cannot tolerate those kinds of attacks. As casualties and deaths mount International Efforts to stem the violence are being stepped up. The us president is sending a Special Envoy whos due in the region soon. Heres Barbara Plett usher in washington on his role. The un play as there are pretty uplifting and affairs, he is very experienced. He has up until now been working on the palestinian side to try to ties were broken under their trump administration. So, to try to ties were broken under theirtrump administration. So, he knows that brief and he knows the file very well and hes a mid level diplomat and what analysts here have pointed out is that he does not really have a diplomatic heft to change the directory of those on the ground are interested in doing so. Unless perhaps he is carrying a personal message from the president which may be the case although we have not been told that is the case. Here, the message has been very much of strong support for israels right to self defense. The secretary has inserted language about crediting human rights and hes inserted calls for caution on the israeli side about civilian casualties but both here and at the white house its been a very strong statement that it israelis have the right to self defense. It is really keeping in the way administrations have responded to conflicts between israel and gaza and past administrations, at least in the initial phases and thats where they are standing right now. The electric Car Company Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment. Back in march, its ceo elon musk said that people could buy a car using the cryptocurrency but he was criticsed for not considering bitcoins Environmental Impact. Now elon musk says he goes on cryptocurrency heres our new York Business correspondent michelle fleury. I have but to say, from wall street to silicon valley, there are a lot of people scratching their heads trying to figure this out. Im seeing lots of speculation about what might be behind it but really its a lot of people throwing stuff to the walls and seeing if anything will stick. The truth as you rightly point out is the way that the claims are mind as it were involves a lot of energy. Computers do in comp problem is that there are a lot of energy. There is a study suggesting that bitcoins uses as much energy as the entire country of argentina. Questions have been raised but this was true back in february, we knew a lot of this information when he said he was in favour of crypto currency and decline bitcoin so its not sure whats changed. The accounting side of this. You dont get the games but you have to book the loss is when you account for crypto currency. Did that have an impact . A lot of speculation and a lot of head scratching. No one quite clear whats going on. The process of creating bitcoin known as mining needs enormous computing power. That means lots of these giant data centres which use a lot of electricity and that s led to criticism of Bitcoin S Impact on the environment. An extremely inefficient way of conducting transactions and the amount of energy that consumes in processing those transactions and staggering. Its unclear exactly how much Energy Bitcoin uses. Cryptocurrencies are decentralised and so by design are hard to track. But the consensus is that Bitcoin Mining is very energy intensive. Look at this graph of annual power consumption. Estimates vary but this one by the bbc puts bitcoin on par with The Netherlands. But it didn t used to be on this scale. In the beginning you just had people maintaining that bitcoin on their laptops and computers. There are was relatively easy to get one. Now though with the popularity and profitability of bitcoin at an all time high, the scale has shifted to another level. Data centres all over the world are mining for bitcoin. 75 of the processing on bitcoin is done in china and two thirds of chinas electricity comes from coal. That means the electricity that bitcoin uses mostly comes from one of the most polluting energy sources. Which leads to whether this is just how cryptocurrencies will be. Some argue newer cryptocurrencies are better. Most of the major new crypto currency are proof of state, polka dot included, as such they use extremely little energy. Way more efficient than any alternative, whether it is crypto currency or centralised currency. Inevitably though as bitcoin expands and becomes more valuable, the computing effort needed to create and maintain it and the energy used to do that will increase. And that looks like a problem. This analyst argues if bitcoin were to be adopted as a global reserve currency, 0k, is bitcoin worse than many other computing tasks. Let s go back to that graph from earlier. Yes bitcoin uses about the same energy as The Netherlands but it s eclipsed by data centres. They account more than energy than thailand and it has a population 4 times higher than the The Netherlands. And data centres are essential to the internet they form the cloud where everything we put online, including this video, is saved. You and the cloud is only getting bigger and bigger. So while the bitcoin may be hit by its Energy Consumption the issue of the Environmental Impact of our digital lives is far greater than one currency. Now to a political scandal here in the uk. The former Prime Minister David Cameron said he believes he was acting in the Public Interest when he lobbied ministers and senior Civil Servants on behalf of the collapsed financial company, greensill capital. 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In the north or south it would be around six by 9 degrees. Here is the weather map for friday. As a way to assist in my direction but it will not arrive until friday night into saturday. Friday, a quiet day, not a completely dry day. After that really great drizzle start in places. It would be murky as well. Ascension will develop across western areas. But it will spark off some heavy showers. Anywhere from westin scotland, northern ireland, the district, wales, and the south. Many central and eastern areas and should have a dry day. It would be cloudy. Eventually friday night into saturday, the Weather Front will move through. It will bring a set of heavy rain i think early in the morning on saturday. Even once the Weather Front moves through your area, the chances are heavy showers will follow. This is what it looks like early in the day. Here is the Weather Front moving through giving us a soaking for a time and then dysfunction will come out. It help to develop heavy showers initially across wales and the south and then the showers through the day will spread north. So a really volatile atmosphere sitting on top of us during the weekend. Notjust saturday but throughout sunday as well. 0ut saturday but throughout sunday as well. Out of the two, sunday will be the day with the Decay Showers and the day with the Decay Showers and the biggest employees on thunder and lightning. This unsettled weather is expected to last into the week ahead as well. Heres a look at the outlet into next week. You can see plenty of showers symbols here. It will change from day to day as the weather app on your smartphone continually updates the forecast for your individual locations and suffice it to say very unsettled. Hello, im ros atkins, this is 0utside source. No let up in the fighting in the middle east. For the fourth day, israelis and palestinians have exchanged fire. More than 90 people have died, most of them palestinians. 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Whats happening here countries. This is not an indian problem. Whats happening here could affect the worlds ability to recover from the pandemic. Affect the worlds ability to recoverfrom the pandemic. Hind recover from the pandemic. And nasas 10 recover from the pandemic. And nasas 10 billion gold coated replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope prepares for its final journey before launch. Lets update you now on the pandemic. Well start in india, where more than 4000 people have died in the past 24 hours. One of the states seeing the sharpest surges is west bengal. From the state s capital, kolkata, Yogita Limaye reports. 1000 miles from delhi, kolkata. Look at this. A frighteningly busy market in a region were covid has surged nearly 80 times and in the past two months. People here are scared, but they have to work to eat. And this is the cost. In the entrance of a Public Hospital nearby, people are already struggling to get basic care. 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Covid has rates places families live together in one room. Distancing is impossible. This mans father died of covid. They spent the only money they had to try to save him. As it spreads unchecked, the virus is taking on new, more worrying forms. The highly infectious variant that is spreading through india has now reached more than 40 countries around the world, including the uk. This is not an indian problem, whats happening here could affect the worlds ability to recover from the pandemic. I spoke to this doctor, the World Health Organizations chief scientist. Why should the world care about what is happening in india right now . In india right now . There is a virus does not respect in india right now . There is a virus does not respect borders, in india right now . There is a virus does not respect borders, doesnt| does not respect borders, doesnt respect nationalities. It spreads before you know it that it at the spreading. If it keeps on replicating and multiplying, the number of variants is going to keep increasing, and these variants will ultimately spread across the world. We will not be able to stop that from happening. The we will not be able to stop that from happening we will not be able to stop that from happening. We will not be able to stop that from haueninu. ,. , from happening. The only way out is to immunise from happening. The only way out is to immunise this from happening. The only way out is to immunise this vast from happening. The only way out is to immunise this vast population. I to immunise this vast population. But vaccine supply is critically low. This country will need billions of doses. It is hard to see how it can do it alone. There are growing concerns of what the india variant means for the course of the pandemic. The dots on this map show the countries where it has been detected. Heres more from Health Correspondent Catherine Burns with radiance, there are three things we need to ask yourself does it cause more severe disease . That doesnt seem to be the case with this one. The second is, does it have any kind of negative, could fight harder against vaccines . It is early days, we dont know for certain. There are signs to be optimistic there. The third one, and i think this is key, is it more infectious, how does it spread . We already know it spreads at least as quickly as a kent variant, which has become dominant in the uk, and it seems it could spread considerably faster. So, the indian variant may be able to spread quicker than other variants. But lets have a look at the other two points that catherine mentioned that some fully vaccinated people are being infected and the severity of illness people are experiencing when that happens. In india, official figures claim two to four vaccinated people out of 10,000 are been infected. That is to be expected as the vaccines are on average around 80 effective. However, 60 of doctors in one covid 19 Intensive Care Unit in delhi were infected even after being fully vaccinated. So questions remain about the degree to which the vaccines are stopping infection. There is also more evidence around the impact on illness. Professor Ravindra Gupta is investigating new strains of covid. Some of the permutations allowed it vires to personally escape from some of the antibodies we make, but we do have obviously very high levels of antibodies after vaccination. There does not seem to be an increased risk of severe illness in people who have been vaccinated, so although the virus has been shown to affect individuals who are vaccinated, it doesnt lead to severe illness, and so therefore at an individual level, we should all be vaccinated because it will protect us against the severe effects of the virus, even if it is able to avoid some of antibody responses. Concerns about the india variant are growing. This is the frontpage of the i newspaper here in the uk today. It says fears for end of lockdown after variant cases triple. Last week, it was labelled a strain of concern by Public Health england. And its been linked to outbreaks in glasgow and these other places in the uk. In blackburn, in the north of england, all adults over 18 will now be offered the vaccine to try to stop the spread. And the group of scientists and Health Experts who form the uks Sage Committee met today to talk about the risk. Heres Health Secretary matt hancock. We are worried about the rise in the indian variant. We have seen what has happened in india, for the number of cases has risen very, very sharp, and we are putting in enhance Contact Tracing so that people who Test Positive, and if they Test Positive for this variant, get extra support to make sure that we slow the spread. Now, measuring the death toll of the pandemic is difficult. Offically, there have beenjust over 3. 3 Million Deaths of covid so far, but in order to count in those numbers there has to have been a positive test. So, it misses out a lot of deaths that happened in countries that couldnt or wouldnt test. For those, you need to look at access debts. Access to it being just beyond what you would expect apartment in a normal year. New research from The Economist predicts the true death toll could be between 7. 9 to 12 million. Sondre solstad is a Data Journalist who worked on the modelling. Hejoins me now. Tell us how you came to that figure, please. Tell us how you came to that figure, lease. ,. ,. ,. ,. , please. Yes, in order to arrive at that figure. Please. Yes, in order to arrive at that figure, one please. Yes, in order to arrive at that figure, one needs please. Yes, in order to arrive at that figure, one needs to please. Yes, in order to arrive atj that figure, one needs to protect access debts where they are unknown. Unfortunately all countries submit that data, and those that do dont do in a timely fashion. We collected data on 121 indicators ranging for official covid deaths to demography to geography and use that to detect patterns between execs debts in these indicators, and then we estimate the debts when they were unknown, allowing us to estimate the true death toll of the pandemic. I5 true death toll of the pandemic. Is it your view that these calculations are more accurate than the official statistics that we are being given . Certainly. The official statistics have to be under counts. To give you one example, in africa, the current official death toll is about 1. 1 billion, whereas we know that in south africa alone, access debts number over 150,000. find south africa alone, access debts number over 150,000. And when you roduced number over 150,000. And when you produced these number over 150,000. And when you produced these findings, number over 150,000. And when you produced these findings, are number over 150,000. And when you produced these findings, are you i produced these findings, are you getting a positive reaction from the world health organization, from Health Bodies and governments . Do they look at it and take it seriously or do they reject your more severe calculations . Mr; seriously or do they reject your more severe calculations . My belief is that this is more severe calculations . My belief is that this is welcome. More severe calculations . My belief is that this is welcome. It more severe calculations . My belief is that this is welcome. It is more severe calculations . My belief is that this is welcome. It is no i is that this is welcome. It is no secret that not every death is counted, and i think they are able to see it is important to try to count all the uncounted. What about the idea that count all the uncounted. What about the idea that some count all the uncounted. What about the idea that some of count all the uncounted. What about the idea that some of the count all the uncounted. What about the idea that some of the deaths i the idea that some of the deaths that have been recorded as covid deaths perhaps not because people may be seriously ill with other things, but if they have a positive test, it goes down as a covid deaths. ,. ,. , ,. ,. , deaths. Yes, and that is precisely a really good deaths. Yes, and that is precisely a really good reason deaths. Yes, and that is precisely a really good reason to deaths. Yes, and that is precisely a really good reason to use deaths. Yes, and that is precisely a really good reason to use access i really good reason to use access deaths instead of official covid deaths. In order to count as an official covid deaths, you have to be tested positive, but it could very well be that some of those who have died from covid would have died anyway, since the pandemic began until now. Excess deaths get around this issue, because we look at deaths compared to what you would expect, arriving at the true toll of the pandemic. For instance, in some countries, there is a deficit of deaths this year, because steps were taken to shutdown for covid, and Infectious Diseases were reduced, and we see less Road Accidents as people work from home. This is only countries that were extremely mildly hit by covid, such as new zealand and japan. Hit by covid, such as new zealand and jaan. ~ hit by covid, such as new zealand and jaan. , ~ i. Hit by covid, such as new zealand andjaan. , ~ , hit by covid, such as new zealand andjaan. ~ ,. And japan. Thank you very much indeed. The us now. The Republican Party faces a choice as it seeks to gain power again. Congresswoman liz cheney represents one of the options. I will do everything i can to ensure that the former president never again get anywhere near the oval office. It s a choice donald trump recognised when choosing his targets back in february. Liz cheney, how about that . And this week, liz cheney was sacked as the third ranking republican in congress. House republican leader Kevin Mccarthy told us hed. But what is the message . And why were they concerned about liz cheney . Donald trumer greeted her sacking with a Tweet Calling her a warmonger. Liz cheney is the daughter of dick cheney, who was Vice President when the us invaded iraq in 2002. She also worked for the administration. Maybe iraq, 18 years ago, is the reason. Liz cheney and donald trump have clashed on this before. Maybe it s that she s not conservative enough. Conservatives dont care about whether or not liz cheney is talking clap about donald trump or not, be clear about the fact that she has never been a true conservative, people who say she is a truly laughable. Hervoting people who say she is a truly laughable. Her voting record, she doesnt Stand Up And Fight for anything that matters to true conservatives. Maybe that is the reason. But look at this. Five thirty eight shows us that liz cheney voted in line with trump 93 of the time. Perhaps, instead, some republicans really do care about what s said about trump, because the sacking of liz cheney and the choice facing republicans surely routes back to january 6th. For two months, donald trump told his supporters the election was stolen. Some of them acted and stormed the capitol to make the point. And liz cheney was clear none of this would have happened without the president. And she s continued in that vein. Last week, liz cheney wrote that republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth. She said the party is an anti democratic trump cult of personality. And as her sacking loomed, she said this. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president s said to undermine our democracy. Bear all of that criticism in mind as we listen to this republican welcoming her sacking. We are in the minority. We are trying to get the majority, we are trying to get the majority, we are trying to get the majority, we are trying to put forward their ideas to the american people, and they cannot do that if every time we go out there and take the microphone we are distracted by this issue. And so we need to have a unified leadership voice. But what is described there as a distraction is a senior republican asking her party where it stands on false claims, an election was stolen and on the man making them. It s a concern Kevin Mccarthy would recognise. At the time, he said. And so what is called a distraction is perhaps also a test. Will republicans abandon a man whose Conspiracy Theories have reduced some americans faith in their democracy . This week, we got more answers. Congressman matt gaetz retweeted an axios article describes the Cheney Sacking as a victory for him and his pro trump allies. No doubt it is. Donald trump himself released a statement, saying. And congressman Madison Crawthorne tweeted. And let s be clear, republicans politicians are notjust aligning with trump they re aligning with Many Republican voters. This poll found that 50 of Republican Voters thought cheney should be sacked. 18 wanted her to stay. And remember, this recent survey found that 70 of republicans believe that joe biden did not win the election. 70 . That s why liz cheneys critique is notjust a distraction. Its notjust about the rights and wrongs of a political ousting its about whether a Political Party and its supporters embrace or at least tolerate an imagined reality and the man who is creating it. For his part, the man in the middle of this donald trump is at his resort in mar a lago in florida. And hes still keen to talk about the election. Here s tmz sharing a video in which mr trump makes a speech at a wedding. We hear him at bidens iran policy, and the election result. And then he says the couple are beautiful. Theres also theres another video where the man who was president Injanuary Stands on a patio in front of a drum kit and to a small crowd turns to some similar themes. Lets see what they found. I wouldnt be surprised if they find thousands and thousands of votes, so were going to watch very closely. And we will watch pennsylvania and you are going to Watch Georgia and wisconsin, and youre watching New Hampshire as the counter lots of votes up in New Hampshire. Because this was a great diligent. Everybody knows that. This was a rigged election. And with that mr trump wrapped up, the crowd waited for the band, and the former President S Search goes on for the votes which don t exist. And despite the false election claims, the capitol, the constant looking back, trump remains central to the republicans future. Since he left office, Kevin Mccarthy visited former Press Secretary and now politician Sarah Huckerbee sanders. She s been too. So has senator ted cruz. It s all too much for some republicans. Peter wehner served various republicans administrations and has written of his party. And the media commentator jay rosen talks of the party being counterfactual, of needing fiction to pursue its political battles. Certainly, you could be forgiven for being confused by the republicans. Standing with president biden, Kevin Mccarthy said this. I dont think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the president ial election. This is disorientating, because it s not all over with. Kevin mccarthy knows that Many Americans question the legitimacy of the election. He knows that they do so because of donald trump. And he knows he sjust overseen the sacking of liz cheney, at least in part, because she opposed trump saying questioning the legitimacy of the election. And if that has your head spinning, this from senator Lindsay Graham helps. He told fox news. And if you factor that in, its possible to conclude that, this week, the republicans chose a dual reality strategy for success. One that must try and accommodate both the real world and the world donald trump describes. That choice takes american further into unchartered water. Stay with us on outside source still to come. We are going to talk about nasa, because its bagged lunch this year is in final testing. Part of the river tame in Greater Manchester has been named as the most plastic polluted riverbed in the uk. A study carried out across the river revealed very high concentrations of tiny plastic particles that Scientists Say have come from sewage. Victoria gill has more. Capturing a snapshot of the plastic pollution in our rivers. This spot on the river tame has the most plastic polluted riverbed in the uk. Weve got a couple of microbeads in here. And Scientists Say theyve now zoomed in on the source of all that plastic. There are up to Three Million microplastic particles per day can be coming out of this outfall under given conditions. So its very, very clear that microplastics are coming from combined Sewer Overflows like the one behind me, or from outfalls directly from waste Water Treatment plants. Untreated waste water is waste with both raw sewage and microplastics fragments of packaging, coatings and fibres from our homes, and plastic debris from industry thats washed down the drain. But treating that waste water, the researchers say, would remove most of those particles. The fact that they accumulate in the riverbed shows that untreated sewage is being released frequently. Theres plenty of signs of pollution in this water and along these river banks, but this is just a classic semi urban river, typical of anywhere in the uk. And what the Scientists Say is that wherever untreated sewage is being released into our rivers, its bringing large quantities of microplastic. The Water Company that operates the Treatment Plants on this river, united utilities, declined an interview but told us they didnt fully accept the findings. In a statement, the company said. We recognise we have a role to play and are involved in a wider study to understand the sources of microplastics in the environment. The sediments where Microplastics Settle are the foundation of a rivers ecosystem, and the Scientists Say that plastic is adding just another layer of pollution to an already damaged river environment. Victoria gill, bbc news. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Israel says it has hit a hammers Intelligence Facility with a dozen of operatives inside as a continuous air strikes in gaza. Eight hamas Intelligence Facility. Final tests are taking place on a new Space Telescope thatll be nasas biggest launch this year. This is the james webb Space Telescope. It cost 10 billion dollars and has taken decades to get to this point. What were seeing here is its final testing. That mirror thats being unfolded will collect light being emitted from distant galaxies. Those panels look golden because they are coated, in gold. And protecting that mirror on the bottom of the animation Here Is A Sun Shield the size of a tennis court. Its so big it has to be folded to fit in the rocket that will take it up to space. The telescope should be able to see so far, it will observe objects that are nearly as old as the universe itself. Thats one mission objective. This is another the Giant Mirrorand the giant mirror and infrared coverage will let scientists probe atmospheres of actual plan is to look for water, carbon dioxide, method and other compounds that could indicate habitability. In other words, exploring the atmospheres of worlds that could host life. This is the hubble observatory, nasas Current Space telescope, which this new one will replace. Its probably time for an upgrade, hubble was launched 31 years ago. The images that hubble has sent during its long life have enabled scientists to learn more about black holes, dark matter and to discover two new moons of pluto. These are recent pictures ofjupiter. The newjames Webb Telescope is in california at the moment, it will soon be put in a large container and onto a ship to french guiana, where its due for launch at the end of october, on a rocket belonging to the European Space agency. Thank you very much forjoining us. Just help us understand the process. 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Friday, there is a Weather System approaching us, but that wont arrive until friday night into saturday, so friday, a quieter day. Not to completely dry day after that really great, drizzly start in places, murk it as well. The sunshine will develop, in western areas, but that is going to spark off some heavier showers, anywhere from western scotland, northern ireland, the lake district, wales and the south. Many central and eastern areas should have a dry day, but it is cloudy. Eventually, friday night into saturday, the Weather Front moves through, that will bring a spellar project heavy rain early in the morning on saturday, and even once the Weather Front moves through your area, the chances are heavy showers will follow. So, this is what it looks like earlier in the day. He was a Weather Front moving giving us a soaking time, and then sunshine comes out and it helps to develop heavy showers initially across wales and the size, and then the showers through the day will spread northwards. So, a really volatile atmosphere on top of us during the weekend, Notjust Subtlety but throughout sunday as well. In fact, subtlety but throughout sunday as well. Infact, out subtlety but throughout sunday as well. In fact, out of the two, sunday is probably going to be the day with the biggest share the biggest downpours, and the thunder and lightning. And thus unsettled weather is expected to last into the week ahead as well. Next week, you can see plenty of showers. This will change from day to day as the weather app on your smartphone continually updates the forecast for your individual location, but suffice to say, very unsettled. This is bbc news. The headlines at eight. 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I accept that there is a strong argument i accept that there is a strong argument having a former Prime Minister argument having a former Prime Minister engage in behalf of any commercial interest, no matter how laudable commercial interest, no matter how laudable the motives, can be open to misinterpretation. Israel has called up thousands of reservists. Its military is reported to be considering a Ground Invasion into gaza. This comes after palestinians continue Firing Barrages of rockets into israel, mostly at tel aviv