Im shaun ley. We start with the Breaking News that israeli forces have intensified their assault on the Gaza Strip. It comes as palestinians flee their homes, fearing a ground attack. The israeli Defence Forces say that Air And Ground troops are currently attacking in the palestinian controlled enclave. Earlier, multiple missiles were launched by palestinian forces inside gaza, towards israel, and israeli Air Strikes on gaza. Now 103 have been reported killed there since monday. Seven people have died in israel. And sectarian Clashes Betweenjewish and arab citizens who live Side By side, on the streets of tel aviv, Lod And Beyond have intensified amid warnings of civil war. The bbc� s middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen is injerusalem. Palestinian families are fleeing their homes in Northern Gaza this evening. They told the bbc they were escaping heavy israeli shellfire. Dozens of civilians were killed in their area in the 2014 war, so they left in a hurry, with their children still in their new clothes they were given for The End of ramadan. One man said the criminal occupation shows them no mercy. A renewal of the war between hamas and israel was always likely. The unexpected frontline on the streets of israel was not. Sectarian violence between israeli citizens brings a new and vicious dimension. Not all israelis arejews. Around 20 are palestinian arabs. Young men have been on the prowl for people to attack. Jews versus arabs, arabs versus jews, all israeli citizens. President warned the country should not abandon itself to civil war. As for the other war, it was a day for decisions. Among the hamas leaders assassinated by israel this week were top commanders. Will that deter another escalation . Probably not. Israel has to decide whether it wants to follow Artillery And Air attacks with a Ground Assault against hamas inside gaza. That has been part of the pattern during 15 years of intermittent warfare between them. Israel has called up 7,000 reservists. In jerusalem, Tens Of Thousands of palestinians came to pray at islams holiest place after mecca and medina. In this city, religion is intertwined with politics, nationalism and power. The banners that celebrate hamas and its leaders, who wanted the people there to see them as the only true guardians of palestinian rights injerusalem. It was eid al fitr, the holiday that marks The End of ramadan. It is meant to be a party. Parents tried to make it fun. There is nothing right now to celebrate for the palestinian President Mahmoud abbas, upstaged by his hamas rivals. No peace, Security Or Stability as possible, he said, welljerusalem is occupied by israel. This War Mightjust save benjamin netanyahus career. He was about to lose his job last weekend. He is still in political trouble but now he has soldiers to congratulate and his rivals are quiet. The Prime Minister said the fight against hamas would take time, but israel would decisively restore acquired. It is a modest war aim, he will need more to tell israelis before this can end. Especially in sderot, the town closest to gaza. A five Year Boy was killed after a Rocket Hit his building. His neighbours have had enough. It is very, very difficult to live under these circumstances and the government should wipe out gaza, should wipe out gaza, once and for all. Right across israel and the occupied territories this week, there is serious violence. This was the town of Hebron Last Night on the occupied west bank. Young palestinians and israelis, confronting each other, another generation cursed by the failures of its leaders. Lets bring you some live pictures now from Gaza City its been lit up time from time by explosions. And remind you of that Breaking News israeli Defence Forces say that Air And Ground troops are currently attacking in the palestinian controlled enclave. Its in response to a new barrage of Rocket Fire from the hamas Run Enclave in a conflict that has now claimed over 100 palestinian lives. Israeli planes and troops on the ground are carrying out an attack in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Army said in a brief message. The Reuters News Agency says there is some confusion here. That there is Artillery Fire but no reports in of israelis inside gaza. Reuters today based on conversations with people in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of friday morning. They are suggesting that its possible that the Air Attacks have been joined that its possible that the Air Attacks have beenjoined by Artillery Offences but that does not yet made the troops are moved in. It may well do the troops do move in subsequently. But we were basing that on the tweet which was quoted. This is from his israeli Defence Forces and quoted by the afp news agency. Little over an hour ago. We have some contradiction but some of that is the Fog Of War and the more we get information up and the more we get information up to date we will bring it to you here on the bbc world news. Every day, india is recording nearly as many Covid I9 cases as every other country in The World put together. In the past 2a hours, more than 4,000 people have died from the virus. Hospitals in many parts of the country are being overrun. One of the states seeing the most dramatic surges is west bengal, governed by a regional political party. From the state s capital kolkata, Yogita Limaye reports. 1,000 miles from delhi kolkata. Look at this. A frighteningly busy market in a region where covid has surged nearly 80 times 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. All the beds here, hundreds, are already full. And the sick keep coming. I dont know how long we can continue like this, says this doctor. Even a war comes to an end, but here it is wave after wave. One in six people in The World live in india. And kolkata is among its most densely populated cities. Covid has reached places where families live together in one room homes. Distancing is impossible. Amit and aartis 63 year old father died of covid. They spent the only money they had on trying 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 a0 countries Around The World including the uk. This is not an indian problem. What is happening here could affect the Worlds Ability to recoverfrom the pandemic. I spoke to dr soumya swaminathan, the World Health organizations chief scientist. Why should the World Care about what is happening in india right now . This virus does not respect borders. It doesnt respect nationalities. It spreads before you know that it is spreading. If the virus 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 only way out is to immunise this vast population, but Vaccine Supply is critically low. This country will need billions of doses. Its hard to see how it can do it alone. Yogita limaye, bbc news, kolkata. Portugal has extended its Coronavirus Alert Level until The End of may raising questions over whether people from the uk will be able to travel there from next week. Portugal is one ofjust 12 countries on the uks green list which means you dont have to quarantine on return. 0ur transport correspondent, caroline davies, has the latest. There are over 20 departures set to go from the uk to portugal on monday. The portuguese Government Hasnt announced either way whether it is going to let Uk Tourists into the country on monday the 17th, but bear in mind that is just over three days away. The green list was announced last week, only 12 countries and territories on there, including places like australia and new zealand, which are not allowing british tourists in at the moment so the industry has really staked its hopes on portugal. We heard that portugal has decided to extend the state of calamity, is he calls it, until the 30th of may. Nonessential travel is not allowed into portugal and when the Cabinet Minister was asked if Uk Tourists would be allowed in on the 17th, she said she had no information to give yet. What she did give information about was the uefa Champions League final, due to be played in portugal on the 29th of may. Anyone who is coming over from the uk will have to go on chartered flights, she said and had to leave within the same day, within 48 hours and remain in what she called a bubble situation. Plenty in the Travel Industry desperately waiting to hear whether portugal is going to open up. The key thing here is quite how volatile the situation is for international travel. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come Sir Alex Ferguson on his illustrious career, life changing illness and the new film directed by his son that tells his story. The pope was shot, the pope will live. Thats the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon that, as an italian Television Commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. The man they call the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on Trial Today in the french town where he was the Gestapo Chief in the second world war. Winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years injail. The judge told Mrs Mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest remorse. The chinese government has called for an all out effort to help the victimsl of a powerful earthquake. The worst to hit the I Country for 30 years. The computer Deep Blue has tonight triumphed over the World Chess Champion garry kasparov. Its the first time A Machine has defeated a reigning World Champion in a classical chess match. Americas first legal same sex marriages have been taking place in massachusetts. God bless america cheering. This is bbc news, the latest headlines. The israeli Defence Forces say they are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip. It comes after another day of Air Raids on gaza, and multiple Missile Launches into israel by palestinian groups. 0fficialfigures show more than 4,000 died in india from covid, for the second day in a row. Indias highly infectious new variant has now been found in a0 other countries. The value of bitcoin The Worlds biggest Digital Currency has tumbled after Elon Musk, the chief executive of tesla, said the electric Car Company would no longer accept the cryptocurrency as payment. And its all because of fossil Fuels 0ur chief Environment Correspondent Justin rowlatt explains. Concerns about the environmental impact of crypto currencies. You will have heard of bitcoin for the biggest crypto of them all, it has seen its value sore in recent years. Look at this, you could have picked one up for 1 ten years ago, recently bitcoin Hit A Peak of 68,000. And that is in part because of support from Elon Musk, the boss of tesla. The electric Car Company said it would accept bitcoins for Car Purchases in march this year, but today Elon Musk performed a screeching u turn. Tesla has suspended Vehicle Purchases using bitcoin, he tweeted. We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of Fossil Fuels for Bitcoin Mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel. And its true. Bitcoin relies on the use of staggering amounts of energy, much of it from fossilfuels, and that is because of the Way Bitcoin is produced or mined. Its like a kind of Lottery Run every ten minutes. Computers Around The World compete to create a record of every transaction ever made in bitcoin. They also have to get a random number, get there first and you win the prize, six and a quarter bitcoins, today worth £250,000. The idea is, the more computers verify transactions, the more secure the currency is, and with such big cash on offer huge numbers of people are getting in on the game. The effort they are making is truly enormous. Bitcoin miners make some 160 quintillion calculations every second. That is 160 followed by 18 zeros and that takes a huge amount of electricity. The uk uses just over 300 terawatts hours of electricity a year and at the current Rate Bitcoin is using 150 terawatts hours a year, so that is half of what the uk uses and about half a percent of total world electricity use. We have a system with millions of devices all Around The World that are constantly generating a whole load of useless competitions and using a load of energy in doing that while bitcoin is in essence still very small at the moment. And researchers say at least a two thirds of that will have been generated from Fossil Fuels. Which is why bitcoin is such a huge source of Greenhouse Gas emissions. Something you may want to consider if you are thinking of buying the so called currency, and also something that would make scaling it up to be a World Currency on par with the Dollar Or Euro a real challenge. Lets bring you an update on our top story and that uncertainty over events in gaza amichai stein, diplomatic editor of israels public Broadcasting Corporation says an Idf Spokesperson has told them there has not been a Ground Incursion into gaza. Let me show you those pictures from gaza, this is the skyline over Gaza City in the early hours of friday morning. Not any sign of activity, it would be difficult to tell at this stage but the Reuters News Agency says that has spoken to people living in the Gaza Strip saying there is no sign of any military presence on the ground, no sign of incursion and now saying the news from israel public broadcasters saying that they have not sent troops into gaza but theres Artillery Fire and also Aerial Bombardment Taking place of Gaza City. Football and liverpool have given their chances of qualifying for next seasons Champions League a major boost after they beat Manchester United four two at old trafford. The game was supposed to have been played earlier this month but was delayed due to fan protests. There were similar scenes before thursdays match as united supporters continued to voice opposition to Club Owners the glazer family. But the game did go ahead and it was liverpool fans who were celebrating at the final whistle. One man who wont be happy with that result is former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. He enjoyed extraordinary success with the club and is now the subject of a new film charting his life and his recovery from a Brain Haemorrhage in 2018. Hes been talking to our Sports Editor Dan Roan about his career and the men who played for him. The players are inherited at aberdeen and Manchester United were strong and powerful, and it is changed, but it has become a more protective life nowadays, you know . And i know that with Social Media and things like that are supposed to solve all problems, but then the men, i was very lucky to inherit the of clear sighted in my earlier days. Do you think that you would find it harder as starting your managerial Career Today . Because the role of the managers seems to have shifted somewhat. I personally i dont think so. Ill tell you why i dont think so. I think its my personality. I think that its something in me that was bound to get me somewhere in life, you know . And im not being boastful here, but i think that i had that personality to do well and the drive to do well, and the hunger and the energy. I think there are people out there with the drive that you see with klopp, for instance. And the drive he has brought. And pep guardiola, Thejob He has done at city. There is a place for the people with the right credentials and the right material, and there are obstacles, but the good ones will find a way. You gave a quote recently around the super league. The Champions League final is the climax of the movie, and it builds to this crescendo, the whole film builds to that incredible moment. Which i suspect, even 22 years on used sometimes struggle to believe what happened that night. But the future of that tournament was obviously under threat up until recently. What did you make of that and what has happened since . Well, as a player i played in european football. The rangers. And as a manager i took a provincial club like aberdeen to beat Real Madrid in a final. Every club should have that dream to achieve what aberdeen did. So thats the answer. You cannot ever forget the real reason. That as a small as a guy can climb to the top of everest. And thats the best way i can put that. We cant do it without that, really. Sir Alex Ferguson speaking to our Sports Editor Dan Roan. In the us there is a national conversation about the role of policing. This month will mark the one Year Anniversary of the death of george floyd. President Joe Biden has called on congress to pass major Police Reform in his memory. President Joe Biden has called on congress to pass major Police Reform in his memory. 0ne Police Department that has benefitted from federal oversight in newark, newjersey. But will the changes last . Larry madowo has the story. Stop Police Brutality in the black community stop Police Brutality this is no temporary protest against Police Brutality in newark. They call itjustice monday, and it has been here every week for five years. Black people are being killed like animals in the street here in the united states of america. Newark� s in conflict with its police dates back to the riots of 1967, and even before that. By 2010, policing in the predominantly black city was so broken that an investigation revealed many problematic patterns and practices. I feel like theyve got a personal vendetta against black people. The Department Ofjustice entered into what is known as a Consent Decree with newark. That is, federal oversight of the police with an independent monitor to track progress. In 2020, newark police did not fire a single shot. People here seem to trust the police a little more now. Everybody knows each other. Like come up police live in newark, so you knowj what the police live at,. So obviously they are not going to treat you bad. Mayor Ras Baraka was elected on the Police Reform platform, and has supported the implementation of the Consent Decree over the last five years. 0ur Crime is like the lowest it has been in 50 years. And the interesting thing about it is while crime is decreasing, so are arrests. Which proves to me there is no causal relationship between arresting people and reduction of crime. How expensive is implementing this Consent Decree and can newark afford it . Oh, its too expensive. Its incredibly expensive. I mean, we pay a little, maybe over 2 Million a year. Its about cost, but its also about culture. Part of the reason why its so hard to reform policing in america is because of the so called blue wall of silence. An unofficial code where Law Enforcement officers protect each other. It was no different here in newark. Its like anything else. No one likes to be looked at or watched or investigated. Anthony ambrose worked with Mayor Baraka in overhauling policing in newark as his public safety director. He has just retired after 35 years as a policeman. I think the training, or de escalation, and our use of force, our scrutiny that officers know that we look at body worn cameras every day, our Consent Decree unit, i think it all helped, it all came together and it helped us. Police departments across america are watching federal investigations in minneapolis and louisville to see if they lead to Consent Decrees like newark� s that might require them to learn a new way to protect and serve. Larry madowo, bbc news, newark. As many countries start to ease coronavirus restrictions, attention is turning to how we can safely hold large scale events again. Well this is one way to put on a socially distanced gig. French Electro Artist Teho performed at an altitude of 3000 metres in the swiss alps. The dj says he had to overcome his fear of heights, and brave sub zero temperatures at dawn, to do his set from a small platform overlooking the matterhorn after a year of not being able to perform in clubs due to the pandemic. But was there anybody there . Apart from our cameraman. Who knows. Thats bbc world news. Wherever you are watching or listening to us from, thanks for your company. Hello. Theres been no shortage of wet weather this week. And there is plenty more where that came from as we head into the weekend. Thursday was a particularly soggy affair across some southern areas. You can see this curl of cloud on the satellite picture, a slow moving Weather System that brought heavy and persistent rain. There is more cloud behind in the atlantic. Another area of low pressure heading away for the weekend. In between well, arguably a slice of slightly drier weather. There will still be some showers as we go through the day the showers will tend to pop up in the areas where we develop some sunshine. Across Northern Ireland, eventually western parts of scotland, northwest england, wales, the southwest, it will turn into a sunshine and Showers Day after a dull start for some. But for Eastern England and certainly the northeast of scotland we hold onto more cloud. Where we have more of the cloud there wont be so many showers but it will be chilly, 11 or 12 degrees. Could be the Odd Spot of drizzle around at times. As we head through Friday Night into saturday, some bits and pieces of Showery Rain will be replaced with more persistent rain pushing up from the southwest across england and wales into Northern Ireland by The End of the night. Quite a mild start to the weekend but it is going to be quite a turbulent weekend of weather actually with some very, very heavy downpours and thunderstorms. Always with some sunny spells in between. 0ur Band of rain will continue to push its way slowly northwards during saturday. Perhaps getting into the South Of Scotland at The End of the day. Behind It Sunshine and showers but those showers really will start to turn very, very heavy for wales and the southwest. Hail and thunder later on. The top temperature is between 11 and 15 degrees. And then we head on into sunday in this area of low pressure is going to move right across the uk. As the sits on top of us during sunday it will allow for some very unstable conditions in the atmosphere. That means big Shower Clouds are going to develop with some hail and some thunder, frequent lightning potentially in the showers. Torrential downpours of rain and some pretty squalid, gusty winds. Particularly windy for coastal Southern England and the channel islands. Gusts here in excess of a0 mph. But sunshine between the showers not feeling too bad. Highs of 16 degrees. You may have been caught in the downpours today. This is bbc news, the headlines. As hostilities enter theirfifth day, over 100 people have been killed in gaza and seven in israel. Now the israeli Defence Forces say they have intensified their assault on the Gaza Strip and that Air And Ground troops are currently attacking in the palestinian hamas Run Enclave. Palestinian civilians have been fleeing their homes in gaza, while violence has also spread to mixed communities ofjews and arabs across israel. Synagogues have been attacked and fighting has broken out in several towns, prompting Israels President to warn of a senseless civil war. In india more than a000 people have died from coronvirus in the last 2a hours alone and hospitals in many parts of the country are being overrun as the country records nearly as many coronavirus cases as the rest of The World combined