one of life s most underappreciated talents is to know when it s time to move on to lives next chapter. so i stand before you today, was a president, and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. for more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, here s our north america correspondent, gary o donoghue. after repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides of at least reached a partial agreement on some other spending bills that they have been arguing about. it looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the house of representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday by which time they will pass spending bills on six separate departments. they haven t reached an agreement on the other six departments but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22 so in some ways, this is progress being made an
border with lebanon. our correspondentjoe inwood has been monitoring the latest developments. for the people of gaza, there is no respite. this was once a residential block reduced to rubble. multiple generations of families are said to have been killed, seemingly caught unawares. translation: we were having dinner, when suddenly the bombing started - without any warning. in an instant, our house collapsed. the victims were taken to the nearby alaqsa hospital. in a population as young as this, children are so often the victims. this incident already has one of the highest single death tolls since this war began and it is expected to rise. the hamas run health authorities say more than 20,000 people have now been killed in gaza since israel launched its offensive. israel maintains it tries to avoid civilian casualties, it blames hamas for hiding among the population. the idf released new footage showing what it says are tunnels under the strip used for military purposes.
and it s all thanks to our brain s incredible capacity to adapt, to learn, to grow. i m on a journey to understand the miraculous plasticity of the human brain. the brain will even change its structure. the core, the architecture of the brain can change. this is neuroplasticity. once thought to be limited to youth, we now know it s a constant force in shaping who we are. your minds can change the very substrate of its own operations. ..helping us to learn. adaptability is one of the most remarkable aspects of humanl intelligence, and i think. plasticity is the mechanism behind it. ..and to heal. well, neuroplasticity actually is at the core of neurorehabilitation. ..an active field of study that s helping us to understand how we became us. as things move forward, we re going to see more and more how much our motor ability actually is tied to the way we think and feel. and i want to know whether there s anything we can do to harness or boost neuroplasticity in our daily lives.