and the british journalist jonathan sacerdoti provides comment and analysis about israel and its neighboursnathan also campaigns against anti—semitism. with me in the studio is celia hatton. celia also hails from canada. she is the bbc�*s asia pacific editor. good to have you with us and good to see both of you there too, albeit remotely. good to have you on dateline. the exchange of rocket fire, the fear and fatalities between palestinians — living in what much of the world calls the occupied territories — and israelis is familiar, even if it hasn't been seen on this scale for seven years. what's shocked even the most battle—hardened observers of this decades old conflict is the way violence has erupted on the streets of israel itself. it may be thejewish state, but one—fifth of the israeli population is arab or palestinian. whilst the united nations has warned of the risk of full—scale war between israel's defence force and hamas, the militant group which runs the gaza strip, israel's president, among others, fears a civil war, pitting neighbour against neighbour. jonathan sacerdoti, how

and the british journalist jonathan sacerdoti provides comment and analysis about israel and its neighbours is celia hatton. celia also hails from canada. she is the bbc�*s asia pacific editor. good to have you with us and good to see both of you there too, albeit remotely. good to have you on dateline. the exchange of rocket fire, the fear and fatalities between palestinians — living in what much of the world calls the occupied territories — and israelis is familiar, even if it hasn't been seen on this scale for seven years. what's shocked even the most battle—hardened observers of this decades—old conflict is the way violence has erupted on the streets of israel itself. it may be thejewish state, but one—fifth of the israeli population is arab or palestinian. whilst the united nations has warned of the risk of full—scale war between israel's defence force and hamas, the militant group which runs the gaza strip, israel's president, among others, fears a civil war, pitting neighbour against neighbour. jonathan sacerdoti, how potentially dangerous is this moment? i think we are seeing someth

that's it for dateline london for this week — my thanks to celia hatton, jonathan sacerdoti and jeffrey few pleasant sunny spells at times today, reasonably warm in the sunshine, but we are dodging the downpours yet again across many areas, even where you started with some tragedy clad will build, you may find a heavy and thundery shower heading your way. some quite gusty winds around, possibility of seeing hail. all this low pressure tracks across wales and england as we go through the day and this is where we will find not a huge amount of sunshine, even around the showers into this afternoon, and the showers into this afternoon, and the bright colours on the forecast indicate where some of them could be heavy, slow moving as well, for the most part light winds so they hang around for a period of time. northern ireland and the central belt and northern scotland, some sunshine, the chance of catching a heavy shower, not everybody will. these are the winds, fairly light although gusty around some of the showers, but the strongest winds from the english channel and channel islands. and t

_ that's it for dateline london for this week — my thanks to celia hatton, jonathan sacerdoti and jeffreyant is deflected to the south. and this pattern is pretty much locked across the uk. now, here's the rainfall accumulation map, so it tells us how much rain we're going to get this weekend, and in some parts of the country a good 10, 20 millimetres of rain from those heavy showers we're going to be getting. so, the forecast, then, for friday night and into saturday shows the weather front spreading across the uk. you can see mostly dry weather there across scotland and the north east of england, as well as east anglia, but as far as central, southern england is concerned, wales and also the irish sea coasts, i think, rain first thing in the morning. but not cold, temperatures will be around 5—9 degrees early on saturday. so, tomorrow, then, the weather front makes its journey forwards. notice it's not raining everywhere, but once this weather front clears, the skies tend to clear as well. we'll see sunshine and then with this unstable air, which allows to grow those big shower clouds,

jonathan, it is good to talk to you, jonathan, it is good to talk to you, jonathan sacerdoti with theusiness. the official rate of inflation — that measures how quickly prices are rising — more than doubled in april as energy costs soared and clothing retailers increased prices. the office for national statistics said the consumer price indexjumped from 0.7% in march to 1.5% in april. it is the highest level since march last year. let's get more on this from our business presenter alice baxter. alice, good morning. good morning. yes, you are absolutely right, that is the headline, uk inflation almost the month of april, up to 1.5%, it was 0.7% in march. of course, we are coming out of the pandemic, there is so much pent—up demand in the economy, rising costs for both energy and clothing. there is also a global story to do with rising commodity prices, oil, petrol at its highest rate since march 2020. lots to unpick. let's talk to liz martin, a senior economist at hsbc. the first question, is this a temporary burst of inflation or is it a sign of things to come? the burst of inflation