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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. is the mists role through new south wales hunter valley, rhiannan iffland prepares herself for the days events that make it a little bit of history making up for a ...

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 looki...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. fed alert! the wall street slump continues, after the biggest jump in inflation for more than a decade. today than a decade. is a perfect example of everybody today is a perfect example of everybody pushing cell and having really no strategic value to it because they are selling everything! crypto car crash! bitcoin plunges as much as 17% after elon musk says tesla will no longer accept it for environmental re...

Fun. its kind of a feelgood moment in the day rather than a tabloid atmosphere.— tabloid atmosphere. thank you, brian steinberg. _ new zealand was receiving almost 4 million visitors a year, but when the country shut borders to stop the virus in march last year — the number of overseas tourists dropped to almost zero overnight. now theres excitement about the recently opened travel bubble with australia, its biggest market. but some say its the perfect moment to rethink how tourism can be ma...

Ownership of manchester united.the club play their reaaranged league fixture against rivals liverpool tonight — it was postponed earlier this month, after protesting fans broke into the stadium... kick off is in just over a couple of hours, and we canjoin our sports correspondent andy swiss, at old trafford for us. whats the scene like down there at the moment... we are here around the side of old trafford stadium but if you go around the front at the moment there is another protest taking pla...

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 contradi...

Entertainment next month. novak djokovic is into the quarter finals of the italian open — the world number one came through in straight sets against alejandro davidovich fokina in rome to maintain his perfect record of reaching the last eight in the competition. up next though is the in—form stefanos tsitsipas. boxing promoter eddie hearn says the heavyweight title fight between anthonyjoshua and tyson fury will take place on august the mth, in a specially built stadium. the long awaited bou...

Hamas is launching rocket attacks on israel. israel is carrying out air strikes in gaza and the funerals have begun, with deaths on both sides. these tensions reach back decades but why have they escalated now? well, there are many reasons. here are six. the first concerns growing palestinian protests. some have been sparked by an imminent ruling on six palestinian families who were threatened of eviction in the neighbourhood of sheikh jarrah. its connected to a lawsuit brought by israeli settle...

Programme. this particular relevance if you are and the blackburn and darwen council area, because the council had just put out a statement in the last few minutes seeing that additional clinics offering the vaccine to eligible people will open next week. the council wants to say that contrary to previous social media reporting, vaccines at the clinic will not be widely available to people over the age of 18. they are going to continue to be available within current government guidelines, and th...

Hello there. 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. t...