of water overconsumption hello and welcome to the programme. we begin today in israel, where prime minister benjamin netenyahu has sacked his defense minister, yoav gallant, after he called on the government to suspend overhauling the judiciary. these are live pictures from tel aviv tonight. the skill of the protests have been growing and mass protests that are been taking place in several cities in the country. after dissecting his defence minister. let me show you these live pictures from israel. tens of thousands of protestors returned to the streets on sunday night waving israeli flags following the dismissal of defence minister yoav gallant. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu removed mr gallant after he called on the prime minister to halt legislation on his proposed changes to the judiciary. the controversial bill has divided the country; many see it as a threat to israeli democracy earlier i spoke to barak ravid, who is a journalist and middle east correspon
three months ago, it announced a judicial overall plan that includes a set of something like 20 different laws that when you put all of them together, you see that the result is that israel will be less democratic. the government was planning to take over all appointments of the judges, giving the coalition of foal majority in picking supreme courtjudges, limiting supreme court judges, limiting supreme courtjudges, limiting supreme court ability to strike down laws in the list of, 20 other measures that again, the result of all of them is that its review will be less democratic. and the people israel. and slowly, people are realising and people on the left, in the centre and on the right realise that this was not something that this was not something that this was not something that this government told people that it was going to do during the election campaign and at the end of the day, yes?