good monday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. hi jim. great to be with you. i m jessica dean and happening right now. massive protests in israel, a crippling general strike and several mayors launching a hunger strike after prime minister benjamin netanyahu fired his defense minister for opposing his plans to overhaul the judicial system . this as many israelis fear the united states closest ally in the region is moving further away from democratic principles. ahead we will have the very latest from jerusalem remarkable events there in israel plus today and though the round of were severe weather expected to strike the southeast of this country, parts of alabama and georgia, bracing for large, hail , damaging winds this after just devastating tornadoes ripped through the region this weekend . at least 26 people are dead, several others injured. we re going to take you live to see scenes of that damage. we do begin this hour, though. with those protests the ongoing general stri
moment belarus is actually overlooked. and maybe not all the politicians understand the role of builders in regional peace and security. and i really want that you re saying prison band biden instead department to look more deeply into this problem and not to leave buildings for one day later, you know, after real deal with ukraine, and then we will return to belarus. we don t have to forget that person. people now are fighting not only against lukashenko s regime but also against hybrid occupation of russia in bill rose, we see the increase in the level of violence repressions. thousands of people are in prisons for political motivated cases. hundreds of thousands head to flee belarus because of repressions and. one day we can wake up and see that builds has lived his consolation prize for putin and i m sure that belarus is key state for keeping security in europe. you re in
stuck with it. despite the widespread opposition of hundreds of thousands of israelis going into the street every saturday night for three months now to protest it, and it s just been building and building and yet it doesn t turn back when the defense secretary defense minister says this is going to affect israel s security, and he fires him. it s like nixon and the night of the long knives. well unless in we should know there ve been protests for a number of months. major difference today is now general strike with with with real implications for the running of the country that the economy the us, expressing concerns with what it s seeing right now on the ground. we know that behind the scenes the u. s. has also expressed concerns about the judicial reforms. president biden has a long decades old personal history with the israeli prime minister. what is biden? what does biden need to communicate to the israeli prime minister now? and what is the state of the u. s relationship given is
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