of the courts, stripping its powers here in israel. and then, crucially, joe biden in an interview with cnn this week, saying that this is one of the most extreme israeli governments he s known and saying that those extremist cabinet members these are people who are massively aggressively pro settler, staunch ultranationalists, anti palestinian, one who s got a conviction for racist incitement, for example, against palestinians mr biden saying that these people, who he said want to settle anywhere in the west bank, he described them as part of the problem when it comes to spiralling violence in the territory at the moment. president biden just returned to the white house after his europe trip. it culminated on thursday with a message to russia president vladimir putin: you ve lost . speaking after a summit with nordic leaders in finland, biden downplayed the chances of there being a lengthy stalemate, adding he believed putin would eventually decide it wasn t in russia s interest
but the truth is,kraine the russians have not acted in good faith at all. they acted in good faith. n legallot acty invaded a soverein democratic country. and about the de-nazification, the head of ukraine. the president is jewish. call me a n co and be jewish. right? so this idea that putin was doing this out of good faith to get rid of from ukraine, i think is for the birds, because there are ultra extreme ultra. there are within the yeah, within the minute ministries. but it s not a government. no, but it s a fig you can t sayvernme that about a bigoted government led by a jewish man. i mean, it s incredibly offensivnta e, isn t it. well, it wasn t? president zelenskyy ran in 1919n , 2019 on a peace platform that he promised that signed the minsk accords. now, when he got in there, he suddenly pivoted because hee was threatened by people, by ultranationalists within his government with death. if he made a peace with putin. and because we pressured him
the start of this year is mr netanyahu s right wing religious coalition that contains far right ultranationalists is to try to diminish and limit the power of the court. they said that was about preventing overreach by the courts. they felt it had got too powerful in the system over the years. but we saw this outpouring of protests and civil disturbance that just grew and grew over the first few months of this year, leading to a crisis within mr netanyahu s coalition and him eventually saying he would postpone the reforms. but the pressure has built from the right of his coalition and we saw then last night the first reading of a bill that brings all of this back onto the table and so protesters saying they will bring the country to a standstill today. 0n the other hand, the israeli police say they will have zero tolerance for what they describe as rioting, so i think the stage is set for a very turbulent day in israel today.
know, alleged plot, he called it a march of justice, a march for justice. and what does that mean, as if somehow russians weren t being treated fairly by the military or their own regime, and that poses a large threat to putin himself. you know, it s incredible that a man that basically hasn t the only man that has been that blunt about russian corruption is, you know, navalny who is in prison at this point and fighting for his life. and at the same time yevgeny prigozhin decided this is what he would rail against in so many videos and audio messages. and for that reason i have to say in terms of his connections as well to ultranationalists, this was a person that no one wanted in power whether it was the west or vladimir putin. he is considered dangerous, certainly accused of so many atrocities around the world. but it was that unmasking of the russian elite that really proved
hardline even than vladimir putin. if it were up to him, there would be mass mobilizations. any semblance of democracy, any veneer would be swept aside in the name of winning the war in ukraine that is vladimir putin s problem. he cannot be cracking down both on the alexei navalny, the more moderate reformist parts of russian society and taking on the ultranationalists like yevgeny prigozhin. so in a sense, he is faced now with a man on whom he has come to depend in ukraine, making it more and more clear that it is perhaps also vladimir putin that now depends on yevgeny prigozhin inside russia itself. anderson? fascinating. melissa bell, thank you so much. coming up, it has been one of the deadliest climbing seasons on mount everest, but tonight news of a daring rescue below the summit in an area so difficult and dangerous, it s called the death zone. you ll meet the sherpa guide who risked his own life to save a fellow climber he didn t know.