at london s westminster cathedral. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. israel is once again staring down another deadline to form a government. a key israeli opposition party has backed a unity government that would bring to an end benjamin netanyahu s time as the country s longest serving prime minister. the ultra nationalist leader, naftali bennett, said he d join a governing coalition with the centrist party leader, yair lapid who has until wednesday to try and form a new coalition government. translation: all parties are invited tojoin the government. translation: all parties are invited to join the government. for the government to succeed we will all have to share a restraint both during the negotiations and later on. nobody is being asked to give up on. nobody is being asked to give up on their ideology but everybody will have to make some compromises. mr netanyahu has responded immediately to the plans to create a unity government, de
hello and welcome. we start with europe s response to a surge in covid cases. tough new restrictions are being imposed in some countries, together with stern political warnings. the protests, though, are also spreading. austria has reintroduced a nationwide lockdown today. germany s health minister said that by the end of the winter, most germans would be vaccinated, cured or dead, while the dutch prime minister condemned a third night of unrest as pure violence by idiots opposed to covid restrictions. let s take a look in more detail. in austria, people are only allowed to leave their homes for essentials such as work, exercise and food shopping. the daily average is nearly m00 new cases. 14,000. germany s chancellor, angela merkel, has said the measures in place are not sufficient. almost a8,000 new infections have been reported there. in belgium s capital, brussels, demonstrators clashed with police after tens of thousands of people marched through the city centre. over 1