200 marathons in the last year to highlight the issue of water overconsumption. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin today in israel, where mass protests have been taking place in several cities after prime minister benjamin netanyahu sacked his defence minister, yoav gallant. mr gallant was dismissed after he called for controversial plans to overhaul the justice system to be scrapped. (os)these are pictures of the scenes in tel aviv tonight. as you can see, protesters are gathering momentum. we have seen these sorts of scenes over the last couple of days where tens of thousands of protesters returning to the streets on sunday night, waving israeli flags following mr gallant dismissal. he s been accused of behaving like a dictator and through destroying the security of israel. the opposition also describing mr gallant sacking as a new low for the government and a move that harms national security. a lot of tense scenes in israel tonight. for more, we can hearfrom the
people debase themselves. and then you get to say, oh, my god. look at them doing that. i would never do that and you get to eat your popcorn and enjoy it. yeah i can t wait to see what the evolution of what happens with tom. this season. we will stay tuned shotgun. thank you so much for joining us this morning. my pleasure. y all be safe out there. have a good week. you too, will and see it in this morning continues right now. protests engulfing the streets of israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu s plan to weaken the supreme court he fired a key minister who opposed the move this morning. well, netanyahu pushed forward with the overhaul is terrible. it feels as if the prime minister has lost control. it feels as if this country is going down a very dangerous road. it was like no notice. we didn t know what was happening. mississippi cleaning up from a devastating tornado, at least 26 people are dead. there s very little of this community that was untouched by the storm c
will be less democratic. 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 government told people that it was going to do during the election campaign and at the end of the day, yes? sorry to jump in there, we re looking at live pictures of the moments of that scene, the scale of the protests and demonstrate is growing by the second there in tel aviv where you are as i understand it, this evening. you ve talked us through the opposition to these laws but what is it exactly that the prime minister is trying to achieve with changing the judiciary reforms in this way? what does he say. we have to remember he is facing a trial right now. for bribery fraud and breach of
trust. for bribery fraud and breach of trust. at the same time, he is trying to decide who are going to be the supreme court justices that might need to decide on his appeal. and he has a lot of other plans, like for example sacking the attorney general and other issues that are all meant to influence his own trial and to make sure that he doesn t go to jail. i think that when this is the motivation, he allowed many other radical elements to take control of this judicial reform and take it to very extreme places. and just to say that he has of course been denying those allegations. but i want to put to the fact that we have seen the sacking of the defence minister. how serious is this for the government there in terms of stability going forward? do you see more people voicing their opposition and also, as a result being sacked?
the hardest line on its of this judicial reform. i call it a judicial coup, actually. so i think benjamin netanyahu risk ready on trial. bribery fraud breach of trust, wanted this judicial reform to neuter the court, and i think he may have no choice. given the pressures that we witnessed, which are extraordinary, basically least to push for the leg. yeah it s remarkable to hear from the justice minister coming out and saying that given he was part of the architect of all of this, but you know, one thing that i ve been thinking of in the bigger picture of this is how much does this have to do in your view with netanyahu himself because you can t ignore that all of this is coming as he s fighting his own corruption charges and part of this new package, the courts would no longer be able to bar politicians who were convicted of crimes. from serving in top government jobs. how much do you think this does have to do with his own recent trial? you know, tip o neil s famous shows, he said th