the coalition government of israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been plunged into chaos after mass overnight protests in the country. the protests were sparked after he sacked his defence minister who spoke out against plans to reform the system of appointing judges. but the coalition has survived a vote of no confidence in the parliament on monday morning. and mr netanyahu has appealed to the protestors for calm. so why have these reforms proved so contentious? these are the 11th week of protests over prime minister netanyahu s plans to overhaul the justice system. his reforms would give the government decisive control over the committee which appoints judges. it would also make it harder for courts to remove a leader deemed unfit for office. mr netanyahu says that the reforms would in fact stop the courts over reaching their powers. but others say it s a threat to democracy which serves only to benefit the prime minister who s facing an ongoing corruption tri
hello. the foreign secretary, lord cameron, says he s carefully reviewing the initial findings of the israeli military investigation into how its forces killed seven aid workers in gaza on monday. three of the dead were british nationals. the israeli defence force inquiry found there d been a catalogue of errors leading up to the air strikes on the aid convoy, with the idf saying the deaths were a grave mistake and a serious violation of procedure. several senior officers have now been dismissed. the people who died were working for the charity world central kitchen, which has called for an independent inquiry, and there s been worldwide condemnation of the killings. israel has now opened up more aid routes, in response to the criticism. in a moment, we ll take look at the dire humanitarian situation in gaza, where more than 33,000 people have died in the last six months, according to the hamas controlled health ministry. but first, here s lucy williamson injerusalem. israe
if the restrictions on women get more and more intense, i don t think this life is worth living. with each day that goes by the hopes they had are fading. yogita limaye, bbc news. people are being urged not to go into the water around poole harbour in dorset, after a leak from an oilfield pipeline. the equivilent of 200 barrels of reservoir fluid, which is 85% water and 15%oil, escaped into the sea. our environment correspondentjonah fisher is at the scene. jonah, how bad is it? well, at the moment the indications are it might not be too bad, that the scale and damage caused by this oil leak may be limited in scope. there have been bows out in poole harbour this morning. there have been helicopters flying overhead, and none of them have at this point reported seeing anything that could