marathons in the last year to highlight the issue of water overconsumption. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin today in israel, where prime minister benjamin netenyahu has sacked his defence minister, yoav gallant, after he called on the government to suspend overhauling the judiciary. these are pictures from tel aviv tonight. you can see there the scale of the protest. you can see there the scale of the protest. it follows months of protests over the plans, which will makes it harder for courts to remove a leader deemed unfit for office. campaigners say they threaten the country s democracy, but mr netenyahu insists they re responsible . i m joined now by barak ravid, who is a journalist and middle east correspondent for the digital news website axios in tel aviv. it s great to get you on the programme today. it s great to get you on the programme today. explain to us exactly what s at stake here why is there opposition to these laws? the scale of the protest i
judicial reforms in this way? where does he sit. judicial reforms in this way? where does he sit- does he sit. well first we have to remember. does he sit. well first we have to remember. mr does he sit. well first we have to remember, mr and does he sit. well first we have to remember, mr and her does he sit. well first we have to remember, mr and her is - does he sit. well first we have to remember, mr and her is facing l remember, mr and her is facing trial. right now, these days for bribery of trust. and at the same time, he is trying to decide who we 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 internal general, and a whole set of other things 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 his motivation, he allowed many other radical elements to take control of thisjudicial other radical elements to take
enough. we also know very importantly that meadows, if he s telling the truth to don jr., was trying to get the president to stop it, to say something, to do something, and he did not which is exactly what the committee is investigating. and jen, all these messages come from people who aren t in the administration, and they were sent to and from meadows personal devices, his personal accounts. he voluntarily gave them to the committee y.wouldn t he sit for questions on all of this? well, that s a great question, ana. i mean, he did the dance for a while saying he would sit for questions. he had a date to come in and then he refused. ultimately i think he was trying to walk a very fine line to being loyal to trump and loyal to himself frankly because he as we now know was right in the middle of all of this so he has exposure, too, so he s trying not to give the select committee information that will ultimately be harmful for him and harmful for trump, but he doesn t want
In solidarity with protestors staging a sit-in against the unnecessary check posts and fishing trawlers in Gwadar district of Balochistan province, hundreds of
In solidarity with protestors staging a sit-in against the unnecessary check posts and fishing trawlers in Gwadar district of Balochistan province, hundreds of