as a series of votes got under way. president herzog said the citizens of israel are thirsting for hope and he called on elected officials to act with courage. so what exactly is it that the israeli government is proposing? well, under their plans, the supreme court would no longer have the power to overrule government or ministerial decisions which it deems to be unreasonable . the power of the supreme court to review or throw out laws would be weakened with a simple majority of one in the knesset able to overrule such decisions. the government would have a decisive say over who becomes a judge, including in the supreme court, by increasing its representation on the committee which appoints them. and ministers would not be required to obey the advice of their legal advisers, guided by the attorney general, which they currently have to by law. to add a further complication, israel s prime minister has just been discharged from hospital after undergoing an operation to have
corfu and evia and on the greek mainland. more than 80 wildfires are now burning and tens of thousands of residents and tourists have been forced to flee. this footage was filmed in island of corfu on sunday evening. over 2,000 people have been evacuated from the island. and this video was filmed in a corfu hotel, as guests were dining. the government says, it has sent boats to evacuate residents by sea, if required. the greek emergency services have been dealing with several fires including two in areas east and south west of the capital, athens. firefighters on rhodes say around one in ten of the hotels in the central and south eastern parts of the island have been affected. british travel companies are putting on more repatriation flights for people trying to leave the area. a short while ago the travel operator tui announced it was cancelling all outbound flights to rhodes up to and including friday. 0ur reporter, azadeh moshiri, is on rhodes and sent this update. well,
one of the bbc s most highly respected, and much loved presenters. he died at home in london with his family this morning. he was 67 and he d been living with bowel cancer since 2014. the bbc s director general said he was one of the best and bravest journalists of his generation. george won many awards in a hugely successful career which took him all over the world. but many who worked with him here will remember him most as an unfailingly kind hearted and generous colleague. alan little looks back at his life. three, two, one. go tape. at six o clock the ground war on iraq has begun. millions knew him as the face of the six o clock news. good evening and welcome to the six o clock news. ..and for his calm, unflappable authority. good evening and welcome to the bbc s news at six. he was born in sri lanka in 1955 to christian tamil parents. as a child the family moved to ghana. this is the road. and he was swept up in the early optimism of a young nation new
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