welcome to bbc news. i m monika plaha. our top stories: protesters take to the streets in tel aviv, including outside the home of prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem, after he fires his defence minister for condemning his controversial legal reforms. this sacking of israel s defence minister who spoke out against the legislation feels to many people here like a turning point. warnings of more severe weather in mississippi and neighbouring states, after a powerful tornado kills at least 26 people. we saw a trailer go up in the air, bang down like a pancake. it exploded. a migrant rescue ship funded by street artist banksy is seized by italian coast guards. and why people in lebanon have woken up in two rival time zones in a row over daylight saving. hello and welcome. we start in israel, where mass protests have been taking place in several cities after prime minister benjamin netanyahu sacked his defence minister, yoav gallant. mr gall
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a migrant rescue ship funded by street artist banksy is seized by italian coast guards. for the first time ever a scottish couple attempt to travel pole to pole using only green energy. what s an adventure without a challenge? wejust what s an adventure without a challenge? we just have to embrace what comes in front of us. hello and welcome. we start 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. the white house says it is deeply concerned about the developments. azadeh moshiri reports. it was a sudden outpouring of rage, hordes of protesters continue to fill the streets in the early hours of the morning. demonstrations have been going on in israel for months, but these protests were spontaneous, as people surged into action. everyone here is into action. eve
this is bbc news broadcasting in the uk and around the globe. president biden has ordered federal aid to be sent to mississippi, as emergency services work to help hundreds of people who ve been left homeless by a tornado. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside. and these are the latest drone pictures after the tornado struck carving a path of destruction 170 miles long. at least 25 people were killed in mississippi, and one person in alabama. dozens have been injured. our north america correspondent, sophie long, reports from rolling fork in the mississippi delta. this is rolling fork, a small, close community in mississippi. there is little left. they ve lost loved ones, their homes everything. we get storms, like bad rain, or, you know, probably high winds or something, but we never experienced nothing like this where you can wipe out a whole town you know, schools, children, parents, loved o
ukrainian security officials have accused russia of depriving belarus of its sovereignty, after president putin said he would station nuclear weapons there. the secretary of the national defence council, oleksiy danilov, said on twitter that the move was a step towards the internal destabilisation of belarus. and he said the kremlin had taken the country as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, something mr putin has denied. translation: we have already transferred - to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3rd, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1st, we will finish the construction of the special repository to store the tactical nuclear weapon in belarus. i m joined from kyiv by our correspondent, hugo bachega. how is this affecting already extremely high tensions in the area? i don t think there was any surprise here in ukraine. russia and belarus have b