the, the, this is dw use life from by that israel supreme court throws out a key government legal reform. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, whose changes cups the powers of judges. popular measures, but mastic nationwide protests. and it was like damages homes and leaves thousands without power in japan, waves over and behind the back of the coastline authorities scale back. it's you know, a warning, but say more trim is the likely the

i've been visible and welcome these way. the supreme court has struck down a significant section of the government's controversial judicial reforms. i mean this to benjamin netanyahu pushed through the changes that limited the powers of judges to overturn government decisions. the plans were highly unpopular and prompted massive nationwide protests last year. the semi circle is a journalist in jerusalem. i asked him if the quote's willing was a surprise, a lot of thinking in the public in general, people that have not been there focusing on these questions right now. since the war has kind of like overtaking everything. and the focus as being, of course, on the and what's happening with the security and so forth. but the, the legal experts is they knew that this would be coming. and they expected this to,

to come now at this time. and they in fact they also saying that this is the outcome, it shows that the supreme for a listen to the public and the public also gave the supreme court the a kind of confidence it to face it. then you know, i'm a, i've even levine, the justice minister in their age in their efforts to reform the, the judiciary in his room is quite interesting. um, what about the political reaction today that as well as expected is the new code and the party power and is rose. they are very upset and they're saying that this is something that can not happen in the time of war. uh, this should be near unit d as the minister of justice, save yourself

a leave with the attack, the supreme court again and linking it to the war. again, saying that this is not the time. and the, on the other hand, the many guns who is now in the bows, the most popular, the politician, he's saying that we should respect the supreme court in its decision. but he also said that there are no winners and losers and the kind of an attempt to show the unity and to show that the important thing now, is the war in gaza? are there really no winners and losers for what? what, what's the main for that? yahoo and his government? well, this is a big blow at the time, you know, a big blow a to his at them for this age, additional overall. and this attempt to weaken it,

the just the saying is 0. and the, i mean on the, in the reality is, is not going to be any change. because the, basically, the supreme court has says that and that then you all can not make these changes in the hours of filed not to do these changes during the war. so it's kind of like freezing the existing a situation. but politically, it's yet they're not the defeat at 2 in a time. yeah. that's where does this leave his own corruption cases? okay, so he's is trial is ongoing. it does not the ended. if they would have been an attempt to remove the attorney general as so as to cancel his drive, this is something that experts have been talking about. the possibility that

anthony, i would, would try and do that. well, now the supreme court has made it very clear that the limits and this would have been an unreasonable disposition and that the government and the administrators. they have to act in the reason the ability. and if not, the supreme court has its power to block them. you have a problem generally somebody self. so thank you very much for joining in the, from joe. so them as well as military says, the conflicts with home us, which many countries designated terrorist organization will probably continue throughout 2024. i think it's the benjamin netanyahu. i cities, railings, to control gases, border with egypt. at the same time pensions on his rails, northern frontier, with living on a rising fueling fee, is of a 2nd front opening sirens on these rails northern border.

another record strikes these riley town of kitty edge. mona filed from neighboring lebanon, just 2 kilometers away. oreo fresh is the principal of a high school here in kitty extra mona. his students have all left as, as his family. i can take it as the alarm here on the best timing gives you 10 seconds. most of the time it hits and then the lot goes on as positive kiddy extra moments emergency team ariano is one of the few who had stayed behind. almost 90 percent of the town was evacuated soon after the home us terrorist attack on october. 7th for are you the threats of hezbollah? launching a similar attack is very real. we really worried that the what happened in the

sense of october the south and happened here the most cars, but it has is the road one unit which swear to do very, very bad things here. every does experience and we need to have them 1st. the border between israel and 11 on has long the being a tense region. but as israel is war in guns, a has dragged on. his beloved attacks have become more and more frequent. you want them to stand before the war. we would get them use the system to see another and a civilian was a weapon. on the other side, it was a fun thing to say, which is it was, that's what you know, we have for them just as a a. because we understand that there are lots of things that really meaning to destroy us for arial, and the few who remain here is that the threat feels more real by the day.

japan is bracing for more of the shocks after a series of those quakes triggered the highest level to not be warning. officials say the freight of a major tsunami has passed for now, but one more time is good for at least 4 people who've been killed. thousands of, of the quakes shop depends west coast heating, the issue kind of what prefect up the strongest had of magnitude of 7 point. 6 more than $30000.00 homes were left without power. the government says nuclear power plants but not affected the army was called in to help with rescue operations. a new 100000 people were ordered to evacuate customers inside this department store in east co op panic and try to take shelter as the trim is hit, the hundreds of people who are evacuated from a subway station. the as inside the ceiling started shaking

nearby residents recorded the effects of the quakes from inside the home. 6 and large fires broke out in some neighborhoods the japan's meet, you were logical agency recorded multiple quakes of the western coast. one of them had a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 to say then issue the highest tsunami warning possible. the service is the 1st major tsunami of the since the great that occurred in the pacific ation on march, the 11th 2011, outside with the success shima nuclear does off the still to clear and people's minds. the government says that so fun,

none of the nearby need to have help on. so being affected i asked geosciences professor david growth rate from the open university in milton keynes, how likely another big quake is after a string of 50 quakes on monday. what some likely the, the 2nd the of quite today was the biggest 1927.6. no way of as of a small uh, of a bit of a thought. see the magnitude full and i expect that ok, you're on small, they magnitude box in 2011. the big of quite of the costs are ready to have a 2nd. so none of that. so got the book of shooting the power plant, but you mention that was procedure to chase previously bought magnitude 2nd quite by some smaller off the shots and then the by me to know i bits. so things could turn really nasty. it's very unlikely. it's very unusual about to happen, but the times or more of the question is no cost. but it,

it sounds like depends on top of things that at least at the moment i mean, for dad of the so many years, quakes and such a strong what. what, what's japan doing, right? the more what japan is doing launch is this building buildings which are resilient, which does collapse very easily in and out of quite a jumping these people know how to behave the videos it showed people inside department stores does not show the running ad side as soon as you have quite struck, just stay inside gets under a table if you come and hang on and keep under cover in doors until the shaking is finished. if you run that side, you're liable to be hit on the head by something falling from above. so you stay inside until the shaken finishers jump. nice. people know to do that. i also would have hated the back you. i should warnings as it happens. i don't think i do that. so now i'm is really kind very sorry about the troll, but little bit of a, some damage to some of the infrastructures. but they didn't overtop disabled and

rushed re city streets such as happened in 20117. not sitting on the depths to be said in japan as a known express, as he wrote. and he said, let's go on unless it's a really, really big job quite because i've said is now likely. okay. and what else can others learn from japan? what about it? so the warning systems, for example, they, they seem to be straight ahead of us will be about pretty good when i stop, the bullet trains as soon as the but the had the 1st on think about of quakes is but they, the ways that the damage of the lives of trouble are on the surface by a ride off to the waves of trouble for the body of the no, there's not much difference in terms of right, but when you so close to the, at the center, the, even a few seconds when she said profit loss to read and tell the trains to stop. so things like that were done before the big ground shaking began. so that certainly helps, but just having a seismic building code and then forcing it. now the thing corrupt people look the

other way when buildings are being built. it does cost more to make enough. joe sciences professor david ross, right? well, despite all the defend destruction we report on in the news, we can also offer you a little bit of good news to kick off 2024. at least the new used by works. but pretty good is a little look, a huge crowds in new york's times square gathered to watch the famous illuminated bull. dropping midnight, the ringing in this dose of 2020 the, from the city to the beach. the sky line of rio de janeiro was list help with fireworks,

many revellers honoring the traditional brazilian dress code of wearing whites to the occasion. invalid fireworks set to us by ordering rebellion is across the city . vied with the official extravaganza at the brandenburg games where a party goes said the hoops to the new. yeah. no worries . we'll be in. okay. we hope for things to come down and you crane and don't swear the people stay healthy and that we can find the live reason for each other. again in harmony. romano. no more. is me. i'm not sure. i'm on the list as a loss. no, not truly. my hope is that the world will finally become more peaceful because the way things stand right now. it's not good to kinda call and go on like that. for every one of us, i wish not happiness and good health on his own type. 2020 full was welcomed with

public celebrations across the road. from sidney to bangkok to london, which kicked off the new year with its biggest f, a fireworks display. the it shouldn't be this one or hard not to feel something really is happening here. what is happening to greens and ice researchers explore an untouched place into the ice. january dw, the,

the, the human race has been building stone structures for ages. what are the origins of these structures? what were they used for the and how did people move them into place? the about 10000 years ago, humans became sedentary. they started growing crops and raising live stuff new list of people with no different from sales. they appreciated the find the things in life, these basics,

the legacy of the neolithic age and doors to this day. the meredith, this lens along the new list of people with the 1st to become heavily dependent on material goods. just as we are today, opinion is tied to how it is tied to the our knowledge of this period is based on archaeological discoveries. stone structures are a key to understanding early civilizations. much of the archaeological evidence has been buried. for example, our ancestors concealed their large stone tubes. today, these sites, for example hills. such landmarks were meant to last any turn. the oldest evidence of sedentary cultures has been found and what is now jordan, syria, palestine, northern iraq, and southern anatolia. 9000 years ago,

this region was probably more humid and densely forest it than it is now. the archaeologist discovered several pre historic settlements near the ruins of the ancient city of patrons in south western jordan. but yeah, it's about 10 kilometers west of why the most for the valley of most it was an extremely important fine. now for the 1st time archaeologist, mario bins and her colleagues are trying to reach the excavation site during the winter. the site is located on a plateau, 1200 meters above sea level to reach the plateau. the team has to hide through a gorge. sometimes the gorge is blocked by rainwater or snow. but today the

weather is fine. benz is a member of the research association, x oriented which is affiliated with the free university of berlin. this site was discovered more than 20 years ago by the german archaeologist homes. gay or gabriel was also the director of the excavation project. and the chairman of ex oriented the so far the team had carried out excavation work at 6 different sites in the area. and if taking samples from several others, the entire site covers $1.00 heck chairs. the evidence were covered so far indicates the crops were ground here, the level in the lower the organization. one of the big questions for us is why would people want to settle up

kids of conflicts, but possibly to protect themselves feel i go to is, can be closed up very easily. no. can i have as of all for that because it's also possible that the surrounding area had become over populated. so these people move to the potomac as isn't that it was a funding society. and people also raised capital sheep and go see good search the move on to task because they develop specialized methods of funding and breeding law. i've started with the southern to mom, but it was a social hierarchy, but we've not yet been able to determine the presence of a differentiation in social status. there's no, there's no wires in the . the houses are all about the same size. and that indicates that this was an egalitarian society. it also appears that they were built close together. there was

no room for pathways between them. the rooms of the houses were very small. the people seem to have spent a lot of time on the roots, the the small chambers were used to store food and house livestock. a larger lot shop front on this side was very catholics on the home semester. so for example, we determine that all 3 of these passageways of the same height of the out, the smaller max is and the masonry is quite neatly laid in places cause of death. so it's long cubits specialist. did it. in the early days of the settlement. santa,

in the time i was on the sims, know how some of the other hand they knew nothing about using some good beans to show up the woods on the besides the one. so that kept the rules from folding down by building the structures that you see here constitute year to on demand. so how i mean that was reported to one since the settlers built with stone, part of their history can be reconstructed. but these structures tell us nothing about the people who lived here. their thoughts and beliefs tombs are better suited for this. archaeologists have already discovered nearly the graves here. and in summer 2016, the team made a discovery that revealed much about the way that this community buried. it's dead . this tunnel. yeah. and these were homeless and we found a room that had 3 different grades. and i'm on part of it was a collective side where adults and children were very together then and again to

how they was also supposed example of an individual assigned by which contained to richard sold when to various items dealt with disconnect. we also found a graven which 2 children age and 3 to 5 years old and a baby with very there's about this one. the genetic analysis might help determine the relationships among the deceased. but it's not yet clear whether the bone material will provide enough dna. the archaeologists spend a lot of time analyzing the data that they've compiled. their primary goal is to document the original state of the site as accurately as possible. the, the excavation work at the site indicates that it was an autonomous settlement that had no recognizable social hierarchy. if so, that was a remarkable achievement. mostly forced in here. i'm just imagine

a settlement of more than a 1000 people that lost it for more than 500, using home in a single area surrounded by deep, gorgeous game is as low as finds that they lived in a very confined space on the lake. and they did so without major conflicts as an annual maximum and normally social accomplishment, for people who had only recently become said in trying to assess of what the it's not yet clear why the settlement was later abandoned. there is no evidence of communal violence. it's possible that the residents depleted the local forests and grazing land or perhaps the area was hit by a major drought. there are many possible explanations. scientists have proven the existence of one major climate phenomenon that changed living

conditions throughout the mediterranean region. 6000. so i'm not in approximately 6200 b, c, an ice dam and north america and collapsed as a, and that caused me to sewage legs to pour their contents into the atlantic ocean. start up the crew. this major in flow of water interrupted the gulf stream for more than a century. no job on that in turn produced cooler temperatures in the mediterranean region. perhaps one or 2 degrees celsius. the middle middle of the and there was a big drop in precipitation because when the deal of these phenomena opposed a real threat to early neolithic people see what additional control and on the act of the pool of dogs. that perhaps that's why people abandoned the settlement even today, jordan suffers from water shortages and in summer temperatures often rise above 40 degrees centigrade. the

climate change incident that took place about 8000 years ago has left its mark throughout europe. the middle east and north africa, the since the end of the last great ice age, sea levels have been rising continuously. just 4500 years ago. the water level on france is brittany peninsula, with several meters lower than it is today. the overtime, the c moved about 500 meters further in the french archaeologist search costs and believes that many stone age relics have been covered up by the c. listen, i'm in the whole, did you need? the rise in the sea level certainly depends on fluctuations in climate, including the ice age and post ice age phase is the highest i see if sea levels

have been rising in this part of brittany for more than 60000 years ac. but in the last 1000 years of hunt together, a society, it rows especially rapidly of, of the see how the oprah, just one generation entire fishing and food gathering ground simply disappeared. k describing space to set the between 4503000 b, c. and advanced megalithic culture developed along the coast to break the there are 3 large stone structures near the village of locum, our eoc, the air gras passage, great viagra man here, and a tune called the toddler demo, shall no human remains, or burial objects have been found at the marshal site, but there are

a number of impressive rock engravings over the surface symbols were carved into the ceiling. there are 3 separate groups of symbols, best and acts for the handle. you can see the polished blade and its edge. you can also see the pointed handle pick to show the end of the headless, curved in the shape of a snail. they wrote to people above that a crooked stick or crook, you know. and finally, a drawing of an animal like you'd find on the island of godfrey. nice. so i guess the governor nice lies in the gulf of more be your so the local residents must have had boats that could transport huge rocks don't to haile? did you demo the such a source to get from here to the island and agreed it was an island at that time,

is that you said you have to have a boat to the video just because, but not just a rock or a duck out of doors. and so padded people are going to exceed saying, i'm only know about gets you a i think they needed a couple of walked across and get that hadn't planned tied tightly together as the sounds of civil music. every nice capstone weighs more than 20 tons the. so you can imagine that the boat has to be pretty large it and what i see, and then you know, certainly back to the, the megalithic tomb side on guthrie nice once contained a stone structure that was even taller than the grand men here of luck. maria, the,

the column was later torn down, but some of the stone was later, we used the tribute to the symbolic importance. but this structure, once hill, the bill said to the something to compete, to show one of the men he of aircraft is certainly the greatest example of this kind of monumental stone structure, the civic score several 100 years after it was directed. the men here fell over and broke into 4 pieces. no one seems to know exactly how or why this happened. the men here had towered 18.