welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... protestors take to the streets in tel aviv — including outside the home of prime minister benjamin netanyahu injerusalam — after he sacks his defence minister for condemning his controversial judicial reforms. warnings of more severe weather in mississippi, after a powerful tornado kills at least 26 people. two boats carrying migrants sink off the coast of tunisia. 29 people have died and others are still missing. anger grows as new figures show nearly 3000 children were strip—searched by police forces in england and wales over four years. and the campaigner who's run 200

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 in terms of what we've just been looking at? thank you for having me. well, what is at stake at the moment is the future of israel's democracy. this is not about this or that law. when the government came into office three months ago, it announced a judicial overhaul plan that includes a set of something like 20 different laws that when you put all of them together, you see that the result is that israel will be less democratic. the government was planning to take over all appointments of the judges, giving the coalition a full and automatic majority in making judges,

limiting the supreme court's ability to strike down laws, and a list of, again, 20 other measures that again, the results of all of them is that israel will be less democratic. i think that people are not only voted for opposition parties, but slowly, people are think realising people on the left, in the centre on the rights, realise that this was not something that this government told people that that is what it's going to do during the election campaign, and that the end of the day, yes. sorry to jump and that the end of the day, yes. sorry tojump in and that the end of the day, yes. sorry to jump in there, just to jump in there to say that we are looking at life pictures at the moment of that scene, the state of the protest and the demonstrations growing by the sec. there in tel aviv, as you are there as well this evening. you have talked us through the opposition to these laws, but what is it exactly the prime minister is trying to achieve with changing the

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 control of this judicial reform and take it to very extreme places.

right now in tel aviv there are close to 100,000 people demonstrating in the streets at 1am, 100,000 people. yesterday he gave a speech that this has become a dangerfor national security. the minister of defence warned about the threat to israel's defence and as a result he was fired by the minister. and i think people

realise that those kind of steps and decisions by the prime minister show that he lost touch with reality. barak ravid, correspondent for the digital news website, thank you for talking us through that complex situation. to the us now, where president biden has ordered federal aid to be sent to the southern state of mississippi, as emergency services work to help hundreds of people left homeless, by a powerful tornado. at least 26 people have died, and dozens have been injured. 0ur north america correspondent, sophie long, reports from one town that's been virtually destroyed. as you drive into rolling fork, you can see the extent of the destruction. the tornado has completely obliterated this community. from the air, you can see the direct path it took. some trees have been stripped of their branches and uprooted.

others are totally untouched. then as you reach the town, total devastation. and this is the moment it struck a school nearly four hours drive away in amory, indicating just how far it travelled without losing strength. salvage what i can. in rolling fork, survivors sift through what remains of their flattened homes. trying to make sure i get all their shoes. stifling tears as they think of loved ones who didn't survive the storm. darrell lost his uncle. tony left the trailer, told me he tried to flatten down flat and it blew up. his roommate was in the truck. he tried to get back to the house, but he couldn't get in the house. so he dived in the truck. he told me seeing the trailer go up in the air, flattened down like a pancake and just explode. president biden has promised federal funds and the support they need to rebuild their community. i want to personally thank

president biden and his team for very quickly signing the emergency declaration that we sent up on yesterday. obviously, the resources that the people here in rolling fork and throughout mississippi need... the help is on the way. but it's hard to imagine how this devastated community can ever fully recover. i hope that we can bounce back from this, man. i know it's a lot. i know i'm saying a lot and i'm hoping for a lot. but we lost a lot. so i'm hoping. all we can do is hope and pray. the clear up operation is only nowjust beginning. they have a huge task ahead. sophie long, bbc news rolling fork, mississippi. i'm joined now by cbs correspondent mike hellgren in rolling fork. what is the latest

with the relief efforts? neighbours are helping neighbours. we have seen so many charitable organisations providing food and drink to those who need it. there are shelters available. and as you heard that federal government help us on the way. it so much needed. these scenes are just heartbreaking. behind me you see very little left of this house. a woman survived in her closet there. i talked to her son just a short time ago. her husband was trapped underneath a mattress. he also survived. you can see just a short distance away, there is a pick—up truck that was just thrown onto a pile of debris. so the help is very much needed. we are seeing so many from even outside this community coming in and trying to provide assistance to people who desperately needed here right now.

might, viewers mentioned the rebuilding is going to take some time its course. but now we are hearing more bad whether is to come. how bad could it get? i4541431111 hearing more bad whether is to come. how bad could it get?— how bad could it get? well right now ou can how bad could it get? well right now you can see — how bad could it get? well right now you can see it's _ how bad could it get? well right now you can see it's learning _ how bad could it get? well right now you can see it's learning just - how bad could it get? well right now you can see it's learning just a - you can see it's learning just a little bit. according to the national weather service there is an enhanced risk for severe weather, possibly more tornadoes in this area, wins more than 100 km an hour, and hail. that's going to be coming through tonight so people are bracing for that. you can see there's not much left here, but a lot of people have tried to gather up lot of people have tried to gather up what belongings they could salvage. before that severe weather comes in within the next few hours, and people are urged to pay attention to any weather bulletins. mike, thank you so much forjoining us. i'm sure we will be speaking to you again is that community starts to rebuild. thanks forjoining us on newsday. in parts of the uk the police have been accused of failing children,

following a highly critical report into their use of strip searches. new figures show almost 3000 children were strip—searched by police forces in england and wales, between 2018 and mid 2022. the youngest was just eight years old. more than half didn't involve an appropriate adult being present, as required by law, except when there's a serious risk to life, and black children were up to six times more likely to be strip—searched, compared to the rest of the population. the children's commissioner for england, says she's deeply concerned about the findings, as celestina 0lu—loday reports. a year ago, thousands marched in solidarity with child 0, a black schoolgirl strip—searched by police in 2020. wrongly accused of carrying cannabis, the 15—year—old was on her period at the time. her ordeal has encouraged others to come forward with their own traumatic accounts,

including a teenager who recounted to the children's commissioner his experience of being strip—searched at the age of 13. idid not i did not have a parent or guardian present with me. the children's commissioner says the report findings are deeply concerning. in 45% of cases, strip—search locations were not recorded. i have seen data showing strip—searches in a fast food outlet, in an amusement park, in a number of schools and police vehicles. both totally u na cce pta ble.

there needs to be training for all staff who might do this. there needs to be better data and record—keeping. it's shocking to me. and parents need to be informed. the commissioner says that strip—searches are necessary in certain circumstances, like a threat to life, but stresses the bar must be high. responding to the findings, the national police chiefs' council said:... but this campaigner says greater action is needed. there should be a complete cessation on searches until we have those safeguards in place, until there is a proper system of reporting, of scrutiny, of oversight.

because otherwise we are allowing a potentially abusive situations to continue to be perpetuated. the children's commissioner says she will be calling for more police data next year. coastguards in tunisia say 29 people are now known to have drowned when two boats carrying migrants sank within hours of each other. the vessels were heading to italy — as part of an increase in crossings that's seen several other boats sink, and dozens more reach the italian island of lampedusa. four other boats have gone down in the region in the last three days amid an unprecedented series of departures from north africa. i'm joined now by giorgia linardi, spokeswoman for sea—watch, one of the charities operating rescue vessels in the mediterranean. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. in the first instance, if you could just talk us through. what is behind the increase in migrant boat

crossings? thank you and good evening. so it is true that we are seeing an increase of departures. 20,000 people have reached the italian shores in 2023. that's more than three times compared to the same period of time in the past two years. it's also true that we are looking at a shift in their central mediterranean route. , most of the departures are right now from tanisha. however, most of the people on those boats are sub—saharan african cities. most of them coming from libya. so this may be an effect of the —— operated by the european union that allow the interception of the people by the coastguard to return them to libya, and there may be a shift of the route from the people who then tried to cross from libya to tunisia by land and then by truly pricey from

tanisha. there is also another relevant element which is that the deposition taken by the technician government on the 21st of february has literally talked about an attempt of ethnic substitution by the sub—saharan migrants in tunisia, and since then there has been literally a hunt against sub—saharan african migrants in the country and this may also be the basis of departures from the country. when our departures from the country. when your rescue — departures from the country. when your rescue vehicles _ departures from the country. when your rescue vehicles encounter- departures from the country. when your rescue vehicles encounter these people what are they telling you and how are the authorities dealing with this? ~ . ., , this? well when we encounter these --eole this? well when we encounter these eo - le we this? well when we encounter these people we normally _ this? well when we encounter these people we normally operate - this? well when we encounter these people we normally operate in - this? well when we encounter these people we normally operate in the l people we normally operate in the central mediterranean route so we usually wreck you people who are fleeing from libya. the first thing they usually tell us is that if we return them to libya they would rather die in the mediterranean sea.

however, this is the destiny we are facing in those times when no one else is fair to rescue them apart from rescue ngos who are currently blocked by a recent decree issued by the italian government which has been recently converted into law. this is a law that obstacles suppresses serial rescue and the mediterranean sea. the italian coastguard is doing what they can but it is clear that without a european union with the search and rescue mandate, it is impossible to cover the needs in terms of search and rescue in the mediterranean sea. giorgia linardi, thank you so much forjoining us in the programme. meanwhile, italian authorities on the island of lampedusa have seized a rescue ship funded by british street artist banksy. the italian coastguard said the mv louise michel failed to follow instructions to head to sicily,

and instead went to help three more migrant boats. officials were concerned the vessel would become dangerously overcrowded. but the crew said they could not ignore calls for help. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. we speak to the campaigner who's run 200 marathons in the last year to highlight the issue of water overconsumption. there will be no more wars or bloodshed between us.

with great regret, the committee have decided that south africa be excluded from the 1970 competition. streaking across the sky, the white hawk _ streaking across the sky, the white hawk wreckage dugas from onlookers in fiji~ _ this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani. in singapore. 0ur headlines... anger in tel aviv after the prime minister— anger in tel aviv after the prime minister saxes defence minister netanyahu injerusalam — after he sacks his defence minister for condemning his controversial judicial reforms. a major incident is declared

in dorset in england, after 200 barrels' worth of oil spilt into the water at poole harbour. the incident happened at wytch farm, which is an oilfield. britain's opposition labour party is establishing an independent review panel which it says should ensure the future success and sustainability of the bbc as a publicly funded broadcaster. the party says the organisation should be independent of government, and continue to be celebrated and respected in the uk and around the world. the current charter period ends in 2027, soon after an election and labour believes this is a key moment for long—term policy thinking on how to secure the bbc�*s future. to germany now, and campaigners hoping to make berlin climate neutral by 2030 appear to have lost the referendum — acccording to initial results. the binding referendum was seen as a test of whether germans want their country's climate policy to be more ambitious. the world needs to urgently modifiy it's consumption of water — that was the key message at the end of the un's first water security

conference in almost half a centruy. un secretary—general, antonio guterres told the three day conference in new york that the future of humanity depended on its adoption of an agenda for water use based on science. the conference heard water scarcity is becoming endemic due to over—consumption and pollution. 0ne campaigner has literally gone a long way to highlight this issue, running 200 marathons in one year, from her native australia to america. thejourney taking mina guli through the outback down under... via the mountains and snow... in places like central asia and europe. and across the plains of africa before finally arriving in the us. that's a trek of more than eight—and—a—half thousand kilometres. the australian arrived at her final destination outside the un headquarters in new york city on wednesday. she says she set out looking for a water problem, but discovered a global "catastrophe". and mina guli joins me now.

it's wonderful to get you on the programme. what an achievement for you i have to say. in terms of your journey. in terms of yourjourney. what's the most striking image or story you encountered on yourjourney? it's hard to pick. there were so many. i think when i set out i wanted to raise awareness about this crisis. i wanted to show the urgency of the problem we are facing and ultimately i wanted to use the stories of people on the ground on the front lines of these crisis to help drive action. action from governments, and action from companies who represent 90% of our global freshwater consumption and individuals. and as you said, what i found was absolutely catastrophic. whether it was checking up to the tops of mountains and central asia where i climbed up glaciers and witness to the absolute melting of over a thousand glaciers. you look out on the valley and what should be filled with ice is barren land. whether it was even in some of the parts of australia which had been

wracked by droughts and floods and devastation, having an opportunity to meet some of the farmers there or whether it's through some of the deserts of africa, where women and girls have to work for hours every day to go fetch water. so it's even in populated places like europe, and i could run under bridges because the water levels are at their lowest ever. these are all striking images that will stay with me forever. and i hope will help me to drive the action from governments and companies that we are going to need to solve this global water crisis. absolutely, mina. those images are going to stay with us for some time as well. but what exactly is that you are looking for companies and governments to do? what kind of action do you want to see? 50 governments to do? what kind of action do you want to see? so what i want is that — action do you want to see? so what i want is that governments _ action do you want to see? so what i want is that governments and - want is that governments and companies put waterfront of mine in every decision that they make, whether it's making decisions about investments or decisions about where they purchased new, or make new

acquisitions. i came from a business and finance background and what i realised in the process of making assessments, nobody is factoring water risk. so i am asking companies and governments to do big things. first, understand their water risk. second, understand the gap between where they should be on water and where they should be on water and where they should be on water and where they are now. and thirdly, plan and implement a plan for how to close that gap. there are lots of examples, lots of opportunities for collaboration on river basin management, working with other ngos to implement strategies which will help to manage our water more efficiently, and ultimately to help to reduce the risk for companies and help governments to manage the risk for water to all of us who are members of their communities. mina, i know what — members of their communities. mina, i know what you _ members of their communities. mina, i know what you saw _ members of their communities. mina, i know what you saw during _ members of their communities. mina, i know what you saw during your - i know what you saw during your travels during those marathons was as you described it a global catastrophe in the making. but in terms of inspirational stories, did you find people working together to solve these problems?—

solve these problems? yeah, so i think it's easy _ solve these problems? yeah, so i think it's easy to _ solve these problems? yeah, so i think it's easy to look _ solve these problems? yeah, so i think it's easy to look at - solve these problems? yeah, so i think it's easy to look at these - think it's easy to look at these things and i heara think it's easy to look at these things and i hear a lot of resistance about companies and governments for taking action. and i think my first messages we can do hard things. whether it's running marathons are solving the global water crisis, actually, we can do what's needed. we can particularly do it if we work together. so when i started running i was one person running in a desert. by the time i finished my 200 marathon at the steps of the united nations, we had thousands of people and over 2000 countries, 200 countries running along beside me. that gives me hope and inspiration for the future. because those people are notjust runners and individuals. those people are enacting change in their global communities whether it's farmers doing regenerative agriculture, farmers learning to grow more efficiently or whether it scientists who are figuring out how to get a 25% reduction. so i think

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start to the new week. it doesn't last for long. it will soon turn wet and windy, but also very mild, particularly for the middle part of the week. this is how monday shapes up underneath an area of high pressure. it's the only day of the week that we see this set up. waiting in the wings is our next atlantic system. we'll see the cloud moving in ahead of that later in the day. but monday morning will be crisp, plenty of sunshine for many. still some wintry showers for eastern coast. they will tend to fade once again. cloud for parts of south west. england and wales, could bring a few showers, but cloud, rain, sleet and snow moving into the northern isles later in the day. still a cold feeling day, but we'll have lost that biting northeasterly wind. it won't feel quite as cold as sunday, particularly for the northeastern coast. and a dry, cold start to monday night before the cloud starts to gather ahead of this atlantic system that i previously mentioned. and this will be extending its way north and eastwards through the early hours of tuesday morning, and then staying with us for much of the day on tuesday. and as it bumps into that cold air across scotland, the potential that we could see some

snow for a time through tuesday morning, certainly some heavy rain initially across western areas, but then soon extending further eastwards, perhaps turning drier and brighter across northern ireland in the afternoon, temperatures rising a touch. but given the strengthening wind, the cloud and the rain, still going to feel on the cool side. and then there's more atlantic systems moving our way as we head through wednesday, thursday. and an area of low pressure will linger through friday and saturday. so after that cold, dry start on monday, it will quickly turn wetter and potentially windy as well through thursday and friday, but also much milder.

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