this is it every news line for girl in israel passes a divisive new law that critics say legalizes discrimination arab israeli lawmakers protest against the statute which defines israel as a jewish nation state the law downgrades the arabic language and says only the country's jews are entitled to self-determination also coming up british police reportedly identify suspects who carried out the poison attack on surrogate script ball and his daughter the government has played down the claim will get the latest

from london. town while her rocker it's a pleasure to have you with us the israeli parliament has passed a controversial law which explicitly defines the country as the national homeland of the jewish people the new law makes hebrew the country's only official language thereby downgrading arabic to special status it also states that only the country's jews have the right to self-determination israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the vote a defining moment in the history of zionism critics say the law is racist and discriminatory. protests in parliament against a law that is tearing up relations between jewish and arab israelis arab politicians were rejected as they spoke against the law which gives jews the unique

right of national self-determination it passed with a narrow majority prime minister benjamin netanyahu described it as an historic day . zero this is a defining moment in the annals of zionism and the history of the state of israel. the law in shrines the national flag anthem and holidays it declares jerusalem as israel's capital and supports the development of jewish communities hebrew is now the country's only official language arabic downgraded to a so-called special status arab lawmakers said the measures verge towards apartheid the nationality bill is in hate. there are discriminating against the arab citizens against minority with the races africans especially those over jewish settlements and those articles downgrading

there are big the status of the arabic language around twenty percent of israelis are of arab ethnicity some say they still treated as second class citizens observers say the law undermines democracy in israel. this basic law is clearly not given the same level of equality and he's actually designed to supersede the laws that we already had this is very problematic i think it will minimize. the rights for minorities and he's well minorities in israel might feel alienated and probably rightly so because the law. is making israel more jewish let them across. opponents are likely to challenge the law before israel's supreme court. all right let's talk now to akiva eldar an israeli political columnist for the

monitor a very a good evening sir why does this matter. fantastic question actually matters because you're asking the question that is because i keep getting calls from all over the world asking this question why did we do it is is still a democracy. and actually goes even deeper than that people are. asking whether. again to say the question. was turned into a u.n. resolution in the seventy's is a zionism racism and if you discriminate twenty percent of the israeli citizens is ready for it and i'm not talking about the occupied territories i'm talking about israeli citizens like me if you tell them and you tell the world that they

are second degree citizens because they are not jewish. this is shameful and this is why i guess your interviewing me why why do you think the government has decided to do this right now what's what's the point. actually it's has been in the pipeline for a very long time there were discussions on the different drafts and it started as a kind of a race between members of knesset from their lives and between different parties from the right who will get there first and the whole will be able to put it on his business card in the lex next election then i did it because i'm afraid that if. you do a poll in just well you will find out that most israelis are happy was the law.

and this is what this is the great damage that netanyahu has done people. believe very proud that we have today an important guest the prime minister the anti semite prime minister of hungary what we don't know about as really i think is let's talk about that as well because it's very difficult to see how mr benjamin netanyahu is squaring that circle because this bill being introduced right now comes just as he has received john kerry in time minister viktor orban. you know something has talked anti jewish sentiment back home especially of course that campaign is this source that campaign in hungary so how i mean it's very difficult as an outsider seeing what's playing out in israel right now to reconcile these two developments. yeah there isn't much in common i think that urban unfolding will feel at home here

we have. people who are getting more and more prison tropic we more people who hate refugees hate the others and netanyahu is riding on this kind of atmosphere. he sent the message since the last elections that the arabs our. israeli arab citizens. in the best case they are not is where it is in the worst case the enemy's. yeah and i have i just have literally ten seconds left unfortunately is there anything that can be done to repeal this law or is it now a fact. this is this is a fact what should be done is to make sure that this statement by the bill

will not be implemented on the ground that will not going to change jury ality and make some. practical changes that will make this kind of negative statement negative message to them i know it is and to the world and to the jewish community because the jewish community is all part of the minorities in germany in the united states to make sure that we don't put a president of a practical discrimination official discrimination akiva eldar israeli political columnist for our monitors there thank you for weighing in. thank you very much my pleasure all right let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. spain has dropped its request to have germany extradite catalan independence leader carlos put the decision comes after a german court ruled last week he could only be sent back on charges of misusing

public funds but not rebellion would you most fled abroad after organizing an illegal referendum on catalan independence last year the government of turkish president richard tired one has lifted the country's state of emergency it had been in effect since a failed coup attempt to years ago tens of thousands of opposition supporters were sacked or arrested during that time the government has already proposed a stringent antiterrorism bill to replace the measure. the european commission has referred hungry to the e.u. court of justice for refusing to comply with european asylum rules while that's after hungry were drew for me un agreement q managed global migration on wednesday executive also said hungary needs to change laws criminalizing those who aid asylum seekers'. britain security minister has played down

a media report that police have identified suspects linked to the attack on for more russian agents sergei script all and his daughter yulia min wallace dismissed a report speculation the pair were poisoned with nava chocolate in the city of salzburg back in march two more people were recently exposed to the same nerve agent in a nearby town and one of them has since died the news agency report says investigators used security footage and travel records to pinpoint the suspects police have declined to comment on the report. all right and. bear gets masa joins us now from the british capital appeared at the british security minister says these reports that police have identified those responsible are widely speculative what's the latest. well yes he had sent out a tweet and said that they were ill informed and speculative however it doesn't

mean that they are untrue i would say because the present sociate is a respected news agency and it also be the case that the investigators are just not at this point in time where they want to release their formal conclusion so that could be the that could be the reason behind it that officials are just a little bit careful at the moment and i do want to get out with all the information that they have we'll have to see how the pres will back it up because they have said that they have interviewed a source that is close to the investigation and that these the source has said that several russians have been identified as the perpetrators of this attack do we know why these will course are just as those so we're sponsible have been caught. well according to this media report it was c.c.t.v. footage all of the u.k. has lots of c.c.t.v. security cameras where you can really track down individual steps and this is what

the investigators would have done in the last weeks and they cross-reference this with or direct codes so people who flew in and out of the country and this is how they are thought to believe thought to have come to the conclusion that they have identified the proper train just bought we have no official confirmation as yet has there been any russian reaction to this news. the russian ambassador who's always being quite vocal on this subject has said that he wants to have something that's formal something by scotland yard by the by the british government before he makes an official statement we do know that this has really soured u.k. russian relations and it will be a subject that they will have to work on the question is even if the british do release the name of the suspects of a thing they have found of have betrayed is the question is will. russia believe it because russia has so far denied any involvement in this case they get mass

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