oh, because no one should have to make up your own mind. w made for mines ah, ah ah . this dw news live from berlin reports that israel's prime minister. netanyahu will bow to pressure and suspend controversial judicial reforms. demonstrations against the overall escalate dramatically after netanyahu's sac, his defense minister for speaking out israel's largest union joined the protests and calls

a general strike. also coming up germany faces it's most disruptive strike action in 3 decades. public transport rail and airport staff nationwide are walking off the job to the men more page counter, a cost of living crisis. ah, i'm the cough really, it's good to have you with us is really media are reporting that prime minister benjamin netanyahu is set to suspend controversial plans to overhaul the judiciary . that's according to sources in his li could party opposition to the plans escalated on sunday after netanyahu fired his defense minister for speaking out against the proposed reforms. israel's largest trade union has just announced a general strike to protest the plan. the nation has seen sustained mass rally since the overhaul was announced. months ago would allow parliament to override

supreme court decisions. more on this, let's go straight to rebecca ritters in jerusalem. rebecca netanyahu has postponed his announce statement. is he going to address the nation today? well, it certainly looks that way, but as you say, we've been waiting for that announcement that address to the nation for a couple of hours now. it keeps getting pushed, pushed back. so we expect because he's struggling to find a content consensus we were hearing rumors was being reported widely in local media and we were hearing some code party sources. benjamin netanyahu is on party saying that he was willing to suspend the current legislation that is causing havoc across the country that he was bowing to pressure. and then he would be announcing a suspension to those laws. but it seems that there are members of the coalition who may not be very happy with that. there have been people coming out from some of

the far right parties that form the coalition saying that they wouldn't support a suspension. and that would really put the coalition benjamin netanyahu is increasingly fragile coalition at risk. so we can see that he's been negotiating still and that is ongoing. exactly how those negotiations are going. and what will come out of them is anyone's guess. much more to talk about, but 1st let's take a quick look at the latest developments that lead us here and go in the streets of tel aviv protest is blocked a major highway, lowest bonfires in jerusalem. police use water cannon to disperse protesters outside the residents of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. ah weekly demonstrations against plans to over hold that additional system have been taking place across the country for nearly 3 months. oh,

the latest protests of fuel by natania house dismissal of defense minister you off garland 1st member of government to suggest the reform should be halted with. 7 you more than more with i'm not sure. not sure with no other choice with these really government one suit change the current system to allow parliament to override the decisions of the supreme court. the plan has divided the country far right parties. welcome, the dismissal of gallant but opposition politicians. san antonio has crossed our red line on your mil butts law while these rail has never faced such popular

pressure on the debate about its democratic institutions. robotic, chaotic scenes their last night massive, unprecedented protest over weeks. now. the, our israel is reacting and today well, you know, they, they're planning to come out and continue protesting their, the pressure on the government is gaining pace for you. if you look in all the sort of groups, the protest group, what that groups they're rallying, they are not giving up. but whether or not even the suspension of this legislation is enough to stop. these protests also remains to be seen. it sent me a question. i'll be putting to protest is as soon as i get outside, because i think, you know, this state of the game such momentum that it really is uncertain whether or not this whole, the legislation is really going to be enough to quell the unrest and the unhappiness them among protest is here, so definitely they continuing,

they've been saying for weeks that they would continue and now we're really saying things gather pace. it will be interesting to see events unfold to david. this is certainly a momentous day in israel's history. rebecca rivers and jerusalem, thank you so much and let's have a look now and some other stories making headlines around the world today. me on mars military junta has been marking the armed forces de troops paraded through the capital, 90 dawn to commemorate the founding of the country's army. during world war 2, the military seized power and a prison elected officials following a coup in 2021 o cleanup. efforts are underway and the u. s. state of mississippi offer tornadoes destroyed several towns. presidential biden has declared an emergency bringing up federal funding. lease 25 people were killed when the twisters flattened neighborhoods down trees and destroyed power lines thousands of yemen. these have

filled the streets of the rebel held capital santa to mark 8 years of their war against the saudi led coalition. government has been entrenched in a civil war since 2014, resulting in one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. hundreds of fire fighters and eastern spain are battling the 1st major wildfire of the season. from 1700 people have been forced to flee their homes. fire began on thursday and is still out of control. and usually dry winter in southern europe has raised concerns about a repeat of last year's devastating fires. airports, railway stations, and bus lines have shut down a germany's most disruptive strike action in 30 years. members of 2 of the biggest trade unions of walked off the job on monday, they're demanding higher wages and the transport sector to combat the rising cost of living. people in germany are struggling with high inflation since the war in

ukraine sent food and energy prices soaring our report as julia, so deli at berlin, central train station and emily or dean and frankfurt airport, told me about the situation today at those, usually very busy locations yeah, we're standing at their departure hall our front for the airport and it is pretty deserted. i must say. i've never seen it like this. and if you look at the board behind me, it's the departure board. every single flight has been cancelled, or honestly it says year, year, year above it, above the will the cancellations, i don't think we're travelers are as and through the attic about this development, an over 1000 to flights have been cancelled here. oh, oh. hundreds of thousands of path into of, of travelers are affected by this. and this is of course, design as, as after for many who are arriving back here in the travels that we have been able to speak to. they've either been stranded here since last night. they've been sitting here for hours on end,

or they have been arriving sort of through other regional small of airports and, and then, and then have been taken here via bosses. adding other 56000 travel time. but of course, this is not for nothing workers here are striking because they say the money that they're earning now is not enough to get by on. and keep in mind, inflation has been at a record high across are not just germany, but europe really. and so these strikes, are they what their way of putting pressure on the ongoing pay negotiations and that so that's why they are happening at the moment. and julia, so daily is at berlin's very desert ed central station. can you tell us more about what's behind this strike? what exactly are the union's asking for? i must say, i have never seen the usually buzzing central station here in berlin this empty. and that really comes to show how strong the unions that have organized the strike today are in germany and how much pressure they can really put on the negotiations

. the, the 2 unions to big unions have come together today to call for this strike. and they are asking for quite a substantial salary increase for public transport workers across the country between 10 and 12 percent depending on which of the unions and that is because they say workers are struggling to keep up with a rising inflation. as we've heard, record levels of inflation in germany, the highest level since world war 2, and especially hitting energy prices and food prices around 20 percent inflation for those 2 sectors. and people are really feeling the hit when they have to pay the bills when they have to go to the supermarket. and that's why basically the country has been brought to a standstill today for much of this related to the war in ukraine. emily, germany is not the only country thing these kinds of strikes lately as it hey, none at all. we've been seeing strikes all across europe. really. i mean,

if you look at the u. k. lower the ongoing national railway strikes have led to massive disruptions in transport and the transportation sector and heathrow airport at heathrow. airport security guards and the workers there are mulling whether to join them over that used to holiday am. and then we, when we look at france, we saw that president, my con, recently pushed through a quite a controversial bill that will raise the national retirement age. and that's, that's a huge demonstrations. and the labor unions that represent workers have also held math of strikes across the country even can charles has had to postpone his visit to france. and then when you look to, when you look to thing a lot of work, there have been deadlock over a pay negotiations and they've been working out oh on tuesdays or throughout march . and so it is an incredibly difficult situation across europe when it comes to the transportation sector, not only the transportation sector,

but it just reflects on this why the sentiment of this or the struggle with inflation. so inflation has risen to record highs across europe, as i just said. and people are struggling to pay their bills. and so this is their way of putting pressure on the employer side to raise in flat, to raise wages. and so that they can actually, you know, and deal with these price hikes in the future at julia here in germany. what's going to happen next? how likely that, that the demands of the unions will actually be accepted for the negotiations are ongoing. and this is going to be the 3rd round of negotiations . and what the unions have said is that so far they have not received an offer that they are willing to upset, accept, hence the strike to day. but we also have to consider is that the federal and a local authorities that are meant to agree to these salary increases are also

strapped for cash. given again, the inflation, the rising prices and the extra cost that they have to sustain. so they are going to be difficult negotiations and what i think is that is going to be quite difficult that these high amounts tend to. 1 for cent raises are going to actually be agreed upon. thank you julia so deleon, berlin, and emily gordon and frankfort. moving on with fierce finding an easter new cream casualties, have been mounting on both sides. ukraine doesn't disclose its losses, but you as officials have estimated more than 100000 ukrainians, have been killed or injured during the war. across the country, makeshift, graveyards, have been marked out, and existing cemeteries are being enlarged to provide a resting place. for the many dead followed me of russia and co was 20 when he died . oh, less to butter. 26. bowden plesco was 21. they

all thought for their country at this graveyard and hawk eve. there are hundreds of soldiers graves over each one flies ukrainian flag. it's in law, the price is so high. do you see how many of our soldiers have fallen in this war union? i hope the sacrifice is not in vain will should. so sin novel on the durham law in ukraine during lent relatives bring bread and sweets to the graves for the dead iran or is here with her son. her husband, it was a border guard club. the we do that well, looks to be bare us so many graveyards everywhere and ukraine. this is awful, as it is as close that it is time to end this war. but as it would show those, there are just too many ukrainian victims, mostly good in the next group of mourners is already waiting for

a 26 year old who was killed in blackwood. and before we go, he is a reminder of our top story to day israel. the media are reporting that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu was expected to delay contentious plans to reform the judiciary. this after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets, falling netanyahu's sacking of his defense minister. he had earlier called for an immediate halt to the reform. and that's my time for to day get f as we'll be with you at the top of the next hour. thank you so much for a company today. i work as an architect, jacqueline, or not at all women in the architecture. why are they so invisible to the larger public? we decided to ask them. this is, what is the poetry the secret of a house.