we explain how things, technologies work, how they can go in for and how they can also go terribly. watch it on youtube. ah ah, this is the w news live from bell. it civil disruption spreads in israel as a position to contentious traditional reforms is growing demonstrations and a general strike increase the pressure on benjamin netanyahu is far right. coalition sources within the prime minister's liquid parties says say he could be

about to suspend the reforms, but its hard line the allies are urging him to press ahead. also coming up germany phases, it's most disruptive strike action in 30 years. public transport reyland, airports to of nationwide walking off the job to demand more pay to counter a cost of living. crisis and controversy surrounds a visit by taiwan, former president, margin job to china. the 1st time a former or sitting president has been to the mainland in 70 years. and the drum maps, a portuguese moto g, p reigning world champion francesco. vanya emerges victorious to lay down america for his rivals. that and more highlights of the weekend sport. coming right up ah,

ah, i'm glad of his welcome to the program. israel is facing massive civil disruption as prime minister benjamin netanyahu comes on the pressure from the opposition and from his own coalition sauces. from his li could parties say he is ready to suspend the judicial reforms that have triggered a political crisis, but not yowse right wing allies are demanding that he carry out the overall demonstrators in jerusalem have gathered in front of the parliament, the kinessa calling for the reforms to be scrapped. the nation's largest trade union has just announced the general stripe to protest the plans. flights from televi tv's, ben curry on airport, already grounded. israel has seen sustained mass rally since the overall was announced. months ago. it would allow parliament to override supreme court decisions are a becker it is our correspondence in jerusalem, who brought us the latest from outside israel's parliament, the class it yeah,

that's right. get hard. the biggest workers union in the country cold for that national strike. and we're seeing that come into effect, as you mentioned in the late in the airport, have grounded all our flights incoming and outgoing our. we've seen hospital saying that they're also going to take part in the strike with only emergency services being available. that's as of tomorrow. schools, universities on strike are one thing that isn't on strike though, is the trains and many people using the train system to come in to jerusalem, where i am now standing outside the connected to protest. you mentioned that there are already thousands of people gathered and there are, i can hear them. i don't know if you can, but they are. they are protesting today that the major protest is set to begin in about an hour's time, but people are gathering and we're expecting it to go on of much of the day and into the evening with even calls for right when protest is to come out. this evening, so potentially, you know,

we're not sure exactly what's going to happen. could see clashes there. ah, but it's a big day in israeli, in his early history. or rebecca will come back to you in a 2nd. but let's have a look 1st there what happened over the weekend and go on the streets of tel aviv. brutus is blocked a major highway that no one fires in jerusalem. police use water cannon to disperse protesters outside the residents of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. 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 fueled by natania house dismissal of defense minister you off garland, the 1st member of government to suggest the reform should be halted with

. 7 b, b, you more than the moment with, i'm not sure. not sure with no other choice with these really, government wants to 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 garland, but opposition politicians. san antonio has crossed a red line on your mil boswell hub. you these rail has never faced such popular pressure on the debate about its democratic institutions. and we can come back to our correspondent rebecca ridge as standing by the in jerusalem in for the parliament building the can i sit and where we can hear the,

the background protests going on. rebecca, after so much pressure, will netanyahu speak sooner? what is he going to do? well, that is the question that everyone here is asking, waiting with bated breath to see exactly how benjamin netanyahu is going to handle the situation. what he's going to say, we've been expecting him to make a statement to the nation. all morning that continues to be postponed. he is behind me in the parliament having furious meetings that he has been doing overnight. and so, you know, trying to negotiate away forward just exactly how he's going to settle these protests and keep the members of his coalition happy really remains to be seen. it is also a question as to whether or not halting these judicial changes will even be enough . now, to quell these protests, many people are going one step further. they're saying that that it isn't enough that they're so angry that what he's done in dismissing the defense minister is

really a step too far. the protest is very angry saying it's a step towards anarchy. and i don't think it's, you know, many of them saying that it, even if they do hope these are judicial reforms, pushing them through that that will even stop. they protest. so a, what is going to happen? a question. everyone looking for the answer. rebecca to stay reported from jerusalem. thank you, rebecca. oh, here in germany, rail services and domestic flights have been paralyzed by the biggest 24 hour strike by the public sector. in decades transport workers from germany is 2 biggest unions of walks off the job in a cough, a higher wages to count the cost of living crisis. it has seen inflation rates above the years on average, in recent months. there is not a train in sight during rush hour at london's main station on monday

and frank fatter put germany's top hub is nearly deserted. tens of thousands of transport workers are going on strike across the country, demanding pay increases to match growing inflation. planes, trains, and buses are at a standstill and in some cities, local transport was also affected. these workers at frank for apple, it say that recent negotiations with their employers have failed. yes, likelihood we're striking today because we want to make it clear to our employers that the offer that they have made us is not enough. it does not reflect the amount of work we do. and we're going to show our solidarity with our bargaining committee . who i negotiated on our behalf to day and potsdam it was we want to show them that we stand with them. most passengers found out about the plan strike ahead of time and some strand to travel as a balance train station have mixed feelings about the action. or they,

when mid them that i already with the people striking. but i would like to warm at home with a beer and be able to share my solidarity my my watching it on tv. solidarity though. do then is ian retiring kernan. not every one was his understanding. the action has been condemned by transport companies as causing major disruption id rather organ on millions of nurses who rely on buses and trains of suffering because of the successive and extreme strikes. not everyone can work from home. thousands of companies who rely on sending and receiving goods by train will also be affected. and this is also a hit for the environment and for the climate your merits on strictly muscles, salary negotiations will continue between transport workers in their employers who

eager to get all forms of travel back on track as soon as possible. after all, the strikes are now joined bow reporters, julia, so deli, he had berlin central station and emily gordon at frankfurt airport. emily, let's start with you friday for the airport. is one of europe's main aviation hobbs . certainly germany's biggest. what's going on there today? yes you had were standing at the departure hall of frankfurt airport, and normally this place will be absolutely packed with holidaymakers. but as you can see behind me fossil, there's no people but also look at the board. it is full of canceled flights. and ironically, it has more and more and more, and indeed, we've had to day over a 1000 flights have been cancelled that will affect hundreds of thousands of holiday makers. he wanted to travel from her frankfurt airport. am, even if you just wanted to change her, that's not possible to day. we've been talking to some other travelers who have

arrived here to day. you know, some of them coming back to germany, we're re directed to smaller regional airports and then we're taking here at my boss, but as another 5 or 6 hours and travel time. and then we've also been talking to a group of american high school students who came on exchange and 1st their flights got delayed. you too bad weather in the u. s. and then that led them right into the strikes here in germany. and so they are stranded here, they will have to get the next line out tomorrow. so not all in all, not an ideal situation, but it's not for nothing. workers are going on strike because they say they are struggling with the rise in the cost of living. and they are struggling to pay their bills to make ends meet and they need a pay increase. and going on strike is their way of putting pressure on the ongoing ago. she ations and hopefully, or hopefully for them, you know, and their situation will improve. now, julie, over to you, your berlin's rather dessert at central station there. tell us more about what's

behind this strike. what exactly are the unions asking for? yes, so we've seen 2 of the biggest unions come together in calling this strike and mobilizing quite a large amount of people. that's because as we've heard already, they are asking for a pay increase and the $1.00 union wants a 10.5 percent pay increase the other up to 12 percent pay increase. and that is quite a lot. but they say that workers in the public transport sector really need support to deal with the rising prices. germany has seen record breaking inflation in the last year. and now in february 8 point 7 percent inflation rate. that is here, especially at the energy sector and the food sector, and this has happened after and as a consequence, also after russia's war of aggression against ukraine. we've seen people have seen

when they go and pay their bills or when they go to the supermarket, inflation rates up to 20 percent and that's why the union say it is, it is now time to go into negotiations and for their counterparts to, to listen to their demands, emily, i'm frank with germany, is hardly the only country see these kinds of strikes lately. is it? no, not at all. i mean, if we look at the u. k, for example, we've got the ongoing national railway strikes strikes and we've also now got he throw security heathrow, airport security guards thinking of joining them over these to holiday and. and then we look at france, we've got mass, i'm a straightened in light of my calls president, my close decision to push through a bill that will raise the national retirement age. labor unions have to have, you know, lead lots of strikes in france and even can, charles is unable to travel them as planned. and when you look at fame,

you've also got air traffic control isn't a deadlock overpaid negotiations. so all across europe, we're seeing these massive strikes and all across here. everyone saying look, we've got this problem, we've got rising affections. we can't pay the prices of goods and services at the going rate about salaries. so we need a pay increase and strikes all their way of making the voice. and julie are, this strikes are scheduled to last 24 hours to the just for today. but how likely is it that the demand for union will be accepted? and how likely is that the strikes may be continued or the union's have said that they wanted to concentrate the action i into one day in a very strong way. so that the protest don't have to drag on into the future and they want to send a strong signal to the states and the local authorities are whom they are negotiating with. but as such as salary increase that they are asking for between

10 and 12 percent is, is quite a big ask. especially when we look at a local authorities who are also struggling with their cash reserves given again the increase in prices and inflation. so they are going to be a difficult negotiations and we're going to have to see the will to, to compromise or from, from both sides or reporters. julia saw deli at berlin central station, then emily gordon at frank for the airport. thank you both very much. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world right now . near mars, military hunter has been marking the armed forces de troops paraded through the capital to commemorate the founding of the country's army during world war 2. the military style and in present elected officials following a coo and 2021 clear efforts on the way in the us state

of mississippi. after tornadoes destroyed several towns, president joe biden has declared an emergency freeing up federal funds. of these 25 people were killed when the twist is flat, neighborhoods, and downs, trees and power lines to ukraine. now we are fierce fighting in the east means casualties. have been mounting on both sides. ukraine does not disclose its losses, but us officials have estimated more than 100000 ukrainians have been killed or injured during the war. across the country, makeshift, graveyards, have been marked out for letting me have a rash anchor, which is 20 when he died. oh later butter, 26 vote and plesco was 21. they all thought for their country at this graveyard in hoc eve, there are hundreds of soldiers graves over each one flies ukrainian flag. it

sits in though 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. your ship starts in novel on the durham in ukraine during lent relatives bring bread and sweets to the graves for the dead. irena is here with her son. her husband. it was an order. god. good, glad that we do that. well, it looks ukraine. there are so many graveyards everywhere in ukraine. this is awful as it is, is grossly. it is time to end this war. but as it was very just too many ukrainian victims smell so green is the next group of mourners is already waiting for a 26 year old who was killed in battle it towns . former president, mar, jane jo has a started

a controversial trip to china. it is the 1st such trip by a former head of state since 1949. mars recently landed in shanghai airport. the ex president has stressed that he will not meet with high ranking chinese officials. and the visit will focus on preserving peace. but his trip passport controversy and taiwan a territory that b j views as its own went is song from the australian national university is t one a taiwan studies program is in taipei and i asked him if the former leader or if the formulate his visit rather was a piece making mission or do you just the opposite? as his critics say, it's going to be a bit of both. i think for press and law, this is going to be his own legacy defining moved. because press and law doing his time in power from about 2008 to 2016 was marked by acceleration gunam

exchanges between taiwan and china, which culminated in a local polito talk happening between both sides. so i think for him, this is one of his farewell moves as a major political figure in pounds, politics. and he's trying to show again, that he alone can be the bridge between taiwan, china and the hopefully that he can lower tension somewhat between the 2 sides. so what's been the reaction from beijing to this visit? the staging is over the moon. i mean damaging, of course, once crush relations, get closer, asian ones, how want to feel more closer to, to china, and hopefully with the more amenable counties audience. china, can they have a possible, have a cheaper way to find tight ones get power back into china own farms, so to speak,

in a peaceful lower cost way rather than having to go for a mentoring nation or the coffee stuff at this juncture in china, really has a lot of their fin point to play right now. ukraine war, of course, has led to a lot of western critique of china. china, the only number is slow down as a result call. it is also creating a lot of pressure internally for china. the china really would rather see high one issue being sort of contain and sort of not getting out of hand. so at that time i can deal with one at its own pace on its own time table. at this juncture, with taiwan former president building and building china, it's really a talking point that agent can leverage to say, to its own domestic audience. hey guys, we can show it down, ok, show high one. now we don't need to rush to use force against i want to think because how one now still has

a strong paging of friendly voice happening at this moment. and present might be the china is meant to symbolize that. now later this week, the contact with the president signed gwen is expected to make an equally controversial trip to the us. what kind of message will this send to people? the voters in, in taiwan presence high visits for us is meant to convey the strands of us how one relations at this juncture. there were some concerning tile ones ever since the break call over ukraine war. when town is bought, that a us didn't directly mean a terribly into being ukraine. so if a war breaks out between taiwan and china may be the degree of us, a property was also kind of questionable. so that's always been a bit of issue. everything's great. we'll break out that tony's coders, i'll a bit concerned about how dependable us is. so when present high visits,

us at this juncture. and if she gets a higher than normal treatment into a particle status into the kind of high level us partition, she get to meet that, that was surely in jet more confidence into a town society. and then go that will go some way to was repairing and strengthening your with how one ties at this juncture when he saw from the australian national university. thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. and some more world news in brief, in yemen, thousands of filters, streets of the rebel held capital santa, to mark 8 years of their war against the saudi led coalition. yemen has been entrenched in the civil war since 2014, resulting in one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. hundreds of fire fighters in eastern spain are baffling. the 1st major wildfire the season, some 1700 people have been forced to flee their homes. of fire began on thursday and is still out of control and unusually dry winter and southern europe as rest

concerns about a repeat of last year's devastating fires ah, to sports. now let's look ahead to the meeting of the international olympic committees board this week. it'll be discussing the participation of russian and bel, erosion athletes in sports competitions. the i o. c. currently recommends allowing such athletes to compete under a neutral flag in cave. they practiced their sports between air, raid sirens and missile attacks by russia. the notion that they may have been expected to compete against athletes from russia and its staunch ally beller roost leaves the ukrainian female fencers at a loss strictly. on the one hand, there is sport and our victories on the other. our soldiers dying fish,

it is very difficult to have on the team has already heard what it regards as bad news from the international fencing federation, the f i. e, which this month voted to a low, the return to competition of russian and bell russian athletes starting in mid april just in time to qualify for the paris 2024 olympics for helene, there's a ac, is that we know that this world in general is not very fear, but this decision outrages us on saturday protestors raised their voices outside the i was the headquarters in lawson. i oh see president thomas by says nor athlete should be discriminated against based on their passport. and it politics should be kept out of sport. that's not gone don't well if you cruise fencers, nash,

this is not just our problem that also an international one. after all, to day ukraine is under attack, and to morrow it can be any other country. that's why you can't close your eyes to it, which ukraine has threatened to boycott of the paris olympics as a last resort. it's doubtful that the phil throated support of the u. s. and dozens of other countries would extend to joining them. given that the i was see, says any such news would be against this charter. and in motor sports, raining moto g p. well champion francesco vanya has won the season. opening portuguese grand prix, the ducati rider dominated the race taking the lead, afro crash, involving pulse at a mock marquez is success follows a victory in the sprint race on, such as seizing openness go this one in portugal was not short on drama. pardon the favorite miguel? if eric got off to a flying start, moving from 4th to 1st on the opening lap,

but oliverez in the portuguese fans, joy was short lived to lapse later, he was taken out of the race in a crash. awesome. involve postage and mount marquez, oliver ashanti from behind, marquez suffering, a possible fracture to his hands that will benefit it. francesco benya, fresh from his when in the spring race on saturday, he completed his double victory in style with the notes christiano, rinaldo trademark gold celebration. cecily, in many epi, they had to, we had done that there for just for sure. only mr. but the lesion, but was the same starting from the front. oh, the raining champ, already setting a mark. once again, he looks like the man said, beat it. what ended up the news says a reminder of our top story in israel, demonstrators have gathered outside the kinessa to continue goals for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. 2 whole 2 additional reforms, israel's largest union,

a staging, a general strike against the bill, grounding flights at the country's main apple. the latest escalation in the month long row row comes as israeli media report, that netanyahu may bow to prussia and suspend the plan. that's it from me and the television news team here, d w don't go away. india is up next with bright ideas for clean energy. and of course there's always a lot more news on our website, dw, dot com. got it offers in berlin from me and the team with

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