if you have a small majority in the israeli parliament out of 120 knesset members, if you have 61 knessetor instance, to take away voting rights from arab citizens or to ban women from public spaces, the only entity that can intervene and says, "no, you can't do that, "this is anti—democratic," is the supreme court. now the government tries to neutralise the supreme court. in your view, without getting into too much detail about netanyahu's judicial reforms, what he is doing is saying that for far too long, thejudiciary has become something of a closed shop, a self perpetuating elite. "what we are doing," he and his far—right ministers in the most far—right government israel's ever seen, they are changing the system, so the knesset, the parliament, has ultimately much more control, more power over the supreme court. they're not doing away with the supreme court, they're just changing the way judges would be elected. it's very simple. if i would sit here with netanyahu, i would ask him, "please explain to me the mechanism "that if 61 knesset members raise their hands and say "arabs don't h

the knesset never decided that in our 57 years.uarantee you it will never decide that in the future there are checks and balances. right now in israel the supreme court has no checks and no balances. we have to restore some of it, but we have to do it carefully and responsibly and that's what i'm doing. >> you think you can come to some concession. >> consensus? i'm seeking it certainly. i hope to achieve it, i won't tell you it's easy. being prime minister of israel easiest job in the world. >> bret: i don't think so. do you think saudi arabia normalized relations with iran before they normalized relations with you. >> first of all, you have to understand that there has been normalization before the abraham accords. for example in 2018, two years before we signed the abraham accords, saudi arabia opened its airspace to israelis who could now fly over the arabian peninsula to destinations in the gulf and asia, india, australia, and so on. that was -- that didn't happen accidentally. and i don't think the abraham accords would have

their barricade of the knesset brought out police water cannons.ested and interrogated. here they're surrounding the car of justice minister and vice prime minister yariv levin, the architect of the controversial judicial overhaul. they wreak havoc outside his home by burning tires and disturbing his neighbors. he says he respects their right to protest but to remember his government won the election. >> no democracy can accept a situation that the government, the elected government that has a majority in the parliament, won't be able to pass any bill and to do anything because there are protests, because there are some people that are against it. >> you say that the people who fear that there won't be equal rights for everybody are completely mistaken and their charges are baseless. however, you are part of the most right-wing government that israel has ever had. >> i'm proud to be part of that government, and i think that's what israelis wanted to see. >> but you have people in your cabinet who have made openly racist and homophobic statements, a

lawyers for the knesset defended a new law to strike down the government's decisions deemed unreasonablenow the court has the difficult task of deciding its own fate. >> reporter: never before in israeli history have all 15 judges sat together in the supreme court in jerusalem to hear arguments in a case. and what the supreme court was listening to is arguments about its own power, about what the supreme court does, and whether it should continue being able to strike down laws as it used to be able to do, until this law was passed in july. now what happened in july was that the israeli parliament, the knesset that is now controlled by benjamin netanyahu's right-wing coalition, they passed as law that strips the supreme court of its previous ability to nullify government actions that the supreme court deems unreasonable. this law was an amendment the a basic law. it's the closest israel has to a constitution is a series of basic laws. the supreme court has never before nullified or struck down a basic law. but that is what they're potentially considering doing as a result of this hearing

an official of the knesset has announced that this event was organized by ben guerr to add gasoline to and may expand the range of protests . it was said in this ceremony. it was that if every jew had a chicken or a rooster that was white in color he is turning his head around, his sins will be forgiven a year ago, this issue was created that had the reaction of the seculars, and the conflict continues in the occupied territories. we had and the conflicts were mostly political, this time it has a cultural color and today this ritual is supposed to continue again on the part of benguid and there is a fear that these conflicts will take on a new color in the occupied territories, mrs. ajipour said. good news mr. shani, sedah news reporter sima, but to your events, dear and respected viewers, we are going to istanbul, where today the land documents of the plan for children and urban regeneration are supposed to be handed over, mr. shirvand , the vice president of real estate and legal affairs of road and city development of istanbul , they are with us in the form of a picture, shirvand, g

in ghalib, a bill to the knesset is based on time limits for the presence of palestinians in certaints of the mosque. sheikh sabri, the preacher of al-aqsa mosque, warned . the occupiers have crossed red lines in attacking the mosque and must leave it. quds is the meeting place and inspiration of all muslims. in quds we will remain. in spite of all the obstacles and measures that prevent us from reaching al-aqsa mosque, god willing , we will remain loyal to this mosque and to quds until our last breath . in less than an hour, we will be with you with another part of the news at 11 o'clock, in the name and memory of god, with greetings, your presence , dear viewers of khabar network, we are waiting for the next hours in parts of golestan province, north khorasan . areas of the eastern parts of the province mazandaran, northern areas of razavi khorasan province, parts of semnan province, northeast of tehran province, let it rain. in golestan province , the rains are more intense until today at noon , there is a possibility that the water in the rivers will flow. we request that full in

plan to divide the time and space of the sharif mosque a decade ago in the form of a bill to the knessetsed on the time limits for the presence of palestinians in certain parts of the mosque. sheikh sabri khatib of al-aqsa mosque has warned that the invaders have crossed red lines in attacking the mosque and should leave it. quds is the meeting place and inspiration of all muslims. stay in quds we will despite all the obstacles and measures that prevent us from reaching al-aqsa mosque, god willing , we will remain sincere for this mosque and for the holy of holies, we will remain here until our last breath. zanene khabari sed and radio, thousands of people in the capital of armenia demonstrated against the government of this country. the demonstrators demanded the resignation of the armenian prime minister nikol pashinyan and find a solution to the crisis of the displaced people of karabagh. it continues to armenia. according to the latest census, garbagh region has about 160,000 people, 120,000 of whom are armenians. the adviser of the president of azerbaijan on foreign policy matters d

sharif was presented by the zionists a decade ago in the form of a bill to the knesset, based on thee limits for the presence of palestinians in certain parts of the mosque. sheikh sabri khatib of al-aqsa mosque has warned that the invaders have crossed red lines in attacking the mosque and should leave it. quds is the meeting place and inspiration of all muslims. we will remain in jerusalem despite all the obstacles and measures that prevent us from reaching al-aqsa mosque god willing, we will remain sincere for this mosque and for quds, we will stay here until our last breath. if their plan is implemented, al-aqsa mosque will be recognized as a holy place for jews . saeed zannah khabarari , the head of the central bank, emphasized that commercial banks should mr. farzin said that corporate ownership of commercial banks is not acceptable and they should let their own companies know that what does corporate ownership mean at all? what damage does it cause to the national economy and how should the mechanisms be defined in order to achieve what the governor general of the central bank

the cabinet vote would then need to be ratified by a two—thirds majority in the knesset. faces an ongoing corruption trial. finally, us astronaut frank rubio said it's good to be home. he spent more than a year on board the international space station. his 371 days in space set a record for us space travel. rubio and two russian cosmonauts touched down in southeast kazakhstan on wednesday. the crew was set to return six months ago, but a leak in their original spacecraft delayed their return. iam i am caitriona perry at the ronald reagan presidential library in california. thanks for watching. library in california. thanks forwatching. do library in california. thanks for watching. do stay with us here on bbc news. take care now. hello there. well, it's rather stormy on wednesday out towards the north and the west, storm agnes clearing, of course, overnight. and then, thursday, it's looking a lot calmer. it'll still be rather blustery, particularly through the morning. still some coastal gales in northern scotland, but some sunshine around for most, clouding over from the

we will not respect such a decision, including the chairman of the israeli ke net knesset.n this. he refuses to talk to israeli media. but several times in interviews, he was asked, will you respect such a decision to strike down the legislation that limits the court itself? and he did not give a straight yes or no answer, which puts us in, again, uncharted territory for israeli democracy. >> we have a minute left. this is as netanyahu is facing corruption charges. what are the stakes for him? >> personally for him, weakening the judicial system is of interest because he's a criminal. there's more to this. for his extremist coalition allies, the real goal here is to exchange the state of israel itself. less of a democracy and to turn it into much more religious and authoritarian country. ahead of his visit to the u.s., is trying to make noise and at the end of the day, the people calling the shots are his coalition partners. they want to go full steam ahead into the constitutional crisis with the security. >> amir, thank you for coming on the show. >>> the cdc could sign of

not until the very moment somebody first knesset hey, have you ever consider running for office? that was the first time ever thought about running for office. part of that is because we are so used to seeing and experiencing a system that is negative, system that is harmful even, a system doesn't fit for us, system that isn't fit for us that we don't think that this is a space for us. i think if i were you in the well be about it is how can i and what can i bring that's missing in the system right now? you don't have to conform. i think the system needs you precisely as you are are yoe the experience, the perspective you have in your life. it needs that so much more than it need you to be polished, to wear a mask, that it needs you to learn how to talk like a politician or in need you to walk and talkt and exactly how you are. so when you're thinking about what do you want this world to look like, what are you trying to build? what's with building for you and what's worth fighting for? that is your politics. you're going to politics right now. ily say find you are politicall, no

abide by the supreme court rulings and the supreme court should abide by the basic laws that the knesset legislates. i think we should keep both sides of this basic bargain of democracy. >> that's not a yes or a no. >> that's the right answer. >> will you abide by this decision related to this reform specifically? >> i want to have us continue to abide by the supreme court rulings and i want the supreme court to continue to abide by the basic laws. and that's i think the correct balance. >> i think it's really notable that you won't answer this question. you wouldn't answer it to wolf blitzer. you're not answering. and it's a yes or no question. >> well, it's a yes or no question if you also answer the other part. and we haven't answered it. i hope we don't get to that. >> but if they rule tomorrow, what do you do? >> well, let's hope that we both do the prudent thing and remain in the basic principles that guide our democracy. you know, in a democracy no one power has absolute power over the other powers. in israel, you know, the supreme court has all the checks but no balance. and it's