Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

The biggest internal crisis in Israel's history as the government passes a controversial

move to weaken the Supreme Court and mass protests continue.

I ask a leading journalist what this means for their democracy.

And it is horrendous, I've never been so scared my entire life.

Urgent evacuations at the height of holiday season as wildfires consume parts of Greece, another sign of devastating

climate change.

And in the United States I speak to attorney Missy Sims, an expert and activist Richard Wiles, about their fight to hold oil and gas

companies accountable.

Then Spain did not go extreme right in Sunday's snap election, but there's no clear winner so what's next

also ahead these colleges tend to enroll a disproportionate share of kids from very

high-income families a small chance of success Hari'srenewasan talks to Harvard economics professor Raj Chetti

about how highly selective colleges shape America's leaders. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.

We begin in Israel where months of protests over the very nature of their democracy

has finally come to a head. The ruling governing coalition has today approved a controversial new law which strips the Supreme Court of the power to declare some government actions unreasonable.

This despite months of furious and organized nationwide protests as

well as repeated advice and disapproval from Washington

Israel's most important ally the White House is now calling today's move, quote, unfortunate and it's

calling for consensus. One of Netanyahu's most far-right ultra-nationalist allies

Iitmar Ben Givir says, this makes Israel a little more democratic and a little

more Jewish.

And he went on to say, this will be just the beginning.

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