This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Monday the 27th of March these are our main stories.

Tens of thousands of Israelis take to the streets again after the Defence Minister is sacked by

Benjamin Netanyahu for opposing his judicial overhaul. NATO allies voice their concerns over

Russia's plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. At least 29 people

have drowned in the latest migrant boat sinkings off the coast of Tunisia.

Also in this podcast we look back on the life of the founder of one of the world's biggest

dumpling empires.

As we record this podcast the political crisis in Israel is intensifying even further.

The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sacked the Defence Minister Yoav Ghellant

after he broke ranks and urged the government to ditch its highly controversial plans to reform

the judicial system. Tens of thousands of Israelis have again taken to the streets to protest

with reports that barriers near Mr Netanyahu's home in Jerusalem had been breached.

Our correspondent there Anna Foster described the scene.

Well what you can hear probably tells you a lot about what I can see right now. We're in

central Jerusalem. This protest started outside the home of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu and it's now broken away and they're heading towards the Knesset to Israeli parliament

because of course this is all about legislation and legislation that these protesters are trying

to stop. The problem is the police are out of course soldiers are out as well. I've just seen

one with his baton drawn and in fact a water cannon has just come flying down the street

drenching this particular group of protesters as it went. What they're doing now is climbing

through some undergrowth because all of these main roads are closed. They are determined to get

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