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

I'm Nick Miles and 14 hours GMT on Monday the 24th of July.

These are our main stories.

Tensions run high in Israel as politicians vote on judicial reforms.

More than 80 wildfires and our raging across Greece as evacuations

from resort islands continue.

And I was expecting the governing bodies of football to stand with these women

and when Taliban said they, women of Afghanistan, belong to the kitchen.

These women sacrificed a lot to change that mindset.

So why is the Afghan women's football team not allowed to play in the World Cup?

As we record this podcast, the Israeli parliament has ratified part of the package

of controversial new judicial reforms put forward by Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu. Fresh from surgery having had a pacemaker fitted,

Mr Netanyahu discharged himself from hospital earlier to make sure he was there to cast his vote.

The reforms have provoked massive demonstrations over the past few months.

Among the biggest, the country has ever seen.

And this morning, more drama, police deployed water cannon to disperse protesters,

blocking routes leading to the parliament building, many chanted democracy as they sat in the roads.

Leibov, Leibov, Leibov, Leibov, Leibov, Leibov, Leibov, Leibov.

Our Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman gave the latest to Rebecca Kesby.

What we had with the second and final readings of this bill,

part of a series of measures to limit the powers of Israel's judiciary,

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