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🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
0:05.6 | Today why Russia argues of pizza restaurant Ukraine was a military target, and how Lebanon |
0:12.2 | has tried recruiting sheep herders to reduce the risk of forest fires. |
0:17.0 | One correspondent leaves through layers of personal and cold war history in Prague, and another |
0:23.2 | joins the scientists in Ghana who are tracking down bats to understand how viruses jump |
0:28.9 | between species. |
0:31.2 | First in Israel, where this week the political and constitutional crisis, which has been |
0:35.8 | simmering for months, exploded in angry protests outside Parliament, the Knesset in Jerusalem. |
0:43.4 | Huge demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed legal reforms |
0:48.4 | have been held in the city since January. |
0:51.4 | On Monday the coalition government, which he leads, the most right-wing in Israel's history, |
0:57.0 | managed to get one of those reforms voted into law, but only after opposition MPs angrily |
1:03.1 | walked out of the chamber. |
1:05.1 | The new law weakens the authority of Israel's Supreme Court, and the government's opponents |
1:10.3 | fear that there's more of this to come. |
1:13.2 | Our former Middle East correspondent Paul Adams arrived back in Jerusalem earlier this week, |
1:18.7 | just as the crisis came to a head. |
1:21.7 | Because of the sound and fury of Monday night's protests, a kind of gloomy, pessimistic |
1:26.5 | calm settled over Jerusalem. |
1:29.1 | In Saka Park, just below the Knesset, the demonstrators' tents, which sprang up last weekend, |
1:34.5 | were suddenly gone, leaving flocks of hooded crows to peck over piles of rubbish. |
1:39.7 | Like exhausted festival goers, the protesters loaded their belongings onto trolleys and |
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