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Today a push is underway in Florida to restrict what's being taught in high schools about race.

We hear how this is affecting one school in the state.

We're in Nigeria's Northwest, where bandits are terrorizing rural communities and where locals

are living under constant threat of kidnap.

In Ukraine, undeterred by a year of war, we hear how a team of bar tenders evacuated from

Kharkiv have started a new business in the capital Kiv, and in Austria how to achieve the

vaunted status of being a recognised regular or stangust in your favourite restaurant or bar

we hear about the perks. First, we're in Israel, where protests have been underway for several

months against the government's controversial plans to overhaul the justice system.

New legislation would limit the powers of the Supreme Court and give the government full control

over the committees that appoint judges. A move, critic say, will end the independence of the

courts and threatens democracy. In a dramatic twist, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

sacked his defence minister earlier this week, after he too spoke out against the reforms,

describing them as a clear immediate and tangible danger to the security of the state.

Tens of thousands of people returned to the streets in response to his dismissal,

and although Mr Netanyahu subsequently announced he would delay the proposed overhaul,

he bristled at comments by the US President Joe Biden that the plan should be abandoned altogether.

Tom Bateman has been following the story.

It was still only the middle of the afternoon, and already thousands of protesters had marched

to the gates of Israel's parliament, the Kineset. The crowd pulsated with anger and outrage,

pushing forward, filling the air with a deafening, four-syllable chant that has come to define these

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