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Global News Podcast

Massive protests in Israel against judicial reform

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The government says changes are needed to curb overreach by judges and courts. Also: Thousands are evacuated from beaches on the Greek island of Rhodes as wildfires destroy hotels, and a new museum in Italy celebrates Enrico Caruso, one of the greatest opera singers of all time.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.4

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:06.6

This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 23rd of July.

0:10.4

There have been big demonstrations outside the Israeli Parliament over government plans

0:14.4

to curb the power of the courts.

0:16.8

Russia says Ukraine has attacked an ammunition dump in occupied Crimea,

0:21.6

and new details from the Indian state of Manipur about brutal attacks

0:25.4

on ethnic minority women during sectarian unrest in May.

0:30.8

Also in the podcast.

0:32.2

We had a national alert saying the area was being evacuated.

0:35.4

We had people running past on the road, hundreds of people filing down to the beach,

0:40.2

asking for water, wet towels.

0:42.8

Thousands of people are evacuated from beaches on the Greek island of roads

0:46.6

as wildfires destroy hotels.

0:49.2

And a new museum in Italy devoted to Enrico Caruso,

0:52.4

one of the greatest opera singers of all time.

0:54.8

Tens of thousands of Israelis have arrived in Jerusalem to protest

1:03.6

over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans to curb the power of the judges.

1:09.2

Many of the demonstrators had set off from Tel Aviv on Tuesday,

1:13.2

and by Saturday, the numbers marching had swelled to around 100,000.

1:18.2

As they moved along the main highway in Jerusalem,

1:20.6

many waved Israeli flags and blue horns.

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