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

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 27th of March, these are our main stories.

Thousands take to the streets in Israel over plans to overhaul the country's judicial system.

Scotland elects a new leader of its main governing party and a new school year starts in Afghanistan,

but not for most of the country's girls.

Also in this podcast.

We are talking about the eagerly awaited puff in migration as the seabirds return home to Northern Ireland.

And we start in Israel where thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests at the government's plan

to change the judicial system.

The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to change how judges are appointed and the Supreme Court's powers would be weakened.

At the moment Mr Netanyahu is also in the middle of a corruption trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

He denies all the charges.

This man marching in the Israeli capital explained why he was worried about the reforms.

The authorities are the people that have the, from all the 63 states from the militaries, from the financial sector,

from all the sectors in Israel saying that this reform or whatever you call it, it is completely crazy and Israel has become a very dangerous place for the end of the moment.

Well, strike action is spreading across Israel with shops, banks, hospitals and universities all shutting down.

Razia Ikbal spoke to our correspondent in Jerusalem Anna Foster and put it to her that the country was in some disarray.

I think it is. And I think yesterday evening was a real turning point.

The sacking of Yav Galen, the Defence Minister, created spontaneous protests because we've seen organized protests for 12 weeks now here in Israel.

But people last night were compelled to go out onto the streets.

I was here in Jerusalem and I spoke to, to various different people who when they heard that news felt that a line had been crossed,

one man was telling me that he hadn't protested yet, but he felt that this was the moment that he needed to come out and in his words defend his country.

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