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COY WIRE: Hello, everyone.
Terrific Tuesday to you.
I'm Coy Wire.
This is "CNN 10."
And you are awesome.
We have a great show for you today, so let's get to it.
We're going to begin with the latest
news on the protests in Israel.
For the past 11 weeks on Saturday nights,
protesters have taken to the streets in Israel
to call for a government overhaul.
Roughly half a million Israelis each week
voicing their opposition to the government.
That's 5% of the total population.
Protesters are angry at the government's plans
to overhaul the country's judicial system, which would
give Israel's parliament the power to overrule
Supreme Court decisions.
Critics accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
of pushing the legislation in order
to get out of a corruption trial that he is currently facing.
But Netanyahu denies that, saying that the trials are
collapsing on their own and that the government
overhaul is necessary.
On Monday, though, Netanyahu announced a key change
to part of his plans due to the massive public protests
and international pressure.
The concession would give Israeli governments
less power to select new judges, but still
more power than it has now.
About 66% of Israelis believe the Supreme Court should have
the power to strike down laws incompatible with Israeli's
basic laws.
And about the same proportion, 63%,
say they support the current system of nominating judges.
EILLIOTT GOTKINE: As surely as night follows day,
Saturday night these past 11 weeks in Israel
has meant mass demonstrations against the government's
judicial overhaul.
Protesters are concerned it will remove pretty much all checks
and balances on the government, allowing it to appoint allies
as top judges and removing the Supreme Court's
ability to strike down laws except in very
narrow circumstances.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
who leads the most right-wing and religiously conservative
government in Israel's history, says his overhaul is required
to restore the balance between the government
and the judiciary.
But the protesters don't buy it.
They worry it will erode Israel's claim
to be a liberal democracy, and that will damage the economy,
and infringe upon their freedoms of expression, worship,
and the right to demonstrate.
President Isaac Herzog's attempts to broker
a compromise, unveiled earlier this week,
were rejected by the government.
And though his warnings of civil war seem fetched for now,
so long as the overhaul continues
its passage through parliament, the protests will continue.
COY WIRE: Now for another installment of our CNN series
"Call to Earth."
We're traveling to Sydney, Australia,
where one organization called Living Seawalls is
changing the way we think about building
infrastructure in the ocean.
Experts are engineering seawalls to create
critical habitats that are more hospitable to marine life that
grows there.
We're going to hear from marine experts who believe it's just
as important to save the little creatures in the ocean,
as it is the big ones.
ARIA LEE: I started getting into marine science
when I was in my 20s and was doing a lot of scuba diving.
I was really interested in the tiny critters that were living
in the marine environment.
There's a lot of attention with biodiversity and conservation
around the large fish, like the sharks and the whales.
But you have to remember that these organisms rely on smaller
organisms in order to survive.
We really need to start at the bottom
and build up a really strong base on which
to build up this food web.
My name is Dr. Aria Lee, and I'm the project
manager for Living Seawalls.
The problem in urbanized areas such as Sydney Harbor
is that so much of the shoreline has been built over
with artificial structures.
Over 50% of the shoreline in Sydney
Harbor has some sort of structure
built upon it, whether it be a seawall, wharf, or pontoon.
And these artificial structures have taken away
the sort of micro habitats like rock pools,
crevices, tiny holes that you would see
on a natural rocky shoreline.
So what Living Seawalls is doing is bringing back
these natural habitat features to an artificial structure,
such as the seawall.
We as marine ecologists went out and identified features
of a natural shoreline that are missing
from a flat, featureless seawall.
And we've translated that onto a Living Seawalls panel.
The panels are designed digitally,
and then a prototype is 3D printed.
There are currently 14 Living Seawalls sites around Sydney.
And around the entire world we've installed over 1,000
Living Seawalls habitat panels.
We can certainly see the difference that the Living
Seawalls panels make.
The textures can provide seaweed a really
strong hold onto the surface.
And that's extremely valuable for all the marine organisms
that rely on the kelp not just for protection and for homes,
but as a food source.
When there is a new construction,
we want the designers to think about how they can design
the structure to benefit both humans
and the natural environment.
Right now, seawalls are really only useful for humans.
They stop erosion.
They protect the property that's behind it.
What we want to do in the future is
think about what the marine environment needs,
as well as what humans need.
And that way we can build more sustainably for the future.
COY WIRE: 10 Second Trivia--
the childhood home of which fictional character
was located at 4 Privet Drive, Sherlock
Holmes, Charlie Brown, Harry Potter, or Katniss Everdeen?
Set mostly in a fictional Britain,
Harry Potter lived at his muggle home at 4 Privet Drive.
And for today's story getting a 10 out of 10,
we're traveling far from the British movie studios that
produced the wonderful world of "Harry Potter"
to Japan, where fans will be able to immerse themselves
in some of the series' most iconic moments
at our parent company's Warner Brothers Studio Tour Tokyo--
The Making of "Harry Potter."
Did you know the Harry Potter book series has sold
a record half a billion copies?
And it's been translated into at least 88 different languages.
MARCH STEWART: Harry Potter's magic--
- You're a wizard, Harry.
MARCH STEWART: --is transporting to Tokyo.
It's on this massive lot where fans will see some
of the series' most iconic sets, like the Great Hall at Hogwarts
and the Forbidden Forest.
It's part of the new Warner Brothers Studio
soon to open in Japan.
What goes through your mind when you see the train, you see
the sets, you see the costumes?
JEFF NAGLER: Wow.
I can't believe it.
And when I come here, I have to remember that I'm here
on a business trip and not to be looking
at this as if I'm just a fan.
MARCH STEWART: Jeff Nagler is president of Warner Brothers
worldwide studio operations.
Why Japan?
JEFF NAGLER: I think that was one of the easiest decisions
for us, actually, because of the whole global interest
in "Harry Potter."
After the United States and after the UK,
Japan is the third-best area for "Harry Potter" fandom.
MARCH STEWART: The Tokyo studio is modeled after the one
in London and will be larger.
A big draw?
The Hogwarts Express Train that was made in London,
transported by land and by sea to its new home here in Japan.
It's not just about the sets.
It's about the accessories, the costumes,
the props, like the ones you've seen in the movies.
NOZOMI ANDO: [SPEAKING JAPANESE]
INTERPRETER: We normally don't get to see what goes
on behind the scenes in movies.
But here we get to see how films get made.
For example, it shows us how the people who
work in the costume, props, movie set departments
all work as a team.
MARCH STEWART: A glimpse into movie magic far from "Harry
Potter's" roots in the UK.
Do you see Asia as a growth market
for experiences like this?
JEFF NAGLER: Absolutely.
We do look at China.
And we look at Japan.
We look at South Korea.
We have a big fan base in Australia and New Zealand
as well.
All of-- it's not Asia.
It's the whole Asia-Pacific region.
MARCH STEWART: Stories of imagination, appealing
to audiences around the world.
COY WIRE: That's all we have time for now.
Wherever you go today, be awesome.
Do everything with excellence in mind.
Remember, how you do the little things, that
determines how well prepared you'll
be for life's biggest moments.
My favorite part of the day now, I
want to give a special shoutout to Osceola High
School in Osceola, Missouri.
We see you.
Go out and be awesome, y'all.
I'm Coy Wire, and we are "CNN 10."
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