Middle East correspondent Sebastian Usher

Sebastian says among the number of issues in Israel at the moment is the controversial judicial overhaul and the intensifying conflict with Palestinians. In Syria, there've been days of anti- government protests in the south of the country, Sebastian backgrounds what's motivating them and assesses the threat they pose to President Bashar al-Assad. And there's been a disturbing report about the hundreds of Ethiopian migrants killed in the past year at the Saudi Arabia border with Yemen. Sebastian Usher is a BBC Middle East analyst, editor and reporter.