UN: global water shortages mean 'imminent risk' of crisis

Ahead of the first global water summit in more than four decades, the United Nations says that water shortages around the world are creating an "imminent risk" of a crisis.

The United States, a long-time Israel ally, criticises the Israeli parliament for waving through a new law permitting the expansion of settlements, in a move it calls "provocative" - we hear from the occupied West Bank.

And Sweden's defence minister joins us on Newsday, with the country's application to join the Western military alliance NATO being being held up by another group member, Turkey.