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the, the, this is the, the news line from the that the us president condemns. raisins and racks, test pro palestinian demonstrations, sweep across college campuses. there's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. to bind demonstrates is to avoid violence after police write a protest complex use. yeah. like and make more than a 100 or rest. also on the program, georgia sees another nice a mass protest against the low that could undermine hopes of joining the you. thousands boss roadways in the capital i. c u n g is low make is to withdraw the
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bill the i'm so okay, welcome to the program. police in the united states have created a pro palestinian encampment, interested more than a 100 demonstrations of the university of california. los angeles office has moved in overnights and dismantled barricades following classes between the opposing groups. protesters violence flannel. when's back after a group of people, some of whom were carrying his writing flags, attacked the pro palestinian camp? my people had been demonstrating against israel's actions and caused us president joe biden has condemned the unrest. there's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. people have the right to get an education. right to get a degree right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked. let's be clear about this as well. there should be no place on any campus,
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no place in america, brand new semitism, or threats of violence against jewish students. there is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it's ad i semitism from a phobia or discrimination against arab americans or palestinian americans simply wrong. there's no place for racism in america jealous. so gonzalez was obviously on a campus in the hours of thursday morning and told me what he saw. well, i saw through the day yesterday, students trying to fortify the encampment by putting up outdoor furniture, pieces of wood, a plywood and all in preparation for some sort of incursion by law enforcement. and that's what happened in the very early morning hours of today in los angeles, were a number of law enforcement personnel swipe through the through the cabinet and basically told people they had to leave. and when i return to campus very early
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this morning, they were involved with the clean up operations. and you still saw though isolated groups of protesters. i'm still going, toad is cho still confronting police officers from a variety of police agents. and you had a lot of shooting off of these, a concussion grenades that were happening, a swinging of police nightsticks ad protesters. i didn't see any police officer make contact with the protest. her. but the emotions were still very, very high this morning on campus. the pin, suggestions that and you said i and in new york that's demonstrations were infiltrated by outside groups. i'm, did you see any evidence of that? oh sure. what do you call them outside groups or people who just wanted to show these individuals to show support for the students? absolutely, i saw a number of people, some of them who i know from their activism in los angeles who showed up to bring supplies to, to join the and cabinet, to offer encouragement. and i don't know if these are kind of professional
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activists. some though are you are close to that, or people who just felt the call to come and be part of this. i met, you know, a alumni from u. c. l, a. faculty members. people who live in the city who wanted to join to, to show their support. and of course they were, it was a much smaller number last evening, but they're also counter protestors who were there to show their support for is real and for israel's war and gaza. you with that? as you see, i lied. you're in the south africa. i'd be anti apartheid to protest against south africa a back in the 19 the 8th is. how do you think these demonstrations compared to those? i was just to show my age. i was was indeed there. i must say these demonstration seeing much more intense and they were much more about yes, the issue at hand, the word goes in israel's actions. but they seem to further further into a whole host of other issues and time imperialism as i colonialism. so social justice issues more widely of those protest back of 19 eighties against uh,
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very similar issues you know, to withdraw university of california money from corporations doing business in south africa. in that case, those protests, there weren't cabinets there as well. but there was a much more relaxed atmosphere. there was it, there were some arrests, but there was not quite this feeling of like, you know, we're going to more against campus authorities or against law enforcement. this had a much more of intense passion and feeling to it. i'm away from you. i you said i what about demonstrations on other campuses in the area? oh, yeah. let's recall all over los angeles all over california and campuses are large and small. they have been the same kind of protests, the same kind of the cabinets of san diego, los angeles, northern california, berkeley, and so on. in the case of humboldt, a smaller campus in far northern california. there was a news earlier of the week that that people involved with that had been expelled
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from the campus. there was some arrest there. that was the only case where protest are seen don't occupies structures on campus to gain entry to them. that has not been the case in most other campus protests here in california where these are mostly been outdoor affairs, outdoor events. but yes, they're still going on. i know the regents of the university of california, these are and people in charge of setting policy for the you see system, they're going to be meeting tomorrow behind closed doors to talk about a unified response to these kind of protests at other usi schools. and we have to remember, you see schools are enormous, they're there, they're kind of cities under themselves. are i, c, l a is so in any given day has of about 50000 people on campus. good to here. thanks for that to go through that to journalist or so gonzales and i like thank you. i took as an onset is suspending all trade with israel. i'm chris says the managers will be in place until israel allows and uninterrupted and sufficient flow
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of a into gaza. israel's foreign minister has responds back using that to each president measure of time or the one of breaking trade agreements as well. kat supposed to the statement on the social media network x a say, this is how it dictates it behaves. disregarding the interest of attackers, people businessman and ignoring international trade agreements, it's a catch also said he'd instructed officials to create alternatives to try with tech . a quick look at the civil stores making headlines around the world. a vase that same people have been killed in floods, triggered by heavy rains in the southern brazilian states a veil. gronvold to solve for the 20th, still missing of thousands have been displaced. close arches are declared a state of emergency thousands of jobs of in the slow, but capital process love to protest against the overall of public radio and television services. the government of popular as the prime minister rather to fix us, approve the reform last week of the georgia impala events which is expected to approve
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the bill next month. because they say it would allow the governments take full control of the 10s of thousands of people who return to the streets of the georgian capital to protest against the controversial foreign agents law demonstrates a strong straits into lisa. they asked of parliament to prove the 2nd reading of the bill because organizations receiving more than 20 percent invest funding from the broad to register as agents of foreign influence, a boat and say it's similar to a law used in russia to silence government critics. us human rights chief as george and we'll make is to withdraw the legislation correspondence to the catamount is in tbilisi and describe the saying in the georgia and capital as well. we are currently actually at the freedom square um, in the capital city. police throughout the professors are blocking uh the street.
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they've left the main road which is essentially connecting various histories of the city, leaving the capital city paralyzed. we've seen some detention by the police, however, there is no ride police with the water canada on sides where we are sending. now we can see that the passes are very angry. they say they, they gonna protest until the government withdrawals withdrawals. really the bill, however, the bill, sorry i but the, the government stuff that doesn't show any sign of oprah considering doing it. so the professors told me that 6 really disappointed with the absence of the government, which they say will be right with them from you pass and why a protest a so opposed to this, no matter the, because most of them see it as
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a russian law. uh, they have taunting now is i'm not sure you can hear it now, but still chanting no to russell the what, that's what they've been telling me also in private conversation. so they were telling me that they do not want to go back to russia. they want to be part of europe, as they sees the bill as a threats to their freedom to the democracy. especially given the comments that they are hearing from the lesson partners. they have very, very concerned that there could be uh, that the government is actually sending away from them. they're your pin perspective. tell us more about the routing positive. it's problems that they spell whom critics accused of being pro russia. is that really the case? i was a little closer at the founder of their wedding patty visited with miss bailey, who is the read this money georgia. he matched his fortune in vasa nineties and is
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believed to be pulling the strings behind behind the cousins here. uh, what's interesting is uh uh for us at this moment is sooner closer also at his speech. um, she said that the was essentially is responsible for the war ukraine and for the war between russia in georgia in 2008. so he is test size to was to side that the n g o sat russel's in washington are funding here in georgia. they're preparing the revolution in georgia. so this politician who is actually he doesn't have any formal position in the georgia and government, but he's very, very powerful man that protests to say he's responsible for the bill and for the back sliding from democracy in georgia. and we've, we've heard from the, a you that this bill would become an obstacle to a new membership for,
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for georgia. does this government care a briefly, if you wouldn't mind it doesn't seem that it can actually uh, as, as i sat there is a rising anti watson graphic in general. uh so, um, the international price is there, the west has condemned. uh, the uh, the circle for an agent. they'll ad urge the government to drop it by the government doesn't as a side, doesn't show any sign of intending to do so. thank you for that may have cut samantha into play c to i to india, where parts of the country have experience the hottest april on rac card, as it says, scorched by feet, by indians, or braving the syrian hate to both and the countries general election. there are concerns that rising temperatures may put people from off from focusing a tool in india and its ongoing elections off feeling the heat,
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water filtration umbrella associate here in india's capsule valley. it's not all that bad, but of course we can see what's an ice cream then does every with 10 projects. yeah . still below 40 degrees celsius. but in the country, south and east. the moment has a tough thing at 45 degrees. and use outlets have even reported about several just due to heat stroke. it's also affecting putting you in west and my restaurant tends west the top to provide, say to both has, as they went to the ballots. good to me. so everyone feels very hot indeed. and the sunlight is very strong party, but despite the harsh conditions, we are coming to vote and then people are getting dehydrated to what they must still show up. but i know, you know, it's also hitting campaigning bod, last week, indian roads minister. and it didn't get to the collapse during a public speech. ex, puts a worried about the increasing the unpredictable weather, b, r c. not the untimely range. we are seeing lot more heat waves frequently to waves
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in different parts of the country. so there is a video run to me, lactic trend. now every new york is setting a new record. a new trend of that is what is seemed to magic of the logic climate change that is happening. so cosby, property co consequences are going to be shipped the election commission of india is that the heat might this you 8 voters from tanning up and lots, a numbers that your phone, the task force to monitor the temperatures and to ensure safe conditions for voters compared to the last and with elections in 2019 both to so now it has dropped by roughly 3 percentage points in the 1st 2 phases of voting. that doesn't seem like much, but in the world's most populous country. this number is saw from in significance, but he's the only reason. holidays on the wedding season, i believe tough, positive as well. and there is a sense of fatigue among indian boats as, as many belief prime minister under moody's when as a solve i'm confused actually do some vote as they might be cooler air insights.
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