the, the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin us president joe biden rejects calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war and gaza. there's the right to protest, but not the right to cause this as police raid a protest counts. i you see a way and makes more than a 100 arrests. also on the show today, usually i know vanya wednesday definitely use freedom of speech award. cheers. look on the face of russia's opposition following the death of her husband alexei divani . earlier this year the

i'm glad richardson, thank you very much for joining us. president biden has said he won't be sending in the national guard to deal with a wave of student led protests against israel's war against him off fight. and it said, demonstrators have the right to peacefully protest, but not to cause chaos and cruise have been cleaning up the university of california at los angeles hours after police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro palestinian camp in the early hours of thursday. officers arrested dozens of demonstrators in the pre dawn raid. after protesters defied orders to leave. more than 2000 people has been arrested on university and college campuses across the u . s. and the last 2 weeks before the sun had even risen, police moved into ted down the back case. studies,

grenades rang out and the smoke filled the as officers pulls. the protests is back up to several 100 defied orders to leave the area. once through the defense is the police that was destroying the 10 students being come down to in today's and making arrests on the demonstrations watch record is a company this toner, pods and tone. did offices for the slow response to an attack by pro israel counter protest as the night before? the for them to come out the next night. to move us, i mean cameron after the field. absolutely no obligation or do you need it protects the 1st night. it doesn't make any sense, but i'm not surprised to come to the university of california is los angeles. kansas is just one of dozens that have sprung up across the us. students

have been demanding that universities said the financial times with companies linked to israel. and it's more efforts, the critics have accused the pro palestinian active is of intimidation and anti semitism. president biden has no wait in defending the right to peaceful protest, but accusing to demonstrate is of causing chaos. we are not in a far terry nation where we silence people are squashed to send the american people are heard in fact peaceful protest isn't the best tradition of how americans respond to the consequential issues. 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. authorities say, oh, that has now being restored. you see a they with over

a 100 protesters, arrested police remain stationed at the scene to stop anyone trying to come back to rebuild the encampment. let's get across to dw is william blue cross for more on the story william, we've seen police shut down several campus protests across the united states. can you please give us an update on where things stand at this point? does it feel like this process have peaked or do you expect that we'll be seeing more of them in the days and weeks to come? as we're seeing really a wakeham. all claire like police go into one place, shut something down, protesters pop up another place. it's, it's really quite a typical kind of police action protest cycle that we see in many incidents like this. the thing is though is a matter of timing is a simple matter of timeline. we're in may now a university semester's university calendar years are coming to an end. they will be final exams. there will be a commencement events, and the students will go home for the summer. so the question is,

do these continue into the summer as kids go back home all around the country, really all around the world and take these protests into the street. and we've already seen street protests against israel's actions in gaza. or did they fill out, or do they come back in the fall when they, when school is back in session? these are, and of course the fault dovetailing with the presidential election. these are all big open questions, but at least for now with the semester coming to a close, we might start to see these protest peter out, at least in the short run. and many are drawing comparisons between these protests and the major student protests in the united states that we saw in the late 19 sixty's. where would you situate these in relation as there's a lot of similarities. there's also a few key differences and i was speaking to a, an american professor base in boston just last night, who's seen his share of protests over the decades. and in fact, teaches a lot about the history of protest in the us, especially when it comes to the anti war movement in vietnam in the civil rights

movement. and 1960 it is, as you referenced, there were major, massive campus protests against the war. and for civil rights, back in the 1960 is that led to major political divisions. and we're seeing a lot of that a lot of these parallels today. the big difference though is even back then. there was a corresponding strong establishment political response to what students and people like campuses were saying about ending the war in vietnam and giving more rights to black americans. and now you don't see that they're both republicans, especially republicans, but also the democrats are not really speaking up in favor of these protesters. yes . generally right to free speech, but known as we heard fight. it is not saying he's going to change his policy in any way, shape or form and by didn't, has, as you've alluded to. finally, broken his silence on these, saying that these protests across the country have not changed his position towards the region. but you mentioned also us elections coming off in november. what kind

of political effects have these protests had as we talked about the nice thing 6 is because talking about 2020, where the summer leading into the 2020 the fall elections was a black live matter movement where there are protests all around the country. incredibly tense time in the us and had an impact on the election result for between down was hoping to a bite and maybe gave joe biden a bit of an edge. as democrats stood up for the black lives matter. black live matter movement. even going as far as some of those things defined, the police will 4 years later, a lot of those same democrats are in favor of the police going in and breaking up these protests that they're seeing in favor of palestinians and palestinian rights . obviously not in the us, but the and gaza as it relates to israel. job items playing a dangerous game. he needs to get on vote. and young people are really turned off by, especially by biting positioning. and the incredible crack down and many young people are saying, well this, what we have is this the kind of situation we have in terms of protests, in terms of free speech,

under abiding and democratic kind of in an expiration. doesn't really matter if donald trump is president, this is the calculus. a lot of voters are going to be thinking about going into the fall. it's not a matter of whether to vote for donald trump, they might just not vote at all. and that could be enough to tip the balance away from joe biden to towards donald trump. that's the risk that he and democrats, joe biden. democrats are, are facing williams. thank you. that is the w. william blue croft this year's dw freedom of speech award goes to the woman who has reluctantly become the new face of russia's opposition movement. you will yet know vanya has been awarded the accolade along with the russian anti corruption foundation. an organization founded by her late husband alexei and of all me. he died in a penal colony and the architect earlier this year. and ever since, usually in a volunteer has been thrust into the spotlight as she continues her husband's fight against pollutants. russia of the, earlier this year, she costs to ballots in process presidential election at the embassy in berlin. an

election where any real position had long been dealt with 5 academy polluted. following the death of alex aden about in the, in an optic. okay. no problem. the opposition has been old, but decimated in russia. and the arab parents is usually involved in the it's not her role. she's taken on by choice, but by necessity. just 12 days after her husband's death, she addressed the, you know, make us in scrapbook which includes my husband. i like see now why they, when he saw there's i think c was tortured for 3 years. she was starved in the tar needs tone, so collado from the outside support and denied these it's phone calls and then even the letters. and then they told him,

usually in the bottom, the train does an economist. and with that, a bang before marrying alexa in about in the, in 2000 and invalid. mia was long a quiet supposed to of her husband's anti corruption. if it's, she was as close as political advisor and by his side as he went to court on prison, numerous times when charges criminal critics say what from stuff the head price, i agree when of on the was points and in 2020. while her husband was fighting for his life in a hospital inside barea, she issued a public. let's do a lot to me. putin and let the pressure campaign to allow her husband to be floating, to gemini for treatment. when alexa inevitably returned to russia in 2021, the police arrested him and detained eulley and a volunteer separating the couple of goods. she long shunned the spotlights, but after her husband's harsh imprisonment and death,

she vowed to continue the fight against the kremlin. vladimir putin has a new vocal critic, not afraid to make use of her freedom of speech. let's bring in our correspondent roman con franco from dw russian service. good to see you today. let's begin with the dw freedom of speech award. what do you think this will mean for you will be out in nevada and for the russian opposition? more widely as well. of course, as an acknowledgment of what this whole team is doing. first of all, her husband tullocks and of all the who was still a very inc, sanctioned faith inferential figure. and there are some opposition even being in prison a. so it's an acknowledgment, one of many, just a few weeks ago at the time magazine pull to the volunteer on the list of the old 100 most influential people in the world. so she's proud of that. and there are also acknowledgements in the boards in other countries. so um, but, but 1st of all,

of course it's in the board for her husband who died in prison. she believes he was killed directly or indirectly by the russian authorities by the russian regime as she says. so it's, it's very important, i think, award for her and for the whole team. the whole team, the under corruption foundation is um making the huddling headlines and on the russian position community again. i think they are publishing now a serious of documentaries um about the house wanted me to put in the russian president came to paula and what's rolled, the russian leads plate in his rise. so they have millions of millions of views on youtube. silvia, they have very influential and everybody's talking about those films now. so millions of millions of use on youtube are those mostly coming from abroad or from inside rush. i guess what i'm asking is, does something like this penetrate russian society and this,

so how deeply or exactly that's the point. so russia is becoming more and more close to size. and youtube is one of the very few um channels that you can, you can communicate with the russians directly from the west, from outside. um, so i can tell about the dodge of the russian service. so we are blocked in rush are about to i still have that channel, the youtube and people that i should do, watch it more than half of us come from russia and of course phone the volunteer. and her team is also a very important channel to communicate with the russian society because the oppression against the free press against the john list. people who engage continues, especially offices, are often based on your grading pointing to institute just a few days ago. and there were reports from russia, that's a 2 journalist, were arrested on charges for working for the anti corruption foundation by alex and

a volley. no. so they are now facing many years in prison. and this is something, it's everyone's working in russia as a journalist, as mine, let's just speak briefly about your pneumonia as a figure. as you've mentioned, she's internationally influential picking up awards. but how much supports does she have among russians? well that remains to be seen in the moment. it was just a few months since she said that she will continue his work. she's still searching for her role, but she has very one very important essence. it's a name and her voice. so she's a person that everybody in, in the western world and in the wall it's all we'll, we'll be hearing a little bit listening to so she will try to communicate. she will try to be more open because when she was on the side of all exciting the volley, she saw how he's working, but you stayed behind. now she's staying in front of everyone else. and she's the

person everybody's looking at one. thank you. that is indeed all these roman culture and go and that is your news update at this hour. i'm sir richard sent in for lend for me the whole team. thank you so much for watching. the price category is your thoughts, say what the company's economy is a struggling and one of its key industries. machine building is also facing

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