Pro Palestinian Protesters in an encampment at the ucla campus in california have been told to disperse by police or face arrest. These are live pictures outside the camp, where more and more students are gathering to show their support, as demonstrations against the war in Gaza Continue at universities across the United States. Earlier, californias governor, gavin newsom, has accused the police of being too slow to respond after Counter Demonstrators attacked the camp on tuesday night. In texas, riot police broke up a similar encampment, accusing the demonstrators of breaching trespass laws. Well have a report from texas in a minute, but first lets go live to los angeles where we can speak to our correspondent Helena Humphrey who is at the ucla campus. So the ucla protests have been declared unlawful by police. Im assuming those are Police Standing behind you. I understand the encampments, the protests, have been declared unlawful. What does that now mean . ,. , mean . Thats right. T
In your home, your Writing Study is just below us, the floor below. Just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside Yourfront Door . Does it affect your writing . Well, it depends on what you mean. If theres a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration, and i might go out and see whats going on. But if theres a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, im not going to read about it while im doing my work for the day. But i certainly will inform myself about it later. You talk of distant wars. Im thinking of wars much closer to home. You write a lot about your take on american politics. Youve talked about your feelings through the course of four years of donald trump. Youve talked about a country at war with itself. So the war isnt so very far away. Yes, the war that were engaged in here, fortunately, has not become yet a fighting war with guns, to a large degree. But we are divided in wa
From new york, heres the bbc s north America Business correspondent, michelle fleury. Stubborn inflation pushes back the timing of the first rate cut. The Us Federal Reserve voted to keep its Benchmark Lending Rate at a 23 year high on wednesday. Officials have said they want more certainty that inflation is under control before they Lower Borrowing costs. They do not have that yet. Here is chair, jerome powell, during his press conference. The economy has made considerable progress towards our dual mandate objectives. Inflation has eased substantially over the past year, while the Labour Market has remained strong. And that is very good news. But inflation is still too high, further progress in bringing it down is not assured and the path forward is uncertain. We are fully committed to returning inflation to our 2 goal. While the prices of many goods have fallen, from cars to furniture, an increase in housing and Petrol Prices have contributed to a recent rise in consumer inflation. W
At Columbia University and the City University of new york. Dozens of protesters had occupied a building on columbias campus before police went in to apprehend them. Police didnt say how many were students, but new york city mayor eric adams said theres evidence students have been influenced and trained by people not affiliated with Columbia University. Those who broke into the building did include students, it was led by individuals who are not affiliated with the university. They needed that the school needed the nypds assistant to clear the hall and encampments outside. Globally, there is a movement to radicalise young people and im not going to wait until its done and All Of A Sudden acknowledge the existence of it. This is a global problem, young people are being influenced by those who are professionals add radicalise seeing our children and im not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of new york. Since those protests started at columbia, several students have b
Including Kylian Mbappe, it was Manchester United outcast jadon sancho who was the shining light of this dortmund performance. He completed 12 dribbles the most by a player in a Champions League semi final since lionel messi back in 2008. Advantage dormund but psg will rue the chances they missed as Conor Mcnamara reports. Dortmund striker s goal in the first leg the decider in this first leg but psg back on the tip of the game and they would not believe the chances they missed. A former Dortmund Player had two edged opportunities and what of them saved and when he put off target in Kylian Mbappe was looking to lead psg on the high was relatively quiet that the game but he did it the right post any team we had left posed in both of them within a few seconds of each other in the frantic second half. The Diving Header Life from Point Blank Range and ps6 may restrain realised this was not going to be there night and especially having solved the two best players over the past two summers,