outfits worn by many celebrities. we ll talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. let s start with the campus protests in the us. reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and we re going to talk it through with journalists who ve been on the ground. but before we meet them, let s remind ourselves what s been unfolding over the past month. so, these protests started at columbia university in new york in mid april. according to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. according to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. and the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. now, in some locations, police have been sent in, not least at columbia university in new york, and that was seen as being hugely significant, not least because it s the first time there have been m
i imagine you may have seen the photos of the extraordinary outfits worn by many celebrities. we ll talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. let s start with the campus protests in the us. reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and we re going to talk it through with journalists who ve been on the ground. but before we meet them, let s remind ourselves what s been unfolding over the past month. so, these protests started at columbia university in new york in mid april. according to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. according to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. and the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. now, in some locations, police have been sent in, not least at columbia university in new york, and that was seen as being hugely signific
despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. it has been a difficult week for us israel relations. presidentjoe biden said the us could suspend certain arms shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion into rafah, a densley populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. our state department correspondent tom bateman has this report. this report has been three months in the making. it was ordered by the white house back in february with president biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from part of his democratic base, over the way that american weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. and what we have so far are the key findings that the state department here have released, and there is a key line in this repor
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full display. a lot of drama overnight at george washington university after weeks of jewish hate pouring out running rampant at g.w. you can see police swarming the anti-israel encampment. they went in there to dismantle it. they had to use pepper spray to break up the violent crowd. then they began arresting people. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. it gets worse by the day. i wonder what the president thinks of it all? maybe he will speak up again. the university pleaded with washington, d.c. leaders to take action sooner. they didn t do anything until just hours before the mayor and police chief were set to testify about the encampment and hate-filled protestor. james comer canceled the hearing because the police finally did their jobs. d.c. mayor bowser with what sounds like a bit of a spin today. i want to be clear that our responses to demonstrations is always rooted in public safety and constitutional responsibility. mpd is the best in the bus