in the 6 days, we were told that the demonstrations against the vietnam war invasion injustice with the work of radical left advertises. so do these comparisons stand up and what is it about this conflict? that is let such a fire under these young people. i'm feel gale invalid and this is the day the they were coming up here and finally attacking the something i was kind of annoyed myself or not escalated at the thought of these people who are not either not back to the doctor.

it is also coming up tough, new abortion laws come into effect in the us state of florida today, president biden and his democrats are hoping the issue will drive vote to touch in that favor in november's election. these laws are so extreme that i think it will push people to the polls and will push people to you know, vote and vote for choice, then vote for abortion, rights and bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. welcome to today attends and on us universe. the campuses is rising after police arrested hundreds of pro palestinian student demonstrates as students at thousands of colleges in the us have been demonstrating against the war in gaza and been calling on the administrators to divest from companies. this allegedly profit from is as war against thomas. there was violence overnight,

the university of california in los angeles, where a pro israel demonstrates, has attacked comp setup by pro palestinian students. they attempted to pull down barricade protective account and there was scuffles between the 2 sides, police and light to move in to separate the 2 groups and to stop building the rest university. cancel the classes on wednesday because of the vitamins. new york city police clear then occupied building of the rest of the 300 pro palestinian protests on the campus of columbia university of an ice. bringing a day long stand off to a dramatic and fellow demonstrations of not taking that protest to outside new york police headquarters. 90 criticize the way office. a br office has broke up. what they said was a peaceful protest, a thing police were rough with them astray, says you met eric adams has defended the decisions saying the protest escalated by outside figure is not affiliated with the university. individuals on the campus

should not have been there. there were people who are professionals and we saw evidence of training. we saw a shift in tactics that were being used. and when you start using the intelligence that intel was able to supply, we knew was time to communicate directly with the school and say you have more than a peaceful protest on you're still not correspondents, benjamin alvarado screw. but who's in new york city near columbia university? welcome, ben. so what's the latest on this set day after police right? of the door. a group of protest is earlier today in front of this entrance that is quite close to the hole. and it was occupied by the students and were n y, p d, new york, a police entered with a lot of law enforcement offices a late evening, a yes today. now the situation is called the big question. of course, of course,

will be what will happen with the students more than $100.00 students were arrested . they were at columbia university and also another university here in new york, bringing the number of the rest to 280 to the big question will be now. it will face expansion as the university has sat and we'll, we'll continue to happen. we only got one e mail from the presidency of columbia university today saying that as no media access to campus, it has made it quite a difficult also to do a this coverage. and they also said that hamilton whole that he had c, a right behind me is an active trying team by n y p b. so we're still waiting for confirmation on that side. and who is the new york man? eric adams talking about his plan. he blamed external actors and professionals for the escalation on the columbia campus. that's a good question that many also students here are asking themselves because and why p d has not released the information of how many of those who were arrested are part of

the university community and how many are not part of the university a community. and also what they set that had a chain during a press conference saying that it shows how professional these pro did those. um, but at the end it turned out that it was just a bike lock that was used. and there was also promoted by university that many students have here. so there is a lack of information theory, even though student journalist weapon covering this over the past couple of days. and this has been unfolding, have not been granted access. it only yesterday, essential stuff. and those who are living inside of campus have been able to enter . and the only response that we a god, also to ask if we will get an official statement of what would be able to talk to a spokesperson of the university was not today. so we will try again tomorrow. okay, thanks a lot. ben dw correspondent benjamin about his group at a new york city as well. let's take a look at the potential national significance of these protests which are owned by david father, who's a professor of the bottom us history of the university of campus. thank you so much

for joining us on the day professor. let's start with the comparisons being made between these protests and those against the vietnam war back in the sixty's. i think those comparisons of validate well there's certainly a degree of similarity of these yahoo all over again. i think there's one major difference that i've been really struck by. you can think about the anti war protests and the 19 sixty's as being environmental benign for several years. started very peacefully, non violently. and then over several years time escalated to more militancy. these protests have happened so fast in such a compressed manner that moved from the kind of peaceful protest to some very militant actions in days, not years. so in that sense, i don't know if it's social media or just the rapidity of modern life. but there is a kind of urgency and quickness to these protests that's quite different than the

long environmental protests of students in the 1960s. and what do you think at today's students, universities that indeed the federal government might loan from those sixty's protest? yeah, that's a question that i've been thinking a lot about and, and been talking to a lot of people about what one thing that's pretty obvious is that if you as a university administrator, move very quickly to bring police or even worst case to bring violent police actions against demonstrators you tend to make a difficult situation worse. so administrators have to be very cautious about escalating matters because often there's a backlash. students who are not interested or dis interested, suddenly become angry that their fellow students, their peers, are being treated in such a harsh way. so that's the lesson for administrators. be careful. be cautious.

don't do things. you don't have to do for fear that you might escalate things worse for students. i think the other issue has to be very mindful of what's their goals . i think this happened with the anti war protests, certainly in the united states, in the 1960 and early seventy's, where students sometimes forgot that the point of the exercise was to convince others that us policy was wrong. that there had to be changes and how the united states handle its international responsibilities. here too. i sometimes worry that students in their passions are forgetting. their goal, which i gather, would be to get their universities to divest from supporting israel in any manner whatsoever. and perhaps even more importantly, to change the opinions of americans and certainly american policy makers. so we can be considering what your tactics are and what your long term goals are. looking. i was looking at a map of the campus protests today, and they, they do seem to have very much bypass much of the middle of the country,

including your own state of, of kansas. why do you think that is i, i think there's a couple fascinating reasons for it. one, the typically and maybe this is true in germany and other countries with disparate populations. the coast tend to have more liberal orientations. more progressives live in those states. those are the kids parents or the students themselves. so blue states, we call them us democratic cleaning, progressive states, california, new york, massachusetts, etc. a washington state, portland, oregon. maybe those are the natural 1st responders to this kind of trouble. just before this interview i went outside and saw that my own campus for the 1st time as a mass protest. and there's a kind of encampment growing. so it's is, yeah, several days later here in the state of kansas, a internationally conservative state. but keep here too, it's happening. so we'll see whether this spreads or if the commencement is that

begin may 10th or 15th or so in. most us universities tends to dissipate students and the energy of these protests. so what do you say about this issue? do you think israel gauze of it seems to lift a fire and the students didn't? do you recall similar a process, for instance, about the, the to gulf was certainly not in. don't do remember that there were eventually very large mass protests against us intervention in particular interact millions of people, both in europe and united states taking to the streets. but those were not campus space. they were not university based protests here, i think students are trying to understand as to way back in the vietnam war era or their own communities or their own universities complicit. and what many of the student protests are c as a deal advised or immoral even policy toward israel and palestine. so here in this

particular struggle, there's a campus based reasoning going on. and i don't think that was true with the golf wars per site or, or some of the other oppressed misadventures of us foreign policy. recent years. a you, you mentioned the, the can needed when thinking about as advising police on to campus. back in 1968, the columbia president grayson cook actually resigned a year after calling in a 1000 police officers to grow student protests against the vietnam war along side of things. do you think? but the current columbia president administrative fee will end up stuffing down. right now i would say no. so the scale of the products as despite the international media attention to it, is relatively scott small scale. and i don't think that the political environment is similar today. obviously, most americans still very much support israel. they support the united states is

position supporting israel. so i don't think the presidents of it lead universities are fearing progressive impulses that would cause them to resign. it seems politically of the other direction. we recently have the presence of harvard and humorously pennsylvania resigned because of conservative pressure against them. so i think the political concepts are quite different in the united states today. we're in a more conservative place maybe than we were and 1960 a fascinating analysis. and we thank you for it, professor professor david, the father from a kansas university. thank unfortunately, these laws are being written by people who don't really understand a full care. and so they are affecting a larger swath of the population. and what they're meant to be affecting. so we're seeing patients who have highly desire pregnancies that are incompatible with life

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that they are pregnant at this early stage. you know, ever since a nation wide protection of abortion rights was overtones in 2022 from the u. s. supreme court, florida also has been a t x this point for abortions in the whole region with water in 3 southern abortions and one and 12 nationwide happening in the states as women from other southern states travel fair for the procedure. so this law was not only affect residents of laurie, but, but also women throughout the whole south. and of course, a huge be contentious political issue and republican, the presidential candidates and full, the president coast. donald trump. i laid out his position on abortion last month, essentially saying the issue should be left to the states who was asked more recently whether he was comfortable with the idea of states tracking and punishing women who seek abortions. and speaking to time magazine,

he said it's irrelevant whether uncomfortable not it's totally irrelevant because the states are going to make those decisions. so in this poll, how does mister trump's position squared with american public opinion? so that's a difficult question to answer because public opinion is really divided on this issue was there is indeed a widespread opposition to the supreme court ruling that limited a nation wide protection of abortion rights, opinions on federal action to protect the board. and it says, really where we throughout this huge country with these many very diverse states. so roughly half of us adults believe federal politicians should work to enshrine abortion to excess nationally a $37.00 or so percent think it should be less to states just exactly what donald

trump was saying. there mean, well, president biased and i've, he's democrats, a hoping, based issue. the abortion issue will boost to an acting, what's expected to be a close election. come november. how important is this folder the you know, big problem for both the current president and the former president is to really money rating of voters to participate in the elections in november as neither of them has been able to energize the database at least as for now so that is one reason why the abortion issue is so important for president biden, and why he and also his vice president, camelot harris, are come painting so much on that. they hoped that it will drive or to turn out in the upcoming election. and they also believe that the reproductive rights issue, along with the constitutional amendment on the ballot to qualify abortion protections in florida, will make the stage more competitive,

especially since it was one by trump, in both 201682020. so the sunshine state florida could actually once again play a corporate role in deciding the outcome of the next presidential election. and it is actually really possible that this abortion band we are talking about here tonight might ultimately help secure the vital us for job items. okay, funds that are industry that boost washington bureau chief in his post as it can, you were authorized to say at least 169 people have been killed more than a 190000 displaced by catastrophic flooding. that's the rental rains that hit the country. this year have been called the most intense in recent memory, the deputies, phoenix, spring. i spoke to some people who been forced to leave their homes and many still don't know what has happened to them afterwards. shut had was what

as raging efforts to find the remaining forties as the loan going to the shelter load of sides listened. the victims faces many. i trying to come to terms with the tragedy that has heat samples. julie's family, easy morning, date was the 4th for their lives and 6 of i. but they had 3 year old taught class, was credited over here by the floods to what i searched for him every week, but couldn't find him. if i don't find my baby while he's still alive, i don't know if i'll ever forgive myself. i'm just praying that god drives me more days to stay with my baby. because when i remember the struggles we've had in the damage that has taken place in the floods, i'm wondering with a god saved his life or what happened to him like julie is doubtful of that. i finally found shelter to stay in for the night. away from the place we have that we should begin. she and her husband have fond memories of that 3 year old son isaac

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take pre emptive auction. the president also asked about the pledge remain, hopefully, given in the middle of the crisis once that's possible. and it's julie hope things to that thoughtful, finding me think maybe 20 years ago. it's a day 10 central and east european countries joined the european union. one of those countries was poland and mount, vacationing polish, and german foreign ministers of that max to be creates a photograph that was taken in 2004. the picture shows the opening of a border bridge between germany and poland, 5, it previously form a foreign ministers of the 2 countries. the enlargement ushered in changes for many members, including the dropping of customs controls on goods. the definitely business report to cobb hunt and bro looks at one company that's made a success out of the expansion. and we're heading to an

e. u family get together about the europe express number for the trained deposits from the german town of to tell, passing through poland and the czech republic have to so called tri, bought a point where the 3 e u countries meet. 20 years ago, 10 countries joining the you and of course those came to celebrate it looks going to exist to the items you. i'm glad the you exist and then we can cross the border without your problems. i worked in germany, our family listened to check with population. i'm so child goes to school in germany here to triple us, but it will be better for me to tell me that you as a real experience, our daughters learning check gets to know another culture. and we have discovering what's together with her, which i find very excited on business also received a boost from the use eastern expansion. companies like hood us and northern germany . the family business produces metal pots for the aircraft and car industries.

company boss kapco does worked with the check from mesa to create a joint venture them open 20 years ago. this was d. everything d e u has brought is an advantage. many borders that have disappeared. all the customs regulations that have disappeared. people can travel. our apprentices often do internships abroad in the u gene research every way we benefit from each other without the you from my point of view, nothing would work anymore. the german company prides itself on custom manufacturing, marketing and research. here, for example, in a software is being developed in collaboration with the university, which will be put to work at the company's check factory. there's a constant exchange of technical know how and the employees between the sites engineer last short says already worked at the check site, a desire to do the options as

a default. they were already very up to speed. you can communicate with them directly on a technical level that fits very well. we're at the factory in the czech republic, south east of prague here, large quantities of manufactured for the automotive industry throughout the u. the advantage low energy costs and still lower wages than in germany. the division of labor between the sites makes the operation internationally competitive. the plump manager has been here from the start. the business has always been on the economic lead banks in part to you membership for him. the crowning achievement would be to replace the check crown with the euro. instead of the government, i would personally like to see the euro, and it wouldn't be a big advantage for the company, because then we wouldn't have to always convert currencies, exchange rates or big risk. so many entrepreneurs hope for better market access with the euro. mazda population still do use the e. u currency with skepticism and equalization,

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