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the, the, this is dw news line from berlin is real, reopened to a lifeline for the people of guys that desperately need to, to manage. hearing aid is now being allowed into the territory to the arrows crossing which has been closed since the october, the 7th. the terror attacks are coming down from the program demonstrations continue outside new york city's columbia university. after police clear that the pro power steering protest camp on the university's ground with the crack down is doing nothing to stop the spread of city with protest across the west.
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and george's capital sees another night of violent protest, demonstrators and policing class with police after lawmakers to advance from bill that critics say could the real george's hopes of joining the european union. the i'm here until in berlin. thank you very much for joining in. israel has reopened the error as border crossing into northern garza, the only crossing into the north of the territory. it was closed following a mazda is october, the 7th. the terror attacks agencies had been calling for its reopening for months to allow them to deliver desperately needed food and medicine. the hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk of famine. the trucks roll through the air as border crossing in northern guns for the 1st time since october, the 7th. before the home of terror attacks based was the main entry point. for aid
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work is journalist and a select few palestinians, especially those seeking medical treatments. the crossing was severely damaged in the attacks previously used for foot traffic. israel has widened it to allow the passage of a trucks via interest. the trucks will have sure to ginnie's to the areas where aid is needed. most. these should be the amount of food and medicine reaching desperate civilians in the north, depending on the efficiency of israel screening procedures and is riley spokesman said it was hope the arrows crossing would remain open. this is the 1st day reopen that was crossing for a robust and continuous route. for instance, a few minutes here in a into gaza. as you can see behind me those of the curse trucks that came
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yesterday from joe dunn. and we're gonna run this crossing hopefully every day. so the sounds in the center of the strip, the residents of the day and i'll by law taking stuff with the destruction of the homes following use riley and strikes the attacks, killed at least one person and wounded many more of the in the same town. the us spaces, charging well central kitchen, resumed operations a month of to 7 if it's work cuz we're 2. and then is riley strike the death tree. good. widespread condemnation. the child, she says since the stall to the will, it's distributed more than $43000000.00 males in java. thousands of displaced palestinians depend on them. and then after that, we're displaced people we less than we didn't have anything to support our families
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with. oh, i have a family of age and i'm unable to buy them food and also some i really need displays of food. i thank them so much for providing us with food. i hope to continue with this work because their situation is very difficult above the level them apply the key to get that the charity says it has hundreds of trucks, caring enough food for 8000000 meals ready to enter the split through the rough crossing in the south to add to the age now beginning to flow into northern garza to the address crossing. we turned down to us were dozens of staff and students of new york's columbia university have been protesting outside the facility buildings a day after police burst into the campus and cleared a pro palestinian demonstration. students had occupied the areas of the campus since mid april to take a stand against israel's actions in gaza at the call on columbia university to
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financially divest from is a real rewards from eric avenue said, police arrest of 282 people at columbia and city college of new york, after they read the campuses, similar protests have been taking place and several universities across the united states. several have lied to confrontations with authorities and dw corresponded benjamin alvarez gruber is at columbia university, new york. he describes the situation there. the situation at columbia university is now called, but still a, the access to the columbia campus that you can see here behind us, is it quite restricted, only essential stuff. and the students living inside currently have access and it's very hard also for the media coverage because media has not been allowed to enter to see how they hold it was occupied by the students and was then overtaken again. a by police is looking right now. we're also waiting for answers from the office of the president of columbia university about the situation is
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a really dynamic that could indeed be changes because as also what we see at another university in a new york right now with that being arrest carried out. but for now, the situation here in columbia is quite peaceful, right? but as we were saying, there is a dynamic situation throughout the united states. we are seeing pensions spiel spill over at similar universities. are we going to see more crackdowns, like we saw at columbia at other american universities? of the best, very possible because we all to see new incumbents and we see police going in. those are the pictures they were getting from the university of texas in dallas was state troopers have ended in the area are carrying out a rest, also taking tens it with them. there's another university here in new york where we seeing that right now. we've heard of these, they've attack on a students that were in the encampment in a university in los angeles. so there's also a feeling that that might happen again overnight. so this is definitely something that we'll see over the next couple of days is we're still waiting for more
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information from the new york police department over this very heavy police presence that we've seen over this day. and also the rates a that they carried out a spelling of the students that it where inside of that, hamilton a whole here right behind me. and we do know that almost 300 people were arrested during that police action. do we know anything more about their fate and what police may charge them with we still want to have more information on that because the new york police department has not yet said how many of those people who were arrested more than 100 columbia university in total $280.00 people that were arrested over now we don't know how many a members of the community and that's of course something and many are asking themselves as the mayor of new york is, spoke about, i outside agitators and we want to know exactly how many of those are actually part of the university community. how many are outsiders and also the new york police
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department. they show a chain during a press conference saying that it shows how professional they are, but it turned out to be at bike log. that actually was on say, and it was promoted by the university itself for the students. so there's a lot of information selecting. and of course a restriction of media access make it very difficult to confirm the information that we're hearing from inside that was dw correspondent benjamin alvarez. group is reporting for us to new york. it's many things. and here's a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the manhattan district attorney's office says former hollywood producer harvey weinstein, will be retried in new york. after his 2020 rep conviction was overturned. last week. weinstein appeared before a judge in new york city. he has been serving a 23 years sentence. more than 80 women have accused them of sexual misconduct. the british government says it has collected the 1st group of asylum seekers for
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deportation under the so called her one to act. the home office posted a video of a raid at an undisclosed location. rights groups have criticize the new one which allows the deportation of on authorized language. tens of thousands of people have run late across france. as part of global protests to mark made a police use tear gas to disperse demonstrations and demonstrators in paris. the rallies were organized by labor unions with demands including higher wages and peace in the middle east. lawmakers in georgia have approved a 2nd reading like controversial for an agents law. it requires media groups and civil rights groups that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as being under quote for an influence. protesters are currently facing off against police outside parliament, and the capital tbilisi. they say the bill would restrict the basic freedoms and similar to a law being used to sign with government critics and russia. large protests against
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legislation applicant originally recordings in georgia. we can now talk to rachel denver, deputy director of the europe and central asia division of human rights watch. she joins us from new york. so rachel, help us walk through this. why are so many georgians taking to the streets? and why are we seeing such a harsh crack down the doors are taken to the streets and mass numbers unprecedented numbers. these are numbers that we have never seen before. the streets of georgia because this law aims to take georgia back several decades in terms of freedom of expression and feeling. and freedom of association that wants to, to, the government isn't, has made clear that the intent is to turn away from uh, from, you know, growing integration with the european union. it seems to turn away from the west. generally. it is using,
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doing this under the pretext of the law. that means that it's about the last things that it's about. the transparency of, of, of, of, of, of funding for, for, for and g o is media in the light. it's not about transparency. where and using media in georgia to get their funding is very clear. anyone can find that out. this law is about smearing stigmatizing and demonizing organizations that are independent and that might be critical of the government. and everybody knows that the government has pretty much made clear the hit that is aware of this and the government has made clear that attempts to use this law to silence and punish its critics. so then you would agree with the assessment as the protesters have said, that this bill would have a similar effect to a russian law, which is often used to silence critics of the government. do you agree with that assessment? i think that the, there, there are some differences between the georgia farm agent law and the russian fine
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age of law. well, the drawers in the box is not called for an agent. they call it for an influence, but it's the same idea. and then to pull it out with the same absolutely the same purpose. so yeah, i think i think that the government, the government just made very clear that this law is only the 1st and then and then what will be a number of steps to silence. it's predicts the, the behind the scenes, political leader, even a ceiling has made that very clear in his speech, the prime minister made that awesome. you get that very clear. in his speech, they intended to use this law, silence what they call bad projects. and uh and you know and use that they don't like now we've already seen this building withdrawn once. do you think there's any chance that the protestors can get their way and actually stop it being heard by parliament. again, the government seems very determined to push this last through. we can hope that it will fit, it will get the message that the smile will, will almost certainly
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d rail to gorgeous european integration. georges european integration is something that the vast majority of drawers in the last 90 percent in, in the public polling so that georgia is what georgia to continue towards european integration towards becoming a rebate, the account of the country for use this this well no, unfortunately, with the rail that so you'll want to hope that the government will come to with senses, but it seems quite determined. so i think that we are in for some rocky days ahead . yeah. as well, if there's pictures we're seeing just now, um or, and you can judge by, we definitely are that was rachel denver from human rights watch. thank you very much for your assessment. thank you. and finally, we leave you with this. the world of literature is paying tribute to the us author of paul auster who died at the age of $77.00. o auster was a critically acclaimed writer who wrote more than 30 books,
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known as perhaps best known or his new york trilogy of mystery novels. or the new jersey, a former resident of france, but most closely associated with brooklyn, new york. it was of myers by fans for his cosmopolitan isn't. one of the things he explored was the craft of writing itself. he once said, stories only happened to those weren't able to tell them a if there's a brief reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. these real has reopened the areas border crossing into northern concepts which had been closed since from officers. october, the 7th, the tax agencies have been calling for the crossings. reopening for months to supply food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of civilians afterwards could famine and goes on and with that, you're up to date, but you stick around up. next we have a documentary looking at the checkered history of the deutscher bank of germany's largest bank. and remember, if you need more news on the go, you can always check on our website that. com. and of course,
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