and heidi jo. castro alger 0, washington. let us now speak to one of the students that these protests cameron jones is the lead organizer at columbia university's jewish voice for peace is joining us from what's being called the gaza sony dieting comp meant inside the campus. cameron, thank you so much for joining us. can you tell our international audience 1st, why your organization decided to join the protest movement in sali diety with palestinians in gaza at the risk of arrest and at the risk of compromising your academic degree to? yeah, so as a jewish person, i recognize the a man, it's not a privilege that i have when it comes to this conflict. and i think it's so important that as jewish students in america, we use our privilege to uplift how us to the invoices and $0.02 or a palestinian perspectives. and in that case, it means by using for palestinian liberation in doing whatever we can do to put ourselves at the front line to continue that spite and calling out our universities to sever ties with the apartheid state

how does this hide to jo, castro? it has the license from the university of texas. it austin, but protest as a value to continue demonstrations. and it has been in the as here on the you t austin campus. and it's monday morning as a sign the stage by faculty in opposition to the way you t austin administration has to test, has now run into a conflict or seen approach to my left. these are members of the youtube community or students, summer faculty members. reason they're holding umbrella to go there with pepper spray. show you the other side. what, what i'm seeing here to my rights are the police officers, are now barricading against these protesters. what they're protesting behind them is a place where the previously rest of processors and 43 people who were part of an initial cabinet that began this afternoon with people setting up wandering around it, not position and refusing to disperse at the university harder moment tents were active, we saw this police presence just sent upon those protesters then began arresting them one by one, dragging them away from the

and heidi jo. castro, alta 0, washington the u. k. so causal mom, the bone has been passed by parliament prime minister, but she soon acts as the 1st flights carrying asylum seekers to rolanda will leave in 10 to 12 weeks applied as a central part of his government strategy to tackle in legal migration is being wanted criticized by human rights groups pulled run and reports. the u. k is handled hundreds of millions of dollars to friends for coastal security and police patrols. yet the small boats containing refugees in migrants keep coming. on 2 years after former prime minister boris johnson's government 1st announced a highly contentious plan to send refugees to rolanda. but a single plane has taken off a frustrated wishes to knock cold time on the object is enough, is enough. no more prepared patients, no more delay. noah's no butts. these slides all going to rolanda a long day of parliamentary ping pong ensued. the upper chamber trying to amend the bill. the government using its majority in the lower chain, but to block any an oil

i'd be jo castro has more from us than it has been added to the events here on the you t austin campus. and it's monday morning as a sign the attendance stage by faculty in opposition to the way you t austin, to ministration how the test has now a rough fit into a conflict or seen approach to my last piece are members of the you to the students summer faculty members, reason they're holding umbrella is just a moment ago, there was pepper spray showing the other side. what, what i'm seeing here to my right are the police officers, are now barricading against these protesters. what they're protecting them is a place where the previously arrested processors and 43 people who were part of an initial cabinet that began this afternoon with people setting up wandering around it and opposition and refusing to disperse the honor. moment tents were active. we saw this police presence just said upon those protesters then began arresting them one by one, dragging them away from the line to the ground where they had taken it and taking them away. then just as we saw, protested, ending more members

and heidi jo castro, alta 0, washington hurley. i spoke to cameron joe, and so is the lead. organize at columbia university's joyce voice for peace. he spoke to us from the protest comp inside the campus about why he thinks it's important for students like him to take us then. as a jewish person, i recognize the immense amount of privilege that i have when it comes to this conflict. and i think it's so important that as jewish students in america, we use our privilege to uplift how us in the invoices and to center a palestinian perspectives. and in that case, it means by using for palestinian liberation in doing whatever we can do to put ourselves at the front line to continue that spite and calling out our universities to sever ties with the apartheid state of israel and to divest from apartheid as well when terms of the university, we want the university to divest from companies that do business with. and in israel, we also are calling on the university to close the tel aviv global center and to stop the dual degree program with tel aviv university. and in terms of the lar

i'd be jo castro is at the university of texas in austin. with this update to you. t austin, president j. hartzell is facing calls for his resignation after the brutal police crackdown to remove protesters from campus earlier this week. but now 3 days after those arrest hartzell says he is quote, grateful for this current protest in support of palestine. and he gave no indication that he would call for more police intervention. that's despite student protesters, breaking curfew last night and their back today holding a peaceful demonstrations. there's been music and speakers and arts, and they're calling on you t austin to divest from that weapons manufacturers and from companies that benefit is real. and they say they're not buying the words of appeasement from the university president. they say that they feel there's a double standard on campus that goes back for years with little or no protection for most of the students when they face discrimination and the university move to protect your students when this protest started. in fact, some of the protesters here a

of course now to hardy, jo castro, who joins us from washington dc hardy, some strong words that what can we make of what was said a terry absolutely. but if you'll notice that from the white house as national security advisor, jake sullivan, we never heard the word independent. that is, what is the major difference between the us as call for an investigation into the mass graves as compared to that of other were leaders and of the un high commissioner. in fact, the us deputy ambassador to the, to the un told out a 0 earlier that the united states is not ready to endorse an independent or push an independent investigation. but rather the u. s. would be talking to countries considerably with israel and looking at photographs. so there's still a lot of distance there between what the us is calling for and what many other where leaders are calling for. and as far as account ability, certainly we are still very far from that step. would indeed, i mean, will these woods be matched with action because these graves having known about for some time yeah, and it did take several days before th

important to have independent investigation and to ensure the accountability as close now to harvey jo. castro, who joins us from washington, dc hardy, some strong words that but what can we make of what was said to carry? yeah, the condemnation and the concern expressed by the united states has been growing since word of these mass graves was 1st reported. and today we just heard jake sullivan, the us national security advisors saying that the us wants answers. now what we didn't hear from him though, was a call for an independent investigation. and that's what has deferred the us response to this thus far from that of the you. and that is the un high commissioner. now we did hear from the us deputy and bastard to the, to the land who told out a 0 earlier in the day that the u. s. was not ready to call for an independent investigation, but rather would be talking to other countries. referencing is real. there, as well as looking at photographs of these atrocities, these potential atrocities. and so there's still quite a gap between how the u. s. has responded to this. the rhetoric is ramping

and heidi jo, castro alger 0, washington still had held out. is there a constitutional to why the opposition in tega is denouncing changes to the countries supreme law. on china issues, highest storm warnings and pumps of slugs rapids regions more than a 100000 people have been evacuated. the had a lot of the weather as being robert chile on on settled because much of your i'm going to see that continue through the end of the week 10, which is a fitting about 5 to 10 degrees below the average across moving and central parts of year, but we will see some of them start to come into eastern areas and we'll get to the temperature chart in just a minute. but from now we still got about what on wintry weather, affecting switzerland, northern parts of italy, austria as well as slovenia. and is more whether to come across the balkans with some heavy rain stretching all the way from romania down to greece. it remains very windy across the mediterranean. you can see those gusts pushing out as you go tuesday and wednesday across some of the islands. the.

and heidi jo. castro alger 0, washington. and in the last few hours, police officers have cleared out the new york university protest of the hundreds of demonstrates as the 5 warnings and refused to leave. i'm guessing, report, students and faculty were detained. a new york place folks. those instead of arrests were made off the university of police to enforce trespassing violations that spring and how he got the wheels sooty and associated professor at the department of middle east. and as long as the studies at new york university, and she's joining us live from new york, thank you very much for your time. i understand that you're actually somewhere outside a police station waiting for one of your colleagues to be released. can you tell us what happened to the product test is? sure, yeah, thanks for having us. i'm waiting actually for many colleagues, many students to be released and i am outside of the police station since i'm so as of this morning is about 4 or 4 30 am a number of students started there encampment in prot

coordinated movements and travelling in vehicles that were clearly marked with the angles logo, heidi jo castro, alger 0, the us state department. at least 4 people, including 2 children, have been killed and new is really strikes on the southern gaza. the latest attack, talking to the building of housing displaced, palestinians, west the rapids, and now the house was also, it's east of the city. several other people were interested in the attacks and has been taken to the hospital. is there any minute trace cooling off? it's a defense was this for duty? well, that's cyber physic, retaliation as around the promises to respond often is very striking, killed some of its senior ministry officials is really media report. seeing that the country is on higher goods for potential evading response authorities and some regions are also considering opening public air rates shelters on monday as well struck around concept building and syria killing a senior come onto his deputy and several others funerals have been held for the victims of that attack, mona is gather that this is on a shrine south of damas

workers, death more than 200 humanitarian workers have died in gaza since the war began. heidi jo. castro alger 0 washington. meanwhile, you and the 2nd to general antonio. good ted edge has condemned the attack and there are cools for an urgent investigation. the devastating is rarely have strikes . that's cute. well simple kitchen personnel yesterday. being the number of days. what good skill will be in this conflict? 196, including more than 175 members of all new n stuff. these, these, i'm comfortable, but it is an inevitable result of the way the water is being conducted. it demonstrates you have to gain the edge of needs. what are the media to many tendencies, fire, young, conditional release of all lost wages and the expansion of your mean to tell you that into gaza as a secret, because some of the man, the, the needs the resolution last week. the resolution must be implemented without the like that i get the is a tragedy. we still don't understand how this could have happened. i'd like to express my sincere condolences to the family far be volunteer, and i spoke in person to the i

workers, death more than 200 humanitarian workers have died in gaza since the war began. heidi jo, castro alger 0, washington with us president joe biden has released the statement on the death of the aid workers. ellen fisher joins us live now from washington, dc. and so what more did president biden statement say? well, the statement being released in the last 13 minutes and there is some veiled criticism of israel, but nothing directly. he said he spoke to who is this today and expressed his condolences, but he adds that i am outraged and he. 7 broken by the death of 7, you meditating what caused some worlds central kitchen, including one americans. they were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war. they were brave and self with the deaths of tragedy. he also talks about how does it, how israel has pledge to conduct an investigation into the incident that he said that investigation must be swift. it must bring a current ability and its findings must be made public. now just as a site bought to that, we know that the israelis have conducted investigations into this sor

but 1st, let's go to hottie, jo, castro, she's at the texas university in austin, with several 1000 students, have been arrested heidi extraordinary images coming out of the university of texas in the last few hours. what looks like to me, a standoff between student protest isn't state troopers. tell us what's going on now. oh yeah, that's an absolutely accurate description. this is a stand off and you can see it right up close here with me. we have austin, police teachers are keeping a line here. they're preventing protesters from getting any closer to the building where they have been holding thousands of earlier student protesters who are being detained. so let me backtrack to explain how we got to this point this morning on campus. it was a silence actually peaceful protest by student protesters as well as faculty member . well then suddenly and encampments from that for the 1st time, some work for tens were arrested on the lawn. with these peaceful protests have been occurring. then protestors gathered in a tight circle surrounding that encampment and refused to move. and as i was watch

coordinated movements and traveling in vehicles that were clearly marked with the angles logo, heidi jo castro. alger 0, the us state department, kind of house department is the mom. its been up dropping out finally has a meeting. the spanish prime minister will sanchez in dough ha. the renewed calls for an immediate cease fire in gaza. today she had a slot, i saw the man. and the last i was we have seen modifying the issue. this lady, by the images of the officer might be difficult left behind, but it is mainly probation. false is often image of middle beseeching and destroying the entire ship, a hospital for 2 weeks of this throwing all the medical equipment and medical supplies. in addition to sitting the place so in size together with the surrounding areas it up and that there in addition to those skills mislead, you could nab of look forward detained or not. and those missing again with the new, with the code for an immediate cease fire. and as the lives of civilians are great and not restricted in the fraser as planned to band foreign news networks, including out to 0. it has been shot b

i did, jo, castro alger 0, washington a week off the students at columbia university in new york steps on the campaign in support of palestine protest against as well for on golf. and his budget comes across the united states. place encompass security. you have a rest of the dozens of those who refuse to leave. how is that of the whites house at present? joe biden supports free speech and non discrimination. as universities, christmas, lemay reports from colombia, the vast seats in new york. columbia university officials facing mounting criticism from all sides over its handling of student demonstrators. prominent republican politicians after meeting with some jewish students on campus called on the university president to resign. as colombia has allowed these lawless agitators and radicals to take over, the virus of anti semitism is spread across other campuses. by some counts as many as 200 universities have a similar form of protest right now. students who faced arrest in suspension say they're the ones who need protection. many are afraid to show their face there's, there's definit

, president joe biden sign into law yet another us aid package to the is rarely military. heidi jo, castro alger 0, washington to the any laboratory and reconstruction coordinates of goals or is told the security council that irreversible steps need to be taken to facilitate on hand the delivery of more aide into the strip. so good call goes as dress, it's the quality of that humanitarian assistance needs to be improved. just as gabriel, as all know, has worn this now from new york to meet the mens. a new united nations lead mechanism for monitoring aid routes in the gaza will be operational in a matter of days. secret colleague the you in the senior, humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator forgot to said that initially, the mechanism will monitor aid routes via cyprus and jordan. and shortly after begin monitoring aid entering through egypt, ivan formed the government of israel on the operational ization of the mechanism. as per the resolution, a database and notification system will go online for old cargo destined for garza alarm supply routes. the approval for the placement of inte

to jo castro, alger 0, austin, texas. a, well, it's an i'm and to is a professor new york university. he was recently arrested that one of the protest see says n y u has been trying to silence pro palestinian. the police is since october. there is an obvious bias amongst the political leads and the leads of this country and in the universities against palestinian lives. or let us say it's but by this time exception palestinian live do not matter as much as is really lives. so the president of the university never use the word garza or genocide in all of the email exchanges that you sent. but of course the hostages in israel and the safety and so on and so forth. but it is a bias and it's also the corporatization of higher education, whereby university administrators are answerable and concerned about donors and boards of trustees, but are not concerned about faculty and students. the fact that they are willing to call the police to quash pro talestine sentiments just tells you who's side they stand on. they would never ca

workers, death more than 200 humanitarian workers have died in gaza since the war began. heidi jo, castro alger 0 washington us president joe biden has released a statement on the death of the aid workers. an official has more than this now from washington dc, a precedent by concise. he spoke to jose on the race, the founder of the world central kitchen, called him his friend and said he expressed his condolences at the death of the workers and gaza. he then goes on in a statement to m some criticism, not directly israel, not explicitly. it is real because of the attack, but we'll ship it back so you can understand the context here. he says, on average, the heart broken by the death of 7 humanitarian workers, including one america and guys a they were providing foods to hungry civilians in the middle of the war. they were brave and self with their deaths. a tragedy. he then says, israel has pledge to conduct a southern investigation into why the aid workers vehicle were hit by you strikes that investigation must be in his words. swift, it must bring a current ability and its findings must

hi to jo. castro alger 0 washington, published in the jealous mohammed creek air has been reporting on the war on gaza, but she's now covering a personal tragedy. his mother was killed by his riley forces when they rated. i'll shift the hospice in march for the a car reports on this. remembering happier times. how much correct here with his mother 9 that was in that you know, most especially felt them on when is really forces withdrew from our chief a hospital after a 2 weeks each. he finally learned her face according this what and what kind of. so from that and some women had told me that they sold my mother. yeah. asking for how many times when i got here, i found a buddy. i knew immediately, even before it recognizes that it was my mother. i went close and i saw her lying. the covet as if she was sleeping. it was as if she was a sleep at home. so i said, wake up ma'am. i'm here cuz i haven't used witnesses say these really army killed people who were sheltering at the hospital. and so this one, remember seeing name is body legit. lemme just plug them in and it was arrested early in

president joe biden signed into law yet another us aid package to the is rarely military. heidi jo castro, alger 0, washington, or palestinian john list mohammed creek air has been reporting on the war on gaza. but he's now covering a personal tragedy. his mother was killed by is riley forces when they rage at the i'll shift the hospital in march for the a connor puts on this. and remembering happier times, how much correct here with his mother 9 that was in that you know, most especially felt them on when is really forces withdrew from our chief a hospital after a 2 weeks each. he finally learned her face according this what and what kind of so from the in some women had told me that they saw my mother here asking for help when the time, when i got here i found a buddy. i knew immediately, even before it recognizes that it was my mother. i went close uh and i saw her lying. the covet as if she was sleeping. it was as if she was a sleep at home. so i said, wake up ma'am. i'm here. the witnesses say these ready army killed people who were sheltering at the hospital. and so this one, rememb

to jo castro alger 0 austin, texas. what protests on gaining ground on campuses and other parts of the world in australia, protest as also set up tents of the university of sydney. students from other universities had been coming back to show their support. they've been chomping slogans similar to those voice in the us like, cool. so divesting from is radio link company as well to join live not by alex thomas. he's in sydney for us now. alex, so just bring us up to date them with what's been happening. the student protests that the hi, darren, we're at the university of sydney. yeah. in the center of town. and it's the oldest university here in australia and across, oh, she on and maybe $70000.00 students. love to have that higher education here. but only probably a couple of 100 to enough into very sort of peaceful, orderly, australian snapshot of these global pro palestinian student movements. and they was a riley to, to be held here a little bit earlier. but that was put on hold because of an unrelated buttons, right

and heidi jo. castro alger 0. washington one from on this story. when are joined by a mine a bid, who's the director of advocacy at the us campaign for promising advice to join just in washington dc. you mind good to have you with us on al jazeera, the protest in support of policy means in gaza, has been going on since the war started. but why are these big named colleges cracking down more aggressively on the demonstrations now, why have the tension seemingly bubbled over? i mean, the specific moments and time feels like i really historic use uprising against us fund a genocide. and we can't forget that students have always been at the forefront of social movements. they were the foundation for the civil rights movements here in america, the anti war movements during vietnam, the vietnam war, and the divestment movement, apartheid south africa, the movement itself is groping and strengthening. it's able to actually shift political will towards the policy needs and people and is able to have and build a momentum. it needs to be able to build out th

workers, death more than 200 humanitarian workers have died in gaza since the war began. heidi jo, castro alger 0 washington when he was president, joe biden has released that statement on the death of those aid where it goes out as a result of official joins us live now from washington. d. c. island. so what more did president vitamin statements say? well, the president biden said he spoke to jose andres in the last few hours. unexpressed is condolences to his friends for the loss of his workers. there is some criticism of israel in the wider statement. let's break it down and put it into context as well. he says, i'm outraged and heart broken by the deaths of 7 humanitarian workers from world central kitchen, including one american in gaza. they were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of the war. they were brave and selfless. the desk or tragedy is realized. pledge to conduct the southern investigation and to why the aid workers vehicles were hit by a strikes that investigation must be swift. it must bring your current ability. and this findings must be public. like to pro

coordinated movements and traveling in vehicles that were clearly marked with the angles logo. heidi jo, castro, alger 0, the us state department, the deaths of 3 british age workers in these right strikes has prevent widespread condemnation in the u. k. the british government has called for further investigation. some politicians say that you cation suspend on sales to as well. some of the i get has more from the the shock and i'm the against the latest wave of his really attacks and gaza. this time on the streets of london, medics and solidarity with palestinians hated the headquarters of highlands here the software company supplying technology to israel, submit a treat cooling for an immediate end to it. activities that or the killing of humanitarian aid was received international condemnation as well as allies including the u. k demanded offices, the situation is increasingly intolerable. and what we urgently need to say is a star a transpired investigation into what has happened, but also a dramatic increase in the amount of age getting into goals that the aid work has killed. james hender

hi to jo castro. alger 0 washington. we'll see you a call going to you in the senior monetary and reconstruction coordinator for gauze . it has pull the security council. it's time foot paradigm shift in thinking. when it comes to increasing that he might have an aid entering the gaza strip. whether it's on clarity is really or thought is were corporate. in a briefing at un headquarters in new york called told the counsel that it was the civil steps needs to be taken to facilitate on hand to delivery the full rate and that the quality of that age must also be improved. obviously it is gabriel, as long as more from new york immense. a new united nations with mechanism for monitoring aid routes in the gaza will be operational in a matter of days. secret colleague the you in the senior, she mediterranean reconstruction coordinator for guys. a said that initially the mechanism will monitor aid routes via cyprus and jordan. and shortly after short begin monitoring aid entering through egypt. i've informed the government of is

a 0 is highly jo, castro has that is from the university of texas in austin. my protest is of boeing to continue it has been entered here on the you t austin campus. and it's monday morning as a sign the stage by faculty in opposition to the way you t austin administration has to test, has now run into a conflict or seen approach to my left. these are members of the community, your students. some of the faculty members, reason they're holding umbrella is just a moment ago, there was pepper spray showing the other side. what, what i'm seeing here to my rights or the police officers are now barricading against these protesters. what they're protecting them is a place where the previously the rest of processors and 43 people who was part of an initial cabinet that began this afternoon when people setting up wandering around it position and using to disperse at the university harder moment tents were arrested we saw this police presence stand upon those protesters of them again and resting them one by one, dragging them away from the line to the ground where they

coordinated movements and traveling in vehicles that were clearly marked with the angles logo, heidi jo castro. alger 0, the us state department. he's ready minutes. res. quoting up, the defense reserve is for duty. no official reason has been given is very media site and which was preparing for potential reigning tele. ation on monday is ro struck around conflict building in syria? kidding. a senior commander is deputy and several others. the funerals had been held for the victims. all stats attacked mourners gathered up the say, the design of shrine that south of damascus on wednesday. crowds of people watched the procession of coffins before prayers were held at the shrine. i'm the soul who has more from occupied is to say, well, after new assessments from israel's army, they are going to be bolstering air defenses as well as calling up a reservist to those air bases. israel's air defense systems are 3 fold. the iron to missile defense system, which is the most commonly used in israel, d, david sling and the arrow. now all of this comes as israel is expecting some sort of retaliatory attack

and thanks very much indeed. mustang with this across hottie, jo castro joins as long as not from austin, texas harvey was unfolded there. and how's it looking now? is carrie? i think the quiet of this moment behind me, this is a actually the act of defiance that the student protesters here at the university of texas the austin, are using in contrast to what we saw yesterday when they were 57 people, including a journalist, the rest student arrested by state police after university of austin's president. and also the states governor ordered for these protests to be dispersed. and you'll see today there were even more people who came out and they were joined by now, university professors who are not only going those calls for, for israel to stop. it's more in gaza and for you to, to dive best in the weapons companies. and for any companies involved with israel, but now also for the president of u t's resignation. but i want to bring very quickly our to guess this is cuba and this is a rich. thank you guys so much. yesterday you were here talk about the feeling of that moment when we saw t

coordinated movements and travelling in vehicles that were clearly marked with the angles logo. heidi jo castro, alger 0, the us state department. the desk, the 3 versus a work is in the israeli strikes and wells central kitchen work has, has provoked ne universe from condemnation in the united kingdom, british government has cooled for full investigation on some politicians say the u . k. should suspend on sales to israel. sonya game has moved from london to shock and i'm the against the latest wave of his ready attacks and gaza. this time on the streets of london, medics and solidarity with palestinians located the headquarters of highlands. here, the software company supplying technology to israel, submit a treat cooling for an immediate end to its activities that or the killing of humanitarian aid was received international condemnation as well as allies, including the u. k demanded offices, the situation is increasingly intolerable. and what we urgently need to say is a star transpired investigation into what has happened, but also a dramatic increase in the amount of age getting into goal

the process and not just on the east coast time, jo castro is at the university of texas in austin, a u. d. austin's president j. hartzell is facing calls for his resignation after the brutal police crackdown to remove protesters from campus earlier this week. but now 3 days after those arrest, hartzell says he is quote, grateful for this current protest in support of palestine. and he gave no indication that he would call for more police intervention. that's despite student protesters breaking curfew last night and their back today holding a peaceful demonstrations. there's been music and speakers and arts, and they're calling on you t austin to divest from mit weapons manufacturers and from companies that benefit israel. and they say they're not buying the words of appeasement from the university president. they say that they feel there's a double standard on campus that goes back for years with little or no protection for most of the students when they face discrimination. and the university move to protect your students when does protest started. in fact, some of the protesters he

workers, death more than 200 humanitarian workers have died in gaza since the war began. heidi jo, castro alger 0, washington of your inspector general antoneyer terrace, has condemned the attack. come, they're all calls for an urgent investigation. the devastating is rarely have strikes. that's cute. well, simple kitchen personnel yesterday being the number of days what good skill will be in this conflict, 196, including more than 175 members of all new n stuff. these is uncomfortable, but it is an inevitable result of the way the warranty is being conducted. it demonstrates you have to gain the edge of needs for the media to many tendencies via conditional release of all searches and the expansion of your military and needing to gaza. as soon as he goes to the man, the needs resolution last week, the resolution must be implemented without the like, the i got the is a tragedy. we still don't understand how this could have happened. i'd like to express my sincere condolences to the family far be volunteer, and i spoke in person to the investor of israel, who assured me that this case will

that of how you, jo castro, has introduced this to over the past. the power, so understanding exactly what the trends of the students and how the police and the official style dealing will be dealing. it seems with the assembled crowd, the heidi to transfer, i'm show you time here, which is very noisy. i the, we appreciate you might not be able to, we things that i'm saying, but just describe the images and the news is changed and magically in the last few minutes. the sensor tennessee. whitening is you can see those pictures, the st. please stick to pieces in seconds. it seems that the student protest is new grounds at the state of texas. the confrontations that certainly i think that tend to be in the pollution. it was 2nd, he's actually electra. and he was there to protect to students a certain to what they are experiencing right now is it of the circle i would describe would be low key, please, who is a behind the state to face, but nothing is being done at the moment except to stand on the demonstration is good to meet you out into expressing t

coordinated movements and traveling and vehicles that were clearly marked with the n g o's logo, heidi jo castro, alger 0, the us state department. now these really military's calling up a defense reserve is no official reason has been given, but these really media says the mobilization is in response to yvonne vowing revenge for an a strike on a ring. and consulate in syria is on a car. pollution regard. commanders were killed in damascus on monday, live to raleigh chinese and occupied these tools land rover a. first. what more can you tell us about this decision to call up the ad defense present? select despite the is right, is known as specially claiming as a standard practice responsibility for that attack in, in damascus. no one serious doubts that it was them not be as ready ministry. so we'll say is that are being sold into is ready media and western media, not the countries that roundly condemned the attack in the us and the other day for a launching ass strikes on a supplies to be protected. diplomatic complex, uh, items. uh yeah, don't the is right. is themselves who are preparing for

i did, jo, castro is got more of this from washington, dc to us national security advisor jake sullivan, had sharp words about reports of the mass graves discovered in gaza. well, those reports were deeply disturbing. we have been in touch at multiple levels with the israeli government. we want answers, we want to understand exactly what happened. you've seen some public commentary from the adf on that, but we want to know the specifics of what the circumstances of this were. and we want to see this thoroughly and transparently investigated so that the whole world can have a comprehensive answer and we, the united states can as well, i can't speak beyond that because of course, we're in the early days of fully understanding what happened. what's been missing from the us response is any call for an independent investigation into the mass graves. that is in contrast to the u. n. and to the you that have both said, there must be an independent investigation. not just one conducted by israel alone . we are gravely concerned by the, by the report, the discovery of most grace in the founding

i t being the latest to join the pro palestinian move and heidi jo. castro alger 0. washington. helga tell sony is an associate professor at the department of middle eastern islamic studies at new york university. she was out, the protest explains how things unfolded. and i'm waiting actually for many colleagues, many students to be released and i am outside the police station. and i'm, so as of this morning is about 4 or 4 30 am a number of students started there encampment in protest of what's been happening in palestine, but also supports a service for palestine rights and freedom of speech, freedom of expression as well as in solid already with other students at columbia and elsewhere across the country. and so they set up a tense and temperament and as soon as they started, uh, camp security tractors, uh, block that off already and also called in the n y p d. and then um, eventually mtv kind of backed away and the students remain there all day uh, peacefully protesting, chanting and so on. and, you know, supporters came at this point, there was a barricade that

i did jo, castro alger 0, washington. so let's take a look at the l. c. for hospital west, some of those mass graves were found. satellite images show the medical complex and northern goals have a full is rarely forces besieged the facility. and this is an image of, i'll see for at the beginning of april, off the is where the forces ended and occupied it for 2 weeks to mass graves of now being found within the hospital grounds. and forty's have been recovered and we've done nearly as a senior electra at nursing of law school. he was amongst the academics invited by human rights organizations to discuss the special offer to us to gauze a genocide report of the un human rights council. he says, systematic crimes have already been committed in gaza on her wrist. take scale that we are witnessing reports by a most the police city of crazy, both human rights organizations, media outlets documenting your relevance list targeting of cdns or otherwise protected by students of at least 2518 work or something to the, to the office of the called the national you min

to jo castro, alger 0, austin, texas. the police in the city of atlanta have a rest of, at least at 17 students at emory university. does a student set of 10, some of the campus on thursday morning and support upon a citizens, police, dismantled account and the same the students for trespassing. at least one faculty member was among those arrested. while the solidarity values spread outside the united states and the french capital students blocks, the entrances of the ceiling says, whole university dash or boston is joining us now. live from power, so they're going to be comparisons aren't there with the protests in the us. talk us through what's been happening there. yes, i do name also students a dozens of blocking sitting in and this was to just mention the 1st to sales for i'm going to bring you right quickly to speak to one of the students who's having a great time to joining me to tell us a bit more about what's going on, why you're here. yeah. so we've been here since october, actually in this company is doing thin

so by for us the, at columbia university will how to jo, castro joins us now from austin, texas, and you were the travis county jail with the purchases that were suggested. i have been taken as a actually being said to be released yet. and what exactly have they been charged with there has been a slow trickle of the protesters that are being released according to university of texas, austin, administration, 79 people were arrested for mondays protests. and that they had been charged with. uh, we're seeing a lot of criminal trespassing as the major charge here. and now more than 24 hours later, still the vast majority remain inside the jail that's behind me. and that's despite the calls that you're hearing behind me of not only for palestine, the free those protesters. these are you, teen students, some faculty member and other members of the austin community that houses a visual overnight waiting for every last one of those arrested to be released. and joining us is a guest who is an attorney has been helping some of those that i've been to change this as well as some of the thanks f