Of their europa conference newsnight at 10 30pm, Election Night fever as the bbc gets ready to report the results of a last big vote before the General Election. Will it be boomtime for starmer or doom time the sunak . Good evening. The polls have just closed in local elections across england and wales, the biggest test of political opinion, ahead of the General Election. Police and Crime Commissioners will also being chosen, there are mayoral elections, and a by election in Blackpool South. All the results will be coming in over the next couple of days, with Party Leaders looking for indications, of what a General Election might bring. Well chris is here with his take on what we should be looking out for, over the next 48 hours. Chris. Evening, clive. For the last 15 hours, millions of decisions have been taken and thousands of aspiring Decision Makers politicians await their fate. This is a Patchwork Set of elections around england and wales with a long tail of results, going on unti
Police have indicated they will be ready to clear that encampment at some point. Thursdays classes have been cancelled as tensions remain high on the campus there in la. The chancellor of ucla announced an investigation after pro israeli demonstrators appeared to attack a pro palestinian encampment early wednesday. The chancellor says the investigation could lead to arrests and expulsions. Live now to Helena Humphrey on campus at ucla. Remind us what happened overnight . It is fairto it is fair to say the situation is becoming increasingly tense on campus, a minute before speaking to you we saw a considerable number of Police Officers come out here onto the campus and we did here a call from the encampment which you can hear and see over here, the call going out, calling on the protesters once again to disburse or face arrest. What you can also hear in the encampment as the sounds of hammering, we believe that inside the protesters have been trying to reinforce barricades with wood, wh
Demonstrations against the war in gaza are continuing at dozens of universities across the united states, with arrests taking place on multiple campuses. I spoke to robert cohen, a professor of Social Studies and history at New York University who has studied Student Activism about how these protests compare to others in us history. The protests, initially, going on now were much more moderate in their tactics, whether its 1960. Actually, the greatest upsurges in active American History occurred in may 1970 after nixon authorised the invasion of cambodia. He had promised to end the war, and he was expanding it into cambodia. So that created a lot of fury that was compounded by the massacre at kent state, where four students were shot by, were killed by the National Guard and nine were wounded. So that was much more confrontational. The war been dragging on forfive years. So, i mean, compared to that, the protests, for example, that started at columbia and then spread initially at nyu w
Rusted assault on ukrainian gas plans causing problems for european supplies with matt we get the view from kyiv. Good evening. President biden has told the pro palestinian demonstrators they have the right to protest, but not a right to cause chaos. It was the first time the president has spoken on the campus protests amid criticism from donald trump and republicans that he has been absent from the debate. Peaceful protest in america. Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. Its against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations none of this is a peaceful protest. Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can