Us were campuses are bracing for another night of violence. This hour. It comes after tensions at ucla when Counter Protesters attacked a camp set up by pro palestinian demonstrators. The governor of california has condemned the Police Response to clashes at ucla on tuesday, calling it delayed and unacceptable. Emma vardy reports from los angeles. This was the moment tensions between rival protesters boiled over. Pro palestinian activists and a counterdemonstration by pro israel supporters became violent. Fireworks were thrown over a screaming crowd, and wood used as weapons. We had people beating us with sticks, throwing whatever they could to us. Im kind of annoyed at myself for not seeing it coming, but i didnt think it would ever get to this, escalate to this level. The Los Angeles Police were called by The University. The Vice Chancellor has condemned last nights events as a horrific act of violence. Eventually, officers separated the rival groups. Im a ucla student. We pay tuitio
The un has warned that more than 70 of the population faces catastrophic levels of hunger. Israels opening of the Erez Crossing follows sustained international pressure. The move has long been called for by aid agencies. The us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken met the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu injerusalem and urged him to ensure that more humanitarian aid gets in to gaza. Mr blinken also called on hamas to accept the terms of a Ceasefire Deal that would see a pause in fighting and the release of israeli hostages. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from the Erez Crossing. A gate towards the war. Where israels army today showcased how it planned to boost aid reaching gaza. This is the Erez Crossing in the north of the gaza strip, with gaza devastated on the other side. The plan is to get 500 trucks a day into gaza from here. The un wants many more to avert what it calls a man made famine. The optics, designed to convey an israel listening to america and other
Billion from 60 billion. Pretty aggressive reduction there. That begins in june. A way to think about this, if my numbers are right, is a runoff that had been going at 720 billion a year of treasuries, by the way, down to 300 billion. It left the runoff of Mortgage Backed securities the same t 25 billion. That q2 goes from 60 to 25 on treasuries and begins in june. That is a cap on the reduction. On the economy, the Federal Reserve says continues to say the economy is increasing at a solid pace. It says job gains have emained strong. Inflation has eased but again noted that progress has stalled. Im going to repeat some statements that they repeated this time around but maybe now they are perhaps more important. It could be said the committee is strongly committed to bringing inflation to 2 . They are highly attentive to the inflation risk and preparing to adjust policy is appropriate if risks emerge. Does have been in the statement for a long time and maybe now they are a little more i
Edward. Reporter Federal Reserve has left rates unchanged. This is the sixth pause in a row for this. Now with the first line of the statement has a word thats been added to it. It says the Economic Activity continued to expand at a solid pace. Now the statement says that the fed sees job gains remaining strong. The fed also sees inflation easing over the past year but remaining elevated. The Committee Also changed the statement to say that employment and inflation goals have moved into better balance over the past year. The fed leaves one sentence in. Its a very key sentence, saying it needs to gain greater confidence that inflation will move sustainably to 2 . Again a very key phrase in the statement. One big announcement of the fed statement is going to make, the fed is reducing runoff of the Balance Sheet. Starting in june the fed will go from 60 billion of runoff in treasurys, rolling off 25 billion. Going down to 25 billion in treasurys, rolling off starting in june, amount of mo
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