From the campus. Lets just take you through a couple of them that we have. This one is showing protesters away from the specific confrontation with the police. Lets take a look at some of the other live feeds. This one is closer to the action, with Police Officers on one side and pro palestinian protesters, demonstrated on the other. In the last a0 minutes or so, police picked one side of the encampment. It is a Barricade Tent behind it. They picked one area behind it and started picking away at the barricades and moving closer to the protesters. We have seen a number of arrests since then. Right now, it seems to be apart from the flashing lights, a slight pause and a slight period of calm. But lets show you some of the recent images from the last hour. Firstly, lets have a look at this. Just to reemphasise, these are not live pictures, but this is what happens within the last hour or so, the plywood is there, the barricades of the pro palestinian students there, on the ucla campus, th
South Yorkshire Police giving us those details a little earlier. The weapon involved is understood to be a broken bottle, rather than a knife. That detail fare from the pa news agency. Sojust knife. That detail fare from the pa news agency. So just to recap, knife. That detail fare from the pa news agency. Sojust to recap, a 17 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of Attempted Murder after three people were injured at that secondary school, which then went into lockdown. This is the the Birley Academy in sheffield on wednesday, and we were told to expectjust wednesday, and we were told to expect just a wednesday, and we were told to expectjust a brief wednesday, and we were told to expect just a brief statement from the police then, which we got, no questions from the media allowed or taken and short statement then from the head teacher as well outside. But this has clearly been a shocking incident and a shocking moment this morning. At about 8 50am, police were called. That is
Columbia University Said the students had escalated the protest to an untenable situation and it had no choice but to call the police. Pro Palestinian Protesters have been occupying a tent camp at the Ivy League School for nearly two weeks. Lets speak to omar wasow, a Political Science professor at the university of berkeley, california, who studies protest movements. Columbia University Says it was left with no choice. What are your thoughts . Research that i do look for protesters in the 1960s and what i find is that when protesters are non violent and there are heavy handed tactics by authorities, that builds sympathy for the protesters. That is what we saw two weeks ago at columbia when students took over the building. What i find also is that when protesters engage in protest initiative violence, that tends to build sympathy for more Law And Order and i think that is what we saw today. Them taking over the building today creates legitimacy for this Massive Police response. I i kno
These are the pictures right now. The Vice Chancellor of the University Says there have been horrific acts of violence, adding the police have been called in. Fireworks were reportedly thrown at one of the camps and pepper spray has been used as barriers surrounding the south were torn down. A Pro Palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about developments on campus. From 10. 50 this evening, Counter Protesters turned up as they have been doing for the last couple of days to disrupt the encampment. We know as well they fired off fireworks towards the encampment and there has been tear gas used on site. One of our reporters got tear gassed this evening as well. So that is what is currently going on there. We know that campus has requested a Police Presence from across the city to come in and from the latest ive just heard, they ar