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
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
Our main headlines. Dramatic scenes at the california campus after police in los angeles moving to remove pro palestinian protest camp. Dozens of students have been detained after hundreds of officers descended on the camp. Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful processes. Its against the law when violence occurs, destroying property is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. figs property is not a peaceful protest. Its against the law. Its against the law. As india prepares its against the law. As india prepares to its against the law. As india prepares to head its against the law. As india prepares to head to its against the law. As india prepares to head to the its against the law. As india | prepares to head to the polls its against the law. As india prepares to head to the polls we look at how people are rejecting political rhetoric in favour of religious tolerance. And recreating a face from the past, meet the woman who lived 75,000 years ago. All of thatis who lived 75
In california have been told to disperse by police or face arrest. These are live pictures outside the camp, where its nowjust after 1am local time. More and more students are gathering to show their support, as demonstrations against the war in Gaza Continue at universities across the United States. Earlier, californias governor, gavin newsom, accused the police of being too slow to respond after Counter Demonstrators attacked the camp on tuesday night. In texas, riot police broke up a similar encampment, accusing the demonstrators of breaching trespass laws. Lets hear from our correspondent Helena Humphrey who is at the ucla campus live for us. Welcome and take us through what is happening right now. You welcome and take us through what is happening right now. Happening right now. You can hear the chanting happening right now. You can hear the chanting behind happening right now. You can hear the chanting behind me, happening right now. You can hear the chanting behind me, chantingl
Protesters have tried to block the coach sent to collect migrants to be transported to the bibby stockholm barge. The code to temporarily stopped from leaving peckham by those demonstrators. The coach is now left but the protests are continuing. Let is go to our corresponding, simonjones. What has been happening over the last hour or so . The situation remains pretty tense. There are a lot of protesters and a lot of police. We can walk appear and get and a lot of police. We can walk Appearand Geta and a lot of police. We can walk appear and get a bit closer. At about eight oclock this morning, a coach turned up to take a small group of Asylum Seekers from a hotel that they had been staying in here in South East London and protesters arrived and basically block the coach from leaving saying that the people didnt want to go to the bibby stockholm barge. They said they had become members of the community here. The coach was stopped from leaving. You can see one of the Police Vehicles here