Going to start in the us. Protests over the war in gaza have come to a head, with angry and sometimes violent scenes at campuses on both the east and west coasts. Take a look at these pictures. These are clashes at the university of california, los angeles campus. This was the early hours of wednesday morning, just a a few moments ago. A pro palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. There have been clashes between the two sides. These pictures are not live but we have been watching these pictures over the last couple of hours as they have been fed into us here at the bbc. Violence escalated around 11pm here at the bbc. Violence escalated around pm local time. It is now a around pm local time. It is now a a few hours after that. These are some of the most recent pictures we have. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about what has happened on campus. From 10. 50 this
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All of those stories coming up in a moment. Before we go to ben thompson, i want to show the live pictures from washington because he seemed pretty much set up there, we are expecting about four or five senators in the next few minutes to come to the microphone to condemn those protests we have seen at Different University campuses, certainly of the last few weeks, but more focused on what we saw overnight, both at ucla and at Columbia University in new york. So when that starts we will obviously return to washington. That gives us time to bring in ben thompson. He is herewith todays business needs. Good afternoon, what do you have for us . Lets move these things out of the way, i can actually see you extract thanks very much. Yes, we will start in washington, actually, and we will keep an eye on the stories you are talking about there as well, but we are looking at the worlds most powerful central bank of the big question of whether it will cut the cost of borrowing this year. That ha
Hello, im Matthew Amroliwala , welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We begin in the us and the Student Protests sweeping the country against the war in gaza. Overnight, these were the scenes on campuses on the west coast and east coast. Clashes between Rival Student Groups and clashes with police who were called to both the University Of California in los angeles, and Columbia University in new york. At ucla, there were skirmishes between pro israeli and pro Palestinian Protesters, with the Vice Chancellor Calling in police after what she described as horrific acts of violence. Scenes like this went on for hours with pepper spray being used. At Columbia University, where the protests started, police moved in, to disperse students from the encampment that had built up over weeks. Officers dressed in riot gear also cleared students from Hamilton Hall, which had been taken over yesterday. The demonstrators have demanded that th