[protesters chanting] john and that is a live shot outside The Gates of Columbia University in new York City where right now dozens of antiisrael protesters are Holding Signs and chanting, all while other students are trying to attend their first day of fall classes. In just the last few moments, there have been some arrests. Im John Roberts in washington, as we kick off a Brandnew Week in the fall season. Good day to you. Gillian good to have you, or good to be with you, i should say, john. Excuse me. You know what i mean. Sandra is off today. This is america reports. Right now we are getting these new pictures into our newsroom. They are also showing columbias famed Alma Mater Sculpture covered, you can see there, and red paint. The statue sits very prominently on the steps of the School Library on the main quad. John the protest came after israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages, including israeli american hersh goldbergpolin, executed at close range in gaza. Gillian rea
President harris facing Big Bash lash over their response to the brutal murders of six hostages held by hamas terrorists. Some say they are both showing the world that america doesnt actually have israels back. This is the faulkner focus. Im john roberts in for harris. The idf found the bodies of the six hostages in a tunnel in gaza over the weekend. One of them, 23yearold israeli american Hersh Goldbergpolin, the deaths bringing fresh attention for the need for a deal to get those in captivity at home. Instead of blaming hamas terrorists, President Biden said this. Mr. President, do you think its time for prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue . Do you think he is doing enough . President biden no. Well netanyahu heard that and fired back during his own News Conference. Listen here. Its really an out rage that people say that. No one is more committed to release the hostages and fight more for them than i. I also served, so please let no one teach me a lesson about such act
also meeting with british prime minister rishi sunak. the bbc has been speaking to twitter s owner, elon musk. the last minute, unexpected interview came about after the bbc objected to a new tag describing it as government funded media on its main twitter account. in the interview the billionaire agreed to change this to publicy funded. he also defended the site s policing of hate speech and the mass sackings of staff and described taking over the social media firm as painful. do you have any regrets about buying twitter? i think it was something that needed to be done. it s been quite difficult. i would say, the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this hasn t been some sort of party, so, it s been really quite a stressful situation in the last several months, not an easy one. so it s been quite painful, but i think at the end of the day, it should have been done and were there many mistakes made along the way? of course. and james clayton explained how the in