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
Good afternoon. The Police Officers wounded in a sword attack in hainault yesterday suffered horrific injuries according to the metropolitan Police Commissioner sir mark rowley. He says one of the officers came close to losing her hand and shes had several hours of surgery. A 1a year old boy was killed in the attack. One of the victims of the Nottingham Stabbings Last year. Graham satchell reports. Devastation this morning at bancroft s school in east london and confirmation that one of their students, a 14 year old boy, was killed in the sword attack yesterday. Its the second time in less than a year that bancroft s is in mourning for one of its own. Former student grace omalley kumar, who was killed in a knife attack in nottingham, was also a student here. The final moments of yesterdays terrible attack were captured on a doorbell camera. The 36 year old man still carrying a sword is cornered and met Police Officers move in. A taser is fired and then a female officer approaches and a
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
News from the bbc hundreds of people have been arrested at pro palestinian protests at University Campuses in the United States amid violent clashes. In los angeles, Demonstratrors At A Camp set up by people who oppose israels military action in gaza clashed with counter demonstrators. The Vice Chancellor of The University of california, los angeles has spoken of Horrific Acts Of Violence on campus. Our los angeles correspondent emma vardy has this report. This was the moment tensions between Rival Protesters boiled over. As 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, i didnt think it would 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