Leave the campus and aid worker with the Belgian Development agencies has been killed by it is really your strike in gaza and the sanitation and water crisis on the streets of gaza, we will be reporting on how diseases are spreading and fears of cholera. Also, ukraine issues restrictions on passports for military age men outside the country to address a shortage of troops at home and support the time as well. Number 3, Carlos Alvarez has made a winning star to his clay court season. The spaniard, whos been the suffering with injury, put on a dominant performance in his quest for a record for consecutive the. So we begin this our with the voices of students from across the World University protests that were triggered by the war on gaza. Now growing into a course of disenchantment with governments and leadership across the globe. Its been a little over a week since students at Columbia University in new york began demanding that their school divest from israel students at columbia, harvard georgetown, mit and George Washington university. Then followed suit and protest spread from the ne to campuses in michigan, texas and california. And now theyve gone global at university college, london in paris at cl spell university and all the way to the university of sydney in australia where were going to try and bring you voices from those campuses in the us. We are live in new york in los angeles in washington and in texas. Lets start with houses here is kristen salumi at Columbia University. The epicenter of this campus protest movement. Kristen, you have been speaking with representatives of the student body. They are negotiating with the University Leadership about their encampment about their demands, whats happening and thats right. It is a 10 of this demonstration. Its a beautiful friday afternoon here in new york. And you can see, im right along side of the and cabinet where all of the tents are set up. The negotiations are ongoing, but so is the sense of camaraderie and spirit in the camp over here where they are vowing to stay until their demands are matched. The students are praying on campus. Now theres a muslim evening prayer happening right now. As im talking to you and, and a couple hours time, there will be a shabat, jewish, a dinner this evening as well. The students say there is growing come lottery amongst the group and its very welcoming and not hostile, not anti semitic. Theyre trying very hard to fight these accusations, and they say for anyone who makes that accusation, they should come and see whats happening here. But getting to those all important negotiations, the students told me that they spent 11 hours with the administration yesterday, another hour here. This morning theres some possibility that those discussions will continue over the weekend. There is no looming deadline at this point. They have not been given a deadline to leave or facing eviction. However, they havent been promised that that wont happen either. So there is a little bit of on certainty, a little unsettled feeling among the protesters here. They dont know whats going to happen on that front. The university did make some concessions or some offers, i should say, to the students saying that they uh, they would agreed to uh, look at divestment that are being made by the university and start the process of reviewing them and talking about them with the students. But the suit just said thats not good enough. They want a commitment to dive best from israel. Not just a promise to look at it before they leave the encampment. Are kristen . Thank you so much. Im going to go now to id show castro heidis at the university of texas in austin. I believe you have a guest with you this hour just before we go to that, to that interview though youve been explaining that the president of the university where you are is really flip flopped on how to deal with these protests. Why thats right, j hard. So the president of the university of texas at austin and he was taking a lot of blame after the images we saw from the 1st day of these protests and which police had some violent confrontations with the student demonstrator ultimately arresting, 57. 00 people, almost all of them have had their charges dropped, and after the outcry that came not only from protesters, but even from some supporters of the university. Well, hard to release a new message last night to the youtube community, saying that it was a difficult and 10th day saying that he believed at the time that this protest would follow what he said was the national playbook. Unclear exactly what that meant. But apparently acknowledging that there was no violence but that the Police Believe there would be and then we saw those complex taking place. And now he says he is quote, grateful that these peaceful protest, w t awesome campus are continuing. Of course, i want to know what the people here thinking about them that does bring in our guess. This is dr. Boss who boss to dave. And so its so much thanks you for joining us to keep him as a faculty member. Why is it and for you to come here and what do you make of the president s statements . You know, its interesting because i think the president is making it sound now as if it is the campus has free speech policies that are allowing these protests to continue. When in reality, these protests have been nothing but peaceful. They have been nothing but a spontaneous and organized expression of conversation, of peoples feelings about whats happening at a time. And the university is fully repressing. Any conversation about palestine. Faculty are scared to mention the word palestine in their classes. People dont want to talk about the genocide and there has been strong indication from the university throughout since october 7th that this is not a cop topic of conversation despite the formal notices and e mails, you know, occasionally in response to events that seem to claim the university supports free speech, so im not at all surprised by hartzells comments, but i would say in, on one level theyre a bold faced lie. And another level, its kind of cowardly, honestly because there was no indication there was no need to call a lease that day at all. And there was nothing leading up to it that would suggest that what youre seeing happening today. As you can tell, its a community space. Its collaborative. People have been praying, eating, learning, learning about the law, learning about what it means to be students and exercising free speech. There have been art spaces. I do a class this morning. The same as i would and one of my seminars and its a beautiful space and this is exactly the Program Actually from 2 days ago. So i was asked to teach 2 days ago and this is what it was supposed to be like. And very quickly, weve heard for pro, from protest are saying that they still want the central message of the church has to be about the people of gaza and the resistance to israels, for their talk about how that message is. Youre trying to ring that through. Absolutely. We, im part of the austin, texas faculty and staff for justice and palestine. We are an Ad Hoc Coalition of faculty who supports the past tense already. Committee. The students who are the leaders and visionaries in the schools were really shifting the conversation and holding the school down, creating the space where its possible to even have these conversations. And, you know, i mean, i think for us as faculty, we have a commitment. We have an obligation and as people as human sort, living through a genocide, this is no more. This is a genocide, it is very clear. And it is clear from scholars of genocide, this is clear from human rights law that across every measure of what constitutes a genocide, an equal side and as collapsed aside. A killing of Hall University is a faculty of knowledge production. That is what is happening. And it is our obligation as callers, this is what we do. I do this day and day out, and its my job to teach about this. Thank you, dr. Positive. I much. And those are the words that are being shared here are really conversations. In fact, there are, some is really supporters who have also come to dialogue with these pro palestinian supporters here on the university of texas austin campus. Were seeing a peaceful protests going forth and they say this is really in defiance of, of the crack downs. And that, and warranted claims of anti semitism that the University Leadership has tried to stick to these protesters 0. All right, how do you think you very much . Were going to take it back to the east coast. Alan fisher is the George Washington university in washington, dc. And i wonder what youre seeing, how the, how George Washington university is dealing with the student protests there. And also whether theyre engaging with the substance of the protest on any level, which is israels war on god. Saying what has happened to you is good to protest those who are in the big the college yard. Many of them are still there, but the numbers are dont significantly, but theyre still attend to the encampment there. But theres a lot of protest in the street just outside the college. Just you can see here, there was about a couple of hours ago, maybe of a 100 people here. That number has no small and over the last couple of hours to close on 300 and theyre having people speak and give their own views of what is happening in gaza. Joining me live here now is i hadnt study bermonte who is an active as to someone whos been involved in process so, so youre going to be blinking sideways to the secretary of state here. Why are you here . What, what brought you to this . Because you have protested, i say the is really embassy, id say 20 blink concise. Why is this so special to me . I think the power of and cabins and the power of consistent in durance and protest is extremely important. We are in a very critical moment of shifting the Public Opinion and the United StatesHolding Accountable institutions that enable and support and whitewash as well as crimes of crimes against humanity. And also showing the world that were no longer a freight. Were no longer afraid to step into our advocacy into the power of the resistance and saying enough, i think in humanity enough of the violations of International Law weve had in camp. Its now in front of lincolns home. Today is a 93 of our accountant in front of us secretary state. And we are at a 60 of our 247 and cameron also in front of is really embassy. And we are so proud to have been one by so many students, many of whom are currently camping in this yard right here. That had been with us from the beginning and we are here to show solidarity. We are here to support the students movements. It is extremely powerful when students start to step up and say we are no longer afraid to risk our careers. We are not afraid to speak the truth and we are going to put the apply put into application everything that were learning about in textbooks. That the school somehow are so afraid of them to do, and thats why people go to school. They go to school to learn Critical Thinking to learn how to hopefully make the world a better place. And the fact that its being stopped is ludicrous, and a lot of the criticism has been to give cranks youre. Youre representing, you, minority view that you had trouble because the un submitted nothing was seen much evidence that any of that here. But do you genuinely feel a shift in american Public Opinion driven by the young people . I definitely feel a shift weve been on the streets now. You know, its a collective group for a 100 and today is 87 days. And when we started, we were getting a lot more vile commentary, a lot of just disgusting rhetoric, being called terrorist race. This rape is i have been called so many things been spent on been slapped. And what were seeing now is more and more people saying, i wish i knew more, your presence, your persistence people being on the streets is encouraging us to wherever we want to know why you are so in range. And why do you feel so passionately to put your lives on pause to do this full time . And thats making people curious. It makes people want to go and learn more about whats happening. The calls of, you know, people being answer somebody, i have not been on a single protest where people have been saying things that are anti semitic. I think the treatment is ation of the palestinian people, the documentation of activism, the dehumanization of people calling for justice and freedom for all needs to end. It needs to stop and we are hoping that, you know, we will continue to put pressure to and that by showing who we are showing the true faces of peace and love and justice. Im afraid for free human human rights activists. For a long time, you see any problems here with 60, with the, you know, the protests that helped drive in the vietnam war. Even though the 1918 the absolutely. I think what were seeing now is the endurance of the movement. Were seeing, you know, they waited for us to try or out. We are currently in the epicenter of what is enabling and supporting israels crimes. The United States of america, specifically washington dc. And so many people that occupied the buildings all around us are benefiting and have been benefiting financially economically, socially, politically, from their support and endorsement of israels crimes in atrocities over the last 76 years. And i think what were seeing now is that people are saying were no longer willing to accept it. Were no longer willing for that to be the status quote and the norm. And were seeing a huge shift in Public Opinion of people actually saying that im not afraid to be called an answer so much because i know i am not one. I know i am not one, im not sure if this happening and its very important specifically in places like washington, you see where, you know, the city polls, people that are interested in policy, the city polls, people that are interested in human rights that are interested in philanthropy in the various institutions and unfortunately, we are seeing our way to dominate design as audiology that do not humanize palestinians. And our fight for freedom, injustice, or fight is not one that should be controversial. And we see in vietnam, and you see, you know, for, from all these other protest movements, its when the masses start to stop allowing the judgement is ation of our causes. When we start to own our power and step into it, when we start to say that we are willing to sacrifice our security, our freedom are no comfort to say enough. This needs to end enough. Thats when the started start to change. Because when you start to have insurance, i know for a fact they were waiting for us to tire out. I know for a fact weve heard that repeatedly from secret service during our protests. Oh, im sure you guys will be gone next week. Oh, im sure 3 weeks we sat through the snow through the rain, through the hail, through the wind, through the flooding, through it all, and were not going anywhere. I know youre incredibly busy, i appreciate your time. Thanks very much indeed for your time. What is interesting is, well, and the last couple of hours, the academic lectures at George Washington and other schools around the washington area. Ive sent a joint link to, to the heads of those universities. Seeing that they want to make sure that free speech like were seeing here is protected on College Campuses because thats what the teach most of the time. Im free speech, of course, as we try and right there in the Us Constitution in the 1st amendment. Absolutely, alan say so, reporting from washington d. C. Thank you very much. Were going to the west coast now rob rentals join us from u. C. L a. The unit University California los angeles. Youre on their campus. Whats going on there . A well, behind me there is a very large encampment which has been set up by students and faculty and others. Its been here for several days now. And i would like to just step aside for a 2nd and allow our cameraman and keen suff gary to uh, to get out of view. As you can see, its pretty extensive. There are hundreds of people here, lots and lots of tents. And also its very, very peaceful and very, very well organized there are, uh, uh, facilities, sanitary facilities, water and food being provided a medical 10th and so forth and so on. And its quite a jarring contrast from the scene that i saw myself on wednesday at the university of Southern California and the other side of town where the Los Angeles Police department was invited in interest of 90. 3 students for trespassing, a very heavy handed response to student protests. In this case, the administration has taken a different tack. There are Campus Security officers here, but theyre just circulating around on bicycles and on foot. Theyre not uh, harassing the students or taking any moves to break up the protests. So who are the people who are protesting here . Well, id like to bring in one of the protest organizers, kiasha ties to step right in here. Thats great. Perfect. Um, thank you for speaking with us. Id like to start by asking you what are the demands of the protesters here at u. C. L a . Yeah, thank you so much for having us. Our number one dime, it demand is divestment, and you feel like is currently invested in corporations that are actively profiting off of the genocide in gaza. And we demand that they thought it best for nice corporations. We also demand transparency. We are not sure where my majority of our money is going because there is no requirement for the use the for you still have to be transparent about our and down us. We are demanding that they stop policing and surveilling pro palestinian activism on campus. We also want them to and, and their silence. We are demanding you, celebrates their silence. Acknowledges the ongoing genocide and gaza addresses their complicity and, and call for an immediate cease fire. Lastly, we are demanding that you tell a boy costs to study abroad programs in israel. And what if anything, has been the response from the university administration. They are you in dialogue with them . I have not heard anything from