Across the country. Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at the university of Southern California in los angeles. At the university of texas in austin, the governor sent in State Troopers in riot gear to confront demonstrators who waved Palestinian Flags and chanted free palestine. These demonstrations have spread since the arrest last week of more than a hundred protesters at Columbia University in new york sparking debates about free speech and the right to protest. Our west coast correspondent emma vardy sent this update from the university of Southern California in los angeles. Protesters arrived here on campus around eight oclock this morning. They have stayed for much of the day. Earlier on tents put up by protesters, police asking them to take those down, that led to some scuffles and clashes between protesters and Campus Police here. One person was detained but we understand they were released pretty quickly. In the hours that followed the protest here in los ang
Closer ties between the eu and china thats the aim. The leaders are meeting at at summit in brussels later hoping to counter president trumps stance on trade and Climate Change. Brazil is expected to announce that its economy is growing for the First Time Since 2014 but could that be overshadowed by the latest political crisis . Well look at whether that could threaten the return to growth. Welcome to World Business report. Im ben bland. In a minute well find out why today is a big day for pakaistans stock market. But first, the eu and china will attempt to deepen ties at a summit later. There is concern among some about the direction taken by us President Donald Trump on trade and Climate Change. Chinese premier li keqiang will meet European Council president donald tusk and European Commission head jean claude juncker. They are hoping to come up with an answer to Donald Trumps America First challenge. Trade in goods between the eu and china is worth well over 1. 5 billion euros a day
should be ashamed of themselves. how do you react to that rhetoric. i ll summarize what the president was saying. essentially folks like you who were in positions of forming trade policy in the past didn t have the country s best interests in mind. well, obviously, i disagree, and i think both republican and democratic administrations for a long time have been working on these issues that made some progress on them. the real issue here is, the president is right that there is a problem with overcapacity of steel and aluminum production in the world. much of that problem can be traced back to china. the policy he s gone down the road with, though, doesn t actually hit china very directly. it hits a lot of our allies and partners but doesn t really deal with the china issue. and it makes it more difficult to get the other countries to cooperate with us to put pressure on china to reduce its overcapacity in this area. so i think he is right and his administration is right to be focuse