secretary, thank you so much forjoining us on bbc news. you ve written it today s decision was that the country back decades. what impact do you think it will have on couege you think it will have on college admissions? look, i think the decision today took away a very important tool that university leaders use to ensure diversity on campus. students learn best in a diverse learning environment and the supreme court decision took that tool away. however, what it didn t take away is the intent to ensure leaders across the country, that our colleges are made up of beautifully diverse students, much like our country is. let s talk about that intent because the president, as we know, strongly disagrees with the court s decision and he has instructed you to look at ways to look at ways to ensure that student bodies remain diverse. what will you be looking at? as the president said earlier today, we won t let the decision be the last word. look, we re committed more than ever. as a
european convention of human rights of which the judgment was based. good evening. there are 40,000 police officers deployed across france tonight, ready to deal with a possible third night of protests and violence. the trouble started when police shot dead a 17 year old boy in a suburb of paris on tuesday. the officer who shot the boy is facing an investigation for voluntary homicide. last night, 170 officers were injured in clashes and 180 people were arrested. president macron has appealed for calm, especially in those cities where clashes have taken place, including lille, lyon and toulouse. but the biggest trouble has been in paris and in the suburb of nanterre, where the teenager, named as nahel, was killed. there was more violence earlier today during a march led by nahel s mother. the prospect of further rioting has led to the closure of the city s bus and tram services. our paris correspondent lucy williamson has the latest. in nanterre today, thousands gathered to m
decision be the last word. we cannot let this decision be the last word. earlier, i had the chance to speak to former governor of massachusetts and former us assistant attorney general for civil rights, deval patrick. it s great to have you on bbc news. the court said in its majority opinion that both of these programmes at harvard and north carolina unavoidably employed race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping and lack of meaningful endpoints. what do you think of that argument? well, i think that it s disappointing but not surprising. there is a right way and a wrong way to do affirmative action, or at least that s what the inaudible has had for a long time. the wrong way involves quotas and set asides and that kind of numeric and wooden programme. the right way, at least until today, we thought, was to take race or ethnicity into account, alongside preparation and achievement and grit and potential and the very kinds of things that contribute to composing rea
only to highlight the court s own impotence in the fact of an america whose cries for equality resound. meanwhile, presidentjoe biden called the ruling a severe disappointment. here s more of what he had to say: i believe that while talent, creativity and hard work everywhere in the country, not equal opportunity. it is not everywhere in this country. we can t let the decision be the last word. earlier i spoke to us secretary of education miguel cardona on the impact of today s decision. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. you ve written today puzzling decision was that the country back decades.- country back decades. what im act country back decades. what impact do country back decades. what impact do you country back decades. what impact do you think - country back decades. what impact do you think it ll - country back decades. what| impact do you think it ll have couege impact do you think it ll have college admissions? physicians today took away a very important
the paris suburb of non terre that s where the fatal shooting of a 17 year old boy by police took place on tuesday which triggered unrest. there ve also been disturbances with police in the southern city of mar say. at least 100 people have been arrested. in the past hour, we ve learned that the policeman who shot nahel has apologised to his family while in custody. lucy williamson reports. in nanterre today, thousands gathered to mark the void left by one local teenager and the rage that flowed in to fill it. the violence here last night still mapped onto the surrounding streets in ash and debris. nahel s mother leading a chant of police assassins. evan came from a suburb on the other side of paris but the problems there were just the same, he said. translation: we don t have jobs, we don t get hired - if we don t lie on our cv. there is nothing for us. we feel abandoned. and on top of that we get attacked by the people supposed to protect us. this is one offence too man