Moving troops to the border with hong kong. Everyone should be calm and safe. This is coming as thousands of antigovernment protesters took over the airports massive departure and arrival halls, grounding flights now for the secondstraight day with riot police literally at the front door. Paramedics tried to push their way through to get to one man who protesters accused of being an Undercover Police officer. Some people reportedly hitting him as he just sat there lying on the ground. He lost consciousness and he was eventually evacuated. Right at the airport entrance, there were police in full riot gear. Protesters used luggage carts to try to keep them out. And at one point, fullblown clashes broke out. Some demonstrators and Police Fought each other, handtohand, protesters hitting an officer with his own baton. All of this as passengers have been arriving at the airport for their flights. There have been scenes of angry passengers confronting demonstrators furious, because they cant
An influx of migrant students enrolling in the state's public schools poses logistical and financial challenges as educators work to meet the students' needs.
University students are getting value for money, say lecturers – at least, academically
While calls for university refunds get louder, teaching staff are not happy to take the blame for a mis-sold experience
5 March 2021 • 11:00am
Zoomed out: Edinburgh University students protest in the light of the Covid -19 pandemic
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If you’d have told psychology lecturer Dr Wendy Garnham she’d have 100 per cent attendance for her 9am student seminar this year, she’d have fallen off her chair in surprise. And yet, possibly because they have so little else going on, this term her students are livelier and more punctual than ever - and all of them online.
his comments raised eyebrows. this is what he said: the reality is the russians are where they are, they have a shrinking population base, a withering economy, a banking sector that is not likely able to withstand the next 15 years. they re clinging to something in the past that is not sustainle. is he speaking for the president and is the message essentially that the u.s. has the upper hand when it s dealing with russia? no and i don t think that s at all what the vice president meant. remember the vice president was the first person in the administration in an important speech which he gave in munich, germany shortly after president obama s inauguration that we wanted to reset or relationship with russia. and we know that that s not easily done. it takes time, it takes trust building and we want what the president called for during his recent moscow summit. we want a strong, peaceful and prosperous russia. and so there is an enormous amount of hard work being done and we
reporter: kennedy has come back to vote several times since his diagnosis but it s been three months since the last return of the senator from massachusetts. president obama has set a new deadline. he now wants a health care reform bill he can sign into law by the end of the year, a job made much more difficult by the absence of the issue s top advocate on capitol hill. john hendren, abc news, washington. a health scare forced french president nicholas sarkozy to go to the hospital. he was jogging and collapsed. he never lost consciousness and tests performed were normal. a friend says sarkozy is, quote, doing well. the thorny issue of jewish settlements in the west bank is on the agenda this week as george mitchell travels to that region. mitchell opened a new round of peace evidents yesterday but he s also working to settle differences between the u.s. and israel over settlements. president obama has called for a halt in the construction. here at home that proposed