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a second red weather warning for the north east of scotland from midnight tonight. fiona lamdin reports from brechin, north of dundee where people had to leave their homes because of flooding. in the dark, they hadn t realised just how deep it was. the south esk river burst its banks in brechin around four in the morning. 70 year old muriel has lived here for 20 years. last night, she was adamant she wasn t leaving. i heard the water in the garage of our house, and this is how close we ve got to escaping in our car, which is a hybrid, but we thought for a horrible moment we were trapped in it, because we couldn t get the doors open. we feel rescued now. david and isla and their beloved spaniels were sheltering in their attic before help came. we all came out through the bedroom window. i ve been up in the attic since five o clock, basically, since the water started coming into the house. this is still very much an ongoing operation. these teams have so far rescued aro ....
to the press, and they had some very light media training, you know, just teaching them how not to get tripped up. and if you can imagine, the press are kept outside the campus in this huge line and are let in at a certain time. you have 100 journalists swarming this encampment, and you have six or seven students just trying to field all these requests, journalists fighting over them. so that was one of the things that they learned from 68, wasjust this discipline of message, making sure they say the right things and their words couldn t be twisted. i saw that some high profile journalists in america have been criticising the protesters for not speaking to media outlets. it sounds to me like it was easy for you to speak to the people who d been designated, but you couldn tjust go around asking other students to talk to you. or did you try that? i wonder what your take is on what people are saying about that. i was turned down a couple of times, but it s completely u ....
outfits worn by many celebrities. we ll talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. let s start with the campus protests in the us. reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and we re going to talk it through with journalists who ve been on the ground. but before we meet them, let s remind ourselves what s been unfolding over the past month. so, these protests started at columbia university in new york in mid april. according to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. according to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. and the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. now, in some locations, police have been sent in, not least at columbia university in new york, and that was seen as being hugely significant, not least because it s the first time there have ....
outfits worn by many celebrities. we ll talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. let s start with the campus protests in the us. reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and we re going to talk it through with journalists who ve been on the ground. but before we meet them, let s remind ourselves what s been unfolding over the past month. so, these protests started at columbia university in new york in mid april. according to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. according to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. and the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. now, in some locations, police have been sent in, not least at columbia university in new york, and that was seen as being hugely significant, not least because it s the first time there have ....
i imagine you may have seen the photos of the extraordinary outfits worn by many celebrities. we ll talk to one journalist about the challenges of covering it. let s start with the campus protests in the us. reporting them is creating a challenge for us journalism, and we re going to talk it through with journalists who ve been on the ground. but before we meet them, let s remind ourselves what s been unfolding over the past month. so, these protests started at columbia university in new york in mid april. according to a bbc tally, there have now been demonstrations at nearly 140 colleges across 45 states and washington, dc, too. according to the ap news agency, around 2,500 people have been arrested at campuses across the us. and the protesters are demanding a number of things, including that their colleges financially divest from israel. now, in some locations, police have been sent in, not least at columbia university in new york, and that was seen as being hugely si ....