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After 2am local time. Lets hear from our correspondent Helena Humphrey who is at the ucla campus live for us. Police have breached the perimeter of the encampment. More police potentially waiting to go in but this is what they will have to get through, you can see the reinforcements from the barricades as protesters anxiously survey the scene and on the other side we have seen images of protesters with Makeshift Riot Shields, essentially, which police are coming up against. From the images we have seen so far police getting into the perimeter and we do not know if arrests are taking place but clearly that is what the authorities have been telling people, leave Orface Arrest. There has been a trickle of students or demonstrators, people inside the encampment leaving and ten or 15 minutes ago we heard what was either a firework or a flash bang, something lighting up the sky momentarily stunning the crowd and there is the sense this operation is under way. And we will continue to monitor
Morning with kasie hunt. Next its thursday, may 2, right now on standing this morning, Breaking News Protesters at ucla refusing to leave a standoff on campus as police have moved in donald trump back on the Campaign Trail and two critical states before heading back to new york for his Hush Money Trial Today and Marjorie Taylor greene daring democrats to stop her from forcing a vote to oust speaker mike johnson. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, this is a live look at the ucla campus where it is 2 00 a. M. The middle of the night, basically good morning to those of you who are here on the east coast. Good evening to those watching out west. Im kasie hunt its great to be with you this morning. We do have Breaking News right now. Police have now entered the makeshift propalestinian encampment at ucla, and theres been a standoff between police and protesters going on all night long after demonstrators were ordered to leave and refused. Police have been surrounding the encampment for hours no
Going to start in the us. Protests over the war in gaza have come to a head, with angry and sometimes violent scenes at campuses on both the east and west coasts. Take a look at these pictures. These are clashes at the university of california, los angeles campus. This was the early hours of wednesday morning, just a a few moments ago. A pro palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. There have been clashes between the two sides. These pictures are not live but we have been watching these pictures over the last couple of hours as they have been fed into us here at the bbc. Violence escalated around 11pm here at the bbc. Violence escalated around pm local time. It is now a around pm local time. It is now a a few hours after that. These are some of the most recent pictures we have. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about what has happened on campus. From 10. 50 this
Two years ago. 0ur correspondent, henry zeffman, explained the difference between the schemes. Its not what weve been talking about for the last couple of years. This is a rwanda scheme, but its not the rwanda scheme. The government for two years, under three Prime Ministers and more Home Secretaries than i can count, has been committed to forcibly relocating people who arrive in the uk in small boats across the English Channel to rwanda. What happened on monday was not that. It was a separate scheme, which weve only known about for a couple of months, whereby they want to offer, and, crucially, that is the word offer people whove applied for asylum here but been rejected the opportunity to move to rwanda should they wish and to do so, the government is willing to pay them up to £3,000. And, on monday, according to the sun newspaper, that happened for the first time. So, a man who had made an Asylum Application here, which had been rejected, was paid around £3,000 by the government t