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🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS |
0:06.0 | PBS News Weekend, the future of non-compete agreements after the Federal Trade Commission votes to ban the practice. |
0:13.2 | Then Ecuador, once known as a major tourist attraction, |
0:16.5 | is now a hotbed for violence and turf wars. |
0:20.2 | And a new book explores the history of climate change, |
0:23.5 | uncertainty about the future of our planet, |
0:25.9 | and a dose of hope for saving it. |
0:28.3 | We can choose to deal with it as constructively and wisely and as intelligently as possible, |
0:35.0 | or we can throw up our hands or alternatively put our heads in the sand, |
0:40.0 | and it will still come at us. Good evening. I'm John Yang. Today some universities moved to |
0:57.8 | shut down protests over the Israel-Hamas War as students in other schools dug in and vowed to keep their demonstrations |
1:04.4 | going. In Northeastern University in Boston officers in riot gear cleared an |
1:09.2 | encampment without incident and arrested more than 100 protesters for trespassing and disorderly |
1:14.4 | conduct. School officials said what they called professional organizers |
1:18.5 | had infiltrated the demonstration and that anti-Semitic slurs had been used. |
1:23.0 | Students disputed all that and said the slurs came from what they called counter-protesters. |
1:28.0 | At other schools, including the University of Pittsburgh, |
1:31.0 | students and they intended to keep their peaceful demonstrations |
1:33.7 | going at least until Monday. |
1:35.9 | At Columbia University, students press their demand that the school divest from corporations |
1:40.7 | and institutions, they say say support Israel. |
1:43.8 | You have the power to end this tomorrow. |
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