Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navas. On the news hour tonight

students occupy a Columbia University building as protests against the war in Gaza

spread to more college campuses.

The Federal Appeals Court rules that state health care plans in North Carolina

and West Virginia must pay for transgender related care.

And a look at a university in Rwanda, working to end inequalities by educating the next generation of health care providers.

Young people with the heart, the brain, in the hands to practice medicine in that order should be given the opportunity to do so. Welcome to the news hour.

Protests took a dramatic turn at Columbia University overnight

when some pro-Palestinian students occupied a building on campus.

Occupations have taken place at other campuses too.

In California today, police arrested 25 protesters at California State Polytechnic

University who had taken over a building for about a week and shut down the campus.

A similar occupation was in its fourth day at Portland State University and

protesters at the University of North Carolina took down a US flag and replaced it

with a Palestinian one. For its part, Columbia said it will expel those occupying

its facilities. Early this morning, protesters at Columbia University linked arms and barricaded the entrance of Hamilton Hall.

From the inside activists, piled chained up doors and smashed windows.

The same building has been occupied by demonstrators in decades past,

including over the Vietnam War and later against apartheid in South Africa.

This time though protesters unfurled a banner and dedicated the building to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old who died in Israel's war against Hamas.

Murdered!

Inhazah!

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