Back on campus: Biden condemns 'violent' protestors
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Response to student protests across the US have escalated to violence this week, with students clashing, and arrests now exceeding 1,000.
We hear from students and BBC colleagues from across the States.
And the Americast team speaks to Niall Ferguson, historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, about how universities are responding to protests. HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent
GUEST: • Niall Ferguson, historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University
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This episode was made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray and Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Hannah Montgommery. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm an English major. |
| 0:07.0 | Please, don't fail us. |
| 0:09.0 | People are already telling us. That voice you heard there was a student at UCLA, the University of California, |
| 0:18.8 | Los Angeles, who was talking to the media as he was being taken away by the police who came in, handcuffed |
| 0:25.4 | and arrested over 100 students early this morning, Thursday, the second of me. This has been happening on campuses right across America as I'm sure |
| 0:39.8 | you're aware we were talking about it on last week's podcast but it keeps going and so we're |
| 0:45.8 | talking about it again I'm in New York where the police came in just over 24 |
| 0:51.2 | hours ago and cleared out a building at the University of Columbia's campus that had been occupied by students who barricaded themselves in there. |
| 0:59.4 | We've seen similar scenes happening from Wisconsin to Texas. So instead of talking about the |
| 1:05.1 | Supreme Court as we were going to today, these protests over Gaza are just |
| 1:09.3 | not going away and we can't ignore them either. In it's all ratcheting up so welcome to |
| 1:14.6 | America on campus once again. |
| 1:17.0 | This is the New York City Police Department. You have been warned as we're City College |
| 1:21.4 | for leaving the campus if you refuse to leave you |
| 1:23.8 | many placed under arrest. |
| 1:28.6 | America. |
| 1:28.9 | America. America. |
| 1:29.6 | America. |
| 1:31.0 | Let me start off with two herbs. |
| 1:33.0 | Made in America. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm not running for sainthood here. |
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