Rival protestors clash at Los Angeles university
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
UCLA is the latest US university campus to be hit by clashes between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and their opponents. The American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken pushes to get more aid into Gaza, while urging Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal. Why are women footballers more likely to get injured during their periods? And remembering Paul Auster, the American author who's died at the age of 77.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 1st of May, |
| 0:10.2 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.9 | Violence has erupted at a university in Los Angeles |
| 0:15.0 | between pro-Palestinian protesters and a rival group supporting Israel. |
| 0:19.0 | The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin has met Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel after accusing |
| 0:25.5 | Hamas of being the only remaining obstacle to a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 0:30.5 | And we'll hear from an Iraqi man whose young daughter died last week as their family tried to reach Britain in an overcrowded boat. |
| 0:37.0 | Also in this podcast, the lucky teenager in Australia who caught a million dollar fish and... |
| 0:46.3 | They do the dangerous things for us, they take the hits. |
| 0:49.2 | When you understand what they're risking personally and physically, it only deepens your appreciation for what they're risking personally and physically it only deepens your appreciation |
| 0:54.3 | for what they do. |
| 0:55.3 | Actor Ryan Gosling on his new film The Fall Guy and a growing appreciation of Stumpman. We begin in the United States. |
| 1:07.0 | Free Palestine! |
| 1:09.0 | Watch out, what's out! Universities across the US have been gripped by protests |
| 1:16.8 | as students demand a boycott of companies and individuals with ties to Israel. |
| 1:21.6 | In a moment we'll be hearing from New York where overnight |
| 1:24.9 | police arrested dozens of protesters but first to Los Angeles and the |
| 1:29.6 | UCLA campus. As we record this podcast, police are on the scene. |
| 1:34.8 | Pro-Palestinian protesters have been confronted by counter-demonstrators supporting Israel. |
| 1:40.4 | A local journalist, Sergio Olmos, spoke to the BBC's Lucy Hawkins from the scene. |
| 1:45.6 | Police are holding a line just outside of the encampment. They've swept the area |
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