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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 15th of April.

The Trump administration says it's freezing more than $2 billion of funding for Harvard.

At least six prisons in France have been attacked overnight, with one hit by gunfire.

And after two years of

civil war in Sudan, we report from one of the worst hit cities. Also in this podcast, China

accuses three US national security agents of cyber attacks and... We can't continue our education.

I studied English privately for three years but poverty forced me to stop when every door closed i came here carpet weaving was all that was left the girls in

afghanistan forced to take up carpet weaving.

Along with immigrants, law firms and trading partners,

US universities have been caught up in President Trump's efforts to radically reshape the world.

Some of America's most prestigious seats of learning have been accused of left-wing bias and not doing enough to stop anti-Semitism. Some, such as Colombia, have caved

into the administration. But Harvard is standing firm, rejecting demands to audit the views of its

students and shut down diversity programs. No government, regardless of which party is in power,

should dictate what private universities can teach,

the Harvard president said in a statement.

Now, the US government has hit back freezing $2.2 billion in grants.

David Armitage, professor of history at Harvard,

spoke to my colleague, Rob Young.

It's a not unexpected act of entirely groundless and vengeful activity by the Trump administration,

which wants nothing more than to silence freedom of speech, in particular academic freedom,

and is making Harvard University, like some

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