This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Rachel Wright and in the early hours of Thursday the 25th of April,

these are our main stories.

As pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread across US university campuses,

the US House Speaker demands protests must stop.

President Zelensky welcomes the long-awaited US aid package to Ukraine.

We ask how likely it is to change events on the ground.

Also in this podcast, Portugal's surprise Mayor Kupa as it says it wants to take

full responsibility for its involvement in the slave trade and...

And he said, did you go to the Allen grammar school in Liverpool,

I go, yeah, he says,

James, it's me Colin,

and we just feel we've got so much catching up to do.

How reconnecting with old friends is not always easy.

The ripples of the Israel-Palestinian conflict have spread across the world causing massive

demonstrations in capital cities throughout Europe but in the US it's taken on a new

dimension with protests at universities across the country.

On Wednesday, pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police at universities in Texas and California.

And at Columbia University in New York where more than a hundred

students were arrested at a protest encampment last week the House Speaker Mike

Johnson said the protests must end.

Sadly Columbia's administrators have chosen to let the threats, the fear,

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