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are presided over by the president vladimir putting in and this year was certainly no different the. d over 9000 that personnel from the country's military took part in the parade at overseen by the defense minister survey, shall i go? and then the russian president took the stage where he delivered a speech that lasted about 9 minutes, during which he called the state a sacred today. this is of course, 79 years since the red army, the soviet army defeated nazi germany in 1945, during which time at least 27000000 russians, both military and civilian personnel lost their lives at. so it's very significant in this country's history, and that is exactly what vladimir putting has use over the past 3 military victory day parades during his speech to enlist that sense of a national identity that is intertwined with this day to highlight how important it
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is for russians to remain steadfast. he said that this is of the period in the country that is very difficult and milestone period, and that's the face of the homeland depends on each of us. certainly using this opportunity to also highlights the fact that the military personnel fighting and you crate in the so called special military operation, are considered to be heroes in russia. and that all of the country is behind a lot of report and also had warnings for the west. he said that even though russia does not want a clash at the behavior, and the rhetoric coming from the west is one that is trying to in sites further conflict to me while rochester has at least 8 people have been injured in a ukrainian attack on the boulder, city of belgrade, the governor of the regions that strikes damage more than 50 apartments on buildings as well as cause. ukraine's repeatedly a time found cut out since russian forces invaded in february 2022 russians. defense ministry assassins destroyed 15 ukrainian rockets and drums in several
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regions. chinese president changing things and hungry on the final install of a 0 p and visit fables repeatedly saved. and for the past 55 minutes of victor, oregon, oregon has came to maintain good ties because china is invested nearly $10000000000.00 in manufacturing construction projects in hungary. north macedonia is nationalist opposition. policy is one parliamentary elections in a landslide victory. supporters have been celebrating in the capital scorpion, the building social democrats, consider defeat, therefore official results for the next ones likely to put a hold integration with the incoming prime minister as christian, the horseman is refusing to move on several issues. bottom line is next on robotics and spring with us on options here. the there's a next generation in the united states. they're not happy with what is happening in
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gaza. they're not happy with the u. s. foreign policy and that's why they're trying to make their voices heard. the administrators of each university really have a choice to either escalate and calling police be confrontational, or to actually listen to what their concerns are. city stream of people being arrested, placed in the zip tie and cops and taken away many of the purchases we've talked to have said they will continue protesting until their demands are met. a hi, i'm steve clements and i have a question across the united states. why are the student protests for palestine being met with military style crackdowns? let's get to the bottom line. the from los angeles to boston and dozens of college campuses in between. students have been peacefully expressing their solidarity with the palestinian people on their college
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campuses. after months of watching israel pulverized gauze into rubble and dusk, but this week, the administrations of several universities called on police forces to break up the demonstrations and tear apart student encampments. more than 2000 students have been detained and a countless number of been injured, suspended, or banned from setting foot on campus. graduation ceremonies have been cancelled, and president joe biden has weighed in implying that the demonstrations are anti semitic and basically reducing the protests to an issue of law and order. but is it that simple, or is it linked to the american tradition of youth movements that start against the vietnam war in the 19 sixty's, a part hide south african, the 1980s, and supported black lives matter just a few years ago. today we'll start with 2 student leaders at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, jacob, and harsh, and thank you both for joining us today. let me, let me ask you both, and i'll start with jacob. what are you trying to achieve in,
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in these protests right now, what does this mean to you personally? and then we'd love to hear the same from harsha. yeah, and the so we 1st and foremost want to end the genocide that is relative inflicting amount of cost and in people's tens of thousands of pounds. the needs of emerg by $0.11 to a by the united states government. and our us not just our government, and that is, but it is our institution, it is the university. i'm not sure why that is also be complicit because it is invested in the state of israel. and so our demand for campus is 1st and foremost, financial disclosure and trans guarantee, so that we can actually see how the university isn't about. and it's my cell is 2 boys, all the valley products there is but the image and assignments. and so the patient and a part time and then finally be needing full. they've asked me for the state of israel, jacob, jacob, real quick. why did this become such a personal issue for you that your risking your academic standing, your risking being arrested? what, what about this issue resonated for you personally?
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it comes into play just being in the united states and but listening this and see how them my tax dollars. and they are going to fund the sites and want to find out the patient and a part time also because binds us and my and they are using judaism or their weapon, actually my religion to come in massachusetts. so those are like, personally what we're letting me do this to this. thank you. a harsh i'm. i would love to hear what's motivating you at this moment. yeah, i think a big thing for me has to be frustrated and i have a feeling living in the united states. the yes, the city honestly just how political by this country seems so vast and supporting israel despite it's brian, you know, the 2 weeks ago or because you go and then the paragraphs, i think 49. so 49 percent, i think is really the beginning of genocide. only 90. it's way over 21 percent thing is there is not meaning a genocide and then the rest of the insurance. so if you just look into that right,
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base bar or more than the thing that is really is to me thinking genocide versus does it go? yeah, the way to go in congress and the bill of sending $70000000000.00 is relative continues genocide. we saw 4750. you democrats have decided that you bought, assigned it. and the majority of democrats live in the house. uh, so we see this disconnected. well, with the americans. i think it where a lot of americans are saying is media genocide of the cross out of the openness. yeah. so happy to be listed in those 5. you want to make, we want to be like this, like our, our ality is more important than our own academic success. we will not sell a reality for us to ship or, or a government that is willing to sell it. so and then i just added that like our sacrifices are so minor compared to like what other people are making that like we are, i completely ran to do whatever it takes to get these demands. and that,
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and he will not stop until our demands are not. and until that we see the sea and housing and freedom in house. and you know, the reason i'm just interested, are you seeing violence? are you seeing anti semitic groups as part of your movement? i mean, tell us what that texture looks like. yeah, yeah. i can, i can take this, the only violence that we see is the violence by the police and against us. we are peaceful. we were just edited cabinet. we or e sign, the coordinates of the university that we did was have a sense of law. and the only bias that occurred is when the police officers brutally rated the incoming call people cabinets of the ground. one of us was there strongly with this located. they ran across the ground and subjected to the brutal treatment, the really the only findings that receive it on the edge of the police. and also the professors because behind the police guessing what kind of weight is, what are the chancellor the chancellor every minute or 3 days out there at the police are pushing people over straight. afraid people with the type of sprint and
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tapping people in wheelchairs, wheelchairs right behind this lineup police doing this, but horrible riddle. refreshing is our chancellor or cancel the be find him. are people holding the is fairly flat and holding a mirror back. and with that, the only violence is the university is the police and is the counter professors. and i just want to say one more thing because you asked about insects. i'm just, i'm and i just wanna say that i and yours. and i had never once witnessed nor experienced any anti semitism, because movies are costing you literally say, we are a little bit for democracy for quality, for justice probably seems to be telling me no thanks a patriot at our intent meant we have to box services. we have many jewish people, their menu us, the c p and all the organizations argues, and that they are choosing us. that'd be facebook, which isn't, isn't barley ridiculous, bother me up, certainly bleeding boss. and the reason that they're doing this is because they are
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trying to silence us. they are going to suppress our movements, and they are kind of near us and they submitted and they're writing this whole thing about it. and this is maxine washington, you're just using this, the field is helping criticism and i want to say that right and type in place sign is a, is not at this time, is that right? hold up. thank you. harsh him. i want to ask you an unfair question. what is different about this moment? we're all of a sudden it college campuses across the united states. palestine is front page above the fold and it's got the attention of the nation in a way i've never seen in my life. and i just the basic way here. first of all, i say uh, is there a i've just gone like, you know, i think is relatively close a as in committing atrocities for 75 years. it's never gospel. this is just to you for so that they feel empowered because they've been propelled by years, the never being busted for their actions. and it's just, i think that every,
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so we're sending okay, would draw the line of assets. but now we have, we can see information organizer that seems information and we get a very different way and we are seeing what's happening on the ground. and gosh, we see what's happening. and i think in the past that was always, she was by a certain, by a media perspective, whether or not because it was kind of stuff. right. i want to play a clip for you of former president donald trump commenting about all of you and get your reaction. let's listen to every college rosen and i say remove the in tap and so immediately vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all as a normal one, a safe place from which to learn. that was former president, maybe future president, donald trump. what are your reactions to that and what is his? how does his notion of normally students compare to the 2 of you passion of the people who they disagree with,
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but really it's just students standing up against the dentist. i mean, it was really fun. i rally a bunch of a bunch of people around and development started can suggest like joe genocide, joe, he saw and looks back at things there beside him. and he said, they're not, they're not at all. so the things that joe was forwarding address, i based on wednesday based on what he said, is that right? yeah, he's mad that we're progressing in genocide like make bad excess. so, you know, i to using and i also don't really care what the things you've been doing for all i can, but it isn't using that they just try and use this. do i have to get his base, you know, right. oh, yeah. and i want, besides that our movement is a mass and doesn't mean it is so popular on campus. we had our own cabinet. at one point we had those, the 1500 people. this is so popular and how well and so many students on campus were getting involved. so we're not the minority. we are the majority of students were committed to deliveries and of allison. and you can see this by how many
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people turned out to support us. and by yes, all, and then all the community supported and yeah, it is, it is really upsetting to say that this is like some sort of french thing. we represent the majority here. yeah. i like to go go ahead. yeah, the way that we are destructing operations and this fall, i think you're just the 2nd of all the parts of those. but those in power needs to be accessible in the process. but all of their saw, i knew that they took that off a cabinet, but it'd be built as the be and use barricade barricade where that was. so no one can use that space either way. the long campus right now, the walk in the middle of this red zone, they have a record, the student barricades all around and all around is black to protect the american class and there are no 6. it is humorous everywhere. there are security lights everywhere. there was
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a minor resistance. uh but uh on vehicle romeo ranch campus. yeah. let me ask you just finally and very quickly as you see yourselves and you see your campus in the future, are you going to see any ability of people who are on different sides of this equation and feel differently in this moment? able to sit down and engage in civil discourse, engage in education, about this moment. i'm happy to sit down with the degree with but there's a lot of if you're supporting this, i am not interested in talking to you. you know, definitely that's like it. asking us like, oh, would you like to sit down with white menaces or do you not these on campus? no, it's not big enough people i'm interested in speaking to in there are people who, you know, disagree with the same. what is it is. ready is for david, those people, but there is what is the just and forgivable and you know, if we can move past the care for the best that will because it's usually jacob,
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i'll give you the last word. but i would like to say one final thing to a chance or cancel or cancel it leave, or it's that it's on you history. well, now remember, you can find history. remember you for your powerless trigger, an absence, and for your complexity in portable atrocities and crimes against humanity. and also i want to add it. i just need to know this, and i've also because you're choosing us again for someone to them. i just want to stay there, but i want you to take my limit of your man's well hi simon jacob with students for justice in palestine at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. thank you so much for being with us. it appreciate it. thank you. and now we turned to michelle, the golf professor of linguistics at the massachusetts institute of technology. dr . digraph. thank you so much for joining us today. your campus is now one of the other many campus, nearly a 100 campuses in the united states that having cabinets and protests right now
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about what's happening in gaza. what are you seeing right now at mit in cambridge? massachusetts actually disconnects that. i just heard this sound is almost exactly like goes back, but i know at the might see the can reduce to them. and i myself, i can think about this put in to put test it gets identified. i feel about being, are the moral can fit into moral compass about tennessee physically and i truly, in october of last year, i've been inspired and haughton by then i really think that gets the 3 moment in the history of us higher education actually giving you health and encouragement inspired by the student that we just heard a few, n b, but those right here. and just to me at the, at the might be a doctor to graphing you have just written a letter to the president of m i t,
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your employer in boss basically challenging her framing of these protests. and just in short form, you will have implied and said to her that her framing is actually dangerous to the students that and she has been framing these peaceful protests and peaceful students that you've been seeing as violent as anti semitic. tell us more about this letter consistently. what you sent you back the from that symmetry and the weight in which a president, i mean, the reason i'm treat the students were protesting against the general side issues. those were support israel and it's constant. just slash choose a big group of faculty who are supporting us today. we met with the president and, and we've been, we're very give me actually and because every people just me things that we have time to spend that these products, they are fighting for something which is dear to the,
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to put them. i think logistics and they're putting a look at risk and some of them have that many deputy too and got the what being murdered. so we have to understand where they're coming from. they're coming from the place of pain, looking for justice and, and a better this morning. even the use of pronoun she referred to, the students for contact with testing. actually they took out that process was sponsored by none other than did the training come? so they basically is a content protest new it might be sponsored by the inside the government. and we had heard just a couple of weeks ago from none are the independent experiences on yahoo describing the students. well, i think against the general side you describe this prevents as if they were like german ninety's in the 1930, i could not be given that the prime minister actually, the graduates of it might be describing students were begging m i d to the computer team and don't hide describing them as if they were meant the so i was shocked by
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that. but then this morning when i read that the president was concerned about the q referred to our he's really enjoys good in our but in fact, him just put the consumer side. yeah, many joyce did in today's a group called m i g jews, 4th these prior. and if i do at present this morning, i can come in and do some beautiful songs and keep room. and it may be just about spiteful. just especially the reason for being out there also thought we have to be is community. so when she said that she needs to, that, that, this group, this, this book, this was for the project for the protection, for the support of our doing. just gets ready to then typically read you raise the joyce. good. it was also fighting for, but it's janine right. well thanks again 50. if you so i was actually quite hurried to baby but because i have been, we've been,
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it's doubtful for months. right. been them. i've heard the cries, i've had the pain, and for them to be re, is she didn't even mentioned that they would probably expect even mention that, but it's to me and as if the thought that exist your feet and the pain doesn't exist. but the type of splitting, the fighting against a dignified, been fighting against him on the right, helping her doing it. michelle, one of things that i think some of the observers and, and critics on national cable tv had been saying, uh, is that this, these protests are animated, supported, put in motion by outside are groups that these are not authentically students. they are not authentically professor, but these are the instigators around the nation. i'd love to hear your response to that. but that's why people, because i've been, i've been made to now for 28 years. so it's kind of runny preaching, a bad disk with has these profess is. busy being instigated by what's it outside of
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the night? you? i haven't been here, i've been teaching here for 28 years, and this is what i've been, i've been getting like i could go back to you know, these are some of my favorite track is. one is called the black meadows and the other one is co. busy create language is and keeping identity. and then in my class a couple of years ago, i had a student from penny sign, jonathan tour. is it one of one of our projects with it? what's the stand? the is 3 co, larry 2 between what, what happened to hate c h s. we have a way to genocide. we have 254. i'll be ration, west west states or do you many to rectify, to get to the advisor. but we have lots of connections between 8 and 25 and then defense. we teach, right? to dictate this course and back my to as well. so kids about the reason about about and play that about occupation. and as soon as through then i just put the best way i could profess it. i could not be teaching about maybe risk. i'm getting about
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digging like this and, and i see students in the forefront of actual, phoebe risen actually become like, based on and then 23. now, then of course, these are my 2 students. this is the best, this is the best that they might be. can offer, in terms of intellectual, but the kitchen, the content, mad, you know, the content delivery to build, you know, just words. if you spend half an hour talking to the students, they're what they're doing, they're creating a better future future. where are these pinions you're trying to use if they want to join us? don't. ready truth 10, build the new something new together, the future of love and be for everyone. actually, the minutes when i talk about police 10 would be free from the re book a dispute. what they mean is that what he's doing in will be they still treated as the class citizens. they want them to be like it, frankly, they want them to have freedom. and just if i'm going to be the dispute, it's
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a cause for universal justice. i'm just wondering from your experience, what's the, what's that moment or spark that finally brought this to the forefront in a way that just hasn't happened for decades as well. i think we have to big that on yahoo for these moments. you see because it doesn't have who it's a bit like the trunk. you see, for example from columbine. if you've country because it's a cool country because 18 whole country. but the truck has been so clear about his patriot, both a black people, for example, for african. right. and if it's something that we've been that you know when but now goes on creatures to call. but it's janine to them and the allies fighting against the dentist bag when it, when you compare them to the not the it's showing that's clearly what he said about . it's probably about protecting jewish people talking about, you know, and i think interesting because then it's about ro power. right? and it's clear that he doesn't care about jewish people because if he did,
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he would have kids come to this thing, but a good number to reach students. what line with the students from buddies, banks, and then from the company. all it's also asking for an end to these down the documentation. so we cannot hope in a hard to depend on one group, then truth a heart beat up your group if you feel when, when, when it gets within who close to that might be. if you put something out in the open, this type of bad, they've been this rhetoric of a history that they did. in fact, my, my, my colleague professor reads the lady and read the book about actually she many people as well about this in this community except bothering with the fact that it needs reading the school system. big just that there is a children that to be out to paper this can you from the, from a very young age. in fact jacket paper called the notification of british canyon
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and append to what you know he's doing now what he's doing on pre to what he's doing and got that. he's showing us the clearly, the fact that he's capable of identified and it's up to you. so if i'm just not what we should go back to the history of a history of the treaty center, this picture, because i mean here, i mean, i have begun, you know, he's been close spent, you know, these deep human aviation opinion and cutting them insects, cutting them tree kept cutting them all kinds of terrible names. do you mean anything then it's not a new thing, right? facebook that i did, i never would known it and i'm tired. so i see that's different, the premiums that of up to committee that gives you notes is very to is your less that you see. and let's go ahead and defend that. so what keeps for example, but like by the dimensions about the history of direction, to get the american citizen to spend the making of the, of these advocates of power. and so therefore, we have prepared now to see what's happening to the police pinion and see whether it's a cost for all of us. we can not be studying the history of activity in the us. and
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so i looked up in a to do so, but it's giving you the right, right, well, well, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us. profession michelle . the graph at the massachusetts institute of technology where thank you very much for inviting me and thank you for i was so hutton to hear the students from you in the so thank you for giving them as more expensive than the deep spend of variety. interesting that week because of the faculty need to be inspired by any to we need to basically take it for the next level. thank you. thanks so much. so what's the bottom line? the rise of tens of thousands of students in more than 30 us states is going to go down in the nation's history side by side with the protests, against the vietnam war. and the boy caught accidents against apartheid south africa after 8 months of non stop is really devastation in gaza, killing with impunity and with no serious attempts to stop it. students in america have just said enough is enough. all the attempts to smear them is not leave or
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brain wash or hateful or irrelevant to the daring and bold authenticity of the students and faculty. protests joe biden says, this movement isn't compelling him to change his mind about his policy on israel or palestine. but other americans are starting to question their own long standing ideas. many are becoming much more aware of the issues and raising their voices for justice. and that's the bottom line. the one is the biggest elections of 2024 in the general election will administer. now render moody's b t p, increase its fruit across the country. how will economic uncertainty and use some employment suede boots as in key states? and will the media be able to come of a freebie unfairly, ongoing coverage of india selections on out his era in the solomon islands,
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