Major Gaza protests at US universities

Columbia University calls for inquiry into leadership as student protests sweep 40 campuses. The college senate accused the university president and her administration of violating established protocols, undermining academic freedom, jeopardizing free inquiry and breaching the rights of both students and professors.

Also in the programme: The BBC has learned that British forces could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver humanitarian aid, as part of plans to boost supplies into the territory by sea; and a project accounting for the murders of prominent women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

Joining presenter Paul Henley are Paolo Gerbaudo, an Italian sociologist; and Dr Ulrike Franke, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

(Photo: Students Soph Askance, Sarah Boris and Lea whom were detained by NYPD and suspended by Columbia University for participating in a demonstration, take part in a press conference, while Protest encampment in support of Palestinians during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., April 23, 2024. Credit: Reuters)