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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on student protests and antisemitism · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Starma says, don't go out and protest October seventh. Are
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  Speaker 1: they listening, Let's go to Devin Gray. Are UK europe
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  Speaker 1: correspondent Gavin.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan, They most certainly are not. So We've had students
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  Speaker 2: out on the streets across London from different universities, but
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  Speaker 2: also Edinburgh in Scotland, Belfast in Northern Ireland and elsewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the UK, Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol and Leeds, and the
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  Speaker 2: resounding message to secure Starma is well, look, actually, yep, okay,
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  Speaker 2: We're sorry for what happened a couple of years back
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  Speaker 2: on the October the seventh Hamas attack on Israel, but
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  Speaker 2: that is not what we are protesting about. We are
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  Speaker 2: protesting about the treatment of people currently in Gaza. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: one of the protesters at Sheffield said, what is insensitive
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  Speaker 2: is that there has been two years of genocide and
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  Speaker 2: conflating the actions of Binyaminnette and Yahoo with Judaism is
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  Speaker 2: actually anti Semitic. Carrying on this Jewish people are not
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  Speaker 2: pro genocide and Palestinians are starving right now, lots of
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  Speaker 2: angry students on the streets and frankly, every time I
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  Speaker 2: think our Prime Minister says, please show a little respect
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  Speaker 2: for others. I think it kind of makes them even
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  Speaker 2: more angry and said that isn't the point here and
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  Speaker 2: this is not what we're going to do. And so consequently, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen plenty of marches today. And let's not forget
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  Speaker 2: Ryan that on Saturday police in London arrested nearly five
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  Speaker 2: hundred people during protests and support of a prescribed group
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  Speaker 2: of Palestine Action that they voted to make a terrorist
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  Speaker 2: group where support for it or showing any kind of
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  Speaker 2: membership of it can lead to a custodial sentence.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin the French, the mess politically, an absolute mess at
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  Speaker 1: the moment, and there are calls from the kron because
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  Speaker 1: he's sending out the PM is just resigned to go
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  Speaker 1: and fix the whole thing that he couldn't fix in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. But calls for him to just appoint
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  Speaker 1: a new PM and then get out of the call
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  Speaker 1: some early presidential elections.
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  Speaker 2: Yes and round for a change. This isn't his opponents
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  Speaker 2: in this These are now some of his own supporters
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  Speaker 2: from within his own party, and that I think really
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  Speaker 2: does signal just how isolated he is now. Indeed, Gabrielle Attal,
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  Speaker 2: he leads Immanuel Macron's Renaissance Party and was Prime minister
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  Speaker 2: for six months last year, went on National TV to
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  Speaker 2: say quote, he no longer understands the decisions made by
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  Speaker 2: the President of the Republic. I mean, if ever, there
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  Speaker 2: was a stabbing in the front hand the back, it
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  Speaker 2: is that so far forty seven year old Emmanual Macron
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  Speaker 2: has refused to resign. But frankly his options are really
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  Speaker 2: narrowing at the moment, with political opponents on the radical left,
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  Speaker 2: the hard rid and now even his own allies indicating
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  Speaker 2: he should go. A recent opinion poll suggested that well
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  Speaker 2: over half the French population thinks he should resign. And this,
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  Speaker 2: of course now, I think we've had three French prime
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  Speaker 2: ministers in the last year, five in the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: None of them are able to push through what Emmanual
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  Speaker 2: Macron wants, which is a cut to the cost of
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  Speaker 2: government spending and an increase in taxes. All of them
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  Speaker 2: are being defeated by not just opponents, but also the
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  Speaker 2: country at large that does not want to see their
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  Speaker 2: standard of living for.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Gray are UK europe correspondents for.
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