the, the, this is dw news line from berlin is real, reopen is a lifeline for the people of cause desperately need. as you men of hearing aid is now being allowed into the territory to the amorous crossing typing class and see october the 7th. the terror attacks also coming up on the program, demonstrators continue outside new york city's columbia university police clinic pro palestinian protests. cam on the ground of the university, the crackdown is doing nothing to stop the spread of student life protest across the united states and georgia's capital. he's another night of violent protest,

demonstrators and a boise class of police after lawmakers advance of bill that critics say, would you rail georgia's hopes? i'm joining the european union the i'm here until in berlin. thank you very much for joining us. israel has reopened the hours border crossing engine north and gaza. it's the only crossing into the north of the territory, and it was close falling. a mazda is a terror attacks on october. the 7th agencies had been calling for its reopening for months to allow them to deliver desperately needed food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk of famine. trucks roll through the red border crossing in northern gauze for the 1st time since october. the 7th before the home of terror attacks, this was the main entry point for aid,

where it says journalist, i'm just select few palestinians, especially those seeking medical treatment. the crossing was severely damaged in the attacks previously used for foot traffic. israel has widened it to allow the passage of a trucks via interest. the trucks will have sure to ginnie's to the areas where aid is needed. most. these should be the amount of food and medicine reaching desperate civilians in the north, depending on the efficiency of israel screening procedures. and as riley spokesman said, it was how the air is crossing would remain open. this is the 1st day reopen that was crossing for a robust and continuous route, for instance, a few minutes here in a into casa, as you can see behind me those of the curse trucks that came yesterday from joe

dunn. and we're gonna run this the across the hopefully every day. so the sounds in the center of the strip, the residents of the day and i lot are taking stuff with the destruction of the homes following use riley and strikes the attacks, killed at least one person and wounded many more in the same town. the us based char t, well, central kitchen resumed operations, a month of to 7, if it's workers with to in and is riley strike the death tree, good widespread condemnation. the child t says, since the start of the will, it's distributed more than $43000000.00 males in java. thousands of displaced palestinians depend on them. and then after we're displaced people, we less than we didn't have anything to support our families with a hold. i have a family of 8 does and i'm unable to buy them food channels with them. i really

need this place of food. i thank them so much for providing us with food. i hope to continue with this work because their situation is very difficult. above the level of them aside, the kids get done. the charity says it has hundreds of trucks carrying enough food for 8000000 meals. ready to enter this pip through the rough uh crossing in the south to add to the age now beginning to flow into nose and garza to the address crossing. protests are spreading further and universities across the united states, leading to more confrontations with authorities. figure out, it seems to follow a night of unrest and violence on campuses in new york and los angeles leading to hundreds of arrests. the majority of demonstrators, our students making a stand against israel's actions in gaza, or calling for the universities and colleges to financially divest from israel

from coast to coast more and more u. s. university. campuses of it coming back to the grounds with all sorts. he's quoting us, stand off with pro palestinian protest is. many of them students like here at the university of wisconsin and madison were now familiar scene plays out as police officers move in to cleave a make shift camp leading to classes in new york. you have been warned that as for right across the us, authorities are cracking down on campus protests over the war ring casa, moving in to clear occupied buildings. the new york police arrested around 300 protesters doing raise on 2 campuses on tuesday nights. but it's the little to that uh, those comes out to the cities for them. university who's done domino as offices move

in from the other side of the country at the university of california in los angeles. demonstrate as we build that barricades. but now onto a heavy police presence classes would cancel a table wednesday following on rest spot by clashes between israel supporters and those come towns on sites and it's still a simmering tension. the white house as president boynton is monitoring the on folding kyle some college campuses very closely. americans have the right to peacefully protest. they have the right to peacefully process as long as it's within the law, and that it's peaceful for so for loose forcibly taking over the building is not peaceful. it's just not students have the right to feel safe. they have the right

to learn that that message is likely to fall on deaf is as more and more campuses become gripped by process with universities. and the also is, he's struggling to strike a balance between allowing demonstrations to continue while maintaining low an order dw, corresponding benjamin alvarez gruber, at columbia university. in new york. you described the situation there of the situation at columbia university is now called, but still a, the access to the columbia campus that you can see here behind us is a quite restricted, only essential stuff. and the students living inside currently have access and it's very hard also for the media coverage because media has not been allowed to enter to see how they hold it was occupied by the students and was then overtaken again and by police is looking right now. we're also waiting for answers from the office

of the president of columbia university about the situation is a really dynamic that could indeed be changes because as also what we see at another university in a new york right now with that being arrest carried out. but for now, the situation here in columbia is quite peaceful right now. there's a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world. the manhattan district attorney's office is former hollywood, producer harvey weinstein, will be re trying to new york, after his 2020 rape conviction was overturn. last week weinstein appeared before a judge in new york city. you have been serving to 23 or sentence, or the 80 women have accused them of sexual misconduct. the british government says it has collected the 1st group of asylum seekers warranty protection under the so called her one to act. the home office posted a video of a read, an undisclosed location. human rights groups have criticized the new one, which allows the deportation authorized migraines. state media in southern

china and that was a 36 people died when a stretch of highway collapse overnight. long on the accident caused over 20 vehicles, become trapped. authorities say the collapse was caused by the impact of persistence, heavy rain, a law makers in the country of georgia. i have approved a 2nd reading of a controversial for an agents law. it requires media and civil groups that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as being under a quote for an influence. protesters are currently facing off against police outside parliament in the capital to be to believe they say the bill would restrict basic freedoms. and it's similar to a lot of being used as islands government. critics and russia wife protests against legislation come over here, were occurrence in georgia earlier, i talked to rachel denver from human rights watch. she explained why so many

georgians are taking to the streets and why the police are dispersing them. so violently. doors are taken to the streets and mass numbers unprecedented numbers. these are numbers that we have never seen before. the streets in georgia because this law aims to take georgia back several decades in terms of freedom of expression and funeral. and freedom of association that wants to, to, the government isn't, has made clear that the intent is to turn away from uh, from its uh, you know, growing integration with the european union. it seems to turn away from the west. generally, it is using, doing this, some of the pre text of the law. that means that it's about the last things that it's about. transparency of, of, of, of, of, of funding for, for, for and g o is and media and the like. it's not about transparency, we're into using media in georgia to get their funding is very clear. anyone can

find that out. this law is about mirroring stigmatizing and demonizing organizations that are independent and that might be critical of the government. if everybody knows that the government has pretty much made clear. aware of this and make clear that attempts to use this law to silence and punish its critics. so then you would agree with the assessment as a protesters have said that this bill would have a similar effect to a russian law, which is often used to silence critics of the government. do you agree with that assessment? i think that the there, there are some differences between the george and for an agent law and the russian for an age of law. well, the drawers in the box is not called for an agent. they call it for an influence, but it's the same idea as, as the product was the same with absolutely the same purpose. so yeah, i think, i think that the government, the government does make very clear that this law is only the 1st and then in what will be a number of steps to silence its critics. um, the, the,

the behind the scenes, political leader you've been a ceiling, has made that very clear in his speech. the prime minister made that awesome. you get that very clear in the speech they intended to use this look to silence what they call bad projects. and uh and you know and use that they don't like now we've already seen this building withdrawn once. do you think there's any chance that the protestors can get their way and actually stop it being heard by parliament again? well, the government seems very determined to push this last through. we can hope that it will, that it will get the message that the slow bill will almost certainly be rail georgia's european integration. george's repeating consideration is something that the vast majority of doors and was 90 percent in, in the public polling so that georgia is one georgia to continue towards european integration concerns becoming a victim remaining account of the country for use this, this well no,

unfortunately, with the right of that. so you'll want to hope that the government will come to with senses, but it seems quite determined. so i think that we are in for some rocky days ahead . yeah. as well, if there's pictures, there's interest now um, or anything to judge by. we definitely are. that was rachel denver from human rights watch. thank you very much for your assessment. thank you. and finally, the world of literature is paying tribute to the us author. paul auster who died at the age of 77. auster was a critically acclaimed for items as a roof. more than 30 books is perhaps best known for his new york trilogy of industry. novels. born in new jersey, a former resident of france, which was most closely associated with brooklyn in new york, where he was admired by fans for as cosmopolitan as some. one of the things he explored was the craft of writing itself. a one said stories only happened to those

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