A terrorist attack on Yom Kippur
The News Agents
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester has left two people dead and several others fighting for their lives on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
The prime minister has cut short his trip to Denmark to chair Cobra - as police investigate whether the perpetrator was known to security. Manchester is sadly once again coming together to reject hatred in the aftermath of appalling violence.
Andy Hughes, presenter of The Crime Agents podcast, talks through the police response and the changing nature of terrorism in the UK.
Later, David Yelland, former editor of The Sun, speaks to Jon and Emily about why some instinctively leap to sowing divisiveness in the aftermath of these events and how to confront it.
We discuss the political - and personal significance - of a terror attack on Yom Kippur.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | The attack in Manchester this morning is absolutely shocking. |
| 0:17.2 | And all of our thoughts are with those affected. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm on my way back to London. |
| 0:21.8 | When I arrive, I will chair an emergency cobra meeting. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm already able to say that additional police assets are being deployed to synagogues across the country |
| 0:31.1 | and we will do everything to keep our Jewish community safe. |
| 0:34.8 | That is Kirstama at the airport in Copenhagen, cutting short his visit with |
| 0:40.2 | EU leaders to return after an attack on a synagogue that has left two people dead, three people |
| 0:47.5 | seriously injured, and the attacker shot by the police. The attack still feels very new. |
| 0:56.2 | There's a lot we have yet to learn. |
| 0:58.6 | But we're going to try and reflect today on what it means politically |
| 1:00.7 | and also what it means personally, |
| 1:04.3 | the holiest day of the Jewish year. |
| 1:06.7 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:12.3 | The news agents. It's John. Welcome to The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:14.1 | It's John. |
| 1:14.9 | It's Emily. |
| 1:15.7 | And today's episode is going to sound not like our normal episodes, I suspect, |
| 1:19.9 | because we are recording this as we are finding out details of what looks like a terrorist attack on a synagogue in North Manchester, |
| 1:31.2 | on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, and two people have been killed, |
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