Deadly attack at Manchester synagogue
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
At least two people have been killed in an attack outside a synagogue in Manchester in northern England on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Three others are in a serious condition after the incident, in which a car was driven at people and a man was stabbed. Greater Manchester Police have confirmed the suspected assailant was shot dead by armed officers. Detectives have declared it a terrorist attack. Also: the head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza tells mediators he does not agree to the plan set out by US President Donald Trump to end the war with Israel. Rescue workers in Indonesia say there are no longer any signs of life under the rubble of a school which collapsed in East Java, with nearly sixty people still missing. Britain's Royal Society is marking 75 years since the mathematician and Second World War codebreaker, Alan Turing, created a test to help distinguish a machine from a human. And an ice core from Antarctica that may be more than 1.5 million years old is being melted down by scientists to unlock key information about Earth's climate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm John Nutt Jolil and at 16 hours GMT on Thursday the 2nd of October, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.6 | An attack on a synagogue in northern England on the Jewish Holy Day of Yom Kippur leaves two people dead. |
| 0:24.6 | Latest indications from Hamas suggest it may not accept Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan. |
| 0:31.3 | Hope turns to anguish in Indonesia as rescuers at a collapsed school where dozens of boys have been trapped for days |
| 0:38.8 | say there's no sign of life. |
| 0:43.4 | Also in this podcast, the reason we're so excited about it is because we hope it's going to be |
| 0:48.7 | the longest ever continuous ice course spreading back at least 1.2 million years, maybe a bit older. |
| 0:56.0 | Scientists hope to unlock the mysteries of the world's oldest ice by melting it. |
| 1:06.4 | Police in the UK say two people have been killed and three others seriously injured in a car and knife attack at a synagogue in the northern English city of Manchester. |
| 1:16.8 | Mobile phone footage from the scene shows two armed police officers warning people to get away from the building because they fear a suspect has a bomb. |
| 1:26.9 | Everybody else. Get back. If you're not involved, move back. Get away. |
| 1:32.0 | Somebody still in time. Everybody else. He has a bomb. Go away. |
| 1:36.7 | The officers then shot the suspect, who it's now confirmed was also killed. |
| 1:41.9 | It took time to establish this because he appeared to have an explosive device |
| 1:46.3 | strapped to him. A bomb disposal unit has been at the scene. The attack happened on the holiest day |
| 1:53.3 | in the Jewish calendar Yom Kippur. Christian Wakeford, a local member of parliament, spoke of his shock |
| 1:59.6 | and sadness. |
| 2:01.9 | It's a day of atonement. |
| 2:08.1 | And for something like this to happen any day, let alone today, it's shocked for everyone in this community, which is a diverse area. |
| 2:12.0 | But for a community that can't even let their loved ones know they're safe because |
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