Man arrested after two Jewish men stabbed in London
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A man's been arrested after two Jewish men were stabbed in London, in what the police are calling a terrorist attack. It's the latest in a series of violent antisemitic attacks in the UK. We hear some reaction from a local resident.
Also in the programme: the US defense secretary faces questions on the cost of the war against Iran, when it'll end, and about the investigation into the bombing of a school; plus how filling the sticker album for this expanded World Cup might be expensive - but could pay dividends down the line.
(IMAGE: Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Peter Rowley (C) gives a statement at the scene where two Jewish men are seriously injured after being stabbed in Golders Green, north London, Britain, 29 April 2026. / CREDIT: Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/EPA/Shutterstock (16851496bd))
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to News Air from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.0 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:16.3 | Today, grief and anger on the streets of North London. |
| 0:19.3 | As two Jewish men are stabbed in an attack deemed a terror incident, |
| 0:24.0 | that's our top story today. |
| 0:25.6 | More on that in a moment. |
| 0:27.0 | We'll also be hearing the latest from Washington |
| 0:28.7 | where the US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, |
| 0:31.6 | has been grilled about the war in Iran by House members |
| 0:34.3 | for the past few hours. |
| 0:36.9 | And are we on the brink of another financial crash like 2008? |
| 0:41.6 | We'll have more on that in 20 minutes. But we are going to begin today with what police here in London |
| 0:47.2 | say they're treating as a terrorist incident. At lunchtime on a bright and breezy spring day, |
| 0:53.3 | two Jewish men, one age 76, the other |
| 0:56.0 | 34, were stabbed in the street in Golders Green, a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood in the north |
| 1:02.5 | of the city. A man has been taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder. He was |
| 1:07.4 | tasered and then handcuffed by officers. That moment caught on camera. |
| 1:19.4 | Police say the suspect who is 45 years old also tried to attack officers. |
| 1:24.6 | Shortly afterwards, Mark Rowley, the head of London's Metropolitan Police, |
| 1:28.2 | expressed his sympathy with Britain's Jewish community. |
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