Manchester synagogue attacker named
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Police have named the man who killed two people at a synagogue in Manchester. Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man of Syrian descent, was shot and killed by officers outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Also, Donald Trump has declared the US is now in an armed conflict with drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea. A man alleged to be a high-up figure in the Tren de Aragua gang has been arrested in Colombia. A former Israeli hostage who was held in captivity in Gaza for 16 months has called on Hamas to sign President Trump's peace plan. The disgraced rapper, Sean Diddy Combs, is set to be sentenced on prostitution charges. Luxembourg's Grand Duke Henri is formally abdicating his throne. There is a rogue planet gobbling up gas and dust at an unprecedented rate. Open AI's Sora app raises yet more concerns about artificial intelligence and copyright.
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| 0:36.0 | Police in the English city of Manchester arrest |
| 0:38.4 | three people in connection with deadly attacks on a synagogue. The Trump administration says |
| 0:44.7 | the US is in an armed conflict with drug cartels. Colombian police arrest a senior member |
| 0:51.6 | of the notorious Tren de Aragua criminal organization. |
| 0:58.1 | Also in this podcast. They tied us with ropes in our legs and hands. I was fainted from time to time |
| 1:06.6 | from the pain, starvation. That was the worst thing. We hear the testimony of a former Israeli hostage and get the latest from the ground in Gaza. |
| 1:16.3 | And is Formula One racing getting too hot to handle? |
| 1:25.2 | The day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down we knew would come, as a result of an unrelenting wave of Jew hatred. |
| 1:34.8 | The words of the UK's chief rabbi, Ephraim Mervis, after an attack at a synagogue in which two Jewish men were killed in the Northern English city of Manchester. |
| 1:45.9 | Their attacker had rammed a car into worshippers before he got out of the vehicle armed with a knife. |
| 1:52.0 | He was stopped from getting inside the synagogue by volunteer security staff. |
| 1:56.6 | Soon after the attack in Manchester, police were sent to synagogues and other Jewish sites across the UK. |
| 2:02.8 | The British Prime Minister, Kirstama, has been trying to give the community reassurance. |
| 2:07.9 | To every Jewish person in this country, I also want to say this. |
| 2:13.2 | I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you. |
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