but the threat of violence also looms directly over the jewish community like never before in recent american history. attacks on jewish institutions, they are up 61% from 2020 according to the anti-defamation league. just yesterday, the fbi warned of what it describes as a broad threat to synagogues in new jersey. the new york times reports that as a result of a warning, the new york police department immediately announced it had stepped up its monitoring to ensure the safety of every area that encompasses our jewish citizens and synagogues. of course, we all know that none of this is happening in a having vacuum. it s bubbling through sports, culture and our politics. they re the anti-semitic outbursts on social media by kanye west. there s the refusal by kyrie irving to disavow a post he made linking to a documentary filled with conspiracy theorys about jewish people. he s been suspended for at least five games. a statement from the team reads in part kyrie irvin
Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions
Questions continue. The covid questions continue. Just were large scale just why were large scale sporting permitted the sporting events permitted as the disease uk . Disease ran rife across the uk . Were todays crucial were live at todays crucial stage of baroness hallett key inquiry from inquiry and were live from a bma in manchester as bma rally in manchester as doctors call on ministers end doctors call on ministers to end the deadlock or risk walkouts running into the winter. The past hour, speaking in the past hour, Health Secretary Steve Barclay says bmas leadership says the bmas leadership is not on patients. On the side of patients. And live and let by as roger moores bond suits and props go to auction for charity , well be to auction for charity, well be finding out why he truly has become the man with the golden gun. First, the latest news headunes first, the latest News Headlines with. Aaron headlines with. Aaron good afternoon. Its a minute past 12. Im Aaron Armstrong in t
Civil war brewing . Our deputy Political Editor, tom hannood there for us. An audacious proposal here in manchester. Might the Prime Minister be taking the largest spender decision of his tenure in office, potentially tens of billions of pounds of Rail Infrastructure to hang in the balance, although at least one conservative mayor andy street, is not happy. Ill have the is not happy. Ill have the latest. Latest. The home secretary will also be taking to the podium today with everything from policing to migration on the agenda. And well be speaking to the justice secretary later this hour. Secretary later this hour. Weather forecast courtesy of alex deakin this morning. Alex deakin this morning. A bit of a wet start in places this morning, but most of us will have a bright and breezy day. Therell be some sunshine. There will also be a fair few showers. Join me later for a full forecast and sport courtesy of paul coyte. How about this , chelsea have how about this, chelsea have won a gam
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 788 British Columbia steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you very much. Oh, my goodness. Thats a crowd right there. That is a great new york city crowd. [ cheers and applause ] welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show. This is it. Youre here. [ cheers and applause ] you made it. Youre watching. Thank you very much. What people are talking about. Today was the big Alabama Senate election, and as promised, roy moore rode his horse to the polls. [ light laughter ] it got weird when people said, can we vote for the horse . [ laughter and applause ] and you go, no, hes riding the horse. So he rode the horse in. And get this, the horse that moore rode was named sassy. [ light laughter ] what doesnt say im innocent like a 70yearold man riding a a horse name sassy . [ laughter and applause ] you girls wanna see a horse . You wanna meet sassy . [ laughter ]