This is bbc news. The governor of new york, and you, as cold cold a stabbing called as cold cold a stabbing called a stabbing an act of terrorism. A man has been arrested and in recent weeks please have actually stepped up weeks please have actually stepped up patrols injewish neighbourhoods following a series of anti semitic hate crimes. Our washington correspondent, Chris Buckler has the report. Members of new yorks largejewish community had gathered to celebrate their religion, only to be attacked because of it. They were at the home ofa because of it. They were at the home of a rabe carey and monsey to mark ona car, of a rabe carey and monsey to mark on a car, when a man forced his way into house and started stabbing the people, in some cases multiple times. He pulled it out from the thing and he started to run into the big room, it was on the left side. Grafton thomas was arrested 30 miles away in manhattan. Mr thomas, why did you do it . Is already appeared in court, but he pled
Africa. In our hyperconnected world social platforms such as Twitter Facebook telegram and whats up have revolutionized the way we communicate under 78 information to society. Its estimated that more than 5000000000 people have mobile devices more than half of these. They have a camera and Internet Connection millions of text images and videos on a daily basis through social media making it difficult to distinguish between real and false content the battle for control of the truth has just begun. Information warfare is a weapon and a very dangerous weapon if i see a piece of content i have an emotional response to it takes less than a 2nd for me to share the consequence of a very very dangerous. Covering. How is fake news created how does that affect society and what impact does it have on states the Mainstream Media social media and governments arent to scrutiny and are being called upon to stem the rising tons of disinformation. Real responsibility now to be very careful very transpa
Programme of the decade. Join us, the brexitcast gang, in half an hour, to look back at the year that was in the world of brexit. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on christmas eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. Emily unia reports. According to Spanish Police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter, comfort, after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son, praise emmanuel, tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walking towards where i was. She looked really distraught. When
Programme of the decade. pres now on bbc news, the brexitcast team look back on a roller coaster of a year in politics in review 2019s brexitcast. No ones got a bleep clue what brexit is. Brexit is, um. I hadnt quite understood the full extent of this. Were particularly reliant on the dover calais crossing. I met borisjohnson once. The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters, they are going to get it wrong again. Remainers and leavers, thats going to end well. A process which i can only describe as a dogs brexit. This is katya adler in westminster. Its adam fleming in westminster. And laura in westminster as well. All together. The three wise people. And were empty chairing, not Ice Sculpture melting, ourfriend chris. He is on holiday already. In new zealand. So he has gone as far away as you can possibly get from brexit. For anyone who is just tuning in and has not seen us, brexitcast is a podcast that is in your podcast feeds multiple times per week. The tv show on thursday night and
In half an hours time, we take a look back on events earlier in the year, marking the 75th anniversary of the d day landings. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holidaymaker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on Christmas Eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. The hotel says its continuing to co operate with the investigation. Emily unia reports. According to Spanish Police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter comfort after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son praise emmanuel tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walki