time is a musical that explores classism and racism. the question tonight is the n word as scripted necessary telling that story. the cherry hill school board made the decision last week to remove the n word from the musical scheduled to debut in march. a large crowd of students and alumni of cherry hill east filled the school bus meeting. over 1200 others signed a petition to reverse the decision to remove the word is to sanitize history and its lessons, others feel the use glorifies an ugly word i and we don t need to be refreshed on what regional is by the unfettered use of his word in a high school play or musical let these kids say these worst that are unfortunately the norm and walk off the stage to realize how lucky they are to be where they are and to be able to to accomplish things these characters and people of themes only dreamed of. thank you. reporter: really powerful arguments. even if the board want to change one word they have to get approval from the
first. let these kids say these words that are fortunately the norm and realize how lucky he they are a high school musical the center of a heated debate in tonight s parent make voices heard. good evening, i m jessica dean i m ukee washington. district officials decided to remove a racial slur from the script of the music rag time. some argue it s censor ship alexandria hoff is live in cherry hill. while many were against changing the script. reporter: ukee, jessica, rag time is a musical that explores classism and racism. the question tonight is the n word as scripted necessary telling that story. the cherry hill school board made the decision last week to remove the n word from the musical scheduled to debut in march. a large crowd of students and alumni of cherry hill east filled the school bus meeting. over 1200 others signed a petition to reverse the decision to remove the word is to sanitize history and its lessons, others feel the use glorifies an ugly wor
ethel berger. reporter: luckily it s still up but for the first time in her life she feels unsafe because of her faith. i felt like suddenly unsafe as a jewish person. reporter: the picture from chopper6 gives us a better view. the damage is immense. most tombstones were knocked over some many years old were split in half and can t be fixed. today mayor jim kenney paid a visit to pay respects and help reset a stone. it was his grandfather next to his father who was a marine in world war ii. this country is in a bad spot and the stuff has to be called out right away. it s got to be investigated. got try to find these people and lock them up. reporter: the damage sparked a interfaith meeting at the lutheran seminary their message unite not hate. the number of tombstones toppled over this weekend is well over a hundred and still going up. rich levy is evidence cemetery management. i m very upset about it and we re going to do everything we can to rectify the situatio
and, an raf flypast for captain tom moore s 100th birthday. a special thank you, for raising £30 million, for the nhs. i m absolutely delighted with all the people like you who have come to wish me a very happy birthday. it really is absolutely awesome, the amount of people who have been so kind. hello and welcome to this bbc news special. in around half an hour, we ll be bringing you the government s daily news briefing on its coronavirus strategy, which will be led by the prime minister, borisjohnson. as well as providing the latest details of the government s plans, he ll warn that he won t gamble away the gains made by the sacrifices of the last few weeks by relaxing social distancing measures too soon. this morning, he chaired his first session of cabinet since returning to work, as the government considers how the lockdown measures might be relaxed, without accelerating the infection rate. testing will be a crucial part of any strategy, but a senior minister has conced