Im the senior director of education here is my pleasure to welcome you to tonights author talk with Francine Klagsbrun on her new book, lioness. A program we are culprits sent to you with the jewish week. We are honored to host this talk in particular because francine has been a longtime Jewish Museum board member. For 30 years, in fact. We appreciate her ongoing dedication to our institution and programming. Please visit our website to sign up for our enews to learn about concerts and workshops. After the talk we invite you to stay for a reception when francine will find books in the corner. Now please join me in welcoming gary rosenblatt, editor and publisher of the jewish week who will introduce our speaker. [applause]. Thank you very much and good evening, everyone. Before i forget i want to ask all of you to turn off your cell phones and that goes for you too, golda. So, as editor and publisher of the jewish week and im proud that jewish week is scope present in this program along
You watching the weekly here on the international with me in india today its our roundup of the top stories of the last seven days and the latest up to date news welcome to the program syrian rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syrias province and then killed the pilot unverified video of the incident has been posted online by the militants. Oh margaret well we look at a lower court. A second video has also surfaced online reportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot and a warning now you might find some of the following images upsetting the clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also take. Pictures and chanting. Has more on the incident. The incident took place in the northwestern village of mussar on an province and thats one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country now according to the Russian Defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and pair show down to the ground
Of nearly 4 for some nhs workers. And a bittersweet end to a Space Mission which circled saturn for 13 years, sending back never before seen images. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. An explosion on a tube train in south west london this morning is being treated as a terrorist attack. Witnesses have spoken of a flash and a bang and then panic, as commuters ran out of the carriage. 29 people have been treated in hospital, some suffering from burns. The incident happened in the morning rush hour as a District Line tube train pulled into the overground station at Parsons Green in west london. At 8. 20 am. The bbc understands that the bomb, described as a homemade device, had been fitted with a timer, but it failed to fully detonate. Whoever planted it is still on the run. Tom symonds has our first report tonight. At 8. 20am, the friday commute was well under way. A very packed commuter train, young, old, children, pensioners, everyone. At the tiny Parsons Green station, where the line
Time for space and scientific exploration. Thank you. Back to this mornings explosion on a tube train in london. In the past 30 minutes the Prime Minister has announced that the terror level is raised to critical, their highest level, that means another attack is imminent. This is what theresa may had to say. I have just been updated on the investigation into this mornings cowardly terrorist attack in london. A major covert and overt investigation is taking place, involving police and security officials. If i said earlier today that the National Threat level was being kept under review. Thejoint terrorism analysis centre, that is the independent organisation which is responsible for setting the threat level, on the basis of available intelligence, has now decided to raise the threat level from severe to critical. This means that their assessment is that a further attack may be imminent. Following that decision that police have asked for authorisation from the secretary of state for def
Cooler side. And most of the bay area has a heat advisory, heat warnings in effect through thursday night. It really should encompass most of alameda as well. 68 in pacifica. 84 in oakland. 90s around the peninsula. And 102 in livermore. And 103 at the delta. And 92 degrees in san jose. And 100 in the morgan hill area. The heat is prolonged and will last all the way through thursday. Finally tumbling to the 90s inland. Not seeing seasonal highs until sunday. This is a prolonged heat wave thats taken a toll on some portions of the bay area. And Jessica Flores has an update on a very busy pg e. That heat wave causing severe outages in livermore was really hit hard. There was 5000 customers left in the dark yesterday. And right now pg e has worked to restore the power. And thousands across the bay area are left without power. Theyll be waking up in the dark tonight. And its because of a lot of the folks are cranking up the ac. They try to go to sleep cranking up the ac and that knocks out