This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles and at five hours GMT on Friday the 3rd of October these are our main stories.
Police in the English city of Manchester arrest three people in connection with deadly attacks on a synagogue.
The Trump administration says the US is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.
Colombian police arrest a senior member of the notorious Tren de Aragua criminal organization.
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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.
the words of the UK's chief rabbi Efrem Mervis after an attack at a synagogue in which two Jewish men were killed in the northern English city of Manchester.
Their attacker had rammed a car into worshipers before he got out of the vehicle armed with a knife.
He was stopped from getting inside the synagogue by volunteer security staff.
Soon after the attack in Manchester,
police were sent to synagogues and other Jewish sites across the UK.
The British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has been trying to give the community reassurance.
To every Jewish person in this country, I also want to say this.
I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you.
I really do.