Evening briefing Wednesday 30th September

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0:50Welcome to The Times Radio. Evening news briefing on Wednesday, 30th September. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a pilot has been arrested after apparently trying to stab his colleague and crash their plane. The aircraft flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv dived 14 ,000 feet before the man was restrained. An Israeli passenger, Zavika Mainz, was one of three Israelis who subdued the attacker. He says it was like something from a horror film. Alexander Gandler from the Israeli embassy to the UK has been updating Times Radio. This would have been one of the worst terrorist attacks in recent years, of course, post-October 7th.

1:26This would have been a 9-11 style attack where the plane would have crashed either somewhere in the Jordanian desert or in an Israeli city. Where it was heading, it wasn't that far from an Israeli city. The Prime Minister has confirmed there is a link between Iran and a security incident outside an airbase in Gloucestershire. Five men were arrested over a suspected terror plot near the gates of Aria Fairford on Sunday. They've since been released under investigation. Andy Burnham has given a brief update. There is indeed a strong indication that Iran played a part. This remains, though, a complex and very serious police investigation, so I can't say any more at this stage.

2:10Detectives investigating the Grenfell Tower fire have asked prosecutors to consider charges, including corporate manslaughter against both companies and individuals. The Met Police says it's now submitted all its evidence to the CPS. Crime commentator Danny Shaw says investigators have done a huge amount of work. They have spoken to 15 ,000 people, taken almost 15 ,000 statements, looked at 45 ,000 documents and exhibits and now they have handed files to the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether or not 54 people and 20 organisations or companies should face criminal charges or not. That will be a decision for the CPS to make within the next nine months.

2:54The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have accused international paparazzi of an unacceptable intrusion of their privacy after reporters were spotted peering into their children's school. Two men, both wearing backpacks, were seen circling the area. Kate Mansi is Royal Editor of The Times. Two of them are found by private security, presumably for the Sussexes, but also school staff walking around the perimeter of the school with large backpacks on. It's subsequently been found that they were European paparazzi. So the assumption is that they were there to try to get pictures of Archie and Lilibet, the Sussexes' children.

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