18/09/2016 BBC Weekend News

29 people have been injured by an explosion in New York.

It happened in a crowded part of Manhattan last night.

City officials say the blast was intentional, but there was no

evidence so far to suggest it was a terrorist act.

It's not clear who was behind the explosion, which took place

Another device was discovered a short distance away

This was a loud explosion in the heart of Manhattan,

The fashionable Chelsea neighbourhood, always busy

on a Saturday night, but the streets quickly emptied

I thought it might be fireworks, but it was so loud and it just went

Then we saw a guy that got injured and he was bleeding.

It was close, and people were running for their lives.

The casualties were mostly cut by flying glass. Some of the injuries

are serious but not life threatening.

Shortly after, police released this photo of a mangled dustbin,

New York's Mayor said it was a deliberate act

There is no evidence at this point of a terror

It's something we'll be investigating very carefully,

but there is no evidence at this point of a terror connection.

Just a few streets away another alert. A suspicious panel thought to

be a pressure cooker, wiring and a mobile phone. In the early hours it

was driven away by a bomb disposal team. They've ruled out a link to a

pipe bomb yesterday morning in New Jersey but these incidents have

caused concern for those after America's top job. We are doing

everything we can to help our first responders and to pray for the

victims. We have to let this investigation unfold. A bomb went

off in New York and nobody knows exactly what's going on, but boy we

are living in a time, we had better get very tough, folks, very, very

tough. September's always a nervous time

in New York. Last week there were events to mark

9/11. Tomorrow leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly.

Once again this is a city on edge. Here, the former Labour Leader,

Lord Kinnock, has given his bleakest warning yet about the future

of the party if Jeremy Corbyn wins Speaking to John Pienaar

on the BBC's Panorama programme, he said he would not expect to see

another Labour Government This is the greatest crisis

that the Labour Party has faced. You believe you may not see another

Labour Government I'm 74, and unless things change

radically and rapidly, it is very doubtful that I will see

another Labour Government With me now is our political

correspondent, Alan Soady. Alan, Lord Kinnock couldn't

be much clearer there. I think the sign of the despair felt

by many within the Labour Party, particularly at Westminster, who

don't feel that Jeremy Corbyn has what it takes to lead the party,

they certainly don't think he has what it takes to get the party back

into power, and yet if as expected he wins the leadership election when

the result is announced next Saturday, they will have failed in

the best way they could think of to try to get rid of him. In launching

that attempt to get rid of him in the first place and losing, they

will potentially in a sense have strengthened his position. And so

the next battle lines open over who would then be in his top team, his

Shadow Cabinet. Some of Jeremy Corbyn's opponents within the party

are saying that the Shadow Cabinet should be elected by Labour MPs.

They are mainly anti-Corbyn. Team Corbyn say they are open to the idea

of Shadow Cabinet elections, but what about including the party

membership? That will be the party membership that's rather more

sympathetic to Jeremy Corbyn than the party's MPs. It might sound

complicated and technical, but it is the latest battle for the control of

the Labour Party. Alan, thank you. And you can see that

Panorama programme - "Labour: Is the Party Over?"

in full, tomorrow night The White House has expressed regret

for a coalition air strike in Syria which Russia says killed dozens

of President Assad's troops. The US said it believed

it had been attacking The Russians demanded

an emergency meeting Our correspondent,

Daniela Relph, reports. It is a ceasefire that is close

to collapse, designed to stop this kind of fighting and destruction,

but now looking extremely fragile. The United States has

admitted its planes carried out an attack which killed 62 Syrian

troops near the town of Deir ez-Zor, and has expressed regret

for the unintentional loss of life. For the Russians, though,

this explanation isn't enough. They've described the US action

as close to criminal negligence. It is quite significant and frankly

suspicious that the United States chose to conduct this particular air

strike at this time. Why would all of a sudden

the United States choose to help the Syrian armed forces

defending Deir ez-Zor? Russia called an emergency meeting

of the UN Security Council. This was dismissed by

the Americans as a stunt. Russia really needs to stop

the cheap point scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts

and focus on what matters, which is implementation of something

that we negotiated in Last night's meeting

ended with no statement, in itself a sign of the obvious

tension and mistrust But the Russian Foreign Ministry

says the US air strike now threatens Tributes have been paid

to the Iranian competitor who died after crashing on the Paralympic

cycling course in Rio. The organisers said it had cast

a shadow over the Games. It's the first death in competition

at an Olympics or Paralympics The death of Bahman Golbarnezhad

on the last day of full competition in Rio has shocked everyone,

in what had been widely regarded as a successful

and relatively trouble-free Games. He's understood to have crashed

into a ditch at the side of the road on a mountainous stretch

of the C4 Paralympic road race, Golbarnezhad was treated

at the scene and taken to hospital, but he was

pronounced dead on arrival. Britain's record-breaking

paracyclist, Dame Sarah Storey, was among the first to respond

to the tragedy, reflecting the widespread shock

among athletes in Rio. Absolutely devastated to hear

of a colleague who hasn't made it Everyone expects to come

home from a Games. It's no real condolence that he died

doing something he loved. Iran's Paralympic Committee

described Golbarnezhad as an exemplary sportsman

who did his best to promote It's understood the 48-year-old,

who also represented Iran at the London Games in 2012,

took up cycling after losing his leg in a land mine explosion

during the Iran-Iraq war. This is the first in-competition

death at a Paralympic or Olympic Games since 1960,

and with Iranian flags flying at half-mast in the athletes'

village, there will also be further tributes to the life and death

of Bahman Golbarnezhad Paralympics GB has enjoyed more

success on the last full day The team picked up

another six golds, consolidating its second place

in the medals table. In the pool, Hannah Russell

won her second gold of the Games in the women's

S12 50 metre freestyle. While 13-year-old team-mate

Abby Kane set a Paralympic record in the S13 100 metre

backstroke, taking silver. And there was a clean

sweep of archery medals, with Paralympics GB taking gold,

silver and bronze, with 16-year-old You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One is

at 6.35pm. Hello. This week is likely to be a

story of failed ambition as far as the weather's concerned. Out in the

Atlantic young storms will be born, bursting full of energy, racing

towards the UK with intent of bringing gales and heavy rain our

way. But at the last minute rushing away towards the north, being

deflected as if by an invisible force field. Any weather front that

make it through fairly weak and feeble. The reason for those