A man has been arrested after anti-Semitic abuse was directed towards Jewish children on the London Underground.

The suspect, whose name and age has not been released by police, was held in Birmingham on Saturday night on suspicion of committing a racially aggravated public order offence and he remains in custody.

His arrest came after a man was filmed reading anti-Jewish passages to two young boys in skullcaps while they were travelling with their family on the Northern Line.

Wearing a cap and hoodie, the man is seen in the video threatening a man off-camera after he tries to intervene before a woman in a hijab - Asma Shuweikh - confronts him.

The mother-of-two, from London, told the PA news agency she "wouldn't hesitate to do it again".

"I would have loved more people to come up and say something, because if everyone did, I do not think it would have escalated in the way that it did," she said.

She said when she saw what was happening she knew she "had to confront him".

"Being a mother-of-two, I know what it's like to be in that situation and I would want someone to help if I was in that situation," she said.