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The lead story was the High Court ruling that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had won his legal challenge over the search warrants used before his arrest. The court heard that Thames Valley Police accepted the warrants it applied for to search his homes at Sandringham and Royal Lodge in Windsor were unlawful, and that information given to the Central Criminal Court about the warrants was not correct. The warrants had been quashed on 22 July, and the February searches led to documents and electronic devices being seized before his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The programme reported that the issue turned on whether the warrants should have been granted under section 9 rather than section 8 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. Thames Valley Police said the agreement that led to the quashing related to the legal basis for the warrants and was not a judgment on its ongoing investigation, while commentators discussed what the ruling could mean for the seized material and the wider inquiry.

The broadcast then showed large crowds in Paris as student protests continued for weeks, with schools closed, arrests and people hurt, and no major concessions yet from the French government over demands about state education funding. It then reported that a Russian guided aviation bomb had struck two passenger buses in Kramatorsk, killing 33 people and wounding 18, according to the Donetsk regional head, who accused Russia of trying to kill as many civilians as possible. The region is part of a fortress belt Russia is seeking to seize as part of Vladimir Putin's claim to the Donbas. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband visited Ukraine, meeting President Zelensky and visiting the site of yesterday's attack east of Kyiv, where 22 people including three babies died. The report noted strikes in Kyiv and Russia's use of new high-powered drones, cruise missiles and low-cost long-range glide bombs against civilian infrastructure. Miliband said the UK would stand with Ukraine as long as it takes, while Zelensky said Ukraine needed more air defence and could not wait for domestic production. A correspondent said UN figures showed civilian casualties this year already exceeded the total for the whole of 2025, and that the guided bomb attack suggested deliberate targeting of the buses with no military targets nearby, which Ukrainian authorities called evidence of war crimes. Ukraine, the correspondent added, needed more air defence systems and especially Patriot interceptors, and had stopped announcing interception rates because of shortages.

The programme also reported that Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham was in Berlin and said the UK was open to Germany joining an international programme to build the next generation of fighter aircraft. After meeting Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the two leaders ratified an agreement to boost security cooperation and combat cyber attacks and other threats. Burnham described the ratification of the Kensington treaty as a way to improve European security and help grow economies and living standards. The report said he wanted deeper cooperation with the European Union and would discuss it further at an upcoming UK-EU summit expected later in November. A German commentator said Britain moving closer to the EU would be widely welcomed in Germany, though future EU membership would depend on broader EU decisions and concerns about whether a future UK government could reverse it. The commentator also contrasted Merz's unpopularity with Burnham's popularity.