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Verified Live
Monday 19 October 2026 · 15:00 BST · 30m · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 24 of 30 min on news stories (79%)
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In France, the prime minister called on local authorities to impose partial curfews after a weekend of violent protests in Paris and other cities, with cars, buildings and shops set alight and looting reported. The interior ministry said nearly 2,400 people were arrested; the interior minister said police had lost control in some cities and offered to resign but remained in post. Marseille ordered a curfew from midday to 8pm, more protests were called for the following weekend, and clashes in Milan prompted Italy’s prime minister to hold an emergency security meeting.
In Ukraine, President Zelensky said Kyiv again received no early warning from allies before a major overnight Russian attack, which he said involved 16 ballistic missiles and more than 200 drones, damaged energy infrastructure, cut power to more than half a million homes and hit a shopping centre in Kyiv, killing one person and injuring several others. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied claims that the US had paused intelligence-sharing with Kyiv. In Kenya, a verdict was awaited in the trial of pastor Paul Mackenzie over the deaths of 190 children in a doomsday cult case in which followers were encouraged to starve themselves.
The UN’s World Food Programme said funding shortages were forcing it to cut life-saving assistance in Gaza by half a million people to around 1.1 million, and to reduce daily hot meals from 250,000 to 150,000, as winter approached. In Canada, voting was due to begin in Alberta on whether to start a process that could lead to a binding referendum on secession, with Prime Minister Mark Carney urging Albertans to remain in Canada and comparing the vote to Brexit. A mission was set to launch later in the day from Japan aiming to return a sample from the Martian moon Phobos to Earth by 2031.
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Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State
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Daniel Fried, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe
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Wall Street Journal, the editorial board
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Adelao Samir Al-Dalou, 39 years old and lives in Gaza
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World Food Programme, UN's World Food Programme
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Ian Cooper, an Alberta native and a political scientist at Dublin City University
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Claim Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Ballistic missile strikes were reported after midnight without warning, alongside unconfirmed speculation that US intelligence support may have been withdrawn.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 6:35-6:42
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Claim Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Trump denied that the US had stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 6:58-7:04
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
with one person killed and several others injured. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has denied claims the US had paused intelligence-sharing with Kiev. I don't know where he's getting these things from or why he's saying these things to the press. You should go back and ask him. There's been no pause.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 7:05-7:07
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Daniel, welcome here to BBC News. How believable are those denials, do you think? Given what Trump has announced or threatened or offered to Russia over the past 10 days, Secretary of State Rubio has a credibility problem, quite frankly. We know that President Trump has made offers to Russia which don't seem conditioned
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 7:57-8:02
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
quite frankly. We know that President Trump has made offers to Russia which don't seem conditioned on any constructive Putin move. He's also threatened Ukraine. The administration can't seem to get straight its story about Starlink and Starshield, that is the communication support for the Ukrainian defenses,
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 8:13-8:15
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Exactly on that point, exactly on that point for years, behind the scenes, the suspicion has always been that when there's pressure from Putin, Donald Trump's reverts to Moscow's talking points. Are you surprised though, over the last nine days, it's exploded out into the open, just open support for Vladimir Putin?
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 9:13-9:16
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
by pressing Zelensky. Zelensky has accepted US offers and Putin has rejected them. So there makes, I see no US gain from the last 10 days of US lurching about. And even administration spokesman and cabinet secretaries seem unconvincing as they try to explain it. I'll come back to that point then in a moment,
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 10:06-10:11
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
on Mr. Trump's budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests. What do you think the likelihood of that actually happening? The blowback against the Trump administration's bad ideas with respect to Russia and Ukraine has been intense. In the middle of a campaign season with members of Congress dispersed,
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 10:40-10:45
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
It's true that if the US completely abandons Ukraine and flips to Moscow side, Ukraine's position is much worse but the price of Ukrainians surrendering to Russia would be national extinction. Putin denies the existence of the Ukrainian nation. Ukrainians know that. So there's no good deal for them.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 12:26-12:29
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
It's true that if the US completely abandons Ukraine and flips to Moscow side, Ukraine's position is much worse but the price of Ukrainians surrendering to Russia would be national extinction. Putin denies the existence of the Ukrainian nation. Ukrainians know that. So there's no good deal for them. They're going to fight on.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 12:29-12:32
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
So there's no good deal for them. They're going to fight on. And I think the American resistance to some kind of great power condominium, some latter-day Yalta to divide up Ukraine is going to be swift and negative and I don't think Trump can carry the day. A final quick question because you were trying
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 12:44-12:48
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Charged quote Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Some think that Putin has something on Trump. I'm not so sure of that. I think that Trump is motivated by a kind of inclination toward great power deals. He likes deals with dictators. It suits him. He doesn't like the US free world strategy from Truman through Reagan. So I think Trump's strategic instincts
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 13:48-13:51
- 16:06 Story begins WFP cuts Gaza food aid by a third as winter nears
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Claim Alberta votes on starting separation process as Carney urges remain
A referendum is scheduled for Monday for Albertans to decide whether to start a separation process.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 20:27-20:34
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Claim Alberta votes on starting separation process as Carney urges remain
A referendum is scheduled for Monday for Albertans to decide whether to start a separation process.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 21:14-21:23
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Claim Alberta votes on starting separation process as Carney urges remain
A referendum is scheduled for Monday for Albertans to decide whether to start a separation process.
BBC News, Verified Live, 19 October 2026, 21:14-21:23
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