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Channel 4 News
Wednesday 9 September 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 8 stories · 15 annotated moments · 49 of 60 min on news stories (81%)
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The Metropolitan Police announced they are investigating potential criminal offences following a Channel 4 News undercover investigation into Reform UK. Undercover journalists filmed Nigel Farage's advisors arranging for a foreign donor to pay for opinion polls and discussing a potential half a million pound donation. Dan Jukes and James Orr resigned, and Reform UK, Farage, and the advisors all deny wrongdoing. The Met said the potential offences are similar in nature to matters already under investigation by its special inquiry team.
Oil prices rose above $100 a barrel for the first time in six weeks following an escalation in strikes between the US and Iran around the Strait of Hormuz, with warnings that energy prices could continue to rise and affect households. Donald Trump was set to address Republicans at the party's first ever national convention ahead of US midterm elections, while the prime minister defended the government's decision to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
A senior employee at AI company Anthropic said there is a greater than 10% chance the technology could kill humanity within a decade, after a researcher left the firm warning it and OpenAI were acting irresponsibly. Hundreds of police officers attended the funeral of PC Matthew Blades, killed in a crash last month, with the incident prompting calls for police reform. Nepal was expected to demand contributions towards the $5 billion it says it needs to rebuild after catastrophic floods that killed more than 1,300 people, with scientists attributing the disaster to climate change. A new Gruffalo book, The Gruffalo's Granny, was released after more than 20 years, with author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler discussing the sequel.
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- 13:12 Story begins Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
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Charged quote Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
Our economics editor, Helia Ebrahimi, reports. More missiles in the air. Iran claiming it's hit a series of U.S. targets today. The Islamic Republic adding its own action movie soundtrack, but the brutal realities of war sent the price of oil rocketing after the U.S. military said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 13:49-13:50
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Charged quote Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
And I think you'll see that again today. Oil went above $100 a barrel, heading back to the peaks we saw just after the war started. With anxiety growing, the global oil reserves are running dangerously low. We already have six months of war, stocks being depleted, and now we're in a war situation, prices like diesel, like gasoline,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 14:22-14:27
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Charged quote Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
And as I say, a lot of the inflationary pressures are now embedded into the system here in the UK. The resilience is out of the system. The global economy is on something of a knife edge. There's nothing left in the system. The US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, says the Strait of Hormuz will be an irrelevant waterway
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 16:34-16:37
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Charged quote Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
And as I say, a lot of the inflationary pressures are now embedded into the system here in the UK. The resilience is out of the system. The global economy is on something of a knife edge. There's nothing left in the system. The US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, says the Strait of Hormuz will be an irrelevant waterway within two years.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 16:37-16:38
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Charged quote Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
or willpower, particularly up until our midterm elections on November 3. And so both of them seem to be convinced of the theory. I obviously hope that the United States can break the Iranian stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which is not in the global interest of anybody, any other state around the world,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 17:43-17:46
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Contested quote Fuel prices rise amid Houthi shipping attacks
Do you think that is actually possible now? I think the original goal, if it was a goal on February 28th when the war started, was to see the capitulation of the government of Iran by the killing of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, by the extraordinary level of bombing. That did not work. The Iranians didn't break.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 19:00-19:04
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Claim Trump addresses national convention ahead of US midterms
Some Republicans in tight races skipped the convention to distance themselves from Trump.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 22:18-22:24
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Claim Trump addresses national convention ahead of US midterms
Some Republicans in tight races skipped the convention to distance themselves from Trump.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 22:18-22:24
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- 24:41 Story begins Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
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Claim Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
An Anthropic senior employee reportedly said there is a greater than 10% chance AI could kill humanity within the next decade.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 24:48-24:59
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Claim Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
A former Anthropic researcher who also worked at OpenAI said neither company is acting responsibly.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 24:59-25:09
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Claim Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
Anthropic did not provide its latest Claude model to the UK's AI Security Institute for testing.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 25:09-25:16
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Claim Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
Anthropic did not provide its latest Claude model to the UK's AI Security Institute for testing.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 25:09-25:16
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Charged quote Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
that Anthropic and its rival, OpenAI, are racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling with our lives. The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. No other human activity poses this level of danger. But far from dismissing Jacob's concerns,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 26:01-26:07
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Contested quote Geoffrey Hinton warns AI could kill all humans
and asked how terrified we should be. I think we should be as terrified as we believe the science underneath that claim. The science underneath that claim is non-existent at worst and spurious at best. So why are people who work within AI making these warnings? Well, you know, the term walled gardens comes to mind.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 29:34-29:39
- 34:14 Story begins Funeral of PC Tom Clough held after A66 crash
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- 49:00 Story begins New Gruffalo book 'The Gruffalo's Granny' released
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Claim New Gruffalo book 'The Gruffalo's Granny' released
The new book is called The Gruffalo's Granny and features the Gruffalo's granny coming to stay.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 September 2026, 49:13-49:18
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