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Channel 4 News
Friday 9 October 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 7 stories · 15 annotated moments · 49 of 60 min on news stories (81%)
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The broadcast led with political turmoil in the UK. Zack Polanski's leadership of the Green Party was questioned after Labour's Sagal Abduwali won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election to replace Keir Starmer; the Greens recorded their second-highest parliamentary by-election vote, but some party figures said Polanski had shown a failure of leadership by missing a conference vote on a motion declaring Zionism is racism. Polanski later said he would have voted against the motion. Green deputy leader Rachel Millward defended the party's result and Polanski, while Green MP Ellie Chowns said he had made an error and hoped he would reform policymaking. Separately, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey faced a leadership challenge after Treasury spokesperson Charlie Maynard resigned and was understood to be seeking a vote of no confidence; deputy leader Daisy Cooper and former leader Tim Farron backed Davey, while the Liberal Democrat leader of Devon County Council, Julian Brazil, said a change was needed to improve the party's cut-through.
Next, the programme reported that the US imposed further sanctions on the International Criminal Court as the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge. Pillay joked about sharing the prize with Donald Trump and spoke of defending the rule of law; Israel's prime minister and foreign ministry criticised the award, while the ICC president appealed for international support and eight countries including the UK reaffirmed their support. Former attorney general Dominic Grieve said the US was acting in a rogue fashion and warned the sanctions could damage the international sanctions regime. The broadcast also reported that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Nidal Hasan, sentenced to death for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, would be executed by military firing squad on 3 December and that the execution would be live streamed; the move caused outrage, President Trump approved it, and the vice president cast doubt on whether it would happen. It further reported that a man was shot and wounded in his car by US immigration agents in New York while his five-year-old son was in the back seat; the US government defended the officers, saying they were unaware the child was in the car and accusing the man of using the car as a weapon.
Later, an official review by Professor Peter Fonagy found unprecedented and growing levels of common mental health conditions among young people, particularly young women aged 16 to 24, and said the current system was not fit for purpose; the government said it was considering the recommendations for its mental health strategy. The bulletin also reported that flash flooding in part of Santiago, Chile, prompted a state of emergency, and that a tornado in Marsala, Sicily, injured at least 10 people and damaged properties. In a later interview, author Michael Lewis discussed his book Blockers, about federal workers who resisted the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle parts of the US government.
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Claim Zack Polanski faces leadership questions after by-election and Zionism motion
Labour's Sagal Abdiwali, a local council leader, won the by-election with 45% of the vote to Zack Polanski's 33%.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 2:01-2:10
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Claim Zack Polanski faces leadership questions after by-election and Zionism motion
Labour's Sagal Abdiwali, a local council leader, won the by-election with 45% of the vote to Zack Polanski's 33%.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 3:30-3:35
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Claim Zack Polanski faces leadership questions after by-election and Zionism motion
Zack Polanski did not take part in the vote on the Green Party's Zionism motion and said he did not support it or would have voted against it, citing disagreements including a one-state solution.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 5:24-5:32
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Claim Zack Polanski faces leadership questions after by-election and Zionism motion
Zack Polanski did not take part in the vote on the Green Party's Zionism motion and said he did not support it or would have voted against it, citing disagreements including a one-state solution.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 6:11-6:15
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Claim Zack Polanski faces leadership questions after by-election and Zionism motion
Former Jewish Greens policy officer Joshua Alston criticised Zack Polanski's leadership and called for his resignation.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 7:03-7:11
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Claim Charlie Maynard resigns and calls for Davey replacement
Liberal Democrat frontbencher Charlie Maynard resigned and called for Ed Davey to be replaced as party leader.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 14:26-14:32
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Claim Charlie Maynard resigns and calls for Davey replacement
Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper and Christine Jardine rejected calls to replace Ed Davey, with Cooper saying most Lib Dem MPs support him leading the party into the next election and are angry at the distraction.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 14:32-14:38
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Claim Charlie Maynard resigns and calls for Davey replacement
Julian Brazil said the Liberal Democrats were not making the cut-through they should and supported a change of leader in the medium to long term.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 16:55-17:00
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Contested quote Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize as US sanctions ICC
Today, we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world. The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency. Today, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted, the Nobel Prize Committee has lost its moral compass. It has awarded its highest honor to a bigot.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 21:54-22:01
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Charged quote Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize as US sanctions ICC
the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where she was a judge, was told it would face more sanctions from the United States. Either the ICC will end its threats or we will end the ICC. And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American service members for their defense to rein in this rogue court.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 22:44-22:49
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Charged quote Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize as US sanctions ICC
And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC and that rely on American service members for their defense to rein in this rogue court. Well, the US is behaving hysterically and immorally. I think it's crazy for them to say Americans are in danger from this court. They're not members of the court,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 22:58-23:03
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Charged quote Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize as US sanctions ICC
so Americans can't be prosecuted. That's a very basic mistake that they've made. But it also reflects uneasily upon their democratic allies. How can we go into battle with a country that doesn't believe in war crimes? Now, Navi Pillay's moment in the spotlight is overshadowed by an international row. The Israelis accuse her
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 23:26-23:32
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Contested quote Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize as US sanctions ICC
the international sanctions regime which the United States has hitherto supported operates. That's the real seriousness of this. I mean, it does show the United States is operating quite frankly in an utterly rogue fashion. I mean, we listed some of the countries there, you know, the UK, Europe, Japan, Canada,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 26:29-26:35
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Claim Trump cancels live stream of Fort Hood shooter execution
There has been no public execution in the modern-era United States, with the last public execution reported as about 90 years ago.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 28:32-28:40
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Claim Trump cancels live stream of Fort Hood shooter execution
President Trump approved the decision.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 9 October 2026, 28:59-29:02
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