ITV Evening News

The head of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, used his annual speech on national security to warn that artificial intelligence in hostile hands could enable dangerous knowledge about bioweapons to reach people who mean harm or be used to generate new pathogens. He said the UK faced greater potential danger from foreign states than at any time since the Cold War, that MI5 was devoting more resources to state threats than during the Cold War, and that its state threats caseload had quadrupled over the past decade. The broadcast also reported that the man who died after entering a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster was understood to be 20-year-old William Chapman; he had asked people to take photos of him with the tigers before getting in, the park remained closed, and Doncaster Council launched a health and safety investigation.

In Ukraine, Kharkiv was reported to have come under a sustained Russian attack, with at least nine sites hit overnight and four people killed in a residential tower block, while Kyiv was also hit by drones and ballistic missiles, killing at least two people. The IMF warned that conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East would continue to hit economies including the UK, forecasting higher inflation next year because of food and energy costs, though it said UK growth would be better than thought. The programme also reported that the owner of Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles had apologised after a cyber attack affecting its UK brands, that ASOS had confirmed unauthorised access to some personal data, and that the housing ombudsman's online service was experiencing a cyber security incident. In the United States, 911 recordings revealed delays in sending emergency responders to Christa Pike after her execution failed in Tennessee; she was later discharged from hospital and returned to prison, and all executions in the state were suspended.

ITV News reported that thousands of children a year were being treated in NHS corridors, waiting areas or the backs of ambulances in England, including two-year-old Finley Roberts, who spent hours in an A&E corridor shortly before he died and whose parents described the system as broken. The head of the independent football regulator, David Kogan, told ITV News he would resign if there was political interference over Manchester City, as a report found 94% of clubs were making a loss and many were financially precarious. France saw another day of nationwide student protests over conditions in public secondary schools, with a car set alight in Paris and tear gas fired by police. Nine roller coasters across the United States were shut after a man died falling from a ride at a Six Flags park in Georgia. A union warned that Poundland could fall into administration within days, while the company said it was bemused by that suggestion and claimed its recovery was working. Finally, Baroness Jane Campbell used an AI-generated version of her own voice to deliver a speech in the House of Lords, a first for a legislative body, after her assistant had previously read her speeches because of spinal muscular atrophy.