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Saturday 8 August 2026 · 10:00 BST · 30m · 8 stories · 15 annotated moments · 26 of 30 min on news stories (87%)
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has denied fresh allegations that UEFA paid off an alleged lover while he was its General Secretary. The Daily Telegraph reports the woman received a six-figure sum, with UEFA confirming a departure payment and MBA fees were made, while Infantino's spokesperson called the claims categorically untrue. Meanwhile, counter-terror police investigating the murder of Ann Widdecombe have reopened an attempted burglary probe from April 2025 at a London address linked to Nigel Farage, citing a new line of inquiry.
Spain has imposed border controls on all travellers arriving from Italy for a month, retaliating against Italy's similar measures introduced after over 70,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta. The UK faces a fifth heatwave with parts of southern England potentially reaching 36 degrees Celsius, and a trip down the River Wye shows record-low water levels, with England receiving just 7% of average rainfall in July and half the country in drought. Two Metropolitan Police officers are under investigation over failures to properly deal with Simon Levy, who was convicted of murdering two women while on bail for sexual assaults; the IOPC has launched a probe after the Met referred itself. New data reveals 3,400 tonnes of partially used medicines were thrown away in England last year, potentially costing the NHS £480 million.
Despite a ceasefire announced in Gaza, bombs continue to fall, with the Gaza Health Ministry reporting at least 1,250 deaths since the truce began. Sky's reporting shows ongoing strikes, displacement, and a stalemate as Israel and Hamas disagree on withdrawal and disarmament. In US politics, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, a victory for the left, and if elected in November he would become America's first Muslim senator.
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Charged quote European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
plenty of fresh content for their shows. A very good morning and thank you for joining us here on Sky News. Now, after a torrid fortnight indeed for FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, he's facing fresh controversy today as with claims that his alleged lover was paid off by UEFA while he was its General Secretary.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 1:27-1:32
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Contested quote European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
Now, Jackie is in the newsroom for us with more on this. Hello, Jackie. It's been a sort of rich vein of material for us to report on, hasn't it? The last two weeks this drip, drip, drip seemingly tarnishing the reputation of Gianni Infantino. He denies this latest set of allegations but just how damaging do you think it is?
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 2:06-2:13
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Claim European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
The Daily Telegraph reported that UEFA made a six-figure payment to a woman alleged to have had an affair with Infantino during his time as UEFA's general secretary.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 2:56-3:07
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Claim European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
The Daily Telegraph reported that UEFA made a six-figure payment to a woman alleged to have had an affair with Infantino during his time as UEFA's general secretary.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 2:56-3:07
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Charged quote European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
and he was pictured with the secretary-general watching a women's football match laughing and joking as if nothing had happened. But behind the scenes, he must be quite worried about his job. Having said that, plenty of countries have come out in backing of Gianni Infantino. CAF, all of the African nations, their confederation, they all back him.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 4:15-4:19
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Charged quote European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
not the president of the Colombian FA, the Colombian president. Those are the circles that he mixes in and they have backed him, so he is not going to walk away from this job willingly. He is a president and is treated almost like the president of a country and that sort of power and being fated the way he is fated around the world
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 4:49-4:53
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Charged quote European federations seek to oust FIFA president Infantino
But where are those 19 votes going to come from? UEFA, we know, would like him out and they said we will boycott all of FIFA's events until we are satisfied that this whole debacle of trying to sell off portions of the World Cup will not happen again. So we know that UEFA don't want him in charge. But CONMEBOL, the South American countries have backed him.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 5:50-5:55
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Charged quote Spain imposes border controls on Italian travellers amid immigration row
This is an escalating row between normally allied countries. Yeah, that's right. And these tit-for-tat retaliations that we're seeing between both Rome and Madrid shows just how fraught sometimes the issue of migration can be to EU member states. Now, ever since those 72,000 migrants crossed over from Morocco to that tiny Spanish enclave,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 9:27-9:32
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Charged quote Spain imposes border controls on Italian travellers amid immigration row
That was certainly not the view of the Spanish government, who had asked the Italian government not to impose its border controls. But the Italian interior minister had said that he wasn't going to bow down to demands from Madrid, and so as a result, Spain has introduced as of midnight the total checks and balances on all travellers coming in to mainland Spain
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 10:17-10:23
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Charged quote PM chairs emergency Cobra meeting over extreme heat and wildfires
supporting life along the way, and giving us somewhere to escape. But if our rivers could talk, what would they be telling us? We confine our rivers, we put flood banks up, we treat them like a sewer. If we were still taking water out of the river, along with every other farmer who needs to irrigate,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 12:13-12:18
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Charged quote PM chairs emergency Cobra meeting over extreme heat and wildfires
and it shows you just how much the water levels have dropped. Now, that is common during summer seasons, but not this much, and some parts of this river are recording zero centimetres. I've never seen it this bad, this is the lowest I've ever seen it. It's peak fishing season, but this stretch of water is currently closed. And what's that, 22.4?
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 13:35-13:38
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Charged quote PM chairs emergency Cobra meeting over extreme heat and wildfires
Low levels also exaggerate existing problems like pollution. If I was a canoeist or a fisherman, I wouldn't want to fall in the river. You could end up with a very dodgy tummy. These algal blooms, a visible sign of declining river health. What you can see now is some of the lowest flows I think I've ever seen.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 14:21-14:24
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Charged quote PM chairs emergency Cobra meeting over extreme heat and wildfires
high temperature is really damaging. The second way it's affecting humans is that there's a moratorium on building new homes in part of the Lugg catchment, because the river simply can't take any more nutrient from those houses. So we have to find ways of fixing the river before we can fix more homes for people.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 14:56-15:01
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Charged quote Simon Levy convicted of double murder and rape
From what we know about the extent of failings and the fact that he could have been stopped much earlier, so it really is a devastating outcome and it just shows, I think, really what a terrible state our criminal justice system is in. The Independent Office for Police Conduct have now launched an investigation
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 18:36-18:49
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Charged quote Simon Levy convicted of double murder and rape
as the guilty verdicts were read out. For them, a measure of justice, even as police and prosecutors face serious questions. How was such a prolific offender left free to commit such horrendous crimes despite being monitored by the authorities? Barnaby Papadopoulos, Sky News. Also today, new data reveals
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 8 August 2026, 19:46-19:51
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