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Mornings
Thursday 24 September 2026 · 06:00 BST · 30m · 6 stories · 15 annotated moments · 23 of 30 min on news stories (76%)
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Donald Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington for a three-day state visit, meeting the Chinese delegation at Joint Base Andrews. The two presidents were due to discuss AI, trade and Taiwan, with Iran also on the agenda, and an agreement had already been reached by negotiating teams to extend a trade truce. A Sky News correspondent described the scale of the welcome as notable and said trade was the easier issue while Taiwan and AI governance remained more difficult. At the UN Security Council, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei warned that AI is at a crossroads, citing the risk of losing control and of power concentrating in too few hands; they said no one person, company or country should be able to use the most powerful AI models to impose their worldview on everyone else. California Governor Gavin Newsom pointed to state safety and transparency laws and a new executive order on a kill switch, while a Sky News technology correspondent said the companies are in a race between countries and that dire warnings were unlikely to be heeded unless politics changed.
Exclusive YouGov polling for Sky News projected a hung parliament if a general election were held tomorrow, with Labour on 241 seats and needing support from the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and either the SNP or Plaid Cymru to form a government. The Conservatives were projected on 130 seats and Reform on 123, still short of a majority together and with no route to power in the projection, while the Lib Dems were on 71, the SNP on 40, Plaid on 15 and the Greens on nine. Tony Blair told Andy Burnham the UK should commit to rejoining the European Union within the next 10 years, in a Tony Blair Institute report calling for a new structured post-Brexit relationship and citing Canada's associate-member talks. A political correspondent said Burnham had not ruled out putting the proposal in Labour's next manifesto but was tied to what the party won in 2024, and that he wanted a UK-EU summit later this year.
Paula McGowan said she felt betrayed and disgusted after discovering that 38 people had been investigated for viewing her late son Oliver's medical records; Bristol NHS Foundation Trust apologised, and a Sky investigation found most NHS staff involved in data breaches received verbal or written warnings and few were dismissed. Tensions surrounded Ireland's two Nations League matches against Israel, with the first at a neutral venue and calls for a boycott; fans rejected the idea that Irish society is inherently anti-Semitic. Other stories included the son of Israel's ambassador to the United States being critically injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank, a US judge ordering President Trump to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico, and Andy Burnham calling for the ban on football fans drinking in the stands to be scrapped.
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- 5:40
Sam Altman, OpenAI
“OpenAI's Sam Altman”
- 5:40
Dario Amodei, Anthropic
“Anthropic's Dario Amodei”
- 7:08
Gavin Newsom, California Governor
“As you know, we're the first in the country to do frontier model, LLM model, safety and”
- 19:05
Paula McGowan, mother
“I felt betrayed.”
- 1:18 Story begins Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
- 2:01
Claim Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
A US president met a foreign leader at Joint Base Andrews for the first time since the 1960s.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 2:01-2:08
- 3:02
Claim Xi Jinping to meet Trump at White House
The US Treasury Secretary announced that the US-China bilateral trade truce was extended to January.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 3:02-3:17
- 5:30
- 5:30
Claim Australia says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal after UN AI warnings
Heads of leading AI companies discussed advanced AI risks and the pace of development at the UN, warning that AI could escape human control and threaten global security.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 5:30-5:36
- 5:40
Claim Australia says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal after UN AI warnings
Heads of leading AI companies discussed advanced AI risks and the pace of development at the UN, warning that AI could escape human control and threaten global security.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 5:40-5:48
- 5:50
Claim Australia says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal after UN AI warnings
Heads of leading AI companies discussed advanced AI risks and the pace of development at the UN, warning that AI could escape human control and threaten global security.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 5:50-5:54
- 9:13
- 14:46
- 14:46
Claim Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
Tony Blair told Andy Burnham that the UK should rejoin the EU within a decade and called for an end to Keir Starmer's Brexit red line.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 14:46-14:57
- 14:46
Claim Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
Tony Blair told Andy Burnham that the UK should rejoin the EU within a decade and called for an end to Keir Starmer's Brexit red line.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 14:46-14:57
- 16:05
Claim Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
Tony Blair told Andy Burnham that the UK should rejoin the EU within a decade and called for an end to Keir Starmer's Brexit red line.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 16:05-16:10
- 16:25
Claim Andy Burnham gives first Labour conference speech as PM
Tony Blair told Andy Burnham that the UK should rejoin the EU within a decade and called for an end to Keir Starmer's Brexit red line.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 16:25-16:34
- 18:25
- 19:05
Charged quote Bristol trust investigates staff after Oliver McGowan records accessed hundreds of times
Oliver McGowan was an 18-year-old autistic man whose tragic death in 2016 exposed critical shortcomings in healthcare training. It's hard to put into words. I felt betrayed. I felt disgusted, actually, is another word. Deeply hurt and really, really disappointed. Now, 10 years after his death, his mother, Paula, tells me about the horror
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 19:05-19:07
- 19:07
Charged quote Bristol trust investigates staff after Oliver McGowan records accessed hundreds of times
whose tragic death in 2016 exposed critical shortcomings in healthcare training. It's hard to put into words. I felt betrayed. I felt disgusted, actually, is another word. Deeply hurt and really, really disappointed. Now, 10 years after his death, his mother, Paula, tells me about the horror of finding out his medical records had been accessed
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 19:07-19:10
- 19:48
Contested quote Bristol trust investigates staff after Oliver McGowan records accessed hundreds of times
against the NHS again to bring about change so our personal records are better protected? Where is the accountability? Because I'm not really seeing it and what they're doing so far is not working. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, which was responsible for Oliver's care, say they're deeply sorry for the stress and anxiety
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 19:48-19:51
- 20:35
Charged quote Bristol trust investigates staff after Oliver McGowan records accessed hundreds of times
the staff involved in these cases only get a verbal or written warning. Few are dismissed. I can't understand why somebody would do what they've done. I feel that they've dehumanised Oliver yet again because he was dehumanised in the treatment that he received and even after his death. Ashish Joshi, Sky News.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 20:35-20:40
- 23:30
- 23:52
Claim Ireland Nations League matches against Israel proceed amid boycott calls
Ireland are playing Israel in the Nations League amid calls for a boycott of the games.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 23:52-23:59
- 24:33
Claim Ireland Nations League matches against Israel proceed amid boycott calls
The Football Association of Ireland wants Israel excluded from international competitions but also wants Ireland to play to avoid disqualification.
Sky News, Mornings, 24 September 2026, 24:33-24:43
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