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Sky News Today with Sam Washington
Saturday 26 September 2026 · 10:00 BST · 30m · 6 stories · 15 annotated moments · 22 of 30 min on news stories (74%)
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The broadcast began with reports that Manchester City had been found guilty of all but one of 115 charges of alleged breaches of Premier League financial regulation, with Premier League clubs planning legal action and the club expected to appeal. Lisa Nandy said she hoped the matter could be resolved fairly and swiftly. The Prime Minister was then reported to be heading to Liverpool for his first Labour Party conference since taking office, amid an in-party disagreement over immigration reforms. Angela Rayner was said to have raised concerns about changes affecting foreign care workers and people already in the UK, while Shabana Mahmood's immigration crackdown was described as central to her role as Home Secretary; Lisa Nandy insisted there was no cabinet rift.
A memorial was being unveiled in Hampshire honouring more than 100 haemophiliac boys treated in the 1970s and 1980s who were understood to have been subject to unethical research. The report noted 122 boys at the Lord Mayor Treloar College, with only around 30 still alive at the time of the infected blood inquiry in 2024. Survivors had been given 60,000 pounds in compensation, with calls for that to be increased and police considering whether there should be any prosecution. Later, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping confirmed they would meet twice more this year after a three-day summit in Washington ended with no major breakthroughs, with discussion of optics, a stable framework, a short tariff extension and unresolved structural problems.
Pope Leo was due to hold an open-air mass in Paris at the Place de la Concorde, with more than half a million people expected, during the first papal visit to France in 18 years. He had travelled to the restored Notre Dame Cathedral and joined 80,000 young people at the Stade de France, where he spoke about the dangers posed by AI. A later feature examined Meta glasses and smart glasses, looking at privacy, consent and safety, including viral videos of women being filmed seemingly without their knowledge or consent, potential uses such as live translation and help for visually impaired people, questions put to Meta, and the earlier Google Glass headset in 2013.
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- 1:53
Manchester City, club
“Manchester City FC's position remains consistent with the club's statement of February 2023.”
- 2:23
Lisa Nandy, Culture and Sports Secretary
“This is a case that has been running on for a really, really long time.”
- 7:26
Noel Gallagher, celebrity Manchester City fan
“A little surprised when I heard it on the radio this afternoon.”
- 14:33
Brian Langstaff, chair of the inquiry
“this disaster was not an accident.”
- 19:11
Professor Steve Tsang, director of SOAS China Institute, also author of a book on China's premier Xi Jinping
“Well, the optics certainly was what matters to both leaders,”
- 23:48
Pope Leo, Pope
“It has become essential for me to address the theme of artificial intelligence in my first encyclical letter”
- 1:21
- 4:39
Charged quote Manchester City 115 financial breach charges inquiry ongoing
And then that was overturned when they went to CAS. They cannot do that this time. So we should say that. But it's a huge reaction. It's an industrial scale of breaches of the financial rules. 114, you can imagine, that's a lot of things that have been broken. A lot of rules that have been broken. And I don't know if you mentioned it.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 4:39-4:45
- 9:13
- 9:53
Charged quote Labour Party Conference opens in Liverpool amid immigration pressure
So Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, has come out in an interview which has made the front page of The Times this morning, with really quite a broadside against the flagship policies of her key cabinet colleague, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, around illegal migration. Now, specifically, she's hitting out at the idea that foreign care workers
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 9:53-9:59
- 10:04
Claim Labour Party Conference opens in Liverpool amid immigration pressure
Angela Rayner criticised Shabana Mahmood's plan to make permanent residence harder for foreign workers, saying it was unfair, would affect foreign care workers, and that she stood by her earlier description of it as un-British.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 10:04-10:20
- 10:25
Contested quote Labour Party Conference opens in Liverpool amid immigration pressure
than they would have done previously, and particularly the fact that people already here would be affected by these changes. So she's described that as moving the goalposts for people that are already in this country. Now, these are comments that she made before, when she was a backbencher, and she was asked whether she still stands by them,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 10:25-10:30
- 11:02
Contested quote Labour Party Conference opens in Liverpool amid immigration pressure
under the previous Tory administration, really central to her position as Home Secretary. But speaking to Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, earlier on Sky News, she insisted that there was no cabinet rift, that everyone in cabinet values the role of foreign care workers, but also understands that there is a job to do to restore faith in the system.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 11:02-11:04
- 11:08
Contested quote Labour Party Conference opens in Liverpool amid immigration pressure
she insisted that there was no cabinet rift, that everyone in cabinet values the role of foreign care workers, but also understands that there is a job to do to restore faith in the system. But certainly it looks like that's setting conference up for some pretty frank discussions within the party. The Prime Minister will be focusing, we're told, on the cost of living
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 11:08-11:12
- 12:22
- 12:47
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
who are now understood to have been subject to unethical research. Let's bring in Emma Birchley, who joins me in the studio. Emma, just remind us the background to this, which really relates to possibly the biggest scandal, really, to engulf the NHS. Yes, so 1970s and 80s, imagine this, 122 boys, young boys, go to a boarding school in Hampshire.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 12:47-12:53
- 13:53
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
And the treatment that they were given at this school was new, and it basically used donated human blood plasma to create this kind of clotting agent. So they were treated as guinea pigs? They were treated as guinea pigs, right. So the report that came out after the inquiry said they were treated as objects of research, experimented on without their knowledge.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 13:53-13:55
- 14:25
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
And they, as you can see there, are embracing. It says on the bottom of this statue, remembering 122 haemophiliac pupils of Treloar's, infected as children, victims of unethical research. Plus there's a quote actually from the chair of the inquiry, Brian Langstaff, which says this disaster was not an accident.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 14:25-14:28
- 14:33
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
infected as children, victims of unethical research. Plus there's a quote actually from the chair of the inquiry, Brian Langstaff, which says this disaster was not an accident. You've got to imagine what it was like. One pupil, who's 55 now, arrived as a nine-year-old boy rolling hills and mansion swimming pools,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 14:33-14:38
- 15:04
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
Then in 1985 told that he was infected with HIV and hepatitis and had two to three years to live. Now, there were six boys in that room that day. He's the only one who's still alive. So, I mean, you can imagine what that's like and the guilt that a lot of these survivors are experiencing. And here we're going to hear from three other survivors of the Treloar's boys.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 15:04-15:11
- 15:37
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
It was all on children who were away from home without consent from their parents. We looked up to the doctors and the staff at the school and found out that they knew what was going on. We were prepared to hold our little arms out twice a week and let them take what they wanted and put in what they wanted and we just thought it was the norm.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 15:37-15:42
- 15:47
Charged quote Memorial to 122 infected blood victims unveiled at Treloar's school
and put in what they wanted and we just thought it was the norm. Everyone was doing it so we didn't complain. The whole point of having the memorial here is that it's a reminder that this tragedy did happen and that Mr Groan said this was no accident. Now, the survivors have all been given £60,000 in compensation.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 15:47-15:55
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- 19:19
Contested quote Xi leaves Washington after summit with trade truce extension and no major breakthroughs
Well, the optics certainly was what matters to both leaders, President Trump as well as Supreme Leader Xi Jinping. They both wanted to make sure the summit would be a great success, which it was, and they were not going to let bilateral issues, whether it is about AI, Taiwan, Iran or trade tariff, to be in their way to deliver that success.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 19:19-19:25
- 23:18 Story begins Pope Leo begins four-day visit to France
- 24:00
Charged quote Pope Leo begins four-day visit to France
It has become essential for me to address the theme of artificial intelligence in my first encyclical letter in order to place the human person at the heart of all reflection, so as not to lose our humanity amidst the paradise of machines that invade and shape our daily lives. It is urgent to train minds in ethical discernment capable of seeing what is morally good.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 26 September 2026, 24:00-24:06
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