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Sky News Today with Sam Washington
Saturday 3 October 2026 · 10:00 BST · 30m · 7 stories · 13 annotated moments · 22 of 30 min on news stories (72%)
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UAE prosecutors said a Flydubai co-pilot accused of trying to crash a plane attacked the captain with an axe in an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect was identified as Omani national Hamam al-Hamami, aged 29, and was allegedly subdued by passengers and crew on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. He was extradited from Saudi Arabia to the UAE, where the UAE is leading the investigation with Israeli input from Shin Bet and possibly Mossad; a central unanswered question is whether he acted alone. Two Iranian nationals, Salaam Ahmadayen and Rahman Salehi, were charged over a suspected terror plot against Jewish people in Manchester and were due in court; they were arrested on 20 September, the eve of Yom Kippur, and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said they had arrived in the UK via a small boat several years ago. Donald Trump said he had ruled out a diesel export ban after G7 nations agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil from emergency reserves to combat rising prices; analysis noted UK diesel pump prices above £2 a litre and the UK's low diesel stockpiles. Counter Terror Police also charged 28-year-old Joshua Kerry, already accused of murdering former MP Ann Widdecombe, with preparing acts of terror, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage; he was due at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
In Australia, ten people, including children, were injured after a car drove into crowds lining the street in Newcastle, north of Sydney, to cheer on the Newcastle Knights rugby team. A five-year-old girl and a 67-year-old man were in critical condition, and an 18-year-old driver was arrested; police said the incident was not deliberate but alleged he was driving erratically. In Lithuania, NATO jets were scrambled after a suspected drone entered its airspace from Belarus and Vilnius Airport was briefly closed. Russian shelling a few miles outside Kyiv injured four people, including a child, and caused a fire at two warehouses in Hostomel overnight, while a second major bridge in Kyiv was damaged as Russia stepped up strikes on the capital.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian families said they felt forgotten and fearful after their homes and a mosque were demolished. Israeli authorities said the community had no right to build on the land and the structures were unsafe, while Palestinian families disputed that and accused settlers of trying to displace them. A report from the Jordan Valley described Bedouin farmers coping with water scarcity and livestock hunger, a home demolished for the second time, a settler farm with planning permission nearby, and under international law the settler farm is illegal while the Bedouins should receive protection. The community also used a mobile clinic run by Medical Aid for Palestinians, with high levels of anxiety, depression and sometimes PTSD going untreated, and feared the demolition team would return.
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Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
Reports described a fight between the pilots, including a claim that one pilot stabbed the other and an Israeli media report that the plane descended almost 17,000 feet in a minute.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 1:24-1:29
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Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
UAE authorities described the incident as an attempted terrorist attack.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 1:24-1:29
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Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
The suspect or co-pilot was identified as Omani national Hamam al-Hamami.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 1:29-1:35
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Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
The suspect or co-pilot was identified as Omani national Hamam al-Hamami.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 1:29-1:35
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Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
The suspect or co-pilot was identified as Omani national Hamam al-Hamami.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 1:29-1:35
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Claim Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
Reports said the suspect had been barred from flying by Oman over extremist views.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 2:25-2:30
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Charged quote Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
They have now moved substantially on that issue. We have learned from the presidential advisor. They are now calling it clearly a terrorist incident, a terrorist attack in the skies. Now, of course, Israel very early on characterised it as such. We heard from the defence minister, Israel Katz. He said it was a jihadi-style incident.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 3:56-3:59
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Charged quote Dubai-Tel Aviv flight makes Saudi emergency landing after pilot fight
a terrorist attack in the skies. Now, of course, Israel very early on characterised it as such. We heard from the defence minister, Israel Katz. He said it was a jihadi-style incident. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said that it was a terror attack very early on. But that certainly seems to be now what investigators are dealing with.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 4:04-4:06
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Charged quote Two Iranian men remanded over alleged Manchester Jewish community bomb plot
And the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said that the pair arrived in the UK via a small boat several years ago. This is what she had to say in a statement. The news will be deeply distressing for our Jewish communities coming so soon after Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I know this will be especially true in Manchester
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 6:14-6:19
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Contested quote G7 agrees 100m barrel oil and diesel release as US drops export ban threat
Now, Donald Trump says that he has ruled out a diesel export ban. It's just hours after G7 nations agreed to release emergency fuel. A hundred million barrels of diesel and crude oil will be released from emergency reserves to combat rising prices. The US President claims that he pushed Europe to make the decision.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 6:42-6:49
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Claim Lithuania says NATO jets shot down drone from Belarus as Vilnius warns of Russian threat
A drone entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 16:28-16:39
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Claim Lithuania says NATO jets shot down drone from Belarus as Vilnius warns of Russian threat
Vilnius Airport briefly suspended flights due to drone activity.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 16:39-16:44
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Claim Lithuania says NATO jets shot down drone from Belarus as Vilnius warns of Russian threat
Four people, including a child, were injured in Russian shelling outside Kyiv, and a second major bridge in Kyiv was damaged.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Sam Washington, 3 October 2026, 16:53-17:02
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