Sky News Today with Sam Washington

The safeguarding minister, Satvir Kaur, told Sky News that tech companies had not acted quickly enough against a dangerous online network targeting children, a month after an investigation exposed harmful content on social and gaming platforms. She said she had cried while watching the documentary and described the material as beyond her worst nightmares; the report said content was still being found on Roblox, TikTok, Discord and Telegram, while the companies said such content had no place on their platforms and outlined removal work. Ofcom pointed to investigations and more than £7 million in fines, and Labour MP Jess Asato said the Online Safety Act may need strengthening. Separately, Storm Austin left nearly 6,000 homes without power after gusts of up to 80 mph, caused travel disruption and further collapsed part of Brighton's West Pier, while Storm Bulow was forecast to bring an amber warning for damaging winds to much of Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland and northern England, with rain warnings and possible flooding.

The FBI said it would assist authorities in the Philippines investigating allegations that Thomas Markle, the Duchess of Sussex's estranged father, possessed child sex abuse images at his home. Markle denied the claims as "sick lies"; Meghan said she was made aware of disturbing allegations eight years ago through a letter to the Metropolitan Police, and Sky understood she had been advised not to make the letter public. She said her distance from her father and decision not to allow him contact with her children was to protect them, while it was understood there was an internal Met inquiry into what happened to the letter and that no investigation appeared to have taken place at the time. In France, 70,000 police and security forces were being mobilised ahead of protests over the cost of living and the state of schools, with shops boarded up in Paris and the Louvre exceptionally closed; the government said its response would be agile, mobile and effective after last weekend's violence, damage and looting. The White House said Melania Trump had secured a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for the city of Oleshky to allow humanitarian aid in and civilians out, with Donald Trump saying she wanted to save babies and rescue children in the Russian-controlled city, where a growing humanitarian crisis was reported.

The broadcast also examined what happened to climate protesters who had once been willing to risk arrest, noting that Extinction Rebellion roadblocks and mass arrests had largely disappeared from headlines despite a record hot summer and government approval of the Jackdaw gas field. It followed former activist Daisy Wyatt, now 26 and working in a cafe in Shrewsbury, who said she had felt small in the face of big issues and later had less capacity to worry during the cost-of-living crisis, and who said she disagreed with actions that became more disruptive to the everyday person. A lawyer, Raj Chada, said dozens of people had been remanded in custody or imprisoned in protest cases since 2019, and the report said harsher sentencing and policing had left civil disobedience in the name of climate thin on the ground.