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Sky News Today
Saturday 31 October 2026 · 15:00 GMT · 30m · 7 stories · 15 annotated moments · 24 of 30 min on news stories (79%)
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An internationally weighted bulletin led with Europe-wide cost-of-living protests in Paris and gave its longest single slot, four minutes 44 seconds, to the Oleshky evacuation. The US surrogacy case ran four minutes 36 seconds and Andy Burnham's slavery apology four minutes 30 seconds, while UK politics and a business job-cut story also featured.
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- 4:35
President Zelensky, Ukrainian President
- 9:31
Andy Burnham, Prime Minister
- 10:11
Kemi Badenoch, Conservative leader
- 11:00
King Charles, King
- 1:14
- 2:09
Claim Europe-wide cost-of-living protests in Paris, Berlin and Tirana
Protests took place in multiple European cities including Tirana, Paris and Berlin, with tens of thousands marching in Paris.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 2:09-2:14
- 2:15
Contested quote Europe-wide cost-of-living protests in Paris, Berlin and Tirana
But if I sort of stand on tiptoes and look down the street, I can pretty much see protesters as far as the eye can see. So I would say pretty comfortably tens of thousands of people are here. So at the moment it's all been calm, a bit noisy, but calm, peaceful. The police have sort of led them slowly down a route that's probably taken them about two hours to march down.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 2:15-2:22
- 4:04
Claim Europe-wide cost-of-living protests in Paris, Berlin and Tirana
Protests took place in multiple European cities including Tirana, Paris and Berlin, with tens of thousands marching in Paris.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 4:04-4:16
- 4:21
- 4:21
Claim Civilians evacuated from Oleshky under local ceasefire
Buses evacuated people from Oleshky to both Russia, including a convoy that reached Anapa, and Ukraine.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 4:21-4:29
- 4:44
Claim Civilians evacuated from Oleshky under local ceasefire
Some aid had reached the town and a team had begun clearing mines.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 4:44-4:54
- 5:09
Claim Civilians evacuated from Oleshky under local ceasefire
Evacuees from Oleshky were reunited with family members in Ukraine.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 5:09-5:16
- 6:07
Contested quote Civilians evacuated from Oleshky under local ceasefire
It was a mission that also involved a ceasefire, which has held. The ceasefire obviously will come to an end in the not too distant future, perhaps about midnight. And there is a concern that this is going to herald the start of perhaps even greater fighting between Ukraine and Russia. We're not being told the exact numbers yet, but it's into the hundreds.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 6:07-6:14
- 7:52
Charged quote Civilians evacuated from Oleshky under local ceasefire
Other parts of Ukraine have had a natural tendency towards Russia in the far east, but not this section. So this has been an army of occupation in Russia and it's taken a long time for these people to be able to effectively get out and escape. Some have escaped with the help of volunteers here, but this now is the first significant number.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 7:52-8:00
- 9:05 Story begins King Charles ends Caribbean tour with unity warning
- 10:30
Claim King Charles ends Caribbean tour with unity warning
The Conservative Party leader said Commonwealth nations should look forward and the UK should not consider slavery reparations.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 10:30-10:38
- 10:51
Contested quote King Charles ends Caribbean tour with unity warning
and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already explained Britain's deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly 20 years ago. There is no need to do it again. Well, this comes as King Charles tours the Caribbean, where he's faced repeated calls for reparations and to say sorry.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 10:51-11:00
- 10:51
Claim King Charles ends Caribbean tour with unity warning
Kemi Badenoch opposed a formal apology for slavery.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 10:51-11:00
- 11:48
Claim King Charles ends Caribbean tour with unity warning
Britain has not formally apologised for its role in the slave trade and has not paid reparations.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 11:48-11:52
- 12:30
Claim King Charles ends Caribbean tour with unity warning
The Prime Minister of Barbados welcomed Andy Burnham's statement.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 12:30-12:36
- 13:35
- 13:35
Claim Mahmood cuts care worker settlement wait to five years
Shabana Mahmood was reported to be backing down from plans to make migrants wait longer for benefits, with social care workers potentially exempt.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 13:35-13:46
- 16:56
- 17:30
Claim Thomas Markle denies second alleged stash of child sexual abuse images in Mexico
Newspapers alleged that a second stash of child abuse images belonging to Thomas Markle was found in a lockup near his previous address in Mexico.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 31 October 2026, 17:30-17:44
- 19:06 Story begins Virgin Media O2 plans thousands of job cuts
- 23:08
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