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Channel 4 News
Monday 17 August 2026 · 19:00 BST · 1h · 9 stories · 15 annotated moments · 47 of 60 min on news stories (78%)
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The broadcast led with the Middle East, reporting that Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman over Iran peace talks, while his envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Hamas leadership in an effort to advance a Gaza disarmament plan, which Netanyahu had rejected. The report also covered settler violence in the West Bank and the impasse over the US-led peace plan.
In the UK, it was reported that someone posing as Trump's chief of staff exchanged messages with Andy Burnham, and the Metropolitan Police announced a 20% increase in stop and search, with concerns about racial disparity. A vigil for Professor Jason Arday, who was found dead, drew large crowds and calls for an inquiry into press harassment. The government defended its wildfire alert, and a decision on the Rosebank oil field was pending.
In Russia, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on the Yabloko party, and its deputy chairman was jailed for 11 years; an exiled opposition leader spoke about his flight. Elsewhere, a Russian missile caused an explosion in Moldova, Somali troops pushed opposition fighters out of Baidoa, and wildfires continued across parts of the UK.
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- 6:49 Story begins US announces new sanctions to isolate Iran
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Charged quote GB News investigation reveals anti-Farage links in standards committee
Jason Arday's supporters say he had anything but. This time last week, I was with Jason because we knew Jason was suffering. We knew that he felt hounded by those rabid wolves. Jason wouldn't dare leave the house. And we said, we'll get a taxi for you. We held him in our arms. We told him he was loved.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 24:34-24:43
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Charged quote GB News investigation reveals anti-Farage links in standards committee
We held him in our arms. We told him he was loved. He held Diane's hands and he said, I love you. But he said, they're hounding me to death and I cannot see a way out. The news on Friday that Cambridge University's youngest black professor had been found dead after weeks of questions over his integrity
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 25:14-25:27
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Contested quote GB News investigation reveals anti-Farage links in standards committee
after weeks of questions over his integrity in both academia and his upcoming book has caused a public reckoning over his treatment. To some, the scrutiny was fair and in the public interest. To others, it went way beyond that, an unrelenting stream of criticism and public humiliation that was not bestowed on white colleagues
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 25:41-25:45
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
And a leading banker who predicted that Russia was heading for social and economic crisis was summarily dismissed. It's an all too familiar fate for anyone trying to speak out against President Vladimir Putin. Political opposition in Russia is silenced in many ways. With the policemen's battle, or at the point of an assassin's gun,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 30:10-30:16
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
was summarily dismissed. It's an all too familiar fate for anyone trying to speak out against President Vladimir Putin. Political opposition in Russia is silenced in many ways. With the policemen's battle, or at the point of an assassin's gun, or in a nondescript Moscow courtroom. Today, a decision to uphold a ban on Yabloko,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 30:18-30:22
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
held his wife's hand as he, in another court, was sentenced to 11 years and one month in prison. His crime, sharing a post containing a Daily Mirror front page, deemed seditious under Orwellian Russian law. The party's supporters, meanwhile, were arrested en masse. Words cannot convey how terrifying this is.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 30:51-30:59
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
This isn't just unfair. It is the sheer absurdity of modern Russia, the absurdity of this state and this regime. It goes without saying that defying Vladimir Putin is a risky business. You'll likely end up jailed or dead like Alexei Navalny. The biggest thorn in the Kremlin side survived an attempted poisoning
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 31:21-31:29
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
that defying Vladimir Putin is a risky business. You'll likely end up jailed or dead like Alexei Navalny. The biggest thorn in the Kremlin side survived an attempted poisoning before meeting his demise in a Siberian penal colony in 2024. Since then, the screw has been tightened on opposition groups as Putin's troubles mount.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 31:29-31:39
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
survived an attempted poisoning before meeting his demise in a Siberian penal colony in 2024. Since then, the screw has been tightened on opposition groups as Putin's troubles mount. Ordinary Russians are paying a heavier price for the war that he started. Ukraine's long-range drones have hit online retail,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 31:39-31:44
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
in a Siberian penal colony in 2024. Since then, the screw has been tightened on opposition groups as Putin's troubles mount. Ordinary Russians are paying a heavier price for the war that he started. Ukraine's long-range drones have hit online retail, caused fuel shortages, while the casualty rate on the front line
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 31:46-31:50
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
has soared to unimaginable levels. The president, perhaps rattled by sliding approval ratings, has been touring the country. The Kremlin is desperate to maintain an air of control. That means for opposition figures like Boris Nadezhdin, life in Russia has simply become too dangerous. The man who once ran against Putin,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 32:05-32:08
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
advocating an end to the war and normal relations with the West, fled to Paris earlier this month. What hope now for those in Russia seeking to shake off the iron grip of Vladimir Vladimirovich? Well, earlier I spoke to Boris Nadezhdin, who you just saw, and I began by asking him his reaction to the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 32:26-32:33
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
Lev Schlossberg's imprisonment. Lev Schlossberg is a friend of mine. It's absolutely created decision of Russian court. It's absolutely crazy. Because 11 years of prison, because Lev said some words, he just said some words against the war. Which is what you were doing. Why do you think you were allowed to leave Russia?
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 32:52-33:06
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
But now the situation has changed dramatically for everybody who is against the war, who is against the politics of Putin. I have decided to exile from Russia because it was a question of my freedom, a question of my security. If you had stayed in Russia, do you think that you would now be in jail for many years like your friend Lev Schlossberg?
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 17 August 2026, 33:29-33:36
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Charged quote Yabloko ban upheld, Lev Schlossberg jailed for 11 years
Boris, you have one or two days. You have one or two days to leave Russia. I have no choice. And how does it feel? Other opposition figures like Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, they are dead. Many of your friends are in jail. What can you do from exile? Oh, it's very, very difficult questions. First of all, I should say that I knew
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