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ITV News at Ten
Monday 19 October 2026 · 22:00 BST · 30m · 6 stories · 9 annotated moments · 26 of 30 min on news stories (87%)
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ITV News at Ten reported that curfews were imposed in Lille, Nice and parts of Paris after weekend violence during anti-government protests, with mayors given powers to restrict movement. More than half a million people had protested nationwide on Saturday and at least 2,000 were arrested, while businesses cleaned up and the resale site Vinted removed items believed to have been looted. The report said student demonstrations over schools had widened into complaints about the cost of living and public services, that President Macron vowed those responsible would be held to account and began a Middle East tour, and that Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced new curfew powers while Marine Le Pen warned democracy was under threat. It also reported President Trump blaming the riots on immigration and Macron’s border policies, and a correspondent in Kansas saying Trump was using the unrest politically ahead of midterms, where a Senate seat was in play.
Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of war, was reported to have belittled NATO allies’ contribution in Afghanistan, including the UK, joking that ISAF stood for I Saw Americans Fighting. Downing Street said the facts spoke for themselves and that 457 British personnel died, while a veteran called the remarks disrespectful. The programme also reported that King Charles would not apologise for slavery during his visit to Guyana despite demands from Guyana’s president and reparations activists, following UK government advice, and that at the Russell Brand trial a third woman alleged he grabbed her breasts and forced a sex act in a bar toilet, with the defence suggesting she went willingly and Brand denying seven charges.
Russia fired 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region, hitting 28 energy facilities and leaving more than half a million people without electricity, heat and water, the broadcast reported. It described a home in Kharkiv for elderly Ukrainians who had lost relatives to the war, including a 75-year-old whose wife was killed by a drone, and residents making camouflage nets. Finally, it reported Japan’s launch of an H-3 rocket carrying a spacecraft on a five-year mission to collect ten grams of dust from the Martian moon Phobos and return it to Earth.
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Donald Trump, US President
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Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War
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Doug Beattie, Unionist politician
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King Charles, King
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Eric Phillips, most prominent voice in the Caribbean, demanding that Britain acknowledges its crimes
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Russell Brand, presenter
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Claim Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Russian strikes targeted energy infrastructure in Kyiv, hitting a thermal power plant and causing power cuts, with Zelensky saying energy infrastructure was the main target.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 23:59-24:04
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Claim Russian missile strikes hit Kyiv energy infrastructure, killing two
Russian strikes targeted energy infrastructure in Kyiv, hitting a thermal power plant and causing power cuts, with Zelensky saying energy infrastructure was the main target.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 24:04-24:14
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Contested quote Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
Emma Murphy, News at Ten, Kharkiv. Sad story. Now finally it will take five years and cost millions of pounds and all to collect ten grams of dust from one of the moons of Mars. A teaspoonful. A Japanese space mission lifted off tonight. It is going where Russia has trialled and failed to have gone before.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 28:17-28:24
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Charged quote Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
Sad story. Now finally it will take five years and cost millions of pounds and all to collect ten grams of dust from one of the moons of Mars. A teaspoonful. A Japanese space mission lifted off tonight. It is going where Russia has trialled and failed to have gone before. To the surface of Phobos, where moon dust is even more valuable than gold dust.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 28:24-28:25
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Charged quote Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
A teaspoonful. A Japanese space mission lifted off tonight. It is going where Russia has trialled and failed to have gone before. To the surface of Phobos, where moon dust is even more valuable than gold dust. On a remote island in the dead of night. A thunderous liftoff for Japan's H-3 rocket. Carrying the hopes of the country's space agency
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 28:32-28:37
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Claim Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
A Japanese mission is due to launch later today to collect a sample from Phobos and return it to Earth.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 28:47-28:53
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Claim Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
Russia previously attempted and failed to land on Phobos.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 29:46-29:50
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Claim Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
The mission is intended to bring roughly 10 grams of Phobos material back to Earth in 2031.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 29:50-29:57
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Charged quote Japan launches mission to return samples from Mars moon Phobos
While the second theory is that Phobos and Deimos is a result of an asteroid captured by the gravity of the planet. So it will open the window in time. It will go back and understand better the early evolution of our solar system. Archaeology in space. Uncovering the secrets of our solar system. The story of the place we all call home. Philip Sime, News at Ten.
ITV, ITV News at Ten, 19 October 2026, 30:31-30:36
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