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The Wrap With Gillian Joseph
Saturday 24 October 2026 · 22:00 BST · 30m · 4 stories · 12 annotated moments · 28 of 30 min on news stories (95%)
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More than 400,000 people took to the streets across France in protests over the cost of living. After largely peaceful demonstrations, clashes broke out in cities including Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille, with police using tear gas and water cannon; the French Interior Ministry said almost 1,000 people were arrested and the number was expected to rise. The protests began as student demonstrations over teacher shortages and school buildings before widening to cost-of-living and inequality concerns, and similar demonstrations were reported in Tirana, Rome, Madrid and Lisbon over tuition fees, living costs, pensions and housing.
Major weather warnings were in place across northern parts of the UK as Storm Boulot, the second named storm of the season, approached. The Met Office amber warning for wind highlighted potential risk to life from flying debris, traffic disruption and flooding, while travel was affected by ferry cancellations and rail restrictions; the storm came a day after Storm Austin hit the south-west, leaving thousands of homes without power.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed it received a January 2019 letter containing allegations about Thomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, and that the details were not shared with other law enforcement agencies. Thomas Markle is being investigated by police in the Philippines over claims that he kept child sexual abuse images at his home, allegations he denies; the Met said it was considering referring itself to the IOPC. The government also looked set to announce a £7 million fund in the budget for a feasibility study into a possible Olympics and Paralympics bid for northern England in the 2040s, with the Prime Minister supporting the idea and the Mayor of London arguing London should be part of any UK bid.
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Charged quote Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
The British police, whatever people think about them, are much better at dealing with large demonstrations. Rob? There's no doubting there are criminal elements among the protesters, but let's remember what this was all about at the beginning, which was about kids protesting about the state of their education.
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 2:30-2:34
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Claim Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
Arrest figures were reported as nearly or more than 1,000, with the total expected to rise.
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 2:47-2:55
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Charged quote Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
with police and that number is expected to rise. Our international correspondent Alex Rossi is in Paris and has our first report. France feels like a country that is under siege, with clouds of tear gas enveloping the streets of Paris. As protesters clashed with police and fought running battles, the politics of this country
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 3:02-3:12
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Claim Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
Protests that began as student demonstrations widened into a broader movement.
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 4:02-4:08
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Claim Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
Clashes in Marseille involved protesters throwing rocks and bottles and police using tear gas and sonic grenades.
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 6:31-6:39
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Contested quote Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
That's what they want us to believe, that where is the violence come from? We are cutting all social expenses, people cannot afford to live decently, they cannot feed their children, some people have to work like three jobs, it's where the violence come from. If you look up this way, the police are in pursuit of the protesters, they're running
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 8:14-8:30
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Contested quote Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
up and then passed by the police. And here you can see that these demonstrations, they are not over, the government, they have tried to clamp down, done their very best to squash this movement and they haven't done it. And the protests haven't been isolated to France with demonstrations spreading across
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 9:12-9:26
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Claim Mass French protests over cost of living turn violent
Demonstrations also occurred in several other European countries.
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 9:26-9:33
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Charged quote Storm Bulow shuts schools and disrupts Scotland travel
The wind speeds pretty steady but brisk, around about 40 miles an hour or so. But then around half past five this evening the full force of the storm began to show itself and the wind speeds now really quite brutal. The wind speed I'm guessing must be well over 50 to 60 miles an hour now. The expectation is that these speeds will reach something like 80 miles an hour tonight.
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 16:49-16:54
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Charged quote Storm Bulow shuts schools and disrupts Scotland travel
The expectation is that these speeds will reach something like 80 miles an hour tonight. The Amber weather warning for wind doesn't come into effect until nine o'clock but already this is potentially a very dangerous storm. It's low tide at the moment here in Blackpool. High tide is around about half past ten tonight which will coincide with the strongest of
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 17:09-17:14
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Charged quote Storm Bulow shuts schools and disrupts Scotland travel
And that is the issue isn't it, that we're unprepared for these extreme weather events and coming so close together. The world has changed, our climate has changed and we've not changed with it, you know, we were as you say all far too hot before, today I was in Wiltshire at a party, lots of the people couldn't get there because the trains weren't working properly and when
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 19:59-20:06
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Charged quote Meghan Markle responds to Thomas Markle abuse allegations
reach out, talk to us, and all the rest of it. All along, we now know behind the scenes this was shared, which, of course, he has denied. And now she wasn't the ice queen that she was being portrayed, not caring for her father, but actually she was rather concerned about what she'd been hearing. Yeah, and she said that the reason that she was distant from her father
Sky News, The Wrap With Gillian Joseph, 24 October 2026, 25:20-25:26
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