Newshour

Technology shares across the world have plummeted over concerns of a slowdown in AI development in the US. Newshour debates the rights and wrongs of data centres.
Also in the programme: Paraguay's banking scandal; and the harmful effects of space weather.
Correction: In this programme we referred to a demonstration in the Netherlands where 100 protesters broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam. We wrongly implied that the NGO Global Action Plan was coordinating this protest. However, the direct action at the data centre in the Netherlands was not coordinated or promoted by the Global Action Plan campaign.
(Picture: People walk past an electronic board displaying Japan's Nikkei 225 index trading in Tokyo, Japan, 06 November 2026. Credit: EPA)

More than 600,000 protesters have taken part in rallies and marches across France, according to France's interior ministry, with five unions joining a day of action demanding more money for wages and public services.
Also on the programme: flights are disrupted across Europe by bomb hoaxes. Who might be behind them? And the count continues in Mississippi to choose a new Senator.
(Picture: Riots in Lyons. Credit: Reuters)

Tens of thousands of people in France demonstrate against the rising cost of living - with the police also out in big numbers. We hear from one of the unions organising today's protests and strikes.
Also in the programme: another series of bomb threats against commercial flights in Europe; and what will the Democrats' sweeping victories in the midterm elections mean for America's war in Iran and its relations with Israel?
(IMAGE: Protesters demonstrate against rising living costs and cuts to public services in Paris, France, 05 November 2026 / CREDIT: EPA)

Following the Democrats' win in the midterms, Republicans have begun asking questions of Donald Trump and his Cabinet.
In a midterms special from Washington DC we hear from a newly elected Congresswomen in Texas, a Kansas rancher who changed his vote from Republican to Democrat, and experts across the United States.
(Photo: President Donald J Trump speaks to press inside the ballroom construction site at the White House in Washington, DC following US midterms results. Credit: Annabelle Gordon, EPA/Shutterstock)

The Democrats have won the Senate and the House in US midterm elections, taking control of Congress for the rest of Donald Trump's presidency. Mr Trump says he will use his veto. We're live in Washington DC hearing from both sides and looking at US foreign policy.

(Photo: Attendees react to reports of Michigan Governor candidate Jocelyn Benson being projected as the winner during Michigan Democrats' election night watch party in Detroit, Michigan, USA, 04 November 2026. Credit: Sarah Yenesel, EPA/Shutterstock)