What You Need To Know

In 1940 we had Dunkirk. In 2022 the people of Ukrainian have Mariupol - a symbol of defiance in defeat that has fired their belief in winning the war with Russia. But how did a few hundred fighters hold out surrounding forces 100 times stronger for so long? And - now it's effectively over - what does the near-apocalyptic siege on the port city’s steelworks tell us about the way this war is going?...

From Kiev to Kharkiv and now stalling across the Donbas, it’s fair to say Vladimir Putin’s war is not going to plan. So how are the Ukrainians continuing to defy the Russian invaders? How much longer could they hold out? And could they even win? Senior International Correspondent John Irvine recently ventured to the very brink of the frontline to see Ukrainian and western-delivered weaponry in act...

Cancer patients are hailing a new data frontier in medicine that is helping to improve their treatment options and extend lives. And it’s all based around the clues that lie in you and your family’s DNA. Science Editor Deborah Cohen tells Faye Barker what you need to know.

The families of young children with life-limiting conditions wouldn't put a price on the care they receive at hospices. But providing that crucial support is getting harder and harder at hospices in England because of a staff crisis almost twice as severe as the NHS. Political Correspondent Daniel Hewitt has been reporting on hospices for years after seeing how they eased his mother's pain before...

As seismic moments go in Northern Ireland’s history, Sinn Féin earning the right to hold the post of first minister is right up there. So what does their election success mean for power sharing in the short term? And what now is the long-term chance of a united Ireland and an end to the United Kingdom? Esteemed author, journalist and filmmaker Eamonn Mallie tells News At Ten Anchor Tom Bradby - wh...

Every May Russia holds victory parades to honour the Soviets who fought against the Nazis. But this year why are families of soldiers recently killed in Ukraine still so supportive of Vladimir Putin’s war against their neighbour? And what is state TV not telling them?

 Having travelled from the streets of Moscow to putin's rural heartland, ITV News News Editor Emma Burrows tells you what you need...

The Tories have lost control in Westminster - for now just the city council - but what does that defeat and other local election shocks mean for Boris Johnson? Is Keir Starmer right to hail Labour’s gains as a turning point for the party or will he be sunk by the latest beergate developments? And what impact could the local results have on a Lib Dem revival and the result of next election overall?...

UK inflation is at its highest in decades, with energy, food and fuel prices all soaring - triggering yet another likely rise in interest rates. So how did we get into this cost of living crisis? How much worse could it get? And will it ever end? Business Editor Joel Hills and Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana tell News At Ten Anchor Tom Bradby what you need to know.

ITV News has discovered hundreds of people remain stuck in prison today, under a law abolished a decade ago. They include an inmate convicted after stealing a cigarette who is still in jail 16 years later - while a 32-year-old man has never returned home after getting two years for stealing a bike at 17. Northern Reporter Sangita Lal, who reported on this exclusive and extraordinary story, tells I...

The Archbishop of Canterbury says it goes against God - Boris Johnson says it’s the morally right thing to do. So why has the UK’s plan to send thousands of migrants off to Rwanda proved so divisive? And could it still be stopped? Deputy Political Editor Anushka Asthana - who has the inside track on disagreements in the Home Office - and Political Reporter Shehab Khan - who has telling reactions f...

Life in lockdown may seem a distant memory in the UK - but deserted streets and empty supermarket shelves are a daily reality right now in China. So, amid rising anger at regular mass testing, quarantine centres dubbed 'Covid prison' and total restriction on movements, is the country’s hardline zero-Covid strategy finally at breaking point? Asia Correspondent Debi Edward tells News At Ten Anchor T...

It was just two years ago that Oxford University researchers first trialled the vaccine that would change the way the world has fought coronavirus. But with the battle ongoing - where do they think we stand now? Is enough being done to prepare the UK and the world for future Covid threats? And what might the next generation of booster vaccines look like? Oxford Vaccine Group director Professor And...

MPs have approved the plan to open an investigation into whether Boris Johnson misled the House over the infamous lockdown parties. So where does this now leave a prime minister who insists he won’t resign amid cries of a constitutional crisis? Political Editor Robert Peston tells Tom Bradby what you need to know as he reflects on some astonishing scenes in the House of Commons. In a typically for...

The battle for the Donbas has begun in the war in Ukraine so how is Russia hoping to take an eastern region that stretches for 300 miles. After the humiliation of failing to capture the surrounded capital of Kyiv, has Vladimir Putin learned from his mistakes as he begins the second phase of the invasion? Can Ukraine’s army continue to defy expectations and hold off the Russian forces? And how vita...

News at Ten anchor Tom Bradby speaks to Europe Editor James Mates and US Correspondent Robert Moore about their experience of reporting on war crimes committed in Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo. The veteran journalists discuss what lessons can be learned from those conflicts when considering whether Vladimir Putin or his Russian troops could be convicted of war crimes in Ukraine. It comes amid claims t...

They are the pills that the NHS believes could help us leave the pandemic behind. Drugs designed to protect the most vulnerable when they catch Covid and cut hospitalisations and deaths by almost 90%! But, as their rollout begins, why isn't everybody cheering? Science Editor Deborah Cohen tells ITV News presenter Faye Barker what you need to know. We also share the updated list of Covid symptoms a...

America calls Vladimir Putin a war criminal, while China still won’t admit Russia’s even invaded Ukraine. So why does the war in Europe look so different to those in power in Washington and Beijing? And what do the conflicting actions of the superpowers tell us about the prospect of a new world order? Asia Correspondent Debi Edward in Beijing and US Correspondent Emma Murphy in Washington DC tell...

"Nothing I have ever seen has been quite so shocking as loving parents prepared to see their children go to a fate unknown because they have no other choice." In this special first-person account, John Ray reflects on the shocking moment of utter desperation he found deep in the heart of Kabul earlier this year as Afghanistan sinks into the grip of a humanitarian crisis. Having reported in the cou...

Inflation and taxes are on the rise, wages are on the slide - and it’s about to get a whole lot worse. So what are April’s main price rises? And what help is on hand to deal with them? In this Cost of Living crisis special, Consumer Editor Chris Choi explains why things have got so desperate before guiding Faye Barker through all of April’s main price rises to give you what you need to know. And h...

Having delivered scoop after scoop on the Downing Street pandemic parties, UK Editor Paul Brand gives News at Ten Anchor Tom Bradby his expert analysis on the big new twist in the Partygate scandal. What now after the first wave of fines have been issued by the Met Police? Do they prove Boris Johnson knowingly misled Parliament and will he be forced to resign if he too is found to have broken the...

In this special first-person account, ITV News Correspondent Dan Rivers reflects on his experiences reporting on the first few weeks of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Dan shares what it was like to broadcast on the eve of war before lying awake all night as the invasion started and, within hours, the events that led him to the very frontline of the conflict. He describes witnessing the devastati...

“It’s not just the most angry I’ve been as a journalist, it’s probably the most angry I’ve been as a human being.”
 ITV News Political Correspondent Daniel Hewitt had no idea when viewing the home horrors in a family's cramped south London flat at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic that it would be his first steps in uncovering a national scandal. In this special podcast he tells Lucrezia Mill...

As the cost of living soars, ITV Evening News presenter Mary Nightingale delivers this special podcast on Rishi Sunak's attempt to help people facing the squeeze. We hear the key policies delivered by the chancellor in his Spring Statement in the House of Commons, along with the literary-referencing rebuttal from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Then Consumer Editor Chris Choi and Social Affairs C...

What’s it like on the frontline on the biggest refugee crisis to hit Europe since the Second World War? And, with millions of Ukrainians now displaced across the continent, what’s the UK doing to help? Having returned from reporting on the crisis in Lviv, ITV News Political Correspondent Romilly Weeks tells Faye Barker what you need to know. Romilly shares the heartbreak and the hope she found as...

Is a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine realistic? Why has Russia's advance into Ukraine been so faltering? And has Vladimir Putin's invasion been a massive miscalculation? News at Ten presenter Tom Bradby finds out what you need to know from Europe Editor James Mates. In the episode they talk through the power structure of the Kremlin, the impact of the Western sanctions on Russia, what it wil...