Reuters World News - US execution livestream, ICC sanctions, ICE defends NYC shooting (Updated)
Episode Date: October 9, 2026The US says it will livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter. The Trump administration sanctions the International Criminal Court hours after a former ICC judge wins the 2026 Nob...el Peace Prize. ICE defends its officers after a shooting in New York City. And Russia says there is no risk of an epidemic breaking out after the death of a worker at a plague research lab in Siberia. Podcasts, breaking news, and video analysis from the source. Download the Reuters app here. Listen to the Morning Bid podcast here. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter here. Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast here. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi, I'm Indy Burrows in London.
And I'm Christopher Walgesper in Chicago.
It's Friday, October 9th.
Today.
The U.S. sanctions the International Criminal Court after a former ICC judge wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
The U.S. will live stream an execution for the first time in history.
The UAE says the Fly-Dubai co-pilot planned a suicide attack on Tel Aviv's airport.
and ICE officials defend the shooting of a man in New York City.
This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.
For the first time in American history, the U.S. government will live stream an execution.
Former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hassan was convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009.
He is scheduled to die by firing squad on December 3rd.
at the same Texas base where he opened fire.
This would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961
and the first by firing squad since World War II.
No-brainer. Execution by firing squad.
Army Major betrays his country. Radical Islamist kills a bunch of Americans at Fort Hood.
Of course we're going to do it at Fort Hood.
We're going to do it on a Thursday. We're going to do it at 1 o'clock, which is when he did it.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth saying the time and date chosen to deliberately mirror the original attack.
He confirmed it will be live streamed via X.
No legal execution has ever been televised in the US and no other country is known to have done it.
Public executions have become rare worldwide and countries that have conducted them in recent years
include Iran and Taliban-run Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump approved the execution on Hexeth's recommendation.
The decision comes amid heightened debate in the US over the death penalty.
following the botched lethal injection of Krista Pike last week.
The Trump administration has imposed sweeping sanctions on the international criminal court,
threatening to punish any company that does business with the institution.
The move could cripple the ICC, isolating it from financial institutions and tech companies
key to its operation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. will never allow the ICC to prosecute Americans
and has warned allies who rely on U.S. defense to, quote, reign in the court.
The move comes just hours after Navi Pillai, a former ICC judge, won the 26 Nobel Peace Prize.
She presided over groundbreaking cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
that established rape and sexual violence as official acts of genocide.
She also chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory,
and made global headlines in 2025 when the Commission released its landmark report,
concluding that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.
The ICC is backed by 125 countries, including all EU members and most NATO allies.
The co-pilot who attacked the captain of a fly-to-buye aircraft last week,
planned to seize the plane and crash it into a terminal at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport.
That's according to the UAE Attorney General.
Investigators think of the plan was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.
The Dubai-to-Telviv flight was in Saudi airspace when the co-pilot attacked the captain with a crash axe.
He was thwarted by the pilot, but the incident caused the airliner to plunge nearly 5,000 meters in 30 seconds before he was overwhelmed by passengers.
The suspect was transferred to the UAE, fly to buy's home country.
A pair of new Reuters Ipsos polls point to potential problems for Republicans heading into November.
The first finds a big enthusiasm gap.
Nearly half of voters who backed Carmelah Harris in 2024 say they're very enthusiastic about voting in the midterms.
Among Trump voters, that number drops to 30%.
The poll also shows some soft.
in Republican support among men, a key group in Trump's 2024 victory.
A separate Reuters Ipsos poll finds frustration over the cost of living is cutting across party lines.
Two-thirds of Americans say prices are rising faster than their paychecks.
And 78% say the White House deserves at least some blame for higher costs.
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Underneath President Trump, he made it very clear he was going to restore law and order in our cities
in our towns and in our states.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen,
defending federal agents who shot and wounded a New York City man in his car on Thursday.
Mullen says Oscar Belgall, a Dominican who is in the country illegally,
defied orders and endangered officers by using his car as a weapon.
A young child believed to be his son was in the backseat at the time.
We weren't aware of the child was in the car.
I can tell you that.
But do you know who was? Oscar.
Oscar knew he had a child in his car.
Oscar chose to accelerate at a high rate of speed
and ram two different vehicles
as he appears to be going towards officers.
Officials say Balghal suffered a superficial wound to his neck
and is now being held in a detention facility outside New York State.
The shooting has sparked protests in the city overnight.
Mayor Zora Mamdani says he personally calls,
President Donald Trump and the Homeland Security Secretary to try and negotiate his release,
but he says he was unsuccessful.
Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people since Trump returned to office,
seven of them fatally.
President Trump is escalating his effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
The White House has established a committee to investigate claims that Cook made false
statements on mortgage documents.
A closed-door hearing is scheduled for November 5th, two days after the midterm elections.
Cook's lawyers say that if the process is objective, it will show she did not commit mortgage fraud
and there is no legal basis to fire her. A Supreme Court ruling earlier this year said
a president cannot remove a Fed governor without adequate cause and a clear process. The move is another
test of the Fed's independence and comes as Trump has repletedly called for the central bank
to cut interest rates.
Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky is criticizing the United States, saying Washington
isn't doing enough to help Ukraine defend itself.
Just control the nabre, to protect itself.
We're going to protect in America.
His comments come after another wave of attacks on Kyiv and a deadly strike in the town of
Priluki. Ukrainian negotiators are set to meet with Jared Kushner and Steve Wichkhov in Miami over the weekend.
European officials are expected to join as well. But while leaders debate support and strategy,
many Ukrainians are just trying to survive. In the southern Ukrainian town of Aleshki,
dozens of burned out cars lie strewn along a main road. The route leads out of the Russian
occupied town and deeper into Russian-controlled territory.
Residents still there are making hours-long journeys on foot and by bicycle along mine-scattered roads to reach food and water.
Ukrainians have a name for it, the road of death.
72-year-old Larissa fled Alejki shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
She says her husband is still there, surviving on dwindling rations,
But she's forbidden him from taking the road, calling it Russian roulette.
But you know, it's not so, fordakia, who's, Russian roulette.
Reuters wasn't able to independently verify her account,
but her description matches those of other witnesses,
officials and aid workers familiar with the humanitarian crisis in Aleschi.
Russia has acknowledged serious shortages of food and medical supplies in Alashki
and says its military is working to address them.
Moscow blamed Ukraine.
saying it's blocking supplies from reaching the town.
Hurricane Isayas is bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast,
the first Atlantic hurricane of 26.
The storm could strengthen to a category three hurricane
by the time it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday,
with sustained winds reaching 110 miles an hour.
The storm has already forced mandatory evacuations in parts of Florida
and emergency declarations in Alabama and Mississippi, with storm surges up to seven feet and heavy rainfall expected.
It's also severely disrupted Gulf oil and gas operations.
Nearly two-thirds of the region's oil production has been paused, along with more than half of its natural gas output.
It's been a quiet start-to-Hurricane season in the Atlantic,
thanks to a strong El Nino pattern that's suppressed storm development.
This is the latest date for the first hurricane in the region since 1905.
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