A Falcon 9 rocket, using a booster that had already flown four times, placed 48 Starlink satellites into space on March 9th. It was SpaceX’s tenth successful flight in as many weeks. The launch took place from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 15.45 GMT. The rocket’s booster made a perfect landing – despite a few […]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be the first guest in an exclusive on Beth Rigby Interviews, the new prime time show starting tonight (March 10th) at 9pm on Sky News. As pressure grows on leaders in the West to take more action against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Political Editor Rigby will question the Prime Minister […]
The Premier League has suspended a deal with its Russian broadcast partner to air football matches in the country. The agreement, made with Rambler (Okko Sport), takes place with immediate effect. In a statement the Premier League said: “The League strongly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We call for peace and our thoughts are with […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite service continues to be jammed over “conflict areas” according to SpaceX. The problem is forcing Starlink to be “reprioritised to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming” said Musk in a Tweet. Musk added that a recent software update helped bypass the jamming, saying: “Some Starlink terminals near conflict areas were […]
The IISL (the International Institute of Space Law) has “suspended” the participation of Russia and which includes Russian students participating in the IISL’s activities. The IISL said it regrets having to make this decision because it affects civil society and students in particular and means that students must pay the price for geopolitical struggles far […]
Netflix and TikTok have halted their services in Russia. Netflix, which has already suspended all production and acquisition activity in the country, said in a statement: “Given the circumstances on the ground, we have decided to suspend our service in Russia”. Netflix is believed to have around 1 million subscribers in Russia. Netflix was joined […]
Ukraina24 – the news channel of independent Ukraine in war – with English voice-over is available for operators globally on Redge Media Video Delivery Platform. The move follows the initiative of TV3 Group Baltics and overcomes the geographical limits of the original distribution. The live feed of Ukraina24 with English translation has been enabled technically […]
The invasion of Ukraine has led to a significant rise in numbers of people turning to Channel 4 News’ social media channels and its evening bulletins. Editor of Channel 4 News Esme Wren said: “This is Channel 4 at its very best. Our journalists are on the front line reporting the reality of what’s happening […]
RT America, the US version of Russian-backed news channel RT, is to close its US studios and lay off most of its staff. Its bureaus in New York, Washington, Miami and Los Angeles are affected. Misha Solodovnikov, the general manager of T&R Productions, the company that produces RT America, told staff in an email that […]
NewsPlayer+, the UK-based global streaming news platform, has announce that United News, a 24/7 all-encompassing news service broadcasting live from Ukraine, is now available on their global streaming news platform as a guest channel. United News has been launched by the biggest media groups in Ukraine, who have united to broadcast one all-encompassing news service […]