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National Grid is warning that households could face planned three-hour blackouts over the winter as the energy crisis worsens.

On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson speaks to Jess Ralston from the Climate and Energy Intelligence Unit about the significance of blackout threats. Plus climate and energy correspondent Hannah Thomas-Peter unpacks the government's long-term energy strategy, including unleashing a new era of fossil fuel exploration.

Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interview producer: Alys Bowen
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont

In her speech to the Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed to "get Britain through the tempest" and insisted "everyone will benefit" from the result of her economic policies.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is in Birmingham for the Conservative Party conference hearing from Secretary of State for Wales Robert Buckland, Mayor of West Midlands Andy Street, and Business Secretary Jacob Reece Mogg.

Plus, Niall gets Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates's analysis of Liz Truss's speech.

Producer: Soila Apparicio
Senior Producer: Annie Joyce
Podcast Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont

As Russia illegally annexes four occupied areas in the east and south of Ukraine, it continues to face significant defeats at the hands of the smaller Ukrainian army.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky News’ special correspondent Alex Crawford, from Ukraine's frontlines, plus the head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House, Orysia Lutsevych, explains why it is Ukraine's citizens who are the nation's secret weapon in the war.

Editors - Philly Beaumont & Paul Stanworth
Podcast producer - Emma Rae Woodhouse
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and PM Liz Truss have made a U-turn on the decision to give the wealthiest 1% of earners a tax cut after facing a backlash.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson explores the political consequences of the U-turn with political correspondent Liz Bates and discusses how the markets are responding with economics editor Ed Conway.

Plus, Catherine MacLeod, a No.11 special adviser during the 2008 recession, explains how a government should react during a time of financial crisis.

Podcast producers - Rosie Gillott
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku
Editor - Philly Beaumont

Long before the recent economic woes hitting the pound, mortgages and the price of essentials, a survey in April from The Food Foundation charity revealed nearly two and a half million people had said they’d not eaten for a whole day because they couldn’t afford or get access to food. Those numbers will now be much, much higher.

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Niall Paterson, we examine a snapshot of what is happening in the supply chain - from farm to table - and its impact on all those in it.

Guests: Anna Taylor, executive director at The Food Foundation charity; David Batterbee, a sheep and beef farmer in the Peak District; Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association; and James Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores.

Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Interviews producer - Alys Bowen
Editors - Philly Beaumont and Paul Stanworth

In Kyiv, spooked by the threat of nuclear attack, Oksana’s close friend moves her family to western Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ilyas finds hope in what he sees as desperate Russian measures.
And Seva is left astonished by conversations with fellow military personnel on the frontlines.

TIMECODES -

0.00 - Oksana
4.45 - Ilyas
8.07 - Seva

BACKGROUND -

Oksana, 35, works in overseas education. She lives with her husband, Seva, in an apartment complex in central Kyiv and has remained in the Ukrainian capital since the war started. 
Many of Oksana’s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She’s determined to stay.

Ilyas is an IT specialist and married father who fled from Kyiv to Lviv shortly after the war started. His wife Natalia, and two young sons are taking refuge in Poland.
As of September 2022, Ilyas is back living in the family apartment in Kyiv and working, in part, for the Ukrainian government on various IT projects.

Seva, 40, is a company CEO and husband to Oksana. Before the war, he travelled across Europe for business. Now, he makes regular supply drops of medical aid and rations to Ukrainian troops on the front line in Eastern Ukraine. He’s originally from a small village near Dnipro.

Ukraine War Diaries uses first-person audio, recorded on the ground in Ukraine, to give an intimate day-to-day perspective of life in a war zone.
 
EP26 diary entries were recorded using WhatsApp voice note.
 
From the producers of Sky News’ multi-award winning series – StoryCast.
 
Producer: Rob Mulhern
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Digital Promotion: David Chipakupaku