The key facts

  • The October 28 episode combines five topics: the Israeli election, the Stubb and Støre call to Putin, the US midterms, the situation in Serbia, and Mbappé's image losses in China
  • The piece is a program announcement rather than full news coverage, so the details of the events are not disclosed in it

What Euronews is talking about on October 28

The October 28, 2026 episode of the Europe Today program, according to Euronews' announcement, is built around five stories. The first is the political situation in Israel after the election: former Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy discusses what lies ahead for the country, whether this has become 'the beginning of the end of the Benjamin Netanyahu era,' and what role Arab parties will play in determining the future prime minister. The episode's headline speaks of a 'deadlock' after the vote, but the announcement does not give any specific election results.

The conversation with Putin and the other topics

The second story is the 'rare' phone conversationthat Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held with Vladimir Putin; correspondent Sasha Vakulina examines whether it will bring the start of peace talks closer. The announcement says nothing about the content of the conversation itself. The episode then covers the US midterm elections, on which Democratic Party strategist Keith Brannum reflects; the situation in Serbia after the 'sensational victory of the student-led opposition' — commented on by International Crisis Group analyst Marko Prelec — and the damage to Kylian Mbappé's image after his joke about Mao Zedong, which cost him sponsorship contracts in China; Irish sports journalist Ken Early weighs in on this topic.

What the reader should keep in mind

The published piece is an announcement of the format: the program airs on weekdays at 8:00 Brussels time with hosts Maeve Mc Mahon and Maria Tadeo, and is also available as a newsletter and a podcast. The formulations above reflect the topics announced for the episode and the names of the invited guests, but do not reveal their arguments, the election results in Israel and Serbia, or the content of the northern leaders' conversation with Putin. These details are absent from the available publications, so no conclusions about the actual state of affairs can be drawn from this announcement alone.