WORLD NEWS RT - October 4 2026 (17:00 MSK)

Labour says its 2026 election promises are fully funded and independently reviewed. But New Zealand enters the election with weak productivity, rising debt, a falling dollar, high living costs and an economy dangerously exposed to imported energy and geopolitical shocks. Report by eLocal · Labour says its election programme is paid for. · Its fiscal plan contains about $24.5 billion of spending over five years, partly funded through almost $11…

Europe is rearming, NATO is reinforcing its eastern flank and Russia is warning that confrontation could escalate into nuclear war. Yet NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says there is currently “no imminent threat to NATO territory.” As military preparations intensify on both sides, the critical question is whether Europe is deterring a future war, or creating the conditions in which miscalculation could start one. For New Zealand, already…

Britain is confronting an extraordinary surge in bluetongue, with confirmed cases in the first three months of the current season already four times higher than the previous three seasons combined. The outbreak carries no known risk to humans or food safety, but its scale raises questions for livestock-producing countries such as New Zealand about changing patterns of vector-borne animal disease INR Report: Based on reporting by RT HERE ·…

After years of extraordinary Western support for Ukraine, a former Polish prime minister is asking a question increasingly difficult to dismiss: where did all the money and equipment go? Leszek Miller's claim that Ukrainian officials are embezzling foreign assistance goes beyond what available evidence establishes, but documented corruption cases and acknowledged weaknesses in aid oversight make demands for greater accountability legitimate. INR…

Nearly a month after a woman and two very young children were killed at a Rotorua home, a man charged with assaulting a person in a family relationship has been released on electronically monitored bail. Police have described the deaths as homicides, but publicly available information does not show that the man has been charged with causing any of the three deaths. Report by eLocal · Three deaths inside a Rotorua home on the night of 7…