It’s the height of lockdown, 19-year-old Ellie Williams claims on social media she's been raped and exploited by an Asian grooming gang across the north of England. Photos of her alleged injuries add to the outrage and the post goes viral - sha

Introducing… Electoral Dysfunction

Mar 1st, 2024 14m 5s

Today, something different – we're bringing you the trailer of an exciting new podcast from Sky called Electoral Dysfunction.Beth Rigby. Jess Philips. Ruth Davidson.With polls suggesting trust in politicians is low, three political powerhouses

Patient 11 | Locked-up and drugged

Jan 29th, 2024 19m 31s

Young mother and former GB youth swimmer, Alexis Quinn, agrees to enter NHS England psychiatric care following a family tragedy. She could never imagine that her three-day admission will turn into a three-year ordeal. Then undiagnosed with auti

Episode Nine: Living in the Grey Zone - MI5 and the Russia threat

Mar 3rd, 2021 50m 56s

In this final episode, we have the first ever interview with serving MI5 officers who work in counter intelligence.Tom and Kate talk about the challenge of grey zone threats from Russia and reveal their shock at the Salisbury spy poisonings.The

Episode Eight: When The Grey Zone Becomes A War Zone

Mar 1st, 2021 43m 28s

What happens when the grey zone becomes a war zone and what might future wars look like, with hypersonic missiles, artificial intelligence and cyber changing calculations?These are questions Sky News journalist Deborah Haynes explores in this e

Episode Seven: China - A Battle of Values

Feb 22nd, 2021 46m 25s

This episode explores a global battle of values between China and leading democracies over issues like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang.It’s being fought with an array of covert weapons, from cyber attacks and information operations to economic c

Episode Seven: A Battle of Values

Feb 22nd, 2021 46m 8s

Episode Six: Iran - The Hidden Hand

Feb 15th, 2021 40m 11s

On 3 January 2020, the United States killed Iran’s top spy master, Major General Qasem Soleimani, in a drone strike in Iraq.There was nothing grey or ambiguous about the assassination, but this episode explores the escalating grey zone hostilit

Episode Five: Cyber Power (Part II) - Hacking ISIS

Feb 7th, 2021 50m 14s

In their first joint interview, the director of the UK spy agency GCHQ and the top general in charge of cyber operations for the military talk about how the UK is using the power of cyber to push back against adversaries with the creation of a

Episode Four: Cyber Power (Part I) - Cyber Pearl Harbour

Feb 1st, 2021 42m 29s

States, criminals and terrorists all use cyber to attack each other in the grey zone. It puts anyone with a computer in the firing line, but also means that anyone who understands computers has the ability to fight back.This episode explores a

Episode Three: Hack & Leak

Jan 25th, 2021 41m 23s

This episode looks at the grey zone weapon of hacking information – like private emails or documents – and then leaking it online to try to influence people or damage reputations.It is a tactic Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, is

Episode Two: Truth vs Lies

Jan 18th, 2021 47m 30s

This episode explores a battle between truth and lies that’s threatening democracies around the world. It looks at how information is used as a weapon, not just by hostile foreign states, seeking to divide and weaken rival nations, but also by

Episode One: The Gathering Storm

Jan 10th, 2021 48m 15s

This episode seeks to explain what the grey zone is. It includes a warning from General Sir Nick Carter, the head of the UK’s armed forces, and Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, about the danger of ignoring attacks in this murky space, while

Trailer

Introducing Into the Grey Zone

Jan 1st, 2021 2m 36s

What do assassinations, cyber hacks and disinformation have in common? They’re all weapons used by states against each other in a grey zone of harm that sits - deliberately - under the threshold of war, but could be just as dangerous if ignored