Washington sought Starlink changes in Ukraine and the Middle East

Reuters World News leads with exclusive reporting on US requests to Elon Musk, alongside election disputes in Alaska and Serbia's student-led political challenge.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 211,966 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (12,670).

Starlink, Ukraine and Iran: how the US requested changes to Musk's network | Reuters World News

Reuters World News host Peter Devlin opens with a report that Washington has repeatedly asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and the Middle East. The requests put a privately operated satellite network at the center of international affairs.

The episode drew about 170,000 views in its first fifteen hours, far beyond the usual opening audience for Reuters' regular videos. That strong start came while views across the channel were below their usual daily pace.

Starlink leads the broadcast, but this is a wider news roundup rather than a single-subject investigation. Legal reporter Jan Wolfe explains the Trump administration's lawsuit over Alaska's Senate election, where two candidates share the name Dan Sullivan. State officials, he says, have tried to distinguish the candidates on the ballot.

From there, reporter Ivana Sekularac examines Serbia's student-led political party, New Serbian Political Thought, ahead of parliamentary elections. She describes the students' broad public appeal, but also a practical uncertainty among voters: how they would govern. It is a distinction between mobilizing a protest movement and asking people to entrust it with government.

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The numbers

The World News episode drew an unusually large opening audience, even as Reuters' channel-wide daily views ran below their usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

12,670

this video

211,966

subscribers

4,360,000

total views

2,477,358,086

views per day

669,956

typical day: 885,579

the video

views

169,835

likes

1,110

comments

74

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Global News

4,930,000

CBC News

4,780,000

Associated Press

4,690,000

Reuters

4,360,000

Channel 4 News

4,270,000

Guardian News

4,060,000

As of October 25, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.