A town hall on fire, another flood and dearer flights

Three stories, three angles: what happened, how it's being told, and what we don't know yet.

In France, more than half a million people march peacefully over the cost of living, and a weekend of riots ends with the town hall in Limoges burned out. In Milan, teenagers clash with police too. In Spain, two years after the deadly floods around Valencia, a storm called dana Adam hits the same region, and this time 850,000 people are told to stay at home. And Ryanair's Michael O'Leary says European airfares are heading for the biggest rise in their history.

After each story, we ask what you think. Tell us in the comments or on Pollar's socials.

Everything in this episode comes from reporting already published. The stories behind it are at pollar.news.

Reporting: Pollar (pollar.news/en/event/france-braces-for-nationwide-protests, /flood-alerts-across-eastern-spain, /ryanair-warns-of-fare-surge), French interior ministry, Mediapart, Bild, European Commission, Carrefour, AEMET, Europa Press, Euronews, French civil aviation authority (DGAC).

Archive sound: Archives audiovisuelles de l'Assemblée nationale (20 October 2026), La Moncloa (20 October 2026). Origen de los datos: sitio web de lamoncloa.gob.es. Ministerio de la Presidencia.

Cover photo: Lucas Destrem, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), cropped and toned by Pollar. The cover is shared under the same licence.