Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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Family law ‘demands’ the scrutiny of journalism, says campaigner
From early next year, journalists will be allowed to ask for permission to report on family court cases across England and Wales.
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Just Stop Oil protester prison recall ‘very harsh’, says former probation officer
Mike Campbell is a family friend and former probation officer who has supported Gaie’s case.
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‘Gisele helped shame change sides’, says French lawyer
A French lawyer and feminist spoke to us from Paris.
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‘Americans are fed up with wasteful Washington spending’, says Frank Luntz
Political consultant Frank Luntz speaks to us from Los Angeles.
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‘International community needs to get behind Syrian people’, says UN
The UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, addressed the Security Council earlier from Damascus where he met Syria’s new leadership.
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Syrians have become a ‘scapegoat’ in Germany, says Syrian journalist
We spoke to Syrian journalist and pro-democracy activist Rami Jarrah.
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Scholz loses vote of no confidence – what now for Syrians?
Events in Syria are being watched very closely here, not least because this country has hosted more than a million Syrian refugees since 2015, more than any other European country.
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Assad could one day face court, says former US war crimes ambassador
We spoke to Stephen Rapp, who served as the US ambassador at large for war crimes issues in the Office of Global criminal justice under President Obama.
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‘It’s a slaughterhouse, a machinery of death,’ says Syrian Emergency Task Force director
We spoke to Mouaz Mustafa and asked how certain he was that his uncle was one of those buried in the mass graves of Al-Qutayfa.
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‘Syrians trying to figure out what tomorrow holds’, MENA expert
With Assad gone and the country in the hands of different groups of rebels, what now for the future of Syria?
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Half a century of brutal family rule: who are the Assads?
The Assad family survived the Cold War, multiple regional wars and a civil war. But in the end they couldn’t survive the distraction of Russia in Ukraine and Iran and Hezbollah, facing off against Israel.
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Palestinians will take control of Gaza after war says ambassador
Palestinian officials say Hamas and Fatah are getting close to an agreement to appoint a committee of technocrats to run Gaza after the war.
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‘Total regional war’ a risk without end to Gaza fighting – Qatar
We spoke about all this with Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Dr Majed al-Ansari in Doha.
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Yoon’s martial law was ‘miscalculated’, says Koreas expert
Sojin Lim is a reader in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and an expert in both Koreas.
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US watches South Korea developments with concern
The Biden administration says it is watching the developments in South Korea with grave concern.
