Alex is the longest-serving on-screen journalist on C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front the programme from around the world.
His journalism has won several BAFTA and EMMY awards; two New York Film and TV Awards and in 2011/12 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
He's written two books about the 1991 Gulf War and a travelogue about cycling across India.
He has been External Examiner at Cardiff and currently Bournemouth Schools of Journalism and is Honorary Fellow in Journalism at Falmouth School of Journalism.
Today is Clean Air Day – the UK’s largest air quality campaign embracing business, schools and the wider community which aims to highlight the dangers of air pollution.
Hundreds of thousands of homes in England are at risk from rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to a new report.
Albania’s prime minister announced today that the country’s wild river system, the Vjosa, is to become a national park.
The two British soldiers who have been sentenced to death had both served in the Ukrainian army for several years before the war began. They both had Ukrainian partners. Aiden Aslin had been a care home worker in the UK before moving to Ukraine and Sean Pinner had served as a British soldier.
From a wildlife perspective, Britain’s countryside and coastlines are now very different to those of 1952.
Officials from the G7 nations have pledged to phase out coal power, eventually, although they didn’t commit to a specific deadline.
The devastating heatwave in India and Pakistan was made 30 times more likely because of climate change, according to scientists.
The government is set to decide soon whether a new coal mine in Cumbria should go ahead.
The country’s known nothing like it since the end of the civil war. Mobs attacking each other on the streets.
After President Zelensky’s announcement that Russia’s eastern ground offensive has begun, Ukrainians are bracing themselves for heavier attacks.
Thousands of people have fled to the city from the front lines further east, in search of aid and refuge.
Ukraine says its remaining troops in the besieged city of Mariupol are continuing to hold out against Russian forces – defying a deadline for them to surrender.
Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian capital Kyiv again today, as the city’s mayor warned he couldn’t rule out further attacks and told residents who’ve fled the city not to return yet.
In an apparent retaliation for the sinking of the Moskva warship, Russia hit Kyiv with rocket fire today. Among its targets was a factory making anti-ship missiles – the kind Ukraine claims sank the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet yesterday.
Russia and Ukraine are disputing what caused a huge explosion on Russia’s flagship, the Moskva, in the Black Sea.