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.
A gesture of trust or a chance for Russia to regroup in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin’s military have signalled that they will “fundamentally” scale back operations around two of Ukraine’s key battlegrounds.
The Ukrainians are attempting a number of counter offensives, liberating people who’ve been under Russian occupation as they move forward.
Russia has been pushing hard to capture the southern city of Mykolaiv but they have been met with fierce resistance, with Ukrainian forces launching a counter offensive around Kherson, 50 miles to the southeast.
In the south, there are reports the Ukrainian military is fighting Russian forces on the edge of the region of Kherson. The city of Kherson was the first big urban center taken by the Russians at the very beginning of the war. Both Kherson and Mykolaiv are strategic towns on the Black Sea linking the…
In the south, Ukraine’s military says it has been making gains against the Russians.
In the Black Sea port of Odesa, streets are lined with sandbags and barbed wire, buildings are emblazoned with the Ukrainian flag, and citizens are training to fight.
In the south of Ukraine, the outskirts of Odesa were hit by shelling for the first time this week – and the historic port city is now bracing itself for battle.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spent her first day as a free woman after her six-year detention in Iran.
After years of physical and mental stress, languishing in cockroach-ridden jails, toyed with by autocrats who seemed impervious to reason or empathy: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori are on a plane bound for Britain.
For much of the day, mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the journalist who briefly took over the main Russian TV news programme last night.
The future of Chelsea football club has been plunged into uncertainty after its owner, Roman Abramovich, was targeted by UK sanctions.
The Russian parliament has passed a new law imposing jail terms of up to 15 years for spreading what they described as intentionally “fake” news about the military, which could discredit the armed forces.
In Russia, there has been talk of martial law being imposed.
Many claim that the Russian invasion is not going to plan but few know exactly what that plan is.
The threat of nuclear war rang out from Moscow in Russia today, as Vladimir Putin ordered all his forces to “high combat alert”, following the invasion of Ukraine.