Fatima Manji , Special Correspondent and Presenter
Fatima Manji is a Special Correspondent and Presenter. She regularly reports on a range of national and international stories.
Her broadcasting has included telling the story of the migration crisis from the borders of Europe, interviewing victims of ISIS atrocities in Iraq and challenging politicians here in the UK during the referendum campaign. She also occasionally presents the programme from the studio. Fatima has won a number of awards for her journalism and in 2015 she was a finalist for the Royal Television Society's Young Journalist of the Year.
During the last General Election she presented Britain's first ever Alternative Election Debate featuring young party leaders facing a live audience on Channel 4. Fatima joined Channel 4 News in 2012 and previously worked as a reporter and video journalist at the BBC.
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‘This policy is to ensure we’re using our common sense when awarding contracts’, says Labour MP Rachel Reeves
Labour is calling for public bodies to buy British goods, saying it will help kickstart the economy and protect workers rights and conditions.
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Militant resurgence in Mozambique’s oil and gas rich province of Cabo Delgado
In Mozambique, the oil and gas rich northern province of Cabo Delgado has become one of the latest targets of resurgent Islamic state group militants.
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Schoolchildren complain of being unfairly punished for taking part in pro-Palestine protests
Last month’s war in Gaza led to widespread protests including in schools, largely organised on TikTok.
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Rescuers search for survivors after building collapses in Miami
An extensive rescue operation is underway in Surfside, near Miami Beach in Florida, after a 12 storey block of flats collapsed, leaving at least one person dead.
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Forced to sell a kidney: Desperate Afghans give up their organs to survive
It’s an illegal trade in human organs which preys on people so desperate for money they’re willing to take the risk.
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Covid hospitalisations could exceed January without action says Epidemiologist
We were joined by Dr Deepti Gurdasani, an epidemiologist and senior lecturer at Queen Mary University.
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‘It’s not right morally, it’s not right politically, it’s against the law,’ says Andrew Mitchell MP on UK aid cuts
We were joined by Andrew Mitchell, who is the former International Development Secretary and is behind the Commons amendment on Monday, which seeks to force the government to make up any deficit in foreign aid spending below the 0.7 percent target.
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‘Hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved’ by Trump’s government says US journalist
The United States should have been the country best prepared to handle a pandemic. Instead it became the world’s worst affected country – with more than 590,000 lives lost to Covid.
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Economic think tank says G7 decision a ‘major moment’ for global tax justice
Earlier I spoke to Dr George Dibb – who’s head of the Centre for Economic Justice at the IPPR think tank.
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Grenfell Tower fire survivor wants to turn site into ‘floating’ memorial garden
Almost four years since 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire, a decision looms about what should be done with the structure itself – in a way that honours those who lost their lives.
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‘The Underground Railroad’ director Barry Jenkins on telling America’s real story
The Oscar-winning director of ‘Moonlight’, Barry Jenkins, has adapted the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ‘The Underground Railroad’, into a drama series for Amazon. It tells the story of Cora, a slave in the South of the United States, who makes a bid for freedom using the so-called Underground Railroad. On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s…
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DR Congo volcanic eruption leaves at least 15 dead
A succession of small earthquakes has shaken the Congolese city of Goma, rattling a community already reeling from a volcanic eruption over the weekend.
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‘It’s important to still take precautions ’, says Dr Deepti Gurdasani on India variant vaccine study
We spoke to Dr Deepti Gurdasani after a new study suggested the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines were effective against the Indian variant.
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The painter paying tribute to the female victims of male violence
When Labour MP Jess Phillips marked International Women’s Day by reading out the names of women killed by men last year, it struck a chord in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder.
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‘Massive trust deficit between Home Office and Windrush community’, says barrister
We spoke to Martin Forde QC, the senior barrister who used to advise the Home Office on the Windrush compensation scheme.
