Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
We are joined from Amman by Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi.
Prison officers are demanding the government immediately introduces so-called PAVA spray to be used on violent young offenders – warning that further delays will end in tragedy.
Tens of thousands of women in Iceland refused to go to work today, including the country’s female prime minister, in the name of gender equality. Known as the “Women’s Day Off”, the 24-hour strike saw shops shuttered, and hospitals operating on skeleton staff, as women protested against wage discrimination and gender-based violence in the country.…
Jackie is joined by Katie Schmuecker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. And by Bex Wilson, who set up a charity here in Leeds – helping to support some of those children in the greatest need.
We are joined by Oliver McTernan from the organisation Forward Thinking – he has worked in hostage negotiation for 20 years including with Hamas leaders and was in Doha last week.
A coroner has said a “very stark” series of failures by the probation service contributed towards the murder of a mother and three children.
Storm Babet is continuing to cause severe disruption. Hundreds of flood warnings are in place across England with the East Midlands particularly badly affected.
We spoke to the Palestinian academic and activist Refaat Alareer. He’s professor of literature at the Islamic University of Gaza. He has remained in the northern part of the territory despite Israeli warnings to leave. We asked him what life is like in Gaza right now.
We spoke to Udi Goren, whose cousin, Tal Haimi, is missing and believed to be among the hostages being held in Gaza. We began by asking him what he knows so far about what happened to his cousin?
President Biden has said he is ‘overjoyed’ at the release of the two US hostages Judith and Natalie Raanan – who are now being reunited with family members. More than 200 people are still being held captive in Gaza, including thirty children.
Jackie Long spoke to John Bolton, United States National Security Advisor in 2018 and 2019.
He’s supported Just Stop Oil since it began, donating hundreds of thousands of pounds to the group. And just this summer, the green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince joined the eco-activists, as they slow marched through central London.
She’s been jailed several times, sentenced to 154 lashes, and hasn’t seen her children for seven years. Narges Mohammadi’s fight against the oppression of women in Iran has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Alexander Downer, a former Australian Foreign Minister, who last year conducted a review into the UK’s Border Force for the government. And Enver Solomon is Chief Executive of the Refugee Council. They debate how to stop illegal migration.
Sir John Curtice is a polling expert and professor of politics at Strathclyde University.