Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News for more than a decade.
He reported from the revolutions and uprisings in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Bahrain and has covered stories as diverse as Somalia's famine, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, corruption in world football and the Haiti earthquake. In 2016 he won a BAFTA for his reporting on the terrorist attacks in Paris.
He was previously the programme's Washington Correspondent and Business Correspondent and his reporting has won more than 10 awards. He is the author of "Ataturk's Children: Turkey and the Kurds" and previously worked on BBC Radio 4 documentaries and in Turkey for the BBC and The Guardian.
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared the fighting in Gaza will continue “until the end” – despite growing calls among Israel’s closest allies for a ceasefire. Israel has now opened a second border crossing to humanitarian convoys, after images showing desperate crowds in Rafah, surrounding aid trucks and pulling off supplies.
The Israel Defence Forces acknowledged they killed three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, even though one brandished an improvised white flag, and another appealed in Hebrew for help.
Because we can’t get access to Gaza ourselves – we can only get information about casualties from the Gaza ministry of health, which like all government agencies there is appointed by Hamas. Yesterday President Biden cast doubt on their statistics, saying he had “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many…
The Armenian government has said that more than 90,000 residents of Nagorno Karabakh have now left the disputed territory.
Moscow’s business district was attacked in the early hours of this morning by what’s believed to be at least one Ukranian drone.
President Zelenskyy has visited frontline troops in eastern Ukraine where an attempt is under way to break through Russian defensive lines.
Airstrikes and gun battles have continued between Sudan’s rival military forces – despite another extension of the fragile ceasefire.
A ceasefire has been an endangered concept in the last week in Sudan. Officially the latest extension – is due to expire in less than 7 hours time.
The exodus from Sudan continues this evening – with tens of thousands fleeing the war, which has now entered its third week of fighting.
The UK has insisted it will do “whatever it takes” to ensure the safety of three British men being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A tropical storm which has travelled across the entire Indian ocean is now blowing across southeast Africa for a second time.
Rishi Sunak joined leaders of the G7 nations today in agreeing new sanctions against those supporting the Russian war effort.
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a war that few here thought would start, let alone grind on for so long at such cost, here the morning was interrupted by air raid sirens.
Almost a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what have been the wider ramifications of this war around the world?
If the signals from Belfast yesterday were that a deal was imminent, the message from Munich was one of caution.