Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
At a rare press conference yesterday, Israel’s Prime Minister sought to put on a show of unity.
We’re joined by Léo Cans, who’s Médecins Sans Frontières’ head of mission for Palestine.
We can’t get into Gaza ourselves, but filmmaker Yousef Hammash, who also works for the Norwegian Refugee Council, has been sending us moving reports about the situation there.
We managed to get through to Mansour Shouman, a Gazan resident who is trapped there with his wife and five young children.
We’re joined from Tel Aviv by Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli ambassador to the UK.
We spoke to Hadas Kalderon, whose two children and ex-husband were abducted three weeks ago, and whose mother and niece died during the attacks.
Matt is joined from Washington DC by Mary Beth Long who was US Assistant Secretary of Defence under President George W Bush.
We spoke to Eylon Levy – who’s a spokesman for the Israeli Government.
Earlier, we spoke to Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, a medical coordinator for Medecin Sans Frontiere in Gaza.
In his televised statement tonight, Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was doing everything possible to secure the return of more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas.
We spoke to Mark Regev, who’s a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister.
The UN says without an urgent delivery of fuel it will have to scale back its relief work in the Gaza Strip from tonight.
Josh Paul, who spent more than 11 years at the US state department focusing on arms transfers – but has resigned over the decision for the US to send weapons to Israel after the Hamas attack – saying he feared it would lead to more and greater suffering.
We spoke to the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who has been critical of Mr Netanyahu.
Amid growing reports of divisions within the Israeli government over the potential ground offensive into Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has issued a joint statement together with the IDF and the defence ministry insisting they share “close and full cooperation”.