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.
We’re joined from Jericho in the West Bank by Wisam Shweiki, who is head of programmes at ActionAid Palestine.
We’re joined from New York City by Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safad, who’s in New York for talks and meetings at the UN Security Council to discuss the Israel-Hamas war.
We spoke to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby who was in Jerusalem meeting the families of those caught up in the original attack.
He was Israel’s top gun , a highly decorated fighter pilot, who took part in Operation Opera, the attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. He became a Brigadier General in the IDF – involved with the highest levels of the Israeli military. After he retired Relik Shafir was active in protesting against the…
Around 20 trucks carrying aid have managed to cross into Gaza through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt – which the UN said would be a mere drop in the ocean compared with the overwhelming need. Food, medical supplies and water are running perilously short in the enclave – as Israel continued to launch airstrikes…
Hamas, which the UK has designated as a proscribed terrorist organisation, says it has released two American hostages being held in Gaza.
Matt is joined by Aaron David Miller – an American Middle East analyst, author, and negotiator – and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The UN chief Antonio Gutteres has warned that the entire Middle East is in a moment of “profound crisis” – as he called for an immediate ceasefire, and for Hamas to release the hostages.
We spoke to Nebal Farsakh, spokesperson for Palestine Red Crescent Society.
We spoke to United States congressman Seth Moulton – who’s an Iraq war veteran and began by asking him about President Biden’s wording that last night’s hospital blast was committed by ‘the other team’ – and why he might have said that.
Earlier we spoke to Osama Hamdan, he is a spokesman based in Beirut for Hamas. We asked him for his reaction to the Israeli assertion that Hamas, not Israel, is to blame for the strike on the hospital.
Thousands of people have been out on the streets throughout the occupied West Bank calling for the overthrow of President Mahmoud Abbas and clashing with Palestinian Authority security forces. The protests were sparked by the immediate outrage over the hospital blast, but also the harsh crackdown by Israeli forces throughout the territory – as we’ve…
Earlier we spoke to the Palestinian journalist and activist Noor Swirki, who is in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip with her children. Many Palestinians have been fleeing to the city since Israeli airstrikes began, and we began by asking her to describe the situation there today.
We spoke to Richard Haass, a veteran American diplomat, who is now President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Grim allegations are emerging that some of the victims of Hamas’s attacks were tortured and mutilated.