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 spoke to Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, the Deputy Medical Coordinator from the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, who is currently working in Gaza. We began by asking him what the situation is today.
We spoke to Yossi Alpher – who’s previously been a Mossad agent and an intelligence officer in the Israeli Defence force. He’s now a writer based in Tel Aviv.
In recent times it’s been the violent confrontations between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank, not Gaza, that has occupied the headlines. Now the West Bank is playing host to Gazans expelled from Israel, destitute and desperate about the safety of their families back home.
Earlier we talked to Amjad Shawa in Gaza. He’s Director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network there. We started off by asking him to describe the scenes he’s seen in Gaza today.
We spoke to Mark Regev, the former Israeli ambassador to the UK who is once again serving as an adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
We spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner of the Israel Defence Forces. We began by asking him for his response to criticisms by Israelis of the IDF’s slow response time – in some cases up to ten hours – following Saturday’s attacks.
We’ve been speaking to the American-Israeli family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of those who’s been taken.
We spoke to Osama Hamdan, he is a spokesman based in Beirut for Hamas, which is a designated terrorist organisation according to the UK government.
We spoke to British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who is currently working at a hospital in Gaza.
We speak to Ahmad Muna, who’s from a prominent Arab family in East Jerusalem, and helps run his family business, the Educational Bookshop.
He told us that the failure to see the assault coming was down to the arrogance of the current government.
Israel is no stranger to crises on its streets. Apart from the wars of 1967 and 1973 there were the bus bombs during the second intifada, and what seemed like the constant spectre of terror.
We speak to Yosi Shnaider. Six of his relatives – among them his cousin Shiri Bibes and her nine-month-old baby – are thought to have been captured and taken to Gaza.
We talk to Mkhaimar Abusada, a Professor of Politics at Al-Azhar University, who’s in Gaza.
As the war in Ukraine enters its 20th month, there’s no end in sight, just brutally slow advances, where soldiers fight for weeks over metres of territory on the frontlines.