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 Alina Frolova who was Ukraine’s deputy defense minister and started by asking her if she shares President Zelenskyy’s frustration about the language coming out of the Nato summit.
The number of people in the UK diagnosed with skin cancer has reached a record high. Cancer Research says there’s been a sharp rise in cases in people aged over 55.
We were joined by Kurt Volker, former US Special Representative for Ukraine negotiations, and Mary Wareham, Arms Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch, who has called for both Russia and Ukraine to stop using cluster munitions.
There’s been widespread criticism of plans announced today to close over 1,000 station ticket offices in England as the government looks for ways to cut the cost of running the railways.
Earlier we spoke to the Ugandan climate campaigner Vanessa Nakate and asked whether, two years on from the government’s climate commitment, she still felt optimistic about the future of the planet.
Last night we spoke to Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UK. Tonight we’re joined by the Palestinian Ambassador, Husam Zomlot.
We spoke to Oren Marmorstein, deputy ambassador and charge d’affaires at Israel’s embassy in the UK.
The Freedom Theatre is a cultural centre in the Jenin camp – and its artistic director, Ahmed Tobasi, was born and raised there.
We spoke to shadow health minister Liz Kendall.
In Russia the aftermath of the mutiny is less destructive, but ongoing, with claims sourced to the US government that at least one senior general was aware of the uprising and allowed it to happen.
In Ukraine, Russia continues to rain down terror in the form of missiles. But in Russia, the psychodrama continues to play out following this weekend’s mutiny by militia men of the Wagner group. Rumours swirl that their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has already left his exile in Belarus and is now back in Russia. Last night…
We’re joined by the Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
We speak to Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, and is in Kyiv to help Ukraine prepare its case for joining Nato – something it will argue for at next month’s Vilnius summit.
We spoke to Russian opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who previously stood in a presidential election against Vladimir Putin. We started by asking him what he made of Yevgeny Prigozhin effectively being given a pardon, while other peaceful opposition protesters like Alexei Navalny are serving long prison sentences.
So what punishment awaits Yevgeny Prigozhin? A new military base in Belarus and all charges dropped.