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 Lord Heseltine – a grandee of the Conservative party and a former Deputy Prime Minister.
We spoke to the Conservative MP and former Cabinet minister Sir John Redwood, who is a longstanding supporter of Boris Johnson.
We spoke to Dara Massicot, a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation think tank, and an expert on Russian military strategy.
We spoke to the Chairman of Republicans Overseas UK, Greg Swenson and started by asking him if it would be better for the Republican party if Donald Trump didn’t run for president in 2024.
We spoke to environmental scientist Dr Dan Kneeshaw from the University of Quebec in Montreal and started by asking him if the reason behind the severity of the fires was that they were occurring in late spring.
We spoke to the mayor of Annecy, Francois Astorg and began by asking how he felt about today’s events.
He’s the moral philosopher whose hugely influential 1975 book ‘Animal Liberation’ made the moral case for respecting the rights of animals and not eating meat.
We spoke to Igor Zhovkva, who is one of President Zelenskyy’s closest aides, and asked him if he had any evidence that the Russians had blown up the dam?
Tomorrow Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will take the oath of office, tightening his grip on power, adding another five years to his twenty already in office.
A blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer.
We spoke to Lord Saville of Newdigate, the former justice of the Supreme Court, who chaired the public inquiry into Bloody Sunday.
What does Erdoğan’s victory mean for Turkey’s place in the world. It was no surprise that the first leader to send his congratulations was Russian President Putin – commending his “independent foreign policy”.
With the economy on its knees and a devastatingly slow response to a deadly earthquake – many thought President Erdoğan’s time was up.
Deputy president of the opposition CHP youth branch is in Istanbul – Asya Bozali. And Ataberk Tuna, who is a member of the foreign affairs commission for CHP youth.
We’re joined by Harun Armagan, a member of President Erdogan’s AK Party who sits on their central decision making board.