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 journalist and author Anne Applebaum and asked her what we should read into Prigozhin’s defiant tone today.
We spoke to Ihor Zhovkva, deputy head of President Zelenskyy’s office, and began by asking him if Saturday’s chaos was an opportunity to divert Russia’s fire away from Ukraine, and onto itself.
We spoke to Mikhail Kasyanov, who served as Prime Minister of Russia under Vladimir Putin from 2000 to 2004
Last we heard he was banished to Belarus after abandoning his insurrection. But a few hours ago, the mercenary leader resurfaced – from an undisclosed location.
Here in Ukraine, the question is will history repeat itself? The last attempted coup in Russia in 1991 was quashed, but the Soviet leader Gorbachev was gone just months later. So is Putin now a President without a prayer?
We spoke to Kurt Volker, a diplomat who served as the United States’ Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019.
We spoke to Oleksandra Azarkina, Ukraine’s deputy minister for infrastructure, who is in London ahead of a major reconstruction conference tomorrow.
We spoke to David Mearns, a deep-sea shipwreck hunter and friend of two of the missing explorers – British businessman Hamish Harding and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a former French Navy diver.
Less than 24 hours after becoming the first US president to be formally charged with a federal crime over his refusal to return official documents, Donald Trump has returned to the court he much prefers to occupy – that of public opinion.
We spoke to Jill Wine-Banks, who was one of the prosecutors at the US Justice Department during the Watergate scandal and who has since campaigned for the Democrats.
We spoke to Florida Republican Joe Budd.
In Miami, Donald Trump, indicted for a second time, is due to appear in court on 37 federal charges – most under the espionage act.
We were joined by Lewis Lukens, former Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in London.
We were joined by Kulveer Ranger, who was Director of Transport Policy for Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London.
We spoke to Lord Heseltine – a grandee of the Conservative party and a former Deputy Prime Minister.