Paraic O'Brien is a Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Paraic's investigations include the multi-award winning "Bruce Lee, King of Romania's Sewers", a searing film about the subterranean life of Bucharest's drug addicts. His expose of how the global online game Habbo Hotel was putting children at risk, resulted in a mass exodus of investors. His investigation into the death of Alois Dvorzac in a British detention centre exposed serious flaws in the immigration system.
He was the first TV reporter on the ground in Brixton and Croydon as the riots broke out in 2011. He also once had a minor altercation with Russell Brand.
Before joining Channel 4 News he worked at the BBC as an investigations reporter for BBC London News and Newsnight on occasion. Prior to that he was a community worker in Ireland and south London.
The new King will officially be known as Charles III – and even as he mourns the loss of his mother, he will be stepping into the role for which he has prepared for his whole life.
Vladimir Putin has hit out at Western sanctions on Moscow, describing them as a “fever that poses a threat to the entire world”. Speaking at an economic forum in Vladivostok, Putin said the measures – imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – were an act of economic “aggression” that had left Europeans…
The vice-president of Argentina has narrowly escaped an apparent attempt on her life after a gunman aimed a loaded weapon at her.
UN inspectors say they have seen the key things they needed to see – after spending several hours at the Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine – on a mission to avert a radiation disaster.
Today world leaders rushed to deliver tributes to Mikhail Gorbachev – who has died aged 91 – describing him as a “towering global leader” and an “example to us all”.
Ukraine says its armed forces have launched a series of counter attacks to try to take back control of parts of the country seized by the Russians.
The numbers around migration can be dizzying, the ethics always complicated, and then there’s the politics.
Police in Pakistan have filed terrorism charges against the former Prime Minister Imran Khan – after he gave a speech at the weekend vowing to sue police officers and a female judge, and claiming that a close aide had been tortured after his arrest.
Russia and Ukraine have agreed two deals that will reopen Black Sea ports used to export millions of tonnes of trapped Ukrainian grain.
The head of MI6 has told an international conference that he believes Russia is about to “run out of steam” in Ukraine.
British aid worker Paul Urey is reported to have died after he was captured by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine and accused of being a mercenary.
The Ukrainians say three Kalibr cruise missiles hit the centre of the city, which is far from the frontline in central Ukraine.
Ukraine has managed to blow up a large Russian ammunition depot in the temporarily occupied Kherson region, causing a huge explosion.
Japan is in deep shock after the assassination of Shinzo Abe – the country’s longest serving prime minister.
Vladimir Putin has declared victory in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk after Moscow took control of Lysychansk, the last city still in Ukrainian hands.