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.
Russia has also threatened to veto a UN resolution that guarantees the entry of international aid to Syria’s rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. That would close down the last UN humanitarian aid route into Syria.
At least 18 people are now known to have died in the Russian missile strike which destroyed a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk. Rescue teams have spent all day searching through the burnt out wreckage, for those still missing. Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy called it “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in…
At least 10 people have been confirmed dead, with 50 others injured after a Russian missile strike slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk.
A powerful earthquake in Afghanistan has killed at least 1,000 people and left 1,500 more injured in a hard-to-access region in the east of the country.
President Zelenskyy said Ukraine was engaged in “complex negotiations” to unblock the grain.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a group of entrepreneurs in Moscow, we dissect his message.
Whilst the fierce fighting in the east of Ukraine has seen small territorial gains for Russia, it’s a different story on the southern front.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, hundreds of children have been killed, hundreds more have been injured, and millions have fled.
Ukraine says its forces are “strongly resisting” Russian occupiers in Severodonetsk and have prevented them seizing control of the city – but other parts of Ukraine have come under attack, including the capital Kyiv which was hit by rocket fire for the first time since April. The Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened to strike at…
Ukraine’s military hope it will help them hold the line in the east of the country and the onslaught.
Russia has been focusing its firepower in the Donbas region – officials there say the shelling has been so intense it’s been impossible to assess the extent of the casualties and destruction.
The focus of a major military offensive by the Russian military is the city of Severodonetsk in the eastern Donbas region.
We bring you the latest in the fight for the strategic city of Severodonetsk.
Russian backed forces say they have seized control of a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, amid intense battles around key areas of Donbas.
Ukraine’s military chief has warned that Russia has launched its heaviest offensive yet in the embattled Donbas region – with forces advancing on the last cities still in the hands of the Ukrainian army.