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 diplomatic dance over Ukraine has ratcheted up again, with French President Emmanuel Macron flying to Moscow for talks with President Putin.
Ukraine rolled out the red carpet for Boris Johnson, greeting him with a military ceremony and a trip to the Mariinskyi palace.
The United States has repeatedly accused Russia of waging a deliberate campaign of disinformation over Ukraine.
Boris Johnson is set to visit Ukraine next week and hold talks with Vladimir Putin by phone as part of diplomatic efforts to deter Russian aggression.
Whilst thousands have died in the ongoing skirmishes in eastern Ukraine over the last eight years, the frontline has not moved much at all.
American citizens in Ukraine are being urged to leave the country due to an “increased threat of Russian military action”.
Nato and US troops are being positioned across eastern Europe, as western allies show they are united in their stance on Ukraine.
Nato is putting forces on standby and sending fighter jets and ships to eastern Europe, insisting the alliance will “always do what is necessary to protect and defend all our allies”.
A former MP in Ukraine has told this programme he could sue the British Foreign Office after it said the Kremlin was plotting to install him as a pro-Moscow leader in Ukraine.
The Irish president Michael Higgins has led tributes to the teacher Ashling Murphy, who was killed earlier this week, saying she represented the best of her generation.
A new group, that appears to have been founded last month, has started organising military style training sessions around the country via a messaging app.
Kazakhstan’s president today authorised his security forces to “shoot to kill without warning” after days of anti-government protests.
New figures show that more than 28,300 people made the perilous Channel crossing from France to England last year – triple that of the year before.
Sudan’s prime minister has resigned after days of mass protests demanding an end to military rule.
The husband of the exiled Belarusian opposition leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, has been sentenced to 18 years in a maximum security prison after being found guilty of organising riots and mass unrest. In what has been widely condemned as sham trials, five other bloggers and politicians have had a collective sentence of 94 years in prison.…