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 Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions against four senior Chinese officials accused of being behind abuses of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, calling it one of the “worst human rights crises of our time”.
Now young Russian activists are using the social media app Tiktok to create videos in support of free speech and rallying the public against the government and its treatment of Alexei Navalny, the anti-Putin, anti-corruption politician and activist. They hope to bring down Putin and are risking it arrest to challenge his regime.
Denmark was the first country to sign the UN Refugee Convention in 1951, but it has now become the first European nation to tell Syrian refugees that they must return home. The Scandinavian country has declared Damascus and its surrounding areas safe, stripping nearly 100 Syrian refugees of their residencies and putting hundreds more in…
Millions have received the Oxford AstraZeneca jab. But despite successful trials and data showing high levels of effectiveness here in the UK, the vaccine has been dogged by public scepticism in Europe.
A damning report today by prison and borders inspectors has concluded the cramped conditions meant that a large-scale outbreak of Covid was virtually inevitable.
Among the proposals under discussion are slashing funds for Syria by 67%, and giving 60% less to Somalia and Congo.
Two former army barracks, Napier and Penally, have been under scrutiny since they opened to asylum seekers last year.
Pontin’s has agreed to change its working practices after a whistleblower revealed it used a list of Irish surnames to stop people from the Traveller community booking holidays.
The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have described him as a ‘beacon of light and hope to the world’ – as they paid tribute at his funeral service in Bedford.
As the Covid vaccine is steadily rolled out around the world, there’s also a surge in disinformation, conspiracy theories and fake news.
Hospitals across the country are still struggling with huge numbers of Covid patients, putting staff under unimaginable stress.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has spent five months in Berlin recovering from a poisoning attack, has been detained by police after arriving back in Moscow in the last hour. The Kremlin critic risks being arrested but told hoards of reporters on board his flight that he was “an innocent person” and he was…
Hundreds of migrants are currently stranded in freezing weather in Bosnia.
“These tragedies have reminded us that words matter and the power of life and death is in the tongue” – the words of the Senate chaplain as he said prayers in a chamber still reeling in shock. President Trump stands accused of inciting the mob by his continual slew of social media posts promoting false…
Today two men: Eamonn Harrison and Gheorghe Nica were found guilty of multiple counts of manslaughter.