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.
In France, a 10th day of action by protestors – demonstrating against President Macron’s pension reforms – has again ended in clashes with the police.
There’s been no president for a year, political deadlock in parliament and banks have stopped people from withdrawing their own money.
Over 45,000 asylum seekers are now being housed in hotels across the UK, a situation the government says it wants to put an end to.
More than 45,000 asylum seekers are currently being housed in hotels across the UK, at a cost of over six million pounds per day.
The row over Gary Lineker also featured at a pre-organised protest against refugees by a far-right group in Cannock in Staffordshire.
Downing Street is claiming the Home Secretary Suella Braverman didn’t approve an email sent in her name blaming civil servants for the failure to stop asylum seekers in small boats.
Almost 200 people, including children, attempted to cross the Channel in the early hours of Monday, some at risk of hypothermia after they were found along a freezing stretch of the French coastline. But undeterred, it seems, by the prospect of Britain’s proposed new ban.
Tragedy piled upon tragedy for the people of northwest Syria – the earthquake on the 6 February shattered lives which were already in pieces.
Israeli settlers rampaged through the village of Hawara in the north of the West Bank overnight, torching the homes and cars of Palestianians. One Palestinian man was killed in the attacks, which followed the killing of two Israeli men earlier in the day. It has also been confirmed that another Israeli man has been killed…
Yeva Skalietska was just 12-years-old when Russia invaded her homeland.
Fresh from a meeting with China’s top diplomat in Moscow, Russia’s President Putin today appeared at a patriotic rally attended by thousands and praised what he called “heroic” Russian troops involved in the fighting in Ukraine.
Hours after Vladimir Putin stepped down from his podium in Moscow, Joe Biden stepped up to his own in Warsaw.
Will Chancellor Sholz supply battle tanks that could help give the Ukrainians the upper hand?
Ukraine has denied claims by Russia that its forces are now in control of the bitterly contested town of Soledar – accusing Moscow of “information noise”.
Ukraine has insisted that its forces are still defending positions in the embattled eastern town of Soledar – after Russia’s Wagner mercenary group claimed it had seized control.