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  • 29 Apr 2009

    Was it really that long ago? Barack Obama became the 44th president of the USA 100 days ago, on 20 January 2009. The anniversary may have been somewhat over-shadowed by the spread of swine flu, but you can re-live the ups and downs with this pleasingly clickable photo montage and this audio slideshow, which combines…

  • 9 Apr 2009

    Obama tackles Cuba and defence spending

    We are about to see Obama’s mettle tested domestically in America. I’m in the States this week and very struck by how his first international foray has gone down here. To some extent its supposed success has been taken for granted. There have been comparisons with Reagan in that the office of the US president…

  • 8 Apr 2009

    Before Barack Obama swept into town, I spent an evening in an Istanbul hospital, visiting the bedside of an old friend. My friend is a true Levantine, perhaps one of the last; his forebears built railways for the Ottoman Sultans in the 19th Century, coming to what was then Constantinople from what was then the…

  • 7 Apr 2009

    The images the President’s advisers hope will resonate most from his trip to Turkey are surely those from his tour of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. It was commissioned by an Ottoman Sultan, Ahmed 1st, who wanted to placate Allah almost 400 years ago. Now America’s President wants to do the same.

  • 1 Apr 2009

    Obama: a fascinating contrast with Bush

    This G20 exists at so many levels. Take Brazil’s President Lula. Fearless campaigner against the carbon footprint. But having flown from Brazil to Doha and Doha to Paris, today he abandoned his plane, sending it empty to London while he took the train. But the high spot thus far has been the Obama-Brown press conference.…

  • 1 Apr 2009

    That’s the question our sister programme More 4 News put to viewers, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber and Steve Alambritis from the Federation of Small Businesses. It follows Barack Obama’s gift of 25 classic American movies to Gordon Brown when the British PM visited Washington last month.

  • 18 Mar 2009

    I had dinner at the home of a London art dealer last week and my eyes were on stalks. I counted two David Hockneys and a Magritte in his sitting room, a fabulous Lucian Freud drawing up the stairs, and two Walter Sickerts beside his bed. You might ask what I was doing in his bedroom; but…

  • 20 Jan 2009

    Two million people from around the world descended on Washington DC to watch Barack Obama take office as the USA’s first African-American president.

  • 19 Jan 2009

    On a rainbow flight to the Obama inauguration

    I am in Washington DC amid the build-up to Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th president of the United States. The excitement on the plane over was palpable – this was Flight Obama if there was one. Flights to Washington are normally prosaic affairs: businessmen, lobbyists, diplomatic families. But this one was a veritable rainbow…

  • 5 Nov 2008

    Though huge challenges lie ahead, Barack Obama and the American people celebrate the achievement of a historic election victory in November 2008.

  • 21 Jan 2008

    Channel 4 News investigates Obama’s roots in early Chicago politics and looks at the role race played in his presidential campaign.

  • 7 Apr 2023

    President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama have joined the outcry after Tennessee’s Republican controlled legislature expelled two Democrats, who had taken part in a gun control protest. 

  • 14 Nov 2022

    We spoke to Karin von Hippel,  director general of the security and intelligence think tank RUSI – she was also an advisor at the US State Department under Barack Obama. 

  • 22 Apr 2022

    We spoke to Fiona Hill, an analyst who served under George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and began by asking her what she thinks Vladimir Putin’s war aims are right now.

  • 11 Mar 2022

    We spoke to Philip Breedlove, former Nato supreme commander under Barack Obama, and began by asking him whether he thinks Russia is winning or losing this war.