The pre-budget report is like an unfinished painting
The pre-budget report task Alistair Darling seemed to have devised for himself was to look like he “gets it” on the deficit while preserving dividing lines between Labour and the Conservatives.
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Alex Thomson blogs from the border between Tunisia and Libya on the miracle of the modern telephone and the stories of those who have fled Gaddafi’s nation.
Alex Thomson returns to the Libya Tunisia border to find that the situation has changed in the past three days: it is not chaotic or catastrophic – but it’s not comfortable.
Shots have been fired into the air at the border of Libya and Tunisia. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says around 20,000 people are waiting at the border.
As Colonel Gaddafi faces increasing international pressure to step down, Jonathan Rugman writes from Zawiyah, near Tripoli, of the “miracle, but terrible cost” of the revolution in Libya so far.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is calling on countries to open their borders to migrants fleeing from the violence in Libya – sparking a clash with Italy, which has warned of a “disaster”.
The Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, says young people are the victims of the Coalition Government’s deficit-cutting plan. Faisal Islam investigates.
The leak of the Palestine Papers will further undermine the PLO and could strengthen support for Hamas, write Kate Nevens and Jessica Forsythe of Chatham House.
North Korea’s leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un has made his public debut during a massive show of the country’s military strength – featuring tanks, missiles and goose-stepping troops.
As a new UN report into the most appalling atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo is released, Lindsey Hilsum looks into the details of “the worst war in the world”.
As a report is published detailing atrocities committed by foreign forces in Congo in the 1990s, a Rwandan journalist writing for Channel 4 News hears from a refugee of the conflict.
A UN Official for Human Rights insists a draft UN document accusing Rwanda of genocide in Congo has created “confusion”, insisting the report is “geared towards improving law and order in future”.
As the number of people directly affected by the Pakistan floods exceeds those hit by the 2004 tsunami, Science Correspondent Tom Clarke examines the weather patterns which could be to blame.
Jonathan Miller blogs from a refugee camp in flood-hit Pakistan where medical facilities, schools and homes have all been swept away by the country’s floods.
Reports Channel 4 News on sexual abuse and disappearances from the Tamil refugee camp in the Sri Lankan city of Vavuniya led to Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh being expelled from the country.
The pre-budget report task Alistair Darling seemed to have devised for himself was to look like he “gets it” on the deficit while preserving dividing lines between Labour and the Conservatives.