Gary Gibbon
Cameron back from the brink on Europe and immigration
The idea of an emergency brake on EU immigration remained in David Cameron’s speech until a few days ago. But at the last moment, the prime minister pulled back.
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Russian embassy requests meeting with Boris Johnson
The Russian embassy in London has called for a meeting with the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the Salisbury poison attack – claiming its dealings with the UK had been “utterly unsatisfactory”. The Foreign Office hit back, saying it was Russia’s response that had been unsatisfactory – accusing them of failing to answer numerous questions…
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Johnson sorry over Zaghari-Ratcliffe remarks
The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has apologised over remarks he made about the British-Iranian woman who’s been jailed in Iran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has insisted she was on holiday there when she was arrested in 2016, a claim which Mr Johnson had appeared to contradict. Pressed by Labour in the Commons today,he apologised for the “distress and anguish”…
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Sir Simon Fraser: ‘UK needs clearer political leadership’
Sir Simon Fraser, former chief civil servant at the Foreign Office, says “clearer political leadership” is needed as the UK negotiates with the EU over Brexit. He says the EU wants a “clear, organised approach” from the UK.
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Gary Gibbon
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Simon Israel
Government relents over visas for stranded Gaza family
The government has backtracked over its refusal to allow a British Palestinian father’s children evacuated from Gaza to settle in the UK.
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Simon Israel
The Gaza family caught in limbo
Ali Dalloul – who has a UK passport – was helped by the Foreign Office to get his family out of Gaza. But now the Home Office won’t let his Palestinian children into this country.
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Jonathan Rugman
Iraq crisis: talking to the Yazidi refugees
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect fleeing violence in Iraq take refuge in camps across Dohuk. Channel 4 News has been on the ground speaking to the refugees.
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Jonathan Rugman
How many Yazidi refugees are still stranded on Mount Sinjar?
The Sinjar mountain range is over 45 miles long. Are the Americans saying that the refugees are not spread out any more but have been moved into a concentrated area where they can be counted?
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Paul Mason
Inside the Gaza UN school ‘shelled by Israel’
I’ve just been to the UNRWA school in Jabalia, where 15 people were killed by what appears to be an Israeli shell as they were sheltering in a classroom.
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Lindsey Hilsum
William Hague, Angelina Jolie and British imperial decline
There was a reason why outgoing foreign secretary William Hague teamed up with the film star in the campaign to end warzone rape.
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Gary Gibbon
China’s Premier Li – on EU reform and the Scottish question
In the UK for a three-day visit, Premier Li failed to kill off his ambassador’s insult suggesting Britain was behind Germany and France in Beijing’s estimation.
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Gary Gibbon
UK options on Ukraine: warn, threaten and wait
The UK has no intention of doing anything “muscular” to stop Russia taking Crimea, which is now considered as returned fully to the Russian sphere.
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£3m more UK aid to Syria: a measure of our impotence
The UK’s claim to be the second biggest bi-lateral aid donor to the Syrian people just underlines the lack of other practical options for intervention.
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Repairing the spooks' reputation
MI6 in particular has suffered some hard reputational knocks and doesn’t like it. Mr Hague is trying to shape the debate about it in the media, by giving those who write and comment on it a better idea of how it works, as Jonathan Rugman reports.
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How China's number three man gets his information
A lot of what we know about Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who begins his visit to the UK today, comes through US cables released by WikiLeaks. The cables also reveal how Mr Li gets his information, blogs Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.