Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband ponders Trident options
To keep, scale back or totally abandon Trident? The future of our nuclear deterrent remains a thorny policy problem for all parties.
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Gary Gibbon
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Siobhan Kennedy
Shale gas report beefs up Osborne’s infrastructure plans
For all the talk about infrastructure spending, the numbers show it is actually falling. So no wonder the chancellor wants some good news – and the shale gas survey has delivered.
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Barack Obama outlines ambition to cut nuclear weapons
Barack Obama uses a speech in Berlin to call for further falls in global nuclear stockpiles, including pledging reduction in America’s deployed arsenals and negotiating further cuts with Russia.
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Iran’s new president – the key questions
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum and a panel of experts consider how Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, will change his country, the Middle East, and relations with the west.
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Alex Thomson
Fukushima’s two British Samurai survivors
Two British teachers caught up in the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tell Alex Thomson why they continue to teach their evacuated children, somewhere, somehow.
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Jon Snow
Return to a sombre, less vibrant Iran
On the surface, Tehran thrives. But the atmosphere in the run-up to the presidential elections is more sombre as Iran remains in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme.
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North Korea sentences US man to 15 years hard labour
An American is sentenced to 15 years hard labour in North Korea after the Communist regime accused him of trying to overthrow the state.
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Threats and diplomacy as North Korea marks Day of Sun
No mass parades and no missile launches, just muted celebrations in North Korea to mark its founder’s birth. The United States is urging the regime: stop the threats and enter talks.
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N Korea missile test would be ‘huge mistake’ – Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry raises the stakes in the war of words with North Korea, warning Pyongyang that it knew “what the outcome of the conflict would be” if America had to defend its allies.
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Should we be scared of North Korea?
As North Korea ramps up talk of a nuclear attack, Jon Snow talks to former British ambassador to Pyongyang, John Everard and PJ Crowley, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman at the US state department .
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North Korea: beware of the bluster
Talk of all-consuming hell-fire and nuclear war sounds grim. But North Korea’s violent sabre-rattling must be viewed in context.
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Green light for first nuclear plant in two decades
The government grants planning consent for French firm EDF to begin construction of a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley in Somerset – but consent is not the same as actually getting the plant built.
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Centrica pulls out of UK’s nuclear new-build plan
Centrica will not take part in the construction of four new reactors as part of the UK’s nuclear new-build programme, the firm announces.
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Cumbria rejects radioactive waste disposal programme
The government’s long-term hopes of burying nuclear waste in the UK has suffered a major blow after Cumbria county council voted against plans for a £12bn underground site.
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Energy bill: the short-term cost of a greener future
Energy Secretary Ed Davey unveils what he called the biggest transformation of Britain’s electricity market since privatisation as the emphasis switches to low-carbon power.
