Jonathan Rugman Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Jonathan Rugman's beat includes foreign policy, terrorism and international development.

In his 11 years at Channel 4 News, he’s covered the Haiti earthquake, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Iran's nuclear programme and the Al Qaeda threat from Somalia and Yemen. He spent four years for the programme in Washington, and before that was a Business Correspondent.

Before Jonathan joined Channel 4 News he worked for the BBC and the Guardian.

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The latest from Jonathan Rugman

World / Syria
Syrian forces 'kill hundreds in Homs'
04 February 2012 Channel 4 News
Activists say more than 200 people are dead after shelling by Syrian forces in Homs. One eye-witness in the city tells Channel 4 News the "massacre" started after a group of al-Assad troops defected.
Why thuggery cuts both ways in Egypt
02 February 2012
If it wasn't for a hard core of violent youths, many of them football fans, manning the barricades and taking on the police a year ago, would Egypt's revolution have gone as far as it has?
World / Syria
What does the UN's Syria resolution tell us?
01 February 2012 Jonathan Rugman
A draft UN resolution on Syria aims to ensure that President Bashar al-Assad relinquishes his grip on power. But what else does the document say? Jonathan Rugman reads between the lines.