On Friday Ireland will decide whether to scrap its almost-total ban on abortion. Vocal proponents for and against reforming the constitution have powered a referendum campaign that has become increasingly bitter, but with a significant proportion of the electorate thought to have made up their minds. Our Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long is joined in…
Eddie Daffarn wrote a blog post predicting the Grenfell fire seven months before it happened. He lived on the 16th floor and spoke to Channel 4 News in his first in-depth interview.
There has been a huge display of unity today across Manchester to support those who were injured or lost loved ones. But there are still serious questions about what happened that night and the immediate response, including from one man who was seriously hurt in the explosion. Martin Hibbert wants to know why the suicide…
Voters go to the polls in Ireland on Friday for what will be the country’s sixth referendum on abortion in 35 years. There are perhaps few issues so intensely personal and yet so political too. This time the vote is on whether to repeal the eighth amendment, which enshrined in law the equal right to…
It’s been estimated that a thousand highly-skilled migrants, among them doctors, teachers and entrepreneurs, have been told to leave the country under measures intended in part to expel terrorists and war criminals. In some cases migrants have found themselves with 14 days to leave the UK after making amendments to their tax returns. The campaign…
Israel’s UK Ambassador Mark Regev discusses Gaza.
An enormous cast of people have been linked to the Trump/Russia story. These are the names you need to know, as the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller picks up pace.
When I present Channel 4 News, in-depth analysis and great journalism come together to explain the events of the day. But this new podcast wants to help you go much deeper and discuss answers, not just problems. Each week, I’ll speak to one guest, at length, who will hopefully have some answers – without having to…
Gary Gibbon
The former Director of Vote Leave Dominic Cummings has tonight broken a period of silence to call Theresa May’s strategy on Brexit “botched ” and “stupid” . For good measure Mr Cummings sprays his customary political machine gun around some fellow Brexiteers too. He reserves his greatest ire for Mrs May, Philip Hammond and senior officials Olly Robbins…
On Friday, Irish voters will be asked to repeal the part of the constitution which bans abortion. After that the government proposes to legalise abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy and in cases after that where the health of life of the mother is at risk. We’ve been following the campaign.
Theresa May says she is minded to ban flammable cladding on high-rise buildings in the wake of the Grenfell fire. The Prime Minister told MPs that she intends to go further than the conclusions of a government review on building regulations. Her comments came as tributes continued to be paid to Grenfell’s 72 victims on…
Andrew Peek, the US State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary with responsibility for Iran, discusses the nuclear deal.
There is more misery for Britain’s high streets. as the retailing giant Marks and Spencer announces a massive fall in profits, thanks to the cost of closing more than 100 stores and falling sales in food, clothes and homeware – and the impact on its share price could see it drop out of the FTSE…
Salisbury poisoning victim Yulia Skripal has issued a video statement. Speaking to Reuters at an undisclosed location, she describes her shock at what happened to her and her father Sergei and asks for their privacy to be respected. Thanking the hospital staff who treated them, she goes on to say she does not “wish to…
“For those whose lives were lost and those whose lives have been changed forever” – the Dean of Manchester was speaking at today’s memorial service at the cathedral, as the city comes together to mark the one-year anniversary of the Manchester Arena bomb. Twenty two people were killed in the suicide attack, hundreds more were…
“It may not work out for June 12” – President Trump warns of delays for his upcoming summit with Kim Jong-un, as he meets the South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in the White House. President Moon declared the “fate and future” of the entire Korean peninsula depended on it.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised again, this time to political leaders in the European Parliament, who faced him with a barrage of questions about the social media network’s use of personal data, before he was given a few minutes to respond. Mr Zuckerberg promised that after the Cambridge Analytica scandal the firm would investigate…
A minute’s silence is held for victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack a year ago.
Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian MEP and the parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, was at today’s hearing with Mark Zuckerberg.
Tomorrow it will have been a year since the Manchester Arena attack in which 22 people, many of them children, lost their lives. The anniversary will be marked with a memorial service and a concert in the city centre.
It’s been two weeks since President Donald Trump isolated the US from its allies and withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. So what is America’s new plan?
DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr discusses fishing and Brexit.