Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent
Alex is the longest-serving on-screen journalist on C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front the programme from around the world.
His journalism has won several BAFTA and EMMY awards; two New York Film and TV Awards and in 2011/12 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
He's written two books about the 1991 Gulf War and a travelogue about cycling across India.
He has been External Examiner at Cardiff and currently Bournemouth Schools of Journalism and is Honorary Fellow in Journalism at Falmouth School of Journalism.
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More than 400 people killed by Mozambique cyclone
The number of people killed in Mozambique after a cyclone tore through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods has risen to more than 400.
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Hundreds of thousands homeless after cyclone in southern Africa
In southern Africa, the first reports are emerging of an outbreak of cholera as conditions worsen for those affected by Cyclone Idai. We report from Beira, the port city in the centre of Mozambique which has been isolated by the flood.
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Torrential rains expected as Cyclone Idai death toll rises above 300
Flooding destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and officials in Mozambique say 15,000 people still need to be rescued from floodwaters. Many are still clinging to trees without food or clean water.
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Three teenagers die at St Patrick’s Day party in Co Tyrone
Two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old died, while another 16-year-old girl remains in hospital.
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Bloody Sunday soldier faces murder charges
It’s nearly half a century since one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
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No-deal tariffs plans provoke fury from NI businesses and farmers
Earlier today the government published its plans for tariffs on imports if we do hit a no-deal departure.
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Soldiers to discover if they face prosecution for Bloody Sunday deaths
Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment will find out if they are to be prosecuted for the deaths of 14 people in the Bloody Sunday massacre.
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Fighting ISIS: On the front line in Mosul
We speak to some of the Islamic State prisoners in Mosul and the Iraqi special forces trying to find the fighters who’ve gone to ground.
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Calls for Karen Bradley to resign over Northern Ireland comments
Karen Bradley has been forced to apologise over comments she made about The Troubles.
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The rebels and former al-Qaeda forces still on Syrian battlefield
Civilian areas of Idlib Province are being heavily bombed as President Assad makes his final push for total victory in the eight-year long civil war.
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Exclusive: The pro-fracking letter writers with links to oil and gas industry
In the search for alternative energy sources for the UK, there seemed to be one obvious place to look – underground.
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Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ found guilty in US
The Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been found guilty of all ten counts at his drug trafficking trial in New York.
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Call for end to plastic waste exports
Dealing with Britain’s mountain of plastic waste is one of the most pressing problems of our time.
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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos accuses US tabloid of ‘blackmail’ over ‘intimate photos’
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon and the Washington Post, is going to war with the US tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer, and has accused its parent company of “extortion and blackmail”.
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Dramatic rescue of ‘off-grid’ Scottish pensioner after alert 4,000 miles away
A pensioner who’s spent 25 years living in a remote cabin in the Scottish highlands has been rescued after his distress signal was picked up thousands of miles away in Texas.
