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.
Fourteen people were detained, aged between 11 and 43, during early morning raids. They included a mother and her son. Nationally over 1100 have now been arrested with more than 700 charged following riots across the country.
We’ve lost around 90% of UK seagrass groves in just the last thirty years. Human encroachment and dredging have played a part, but the biggest cause appears to have been sewage pollution on the watch of the privatised water monopolies. Now though the fightback is underway.
Once a place where the fossil fuel Klondike brought pioneering energy change generations ago, now Orkney pushes the green energy revolution.
King Charles has praised the “community spirit” which countered the past week of riots – and called for national unity around shared values of mutual respect and understanding.
6,000 riot officers are being deployed this weekend – as police chiefs said they would be on high alert to prevent any repeat of the disorder.
There’s a familiar chorus of criticism when it comes to renewable energy – what happens if the sun doesn’t shine or the wind is calm?
It’s a well established pattern. First there’s the riot, then the clean-up.
The violence escalated rapidly in Rotherham this afternoon as rioters attacked a hotel housing asylum seekers. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said police had full Government support for the “strongest action” against those responsible.
Dozens of wildfires are still burning across California, including the massive Park Fire in the north.
We are joined by Rami Khouri, from Boston, USA – he is a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut, a journalist and author.
We are joined by Laura Blumenfeld, who’s a Middle East Analyst at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a former American ambassador who is now President of The Middle East Policy Council.
Sir Keir Starmer says he’s confident that household energy bills will come down, although he admitted it would “take time” – as he gave more details of the Government’s new publicly owned Great British Energy firm.
Levels of E-Coli in the Thames have been found to be 27 times the acceptable quality – just days before the Henley international regatta.
A former Fujitsu engineer who helped to design the flawed Horizon IT system has told the Post Office inquiry that it had been “working well”.
The future of new oil and gas projects in the UK has been thrown into doubt following a landmark decision by the Supreme Court.