Cathy Newman , Presenter
Cathy Newman joined Channel 4 News in January 2006. Cathy Newman presents Channel 4 News.
She spent over a decade in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times. Since joining Channel 4 News in 2006 she has broadcast a string of investigations and scoops, including harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard. She also writes about politics for the Telegraph.
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‘Twenty five minutes of the speech was a load of very dubious boasting’ – historian Mary Beard on Trump in Davos
“Twenty five minutes of the speech was a load of very dubious boasting about what he’d done for the American economy and American society.”
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Trump quizzed about Greta as Charles call for climate action
President Trump faced more questions about Greta Thunberg – his climate sparring partner, who is just 17 – as he found out in his departing press conference this lunchtime.
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‘If you do it alone, the US is going to come back hard’ – George Osborne on UK tech tax
I spoke to the former Chancellor George Osborne.
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US threatens retaliation if UK introduces tech tax
President Trump is due back in Washington in the next few hours but his deal-maker Steve Mnuchin the Treasury Secretary is staying behind.
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‘Just because American public wants Trump punished doesn’t mean it’s an impeachable offence’ – Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz, the famed Defence attorney and author of the book “The case against Impeaching Trump”, released in 2018 joins the programme. He will be speaking in President Trump’s defence on the Senate floor.
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‘Trump didn’t even mention climate change’ – Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Former Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt speaks to Cathy Newman.
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‘Trump loves being around rich and powerful people’ – Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group
Today in Davos the keynote speaker was President Donald Trump. He received thundering applause on announcing the United States will join the One Trillion Trees Initiative – launched by world leaders to try to combat climate change.
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Trump clashes with Greta Thunberg at Davos
Donald Trump’s impeachment is kicking off in Washington, but the President isn’t even there – he’s been here in Davos addressing business leaders, celebs and the odd climate activist.
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‘I’d like to see ‘Commitment Actually’, ‘Climate Actually’, ‘Aid Actually’ – director Richard Curtis
If the solution to climate change is the question, is Davos the answer?
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The primary school children sexually abused by their own peers
When young children at primary school are sexually abused, not by adults, or even older children, but by their peers.
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The scale of school sexual harassment and violence revealed
Channel 4 News has obtained new figures that show the situation in schools in England and Wales has not improved, with more reports of pupils abusing other pupils.
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‘Women and girls have been allowed to suffer without being listened to’ – former prosecutor Nazir Afzal
Nazir Afzal is the former chief crown prosecutor for the north west of England – and had responsibility for prosecutions, including those of the Rochdale grooming gang.
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‘It would be absolutely wrong to cut air passenger duty to save this company’ – Green MEP Molly Scott Cato on Flybe
I spoke to politicians from the south west: Steve Double, the Conservative MP for St Austell and Newquay, and Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar.
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Trump ‘clearly feels more animosity towards Iranian regime than others’ – Giselle Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute
Joining me now from Washington is Giselle Donnelly, who served as Director of the House Armed Services Committee, and is now a resident fellow at the neo-conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute.
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Stormont House Agreement ‘must not lead to hundreds of soldiers being investigated’ – Tory MP James Gray
Joining me now from Westminster is the Conservative MP James Gray, who has a military background himself and chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces.
