Fatima Manji , Reporter
Fatima Manji is a News Correspondent and regularly reports on a range of national and international stories.
Her broadcasting has included telling the story of the migration crisis from the borders of Europe, interviewing victims of ISIS atrocities in Iraq and challenging politicians here in the UK during the referendum campaign. She also occasionally presents the programme from the studio. Fatima has won a number of awards for her journalism and in 2015 she was a finalist for the Royal Television Society's Young Journalist of the Year.
During the last General Election she presented Britain's first ever Alternative Election Debate featuring young party leaders facing a live audience on Channel 4. Fatima joined Channel 4 News in 2012 and previously worked as a reporter and video journalist at the BBC.
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At least 66 killed after Mexico pipeline blast
At least 66 people have been killed and more than 85 are missing following a pipeline explosion in central Mexico. It’s thought the blast occurred after the fuel line was ruptured by thieves. Dozens of people were scrambling to fill containers with the leaking oil when they were engulfed by a massive fireball. A warning…
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Children go to Westminster to talk food poverty
Just putting food on the table is a struggle – let alone making healthy choices. That’s the message from a group of nine children, aged between ten and seventeen – who travelled to Westminster today to raise their experiences with MPs and peers as part of the Children’s Future Food Inquiry.
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How May’s Brexit deal is viewed in Leave-voting Stoke
Theresa May gave her last-gasp speech in Stoke-on-Trent, where people voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU. We spent the day meeting residents to see what they thought of Mrs May’s plan.
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Saving a rare plant species in Kew Gardens
A scientist in Sierra Leone has achieved that rare distinction of discovering an entirely new species of plant – and having it named after him.
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Iran’s women truckers
Women in Iran can be arrested for dancing or riding a bike – but there is some evidence that public life is starting to change as many wage a quiet battle for equality in the clothes they wear and the jobs they do. One of them is Bita Bagheri, a working mother who has forged…
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Police find body in search for missing backpacker Grace Millane
A body believed to be that of British backpacker Grace Millane has been found near a beauty spot on the outskirts of Auckland. The 22-year-old was last seen eight days ago in a hotel in the city centre.
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Brexit odd couple: Jacob Rees-Mogg v Alastair Campbell
We took Jacob Rees-Mogg and Alastair Campbell on a trip to Lewisham Market in south-east London, to see if they could find peace over the delicacies on sale.
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Michelle Obama meets schoolchildren in London
After Michelle Obama visited a North London girls’ school in 2009, she said she “almost felt myself falling backward into my own past”. Now, nine years later, the former First Lady has returned to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington.
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May sells Brexit deal to public in radio phone-in
It was the public, not parliament, that Theresa May spoke to today, but it was Jacob from Somerset and Boris from Uxbridge she was hoping to reach.
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British academic jailed in UAE for spying ‘failed’ by UK government
Has the UK Government put its economic interests in the United Arab Emirates above the rights and welfare of Matthew Hedges, the British academic jailed for spying there yesterday?
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Internet collage sensation Cold War Steve’s Brexit dystopia
Kim Jong-un, Jose Mourinho and Jacob Rees-Mogg in a cheese-rolling contest, watched with bemused horror by Steve McFadden, best known as Phil Mitchell from EastEnders. The crazy world of internet sensation Cold War Steve, whose absurd collages portray a dystopian image of Britain’s future. His satirical take on Brexit has won over staunch Remainers and disillusioned Leavers alike.…
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May tells party critics that ousting her ‘won’t help Brexit’
Getting rid of me won’t make delivering Brexit any easier, Theresa May has told her critics – as she warned the next seven days would be “critical”.
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Grenfell housing boss says firm did not have resources to deal with the fire
The former chief executive of the firm which ran Grenfell Tower has claimed it had no role in emergency planning when the fire broke out.
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Paying homage to WW1’s Harlem Hellfighters
The African-American regiment who brought ragtime to Europe
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Row over Wembley stadium workers’ wages
A group of schoolchildren have delivered a sack of 500 letters to the chairman of the Football Association calling for all workers at Wembley to be paid the living wage. As many as 2,000 people work there on match days, from cleaners to security staff – and as part of Living Wage week there’s a…
