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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Pressure on May grows as former Tory MPs quit party for Change UK
Theresa May is coming under further pressure to quit her job before the European elections, as an ex-Cabinet minister and a former Tory MP announced they were leaving the party for the ranks of the new independent Change UK. Conservative grandees have also suggested the rules could be changed to allow a leadership challenge earlier…
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Pregnancy club Bounty fined for ‘unprecedented’ illegal data sharing
A pregnancy club has been fined £400,000 for sharing the personal information of more than 14 million people.
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The mums sending their children to Somalia to keep them safe from London gangs
What do you do if you are a parent of teenage boys and you’ve seen youngsters you know fall victim to the growing problem of knife violence?
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Hilary Benn MP: ‘If we don’t try this week to find something we agree on, Parliament will be rightly criticised”
I’m joined by Hilary Benn, the chair of the Commons select committee on Brexit.
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Liz Kendall MP on People’s Vote march: “I would have liked Jeremy Corbyn to be there”
I spoke to Labour MP Liz Kendall who was on the People’s Vote march.
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Prejudice researcher Maryyum Mehmood: “Why is it that we have mainstreamed and normalised such hateful rhetoric?”
Maryyum Mehmood is a research associate at the University of Oxford, looking at prejudice against Muslims and Jews, and Chris Allen is an expert on the far right in Britain and Europe.
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1,000 may be dead after Cyclone Idai hits southern Africa, says Mozambique President
In Mozambique, President Filipe Nyusi says more than 1,000 people may have been killed by Cyclone Idai, which devastated the port city of Beira last week.
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Eyewitness to NZ mosque attack, Farhaan Farheez: ‘the shot of the gun was unreal to me’
We spoke to Farhaan Faheez, who was at the New Zealand mosque.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan: ‘I won’t be cowed by terrorists’
We spoke to London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and began by asking what assurances he can give to communities in London concerned about the mosque attacks.
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999 call of woman who died during burglary released
It is a harrowing recording: a 999 call made by a 77 year old woman after a burglary in North London. It was the last time Maureen Whale spoke.
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CBI’s Rain Newton-Smith: result of no-deal Brexit vote ‘hugely reassuring for business’
Rain Newton-Smith is chief economist of the Confederation of British Industry.
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Fifth young person to die in a week, amid knife crime crisis
Another day, another teenage victim of knife crime. While politicians and police debate what to do about it, there has been another killing.
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Baroness Warsi demands inquiry into ‘institutional’ Islamophobia in Conservative party
Former Conservative Party Co-Chairman Baroness Warsi has called for an inquiry into the “institutional” Islamophobia in her party.
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Grayling no-show for Brexit ferries question
You know it must be bad when the New York Times describes you as “a byword for haplessness in a golden age of political blundering in Britain”.
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Captured Indian pilot freed by Pakistan in attempt to calm tensions
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, said the pilot’s release was a “peace gesture”, but the propaganda war is very much ongoing.
