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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Will lessons be learned from Caroline Flack’s death?
Tributes have been paid to the television presenter Caroline Flack, following her death yesterday. The 40-year-old host of ITV’s Love Island was found at her home, having taken her own life.
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First person dies from Coronavirus in Europe
An 80-year-old Chinese tourist has become Europe’s first coronavirus fatality. The pensioner from Hubei province was taken ill three weeks ago while on holiday in France, and died yesterday.
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Johnson chairs his first reshuffled cabinet after Chancellor’s resignation
They were on message, on cue and in unison. And that might be one of the points of the cabinet reshuffle – ministers who will do what they’re told, a weaker Treasury under Downing Street’s instruction, the long-stated plans of Dominic Cummings delivered through the electoral power of Boris Johnson?
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From their back yards to ours – the new exhibition from America’s deep south on show in Margate
He was born one of 27 children in America’s deep south, says he was traded for a bottle of whiskey when he was four, and picked cotton.
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Grenfell families accuse companies of trying to sabotage inquiry
Bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have accused the companies which refurbished the building with combustible material of trying to sabotage the public inquiry into the disaster.
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Remembering Auschwitz 75 years after liberation
For more than 50 years Rachel Levy couldn’t even talk about what she had witnessed as a teenage girl in Auschwitz.
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UN seeks help to thwart locust swarms in east Africa
The United Nations has called for international help to fight huge swarms of Locusts which are sweeping through parts of east Africa.
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‘We don’t censor political speech, we allow it to take place’ – Facebook’s Steve Hatch
Facebook says it will create a thousand new jobs in the UK this year, increasing its staff numbers here by a third.
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‘Most schools feel way out of their depth’ – Anne Longfield
Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, and Susie McDonald, from the Charity Tender
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‘Sexual harassment in schools has been dismissed as being part of growing up’: Conservative MP Maria Miller
I spoke to Conservative MP Maria Miller – Chair of Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee.
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NFU: ‘If you want to enhance farming you can’t undermine that with trade policy allowing substandard goods’
With me now is Nick Von Westenholz from the National Farmers’ Union, who is the director for International Trade and exiting the EU.
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Australia wildfires could become ‘normal’ elsewhere in world, say UK scientists
The devastating wildfires in Australia could become ‘normal’ unless action is taken to rapidly curb the greenhouse gases driving global warming.
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Flybe reportedly in rescue talks with government
It’s being reported that Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, is seeking financial support from the government in a bid to stave off collapse.
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Syria: Twenty people killed in Idlib province as Assad intensifies air strikes
The family of a White Helmets worker, the voluntary group that helps rescue people in the aftermath of bombings, are among at least 20 people killed in northwest Syria.
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Protests held in India against ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship laws
In India, there have been violent clashes and further protests against a controversial new law which will ease citizenship for people from persecuted religious groups – but only if they aren’t Muslim.
