Jonathan Rugman , Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News for more than a decade.
He reported from the revolutions and uprisings in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Bahrain and has covered stories as diverse as Somalia's famine, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, corruption in world football and the Haiti earthquake. In 2016 he won a BAFTA for his reporting on the terrorist attacks in Paris.
He was previously the programme's Washington Correspondent and Business Correspondent and his reporting has won more than 10 awards. He is the author of "Ataturk's Children: Turkey and the Kurds" and previously worked on BBC Radio 4 documentaries and in Turkey for the BBC and The Guardian.
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‘We are not pursuing any kind of imperialistic aims, we are protecting our rights’ – Turkey’s defence minister on dispute with Greece
Turkey’s Defence minister has accused the French President of “trying to take on the role of Napoleon” during the crisis pitting Greece and Turkey against each other in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Greece and Turkey accuse each other of breaking the international law of the sea
Fossil fuels might be going out of fashion, but a dispute over the right to drill for natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean has provoked fears that two NATO allies could come to blows.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says Germany
German officials said they’d found ‘unequivocal proof’ of Alexei Navalny having been poisoned by Novichok.
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Protests in Inner Mongolia over language edict
Unusually large protests are taking place in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, in a rare show of civil disobedience.
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Netanyahu urges Raab to change stance on Iran sanctions
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was in Israel today, hearing sharp words from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
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Hezbollah member found guilty of involvement in 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former PM
A United Nations-backed tribunal has convicted one member of the Hezbollah militant group of planning the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik Hariri, 15 years ago.
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Suspected Russian mercenaries arrested over attempt to destabilise Belarus
Russia has demanded an explanation after more than 30 suspected Russian mercenaries were arrested near the Belarussian capital Minsk.
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Johnson warns of ‘second wave’ in Europe – and suggests more travel restrictions could follow if necessary
The Prime Minister has raised the prospect of new quarantine restrictions on even more European countries if there’s a second wave of coronavirus cases.
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Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia holds first Muslim prayers in 86 years
President Erdogan of Turkey has joined huge crowds in Istanbul, for the first Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia since the 1,500-year-old former church was turned back into a mosque.
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Johnson denies government ‘avoided’ looking for evidence of Russian interference
Boris Johnson has denied that the Government “actively avoided” looking for evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum.
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Pompeo’s visit to UK after it agreed to exclude Huawei from 5G
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in London today with Chinese rather than Russian interference at the top of his agenda.
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We’ve read Trump’s niece’s book – here’s what’s in it
It’s another tell-all book about President Trump which had to fight against a legal bid to stop it from being published.
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Raab unveils UK sanctions against human rights abusers
The government has announced a new regime of sanctions for individuals accused of gross human rights abuses. Our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman, reports from outside the Foreign Office.
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Russia backs reforms to keep President Putin in power until 2036
In Russia – nearly 78 percent of voters have handed President Putin the right to stay in power until the age of 83.
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White House failed to stop publication of John Bolton book on Trump presidency
It’s an explosive account of his 17 months in the Trump administration – so explosive that the White House tried to stop it being published.
