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.
President Biden might be facing an overflowing domestic in-tray this week, but he’s also got his work cut out for him on the foreign policy front – from Iran and the Middle East to global security. In the latest move, his officials say he is seeking a five-year extension on the US-Russia nuclear arms treaty,…
A Russian judge has imprisoned the opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 30 days. The hearing took place not in court, but a police station, with Navalny’s lawyer given barely any notice. The UK and other European countries are understood to be weighing possible further sanctions.
For his entire presidency, Donald Trump has been accused of harnessing the hate that was unleashed on Capitol Hill. But will that be his legacy? How will the Republican leaders whose support enabled him, and President-elect Biden, who will succeed him, move forward from here?
Iran’s top nuclear scientist has been assassinated in an ambush near the capital Tehran.
President Trump has appeared in the Rose Garden of the White House for the annual “pardoning of the turkey”.
In the US, more than 8,000 Americans were recorded as having died of Covid last week
Has President Trump acknowledged for the first time that Joe Biden won the Presidential election?
Trump supporters are starting to gather near the White House for their rally later today.
In the United States, Joe Biden has been congratulated by the Pope and appointed his chief of staff while President Trump is still refusing to admit defeat.
President Trump has made his first official appearance since the election was called for his rival Joe Biden. But unlike his Twitter feed, no comment was forthcoming as he laid a wreath in Arlington cemetery for Veterans Day. Meanwhile, the key state Georgia today said it would do a full recount by hand.
As congratulations to Joe Biden flooded in from around the world, there were exceptions – Russia, China and Turkey are yet to recognise the election result. From rejoining the Iran nuclear deal to dealing with nuclear-armed North Korea, the president-elect has his work cut out.
“This is the time to heal in America”. If last night was for spontaneous scenes of jubilation, as his supporters spilled out onto the streets – Joe Biden began his first full day as President-elect as he does any other Sunday – going to church in his home town of Wilmington.
The UK’s terror threat level has been raised to “severe” – meaning an attack on British soil is highly likely.
France is on its highest level of security alert, after three people died in a knife attack in a church.
Governments across Europe are battling to stop their hospitals from being overwhelmed.