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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Covid cases surging dangerously high in Brazil and India
More than half of people in England live in areas which have barely recorded any new Covid cases – with some showing increases close to zero for more than a month. The latest 24-hour government figures show 106,000 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, more than 450,000 people had their second…
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Myanmar: Ex-ambassador says he spent night in car after being locked out of London embassy
Eleven more anti-coup protesters are reported to have been killed by security forces in Myanmar – more than 600 people have died so far in the crackdown.
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India to restart AstraZeneca vaccine exports if domestic Covid cases fall
So what about developing countries which are desperate to rollout any vaccines – but are still struggling for supplies?
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Dozens feared dead in Mozambique terrorist attack claimed by Islamic State
Dozens of people are feared to have been killed in a terrorist attack in Mozambique.
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Uighurs in Turkey demonstrate against China, amid concerns over countries deepening ties
Turkey has chosen the Chinese vaccine – rather than western alternatives – as its main weapon against Covid. Yet the Turks are also hosting tens of thousands of exiled Uighurs – and both issues were discussed when China’s foreign minister visited Turkey today. China denies using vaccine deliveries as political leverage, but many Uighurs are…
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Islamist and former settler leaders could be kingmakers in Israel after elections
Israelis had hoped that their fourth election in two years would produce a clear winner.
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Tanzania’s president Magufuli dies amid Covid rumours
He was Africa’s biggest Covid denier, denouncing vaccines as a western conspiracy and declaring that the virus could be defeated by prayer. Now, Tanzania’s president John Magufuli has died at the age of 61, amid rumours that he had contracted the disease.
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EU threatens to block vaccine exports to UK
The European Union has threatened to stop Covid vaccine exports to the UK unless the continent gets its “fair share”. Yet at the very moment that Europe complains that AstraZeneca has not kept its promises, 16 EU countries are not using the vaccines they have, amid concerns about blood clots.
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UK nuclear arsenal to increase as part of post-Brexit review
The Prime Minister has laid out Britain’s foreign and defence priorities in what he described as the most comprehensive policy review since the Cold War. China and Russia were listed as the biggest state threats. And there are plans to increase the UK’s number of nuclear warheads.
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UK denounces China proposal to assess Hong Kong election candidates’ loyalty to Beijing
Leading members of the US Congress are calling for more sanctions on China after it ignored foreign critics and passed a new law, reducing the proportion of democratically elected lawmakers in Hong Kong.
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Italy braced for third wave as Covid deaths pass 100,000
One year on from locking down, Italy’s new Prime Minister today described the country’s death toll of over 100,000 as a “terrible threshold”.
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Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in prison, with two of them suspended, after he was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling.
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US says Saudi de-facto leader responsible for Khashoggi murder
US intelligence report says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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US due to release declassified report ‘implicating’ Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi murder
US is set to release a declassified intelligence report implicating the Saudi Crown Prince in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Will Israel’s vaccine strategy continue to be a success?
It is a model of what the future could look like – Israel, which is now coming out of lockdown, after almost half all Israelis received their first vaccine dose.
