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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Explained: What do we know about the death toll in Gaza?
Because we can’t get access to Gaza ourselves – we can only get information about casualties from the Gaza ministry of health, which like all government agencies there is appointed by Hamas. Yesterday President Biden cast doubt on their statistics, saying he had “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many…
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90,000 residents flee Nagorno-Karabakh amidst uncertain future
The Armenian government has said that more than 90,000 residents of Nagorno Karabakh have now left the disputed territory.
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Moscow damaged in overnight drone attack
Moscow’s business district was attacked in the early hours of this morning by what’s believed to be at least one Ukranian drone.
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President Zelenskyy visits troops near Ukrainian frontline
President Zelenskyy has visited frontline troops in eastern Ukraine where an attempt is under way to break through Russian defensive lines.
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Sudan: Gun battles threaten fragile ceasefire
Airstrikes and gun battles have continued between Sudan’s rival military forces – despite another extension of the fragile ceasefire.
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Sudan crisis: UK switches focus to sea rescue as civil war fears intensify
A ceasefire has been an endangered concept in the last week in Sudan. Officially the latest extension – is due to expire in less than 7 hours time.
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Last flights leave Khartoum – but how many British citizens are stuck in Sudan?
The exodus from Sudan continues this evening – with tens of thousands fleeing the war, which has now entered its third week of fighting.
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Three British men held by Taliban in Afghanistan
The UK has insisted it will do “whatever it takes” to ensure the safety of three British men being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Cyclone Freddy makes landfall in Mozambique
A tropical storm which has travelled across the entire Indian ocean is now blowing across southeast Africa for a second time.
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The world marks one year since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine
Rishi Sunak joined leaders of the G7 nations today in agreeing new sanctions against those supporting the Russian war effort.
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Ukraine war: fighting intensifies as conflict enters second year
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a war that few here thought would start, let alone grind on for so long at such cost, here the morning was interrupted by air raid sirens.
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How the war in Ukraine has reshaped global politics
Almost a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what have been the wider ramifications of this war around the world?
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NI Protocol: ‘good progress’ but deal not over the line, says UK and EU
If the signals from Belfast yesterday were that a deal was imminent, the message from Munich was one of caution.
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Ukraine war: First German Leopard tanks to be delivered ‘very soon’
World leaders, officials and diplomats gathered in Bavaria today to talk tanks and tough on Russia.
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Mystery object shot down by US jets – but not a spy balloon
US fighter jets have shot down an unidentified object in the skies over Alaska, although authorities say they don’t believe it was a spy balloon. The object, which was the size of a car, and reportedly described by one official as silver coloured and cylindrical, was first spotted on Thursday, flying at around the same…
