Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Presenter
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is one of the main anchors of Channel 4 News.
He also fronts Channel 4 News' podcast 'Ways to Change the World' which interviews one guest at length each week about the big ideas in their lives and the events that have helped shape their thinking.
Since joining the team in 1998 he has fronted big events from the Omagh bombing, 9/11, the Mumbai attacks, to special war reports from Syria, Yemen and Gaza. Having covered five British general elections he does special political shows for Channel 4 such as the "Ask the Chancellors" debate.
Krishnan reports for the foreign affairs series Unreported World and commentates on major live events for Channel 4 such as the Paralympics Ceremonies. He also anchors controversial programmes outside the news including the first live televised "Autopsy".
His TV career began at the age of eighteen presenting youth television for the BBC. He went on to present, report and produce a variety of programmes from Newsround to Newsnight.
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6m
Iran ‘playing tit-for-tat game’, says US think-tank VP
We’re joined by Trita Parsi who is executive vice president of the Quincy Institute think-tank, and former president of the National Iranian American Council.
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4m
Labour peer Joan Bakewell: Corbyn ‘needs to show more leadership’ on anti-Semitism
We asked the Labour party to respond to the peers’ anti-Semitism allegations. Nobody was available for interview. We spoke to the Labour peer Joan Bakewell, who was one of the signatories to the newspaper advertisement, and began by asking why she put her name to the complaint.
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Anthony Scaramucci: Trump’s comments ‘reminiscent of what my grandparents had to hear’
We spoke to the author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly Donald Trump’s director of communications, and began by asking them if you say something that is considered racist, does it make you a racist?
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Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness: ‘The problems don’t go away by slamming the door and a harsh Brexit’
Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness, from the governing Fine Gael party, is vice president of the European Parliament.
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5m
England cricketer Jos Buttler on winning World Cup: ‘It justifies all of the sacrifices you’ve made’
We were at the Oval and spoke to the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board and the team coach about yesterday’s win. But first we began by asking Jos Buttler, one of the cricketers who helped deliver England’s historic win, what he was thinking in the last few overs.
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6m
Disco legend Nile Rodgers on his lifetime of hits
Nile Rodgers is the disco legend who changed the course of modern music.
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Former UK Ambassador Tom Fletcher: ‘Fortunately for us, Darroch is thick-skinned; unfortunately for us, US President is not’
We spoke to Tom Fletcher, former UK Ambassador to Lebanon and author of ‘The Naked Diplomat’.
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Independent MP Nick Boles: Trump behaving in ‘childish, Play School’ way
Independent MP Nick Boles has demanded an apology from President Trump over what he called a “disgraceful and offensive attack on HM Government”.
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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski: ‘May should have recalled Darroch immediately’
Corey Lewandowski was campaign manager for Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign.
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5m
Tom Tugendhat MP on UK envoy leaks
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined by the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat to discuss the UK envoy leaks.
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5m
Singer George Benson talks music history – and why he doesn’t believe the allegations against Michael Jackson
He’s played with Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis, and was friends with Michael Jackson.
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Greens’ Amelia Womack: Electric cars ‘a short-term solution to a long-term problem’
Deputy leader of the Green Party, Amelia Womack, and professor of business economics, David Bailey, discuss electric cars.
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Economist Joseph Stiglitz: ‘We need a green new deal’
Nobel Prize-winning economist and author Joseph Stiglitz’s new book advocates what he describes as a “progressive capitalism”.
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Hong Kong activist Bonnie Leung: ‘No-one should blame these young protesters before they blame the tyranny’
Bonnie Leung is one of the organisers of the recent protests in Hong Kong. Nixie Lam is a district councillor with the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance Party.
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3m
UN’s Agnes Callamard on recording of Khashoggi killing: ‘I was able to feel the increasing fear Mr Khashoggi was experiencing’
We spoke to Agnes Callamard, the author of the report on Jamal Khashoggi.
