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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Boris Johnson ‘out of touch’ on flooding, says NFU’s Minette Batters
Minette Batters is president of the National Farmers’ Union.
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Keir Starmer doesn’t rule out standing as a future candidate for leader of the Labour Party
Labour’s Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer has been telling people today that if they want to fight to remain, they should vote Labour. So how should people who want to fight to leave vote?
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Target voter: Are Labour voters getting different Brexit messages on social media?
As the Conservative Party continues to sell their Brexit deal during this election campaign, Labour still seem to be trying to walk a little more of a tightrope.
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Series 3, Episode 26: Samantha Power
Samantha Power talks to Krishnan about disagreeing with the former President, her reflections on the conflict in Syria and why she is an idealist in an ever-changing world.
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Government explanations for not releasing Russia report ‘lacking in any credibility’, says Dominic Grieve
The Government has once again refused to release a report on alleged Russian interference in UK elections until after voters go to the polls in December.
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Target Voter: How the parties are targeting you online during the election
With Parliament dissolving tonight, what’s been dubbed the most important election in a generation will be in full swing by tomorrow morning.
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‘The problem is Jeremy Corbyn, who is clearly a Leaver,’ says Lib Dem peer Sal Brinton
Joining me now are Labour’s Rosie Duffield, who sits on the Department for Work and Pensions select committee, and the president of the Liberal Democrats, Baroness Sal Brinton.
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Amazon researcher Marco Lima: ‘The loggers need to be penalised’
I spoke to Marco Lima, an Amazon researcher – and he told me he was concerned by the rise in tension between Guajajara’s tribal members and the illegal loggers.
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‘Corbyn may not find it as easy this time’, says polling expert John Curtice
I spoke to the polling expert John Curtice – who’s professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde. I asked him first why people think this election is difficult to call.
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Street artist Shepard Fairey: ‘Without hope, people don’t act’
The image that sums up Barack Obama’s inaugural presidential campaign – and, perhaps the most famous work by street artist Shepard Fairey, who’s made a thirty year career out of his uplifting, progressive designs – creating images that went viral, before there was such a thing as viral. Now along with an exhibition of his…
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Fracking halt ‘bluff and bluster’, says Lancashire Labour MP Cat Smith
Joining me now is the Conservative MP Bim Afolami – who’s on the all party Climate Change committee, Cat Smith who’s the MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood – neighbouring the Cuadrilla fracking site – and the Green party co-leader Jonathan Bartley.
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Ken Loach: ‘I hope Labour will outlaw zero-hours contracts’
The subject of precarious work is the latest social issue tackled by film director Ken Loach, in his new film Sorry We Missed You which opens in cinemas today.
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Series 3, Episode 25: Led By Donkeys
Ben Stewart and Oliver Knowles are two of the four men behind Led By Donkeys – an anti-Brexit campaign group that has made its name by pasting politicians’ quotes on billboards to highlight their hypocrisy.
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Parliament is ‘representative of divided nation,’ says Tory MP
We talk to Conservative MP Victoria Prentis and Lib Dem MP Sam Gyimah.
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Tory peer’s warning on Grenfell: ‘If you keep it as a class issue, you are going to miss the big point’
We talk to Labour MP David Lammy, who lost a friend in the Grenfell Tower fire, and Lord Porter who – until this summer – was the chairman of the Local Government Association and is now its building safety spokesman.
