Lindsey Hilsum , International Editor
Lindsey Hilsum’s is Channel 4 News International Editor, and has covered many of the conflicts of recent years including in Syria, Ukraine and the Arab Spring.
She was in Baghdad for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and in Belgrade for the 1999 NATO bombing. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide began.
She has won awards from the Royal Television Society and BAFTA amongst others, and received the 2017 Patron’s Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.
She has just published a biography: “In Extremis - the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin”.
Her last book, “Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution”, was described by the Observer as “an account with historical depth to match dramatic reportage.”
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Interim US/UK trade deal could take effect ‘day after Brexit’
US national security advisor John Bolton is in London, where he’s had meetings to discuss an interim trade deal between the US and the UK – that could take effect on the 1st of November.
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Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton meets Boris Johnson
President Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton has been meeting Boris Johnson and other key government figures at the start of a two day trip to London, with hopes of a post Brexit trade deal with the US high on Britain’s agenda.
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US immigration policy under fire over death of man deported to Iraq
A 41-year-old man who was deported from the United States to Iraq – a place he’d never set foot in his life – has died in Baghdad, unable to get the insulin he needed to stay alive.
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Pakistan accuses India of ‘playing dangerous game’ after Kashmir’s special status revoked
Opposition politicians have been arrested, thousands of troops have been deployed and internet and phone services cut off.
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Saudi Arabia relaxes travel restrictions for women
Women in Saudi Arabia will in future be able to apply for a passport or travel without the permission of a male guardian. It is a victory for women’s rights in the kingdom. But many restrictions remain.
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Student held in same Iranian prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was psychologically tortured
A London student, who once campaigned for Boris Johnson, was held in the same prison as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, where she says she was psychologically tortured, sentenced to death and charged with being an MI6 spy. ● In 2016, Ana Diamond, an Iranian-EU dual national and 24-year-old student at King’s College London, says she was imprisoned…
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UK to join European maritime protection mission after Iran tanker seizure
If he becomes Prime Minister, Boris Johnson will immediately have to deal with the crisis over Iran and the deployment of a European-led maritime protection mission which the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today.
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Foreign Office summons Iranian diplomat after ‘unacceptable’ British oil tanker seizure
Iran says the British flagged Stena Impero was violating international maritime law. Not true, says the UK government, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt calling the seizure “totally and utterly unacceptable”. The oil tanker was captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, in retaliation for Britain’s role in capturing an Iranian ship in Gibraltar…
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Iran ‘seizes’ British-flagged oil tanker
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The MoD says it is urgently seeking further information.
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South Africa’s Zuma denies corruption allegations
The Zondo Commission was set up to investigate widespread charges that he plundered and misused state resources.
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Exclusive: Saudi sisters on run from authorities – and father they say abused them
Women, throughout their lives, are always treated as minors.
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Scores killed in Libya migrants camp attack
In Libya at least 44 people have been killed and more than 130 injured after a migrant detention centre was hit by an airstrike, an attack which the UN’s human rights chief said could amount to a war crime.
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Sudan military leaders sign lobbying deal with notorious fixer
As protesters in Sudan have been counting the dead in yesterday’s demonstrations, it’s emerged that the country’s military leaders have signed a lobbying deal with a notorious international fixer.
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Iran breaches uranium limits agreed under nuclear deal
For the first time since the nuclear deal agreed with Barack Obama, Iran has breached agreed limits on stockpiling enriched uranium.
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Putin jokes with Trump and is scolded by May
Jokes with Donald Trump, long faces with Theresa May. That’s the way Vladimir Putin likes to roll at the G20 summit in Japan.
