Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam on ‘romantic and sexy’ new play
Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam are two of the country’s best loved actors – and they’re starring together in a story of middle aged romance on the London stage.
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Industry in conspiracy and extreme views is monetised, says author and activist Naomi Klein
The writer Naomi Klein has taken a more personal turn with her latest book Doppelganger – exploring how she’s regularly mistaken for another writer, Naomi Wolf.
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Schengen border needs to be ‘modernised’ says Swedish MEP
The Swedish Christian Democrat MEP Sara Skyttedal joins us from Croatia, where the centre-right EPP group is gathering to discuss their strategy ahead of next year’s European elections.
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‘Putin will gain hard’ from Polish U-turn from Ukraine, says former Polish foreign minister
We spoke to former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski and began by asking him if he was surprised by this sudden U-turn from the Polish Prime Minister?
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Poland will no longer supply weapons to Ukraine amid grain row
Staunch allies Ukraine and Poland seem to have found themselves at odds. The point of contention – Ukrainian grain.
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It’s ‘impossible’ that Murdoch’s company will ‘continue in its current form’ says American journalist
Earlier we spoke to Michael Wolff, the American journalist and author whose new book ‘The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire’ is out next week.
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Enabling Donald Trump was ‘a dark, dark moment’, says the former editor of The Sun on Murdoch’s legacy
Earlier we spoke to David Yelland, former editor of the Sun newspaper, who now has a podcast – When it hits the fan – on the BBC.
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‘Azerbaijan is fully committed to conduct an ethnic cleansing’ says Armenian ambassador to the UK
We spoke to the Armenian ambassador to the UK – Varuzhan Nersesyan, and started by asking him what Azerbaijan’s intentions are in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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‘There is still space for negotiations’: Austrian MEP on possibility of new Brexit deal
We spoke to Austrian MEP, Andreas Schieder, who is a member of the UK Contact Group in the European Parliament.
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Brook House inquiry chair: ‘level and extent of distress’ of detainees ‘striking’
Kate Eves, the chair of the Brook House inquiry speaks to us about the inquiry’s findings.
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Dog attacks: ‘Not every XL bully is dangerous’, says solicitor
Matt Frei talks to Trevor Cooper, the head of a legal practice, which specialises in dog law and works closely with the RSPCA.
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Kim Jong Un and Putin building ‘problem-solving dynamic’, says director
We spoke to Dr John Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an expert on North Korea’s military capabilities and nuclear ambitions.
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Elon Musk biographer says billionaire has ‘dark demon mode’
A new biography of SpaceX founder Elon Musk sparked outrage when it claimed the tycoon had deliberately switched off Ukrainian access to the Starlink satellite network around the Crimean coast last autumn, stopping them from attacking a Russian naval base.
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‘Disaster brought suffering into situation which was already complex, vulnerable and fragile’, says the IFRC
We spoke to Tommaso Della Longa, a spokesman for the IFRC, the umbrella body for Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
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‘I don’t believe [China] should be at the AI summit’, says Iain Duncan Smith
We spoke to Conservative MP and former party leader, Iain Duncan Smith, who is a long-time critic of China’s activities in the UK, and has been sanctioned by the Beijing government.
