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.
Some in Gaza have been expressing their thanks to American students for their support – but it is a ceasefire that they long for.
Earlier we spoke to the Republican pollster Frank Luntz, and started by asking him why it had taken Joe Biden until today to speak about the protests.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has touched down in Tel Aviv tonight.
We spoke to the leader of the local council, Jas Athwal, and we began by asking him how he heard about the attack and what his immediate reaction was.
It’s like an Agatha Christie mystery – but with giant vegetables. That’s one way of seeing the comedy-thriller Swede Caroline – a new mockumentary set in the cut-throat world of over-sized veg competitions. The movie follows up-and-coming star Caroline who, after having her prized marrows stolen, is led on a chase through corporate corruption, insider…
We’ve been speaking to the civil rights activist The Reverend Al Sharpton. He discussed the coming US election and the decision by philosophy professor and left-wing activist Cornel West to run for the presidency as an independent. But first, we began by asking him about the pro-Palestine demonstrations that have divided people on US campuses.
Liz Lloyd was Chief of Staff to Nicola Sturgeon when she was First Minister of Scotland and joined us live from Holyrood.
Rwanda plan is ‘absolutely worth trying’, says Tory MP
We spoke to Zoe Gardner, a researcher and campaigner on migrants’ rights.
There have been chaotic scenes in Brussels where the local mayor and the police tried to shut down a right-wing conference where Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman were giving speeches.
We spoke to Gregory Meeks – a Democrat who has been against selling F15 fighter jets to Israel.
We spoke to Public Health Minister Andrea Leadsom about the Prime Minister’s anti-smoking bill.
We spoke to Mary Beth Long, a former US Assistant Secretary of Defence.
We spoke to Ian Bremmer, who is a political scientist and president and founder of Eurasia Group, a geopolitical risk advisory firm.
We spoke to the health minister Maria Caulfield and began by pointing out that the government isn’t hitting its own targets on the NHS.