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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Brussels exerts control over Brexit
Control over what happens next in the Brexit process appears to have shifted to Brussels.
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Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness: ‘My gut is saying we need a no deal off the table’
Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness is Vice-President of the European Parliament.
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EU anger after May’s deal rejected
There has been barely disguised fury emanating from EU negotiators today in reaction to the second thumping defeat of Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement last night.
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MEP Philippe Lamberts: ‘No-deal Brexit most likely outcome’
Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts sits on the Brexit Steering Group in the European Parliament. We asked him if he had any sense of what sort of wording on the backstop the European Commission could come up with to help Mrs May win over the Brexiteers.
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People are ‘entitled to be upset’ over Karen Bradley’s NI blunder, Conservative MP says
Amid calls for Karen Bradley to resign over comments she made about The Troubles, we speak to Conservative MP Andrew Murrison, who chairs the Northern Ireland Select Committee.
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Former Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni: ‘Brexit biggest mistake by a European country since war’
Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, no Brexit – the subject is sucking the oxygen out of the European Union, impatient to tackle the big battle between nationalism and internationalism ahead of its own elections in May.
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Republican strategist claims Cohen’s testimony against Trump isn’t damning, because ‘he’s a liar’
We’re joined from Washington DC by Republican strategist, Deana Bass Williams.
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Pakistan to free captured Indian pilot as a ‘peace gesture’
Pakistan’s Prime Minister has said his country will release a captured Indian fighter pilot, in what he called a “gesture of peace”.
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un hold nuclear summit in Vietnam
Donald Trump has been in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, sitting down to shrimp cocktail, steak and chocolate pudding with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un
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Torture and shocking conditions: the human cost of keeping migrants out of Europe
Footage obtained by Channel 4 News from inside camps in Libya shows migrants living in shocking conditions. And there are disturbing signs that some migrants are being tortured by people traffickers.
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Councillor Warren Morgan on leaving Labour: ‘I don’t think Jeremy Corbyn’s the right person to lead the party’
I spoke to former Labour leader of Brighton and Hove Council, Warren Morgan, who this week quit to throw his lot in with the newly formed Independent Group of MPs. Also joining me was Corbyn supporter Maya Goodfellow who has dismissed the Independents as a group supporting what she says is “the moribund status quo”.
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Pope promises action on child abuse in Catholic Church
A conference on child abuse within the Catholic Church has ended at the Vatican, with Pope Francis describing clergy who abuse children as the ‘tools of Satan.’
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“Look at what happened with Greece” – MEP’s Brexit warning
Philippe Lamberts, who sits on the European Parliament’s Brexit steering group, says a no-deal scenario is “the most likely, at the moment”.
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EU rules out Brexit renegotiation
In Brussels the resounding chorus to Theresa May’s proposal has been a no, although with a few dissenting voices.
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Who is the president of Venezuela? Tonight the country has two
Yesterday, opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself acting president – with the backing of the US, Canada and neighbours Brazil and Colombia. But today the country’s military came out in support of the embattled sitting president, Nicholas Maduro.
