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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London Mayor calls for extension to Brexit transition phase
The Mayor of London has written to the Prime Minister asking for an extension to the Brexit transition phase, which is due to finish at the end of the year.
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George Floyd death has triggered ‘release of decades worth of frustrations’ – Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart
Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart speaks to Matt Frei from Washington DC.
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NAACP division boss on the Floyd protests
Tiffany Loftin is the Director of the Youth College Division of the NAACP which is an American civil rights organisation. She speaks to Channel News from Washington.
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‘Tackle this systemic, deep-rooted racism in our institutions’ – former US prosecutor Chiraag Bains on Minneapolis protests
Earlier we were joined by Chiraag Bains, who served in the US Justice Department where he investigated police misconduct.
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China proposes Hong Kong law banning sedition, secession and subversion.
China has proposed a sweeping national security bill for Hong Kong – which will ban acts of treason, sedition or subversion.
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Government immigration bill ‘values strawberries above people’ – Karolina Gerlich, Care Workers’ Charity
Channel 4 News spoke to the Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, who was an immigration minister until last year, and Karolina Gerlich, executive director of The Care Workers’ Charity
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‘No-one is engineering viruses to release to wipe out the global population’ – diseases expert Peter Daszak
I’m joined by Peter Daszak – a scientist working in the US to help find a cure for Covid-19.
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Dr Liz Whittaker on rare inflammatory syndrome linked to Covid-19
Channel 4 News spoke to Dr Liz Whittaker from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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‘Maybe a little glimmer of light has been shone’ – Tory MP Mel Stride on lockdown easing
The Chair of the Commons Treasury Committee – the Conservative MP Mel Stride – joins us from Central London.
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Al Murray on WWII-coronavirus parallels: ‘It was exactly the debate that’s going on now’
We speak to the historian James Holland – and the comedian Al Murray – who together present the weekly World War Two podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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‘If we felt there was a problem, we wouldn’t have issued it to frontline staff’: Chair of Health Care Supplies Association on PPE
Earlier Matt Frei spoke to Mark Roscrow, the Chair of Trustees for the Health Care Supplies Association
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‘Are people going to be excluded from workplace if they don’t go with contact tracing app?’ – Newcastle University’s Lilian Edwards
We’re joined by Ngaire Woods, Dean of Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. And from Edinburgh, we speak with Lilian Edwards, Professor of internet law at Newcastle University.
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Vaccine possible ‘by end of September’ says Oxford professor
Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University is working on the development of a Covid-19 vaccine.
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‘I don’t deserve to be alive’ – How two patients recovered from Covid-19
We all know people like Peter Ananciz, or Glynis Chamberlain. They could be our parents, relatives or neighbours.
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David Miliband: US has not set ‘the gold standard that’s necessary’ over coronavirus
David Miliband joins us live from Connecticut.
