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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Stopping Cambo project ‘won’t diminish our oil consumption by a drop,’ says RMT’s Jake Molloy
Joining us is Jake Molloy, regional organiser for the RMT union which represents many north sea oil rig workers
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‘The truth was there to be seen if anyone wanted to look’ – producer on case of man wrongly accused of raping Alice Sebold
She’s the author who turned the story of her brutal rape into a best-selling book.
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Supreme Court Mississippi abortion ruling would be ‘political earthquake’, says law professor
It’s being called the most important abortion case in a generation.
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HIV British armed forces ban to be lifted in 2022
People with HIV will be allowed to join the British armed forces for the first time next year, as the UK becomes only the second country in the world to lift a ban on their enlistment.
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‘We will see more loss of life’ in English Channel, says Dover MP
We spoke to the Conservative MP for Dover and Deal Natalie Elphicke.
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Coastline ‘impossible’ to police, admits French mayor
We spoke to Franck Dhersin, mayor of Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village, which is an area close to Dunkirk on the French coast near where the disaster happened.
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‘We’re pursuing an extremely dangerous approach to refugees’, says policy manager
We spoke to Dr Cristina Juverdeanu, from the University of Leeds, and Zoe Gardner, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
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Liverpool hospital taxi explosion: ‘It could have been so much worse’, says Mayor of Liverpool
The Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, spoke to us.
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Threat level raised due to ‘general assessment of level of terrorist chatter’, says former counter-terrorism co-ordinator
Police have just named the man who died in the car as Emad Al Swealmeen.
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COP26: ‘If we can’t kill coal, coal will kill us‘, says the Maldives’ Minister of Environment and Climate Change
I spoke to Shauna Aminath, the Maldives’ Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
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COP26: Has the PM lost credibility after domestic political problems?
We talked to the prime minister’s COP spokeswoman, Allegra Stratton.
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COP26: We are seeing commitments but not real action, says climate activist Vanessa Nakate
We spoke to the Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate.
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Climate change ‘a more durable challenge’ than Covid, says Vallance
We spoke to the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and asked him if climate change is a bigger challenge for us than Covid.
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COP26: ‘Pressure’ from Greta Thunberg is ‘helpful’, says former President of Ireland
We spoke to the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. She is now chair of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for human rights, peace and the transition to a low-carbon future.
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COP26: Amber Rudd says progress made so far is ‘encouraging’
We spoke to the former Environment Secretary Amber Rudd , who led the UK delegation at the 2015 UN climate talks in Paris.
