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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‘Projects of this scale are having a global impact’ – Chris Packham on HS2
Joining me now are environmental campaigner, Chris Packham, and Director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henry Murison.
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‘It’s clear Putin will not simply resign and relax into retirement’ – Anton Troianovski, NY Times
Joining me now from Moscow is Anton Troianovski, the Moscow correspondent for the New York Times.
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Russian cabinet resigns after Putin calls for power shake-up
The entire Russian cabinet has resigned, including Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
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Iran protests likely to ‘fizzle out in a week’ – journalist Mohammad Hashemi
Joining me now from Tehran is Mohammad Hashemi, a former journalist at The Tehran Times
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Harry and Meghan announcement ‘was most dangerous moment’ for monarchy since Diana’s death – former BBC correspondent Peter Hunt
Joining us are the lawyer and women’s rights activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu; and the former BBC Royal Correspondent, Peter Hunt.
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Plane crash ‘blow to competence of Iranian regime’ – RUSI’s Malcolm Chalmers
Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the independent think-tank, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
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‘You can’t be half royal’: Daily Mail journalist, Robert Hardman
How viable is Meghan and Harry’s ambition to carve out a new way of being a modern royal?
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Bellingcat’s Giancarlo Fiorella: Bulldozing of Iran aircraft crash scene evidence ‘distressing’
Giancarlo Fiorella from the investigative website Bellingcat which specialises in fact checking and open source intelligence.
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EU Commission President rules out full UK trade deal in 2020
Brexit was back on the agenda today as the Prime Minister welcomed the new President of the European Commission to Number 10.
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‘We can do a lot with diplomatic means to avoid war’ in Middle East – senior German MP Norbert Roettgen
The crisis in the Gulf sparked by President Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s top military commander has pushed the UK into a sticky position.
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‘If Iranians do not retaliate, this will send message to Trump he can continue murdering people’ – Tehran University’s Mohammad Marandi
Joining us now from Tehran is Professor Mohammed Marandi, who’s a professor at the University of Tehran
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‘We have taken out world’s greatest terrorist’ – US State Dept’s Morgan Ortagus on Soleimani killing
Republican Senator Rand Paul described the strike which killed Qassam Soleimani as the “death of diplomacy”.
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Fears US-Iran tensions could have dire consequences for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The Foreign Office has warned British Nationals not to travel to Iran or Iraq unless it’s essential. But what about those who are unable to leave?
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‘Iran’s top priority is to force US out of Iraq’, says former policy adviser Vali Nasr
We asked the Foreign Office for an interview, but no one was available from the government. In a statement earlier today the Foreign Secretary urged all parties to de-escalate, saying “further conflict is in none of our interests”. We speak to Mustafa Salim, in Baghdad for the Washington Post, a US former senior policy adviser…
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AI ‘better at diagnosing breast cancer than doctors’
Researchers have found that artificial intelligence is better at predicting breast cancer than doctors.
