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.
We spoke to Dr Matthew Agarwala, an environmental economist.
We spoke to Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota who was the chief White House ethics lawyer between 2005-07.
A special counsel has been appointed tonight by the US Attorney General to investigate the alleged mishandling of classified files by President Biden – after documents were found at his former private office as well as his home in Delaware.
We’re joined by Sir Howard Morrison. For a decade until 2021 he was a judge for the International Criminal Court, and is now the UK’s independent adviser to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General.
We speak to Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was Business Secretary under Liz Truss, and Rebecca Long-Bailey who was Shadow Business Secretary under Jeremy Corbyn.
We are joined in the studio by the sports journalist and author Mihir Bose.
We were joined by Tim Burgess, the lead singer of the Charlatans, to reflect on the legacy of Terry Hall, who has died at 63.
We speak to Victor Adebowale, Chair of the NHS confederation.
We spoke to Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s minister for climate change who hosted the conference.
We spoke to Alina Frolova, who was Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister between 2019 and 2020.
There were more missile attacks last night on Ukraine’s capital.
We spoke to Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis, who strongly backs the Rwanda asylum policy, and began by asking what he thought of today’s judgement.
We were joined by Sir Kim Darroch – the UK’s former ambassador to the United States.
We were joined by Layla McCay, Policy Director at the NHS Confederation – the organisation that represents the healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We speak to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Denis Mukwege, who’s demanding the United Nations impose sanctions on Rwanda for its alleged support of the M23 rebels – accusations the Rwandan government denies.