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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Conservative MP says government put ‘too much weight on a technological solution’ to Covid-19
We spoke to the Conservative Chair of the Science and Technology Committee Greg Clark.
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‘I don’t personally think we are going to bounce back‘ – former Chancellor Ken Clarke on UK economy
Joining me now is Ken Clarke who, amongst his many senior ministerial roles, was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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‘Churchill took stand against fascism but was also great proponent of colonialism’ – film-maker and activist Bree Newsome Bass
I spoke to the filmmaker, artist and activist Bree Newsome Bass.
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‘Some people decided to use this as opportunity to behave like thugs’ – Tory MP Bim Afolami on protests
We spoke to the Conservative MP for Hitchen and Harpenden Bim Afolami.
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‘If talks continue way they are now, it doesn’t look like we will reach agreement’ – Dutch MEP Kati Piri
Joining me now from The Hague is the Dutch MEP Kati Piri, who is a member of the UK Coordination Group in the European Parliament.
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Barnier says little progress made in post-Brexit talks with UK
Time is running out and so too is patience – as the European Union’s chief negotiator declared there had been no real progress in the post-Brexit trade talks with the UK/
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Economist Stephanie Kelton on US unemployment crisis: ‘The only game in town is the federal government’
Joining me now from the US is the economic historian and author, Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University – and Stephanie Kelton, a professor of economics at Stony Brook University.
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Belgium has highest mortality rate per capita from coronavirus in the world
More than 9,500 people have died in Belgium – which makes it by any reckoning the country’s deadliest period since the height of the Second World War.
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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.
