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 Michael O’Hanlon, from the Washington based foreign policy think tank, the Brookings Institution. We began by asking him why the Senate has been reluctant to continue support for Ukraine.
We talked to international development minister Andrew Mitchell, who’s just been announcing £100 million to support climate vulnerable countries at COP28, and began by asking him for his reaction to Grace’s story and the plight of Tuvalu.
We spoke to Yolande Makolo, a spokesperson for the Rwandan Government, and began by asking her about the Supreme Court ruling which claimed Rwanda had an inadequate understanding of the asylum procedure.
We spoke to Sundance and multi Emmy award winning filmmaker and author Eugene Jarecki. He directed ‘The Trials of Henry Kissinger’, a 2002 documentary film which examined alleged war crimes.
We’re joined by Moty Cristal, a crisis negotiator and former member of the Israeli government.
Fauda – the Hebrew and Arabic word for chaos – is a hit Netflix drama series based around a group of undercover Israeli agents – which has been hailed for featuring both Palestinians and Israelis as human beings caught up in conflict.
As Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza intensifies, violence in the West Bank has also increased with more than 170 Palestinians reportedly killed since Hamas’s attack on October 7th.
We spoke to the Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy.
Earlier we spoke to Mustafa Barghouti, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative political party.
We speak to Orit Farkash-Hacohen – an Israeli politician and former minister who’s currently a member of the Knesset for Benny Gantz’s National Unity party.
We talk to Mark Regev, senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli ambassador to the UK.
This isn’t the first time Israel has mounted a ground invasion of Gaza – troops also entered the territory in 2014.
We spoke to Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian surgeon currently in Gaza, who has been travelling between Al-Shifa hospital, and Al-Ahli hospital.
We’re joined by Ami Ayalon – the former head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service Shin Bet and a former Member of Parliament for the Israeli Labour Party.
We’re joined by Nour Odeh, the former spokesperson to the Palestinian Authority.