Paraic O'Brien is a Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Paraic's investigations include the multi-award winning "Bruce Lee, King of Romania's Sewers", a searing film about the subterranean life of Bucharest's drug addicts. His expose of how the global online game Habbo Hotel was putting children at risk, resulted in a mass exodus of investors. His investigation into the death of Alois Dvorzac in a British detention centre exposed serious flaws in the immigration system.
He was the first TV reporter on the ground in Brixton and Croydon as the riots broke out in 2011. He also once had a minor altercation with Russell Brand.
Before joining Channel 4 News he worked at the BBC as an investigations reporter for BBC London News and Newsnight on occasion. Prior to that he was a community worker in Ireland and south London.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his troops are at the height of battle in Gaza and that they’ve passed the outskirts of their target, Gaza city.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his troops are at the height of battle in Gaza and that they’ve passed the outskirts of their target, Gaza city.
Israel has urged its citizens to leave the northern Caucasus region of Russia – after last night’s violent riot in Dagestan – when a mob stormed through an airport, hunting for Jewish people.
They’re already traumatised by almost a week of round-the-clock bombardment. Now there’s panic and confusion in northern Gaza after Israel’s order to move south, ahead of an expected ground offensive. More than half Gaza’s population live in the area north of the Gaza river that’s been told to evacuate. Israel has sealed off the Strip,…
In Gaza, aid agencies are warning that overcrowded hospitals only have 3 or 4 more days worth of fuel for their generators – and without electricity, treating the thousands of injured will become almost impossible. With Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continuing, the United Nations said that at least 340,000 Gazans have been made homeless in…
The Gazan health ministry says 830 Palestinians have already been killed in the bombardment – while the UN human rights chief said Israeli strikes had hit residential buildings and schools.
The unprecedented operation by Hamas comes at a time of turmoil in Israel – its hardline government under intense pressure from pro-democracy protesters.
Rishi Sunak has teamed up with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni to demand tougher action from the EU to stop illegal migrants reaching Europe.
Ukrainians needed no reminder of the horrifying reality of Russia’s invasion, but the attack on the tiny village of Hroza has tonight put the conflict front and centre in the minds of the international community once again.
“We are bringing the European Union to where the heart of Europe is beating most strongly at the moment” – the word’s of Germany’s foreign minister in Kyiv today.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been visiting the site of a devastating fire in central Johannesburg which claimed the lives of more than 70 people, including at least 12 children. Tonight, Channel 4 News has been told that criminal gangs had partitioned the building using locked gates, preventing people from fleeing – part of an illegal…
In Niger, the head of the presidential guard has declared himself leader of the country.
The army says it’s backing members of the presidential guard, who announced on Wednesday that they’d removed the democratically-elected president.
For three months, Sudan’s Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a fierce battle around the capital Khartoum. But their conflict has also rekindled ethnic violence in Darfur – echoing the atrocities of 20 years ago.
The United Nations Human Rights office says it has ‘credible information’ that the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces or RSF – which is currently fighting the Sudanese army – is responsible for a mass grave in West Darfur.