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.
Thousands of people have been killed and millions more have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan – since brutal fighting erupted in April between the country’s army and the rebel Rapid Support Forces. Sudan’s health ministry said an air strike on Saturday, which the army denies, killed at least 22 people in Omdurman.…
With superpowers battling for AI supremacy, experts say artificial intelligence will “completely change the entire frameworks on which we base war”.
President Macron has described the fatal shooting of a teenager by police as “inexplicable and inexcusable.”
With Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Progozhin removed from Russia, one authoritarian leader is breathing a little easier – but another is perhaps starting to sweat.
Survivors cling to life as bodies are brought on shore. The daily tragedy of those crossing the mediterranean in search of safety and a better life.
Tunisia is at the forefront of the migrant crisis with unprecedented numbers of people from Africa and the Middle East travelling through the country in the hope of reaching Europe.
For so many of those setting off on perilous journeys across the Mediterranean, the departure point is the northern coast of Africa.
As the coffin of Silvio Berlusconi was carried out of Milan cathedral, the city centre rang to applause and chants from supporters who had gathered in their thousands.
Silvio Berlusconi spent his life dividing opinion – in Italy and the rest of the world.
For the last few days we have been broadcasting mobile phone footage and testimony sent to us from people in Kherson.
The people of Kherson had already lived through months of Russian occupation.
Much of Kherson, which was liberated by Ukraine late last year, has been turned into a giant lake.
The silence Kyiv had been encouraging seemed to break today – and in the last few hours a Ukrainian deputy defence minister appeared to confirm that the war may be about to enter a new phase, with her country’s forces moving to “offensive actions” in some places.
Ukraine’s long awaited summer offensive – months in the making – isn’t yet materialising as expected.
Russia’s wave of drone attacks against Ukraine continued overnight – killing at least four people across the country and sparking fires in residential buildings in Kyiv.