Secunder Kermani is an award-winning journalist and a Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
He is one of the few foreign journalists to have reported inside rebel-held territory in Myanmar, where a brutal civil war is raging, and also recently interviewed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan after his release from jail.
Since joining Channel 4 News last year, he has covered major stories in Brazil, Israel and the Palestinian Territories and Japan. Secunder was previously the BBC’s Pakistan and Afghanistan Correspondent where he played a leading role in covering the rise to power of the Taliban.
As the first aid shipment to arrive by sea to Gaza is set to be distributed throughout the enclave, Israel’s intelligence chief is expected to travel to Cairo tomorrow to resume ceasefire talks with mediators. Demonstrations against the government and calling for a hostage release deal are taking place across Israel tonight.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has approved plans for an attack on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering.
We are joined by UN Aid Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Jamie McGoldrick.
As the people of Gaza grow ever more desperate for food, pressure keeps growing on Israel. Top US Democrat Chuck Schumer has criticised Benjamin Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace” and called for elections.
In Gaza an Israeli strike has hit a UN aid distribution centre in the southern city of Rafah, killing at least five people.
Famine looms as aid agencies say Israel continues to stall the supply of aid through the much more efficient land routes into Gaza.
As Ramadan begins, the need for more humanitarian aid in Gaza is becoming increasingly desperate. As countries step up airdrops, the first ship due to set sail on a new maritime aid corridor was stalled today due to ‘technical difficulties’. It is northern Gaza which faces the most acute need, cut off from the rest…
With the UN warning that a quarter of Gaza’s population is on the brink of famine, five people waiting for aid were reported killed today, hit by an international air drop when parachutes failed to open. As Israeli attacks continued, Britain called on Tel Aviv to allow more aid in by land and the European…
Police stations and airports attacked, prisoners freed and thousands displaced. For days, gang violence has wracked Haiti, leaving many wondering where Prime Minister Ariel Henry is.
German authorities say an alleged former member of the disbanded left-wing Red Army Faction group has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run.
There’s a new claim by supporters of the late Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny today – they believe he was killed ahead of a planned prisoner swap between Moscow and Western governments.
Alexei Navalny “was so many things Putin was not: brave, principled and dedicated to building a Russia where the rule of law existed” – the words of President Biden on Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, whose death was announced today.
Political parties in Pakistan have been locked in coalition talks today – following an election that’s only increased instability.
The final results are in, but it’s still unclear who will govern Pakistan after a controversial and polarising general election.
“Elections are not a zero-sum competition of winning and losing” – so says the Head of Pakistan’s Army after an election where TWO former Prime Ministers have claimed victory.