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Establish a ‘truth and reconciliation commission’ to heal Windrush wounds, Barbados High Commissioner warns
In a heartfelt and searing goodbye letter to Britain, the departing Barbados High Commissioner has told Channel 4 News that the UK should establish a “truth and reconciliation commission” to deal with the fall out from the Windrush scandal.
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Aretha Franklin dies at the age of 76.
She turned a song about a moaning husband into an anthem for women and minorities across the globe. Respect is the overwhelming thought about Aretha Franklin – a symbol of civil rights, of women’s liberation, who broke barriers and records as she went. She died at the age of 76, after a long illness. Stars…
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Carillion hospital bailed out by taxpayer
It was nearing completion – with £200m of work already carried out – but the future of the Midland metropolitan hospital in Birmingham was thrown into flux when the construction giant Carillion collapsed in January. Now the Government has confirmed it will pick up the bill for the project to be completed – at a…
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US press unite against Trump ‘fake news’ attacks
The ‘fake news media’ is the opposition party, President Trump declared today, but across the United States some 350 newspapers from the New York Times to the Kentucky Times Tribune have launched an unprecedented joint campaign to counter the President’s attacks on the media. In the past two hours the US Senate unanimously supported a free press,…
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I want to be America’s first trans Governor – Christine Hallquist
Christine Hallquist made her name in Vermont while running a major electric company and being a successful businesswoman. But Donald Trump’s election and the Women’s March inspired her to run for office – running on a campaign promise of a living wage for workers and Medicare for All. She won her primary to become the…
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Ways to Change the World: Richard Curtis
Screenwriter of Love Actually, Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral, Richard Curtis’ influence on romantic comedies and the nation’s Christmas viewing schedules is immense. But, he’s also just as world-changing for his charity work. As the founder of Comic Relief, Make Poverty History and now, an advocate for the UN sustainability goals, he…
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Joe Beswick, New Economics Foundation: Government ‘massively over-egged rhetoric’ on social housing
Campaigner Melvyn Akins and Joe Beswick, from the New Economics Foundation, discuss the government’s social housing plans.
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Corbyn on wreath at Palestinian cemetery
Another day, another shift in the row over what Jeremy Corbyn was doing in 2014 in a Tunis cemetery containing the graves of Palestinian fighters killed by Israel. Yesterday Mr Corbyn said he was present but didn’t think he was actually involved when a wreath was laid for those suspected of involvement in the Munich massacre of 1972. Today…
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Trump calls former aide Omarosa Manigault a ‘dog’ and a ‘lowlife’
President Trump has been embroiled in a row about the former head of African-American Outreach and the highest-ranking African-American official on his staff. The sharp escalation in the war between President Trump and Omarosa Manigault Newman came with the release of her book, in which she accuses him of racism and mental decline.
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Cricketer Ben Stokes cleared of affray
The England cricketer, Ben Stokes, walked free from court today. He was found not guilty of affray outside a nightclub in Bristol last September after a seven-day trial. He said he’d been acting in self-defence, or in the defence of others.
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‘Sex tourists’ duping Somali virgins into marriage
In Somalia, poverty is forcing women into sexual exploitation as men from the country who’ve emigrated to the west return to take advantage of them. Many of the women are refugees who are lured by the offer of a better life abroad. They often go through a fake wedding ceremony. The women are later abandoned…
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Motorway bridge collapse in Genoa kills at least 20
It is one of Italy’s busiest motorways, especially in the holiday season. It is the main artery from southern France to the Italian coast, passing through the heart of the northern city of Genoa. Today in the midst of a thunderstorm, one of the main bridges on the motorway collapsed. Lorries and cars plunged 90 metres to the ground…
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Former Met officer Dal Babu calls for more police resources
Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, discusses what happened at Westminster.
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Westminster car crash suspect being questioned by counter-terrorism police
Counter-terrorism officers are still questioning a 29-year-old British man who drove a small car into a security barrier in front of the Houses of Parliament early this morning, injuring pedestrians and cyclists. The police say the man, who’s not known to them, is not co-operating with the inquiry. Officers have been searching three properties in…
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Jeremy Corbyn responds to wreath row and Netanyahu criticism
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn talks to Channel 4 News about the wreath-laying controversy – and Benjamin Netanyahu’s criticism of him.
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Corbyn admits attending wreath-laying ceremony for Palestinian militants suspected of Munich massacre
He says he was present, but doesn’t “think” he was actually involved. It seems the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was at a 2014 wreath-laying ceremony for members of a Palestinian group suspected of carrying out the Munich Olympics massacre. Mr Corbyn said he’d been at the event in Tunisia because he wanted to see a “fitting memorial to everyone who has…
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British lawyer accused of child abuse dies before police can question him
He was a prominent barrister and Christian leader, accused of brutally beating young boys, all in the name of religion. John Smyth is said to have groomed the boys at Christian holiday camps. In an investigation by this programme it was revealed a report had been drawn up into the alleged abuse in 1982, but not passed…
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Rashida Tlaib interview on Palestine, Trump’s America and becoming the first Muslim congresswoman
She says Americans are disconnected, not divided, and Israelis and Palestinians have more in common than they think. Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is now the Democratic party candidate for Michigan’s 13th district, a story hailed as the epitome of the American dream.
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‘Unite the Right’ counter-protest draws thousands
They had planned to march on Washington DC … white nationalists displaying a show of force, to mark one year since their violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.They had planned to march on Washington DC. White nationalists displaying a show of force, to mark one year since their violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. But just a handful turned up for last night’s ‘Unite The Right’ demonstration – overwhelmed by thousands of counter-protesters.
