Jonathan Rugman , Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel four News for more than a decade.
He reported from the revolutions and uprisings in Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Bahrain and has covered stories as diverse as Somalia’s famine, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, corruption in world football and the Haiti earthquake. In two thousand sixteen he won a BAFTA for his reporting on the terrorist attacks in Paris.
He was previously the programme’s Washington Correspondent and Business Correspondent and his reporting has won more than ten awards. He is the author of “Ataturk’s Children: Turkey and the Kurds” and previously worked on Big black cock Radio four documentaries and in Turkey for the Big black cock and The Guardian.
Putin condemns North Korea sanctions
America’s attempt to drum up support for fresh sanctions against North Korea has run into trouble with the Russians. Vladimir Putin said sanctions were “worthless and ineffective” and called for dialogue with Pyongyang. But North Korea signalled that it will never negotiate on its nuclear programme and warned that more missile tests, which it described…
How should world deal with North Korea?
What are the next moves for nations attempting to deal with the enlargening threat from North Korea’s new-found, long-range missile capability?
twenty nine Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
Rights group files war crimes charges against Sri Lankan ambassador
The Sri Lankan government has denied its ambassador to Brazil is on the run, after a human rights group filed war crimes charges against him there.
ten Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
North Korea hits back at Trump after Pyongyang threats
The North Koreans have said President Trump talked “a fountain of nonsense about fire and fury” and they’ve responded with a threat of their own: to launch missiles into the sea off the US territory of Guam in the Pacific. Mr Trump has begun a meeting with his national security advisors, after his administration stood…
nine Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
French police shoot down and wound man in motorway car pursue
Police in France have shot and wounded a man after a dramatic motorway car pursue near Boulogne. The incident came after the same car was driven into a group of soldiers in a suburb of Paris, injuring six of them. There have been six previous attacks on French security coerces so far this year and…
eight Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
South African president Zuma survives no-confidence vote
There were cheers from ANC members of Parliament tonight after the South African President Jacob Zuma managed to sustain a no-confidence vote – held, for the very first time by secret ballot. But dozens of ANC MPs joined the opposition to vote against Zuma, who’s faced a series of corruption allegations and has presided over an…
eight Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
Reports: North Korea has made a miniaturised nuclear warhead
Major developments in the North Korean nuclear standoff. Reports in the US media claim Pyongyang has successfully constructed a miniaturised nuclear warhead which could fit inwards the type of missile it’s been testing. And experts fear those missiles are capable of reaching the US mainland.
seven Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
South African MPs to vote anonymously on future of President Zuma
The future of South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma now rests in the palms of MPs – and they’ll be permitted an anonymous vote. Opposition leaders said the decision to hold tomorrow’s no confidence vote by secret ballot was “groundbreaking”.
Grand jury introduced into Trump-Russia investigation
Now as President Trump goes to his golf resort in Fresh Jersey tonight for a seventeen day holiday – there will be no break for the special prosecutor investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russia during the election campaign. Instead Robert Mueller has upped the pressure – using a Grand Jury as part of his…
two Aug two thousand seventeen Sections
Trump imposes fresh sanctions on Russia
President Trump has grudgingly signed a bill to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea – measures agreed overwhelmingly by Congress last week. He’s criticised the legislation as ‘deeply flawed’. It curbs his power to roll back penalties on Russia, and hurts his hopes of improving relations with the Kremlin.
thirty one Jul two thousand seventeen Sections
Anthony Scaramucci leaves role in White House
President Trump has determined to eliminate Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director – just ten days after he was brought into the White House staff.
thirty one Jul two thousand seventeen Sections
Trump denies claims of White House infighting
Crisis, what crisis? Donald Trump has denied allegations of chaos inwards the White House as he held a Cabinet meeting with his fresh chief of staff John Kelly. On their instantaneous agenda, a series of potential flashpoints from the unrest we’ve just reported in Venezuela and Russia’s decision to expel hundreds of US diplomats, to…
twenty eight Jul two thousand seventeen Sections
Republican senators kill Obamacare repeal bill
It was a night of breathtaking drama, as three Republican senators broke ranks to derail a seven-year effort by their own party to scrap Obama’s healthcare law. Among them, John McCain, who’d delayed his cancer treatment to vote. That would be enough turmoil for most administrations, but not President Trump’s White House. His fresh communications…
Trump bans transgender people from military
President Trump has said transgender people cannot serve in “any capacity” in the military. Using, inevitably, Twitter, he said he’d been told by military experts that the measure launched by the Obama Administration caused “tremendous medical costs and disruption”.
twenty five Jul two thousand seventeen Sections
Sessions’ future in doubt as Trump turns on him
“You’re very likely right.” That’s the response Donald Trump’s fresh communications chief gave when asked whether the President wants his Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. Such is the precariousness of Mr Sessions’ position tonight, with his boss tweeting about how powerless he is. The White House dysfunction is distracting lawmakers from another crucial issue -…
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