Millions in UK Need to Double Income to Escape Poverty | Channel 4 News

Jan 23, 2024 | When the cost of everything is spiralling, from housing to fuel and food, millions of ordinary people are facing an ever greater struggle to get by.

Now a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says millions of people in the UK would need to double their income to escape poverty. Their damning report reveals the extent of hardship and desperation across the country - describing it as "social failure, at scale".

Israel-Hamas War: House to House Fighting in Gaza as Dead Near '10,000'

Nov 5, 2023 | Another large barrage of explosions has been reported in northern Gaza in the past hour, with reports communications and the internet have again been cut off. The Israeli army said today it had now struck "over two and a half thousand terror targets". More than 9,400 people have now been killed, according to figures from the Gaza health ministry - appointed by Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the UK.

'My Father Was a Hamas Leader, I Was an Israeli Spy' | Channel 4 News | Interview from 2014

Oct 15, 2014 | Israeli spy Mosab Hassan Yousuf, son of a founder of Hamas, explains his dramatic switch of loyalties.

Israel’s Ultra Nationalist Settlers Who Brought the Far Right to Power

Dec 8, 2022 | Now in Israel, the most far-right government in the country's history is about to take power, at the end of a year marred by soaring levels of deadly violence.

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The new government, being brought together by four-time prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, includes ultranationalists who have advocated the annexing of the West Bank and deporting those they deem "traitors".

Scotland’s First Minister Feels ‘Helpless’ Watching His In-laws Trapped in Gaza

Oct 14, 2023 | Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf sought to comfort the family of a Scot who died in the Hamas attacks – hugging the mother of Bernard Cowen at a service for him. His own family is caught up in the conflict – his wife’s parents trapped in Gaza after travelling there last week to visit a sick relative. They’ve made an emotional plea for help.

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PORTRAIT de Humza Yousaf en français :

Humza Yousaf, un premier ministre écossais fier de sa double culture : A 38 ans, cet homme d’origine pakistanaise est le premier dirigeant musulman d’une nation occidentale. Un parcours qui fait sa force au moment où il doit à la fois redresser l’Ecosse et sa formation politique, le parti indépendantiste SNP. » | (Article réservé aux abonnés)

Richard Dawkins on Scientific Truth, Outgrowing God and Life beyond Earth

Aug 28, 2019 | Richard Dawkins is one of the world's most famous atheists. An evolutionary biology at Oxford and best-selling author of The God Delusion - his new book 'Outgrowing God - A Beginner's Guide' aims to inform young people about religion and atheism. He talks to Krishnan about why he wrote it, his passion for scientific truth and whether he thinks there's life outside of Earth.

Huw Edwards Named as ‘Sex Picture Scandal’ BBC Presenter by Wife

Jul 12, 2023 | The BBC presenter Huw Edwards is being treated in hospital, as his wife says he's suffered another serious episode of depression after what she called "five extremely difficult days" for their family.

Vicky Flind confirmed Mr Edwards was the household name at the centre of a series of recent allegations and said her husband would respond to the claims when he was well enough.

Meanwhile Scotland Yard said it had found no evidence that a criminal offence had been committed and would take no further action.

‘The Status Quo Doesn’t Work’ - Wes Streeting MP on Child Poverty, Coming Out and Reforming the NHS

Jul 7, 2023 | Brought up on a council estate in the East End of London, the son of a single mother whose own father was a bank robber and whose mother once shared a prison cell with Christine Keeler, Wes Streeting MP owes his life to a fry up.

His working class background and the challenges he experienced growing up in poverty now inform the Shadow Health Secretary’s mission in politics, to ensure others like him have similar opportunities.

Today on Ways to Change the World, Wes Streeting joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about his journey from a Stepney council estate to the Labour frontbench in Westminster, his optimism that poverty is a trap we can escape and his vision for an NHS ‘fit for the future’ on the eve of the 2024 UK general election.

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Warning: The following contains language that some viewers might find offensive.

'Why I Changed My Mind on Leaving the EU’ - Peter Oborne Debates Melissa Kite on Brexit | 2019

Apr 8, 2022 | The urge to leave and the desire to remain, to paraphrase one of our guests, they are both elements of the same country... sometimes even at war within ourselves.

Peter Oborne and Melissa Kite join the programme. Peter Oborne today published an article that reads like a roadmap to Damascus:

"Brexit has paralysed the system. It has turned Britain into a laughing stock. And it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs. We Brexiteers would be wise to acknowledge all this."

We asked him why he'd changed his mind about Brexit?


Brexit was a STUPID idea thought up by STUPID people who understood nothing about economics, commerce or international trade. The initial mistake was David Cameron’s in offering a referendum to the electorate on a very complex issue which even many MPs didn’t truly understand. Then, the poor electorate were fed lie after lie after lie about the sunny uplands yonder and the sovereignty we’d get back. Yeh! Sovereignty! Maggie sold off all the “family silver” to foreigners years ago. So what sovereignty was there to get back? By the way, our American friends would thank us for rejoing the EU. Most sensible Americans realize that our membership in the Union was, and will be, only helpful to them.

What this country needs to do—and if Rishi is as smart as they try and say he is, he will do it—is eat humble pie. They tell me it’s very tasty! We need to do all we can to rejoin the EU, the Single Market, and all that comes with the territory. Forget the opt-outs, oh and dump the pound and join the euro.

As I stated in an earlier post this week, the pound is going down and down and down anyway. Since the Great War, it has halved in value every ten years. Its loss of value has been unabated. Are we to wait until a pound is worth 50¢ before joining the euro? Would that be prudent? Come on, fellow compatriots! Let’s get real! We are Europeans anyway. Stop dorking around! Oh, and apologize to our European brethren for being so truculent. Long live the European Union! Es lebe die Europäische Union! Vive l'Union européenne ! – © Mark Alexander

Worst Economic Prediction for a Generation - as UK Heads for Recession

‘We’ve Had Such a Terrible Response to Russia’ - Bill Browder

Apr 22, 2022 • Bill Browder was one of the biggest foreign investors in Russia until 2005 when he was kicked out of the country. He is now known for being one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics.

He joins Krishnan to talk about his new book called Freezing Order - in which he details his mission to pursue justice for his lawyer and friend Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian jail.

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Photo credit: Luke MacGregor

French President Macron Seeks Re-election

Apr 10, 2022 • A month ago, the French presidential race was offering little to quicken the pulse, with incumbent Emmanuel Macron expected to breeze through to another five-year term.

But far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has run a canny campaign capitalising on the cost-of-living crisis.

And now some are predicting that if she can make it through to the run-off between the two strongest candidates in a fortnight, she could even beat him.

Ukraine: Odesa Citizens Train to Fight as City Waits for Russian Attack

Mar 24, 2022 • In the Black Sea port of Odesa, streets are lined with sandbags and barbed wire, buildings are emblazoned with the Ukrainian flag, and citizens are training to fight.

Russia: Thousands Arrested in Anti-war Protests

Mar 6, 2022 • Despite the Kremlin's draconian crackdown, crowds of people have turned out at anti-war protests across Russia.

One monitoring group said more than 4,000 people had been arrested in dozens of cities across the country.

But none of that could stop many ordinary Russians from simply 'going for a walk'.

The faces of the interviewees have been blurred in this report for their own safety.

Ukraine: Russian Forces Attack Civilians Near Kyiv, as Mauripol Evacuation Halted for Second Time

Mar 6, 2022 • Warning: There are distressing scenes from the beginning of this report.

They were trying to escape the wreckage of what was once their homes when they came under direct attack.

In Irpin, just outside Kyiv, at least three members of a family - including children - were killed.

To the south, renewed Russian shelling forced the Red Cross to abandon a second attempt to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol.

President Zelenskyy appealed to the West again to enforce a no-fly zone, something they have refused to do, but today US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they have given the green light to Nato countries to provide fighter jets to Ukraine.


Time for the West to Grow a Spine!

Russia Ukraine Conflict: Massive Russian Convoy Advances on Kyiv

Mar 1, 2022 • A huge convoy of Russian armoured vehicles is advancing on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv - as a massive Russian strike hits Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv. President Zelenskiy has called the attacks on Kharkiv “state terrorism” while Boris Johnson has accused Russia of “barbaric and indiscriminate” attacks.

Russia Ukraine Conflict: Putin Launches Full-scale Invasion

Feb 24, 2022 • It was as sudden as it was brutal and relentless. Ukrainians woke up to find themselves plunged into the midst of war. Explosions and air raid sirens rang out here in Kyiv and cities across the country as Russia launched a full scale invasion on multiple fronts in the early hours of the morning, firing missiles at key military infrastructure sites.

Its troops are reported to be advancing from the north of Kyiv. Other cities that have been targeted include Odessa, the major port on the Black Sea, and there are reports of hundreds of explosions in Mariupol, which is located close to Russian-occupied territory.

But also in towns like Lutsk in Ukraine's west. It shows the breadth of the assault from the Russian military.

Ukraine has declared martial law, urging citizens to take up arms to defend their country. There are reports of heavy casualties already on both sides. And as the West threatened to cripple Moscow's economy with devastating sanctions, an ominous warning from Vladimir Putin to any country trying to interfere - you will face "consequences you have never seen", he declared.

Brexit: Tearing the Tories Apart?

Ken Clarke and Iain Duncan Smith, two of the most senior, long standing members of the Tory Party, discuss the state of the Conservatives.

Clarke had the whip withdrawn in September after he voted against the government.

A passionate opponent of Brexit and a life-long Europhile Clarke discusses how Brexit and Europe is eating away at his party with his long-standing colleague and former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith - a vocal proponent of leaving the EU.

Scots Judges Rule Parliament Suspension Unlawful

Amid what is now a full-blown constitutional crisis, all eyes will be on the Supreme Court next week, when the country’s top judges will decide whether Scotland's Court of Session was correct in ruling that the Prime Minister acted in an "improper" and "unlawful" way in suspending parliament for five weeks. Opposition MPs leapt on the ruling, saying that parliament should be recalled immediately. Former attorney general and Tory rebel Dominic Grieve said that if Boris Johnson had misled the Queen over the reasons for prorogation, then he should resign.

Could MPs Take the PM to Court to Force Brexit Delay?

A cross-party group of MPs - including some former Conservatives recently expelled from the party - say they are willing to go to court to stop Boris Johnson breaking the law by refusing to delay Brexit.