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Paraic O'Brien

1 year

In the torture rooms of #Kherson city the chairs were screwed into the floor, ankles of those electrocuted taped to the chair legs. Who, where and how the Russians did this as described by the men sitting in those chairs. Full investigation

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

2 years

Yesterday, in recently liberated village of Mykhailivka, #Kherson , the remaining (mainly elderly) residents gave us fascinating insights into the sham referendum there at end of September.

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Paraic O'Brien

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6 years

Good morning. I’m in Salerno (south of Naples) to cover the funerals of the 26 Nigerian women (mainly teenagers) who drowned crossing Med on the 3rd Nov.

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2 years

Over last 2 days, we’ve traveled to villages in the Kherson region, which have been retaken by Ukrainian forces. We’ve drilled into stories of war crimes, some committed by convicts released from prison in the so called ‘Donetsk People Republic’, fighting with the Russians.

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Paraic O'Brien

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1 year

300+ people attended a demo against asylum seekers in hotels in Cannock, Staffordshire on Saturday. Anatomy of an anti-asylum seekers demo….in 3 Acts. Act 1: Local organisers Tracey & Caz explain why they organised demo.

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2 years

A couple of days after ‘referendum result’ the village was liberated!!

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2 years

I’ve woke up in worst places. Thank you seminarians at Holy Cross Cathedral, Uzhhorod, Ukraine for the hospitality.

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2 years

One of the elderly women asked “Why the armed escort?” Reply “In case we get attacked by a dog.” Cue laughter.

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11 months

I understand the interest in #titanicsub . Something to also think about: The scene now at the tiny fishing harbour of El Lousa, #Tunisia . Boat capsized with 40 people. 11 drowned. Bodies arriving into port. Happening almost everyday. Pictures to follow

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2 years

Valentyna and her friends told us it was farcical - an official wandering around the village with a ballot box accompanied by 2 Russian soldiers with automatic weapons

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2 years

On #C4News tonight we’re reporting on the treatment of students from African countries fleeing Ukraine. We’ve seen disturbing footage of black people arriving in from #Ukriane being chased through the streets of Przemysl (border town in Poland) by far-right ‘patrols’.

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Paraic O'Brien

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5 years

The Irish activists/YouTubers stirring up anti-immigrant sentiment: PS the vast majority of people we spoke to in lovely #Longford have no truck with this

How online activists are contributing to Ireland’s immigration debate

Some groups are claiming Ireland's culture is in some way under threat, with a handful of online activists apparently influenced by America's alt-right.

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

3 years

“I’ve more in common with Joe Bloggs who’s 23 on the Shankhill than ‘Sebastian Cockworth’ in Blackrock, Dublin who has loads of money, even though we’ve the same passport.” @KNEECAPCEOL on Irish Unity

100 years on: where do the allegiances of Northern Ireland’s young Catholics lie?

If you live in Belfast, do you look to London, or do you look to Dublin? Or maybe you look to both, or neither.

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1 year

Act 2: Tracey & Caz explain that fascist group Patriotic Alternative have been supporting them with advice & social media, although they say they don’t know what PA stands for.

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

Took hours to get through border crossing from #Ukraine into Slovakia tonight. As we waited asked people (& parents) in the queue with us for a portrait. #whatrefugeeslooklike

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5 years

Couple of hundred demonstrators outside Brazilian embassy in London #AmazonFires

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2 years

On the 13th March in the village of Pryhir’ya. Pensioners, Ihor & Tetiana Tarasiuk were sheltering in the cellar behind their farmhouse. Russian soldiers shot Ihor then threw 2 grenades at his body in the cellar. Tetiana pretended to be dead.

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

1st June - occupied Vysokopiliya, Serhiy & Svitlana Lanevich were murdered by the Russians. They’d cycled out of the occupied area to get medicines for them & their neighbours, then returned. Their family wanted story told but not all of it. Suffice to say, the horror had layers

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Paraic O'Brien

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4 years

“We’re hardly changing at all - if you do that you give in to it” #notDunkirkspirit

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2 years

That’s hardest bit of job, not so much reporting from active frontline but reporting from atrocities frontline. So, I salute this amazing team: @Stanleigh77 @althomsonC4 @VyacheslavKasim & the men who made it all happen (not in pic) security Peter Griffin & driver Oleh Karasiov

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Paraic O'Brien

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4 years

I saw this incident. It was touch & go but then a group of older demonstrators surrounded this man and carried him over to the police and medics. What a picture. Dylan Martinez 👏

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4 years

A protester carries an injured counter-protester to safety during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London. More photos as far-right and anti-racism protesters scuffle: 📷 Dylan Martinez

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1 year

I’ve also spoken to a number of groups who are opposed to hotels accommodating migrants in their neighbourhoods (for a variety of reasons) who have no truck whatsoever with fascists. Myself & @Freddie_G7 ’s full report from Cannock

Who is fuelling protests against UK’s asylum seekers?

More than 45,000 asylum seekers are currently being housed in hotels across the UK, at a cost of over six million pounds per day.

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

No one forgets a great teacher. Tonight we remember Lyudmila Semernya. Killed by shrapnel from a missile on the 4th March in #Mariupol

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2 years

Yeva & Irina arrived in Dublin airport last night. Here they are with @cathoflan . Arrived safe & well with their new amazing host family, community & country. Thank you to everyone who offered to help. #YevasDiary #UkraineUnderAttack

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1 year

Act 3: Patriotic Alternative’s Sam Melia explains why they’re in Cannock

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3 years

Assaulted on Wednesday. Back doing his job on Thursday. @Kscott_94 = true grit (& his pictures are always full of heart).

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2 years

Enormous gathering of London’s Irish (& friends) in support of the Murphy family outside @LDNIrishCentre now #AshlingMurphy

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9 years

All the words & TV reporting of the refugee crisis in a single photo. Humbled by @DanielEtterFoto http://t.co/VCLmsWjsoR

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

@ZelenskyyUa announces “Book of Executioners" to collect evidence of war crimes. @VenediktovaIV says 15,000+ war crimes committed since Feb 24th. We investigate 3 in retaken villages, Kherson region, some involving ‘DPR’ convicts fighting with Russians

Ukraine Russia war: Civilians fake death to escape Russian soldiers

Whilst the fierce fighting in the east of Ukraine has seen small territorial gains for Russia, it's a different story on the southern front.

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

10 months

For many of my generation #SineadOConnor was like a bold, beautiful, big sister - blazing trails, taking the heat, making a fuss. The rest of us quietly followed in her slipstream. #RIPSinead

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

There were tears at the O’Briens tonight (much more than usual!). He’s taught me so much: you can do journalism with heart and still be fair & vigorous. We love you @jonsnowC4

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

2 years

All of the testimony was doubled sourced (at least). We were free to talk to everyone in these villages. Sometimes we agreed with families not to broadcast all details - in order to preserve their dignity. But they were some of the worst atrocities myself & team have heard.

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Paraic O'Brien

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6 years

The 2 coffins with the blue flowers are for 2 of the 26 women who were pregnant

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Paraic O'Brien

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4 years

Niloofar Ebrahim was due to graduate from Kingston University, London today at 10.30. She had just married Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi. They were both passengers on PS752.

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

Meet Abdul & Sarah. He is the Muslim; Russia-born; mayor of a bombed out village in NE Ukraine (3 miles from Russian border). She is the transgender; American; re-development worker helping him rebuild. “We are Ukraine” Abdul told us. Vladimir Putin’s head may explode.

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

On #Channel4News tonight myself & @lukedenne report on a group called ‘Alpha Men Assemble.’ They’ve been organising military style training exercises around Britain. Members believe that the Pandemic has been orchestrated to curtail people’s freedom.

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Paraic O'Brien

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3 years

The Corcrain and Redmanville bonfire last night

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Paraic O'Brien

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5 years

For those asking, our report about the handful of YouTubers stirring up the immigration debate in Ireland is on tonight’s @Channel4News It includes the following meta-media moment: ‘MSM’ TV journo & activist YouTuber doorstepping each other!

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2 years

#Odessa ❤️

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2 years

This 29yr old is going in the opposite direction - back into Ukraine to fight

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2 years

Can’t help but think that forced departure of Cressida Dick is part of a much bigger picture - as a society we are asking way too much of the police.

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1 year

So, yesterday we had the privilege of meeting Yulia Borukh, acting mayor of the tiny liberated village of Novomykolaivka #Kherson . Coy about her heroism - so ‘her people’ gathered round & told us all about it. #Ukraine

Ukraine war: is Russia’s Kherson retreat a turning point?

Could this be a turning point in the war in Ukraine?

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1 year

We’ve been sent a 25sec WhatsApp audio clip of a distress call from a position inside the SARS area of last night’s Channel crossing incident. The call is from a boatload of people to a local charity. In the audio you can hear children crying & people praying.

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Paraic O'Brien

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2 years

For East Galway bog-men & women everywhere ✊🏻🚜 (Especially those younger ones who want to be journalists but feel they don’t belong in the media - you do!)

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Delighted to announce that ⁦ @SecKermani ⁩ and ⁦ @paraicobrien ⁩ have been confirmed as ⁦ @Channel4News ⁩ two new foreign correspondents. A huge investment in our already agenda setting international team.

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1 year

Celebrating being shortlisted by @RTS_media for journalism about refugees & migration by going back to where I came from 😉 This auld fella unimpressed with the news. Didn’t have much time for journalists.

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2 years

Their stories tonight on @Channel4News

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4 years

Sound of Survival: 1st few independent breaths coming off ventilator in #COVID19 ICU. Extubation is dangerous - patient basically coughs out a cloud of virus & still #Craigavon Area Hospital staff lean in! We spent 2 days there.

Inside ICU with impressive coronavirus recovery record

For two days, Channel 4 News was given unprecedented access to Craigavon Area Hospital in North Armagh, to see how one hospital and its staff is adapting to cope with the pandemic.

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Paraic O'Brien

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10 months

Hadia stared down the barrel of a Rapid Support Forces gun in #ElGeneina , #Sudan . Escaped to #Chad This is the moment she was reunited with her family - those who survived the killings:

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2 years

All day long & into the night this woman has quietly been handing out food & water to refugees arriving in from Ukraine at the Ubl’a border crossing, Slovakia. By their fruits…not by their fanfare!

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5 years

Getting lively outside Old Bailey after Stephen Yaxley Lennon found guilty of contempt of court

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2 years

Just for record - Yeva & her grandmother, Irina chose Ireland (&EU) for now because they felt it would be the best/most straightforward option given that Irina doesn’t have her passport with her. #YevasDiary

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6 months

Hostages released: 13 Israeli + several foreign nationals. Including lovely Emily Hand 🇮🇪 🇮🇱

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1 year

Yesterday, the perspective of those demonstrating outside asylum seekers hotels. Today what it feels like from inside. Najib was walking in a local park. A group of girls saw him coming & ran away, leaving their belongings behind…

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1 year

So encouraged by chat with @Channel4News digital team just now - global audience still hungry for news on #Ukraine . Can’t remember a story with this level of sustained interest. Our team on the ground working hard not to let you down. @heidipett @FlavianCharuel @VyacheslavKasim

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1 year

A heartfelt word of thanks to the friends & colleagues who sent me a screen shot of the TV captions on my report on #c4news last night….

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1 year

Taking a sideways look at @POTUS Irish visit tonight on #C4News with @WeeMissBea @mrbobodenkirk & the clientele of the Dublin pubs Joe Biden would have been least likely to visit!

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5 years

3/3 Senior source Arklow Shipping: “There was absolutely no pressure applied by the Irish government (to pull out of deal). I read about Jacob Rees-Mogg’s tweet this morning. But no. We’ve had no contact with anyone in the Irish government over this.”

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2 years

This is excellent 👇🏻

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9 mins on the untruths and distortions that Russia is spreading about 'Nazis' in Ukraine - including about the role of the Azov regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard. Produced by Mary Fuller, Michael Cox, Priyanka Deladia

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2 years

This is how Ukrainians look after a rag tag bunch of #channel4news journos……so imagine how they look after their own, who are in dire need. Covered my share of ‘refugee crises,’ never seen anything like this level of civic mobilisation to help those displaced.

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5 years

A first (for me at least). Lorry stopped by migrant barricade on #Calais motorway, set alight last night

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1 year

Finally got round to watching @quietgirlfilm . One of the most beautiful films I’ve seen in years. Everything about it is near perfect - acting, writing, directing, cinematography, everything.

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2 years

In the coming days we hope to bring you excerpts of Yeva’s journal. Written and spoken in Russian. The 12yr old refugee’s house was destroyed in Kharkiv by Russian shelling. She’s leaving #Ukraine with her grandmother. #YevasDiary : History but in real time.

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8 years

Picture = 1000 words. Polish police on beat, stop at Arek Jozwik floral tribute, Harlow #PolesinUK

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1 year

Team @lindseyhilsum taking over the #C4News Ukraine coverage as our team departs. Goodbye for now beautiful #Ukraine

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6 years

What can we learn about homelessness from the relationship rough sleepers have with their dogs? A lot. Trust me. The remarkable Andy (& Bailey) will explain on #C4News tonight. #outinthecold @streetvetuk

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2 months

“Stop touching my flag” @Channel4News send migrant back to where they came from 😉 Myself & @Amelia_Dunn1 report from the frontlines of Ireland’s anti-immigration movement.

Ireland: The rise and human cost of the anti-migrant movement

Ireland's Taoiseach has used a speech to the Irish diaspora in the US, to highlight that St Patrick - who is celebrated every March 17th - was a 'single, male, undocumented migrant'. Immigration...

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7 years

Approaching scene like I've never seen before: 2 doubledeckers (1400 people approx), 2 wooden boats (600),multiple inflatables (?) & NGOs

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5 years

2/3 Jemmy Gunnery was a docker in Dublin during the 60/70s. He had an heroic parallel life: used to rescue children who were being abused in the infamous Catholic Industrial Schools. He used to break them out & local mums would hide them!

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3 years

A quiet night in Belfast - testament to (among others) the community/youth workers, police, clergymen & women out on the streets last night until the wee hours

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2 years

12yr old Yeva, from Kharkiv, reads from her war diary (in Russian). She’s written 80 pages in 10 days. Herself & her grandmother are in a refugee centre in Western Ukraine. #YevasDiary

Russia Ukraine conflict: Inside a refugee centre as 1.3 million flee Russian invasion

The UK's Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Ukraine has now raised more than £85 million.

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3 years

Made a short film on tonight’s #c4news about some young Catholic’s vision of a United Ireland. It features controversial Republican rappers @KNEECAPCEOL . If you feel a need to complain, by all means do but please also listen to what they’re actually saying (between the f%#*s)!

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4 years

If you want to know why this #Bangkok demonstrator is wearing a crop top and German flag headband tune in to #C4News this evening. Gilded King V Jilted Generation

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5 years

I first watched this film with a group of tough, ‘seen it all before’ journos. 5 minutes in, you could hear a pin drop. We hadn’t seen it all before! Turn over to #channel4 #forsamafilm

For Sama

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TONIGHT #ForSama

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5 years

3/3 We’ve been working for some time on a short film telling Jemmy’s story. Tonight it’ll be broadcast on #c4news The story of a small working class neighbourhood in Dublin who stood up to institutional abuse, when no one else was. They were the resistance.

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2 years

Then we met the Bishop who helped prepare dinner for us!

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2 years

Just a few weeks ago we were reporting live from outside #Mauripol ’s theatre. Can’t stop thinking about those we met in the city & environs.

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1 year

1/5 We traveled with @ukrposhta to deliver pensions to elderly residents of recently liberated Novomykolaivka, #Kherson region. 1st time they’d got them in 8 months. We met the remarkable Yulia Borukh👇🏻 Wanted to also share a few things I learned that aren’t in TV report.

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2 years

So is it paramilitary cosplay? Just a chance to get together & vent? Or something else? Either way, the Pandemic has disconnected us from each other in different ways. The danger for civic society is that for some, that disconnect becomes permanent & potent.

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9 years

Downing St, anti-Tory Demo http://t.co/VfrT95YtWp

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1 year

I’m at a demo in #Cannock against accommodating asylum seekers. Loads of #Lineker signs! #MOD theme tune has become soundtrack to counter-demo. We live in strange times.

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1 year

Very moving service at the Ukrainian Catholic Church, London to mark the anniversary of the invasion. The paper angels representing children who have been killed in the last 12 months in Ukraine

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2 years

Sidebar - tonight’s TV report on @Channel4News about the refugee crisis & #YevasDiary will be brought to you because incredible journalists like @FlavianCharuel will spend 2 hours editing it under a coat on a very hot evacuation train.

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11 months

Thanks for the feedback on our report about the tragedy we saw unfold in #Tunisia today - a catastrophe, unfolding life by lost life everyday. The report, if you missed it: The tireless team who brought it to you: @Zahra_ZW @FlavianCharuel @nacertalel

A near daily tragedy: Eleven people drown after boat capsizes off Tunisia

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.

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2 years

Last night we stumbled across a small Greek Catholic church in the middle of nowhere (on the Slovakian/Ukraine border). The parish priest - a small, cigarette-smoking, powerhouse of a man invited us in….

One million people flee Ukraine – as UN warns number of refugees could quadruple

So far the exodus from Ukraine has seen a vast tide of humanity heading west.

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2 years

The stamina & resilience of this team kept us all going 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Tonight @mattfrei , prod @MillyTeasdale & camera @topshoulder presented their final show after a month of exemplary reporting in Ukraine. Their storytelling has captured both the horror and humanity, giving the audience the best analysis & insight. A huge credit to @Channel4News

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7 years

There is an enormous rescue operation happening right now off the coast of Libya. Our boat: 300-400 people #sea4news In total: thousands

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2 years

Last one, I promise but this city… #Odesa

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1 year

In the msg a man says: “We’re in a boat & we have a problem. Please help. We have children and families in a boat. Water is coming in. We don’t have anything for this. For feeling safety. Please help me bro. Please. Please. We are in the water. We have a family.”

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2 years

What horrors will come to light when #Kherson city is freed? We’ve been to tiny liberated village - Novomykolaivka, #Kherson . This, the queue for 1st post-invasion pensions & almost everyone had a story of Russian brutality. Now imagine this but city-sized 👇🏻 Tonight’s #C4News

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6 years

Facebook, anonymous websites, mystery foreign interference....here we go again. Our Irish Abortion Referendum report from tonight’s #c4news (Piggybacking on work of @gavinsblog & @LizCarolan )

Has Ireland's abortion referendum been influenced by foreign Facebook...

After the row over Cambridge Analytica, now the Social Media giants Facebook and Google have moved to curb advertisements related to the upcoming abortion re...

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2 years

Back stage at @HansZimmerLive in Lodz, Poland. An impromptu rendition of Myroslav Skoryk’s ‘Melody’ by Ukrainian artists with @HansZimmer himself as the audience. Music in a time of war - coming soon to @Channel4News

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6 years

Dear @AsoRock could you confirm whether or not you had an Embassy representative at the funeral of the 26 Nigerian women in Salerno this morning? I can’t get an answer from Embassy staff. Thank you.

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We spent yesterday under this tree in the Goungour refugee camp, #Chad . Most of town of Misterei #Sudan (pop. 30-40k) fled here. They queued up to tell us their stories of atrocities (& gave us pics and video). Coming soon to #c4news

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9 years

Live music really does change the atmos at a demo. Downing St http://t.co/GKotAdWNVA

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2 years

‘Refugee crises’ appear monolithic, they’re not, of course. 2 of the 1 million+ just arrived after 3 days from Kyiv. Sisters: Irina (with Nina the cat) and Christina.

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

2 years

Looks like Yeva & Irina are going to Ireland! #YevasDiary Students at @mtanville sent her this. Watched it with her now on evacuation train outa Ukraine. Chokes up.

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

2 years

Her family told us that on Wednesday she got on a dinghy at a stretch of beach near Dunkirk. Her body was recovered that afternoon along with 26 others

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

10 months

Thanks for all feedback on our #Sudan reports. Adam, our driver, doesn’t have a twitter handle but if he did it would be: @nosurprisesontheroad You’re only as good as yr driver in this part of the world. Little taste of what he navigated:

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

4 years

If you get a chance, watch our film from #InsideIdlib tonight on #c4news . What happened to one Syrian family - #TheKhadbans - after an airstrike last week? (There were, not ashamed to admit, a couple of ‘crying breaks’ during the edit)

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

2 years

We spent yesterday & today near frontline with Ukrainian soldiers. They included: - a political chat show host - married couple who are lawyers (Oxsana & Stanislav 👇🏻) - their commander who is….Russian. Our film will be on #C4News tomorrow. You won’t want to miss it

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Paraic O'Brien

@paraicobrien

5 years

2/3 Senior source Arklow Shipping: “We had nothing (in Seaborne). We hadn’t even finalised anything. The problem was politicians were pushing it all ahead of normal pace....absolutely nothing had been signed....it was being forced through by the UK government.”

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