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2 weeks ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Tributes have been paid to the Britons feared to have died in the Air India plane crash.
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2 weeks ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv came under Russian bombing again this afternoon – a Children’s Railway building was hit – killing a young woman and injuring 40 other people, three of them critically. It followed a night of sustained attacks by Russian missiles, guided bombs and drones – which the city’s mayor described as the biggest assault since the start of the full scale war.
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3 weeks ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Oliver and Danai are ambitious teenagers. Sixteen-year-old Oliver wants to study business at college and Danai, tourism. “I really like exploring the world,” she tells me, laughing to herself now and then, in the way teenagers do when they’re feeling self-conscious. Danai takes a while to express herself, almost as though the words are stuck in her throat, but when the thoughts formulate they are wise and self-reflective. “I’ve seen a change in myself here.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
The Prime Minister will be unable to deliver on his promise to cut crime if he doesn’t invest in more officers – that’s the warning from six of the country’s most senior police chiefs. In an article for the Times newspaper, the Chief Constables of forces including Greater Manchester and the West Midlands Police say that increasing public demand, and the emergency release of prisoners, mean that police need more money and staff.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
It had all the pomp and pageantry you’d expect from a state opening of parliament. There was the King, Black Rod and red ermine. And even the prime minister was familiar. It had all the pomp and pageantry you’d expect from a state opening of parliament. Presiding at the start of a new term in Canada’s parliament, the King said the new government would protect the country’s sovereignty.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
It’s perhaps not surprising that a Belfast band named after a brutal paramilitary punishment isn’t averse to controversy. But the terror charge against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh for allegedly waving a Hezbollah flag, brought calls for them to be kicked off the Glastonbury bill this year. And before their headline appearance at a south London festival tonight, they dropped a new track, accompanied by a barbed attack on a famous critic.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Rap trio Kneecap have announced a surprise performance in London hours after one of their members was charged with a terror offence. The Metropolitan Police said yesterday that Liam O’Hanna, who performs as Mo Chara, had been charged over the alleged display of a flag in support of Hezbollah.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
The House of Commons has had another chance to debate the private member’s bill that would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months left to live – to seek help to end their own life. But MPs only had time to vote on two amendments to the Assisted Dying Bill. One of them means that medical staff will be allowed to opt out of helping patients die. That lack of time has reignited the debate about whether the bill has faced sufficient scrutiny.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Zara Aleena was fulfilling a lifelong ambition to be a lawyer when she was murdered in the summer of 2022. She’d spent the evening with a close friend before heading home in the early hours. Zara didn’t finish that journey because a man called Jordan McSweeney – who’d tried and failed to attack other women in east London that night – chanced upon the thirty-five-year-old.
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1 month ago | 
channel4.com | Ria Chatterjee
Overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales has contributed to soaring reoffending rates, with staff too overburdened to help offenders prepare for life on the outside. A new inspection report shows the Prison and Probation Service has made “limited progress” on its rehabilitation strategy. Ex-offenders say the system is broken, but there is a way out. Ria Chatterjee has this report, which contains distressing details, including details of child abuse.
