Amid the continuing carnage in Syria, Channel 4 News has obtained strong new evidence that Russian and Syrian warplanes could be committing war crimes in the last remaining rebel province #InsideIdlib
Watch full investigation 7pm
Footage caught on multiple cameras allegedly shows a so-called 'double-tap' operation in Idlib province - which Syrian and Russian forces have long been accused of.
Evidence of this kind has rarely been seen before. A complete incident caught on multiple cameras. #InsideIdlib
WATCH live now - shocking new footage from #InsideIdlib - from multiple cameras - an attack on an ambulance and rescue workers. The evidence suggests the attack is deliberate. And a war crime. #c4news
"We had a joke in Aleppo that you were safer living on the front-line, rather than in the city - because the front-line was never targeted but hospitals were." @Hamza_Alkateab on #insideidlib
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TONIGHT at 7 on 4: Channel 4 News has learnt the Science Museum has signed a gagging clause, in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climate change exhibition, agreeing not to say anything that could damage the company’s reputation.
We obtained sponsorship agreement which states S Museum & trustees agreed not to “make any statement or issue any publicity or otherwise be involved in any conduct or matter that may reasonably be foreseen as discrediting or damaging the goodwill or reputation of the Sponsor.”
The oil giant Shell controversially sponsored the museum's major climate change ‘Our Future Planet’ exhibition which opened in May this year. Full report by @fatimamanji and produced by @NanettevdLaan#c4news 7pm
Broadcast for the first time tonight, the footage shows PC Oliver Banfield who was off duty at the time, violently assaulting Emma Homer, in what the court described as “misogynistic” verbal abuse. He was spared jail & ordered to pay £500 in compensation & wear an electronic tag
Tonight West Midlands Police told Channel 4 News PC Banfield has been suspended while allegations into gross misconduct take place. It was revealed that he has continued to work for them since the terrifying attack last year, albeit was ‘removed from public-facing police duties'
Our Africa correspondent @JamalMOsman is one of the first foreign journalists to get into Tigray and hear the stories in person of the women who have suffered unimaginable horror at the hands of the soldiers who raped and tortured them. A truly extraordinary & distressing report.
WATCH: Sexual violence against women - one of the horrific weapons of war in the #TigrayGenocide.
A warning - this report by @JamalMOsman contains highly distressing testimony.
TONIGHT: shocking Channel 4 News report reveals how hundreds of overseas students have become destitute in the UK during lockdown, and turned to food banks in desperation.
One food bank in E London caters exclusively for 1700 international students a week, who queue for hours.
Report by @Anja_Popp, produced by @ShaheenSattar & filmed by @WilwithoneL - reveals international student visas don't give them access to government help and lockdown means there's no part time work available for them to support themselves.
Ben arrived from India to study in UK in March. Shared room with 1 student in Bedfordshire but when Covid hit - moved to house in E London with 14 students. Cramped accommodation means only way they can afford the rent - is by sharing beds - with as many as three other students.
TONIGHT: Deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam faces viewers questions on vaccine myths, fears over 2nd dose delay, will Covid mutations mean re-vaccinations, schools reopening, summer holidays & did govt really do everything possible to avoid 100k deaths? #AskJVT#c4news 7pm
NOW: #AskJVT Q & A special - Prof Jonathan Van-Tam:
• He needs help from black doctors & healthcare workers to get the message across that the vaccine is very important
• Grandparents can’t see their grandchildren ‘until we have vaccinated literally 10s of millions of people’
• He’s ‘framing the possibility that we need to realistically consider if at some point in the future we are going to need to re-vaccinate some of our population’
• This is 'new, uncharted territory and it is very tricky'
Vast in scale, the database contains details on almost 200 million Americans, among more than 5,000 files, which together amass almost 5 terabytes of data - making it one of the biggest leaks in history. #DeterringDemocracy
Trump’s 2016 election digital campaign involved a team from the now defunct British company Cambridge Analytica, working with the Republican National Committee. Two senior members of the Cambridge Analytica team are currently working on the Trump 2020 campaign.