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Ciaran Jenkins
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Sep 2
How many students are ‘misusing’ UK’s asylum system?

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How many students are ‘misusing’ UK’s asylum system?
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has launched a campaign to tackle what she calls the “misuse” of the asylum system by international students.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Sep 2
"I hope this is one piece of the mosaic of evidence to change policies and exert pressure on Israel."

International Association of Genocide Scholars' Tim Williams speaks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the resolution that genocide is happening in Gaza.

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‘Israel is committing genocide in Gaza’, say world’s leading experts
The world's leading genocide scholars association has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria has now been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Aug 23
Thank you. It all began literally the second we came on air.
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Fair play @c4ciaran.bsky.social, Iron Dome in action behind you and you’re sticking to the schedule!

#c4news
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Aug 23
Thank you Alison
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Aug 23
Thank you Brendan
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Aug 22
"If they stay in an area that is in an intense war zone, of course they're endangering themselves."

@c4ciaran.bsky.social asks retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi what Israel will do if Gazans refuse to move.

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Pictures of starving Gaza children are ‘fake’, claims former Israeli general
We spoke to retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Aug 21
Explained: How Israel is enacting a decades-long plan that would ‘bury’ the idea of a Palestinian state.

We went to the West Bank to see it for ourselves.

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Israeli plan that could end the two state solution explained
Israel's government also gave approval to a major settlement plan in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the Palestinian territory in two.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Aug 20
Not sure! That’s one thing I love about our programme though.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Aug 11
"The only honourable option is for Europeans to stand fully with Ukraine, to support Ukrainian territorial integrity."

Former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis talks to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the Trump-Putin summit.

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‘Europeans must stand fully with Ukraine’ – former Lithuanian foreign minister
We spoke to the former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Aug 11
"It's Ukrainians who are fighting and dying every day."

Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko tells @c4ciaran.bsky.social the Trump-Putin summit has to "satisfy Ukraine".

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‘Zelenskyy should keep publicly silent’ – Ukrainian opposition MP on Trump-Putin meeting
We spoke to the Ukrainian opposition MP Oleksiy Goncharenko and asked him what he felt about the prospect of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meeting to decide on the future of Ukraine.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Aug 11
"Trump wants a deal in Ukraine at any price."

Anthony Gardner, former US ambassador to the EU, and Russia expert, Professor Mark Galeotti, talk to @c4ciaran.bsky.social about the Trump-Putin summit.

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Can there be a Ukraine peace deal from Trump-Putin summit?
We spoke to Anthony Gardner, who served as US ambassador to the European Union, and Professor Mark Galeotti, who's an expert on Russian security affairs, and heads the Mayak Intelligence consultancy f...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Aug 6
Reporting from Washington DC, @c4ciaran.bsky.social has more on the Epstein scandal that won’t go away for President Trump, who tries to maintain a focus on the economy through it all.

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On The Ground: Epstein scandal looms over Washington DC
No time for silly season at the Trump White House
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Aug 6
New from me on the Channel 4 News substack — Epstein saga lingers but Trump has plenty else to worry about.

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On The Ground: Epstein scandal looms over Washington DC
No time for silly season at the Trump White House
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · May 13
Analysis: care worker visas were ALREADY under 10,000 last year.

Meanwhile there are 131,000 vacancies for jobs paying on average £11 per hour.

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How reliant is UK on migrant care workers?
One of the government’s big announcements was that decision to end visas for people coming to the UK to work in the adult social care sector.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 30
Donald Trump has the worst approval rating of any president at this stage since WWII with the exception of himself during his first term.

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Trump presidential approval ratings among lowest since WWII
Mr Trump has dismissed a slew of opinion polls suggesting his popularity has plummeted as "rigged".
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Apr 2
Tina McKenzie from the Federation of Small Businesses and Emily Kilcrease from the Center for New American Security discuss with @c4ciaran.bsky.social whether they see "light at the end of the tunnel" amid ongoing negotiations with the US over tariffs that could impact the UK.

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Trump Tariffs debate: economic disaster or stroke of genius?
We were joined by Tina McKenzie from the Federation of Small Businesses and Emily Kilcrease from the Washington-based think-tank, the Center for a New American Security.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
The Scottish Government said it had an “action plan” … on “behaviour in schools”.

And the Welsh Government said it was developing “proposals to improve behaviour.”
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
A spokesperson for the Department for Education previously said in response to these figures they were “committed to turning the tide on poor behaviour”, they were providing access to a “mental health professional in every school”.. But there was “more to do”.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
And look at what’s happening in primary schools.

Our exclusive data reveals the most common age for a school child to be suspended for physically assaulting a teacher in England and Wales is 6 years old.

Six years old.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
In the school year ending summer 2023 alone there were 55,000 suspensions for attacking an adult.

Really alarming.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
So we’ve revealed the number of violent crimes and stabbings recorded by police at schools.

And we’ve revealed the number of violent injuries reported to the Health and Safety Executive.

For a sense of the vast scale of the violence there’s one more figure you need to know..
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
The figures are for England, Wales and Scotland. (The HSE does not include Northern Ireland.)
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
Violent attacks on teachers 2013-23 included:

• 1,011 fractures

• 126 lost consciousness

• 16 lost or reduced sight

• 4 amputations
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
We revealed the number of teachers who experience violent injuries at work has more than doubled in the last 10 years, from 302 in 2013 to 682 in 2013.

Over the decade there were nearly 5,000 violent attacks reported.
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Ciaran Jenkins @c4ciaran.bsky.social · Apr 2
These were attacks on teachers so violent they had to be reported to the safety regulator - the Health and Safety Executive.
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