Ciaran Jenkins

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.

How many students are ‘misusing’ UK’s asylum system?

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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.

"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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Pictures of starving Gaza children are ‘fake’, claims former Israeli general We spoke to retired Israeli brigadier general Amir Avivi.

"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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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.

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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Not sure! That’s one thing I love about our programme though.

‘Europeans must stand fully with Ukraine’ – former Lithuanian foreign minister We spoke to the former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.

"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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‘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.

"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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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...

"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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On The Ground: Epstein scandal looms over Washington DC No time for silly season at the Trump White House

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

New from me on the Channel 4 News substack — Epstein saga lingers but Trump has plenty else to worry about.

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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.

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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Trump presidential approval ratings among lowest since WWII Mr Trump has dismissed a slew of opinion polls suggesting his popularity has plummeted as "rigged".

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 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.

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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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.”

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”.

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.

In the school year ending summer 2023 alone there were 55,000 suspensions for attacking an adult.

Really alarming.

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..

The figures are for England, Wales and Scotland. (The HSE does not include Northern Ireland.)

Violent attacks on teachers 2013-23 included:

• 1,011 fractures

• 126 lost consciousness

• 16 lost or reduced sight

• 4 amputations

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.

These were attacks on teachers so violent they had to be reported to the safety regulator - the Health and Safety Executive.

Teachers suffer hundreds of severe injuries at school each year, exclusive data reveals Fractures, loss of sight and even amputations are among the severe injuries being suffered by teachers and other staff because of violence in schools, FactCheck can exclusively reveal.

And there’s more..

We exposed shocking attacks on teachers in schools.. Injuries which knocked them unconscious, caused fractures or even amputations.
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FactCheck: exclusive data reveals 150 knife attacks at schools in England and Wales Police recorded 150 stabbings or other knife crimes causing injuries at schools across England and Wales last year, figures obtained exclusively by FactCheck show.

Read the full Fact Check article from the fantastic Claire Wilde:
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Again, these are figures form just over half of police forces in England and Wales so the true number will be higher.

Violent Crime in schools is entrenched:

2019: 18,721
2023: 23,489
2024: 20, 187

These would include crimes committed by adults as well as young people.