Martin Geissler
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Fergal Keane’s PTSD announcement was "the most courageous thing he ever did"
The BBC Africa Editor decision to step back to help his recovery from PTSD has ignited debate on support for journalists covering conflicts. Former ITN foreign correspondent Martin Geissler tells The Big Issue of his own psychological grapples from his career → Read More
Afghanistan: ITV News joins US troops helping to turn tide against Taliban in Helmand Province
Read Afghanistan: ITV News joins US troops helping to turn tide against Taliban in Helmand Province latest on ITV News. All the World news → Read More
What do Northwich voters want from the General Election?
ITV News is gauging the opinions of people across the UK ahead of June's General Election to find out "What Matters" to them. In this edition, we travelled to key marginal seat Weaver Vale, in the northern part of Cheshire West and Chester. → Read More
EU Referendum: What are the key issues across the UK?
The decision whether we will Remain or Leave will be made up of votes from the four nations which make up the EU - each with different concerns influencing the people who live there. This week we are visiting England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to look at the key factors particular to them. → Read More
Migrant crisis: Tension rises as Austria tightens its Italian border
Read Migrant crisis: Tension rises as Austria tightens its Italian border latest on ITV News. All the World, Politics news → Read More
Migrants force Sweden to wrestle with its own liberalism
Daniyal Zaidi. Remember the name. When I met the 14 year old in a Malmo gym I was left with the feeling we may all be hearing from him sometime soon. His coach, Dallas, who's been involved in the sport for almost half a century, told me he's never seen such natural talent. A genuine world beater, he reckons. But Daniyal's back story is even more remarkable than his boxing. He came to Sweden from… → Read More
Arlene Foster: 'I can't allow IRA scars of past to affect Northern Ireland's future'
Read Arlene Foster: 'I can't allow IRA scars of past to affect Northern Ireland's future' latest on ITV News. All the Politics news → Read More
Sian Blake death: Arthur Simpson-Kent remanded in custody
Arthur Simpson Kent was brought to a Ghanaian court today, to face a judge for the first time since the deaths of his partner Sian Blake and their two sons. In a crowded magistrates courtroom in Accra, he stared straight ahead as three charges of murder were read to him. He was not asked to enter a plea, as legal argument interrupted proceedings. His lawyer told the court the defence have been… → Read More
Flood victims tune out as politicians wade in, saying: 'We've heard it all before'
Britain's flood crisis has entered its second phase. The water's gone and the politicians have started arguing. → Read More
The Donald Trump bandwagon is rolling on
If you want to know what the Republican establishment really thinks about Donald Trump's extraordinary success, there are few better people to speak to than Michael Steele. Until relatively recently he was the party's chairman, so he has his finger firmly on the pulse. "They're scared to death of him", he told me after the debate in Las Vegas, "but there's nothing they can do about it". The… → Read More
Refugee crisis: Bridge linking Austria to Germany provides an unremarkable end to an extraordinary journey
The thin concrete footbridge linking Austria to Germany provides an unremarkable end to an extraordinary journey. Penned in by the Austrian authorities, groups of people seeking a new life here are let through painfully slowly. Just a dozen or so every 20 minutes. At the other side, German police take them into tents, search them, then shepherd them onto a coach. If they thought this would be a… → Read More
The Journey: The compassion for refugees seems to evaporate the further north they travel
ITV News is following the vast tide of refugees as they make their journey to Europe. In Martin Geissler's latest eyewitness report he witnesses a sharp hardening of feeling towards the refugees as they make their way north. → Read More
The Journey: 'I spent my last Euro in the hope of a better life
ITV News is following the vast tide of refugees as they make their journey to Europe. In Martin Geissler's latest eyewitness report, he recalls his emotional encounter with Pakistani refugee Mohammed on the Slovenian border. → Read More
#TheJourney: ITV News follows the constant flow of refugees to the Greece-Macedonia border
The huge numbers of refugees willing to spend weeks crossing land and sea to reach Europe are showing no sign of letting up. This week ITV News is following the vast tide of people sweeping out of the Middle East and across Europe. Martin Geissler writes from Gevgelija on the Greece-Macedonia border, a crossing point where more than 10,000 refugees have passed in just 24 hours. → Read More
ITV News follows refugees as they travel through Europe
For the next week we'll be following the vast tide of people sweeping out of the Middle East and across Europe. Logistically, it's an ambitious project, we plan to file a report every night for the ITV Evening News and News at Ten and there are vast distances to cover in between. But by moving with these people, travelling longside them, we hope to bring you a sense of the scale of what's… → Read More
Cameron heads to Scotland to make case for Union
The Prime Minister heads to Scotland today in a call to keep the Union together. David Cameron will use his trip north to make the business case for Scotland remaining in the UK - describing Britain as one of the world's "oldest and most successful single markets". Gordon Brown joined forces with Alistair Darling yesterday during a Better Together referendum event at Marryat Hall in Dundee. → Read More
Brown joins Darling on Better Together campaign trail
Gordon Brown joined forces with Alistair Darling during a Better Together referendum event at Marryat Hall in Dundee today. → Read More
Salmond wins 71% approval after second televised debate
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond won a convincing 71% of the vote in a snap poll after the second televised debate on Scottish independence. The Better Together campaign leader Alistair Darling pressed Mr Salmond on the issue of a currency union, and claimed Scotland would lose jobs if Trident was moved. Mr Salmond said Scotland would face further cuts to welfare and the NHS if it remains… → Read More
Findings into Northern Ireland's 'On The Runs'
A controversial Government scheme that assured around 190 Irish republicans they were not wanted by UK police was "systematically flawed" but not unlawful, a judge-led inquiry had found. → Read More
On The Runs inquiry finds system flawed but not unlawful
A controversial Government scheme that assured around 190 Irish republicans they were not wanted by UK police was "systematically flawed" but not unlawful, a judge-led inquiry had found. → Read More