US whistleblower Edward Snowden warned about the global threat to privacy yesterday when he delivered the Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message.

US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who was behind the leak of documents revealing mass surveillance programmes, is to give the Channel 4 ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ tomorrow.

The British government has criticised Channel 4’s decision to broadcast an Alternative Christmas Message by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The death of an award-winning British journalist shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip has sparked calls for it to be made an official war crime to kill reporters working in battle zones.