May 18, 2022
CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Sam Kiley survived an attempted execution in Iraq in 2003 when he and his team were kidnapped while reporting on the US invasion.
Sam joins Ramita this week as one of Britain's most experienced and
prolific war reporters - he has covered nearly every conflict in
the world since 1991. In fact, it's easier to name the wars he
hasn't covered than the ones he has. He's also the only journalist
who's completed a full combat tour with NATO in Afghanistan,
spending six months in Helmand in 2008.
Sam talks about how he started in journalism with British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson, how he learned to cover war in Somalia and
surviving being shot in Lesotho. He also discusses reporting on the
horrors of the Rwandan genocide, and why it is the conflict that
has most affected him.
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