I Sailed Through My Childhood With A

Now Children As Young As Nine Carry Ak47s Which Can Kill 30 People In Seconds.

Up Until About 12 Years Ago We Never, Ever, Wore Flak Jacket Or Helmets But Now The Nastiness Has Got Worse.

Beslan, Where The Russian Authorities Stopped Live Coverage Of The School Being Stormed, Was An Illustration Of The Progress We Still Have To Make.

I Keep Telling Myself To Calm Down, To Take Less Of An Interest In Things And Not To Get So Excited, But I Still Care A Lot About Liberty, Freedom Of Speech And Expression, And Fairness In Journalism.

People Always Seem To Assume That We Have A Full, Back-up Support Team - Make-up, Costume And A Driver - But Usually, In A War Zone, There's Only Me And The Cameraman.