By Maria Cedrell and Paul Martin in Ramallah, 2004. When Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gave his final interview to us, we had to supply a list of proposed questions. The first question was supposed to be: “Mr. Arafat, where were you born and where did you grow up?” “No,” his aide told us. “Not allowed.” In the life of a […]
It’s been dubbed City of Heroes, the official accolade awarded by President Volodymyr Zelensky to Kharkiv — Ukraine’s battered second city. Two intrepid cameramen-producers have chronicled its trials and tribulations under Russian fire in a riveting film called “Ukraine: Life Under Attack”. Their documentary has added poignancy as the Russian bombardment, apparently receding a month ago, […]
As I walked in to a hotel to interview Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990), I should perhaps have read the signals. The Singaporean leader looked at me, then at his wrist-watch, in quick succession. He pointed to a chair I was to sit on. “I was expecting someone, er, more important,” he […]
Exclusive from Kyiv, Ukraine Amid the images of destruction inflicted by continued Russian attacks on a sovereign nation, Ukrainian television showed far less grim pictures this week. People were smiling again — generally very happy to be allowed to queue up in the streets. Thousands of eager locals stood since the very early hours at post […]
“It’s been announced in Moscow that President Mikhail Gorbachev has become ill,” said the radio on the hotel reception desk. I immediately realised this was some sort of Soviet-speak for saying the Soviet leader was either already dead or was being removed – in a coup. I bemoaned my fate — marooned in another country. […]
United Nations judges have sentenced Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. As this is in a final judgment, there can be no further appeal. Mladic, now 78, sat without a mask in the war crime tribunal’s dock behind a sheet of glass. He […]
A sign on the desert road south of Baghdad, curiously in English not Arabic, pointed to what it described as an “Engineering Factory”. It was the only hint that there was something unusual to be found just off the beaten track. Until days before, this “Engineering factory” had been nothing less than Saddam Hussein’s project […]
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It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge.
Alan Kogosowski has brought the magic of Frederic Chopin back from beyond the grave. The Australian pianist completed a unique version of the Austrian composer’s long-delayed and ultimately unfinished Third Piano Concerto in A major, Opus 46. He has now done its final revision. Correspondent.world accompanied Kogosowshi to Paris where he drew new inspiration by visiting […]
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By Paul Martin in Cape Town. Returning to South Africa with a visa that banned me from doing any reporting I was secretly filming a story on how and where Mandela grew up.
By Paul Martin. Cape Town
EXCLUSIVE: By Paul Martin in Targoviste, Romania. The bullet holes in the brown wall have only been partly patched up with white cement. I’m standing on the exact spot where the Ceausescus’s died – in the yard behind the Targoviste military barracks. It looks exactly the same thirty years later – just the trees seem […]
By Paul Martin. Monika Pajerová was one of those brave students you simply do not forget.
By Paul Martin It was to be a strange but enlightening encounter. Our translator, our video cameraman, our producer and I had walked up a staircase to a nondescript apartment in a building close to the Vltava River in the centre of the Czech capital Prague.