On April 30, 1980, 6 men approached the Iranian Embassy at Princes Gate, in South Kensington, London. They were Arabs, members of a little known dissident
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population who were very hard line. it was a very difficult time and the people i was working with, three of them got expelled, two of them were put under arrest in south africa. so we were seen as a kind of hot bed of anti apartheid. but it was a really fast learning curve and that s when i really got the bug. and from the beginning of your career and then from there you focused on foreign reporting. you covered the iranian embassy siege in yourfirst week, i think. then the iran, iraq and falklands wars. it is a foreign news really where your heart lies? no, it was then. by the way, i was a terrible war reporter. why? but i seemed to be sent to all these wars. what made you a terrible war reporter? i tried to cover the wars in a kind of objective way, particularly the falklands. max hastings was there and he understood no, you had to do it in the way the british want to read about it. i was still applying old reuters rules which is nonsense.