clock to bring us ream time information on the ground. he is in kyiv, capital of ukraine, benjamin hall, what is going on.at s you have to look back at today say what we ve seen aok bcontinuation. of whad set we have seen over last week. w haincreasing number of attacks on civilian areas. o inability to get humanitarian aid to the surrounded cities, for people to get out of them.citi just a few days later, march 14, hall was on a fact finding mission on outskirtsdi of ukraine witngh two other journalists, pierre and sasha, they were viciously attacked by russian forces, pierre and sasha were killed and hall left fighting hear his life.t a word about your colleagues. loss and pain we feel is enormous, if there were a f time that world needed journalists, reporters risking their lives to telljo thure truth it is now. without a free press, wet a will redouble our effort toub holeb or the colleagues and all reporters in harm s wayni tonight. fer worked endlessly, tireless
trying not to move, trying to think of what we can do. looking at my injuries, realizing how badly injured i am. and i get my cell phone out. no reception. can t get ahold of anyone. no one knew where we were. we had been moving around a litt i had my cell phone out. i actually stopped, i took a picture of my leg and injuries, i thought. my children can t see this. if i don t come home, that can t be last picture theye th see. i was sittiney sg there, i deleted them. we lay there for a while longer. and pierre.th who waems lying about 5 feet away, lying there. saidm the russians, the russians. and after a while, a car came past. on the ridge. by me. i car, i started to wave at it.t tr it they didn t see me,se
pierree said it s the russians, i said, it doesn t matter , i m badly injured i ve go the to go, i remember thinking it doesn t matter about my injuries, i m going home, i will drag myself home, pull myself. i started to pull myselfi along thste ground.gr dragging myselouf up the hill. that same car. a while lighter took a wrongd th term and down the road, and it came back. by that point. i was a little bit higher up, i had my handful of dirt, stones, i was waving, a through it at the car theyones saw me and stopped, they ran out, grabbed hold of me. they dragged you. dragged me. this is first time i f felt real pain, amazingly. e the injuries but i was not feeling pain. as i was dragged on the ground and the burns and skin, a lot of that came off there. that e gr was point that i suddenly felt real pain.
checkpoint thedd ukrainian gunmen came at us, they thought we were russian hit squad. they opened up my ownt woundssq, they looked at myup injuries to make m sure i wasju realri., one after the next, the raceon toe try to get to the polishge prime minister s train. they didn t have enough pain meds to give me when i left the hospital, at that pointve the pain m really started to grow, we made it to train and carry me o on, we had 10 hours, i had to dig deep and feel pain. sean: they had no medicine.ad i asked someone if they had anything, he gave hg. he gave me a couple of advil all they had.ea sean: weren: they 10 worst hours for you in terms of pain?ude of i was mind frame of whatever in t takes, this is survival mode, keep going. my min d was on over drive, hyper drive it could not
attitude. i want to get back to work. i think i love working, i love the stories, i think l that people i geovt to meet are fascinating. i really want to do, stories to tel l are incred en people incredible people, the heroes who saved me.y i spent my career talking about the horrors of war andcr baedd things, i will focus on the good. i will talk with people who have gone through injuries and attack like they and try to help them through it.. and keep meeting people, andee telling stories and try to make sounds corner, makema the world s better place.to every day, something that is good. sean: that is not corny that is goodness. you know, what i learned about the story behind the story and everyone from jennifer griffin, the polish prime minister, the save our