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the bbc s most recognised faces. welcome to the show. thanks very much for asking me. you have a new series for radio 4 called frontlines of journalism, billed as your reflections on the most difficult stories you have covered. one of those is certainly ukrainian we heard the news that the afp journalist had died, killed by russian artillery. he was 32 years old and this is a conflict you know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the east, somewhere near bakhmut, where i have spent quite a bit of time, i was there at the end of last year, these things are tragic and in all the years i have been doing this, i have known quite a few people who have been killed. i was reading his twitter account today and if you go back to me the first he has posted a video where he and some soldiers, who are accompanying him are lying down and he is describing them, and it is pure terror as artillery fire comes in. in those moments, and you must have been in those moments, they must be