when you re working, because ify that cloud your mind, you won ty do your job as well. so youou think about it go beforehand. but when you go in, you focusine on the job, the work and thelkio people you re talking to . and you don t let an lety fear you talked about your injuries. your mind. you talk abouttalk about t your injuries. let s talk about that dahat day and you were with your didn t make it out alive. the journalist w cameraman, didn t make it outs alive and a journalist was there as well. well w didn t make it out alive. and who didn t make it out alive.en and let s talk about the moment that changed your life forever. and what you remember about it. you talk about going black anday then you tell a pretty mi miraculous story about getting your consciousness back . let s let s talk about that moment, that day y. yeah. fi i mean, well, firstly, i was, wr i was saved that day. we were out we were filming in an abandoned village just o outside kif v. the russians had almo
with where with pierre and sasha was a journalist. sasha wa ss our fixer as well.as and where s where s sasha and the two ukrainian drivers who were with us as well? and a few driver and a couple of times thatot t backt the answerhe. oh, i he s back .he s back he s back.th he s back in kyiv. he s back there after a couple of times. i knew what that meant. yeah. you know, there was no ways no i was going out. we weren t both going out. if we were alive. and i remember saying, you know, i said pierre s dadn in at doesn t mean you had been inan afghanistan together. he told a storytogeth in thek about you watchingde horses. some afghanis, you know, ride horses and us to ride with peter. and you both rode together and knowing this country was about to go through the of war because that s what it is .peac but you had a moment of peace had thisnity, sort of you it wpeter had a special bond describing it was and that wasa beautiful. it was in the mountains. do,
is enormous. but if ever therbue were a time that the world needed journalists, reporters risking journalist reporterstheir livese stories, to tell the truth, uth it s now without a free press. the autocrats, when we will redouble our efforts to honor efforts t these collea. and all reporters in harm s way and jennife tonight, and jennifer worked tis endlessly, tirelessly to help benjamin hel and get him to saf. now, in the hours, dayst and weeks and months thatfoughtf followed, benjamin fought for his life and he did ite.he did i with such a positive attitude. i ve had the honor of speakingwh ben throughout his recovery and his courage in the face ofa in twhat unthinkable adversity is an inspiration personally to me and to so many others. hao he has a new book. k i urge you to read saved a war reporter soe mission to make it home. it is out march the 14th. and by the way, it is a must nead . i recently sat downw york. with benjamin hall in new york . here is part one of this intervi
series of brutal attacks.attack. and benjamin hall was workin g around the clock to bring all of us real time information on the ground. here with more on the groundv . he s in kyiv tonight, the capitol of ukraine. hefox s own benjamin hall. benjamin, what s going on to on tonight?night? well, sean, you d have to look back at today and say whatnot an we ve seen is it s a continuation, if not ann escalation of what we ve seenof over the last week, increasingig civilian areas. civilian areas, an inability to geto ge humanitarian aid into these surrounding cities.t rian and an inability for peoplem. get out of them. then just just a few days late on march the 14th, hall was on a fact finding mission on the outskirts of ukraine other wo other journalists, peter and sasha, when they were viciously attacked by russian forces now. and sasha, they were killed kile had hall was left fighting for his life. here s jennifer griffin was j and worried aboutn. our colleagues and b