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
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very important, you still have to be impartial, particularly important for us guys at the bbc but the technical side has changed unbelievably, the first time i went to afghanistan, when the soviets were leaving in 1989, we arrived there with one time of equipment and two engineers had to spend three days rewiring the tv station before we could consider trying to get our pictures out onto some failing soviet satellite. now, you do it all from a laptop basically.- laptop basically. the technology - laptop basically. the technology you - laptop basically. the technology you are l laptop basically. the - technology you are using laptop basically. the technology you are using has changed in your attitude to the conflict has changed, what about the journalistic content you are producing? do you find yourself in these dangerous places and feel pressure to be constantly feeding social media or digital output rather than working towards one report at the end of the day? i working towards one re