Blog posts tagged "Alex Thomson"

January 27, 2012 8:17 am No Comments

Arriving in Kabul's homely - if beaten-up - airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning's temperature dipped to minus 12.

September 30, 2011 12:15 pm 3 Comments

Alex Thomson on the dramatic run of luck which seems to have saved the life of a man attacked by a shark in Cape Town.

August 30, 2011 10:22 am 8 Comments

Not for the first time, Alex Thomson didn't know what to do, so he drove to the heart of Col Gaddafi's Tripoli power base. And he found a party.

August 24, 2011 12:28 pm 1 Comment

Alex is Thomson says that bodies piling up in Tripoli's Al Zawiya Hospital the day after Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound was stormed by rebels.

August 23, 2011 5:57 pm No Comments

Alex Thomson reports from one of the main roads into Tripoli, where some areas are peaceful but there are still pockets of fierce fighting.

June 3, 2011 7:56 am 1 Comment

"Today is not finally about Ratko Mladic at all - but those dignified women with their poster outside, who have lost so much."

May 26, 2011 3:44 pm 3 Comments

He got up, shook hands - then attempted the first of what would be many bear hugs of that meeting - Alex Thomson recalls his interview with Ratko Mladic in 1995.

May 4, 2011 1:42 pm 7 Comments

At the dockside jubilant aid workers disembarked, chanting "Allahu Akbar" and "in spite of Gaddafi we made it to Misrata!" Alex Thomson blogs on the docking of the Red Star 1

April 28, 2011 1:46 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on why the rebel forces in Misrata were being uncharacteristically reluctant to take them to the site of a recent explosion.

April 27, 2011 12:35 pm No Comments

The director of the only hospital still functioning in Misrata says "the world looks on. Like it's a movie. Like it's not real. But it is real. It's been 70 days now."